History has been made at Rice-Eccles Stadium! Cole Davies just stunned the field to take the victory in the 250 East/West Showdown Main Event. In a race filled with the best riders from both coasts, Davies showed incredible maturity and speed to conquer the technical Salt Lake City track and cross the finish line in P1.
While all eyes were on the championship favorites, Cole Davies found the perfect lines through the deep ruts and stayed composed under massive pressure. This is a career-defining moment for the young rider at the 2026 AMA Supercross Season Finale!
In this video:
Cole Davies’ incredible winning performance in the 250 Showdown.
Key moments: The start and how he held off the heavy hitters.
250 East vs. West final results and podium celebration.
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While all eyes were on the championship favorites, Cole Davies found the perfect lines through the deep ruts and stayed composed under massive pressure. This is a career-defining moment for the young rider at the 2026 AMA Supercross Season Finale!
In this video:
Cole Davies’ incredible winning performance in the 250 Showdown.
Key moments: The start and how he held off the heavy hitters.
250 East vs. West final results and podium celebration.
🚀 Subscribe to Global Racing for the most detailed coverage of the 2026 Supercross Season Finale!
👍 Smash the Like button for Cole Davies’ first major Showdown win!
💬 Did you see that coming? Where does this rank among the biggest upsets in Supercross history? Let us know in the comments!
#supercross2026 #coledavies #250Showdown #SaltLakeCitySX #globalracing #AMASupercross2026 #eastvswest #MotoHighlights #mainevent #winnerstatus
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00:00Here, Cole Davies, special.
00:01We all expected him to challenge Hayden Deegan in these showdowns,
00:07but Hayden has had a massive upper hand,
00:09but I'm not giving up on this guy.
00:12Incredible talent from New Zealand.
00:15Just to his left is Seth Hamaker,
00:18and he didn't have the 2026 championship season he wanted,
00:21but he has had a great day so far,
00:24and the only thing you can control is what's in front of you,
00:27and this main event is right in front of Seth Hamaker,
00:29and he can go out on top here in Salt Lake City.
00:3499, young Caden Meneer here,
00:37part of the Yamaha-star racing team amongst many there.
00:42An incredible performance at the beginning of SMX Next,
00:45at the beginning of this year at Anaheim II.
00:47He got the win there, and then Lee, you talked about it,
00:50that core up to the pro class in Denver,
00:53getting a fifth last weekend.
00:54Well, it was a fourth for the Heat here.
00:56He's got everybody, both coasts to go up against,
00:58but he would definitely like to get another top five here.
01:01Looking strong, like you said, job opportunity for these guys.
01:04Huge leap for him to come out of SMX Next,
01:06and then be in an East-West showdown,
01:08and if Hayden Deegan can win tonight,
01:12he would go ahead of our very own Adam Ciancerillo,
01:15Kevin Wyndham, Jeff Emick, with the most showdowns won.
01:19Time to do it here in Salt Lake City.
01:22It's Hayden Deegan's last ride on a 250.
01:25Does he get the whole shot?
01:26He's squeezed on the inside.
01:28You betcha he gets it.
01:30Look at all those Monster Energy star racing Yamaha.
01:33It's Anstey Deegan.
01:34Anstey goes to the inside for the move.
01:37Nice.
01:37That's the great thing about being on that right-hand side,
01:40on that short shoot after the start.
01:43Teammates at it at the front.
01:44One, two, and three.
01:46Anstey Deegan Davies.
01:48Let's see if Hayden scrubs this thing.
01:50As you see, Max took a look up the inside.
01:52He's had that vision before,
01:54but if anybody was going to challenge Hayden Deegan,
01:57you had to get in front of him.
01:58This is what they needed to do.
01:59They saw how quickly he ran away from it on the heat race.
02:02You got Cole Davies.
02:04Looks like he wants to take a shot as well.
02:06I talked about this racetrack racing tight.
02:08The reason that I say that,
02:09because a lot of these lanes are very short,
02:11so it's very hard to move around.
02:14You feel trapped when you're in this position,
02:17especially if you're Hayden Deegan,
02:19where you have your teammate in front of you.
02:20You got Cole Davies all up behind you.
02:23See Hayden looking over his shoulder.
02:26That's why.
02:27Here comes Davies.
02:28He's a specialist in the warps.
02:30And you know that he would desperately want to beat Hayden Deegan
02:34in this finals East-West showdown of the year.
02:38Davies will stay on a 250 next year.
02:40Deegan goes up in just a matter of weeks
02:42to the 450 class for pro motocross
02:44as he works on his teammate Max Anstey,
02:47the winner of the season opener in Anaheim.
02:50Yeah, you talk about Hayden,
02:51how much he's grown as a rider in that whoop section.
02:55Cole had a better run to him,
02:56but Hayden got back, made that thing work,
02:58and Cole couldn't do anything.
03:00He's trying to put that pressure on Max.
03:01I feel like if I'm Hayden, if I can get around him,
03:04I might be able to get away,
03:05but Max is doing a great job, Ricky.
03:07I was going to say, James,
03:08this guy, number one, isn't going to wait long,
03:11and he's going to want to make the move.
03:13There you go.
03:13There it is.
03:14Deegan to the front.
03:16Later.
03:19Crowd tells you what they think about that.
03:21Yeah, it's going to be really important, James,
03:23as you know, I believe,
03:24for Cole to get by his teammate, Max Anstey,
03:28or it's going to be super hard
03:29to catch back up to the rear wheel of Deegan.
03:33I agree with you 100%.
03:35It's good to see Max back up here, JT.
03:39That's exactly what I was thinking, James.
03:41Remember, this is the guy that won the opening round
03:43in a championship that has been absolutely dominated
03:46by your defending champ, Hayden Deegan.
03:49But this is how he started.
03:50It would be a great way for Max Anstey
03:52to end this season on the podium.
03:54He's been through everything this year,
03:56including a removed appendix,
03:57and this will be a bright spot on the season.
03:59Got his teammate Cole Davies right behind him,
04:01and Davies is trying desperately
04:03to get by the British rider
04:05so he can try and go with Hayden Deegan.
04:08It's teammates 1, 2, and 3, 4, 5, and 6,
04:12with McAdoo, Hamaker, and Kitchen,
04:14the Kawasaki guys, running 4th, 5th, and 6th.
04:17Yeah, Seth has any chance.
04:19He needs to get around his teammate
04:21and try to get up there.
04:22We know how he's been,
04:23he was the fastest in your qualifying,
04:25had a great heat race,
04:26but all that can be left alone.
04:28He didn't get the best to start,
04:29and the toughest guys are in front of him.
04:31Yeah, he didn't.
04:32And again, a little bit of redemption
04:34for this season would be huge.
04:36Oh, look at the top of your screen.
04:40Cole Davies getting into the second spot.
04:43These next couple acts are going to be a lot of fun
04:44to see if he can reel him in.
04:46We'll have ourselves a battle for the lead.
04:48Yeah, and it's a different position for Cole.
04:50He hasn't, normally Hayden's behind him,
04:52stalking him,
04:53so maybe this will help him loosen up.
04:55If he can keep this gap closed,
04:57then maybe, as Hayden's starting to jump through
04:59to Wolf right there,
05:00Cole can close that gap.
05:03Keep monitoring that.
05:05It's 2.1 seconds.
05:06As we watch Cameron McAdoo
05:07and teammate Seth Hamaker
05:09aboard their Monster Energy Pro Circuit Kawasaki's.
05:11This is the fight for four.
05:13Yeah, Hamaker needs to make the move
05:15on his teammate right here.
05:17He's losing some valuable time,
05:19and it goes so fast,
05:21and that's the difficult part right here.
05:23If it wasn't his teammate,
05:24he probably would have made the move by now.
05:27Yeah, but Cameron's doing really good,
05:29and really strong in the whoops as well,
05:31so Seth is probably going to have to get him before,
05:34because I don't think he'll be able to get him
05:35unless Cameron makes a mistake through the whoops.
05:37Yeah, you're going to have to try to make a move
05:39up one of these 180 corners.
05:42McAdoo, who missed two races through injury recently,
05:45came back at the last West Division round
05:49in Denver last weekend.
05:51Good to see him back,
05:52and good to see him in this form.
05:53He's down!
05:54McAdoo down hard!
05:56Oh, no.
05:57Hamaker's down as well.
05:59Oh, my goodness.
06:00Hamaker goes down.
06:02Oh, the guys, man.
06:03They went right between them.
06:05Oh, what a tough blow.
06:09That is uncanny.
06:11The two teammates who are having a brilliant race together
06:13come down four whoops apart.
06:16Yeah, a lot just happened in the whoops,
06:18because I heard the crowd.
06:19If you look at our gap,
06:20I think Haid made a mistake in those whoops,
06:23allow Cole Davies to close up.
06:24That's what I think the crowd was reacting for,
06:27or to, rather,
06:29right before the PC guys went down,
06:31Pro Circuit guys,
06:32McAdoo and Hamaker,
06:34get the line right there.
06:35Oh, Cole comes up short.
06:38That stops his momentum a little bit.
06:40Let's see this passage through the whoops.
06:43Kawasaki guys are off to the side.
06:45All right, this may very well be game on.
06:48It's Cole Davies' last chance to take a shot,
06:51and he almost does.
06:53Remember Denver last year?
06:55Yeah, I was just about to bring that up,
06:57and, you know, I think at this point,
06:59this is where the experience comes in with Haid.
07:01Now he realizes Cole is here.
07:02You're going to have to race this guy.
07:04Maybe you kind of let him go by,
07:05but that was a pretty bold move by Cole.
07:08This is going to be the,
07:09this is where the games are going to start
07:11being played right here.
07:12You guys are in for an absolute treat right now,
07:15and what the strategy is going to be
07:17is going to be a lot of fun to watch it play out,
07:19but Cole very fast in the whoops.
07:21Now he went to the left side.
07:23Let's see if Hayden is able to anticipate that
07:26and block that side of the whoops.
07:29Yeah, bingo.
07:31Here we go.
07:32The whoops specialist goes to the front.
07:35There we go.
07:35Deegan comes back through the sand.
07:37Blocks his teammate.
07:38Listen to this crowd.
07:40It is on.
07:43And the games have begun.
07:45I told you it was coming just around the corner.
07:49Hayden looking back.
07:5137, James.
07:52He just needs to stay strong,
07:53not give up,
07:54not get flustered by what's going on,
07:56but he is going against,
07:57I feel is one of the best to have ever done it
08:00and play these type of games.
08:02Oh, yeah.
08:03You're playing in his wheelhouse right now.
08:04He's probably getting loosened up like at that point,
08:06but as you were just saying,
08:08hey, Deegan,
08:09just his race craft to go down that section.
08:11And it will be, you know, Cole?
08:12Cole switched up the line.
08:15Cole is a faster rider right now.
08:17Here we go.
08:18Watch Davies.
08:18He's working the lines.
08:20He's trying to set Deegan up.
08:22Next passage through the warps.
08:24Here we go again.
08:25The next round.
08:27Inside Deegan.
08:28Switches back.
08:29Davies switches back.
08:30They're side by side momentarily.
08:33Yeah, that was good.
08:34I was thinking, hey,
08:35at that moment,
08:36I would have done exactly what he did.
08:38I'll go down the middle,
08:39make Cole, like, decide which way he's going to go.
08:41This is the best 250 race of the year.
08:44This is what we've all wanted to see.
08:46Everybody is getting this.
08:48And I'll tell you what,
08:49this is an incredible ride by both of these guys,
08:51but especially Cole Davies,
08:54because this hasn't been the case.
08:56Gotcha.
08:57Hits him.
08:58He says,
08:58that's Denver payback a year later.
09:02Uh-oh.
09:02Uh-oh.
09:04I love it.
09:05Wow.
09:06What's Deegan's got right here?
09:07You know that he wants to win this race.
09:10He's been talking about how many races he's won
09:13or should have won.
09:15I'll tell you what, Cole,
09:16you better run, baby.
09:17You better run.
09:18He's going to be sitting in the cheap seats
09:21eating hot dogs with the fans.
09:23With all this going on,
09:25need to remind you to stock up on Monster Energy drinks at Smith's.
09:29There's plenty of energy aboard that Monster Energy Yamaha of Cole Davies,
09:33and the fans love it.
09:36Yeah, Hayden.
09:40How about that, Will?
09:42Guys, I'm just thinking back to the numerous amount of times that the East West showdowns
09:48that I have asked Cole Davies,
09:50what's your motivation to beat Hayden Deegan?
09:53And he'll just kind of give you the look like he knows,
09:56but then he'll give you the answer that he's supposed to give that is my focus is on my title.
10:01Well, that's gone.
10:02He's got the title.
10:03Gloves are off.
10:04And that look that he gave every time I ask that question,
10:07I think we're seeing the answer right here, JT.
10:10We might be, but Will, I'm going to take you back to Seattle
10:13when Levi Kitchen made this similar type of move on Hayden Deegan,
10:17and Hayden Deegan showed he is the fittest guy in this class by a long shot.
10:22You saw him that last lap.
10:23He reverted back to blitzing, which shows you he is here for this fight.
10:27I'm telling you right now, with five minutes and 54 seconds left,
10:30Hayden Deegan is far from done.
10:32Yeah, well, Hayden Deegan was faster on the last lap by three tenths,
10:36and he saw what Cole is doing through the whoops, James.
10:39I know you noticed that.
10:40Check out this replay.
10:41Oh, yeah, no, he comes up here, and Hayden thoughts.
10:43Cole gives a little bump.
10:45Now I think it probably got a little closer than he won.
10:47He slid in there, but he went in there for the move.
10:49I would have to say he probably needed to finish the job at that point,
10:52but look at the live shot at the bottom.
10:55Hayden Deegan has stepped it up.
10:57Get ready for the next round.
10:59Remember when they raced each other in the showdown in St. Louis?
11:02I mean, Hayden was able to match his whoop speed.
11:06It's going to come down to fitness as well right here.
11:09You've got Laffers in play.
11:11Traffic ahead.
11:12Gavin Towers is the first one they come across.
11:14Looking for a clear passage through.
11:16No worries there for Cole Davies.
11:18Yeah, I think the difficult part for Cole is not only obviously Hayden's there,
11:22but you'll probably start seeing him look back
11:25because now he's gotten into Hayden.
11:26Now the gloves are off.
11:28Hayden probably want to get it back.
11:29If I'm Hayden Deegan, I would do exactly that.
11:31I would run it in.
11:32Even if you know you can't pass, just get him nervous.
11:34Oh, boy.
11:35And you can start to see it.
11:36Here we go.
11:37And there's the payback, and it does not work out.
11:41It does not go Deegan's way.
11:43Oh, now is it.
11:44Wow.
11:46And he's still there.
11:48This race ain't over, people.
11:49Don't tune the channel.
11:51This race ain't over.
11:52Go warm up some more popcorn because it's on right now.
11:55We're getting into Laffers.
11:57Four and a half minutes plus a lap to go.
12:00Did you ever expect we'd see this?
12:03Deegan's dropped it in the sand.
12:07There you go.
12:09Now it is.
12:10Game over.
12:13Wow.
12:14Cole Davies waited a full year to get this payback on Hayden Deegan.
12:21And this is that second fall of Deegs.
12:25Down it goes in the sand.
12:27Yeah, I think he just grabbed a handful of throttle to get a good run out of that sand.
12:31And it slipped.
12:32Like it got down to the hard base.
12:34And it was all over.
12:35But crying there.
12:36Yeah.
12:37I mean, what happened was Cole Davies.
12:39You know, him getting into it.
12:40The way Hayden's been going.
12:42For Cole to kind of come up here and kind of startle that.
12:45We knew.
12:46Cole was.
12:47And Hayden was too far behind to make that move.
12:50That initial move when he went to give 37 the business.
12:53He should have been probably a half bike closer.
12:57And that pass would have worked.
12:59But, yeah, so that was miscalculated.
13:01Cole Davies' biggest fan is his 102-year-old great-grandmother who watches in New Zealand.
13:07I wonder what she thought about all of that.
13:16Oh, the bottom of the screen.
13:19So race control, we've just learned that they're checking out this pass.
13:24Come on.
13:24Let them race.
13:25Yeah.
13:26I mean, at this stage.
13:29It's the playoffs, baby.
13:30Let them go at this point.
13:32I think both those guys understand.
13:36Yeah, we'll see.
13:39How about this race?
13:40This has been epic.
13:44Is this a little warm-up for the 450 championship decider?
13:49Or is this the main event?
13:51Wow.
13:52We got a little quieter right here.
13:54We're all just sitting here watching these battles.
13:57We've got these two guys, second and third.
13:59I mean, we've had some wild 250 races here.
14:02Go back to the championship last year with Vial.
14:04Yeah.
14:05And it was in Hammaker.
14:08Right?
14:09And then Hampshire.
14:09I mean, there's always some drama here and incredible ride.
14:15Pretty good if Max Anstey can hang in there.
14:17That would be his third podium of the year.
14:20It would be a nice way to bookend the season with a win and a podium
14:23in A1 and here in Salt Lake City.
14:29Yeah, it looks good for these guys.
14:30It got a pretty big gap, almost 10 seconds, Max, over Hayde Deegan.
14:35Ken Rockson is taking one step closer towards being a 450 Supercross champion
14:45for the first time in his career as he heads out from beneath the awning
14:50and will make his way to the start line.
14:55Really positive finish to the Supercross season here too for Levi Kitchen.
14:59Really crazy what happened to his two teammates with Cameron McAdoo,
15:03Seth Hammaker going down virtually the same time in the warps.
15:07James, you and I were talking about it earlier today about Kitchen
15:12and how well he rode last week in Denver and how well he's doing right now.
15:16And he hasn't even been riding that much.
15:19He hasn't been able to.
15:20And that's a crazy thing.
15:22It's almost like at the beginning of the season when he's doing all the training,
15:25he's done better with less riding during the week.
15:28It's crazy.
15:29But like you said, the pressure, there's no pressure left.
15:32Yeah, there's no pressure.
15:33But also it shows you how talented Levi is.
15:36And I think here at Salt Lake and Denver, the way to track start,
15:40it really suits his skills.
15:42But nonetheless, the way to end the season compared to how the middle was going for him,
15:47I'm sure he's kind of happy about that.
15:50Yeah, to be his fifth podium of the year, really strong one.
15:53And that solidifies second in the championship behind Hayden Deegan.
15:56Here's the 250 East Division champion, the race leader, to end the season on a high.
16:01Just 20 seconds plus a lap to go for Cole Davies.
16:04Yeah, it's only going to be one more lap when he gets by.
16:08Yeah.
16:13Hayden Deegan is back in fourth place, 14 seconds behind his teammate.
16:19And I'm sure you won't be surprised to hear this,
16:21but Race Control did review their pass and no further action taken.
16:26Just good, hard racing.
16:28Yeah, really, what a great race by both of those guys.
16:32I mean, even with Hayden, it just shows you how much he wants to win.
16:35This championship's locked up, got everything.
16:38He could have easily just, all right, Cole's on it, but not Hayden Deegan.
16:42Look, some of the line switches, the race craft that he employed to defend from
16:49and then respond to Davies, those sequence of laps, they were unbelievable.
16:56Yeah, I mean, it shows you, but also just as impressed by this guy.
17:00This is what we thought we would see when those two, how good Cole was riding,
17:03but at the same time, really let him have it today.
17:06And the composure, he's always had really good composure while racing in the heat of the battle,
17:11this guy right here.
17:12It's very impressive at a young age.
17:15So, unfortunately, the season is going to be bookended for Hayden Deegan with non-podium results,
17:20but not for this man here.
17:22Cole Davies wins in Salt Lake City.
17:26To end the Supercross season on a massive high.
17:30Levi Kitchen comes across second.
17:32Max Anstey will be on the podium.
17:35No podium for Danger Boy, but he goes out of his 250 career.
17:40The champ, back-to-back 250 West Supercross champion.
17:43We 돼요 in...
17:43So he's in...
17:44Okay.
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