SMX 2026 450 results, highlights, finish at Birmingham: Hunter Lawrence extends podium streak

Hunter Lawrence beat Ken Roczen to the finish line by 2. 391 seconds at Protective Stadium in Birmingham, Alabama, to win his third race in the last four rounds. In the race he didn't win, he finished second at Daytona, but he still refuses to show any outward signs of excitement about his championship hopes.

Lawrence has a good reason to be concerned because his closest challenger, Eli Tomac, is a wily past champion, but Lawrence is slowly developing a gap on the field. With his Birmingham victory, Lawrence has a nine-point advantage over the field with seven rounds remaining. Click here for a recap of Birmingham Second-place Birmingham finisher Ken Roczen shows no sign of slowing down in Supercross Main Events, but he is steadily losing contact with the championship leader.

He is on a current, four-round top-five streak, but the real damage to his title bid came in Seattle when he finished 10th. It could have been so much worse. Eli Tomac was involved in a freak accident with Justin Cooper in his heat, which sent Tomac to the Last Chance Qualifier for the first time in seven years.

Tomac trapped Cooper’s leg between his back tire and fender , and as the riders separated, Tomac's air filter was dislodged. Tomac nailed his starts in both the LCQ and Feature, but when he lost the tow to Lawrence and Roczen, he settled into a safe pace that placed him third. Relive the Heats Cooper rebounded from the heat accident to transfer directly into the Main.