Brea, CA - (May 12, 2025) - Temperatures were high inside Rice-Eccles Stadium for the final round of the 2025 Monster Energy AMA Supercross season. The hottest race of the year, combined with Utah winds, made for dry conditions on a busy and technical track with obstacles that were especially peaky and steep.
Race Highlights:
- Progressive Insurance ECSTAR Suzuki
- 450 Class
- Ken Roczen has begun his path back to racing with a successful mid-week ankle surgery.
- Twisted Tea Suzuki Presented by Progressive Insurance
- 450 Class
- Colt Nichols continued his steady improvement, delivering his season-best qualifying session result.
- Kyle Chisholm put in a strong performance in his final race as a full-time professional racer.
Ken Roczen (94) had third-place overall in the championship nearly secured when an ankle injury forced him to miss the final two rounds. Without earning points while away, Roczen was displaced two spots in the standings at the final round. Roczen and his Suzuki RM-Z 450 still landed in fifth-place overall in the final championship points.
Colt Nichols (45) put on a fierce charge early in the Salt Lake City Supercross main event to finish his first full season with the Twisted Tea Suzuki team on a high note.
Colt Nichols (45) was fast from the first laps on the Salt Lake City track. As riders searched for traction on the baked dirt, Nichols delivered his season-best qualifying result. In the main, Nichols recovered from the first lap chaos to mount an impressive charge through the pack. Nichols had great speed but ran out of time in the main to match his season-best top ten finish from earlier in the season.
“It was a big season for me, I’ve never finished a full 450 season before, so that was a big goal I had coming into the year. To even be in Salt Lake, I’m stoked,” said Nichols. “I wish I could have finished a little better, but I got some more exposure for the team and myself and overall, I’m super stoked on the team. I’m really happy with everything here. It’s been a fun season, frustrating at times, but I’m stoked to be racing my dirt bike and doing it with these guys. This support team I’ve got around me is pretty damn cool. Yeah, we’ll saddle up and do it again next year!”
Kyle Chisholm (11) earned enough points at the Salt Lake City Supercross to move his Twisted Tea Suzuki up in the final championship standings.
Kyle Chisholm (11), popular with fans and his competitors alike, gave a salute to the sport when he was invited to participate in the opening ceremonies inside Rice-Eccles Stadium. It was his final event as a full-time racer, but when the helmet went on Chisholm got right down to business. Chisholm earned his way into the main with a direct transfer from his heat race; this was Chisholm’s 184th main event start, putting him into a tie for seventh on the all-time list. When the checkered flag flew in Utah, Chisholm had nearly matched his season-best main event result.
“It was a fun, technical, and really busy track, but I had fun on it. It was definitely my style of track,” reported Chisholm. “I felt good in practice, qualified out of the heat, and in the main event I ended up 14th. Not my best, but I was happy with my riding… 17 races, there's a lot of racing, week in and week out, so staying healthy is an important thing. And that’s a tough thing for us to do in our sport. So you try to be smart all season and pick and choose the risks that you take. [Good decisions with] risk versus reward help you stay healthy. I’m proud of that, proud of staying healthy. I ended on a pretty good note, and I had fun out there. It was a great season, and it flew by. The team’s done a great job all year and, as always, we’ve worked well together for the last three years. I’ve really just enjoyed coming to work and working with everybody… I’m going to miss it, but I’m not leaving forever, right? I plan on still doing the playoffs, maybe a couple outdoors before then, maybe World Supercross and yeah, [this is] just my last time doing the full Supercross season… I hope you guys haven’t seen the last of me, that’s not the plan anyways, and I hope to be racing again here soon.”
“2025 Supercross is done. It was a great season for us,” said Larry Brooks, Twisted Tea/H.E.P. Motorsports/Suzuki presented by Progressive Insurance Team Manager. “We had a lot of good results, we won a race, and we were on the podium the majority of the time. We lost Ken Roczen to an injury and that was kind of hard to take. But Colt and Kyle kept grinding it out trying to get results. I think Colt improved a little bit; Kyle improved also. It’s just really hard when you know that you can race for the championship and then it gets snatched away from you. But you know, we're just gonna use it for fuel for next year, for 2026, and come out swinging even harder. We still have playoffs this year when Ken comes back, possibly for some nationals [too], and then the playoffs. I think Ken is still in a good spot in life and in racing; I think he can race for the championship, and we're just going to keep plugging away. The motorcycle is really good, and we'll see what happens. But this year's over and we're just going to plug away and try to do as good as we can for the playoffs and then [put] everything into 2026.”
The Suzuki riders and team members can look back on a successful season of excellent performances and strides in both rider performance and bike settings. The crew is more prepared than ever for the remainder of 2025 and re-tackling next season’s Supercross season.
Please visit SuzukiCycles.com/Racing/Motocross and HEPMotorsports.com for more team news.
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