2020 St. Louis Supercross Results

Steve Cox | January 11, 2020

Just 3 days short of 3 full years since Honda’s Ken Roczen won a Monster Energy Supercross main event, he returned to the top, winning the 450cc main event inside The Dome at America’s Center, in downtown St. Louis, Missouri. Roczen made it look as easy as it’s ever been on his way to the 12th 450cc main event victory of his career.

2020 St. Louis Supercross Results — **Honda’s Ken Roczen scored his first main-event win in 3 years, and he made it look easy.** PHOTOS: Hoppenworld

Roczen took the lead from the early leader, Rockstar Energy Husqvarna’s Zach Osborne, and then took off, sprinting away with the win, while round-one winner Justin Barcia (Monster Energy Yamaha) quickly moved into second. Even though it only took a couple laps, by the time Barcia saw second place, Roczen already had about 3 1/2 seconds on him, and it only stretched from there. Barcia hung on for a strong second, despite an illness that had him feeling out of sorts all day. Barcia will hang on to the red plate as the series moves back to Anaheim a week from tonight.

The fastest daytime qualifier, Monster Energy Kawasaki’s Adam Cianciarulo, made a lot of mistakes in the early laps but still sat fourth on the last lap, in a Rockstar Energy Husqvarna sandwich between Jason Anderson in third and Osborne in fifth, and Cianciarulo’s teammate Eli Tomac had caught that group after starting around 15th. On the last lap, Cianciarulo went down, and Tomac passed Osborne, so Roczen won over Barcia, Anderson, Tomac, Osborne, Smartop/Motoconcepts Honda’s Malcolm Stewart, Cianciarulo, Roczen’s teammate Justin Brayton, Rocky Mountain ATV/MC KTM’s Blake Baggett, Barcia’s teammate Aaron Plessinger, Stewart’s teammate Justin Hill, and then defending champion Cooper Webb (Red Bull KTM) who had a really bad chest infection for the past few days.

Barcia leads the points going into Anaheim 2 by 6 points over Roczen (49-43), with Cianciarulo sitting third in points on 39, tied with Anderson, and then Tomac (35), Baggett (33), Webb (32), Stewart (31), Brayton (30) and the rest of the field.

In the 250SX West, Monster Energy/Pro Circuit Kawasaki’s Austin Forkner led the main event from start to finish, holding off the early advances of GEICO Honda’s 16-year-old rookie Jett Lawrence early in the main event and eventually winning by just under two seconds over round-one winner Justin Cooper (Monster Energy/Yamalube/Star Racing Yamaha). TLD/Red Bull KTM’s Brandon Hartranft capitalized on crashes from both Lawrence and his GEICO Honda teammate Christian Craig late in the race to land third place. Hartranft just held off JGR/Yoshimura/Suzuki Factory Racing’s Alex Martin at the finish. Lawrence finished fifth despite the fall and pulling into the mechanics’ area.

Defending champion Dylan Ferrandis went down in the first rhythm section after the start when Martin caused Rockstar Energy Husqvarna’s Michael Mosiman to careen into Ferrandis. The two went down hard, and Ferrandis had to enter the mechanics’ area to get his bike checked out. He ended up 12th, while Mosiman was 20th and Craig was credited with 22nd after his crash on lap 13.

Cooper leads the points as the series heads back to Anaheim, 49-44 over Forkner, while Hartranft sits third on 37 and Ferrandis sits fourth on 34 points, only 15 points out of the lead despite the St. Louis setback.

450SX Main Event

1	Ken Roczen	Honda
2	Justin Barcia	Yamaha
3	Jason Anderson	Husqvarna
4	Eli Tomac	Kawasaki
5	Zach Osborne	Husqvarna
6	Malcolm Stewart	Honda
7	Adam Cianciarulo	Kawasaki
8	Justin Brayton	Honda
9	Blake Baggett	KTM
10	Aaron Plessinger	Yamaha
11	Justin Hill	Honda
12	Cooper Webb	KTM
13	Dean Wilson	Husqvarna
14	Vince Friese	Honda
15	Justin Bogle	KTM
16	Kyle Cunningham	Suzuki
17	Benny Bloss	Yamaha
18	Chris Blose	Honda
19	Alex Ray	Kawasaki
20	Jimmy Decotis	Suzuki
21	Chad Reed	Honda
22	Martin Davalos	KTM

250SX West Main Event

1	Austin Forkner	Kawasaki
2	Justin Cooper	Yamaha
3	Brandon Hartranft	KTM
4	Alex Martin	Suzuki
5	Jett Lawrence	Honda
6	Jacob Hayes	Husqvarna
7	Luke Clout	Honda
8	Mitchell Oldenburg	Honda
9	Carson Brown	Husqvarna
10	Derek Drake	KTM
11	Martin Castelo	Husqvarna
12	Dylan Ferrandis	Yamaha
13	Aaron Tanti	Yamaha
14	Derek Kelley	Husqvarna
15	Killian Auberson	Husqvarna
16	Mitchell Falk	Honda
17	Michael Leib	Husqvarna
18	Robbie Wageman	Yamaha
19	Cheyenne Harmon	Honda
20	Michael Mosiman	Husqvarna
21	Ludovic Macler	Kawasaki
22	Christian Craig	Honda

450SX Points Standings (After 2 of 17 rounds)

1	Justin Barcia	49/1 win
2	Ken Roczen	43/1 win
3	Adam Cianciarulo	39
4	Jason Anderson	39
5	Eli Tomac	35
6	Blake Baggett	33
7	Cooper Webb	32
8	Malcolm Stewart	31
9	Justin Brayton	30
10	Zach Osborne	27
11	Aaron Plessinger	24
12	Justin Hill	24
13	Vince Friese	22
14	Dean Wilson	20
15	Justin Bogle	15
16	Martin Davalos	9
17	Chris Blose	8
18	Kyle Cunningham	7
19	Chad Reed	7
20	Benny Bloss	6

250SX West Points Standings (After 2 of 10 rounds)

1	Justin Cooper	49/1 win
2	Austin Forkner	44/1 win
3	Brandon Hartranft	37
4	Dylan Ferrandis	34
5	Alex Martin	32
6	Jett Lawrence	32
7	Jacob Hayes	29
8	Derek Drake	28
9	Christian Craig	22
10	Michael Mosiman	22
11	Mitchell Oldenburg	22
12	Carson Brown	22
13	Luke Clout	18
14	Cameron Mcadoo	17
15	Michael Leib	17
16	Killian Auberson	17
17	Robbie Wageman	15
18	Derek Kelley	13
19	Martin Castelo	12
20	Aaron Tanti	10

St. Louis SX Qualifying

For the second week in a row, Monster Energy Kawasaki’s Adam Cianciarulo and Monster Energy/Yamalube/Star Racing Yamaha’s Dylan Ferrandis topped daytime qualifying in the 450SX and 250SX West classes, respectively.

In the 450SX class, Cianciarulo put in an incredible time in the second session under the dome at The Dome at America’s Center in St. Louis, Missouri, with a 50.275-second lap. AC was the only racer in the 50-second range. Next came his teammate Eli Tomac, with a 51.016-second lap, followed by 2018 SX champ, from the Rockstar Energy Husqvarna team, Jason Anderson, who put in a 51.208-second lap.

Behind them came Honda’s Ken Roczen in fourth, points leader Justin Barcia (Monster Energy Yamaha), Motoconcepts/Smartop Honda’s Malcolm Stewart, and the rest of the field. For the second week in a row, defending champ Cooper Webb, from the Red Bull KTM team, qualified well down in the order, this time in 14th. It should be noted that his time is less than a second slower than Barcia in fifth place.

In the 250SX West class, defending champ Ferrandis landed atop the chart with a 51.002, in front of his teammate Justin Cooper (51.269). A half second behind that duo came Monster Energy/Pro Circuit Kawasaki’s Austin Forkner, then the GEICO Honda duo of Christian Craig and Jett Lawrence rounding out the top five.

Check back for updates after the races as we break down the night’s action from St. Louis.