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Ken Roczen, Jett Lawrence, Hunter Lawrence, and Haiden Deegan share their thoughts on New York City and their mindsets coming into today's race in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The MetLife Stadium is ready to host Round 14 of the 2023 Monster Energy Supercross Championship and Hunter Lawrence has a chance to win the 250SX East title, but his week hasn't gone as smoothly as you'd think. His near wreck while leading the Main Event at Atlanta last Saturday had some lingering effects this week. MXA's Brian Converse also talked to Jett Lawrence, Ken Roczen, and Haiden Deegan on Friday before the race as well. 

Motocross Action Magazine's Josh Mosiman talked to Chase Sexton on Friday before the 2023 Seattle Supercross to hear about his Detroit Supercross win and about his season so far. Chase talked about seeing Aaron Plessinger on the ground and he talked about his comeback ride, passing Cooper Webb, Eli Tomac and more. 

The 2023 Anaheim 2 Supercross is in the books and the Triple Crown format certainly shook things up in both the 250SX West and 450SX classes. Eli Tomac and Jett Lawrence were both knocked off their pedestals, however, Eli was knocked further off with a 6th place overall and a slimmed down 4-point lead over Chase Sexton in the 450 Championship standings. Jett actually extended his lead, but Levi Kitchen grabbed his first podium (which happens to be a win) in Supercross. Check out interviews from Chase Sexton, Adam Cianciarulo, Levi Kitchen, 250 Futures class winner Daxton Bennick, Star Yamaha 250 Team Manager Jensen Hendler, Derek Kelley, Phil Nicoletti and Colt Nichols. 

The 2023 Anaheim 1 Supercross press day riding was canceled, but we were still able to track down the most popular rider in the motocross and Supercross world right now, Ken Roczen. In this interview with Motocross Action's Josh Mosiman, Kenny explains his excitement for racing the Suzuki RM-Z450 and he talks about joining the HEP Suzuki team. He also shares about his offseason experiences testing different motorcycles and he talks on how that might benefit him coming into the new season. 

In this episode of the Motocross Action podcast, Trevor Nelson interviews factory HRC Honda riders Chase Sexton, Colt Nichols, Jett Lawrence and Chance Hymas. Each rider talks about their unique situation as they prepare for the 2023 season. 

Earlier this year Dean Wilson announced that this would be his last Outdoor National season as he transitions into full-time Supercross racing for 2023 and beyond. Dean’s career is highlighted by his 250 National Championship from 2011 and he is known for being one of the most popular riders in the pits. No matter how Dean finishes, he always has a crowd of fans cheering for him. We caught up with Dean Saturday evening after his last official AMA Pro Motocross race. Although Dean still has one more big race to go, the 2022 Motocross of Nations at Red Bud coming up in just three weeks where Dean will race for Team Great Britain. Enjoy this interview with Dean and the guest appearance by Jim “Bones” Bacon from Pro Circuit. 

In this episode of the MXA podcast, we took the audio from our 2023 KTM Freeride EXC Electric bike test video, and stripped the visual side of it for our listeners to hear the electric motor and hear MXA test rider talk about his experience riding this unique electric bike from KTM. To watch the  video, check out our website or YouTube channel. 

This is the audio version of episode number 88 from our This Week in MXA video series, presented by O'Neal. In this video, Josh Mosiman highlights the 2022 Ironman National and he talks to Michael Del Fante, Daryl Ecklund, Ezra Lewis and Josh Fout (in that order) as they share their experience from riding Jo Shimoda's factory Pro Circuit Kawasaki KX250.

The 2022 Washougal National is in the books and MXA test rider Josh Mosiman had a blast racing the 450 class and interviewing lots of factory riders after the race. In this interview, Alex Martin talks about lapping Josh Mosiman, his final season of racing and his brother moving to ClubMX Yamaha. For more of MXA's coverage from the Washougal National, check out motocrossactionmag.com.

In this interview, MXA test rider Josh Mosiman interviews Eli Tomac and Ryan Dungey, straight after racing against them (and getting lapped by them) at the 2022 Washougal National. Eli Tomac finished second overall with 1-2 moto scores and his win streak was finally broken by Honda's Chase Sexton. Ryan Dungey had a strong day going, but a bike issue in the first moto put him out of podium contention with 37-4 scores. In these interviews, Eli Tomac talks about racing the 2022 FIM World Supercross Championship, Chase Sexton's skills and his qualifying tactics. Ryan Dungey explains how his day went, he talks about his strategy for attempting to salvage a better gate pick on the line (for 450 moto 2) and he talks about his decision for possibly racing Supercross and motocross in 2023. 

Eli Tomac wasn't apart of Team USA at the 2019 Motocross of Nations, the event was canceled in 2020 and Team USA didn't attend the race last year. Although Eli Tomac isn't sure if he will race Outdoors again in 2023, he is committed to race for Team USA at the Motocross Of Nations on September 24th-25th, which is back at RedBud MX again. In Episode 80 of our This Week in MXA video series presented by O'Neal, Josh Mosiman talks about how Team USA has been winless at the MXON since 2011 and how Eli Tomac is slated to race both the Paris Supercross and first round of the FIM World Supercross Championship this offseason. Plus, we highlight more of the action from RedBud and share some clips from the MXA wrecking crew testing this past week. This is the audio version of our video, to watch this video, check out our website and/or YouTube channel. 

In this quick 10-minute interview, Shane McElrath explains how his fill-in ride with Rockstar Husqvarna is going so far, he explains how he didn't know what place he was in when he ultimately finished 5th at Thunder Valley in 450 Moto 2 and he talks about he likes to learn from Ryan Dungey, Eli Tomac, James Stewart and Ryan Villopoto. 

Are modern day Supercross tracks becoming too dangerous? Is there something we can do to create even better racing and while limiting the chances for big crashes? Can we lessen the amount of injuries? Jett Lawrence has been crowned the 250 East Coast Champion one race early and he did it in convincing fashion, winning four of eight races so far and finishing on the podium all eight times. However, the rest of the field was supposed to be stacked with competition, but it quickly was depleted as riders were injured. This audio was taking from Episode 70 of our This Week in MXA video series on YouTube.