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The List: How Does SMX Work?

The List: How Does SMX Work?

June 14, 2023, 4:00pm
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When this year’s AMA Pro Motocross Championship ends at Ironman Raceway in Indiana, it will not mark the end of the AMA racing calendar for 2023. Last October, Feld Motor Sports and MX Sports (producers of Monster Energy AMA Supercross and the AMA Pro Motocross Championship, respectively) announced they would work together, not only helping with each other’s existing series, but also creating a new set of postseason playoff races, with a new name: SuperMotocross World Championship (SMX).

The regular championships as you know them will remain the same. The playoffs are new. You might have heard something about this, but maybe not all the details. How will it work, who will race, and what does it pay? We’ve got that for The List. 

What are the SMX races? After the AMA Pro Motocross Championship ends in August, there will be three new races held in September, which are considered “the playoffs” of the sport. They will be held at ZMax Dragway outside of Charlotte, North Carolina, Chicagoland Speedway in Illinois, and the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in California. The idea is that each track will have elements of both supercross and motocross together.

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    SuperMotocross Playoff 1 Saturday, September 9
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What’s the format? Two-moto format at each of these three races. Both the 250 and 450 class will do two 20-minute plus one lap motos. Overall winners each night will be created by combining both motos.

Chase Sexton, 2023 450SX Champion, was leading the 450SMX standings (SX and MX points combined) until a practice crash and consussion sidelined him for the time being in Pro Motocross. Now through 20 rounds of SMX, Sexton and Cooper Webb are tied for the SMX points lead.
Chase Sexton, 2023 450SX Champion, was leading the 450SMX standings (SX and MX points combined) until a practice crash and consussion sidelined him for the time being in Pro Motocross. Now through 20 rounds of SMX, Sexton and Cooper Webb are tied for the SMX points lead. Align Media

How do riders qualify? The combined points in both AMA Supercross and AMA Pro Motocross together are used to create seeding into the SMX playoff races. The top 20 overall riders in combined supercross and motocross points in each class go straight into the two SMX motos.

Second, riders ranked 21-30 in combined supercross and motocross points get to go to the Last Chance Qualifier. The top two riders in each LCQ will earn a place in the motos.

The top 20 in combined points of SX and MX are guaranteed into the mains at all three SMX races. The riders ranked 21-30 have to go to the LCQ at every round, no matter how they do at each SMX event. For example, if a rider ranked 21st in combined points wins the first SMX race, he will still have to go through the LCQ at the next round.

Additionally, if a rider wins a race this season in Pro Motocross or Monster Energy AMA Supercross he gets automatic entry into the LCQ, even if he does not end up in the top 30 in points. Race wins only guarantee a spot in the LCQ. That rider would have to then race his way into the motos by finishing top-two in the LCQ. 

Is there an advantage to doing better in the regular races before the playoffs?: Yes. The combined standings will be used to create a ranking or seeding before the first SMX round. This is the points reset before the playoffs. The rider with the most combined points indoors and out and the top “seed” will begin the playoffs with 25 points. The rider with the second most starts the playoffs with 22 points. Third will have 20. It’s all based on the traditional AMA point scale of a win equaling 25 points.

Right now, Cooper Webb and Chase Sexton are tied atop the SMX standings. If Webb can move into the lead and hold it to the end of the motocross season, he would start the playoffs with 25 points. If Sexton comes back and reclaims the lead, he could start with 25. If Sexton ends up second in combined points, he will start the playoffs with 22 points.

With Chase Sexton out, Cooper Webb is looking to take over the lead in combined points and go into SuperMotocross as the number-one seed. If so, he would start with 25 points. The second-ranked rider would start with 22 points.
With Chase Sexton out, Cooper Webb is looking to take over the lead in combined points and go into SuperMotocross as the number-one seed. If so, he would start with 25 points. The second-ranked rider would start with 22 points. Align Media

Jett Lawrence, by the way, can only use his 450 motocross points for his ranking to race the 450 class in SMX. He’s currently ranked 15th in SMX points already. If the playoffs started now, Jett would start with six points, because 15th in the standard AMA structure pays six points.

You can use the examples above to understand how this might look come September.

Also, in case of ties, the tie breaker goes to the rider with the best finish. Sexton has more wins this year than Webb so he would currently hold the tie breaker. If riders were tied on wins, the rider with the most second-place finishes would hold the tie breaker.

Jett Lawrence will be racing the 450 class at the SuperMotocross rounds, his points from this years 250SX championship will not carry over. 
Jett Lawrence will be racing the 450 class at the SuperMotocross rounds, his points from this years 250SX championship will not carry over.  Align Media

What’s on the line in these playoff races?: Money. Lots of lots of money. There’s $5.5 million dollars on the line in these three races.

First, each race itself pays over $400,000 in purse money. The winner of each 450 race gets $100,000, the winner of each 250 race gets $50,000. All 22 positions in the race pay money, so anyone who qualifies is guaranteed a pay day.

But there’s even more money up for grabs in the season-end SMX points fund. The 450 SuperMotocross World Champion wins $1 million. The 250 SuperMotocross World Champion wins $500,000. But the money pays well, way down the line. Fifth overall in the 450s makes $150,000. Tenth pays $75,000. 15th makes $32,000. Even the 22nd ranked 450 rider for the year gets $25,000. That’s real money in spots where privateers usually reside.

The winner of each class gets crowned as the SuperMotocross World Champion. As a first-year thing, it might not ring with the same prestige as the traditional AMA Supercross or AMA Motocross Championship. The money means it’s still going to mean a whole lot, anyway. 

There are surely many more questions that you have, but these are the basics. Plus, since this is all-new, no one knows for sure how it’s going to go. For now, you can always find the up to date SMX standings on the results tab on our site.

The Payout: Each SMX race itself has an individual race purse of just over $400,000. So winning or performing well in each of the three races pays well. It's $100,000 to win a 450 race, and $50,000 to win a 250 race. Every rider makes something for racing, even last place in the LCQ

But the biggest money is reserved for the final SMX standings. The payout is below

450 SMX Championship Payout

1$1,000,000.00
2$500,000.00
3$250,000.00
4$200,000.00
5$150,000.00
6$135,000.00
7$120,000.00
8$100,000.00
9$90,000.00
10$75,000.00
11$50,000.00
12$35,000.00
13$34,000.00
14$33,000.00
15$32,000.00
16$31,000.00
17$30,000.00
18$29,000.00
19$28,000.00
20$27,000.00
21$26,000.00
22$25,000.00
Total$3,000,000.00

250 SMX Championship Payout

1$500,000.00
2$250,000.00
3$150,000.00
4$100,000.00
5$50,000.00
6$25,000.00
7$18,000.00
8$17,000.00
9$16,000.00
10$15,000.00
11$14,000.00
12$13,000.00
13$12,000.00
14$11,000.00
15$10,000.00
16$9,000.00
17$8,000.00
18$7,000.00
19$6,000.00
20$5,000.00
21$3,000.00
22$2,000.00
Total$1,241,000.00
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450SMX Standings - 2023

PositionRider Hometown Qualifying Points Points
1Jett Lawrence
Jett Lawrence
Landsborough, Australia Australia 550 163
2Ken Roczen Ken Roczen Mattstedt, Germany Germany 340 146
3Chase Sexton Chase Sexton La Moille, IL United States 710 126
4Cooper Webb Cooper Webb Newport, NC United States 451 120
5Aaron Plessinger Aaron Plessinger Hamilton, OH United States 622 104
6Adam Cianciarulo Adam Cianciarulo Port Orange, FL United States 538 96
7Garrett Marchbanks Garrett Marchbanks Coalville, UT United States 255 92
8Jason Anderson
Jason Anderson
Edgewood, NM United States 449 91
9Colt Nichols Colt Nichols Muskogee, OK United States 163 90
10Ty Masterpool
Ty Masterpool
Paradise, TX United States 242 84
11Fredrik Noren Fredrik Noren Lidköping, Sweden Sweden 297 79
12Phil Nicoletti Phil Nicoletti Cochecton, NY United States 143 76
13Dylan Ferrandis Dylan Ferrandis Avignon, France France 455 71
14Justin Barcia Justin Barcia Monroe, NY United States 334 59
15Grant Harlan Grant Harlan Justin, TX United States 270 44
16Shane McElrath Shane McElrath Canton, NC United States 182 40
17Kyle Chisholm Kyle Chisholm Clearwater, FL United States 203 40
18Justin Hill Justin Hill Yoncalla, OR United States 212 31
19Dean Wilson Dean Wilson Scotland, United Kingdom United Kingdom 200 28
20Josh Hill Josh Hill Yoncalla, OR United States 155 25
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250SMX Standings - 2023

PositionRider Hometown Qualifying Points Points
1Haiden Deegan Haiden Deegan Temecula, CA United States 539 157
2Jo Shimoda Jo Shimoda Suzuka, Japan Japan 468 152
3R.J. Hampshire R.J. Hampshire Hudson, FL United States 474 122
4Levi Kitchen
Levi Kitchen
Washougal, WA United States 478 114
5Jordon Smith Jordon Smith Belmont, NC United States 234 110
6Justin Cooper Justin Cooper Cold Spring Harbor, NY United States 399 101
7Max Vohland Max Vohland Sacramento, CA United States 416 98
8Tom Vialle Tom Vialle Avignon, France France 421 90
9Hunter Lawrence
Hunter Lawrence
Landsborough, Australia Australia 643 89
10Jalek Swoll
Jalek Swoll
Belleview, FL United States 221 88
11Pierce Brown
Pierce Brown
Sandy, UT United States 174 86
12Ryder DiFrancesco
Ryder DiFrancesco
Bakersfield, CA United States 208 72
13Dilan Schwartz Dilan Schwartz Alpine, CA United States 174 61
14Talon Hawkins
Talon Hawkins
Temecula, CA United States 202 58
15Seth Hammaker Seth Hammaker Bainbridge, PA United States 157 49
16Cullin Park Cullin Park Clermont, FL United States 117 41
17Caden Braswell Caden Braswell Shalimar, FL United States 161 29
18Mitchell Oldenburg Mitchell Oldenburg Alvord, TX United States 131 27
19Coty Schock Coty Schock Dover, DE United States 89 25
20Preston Kilroy Preston Kilroy Afton, WY United States 71 25
Full Standings
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