Everyone was anticipating a great, three-way, winner-takes-all battle between championship leader Hunter Lawrence, Chase Sexton, and Jett Lawrence at today’s SuperMotocross World Championship (SMX) Final. Las Vegas, Nevada, is hosting the down-to-the-wire SMX finale.

Unfortunately, in the first moto, Chase Sexton was landed on by Justin Barcia on the first lap around the back half of the top ten. We all know how Barcia races, but Sexton cut over to the right and Barcia had nowhere to go, landing directly on the top of the Red Bull KTM rider. This was clearly a racing incident as it happened to be a wrong place, wrong time and you know Barcia would not want to make an impact on this SMX championship in a negative way. Neither of the two went down, but Sexton’s visor was knocked off, his right shoulder of his jersey was all ripped up, and he looked banged up. He did one full lap before pulling into the mechanics area, picking up his mechanic Kyle Defoe and the two rode off to the pits.

The team told TV pit report Will Christien the bike was too banged up for Sexton to finish the moto. Note that the TV broadcast did pick up clips of Defoe starting to work on Sexton's bike, which could mean we will see him race the second moto. 

Sexton's crash and 21st place finish will essentially make the three-way SMX title battle into now a battle between just brothers Hunter and Jett Lawrence.