A wild night inside Huntington Bank Field in Cleveland for the fourteenth round of the 2026 AMA Supercross Championship didn’t deliver the result Chase Sexton was chasing, but might mark another step forward in the bigger picture.
What started as a clear afternoon quickly unravelled into a wind-swept, rain-soaked challenge, leaving the Cleveland Triple Crown circuit slick, rutted and constantly evolving. For Sexton, it became less about outright results and more about progress, the kind that doesn’t always show on the final results sheet.
Sexton qualified seventh after building through the two sessions, but it was across the three-race format where his night took shape. A charge through the pack to seventh in Race 1 set the tone, before he showed some front-running speed in Race 2. Launching into second early, Sexton went toe-to-toe in a fight for the runner-up spot before eventually crossing the line in third.
By the final race, with conditions deteriorating further, Sexton again put himself in the mix from the outset. Battling inside the top five, he brought it home in fourth, a result that ultimately secured him fourth overall for the round.
But for Sexton, the bigger takeaway wasn’t the finishing position; it was the feeling.
He admitted afterwards that Cleveland was “a tough night with how much the track changed from start to finish,” but pointed to clear gains as the evening wore on, explaining that he “felt more comfortable on the bike as the night went on and started to find a better flow in the later races, which is something we’ve been building toward.”
That growing comfort, especially in the toughest conditions of the night, is exactly what Sexton has been chasing. And while the results might not yet reflect it, he feels he is heading in the right direction.
“The results don’t fully show it, but I feel like we’re getting closer each weekend,” he said, reinforcing a sense of quiet confidence beneath the surface.
With only three rounds remaining and Philadelphia up next, Sexton’s focus is simple: execution. “Now it’s about putting everything together for a full night,” he added — a statement that feels less like hope and more like intent.
Behind Sexton, his teammate Garrett Marchbanks endured a far tougher night, battling crashes and adversity across the three races to finish 11th overall. Despite the setbacks, Marchbanks showed flashes of speed throughout, even setting the fastest sector time in a different section of the track in each race — a reminder that his raw pace remains a weapon when things come together.
