{"id":13109,"date":"2026-03-03T09:46:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T16:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/eli-tomac-wins-daytona-supercross-for-the-eighth-time\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:34:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:34:56","slug":"eli-tomac-wins-daytona-supercross-for-the-eighth-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/eli-tomac-wins-daytona-supercross-for-the-eighth-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Eli Tomac wins Daytona Supercross for the eighth time"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Eli
Eli Tomac\u2019s win on Saturday in Daytona raised his win tally on the track to eight. He is now one point behind overall points leader Hunter Lawrence. (Photo courtesy of Red Bull KTM)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

Cortez\u2019s Eli Tomac won his eighth Daytona Supercross 450SX race on Saturday, marking another \u201cmagical\u201d race in Florida. Tomac\u2019s win puts him only one point behind current overall points leader Hunter Lawrence.<\/p>\n

Tomac has 170 points.<\/p>\n

In the main event at Daytona International Speedway, Lawrence claimed the hole shot while Tomac got \u201cpinched off,\u201d going around the first corner, where he rode in fifth place behind Malcolm Stewart. Ken Roczen and Cooper Webb raced behind Lawrence in second and third.<\/p>\n

Roczen quickly passed Lawrence, taking first place while Tomac moved to fourth. After securing fourth place, Tomac passed Webb and Lawrence, putting his sights on Roczen and quickly narrowing his lead.<\/p>\n

Tomac slingshot out of a corner, moving past Roczen to take the lead to the excited roar of the crowd. Lawrence passed Roczen for second.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was gnarly what ET just did,\u201d commentators said. \u201cThere is just something magical about Eli Tomac and Daytona International Speedway.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tomac led for the remainder of the race, winning in Daytona for the eighth time. Lawrence placed second and Roczen third.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomehow I have won eight Daytona Supercrosses,\u201d Tomac said in a KTM news release following the race. \u201cI just go out there and roost the berms like I\u2019m at my home track \u2013 I love this dirt and the way it develops. Of course, I had to work for it there tonight, I went through all my main competition and just had a great time on my motorcycle.\u201d<\/p>\n

During the trophy ceremony, Tomac\u2019s trophy broke, hitting him in the mouth and breaking one of his teeth. He didn\u2019t let the moment sour his win, taking to Instagram with a humorous selfie, saying, \u201cIt\u2019ll buff out.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Tomac\u2019s tooth was broken by his trophy after his win in Daytona. He posted to Instagram with a humorous caption following the trophy ceremony. (Screen capture via @elitomac on Instagram)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

In Heat 1 earlier in the evening, Tomac took the hole shot, followed by Webb. He established a commanding lead early on, with commentators saying, \u201cThis guy is just absolutely lighting it up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tomac led for the entire heat to win by nearly six seconds. Webb placed second, and Roczen came from behind for third.<\/p>\n

In the second heat, Lawrence led from the start for the hole shot, with Stewart and Joey Savatgy close behind. Stewart attempted to take the lead in an \u201cepic battle.\u201d Stewart and Lawrence jumped and rode over the whoops side by side on the first lap.<\/p>\n

Lawrence held on to the lead, and Savatgy ended up passing Stewart for second. Stewart placed third.<\/p>\n

Round 9 of the 2026 Supercross season will be held at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Saturday, March 7.<\/p>\n

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2026 Supercross 450SX Overall Point Standings<\/p>\n

Rider<\/strong>Team<\/strong>Points<\/strong>1. Hunter LawrenceHonda1712. Eli TomacKTM1703. Ken Roczen Suzuki1514. Cooper WebbYamaha1515. Chase SextonKawasaki1226. Justin CooperYamaha1227. Joey Savatgy Honda1128. Aaron PlessingerKTM959. Dylan FerrandisDucati 8710. Jason AndersonSuzuki84<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

now one point behind overall points leader Hunter Lawrence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,162,28,60,29,346,447],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-13109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-eli-tomac","tag-headlines","tag-montezuma-county","tag-newsletter","tag-sports","tag-supercross"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13109"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18816,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13109\/revisions\/18816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13109"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=13109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}