Racerx got on-record interviews with Feld’s Mike Muye and Dave Prater from the SX operations/management side, plus Ken Adelson from the TV broadcast department. In Racerx having talks with Mike Muye, the Sr. Director of Operations for Supercross, they learned about a big change to the race day schedule for Monster Energy AMA Supercross.

Muye confirmed the new race day schedule for ’26 supercross events will not have free practice, instead of two ten-minute qualifying sessions like there were in 2025, there will now be no free practice sessions and instead just two 12-minute qualifying sessions.

“I think the big thing this year that we focused on was the amount of track maintenance that we want to incorporate in," Muye said. "So, we've made the decision to remove free practices, and we'll be running two qualifying sessions at 12 minute[s] each. And we use the majority of that extra time for track maintenance and rebuilding portions of the rhythm lanes and those types of things. Whoops are always challenging just because of the time that it takes to build them, but hopefully with the reduced amount of traffic over the whoops, they won't break down as much.”