Monster Energy/Pro Circuit Kawasaki racer Drew Adams has been stationed at the Dog Pound training facility in Florida and preparing for the 2026 250SX East Division opening round set for Saturday, February 21, 2026 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

A top 10 finisher in the three 250SX West races he competed in during the 2025 season before being shut down by injury, the rider from Chattanooga, Tennessee is now healed up and ready for a run at the 250SX East title.

American legend journalist, Eric Johnson caught up with Adams and asked him whats up.

“I’ll tell you what, (training) has been quite the hell camp, that’s for sure," he said. Last off-season, I kind of did not do a full off-season. This year I got a really good experience of what that’s like, and it’s nothing like anything else. A race weekend is hard, but doing the same thing for 10 weeks in a row at the training facility is just as hard. It’s been going great and I’m looking forward to it.

“I’m super-excited to be racing on the East Coast. I’m super excited to race at Daytona this year. That’s my favorite race of all time. I’ll also get to race in Nashville, which will be my hometown race. It’ll be cool to have most of my family come and watch me race. I’m looking forward to it. I feel like this year with us having to wait until round seven to race has been a long-awaiting thing."

Eleventh in AMA Pro Motocross and seventeenth in the 250SX West division in the final 2025 season point standings, Adams is looking for better performance numbers in 2026.

“I thought my 2025 season was good,” Adams said. “I was kind of in a fill-in rider position when I started with Pro Circuit, just because the team was pretty full with riders. I’m thankful that I got to do my first supercross at Anaheim 2 last year. I would say that it all went pretty well. It was a pretty heavily stacked region, and I did pretty well. At the second round of the series I was in qualifying before the night show and I was starting to get my speed up and I was in fourth place and thinking, ‘Man, I can just go faster.’ I was getting greedy with it and I had a silly accident and ended up breaking my collarbone and a couple of vertebrae in my back.

"That put me out for a little bit. I had a really good recovery process through that. I ended up coming back for a couple of supercross races. Both races went really well. I got top 10 at the East/West Showdown, so that was looking good. Outdoors, at press day at the Pala round, I told my mechanic, ‘I want to win Rookie of the Year. That’s my goal.’ I achieved that. That was good. I had some good learning experiences. I even had a couple of silly mistakes in there. At High Point this year I ended up breaking my finger in the second moto and had to miss the Southwick round. It was a full learning curve. I think I got the full rookie experience. I’m really looking forward to my sophomore year.

“I want to be in the top five. That’s my goal. At the end of the day, I think everyone’s first goal is just to get through the full season. That’s the goal you really want to achieve, but I think I can easily be a podium guy this year. I’ve been doing the full off season with my teammate Seth Hammaker, and he almost won the championship last year. That’s saying something right there. I’ve looked up to Seth a lot and he’s been a good mentor to me. I feel like me and him both are so ready for this season. I think we’re going to do good things.

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“At the end of the day, my first goal is just to get through the season and stay healthy and stuff like that. I really want to kind of have some breakout rides this year. I feel like with all the work I’ve been putting in during this off season, I feel like I can definitely be on the podium and maybe even pull out a couple wins. That’s my goal. I want to be there for every race. I don’t want to have these race weekends where I’m back in ninth and 10th. You can’t really have that. I want to be up there. My goal is to get a couple podiums, and if there is a win in there, then there’s a win.

"I think that’s a very high goal, but I feel like it’s very achievable. It’s the most physically demanding sport in the world. I think a lot of people say that. Even the mental side of things. A lot of guys can get deep down in the gutter in this sport. It can be in the head a lot and I just try to have a strong mindset every weekend. I make sure that my body is ready for every weekend, and I make sure that I’m mentally focused before every moto. I’m looking forward to this season. Trust me. I’m just a dog ready to get out of the cage. And a title is the goal. I mean from the time I was three years old, I wanted to win a supercross championship. If I can do it this year, I’m going to try my best, that’s for sure.”