For many years, the World Supercross Championship was more or less a series that went from one promoter to another, spent a bunch of years being a "world" championship hidden somewhat in the AMA Supercross Championship, until something of a fall-out with the AMA series and being thrust into the world of promoters.

Sure enough, Aussie promoters SX Global took it up and each year the series has improved and gained momentum. For me, the series of 2025 looks stunning, not only with countries involved, but also the riders who will race the series.

In a wise move, WSX have taken a different approach and a bunch of wild-cards have been included, and that for sure makes some of the rounds more exciting than others, but all the rounds have somebody special racing.

The 2022 FIM Supercross World Championship was a supercross series sanctioned by the FIM as the world championship of the sport. This was the first season that the championship was organized by Australian promoter SX Global as it moved away from being merged with the America-based AMA Supercross Championship.

That first season, it was Eli Tomac winning in the very first WSX round with the new promoter and the American legend won the London supercross, with Joey Savatgy winning the round in Australia and Shane McElrath winning the two 250 mains.

2023 was the second season that the championship was being organized by Australian promoter SX Global. Ken Roczen is the reigning champion in the WSX class for 450cc motorcycles, whilst Shane McElrath is the reigning champion in the SX2 class.

Ultimately, many of the initially scheduled rounds were later cancelled, producing a three-round series. Roczen was able to successfully defend his title in the WSX championship, whilst it was Max Anstie who triumphed in SX2 where he became the first British champion of an FIM-sanctioned supercross world championship.

This time, Ken Roczen took wins in Birmingham, UK and Melbourne, Australia, with Savatgy winning the round in Abu Dhabi. McElrath won the round in the UK and Max Anstie the two rounds in Abu Dhabi and OZ.

In 2024, Ken Roczen was the reigning champion in the WSX class for 450cc motorcycles, whilst Max Anstie was the reigning champion in the SX2 class. Anstie only competed in the opening round as a wildcard, so did not defend his crown.

Format Changes came with several format changes were brought in ahead of the season starting that would apply at each event. SuperPole: Top four riders from the fifteen-minute qualifying go to the SuperPole which determined the starting gate positions for the Main Events. Top three riders in the SuperPole scored championship points as follows:

SuperFinal: The top eight riders from across the three Main Events in WSX and SX2 qualified for the SuperFinal at the end of the night. The SuperFinal allocated championship points to the finishers along the same scheme as for each Main Event.

The 2024 season had 4 events in Canada, Australia and United Arab Emirates. Tomac returned to the series to take the Canadian round, then swept the two rounds in Australian with Roczen winning the final round in Abu Dhabi. McElrath won all four rounds of the 250cc class.

Heading into the 2025 series, Eli Tomac is the reigning champion in the WSX class for 450cc motorcycles, whilst Shane McElrath is the reigning champion in the SX2 class. Prior to the start of the season, the series organisers announced that all licensed teams had signed the 'Geneva Agreement'. Along with setting out how the championship will support licensed teams for the following three seasons, Stark Future was announced as a new team in the series. Stark Future will be the first team to run electric-powered motorcycles in the series.

Of course, recently, the original opening round in Malaysia has been cancelled and replaced by a round in Sweden, and the fields just got stronger and stronger. Eli Tomac, Ken Roczen, Haiden Deegan, Justin Cooper, Cooper Webb, Tom Vialle and Jason Anderson all line up in the 450 class and its going to be a huge year for WSX in 2025.

You will no doubt in the future find more AMA veterans wanting to give it a go, more MXGP youngsters and more riders like Haiden Deegan signing up. Exciting is an understatement for WSX and I cannot wait for the first round to fire into action in the beautiful country of Argentina on November 8.

More information here: FIM World Supercross Championship