MOTOCROSS ACTION MID-WEEK REPORT
01/01/2025 09:00 AM
#WHIPITWEDNESDAY
Rider: Casey Cochran
Casey was one of the more prominent amateur racers as he climbed through the ranks. His main competition growing up was Haiden Deegan and the two battled at multiple amateur nationals. However, Casey would stay in the amateur ranks as Deegan moved up to the pros early. Casey has won Loretta Lynns six times and won his final Supercross futures race. When he moved up to the pro ranks he grabbed the fastest qualifier at the Hangtown national which was his first race at a track he had never ridden before. He also put up some great results throughout the year but also had some rookie mistakes which was bound to happen. He now moves over to the Factory Rockstar GasGas team for 2025.
SUPERCROSS RETURNS JANUARY ELEVENTH
Cooper Webb in 2024. Cooper will be looking to make a run at the championship in 2025.
Racing is back at Anaheim for the first round of the 2025 Supercross series. The seventeen-round series is the first half of the Supermotocross series that includes both Supercross and motocross, finishing with a three-round final. Heavy hitters like Jett Lawrence who is looking to defend his championship from last year as well as Chase Sexton, and Eli Tomac. Cooper Webb and the rest of the field are gearing up to do battle come gate drop.
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MXA PHOTO TRIVIA
Who is this rider? Answer at the bottom of the article.
MARVIN MUSQUIN + KTM 125 TWO-STROKE WIDE OPEN
ASK THE MXPERTS: MYSTERIOUS 2024-2025 KAWASAKI KX450 OIL LEAK
MXA’s first 2025 Kawasaki KX450 leaked oil at the right-side cover. Guess what? So did our second KX450.
BUBBLING CRUDE
Dear MXperts,
My new 2025 Kawasaki KX450 has oil coming from somewhere on the right side of the engine. I originally thought it was coming from the oil-filter canister, but that proved to be wrong. I’m stumped. Help!
Here is a short story. MXA’s 2025 Kawasaki KX450 suffered a minor crash in the first moto where the KX hit the ground with the right side of the engine in the dirt. The test rider picked it up and continued on to win the 450 Pro moto. When he got back to the pits, he noticed oil on the toe of his boot, but we couldn’t find where the oil was coming from. We checked the oil level and sent him back out for the second moto. This time, when he came back to the pits, there was a lot more oil on the right side of the KX450’s case. But, this time we could see that the oil was oozing out of the gasket on the side case (just under the cylinder). we had four hours on the engine.
We called Kawasaki to see if they could send a mechanic from the press relations department to look it over and replace the gasket. Kawasaki said that they would rather just give us a new bike, because they were in the middle of a series of big press introductions and didn’t have any spare mechanics. The bike that they gave us had 2.6 hours of break-in time on it, and it lasted another three hours before it began to leak oil out of the right side of the case. Luckily, we were with Kawasaki on this day, and they said they’d never seen that problem before. But, we asked a hard-core KX450 racer, and he said that he had to replace the right side-case gasket three times last year. In the end, we asked Kawasaki to fix our original KX450 when they had time and give it back to us (and we would return the second KX450 they gave us. Given our experience, we are pretty sure that your side-case gasket is the source of your oil leak, as it was in the case of our two oil leaks in two weeks.
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MXA PHOTO OF THE WEEK
MXA test rider Brian Medeiros putting the Suzuki RMZ-250 through the paces at the 2025 250 shootout.
CLASSIC MXA PHOTO
David Vuilliman in 2001 seamlessly making his way through the rhythm section.
MXA Photo Trivia Answer: Bob Hannah who was one of the most successful motocross racers in AMA history, with 70 AMA race victories and seven championships.
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