Two changes to note under Monster Energy Yamaha Star Racing tent for this weekend: Rookie Caden Dudney will sit out the remainder of SupercrossLIVE to focus on his first full season of ProMotocross. Landen Gordon will now make his professional racing debut on Saturday.
The team says this was the plan for Dudney from the get-go: get some pro SX experience for 2027. Dudney raced two rounds of SMX Next - SX before jumping up to the pro 250SX ranks and has shown speed in qualifying and heat races but finished 13-11-17-18-16 in his six 250SX main event starts this season. The
#82 has some incredible raw speed when it comes to Pro Motocross, as we saw last year in his two starts.
As for Landen Gordon, he has finished 3-3-2-22 in his four SMX Next main event starts this season, a first-turn crash leading to that tough result the last time out. He will continue to run the
#180 he was running in SMX Next.
Wil Hahn, Monster Energy Yamaha Star Racing 250 Team General Manager, said the following...