Shane McElrath

Born on 11 August 1994 in North Carolina, USA Winner of the inaugural FIM SX2 World Supercross Championship in 2022,after finishing second last season American Shane McElrath–Fire Power Honda regained the title in early December at the fourth and deciding round of the series in Abu Dhabi. It was Great Britain’s defending champion Max Anstie–Star Racing Yamaha who drew first blood at round one at the end of October in Vancouver, Canada, with victory in the opening race, but from this point on the thirty-year-old two-time AMA 250cc West Coast Supercross runner-up seized control, sweeping to three wins in the remaining races to take the lead. A month later the series headed down under to Perth in Australia for rounds two and three at HBF Parkand when Anstie’s challenge fell away it was the RWR Yamaha pairing of American Coty Schock and Brazil’s Enzo Lopes who emerged as McElrath’s main opposition. However, neither were a match for McElrath who won both nights to take a fifty-seven-point lead into the final round. After racing to victory in the opening race in the Etihad Arena on Yas Island, McElrath hole shot in race two and his eleventh race win of the campaign clinched the crown with two races remaining.

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FIM SX2 World Supercross Champion: 2022, 2024

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The inaugural FIM SX2 World Supercross Championship was staged this autumn over two rounds and six points-paying races.

The rounds were held two weeks and over ten-thousand miles apart with the opener in Cardiff in Wales in early October before the series signed off on the other side of the planet in Melbourne, Australia, a fortnight later.

Coming off an injury-hit Monster Energy Supercross season in the USA that ended prematurely thanks to a concussion and a niggling knee problem, Shane McElrath – Yamaha looked fully fit in the Welsh capital city’s Principality Stadium and capitalised on mistakes by his rivals to snatch the lead in the SX2 division.

Consistency was key in Cardiff for McElrath, a two-time AMA 250cc West Coast Supercross runner-up. Running fourth in the opening points-paying race, he improved to third in race two and then signed off with a fifth in the Super Final to carry a super-slender single-point lead Down Under.

In Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium in front of more than fifty-thousand cheering fans the twenty-eight-year-old posted a pair of runner-up finishes before wrapping up the title in style with victory in the final race of the championship which clinched the crown by nine points from Britain’s Max Anstie – Honda.

In a professional career that stretches back to 2013, the victory earned McElrath his first major bit of silverware and the FIM SX2 World Supercross Championship now takes pride of place at the top of a racing CV that also boasts two career AMA Pro Motocross 250cc round wins and six Monster Energy 250cc Supercross Main Event victories. 

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FIM SX2 World Supercross Champion: 2022