Round 13 of the 2026 AMA Supercross 450 Class heads to Nissan Stadium in Nashville, Tennessee. Cooper Webb, riding for Monster Energy Yamaha Star Racing, enters as the defending 450 Class champion, having secured his third title in the 2025 season. A key storyline revolves around Ken Roczen, who is just five points shy of the championship lead, intensely battling current frontrunners Eli Tomac and Hunter Lawrence. The 450 Main Event is scheduled from 4:29 PM to 4:51 PM local time.
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Yamaha signs Ai Ogura for 2027, pairs him with Jorge Martin
Yamaha has agreed to sign Ai Ogura for the 2027 MotoGP season, pairing the 25-year-old with Jorge Martin in the factory team and replacing Alex Rins, Motorsport reporter Oriol Puigdemont and other outlets have reported. Yamaha is delaying any public announcement while the Motorcycle Sports Manufacturers Association (MSMA) and MotoGP Sports Entertainment Group finalize a five-year commercial contract.
Ogura won the 2024 Moto2 title and is in his second MotoGP campaign with Trackhouse Racing (Aprilia) after making his premier-class debut in 2025. He sits seventh in the championship after three rounds, with best finishes of fifth in Thailand and fifth in Brazil; reporters say he lost a podium opportunity to a technical issue and a mechanical failure in Austin ended his most recent race.
The Yamaha decision has triggered a wider rider-market reshuffle. The signing reduces options for Luca Marini, his camp has been told he is effectively ruled out for Yamaha, and it increases the likelihood Raul Fernández will remain with Trackhouse as that team will have a vacancy to fill. Reports indicate Honda’s (HRC) works squad appears set to pair Fabio Quartararo with David Alonso, sources say LCR seats are effectively sealed, and Dani Holgado has confirmed a move to Gresini Racing on a Ducati. Yamaha had considered promoting Izan Guevara or calling up Toprak Razgatlioglu from Pramac, but Razgatlioglu’s reported reluctance to leave Pramac and other market movements left Ogura as the chosen signing. Guevara enters the season with strong recent form and Yamaha has described him as having “explosive” premier-class potential.
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Buddy Kofoid wins at I-55, cuts Gravel’s lead to 34
Buddy Kofoid won the World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car feature at I-55 Federated Auto Parts Raceway Park. It was his third victory of the season and his second consecutive win, moving him up to third in the championship standings. At 24 years old, Kofoid became the 28th different driver to reach 25 World of Outlaws feature wins, and his three victories tied him with David Gravel and Big Game Motorsports for the most wins on tour this year. David Gravel retained the points lead, but his margin was cut to 34 points.
Kofoid started on the pole and led much of the race, holding off several late restarts. On the final green-white-checkered restart, after a Cole Macedo tip-over, Kofoid launched past the field to secure the victory.
Carson Macedo finished second in the Jason Johnson Racing No. 41, Spencer Bayston was third in the Stenhouse Jr./Marshall Racing No. 17, Donny Schatz finished fourth and Ryan Timms fifth. David Gravel flipped during the race but recovered to salvage a ninth-place finish.
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Brandon Sheppard sweeps Illini 100, earns 89th win
Brandon Sheppard completed a flag-to-flag sweep to win the Illini 100 opener at Farmer City Raceway, recording the 89th World of Outlaws Late Model Series victory of his career. Sheppard led all 40 laps of the feature and converted earlier on-track results into a clean sweep of practice, qualifying, his heat race and the main event.
The Illini 100 was part of the DIRTVision-presented World of Outlaws Late Model Series, and the victory came in Sheppard’s first home-state start of 2026. The win marked his fifth World of Outlaws victory at Farmer City Raceway.
Sheppard, who is from New Berlin, Illinois, posted the fastest lap in Thursday practice, earned the Simpson Quick Time Award in qualifying and won his Friday heat race before taking the feature.
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Coltrane Pursues Career Reset vs. Pitolo in Honolulu
BKFC Fight Night Honolulu is being cast as a proving ground for fighters seeking redemption and momentum, headlined by former title challenger Doug “ColdRed” Coltrane and co-headlined by light-heavyweight Joseph “Dark Knight” Creer. The event takes place this Saturday at the Neal S. Blaisdell Center and will stream worldwide on the BKFC App.
Coltrane, a Smithfield, North Carolina native, faces Maki “Coconut Bombz” Pitolo in the main event. He entered BKFC in 2022 riding a three-fight win streak that earned him the main slot at BKFC 53 in 2023, where he lost to champion David “The Redneck” Mundell. Coltrane said that defeat came from overthinking and pressure. Since then he has returned to enjoying training, focusing on being free and having fun in camp. He called fighting in Hawaii “icing on the cake,” pledged to represent BKFC and make the Coltrane name memorable, and the promotion has presented the matchup as a career reset and a marquee bout for the card.
Creer, a light-heavyweight from Columbus, Georgia, returns as the co-main event against local prospect Ke’ali’i “The Saint” Kanekoa. After losing to Jared “Captain Deadpool” Warren in May 2025, Creer has been unbeaten in his subsequent fights and is aiming for his third straight stoppage. He said personal setbacks, including the loss of his coach and friends, motivated him to rebuild and refine a distinct style he believes is showing in recent performances. Creer noted he previously beat Ty Gwerder at the same Honolulu venue in 2019 under Bellator and said another decisive win should put him in position to challenge reigning champion Lorenzo “The Juggernaut” Hunt. Both fighters have framed the night as an opportunity to reset their careers and stake claims to bigger opportunities in BKFC.
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Sioux Falls three-round format boosts winner to 100 points
Unleash The Beast comes to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, for Stop No. 16, the First PREMIER Bank PBR Sioux Falls, at the Denny Sanford PREMIER Center this weekend, Friday–Sunday. Sessions will run Friday and Saturday at 7:45 p.m. CT, with Championship Sunday at 1:45 p.m. CT. U.S. streaming coverage will be on Paramount+, the tour’s primary home this year, and coverage begins at 9:00 p.m. ET Friday and Saturday and at 3:00 p.m. ET Sunday.
Sioux Falls uses a three-round format that raises the aggregate winner’s points from 80 to 100 and offers deeper Top-10 payouts. Go-round points remain 20 for a win down to 7 for 10th. The stop is pivotal as riders chase World Finals points, with only 211 points separating the top five in the championship race and three regular-season stops remaining. Organizers say the outcome in Sioux Falls could reshape the World Championship picture ahead of the PBR World Finals, scheduled May 14-17 at Dickies Arena.
The weekend will feature the YETI World Champion Bull race, with contenders including Ransom and Pegasus. Several contenders are sidelined by injuries, including Jose Vitor Leme and Leandro Zampollo, and Keyshawn Whitehorse has been excused to be home. The Pendleton Whisky Velocity Tour continues in Oakland the same weekend, offering alternate qualification pathways for riders trying to move up into Unleash The Beast.
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Drew Adams Returns in Nashville After Daytona DNF
Drew Adams is slated to return to Supercross this weekend at Round 13 in Nashville, a homecoming for the Tennessee native after missing four races with a thumb injury suffered at Daytona. Adams won his heat at Daytona before crashing in the main, which produced a DNF and the thumb injury that sidelined him.
Adams will race for Monster Energy/Pro Circuit Kawasaki and enters the weekend with limited mileage this season, having started only two 250SX mains with finishes of sixth and 22nd, his season-best sixth coming at Arlington, leaving him 21st in 250SX East points.
The team confirmed in a Thursday-night press release that Adams will line up alongside regular rider Seth Hammaker and fill-in Nick Romano for Nashville. Team manager Iain Southwell praised Hammaker’s consistency, said Romano is making solid progress, and said the team hopes the hometown crowd will help Adams regain race fitness and confidence, framing Nashville as a comeback opportunity and a chance to regain championship momentum rather than a long-term reversal of the standings.
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Star Racing promotes Landen Gordon for Supercross seat time
Monster Energy Yamaha Star Racing announced 19-year-old Californian Landen Gordon will make his professional Supercross debut this weekend at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, Tennessee after a midseason promotion to the 250SX East field to gain seat time and experience. Gordon said he is “ready to have some fun” and looks forward to mixing it up with East Coast riders.
General manager Wil Hahn said the change gives Gordon valuable Supercross minutes while allowing teammate Caden Dudney to shift focus to his rookie outdoor motocross campaign, and the team intends for Dudney to gain Supercross exposure ahead of the 2027 season.
Dudney contested the opening six rounds of the 250SX East this Supercross season to build experience and will not race further Supercross rounds as he prepares for the opening round of the Pro Motocross series. Dudney raced the final two rounds of the 2025 Pro Motocross season and finished 11th overall in his pro debut at Unadilla MX. The team described the move as a strategic, seat-time-focused adjustment rather than a permanent roster change.
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FIA to review 2026 rules after Bearman 50G crash
Oliver Bearman suffered a reported 50G impact in a high-speed crash at the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka. Bearman closed about 50 kph faster than Franco Colapinto into Spoon Curve, and took avoiding action that sent his Haas across the track and through gravel before it struck a barrier. Marshals assisted him and X-rays cleared him of major injury apart from a badly bruised knee.
Stefano Domenicali said he changed his mind about the planned 2026 rules after seeing the incident, and fans reacted angrily, accusing officials of not taking driver safety seriously. Some drivers and commentators cited the crash as confirmation of earlier warnings from drivers such as George Russell that cars built to the 2026 regulations “would be like planes.” The debate centers on whether the 2026 technical direction needs adjustments to reduce closing speeds and mitigate launch risk in wheel-to-wheel incidents.
The FIA concluded that high closing speeds contributed to the Bearman and Colapinto crash and said it will consider potential changes during April. Cancellations of the Bahrain and Saudi Arabian grands prix have given F1 an unexpected window to evaluate the 2026 rule package, and drivers, teams and fans are expected to watch that review closely because any tweaks could alter the series’ safety and technical trajectory ahead of 2026. Drivers’ representatives proposed concrete fixes, with Grand Prix Drivers’ Association president Alex Wurz urging changes to power-unit software, a ban on sudden deployment spikes at top speed and a standard software solution that factors speed and distance to prevent abrupt energy deployment and so-called “super clipping.” Wurz linked the concern to this season’s shift toward a roughly 50/50 combustion-electric split and increased battery harvesting, which he and others say has produced dangerous closing-speed deltas. The incident has intensified scrutiny and raised questions about potential reputational and regulatory pressure on the FIA and F1.
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