Round 11 of the 2025 Monster Energy Supercross Championship marked a career-first for Kiwi revelation Cole Davies, the 17-year-old rookie notching his maiden 250SX West victory at Lumen Field on Saturday night. Check In with Davies to hear about that win in Seattle from his point of view.

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Cole, this has to be an unreal feeling. I feel like you set the tone early on in the day. We saw you attack the track early on in qualifying, I know you were not satisfied, even after that heat race win. So how much of todays tone was set early on?

Honestly, not really. I qualified 11th, [laughs]. I reset for the heat, got that done, but I still wasn’t 100 percent happy. I made a few changes for the main event and that really helped, then we came out swinging for that main and felt really good. So I’m stoked to get it done.

How nervous were you in those last few laps? You kind of kept blitzing the whoops for most of the race, was that something you had a game plan for, or did you consider jumping them?

I spoke to Swanie [Gareth Swanepoel] before the race about skimming the whoops, and we agreed that it was the best option. Going for the sight lap, I just looked and made sure they were skimmable, I guess, then I decided that I was skimming every lap. I don’t think they were comparable to Indy, they were a lot gnarlier there, but for the most part I skimmed them every lap except the last lap. I didn’t want to get too hairy on the last lap, [laughs].

At such a young age, how are you so good in the whoops? We saw you in Indy and here, is that something that you train for all week long?

I just gotta let them hang, [laughs].

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We know you’re a fun guy and we love it. But in all seriousness, this is probably the biggest moment in your career, this is what you’ve worked for your entire life. How big is this moment for you? Who are the people that you want to thank, and who are the people that you were thinking about when you crossed that finish line?

It’s definitely been a long road to get here. But yeah, the people I’d like to thank are everyone back home, my family, friends, my mum and dad, my sisters, Ben Townley – I definitely wouldn’t be here without him. He took me under his wing to get me to the states and get me racing, from there Wil [Hahn] kind of took the charge, so I can’t thank him enough, I wouldn’t be here without him either. It takes a lot of people to get to where I am today, and a lot of hard work.

I think it was the Moto Combine event at Ironman in 2023, that was your first race in the U.S. Thinking back to that day, I think you got a holeshot and you were pretty fast. If someone had of told you back then that you’d be a Supercross Futures champion, you’d switch to one of the top current teams right now, and seven races into your career you’d already have a win. Would you have believed them? Talk us through that timeline.

It’s been a lot of hard work to get to where I am, but I believe in myself, 100 percent. I feel like I wouldn’t be too surprised, but it’s pretty cool. I’m sure that a couple of years from now, it’s going to be the same.

You’ve been close to getting an overall win a couple of times now. Did this feel easier than you expected? How did it go leading from start to finish?

I got off to a good start. You know, I was confident going into the race, I’m always confident that I can go out and win. I wouldn’t want it any other way. I’m always confident that I’m going to get a good start and focus ahead, but for the most part, I got a good start, then JuJu [Beaumer] passed me early, then I passed him back and kind of pulled out a gap from him. I just managed it from there, I feel. It was a good race.