Cooper Webb, Chase Sexton and Ken Roczen have rounded out the podium in the last two rounds. So far in 2025, they have swept the podium in three of the seven races. It looks as if they will likely be doing this often through the final 10 rounds as well.
So how many different riders podium every year? And how many different podium combinations are there every year?
All stats in this post will be regarding the Premier Class.
A few random podium stats first:
In the history of Supercross, as of this writing and through seven rounds of 2025, there have been a total of 123 different riders who have podiumed.
There are four riders with more than 100 podiums: Chad Reed (132), Jeremy McGrath (111), Eli Tomac (102) and Ryan Dungey (101).
25 Riders have just one career podium.
Ryan Dungey has the record for most consecutive with 31 from Round 2 in 2015 through Round 16 in 2016.
Ricky Carmichael has the highest career podium percentage % (min 10 starts) with 75.65%. Ryan Dungey is right behind RC with 75.37%.
Number of Riders Who Podium Each Year
This first chart is a bit crowded and hard to read, I’ll break it down further but this is just to show all of Supercross history first.
From the beginning of Supercross in 1974, which only had three rounds (two of which counted for the championship) still had seven different riders make the podium. Through seven rounds so far in 2025, we are at seven riders. We can see a lot of volatility over the years. Surprisingly, it is slightly trending downward despite having more rounds in the series in modern Supercross history.
What is interesting here to me is the 2004-2007 stretch of six or seven riders. This makes sense given its the Carmichael, Stewart, Reed era, however, 2004 only saw one of those riders with Chad Reed.
1980 saw the highest amount with 15 riders to get a podium. This was a 17 round series.
Here is the same graph in the recent 17 round series era (left 2025 off for now):
Looking at the chart from these years once again shows volatility year over year. There doesn’t seem to be anything consistent or trending here. It is interesting the trendline is going slightly up.
Podium Rider Combinations
With Webb, Sexton and Roczen sweeping three podiums so far this year. I wanted to see the different rider combinations and how often a trio rounds out the podium and then how that varies every year. This is simply the trio of riders on the podium together, the order in which they finished doesn’t matter here.
Most Podium Rider Combinations throughout History
| Rank | Riders | Count |
| 1 | Chad Reed, James Stewart, Ricky Carmichael | 20 |
| 2 | Jeff Ward, Rick Johnson, Ron Lechien | 10 |
| Chad Reed, James Stewart, Ryan Villopoto | 10 | |
| Cooper Webb, Eli Tomac, Ken Roczen | 10 | |
| 5 | Ezra Lusk, Jeff Emig, Jeremy McGrath, | 8 |
| Chad Reed, Kevin Windham, Mike LaRocco | 8 | |
| Eli Tomac, Jason Anderson, Marvin Musquin | 8 | |
| 8 | David Vuillemin, Jeremy McGrath, Ricky Carmichael | 7 |
| Chad Reed, Kevin Windham, Ricky Carmichael | 7 | |
| Chase Sexton, Cooper Webb, Eli Tomac | 7 |
It absolutely no surprise that Reed, Stewart and Carmichael lead the way here. Chad Reed makes up 4 of the 10 highest combos which isn’t too surprising given his longevity – Reed had at least one podium in 16 different seasons.
There is only one pre-McGrath era combo in the top 10 here in Jeff Ward, Rick Johnson and Ron Lechien.
Different Podium Trios by Year
We can see the trend line increase mostly due to so few rounds early in the years of Supercross. As I highlighted earlier, the 2003-2007 era being a significant drop down from the other years. Given this is the Reed, Carmichael, Stewart years this makes sense. But this really visualizes it.
Both 1980 and 2022 have the highest amounts here. Both were 17 round series and only saw one podium trio repeat throughout the whole season. In both these years, there was a different trio in 16 of 17 events. In 1980, this was Mike Bell, Broc Glover and Kent Howerton. In 2022, it was Eli Tomac, Jason Anderson, and Chase Sexton.
So far in 2025, we have 5 different trios. I think we end up around 10 different combos, but its hard to see more than about 12 happening in my opinion.
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