Tomac Finishes Third Overall at Ironman
Monster Energy Yamaha Star Racing’s Eli Tomac returns to the podium, with teammate Justin Cooper earning a strong fourth overall / Aug 11, 2025 /
Monster Energy Yamaha Star Racing’s Eli Tomac overcame adversity to end the day third (6-3) at Ironman Raceway, marking his sixth overall podium of the season at Round 9 of the Pro Motocross Championship and Round 26 of the SuperMotocross World Championship in Crawfordsville, Indiana. Justin Cooper finished fourth overall (4-5), maintaining his strong position at the top of the 450SMX combined points standings.
Riders were met with punishing heat and humidity at the Ironman National. Coming down with an illness the night before, Tomac delivered a strong performance despite feeling less than 100%. After qualifying sixth, he grabbed the holeshot and led the first five laps. As the race wore on, he dropped back to seventh, later being credited with sixth after a rider was penalized for jumping the start. In Moto 2, he grabbed another holeshot. Although he dropped back a couple of positions in the opening laps, he continued to battle and reclaimed the runner-up spot on Lap 5 after the rider ahead crashed. He held strong in second until a mistake with four laps remaining dropped him to third, where he would finish to secure his sixth overall podium of the season. The Colorado rider remains third in the 450MX standings with two moto victories and a total of 10 moto podiums so far.
Cooper qualified seventh and, like his teammate, started both motos inside the top five. In the first race, he moved into third early before getting shuffled to sixth just past the halfway mark. He rallied to reclaim a top-five finish, which was upgraded to fourth after another rider’s penalty. In Moto 2, Cooper started fourth, and although he dropped back to seventh in the opening laps, he recovered to sixth after a crash ahead. The New Yorker continued to push, making a final-lap pass for fifth to end the day fourth overall. Heading into the penultimate Pro Motocross round, Cooper holds an 80-point lead in the 450SMX combined points standings and sits fourth in the 450MX standings.
Next weekend, the Monster Energy Yamaha Star Racing team heads to Unadilla MX for the Unadilla National – Round 10 of Pro Motocross and Round 27 of the SuperMotocross World Championship in New Berlin, NY.
Rich Simmons – Monster Energy Yamaha Star Racing 450 Team Manager
“After coming back from the break, Eli was determined to continue building on the momentum from Washougal. He got both holeshots today, which was great to see, but unfortunately he wasn’t able to hold the pace in the first moto. In the second moto, he was able to stay in that lead group and get an overall podium. Justin was just a tick off on speed all day in qualifying and the motos, but put himself in a good position on the starts and rode solid to get a fourth overall. As always, the team did a great job, and we look forward to Unadilla.”
Eli Tomac – Monster Energy Yamaha Star Racing #3
“I was just happy to get on the podium today. I came into this race pretty under the weather. Friday night, I started coming down with it, and then today I was just kind of hanging on. I had a rough first moto, unfortunately, but I had some positives on the day with my starts – two holeshots. So that was really cool for us, and I was able to rebound in Moto 2. I was in second, and then I stalled the bike towards the end. I just hit my rear brake and couldn’t get going again to get back to second, but I’m glad to hang onto third and get that podium.”
Justin Cooper – Monster Energy Yamaha Star Racing #32
“I kind of felt off all day. It’s not really a great track for me. I felt like I should have had a podium today, and with some guys going out, we were fourth. We want to be better. We’ll go back to work this week, look at what we did wrong, and try to be better for next weekend.”
2025 Pro Motocross Ironman National 450MX Results
2025 Pro Motocross 450MX Championship Standings
2025 SuperMotocross World Championship 450SMX Combined Points Standings
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