Tomac & Cooper Power Team USA to Silver at 2025 Motocross of Nations

Monster Energy/Star Racing/Yamaha racers Eli Tomac and Justin Cooper came up big on Sunday, scoring podium finishes in the MXGP and MX2 classes, respectively, to lead Team USA to a silver medal in the 78^th running of the Monster Energy FIM Motocross of Nations at Ironman Raceway in Crawfordsville, Ind.

In front of an estimated 20K fans, Monster Energy-backed racers were especially well represented in the battle for 2^ndand 3^rd places in the Chamberlain Cup race – deciding the world’s top nation in a three racer/three race scoring format on Sunday. With Tomac (MXGP) and Cooper (MX2) leading Team USA, the two would go bar-to-bar, quite literally, with France’s Monster Energy-backed racers – Maxime Renaux (Yamaha) and the recently crowned MXGP overall series champion, Romain Febvre (Kawasaki).

Tomac would open with a solid 4^th place run in Race 1 (MXGP/MX2), with Febvre finishing just behind in 5^th position. The two would go at it again in Race 3, with Tomac scoring a podium 2^nd place finish to Febvre’s 5^th place run. Tomac’s 4-2 effort would earn him 2^nd place overall in the MXGP class to Febvre’s 4^th place overall MXGP finish.

Renaux would race strong in Race 2 (MX2/Open), placing 5^th. He the followed that up with a 9^th place finish in Race 3. Cooper, who was filling in for an injured Haiden Deegan (Monster Energy/Star Racing/Yamaha), would hold up his end of the deal with 10^th place finishes in Race 1 & 2, giving him the important 2^nd place overall finish in MX2.

When the dust settled in Crawfordsville, and the final chainsaw powered air horn ran out of premix, it’d be Team USA and Team France in a tie for 2^nd place (behind 1^st place Team Australia) with 33 points each. The tiebreaker, giving Team USA the silver medal, was Tomac’s 2^nd place finish in Race 3.

Said Cooper: “It was obviously really tough this weekend, but we had a great team. We put our best foot forward, came up short, but that’s what makes it special.”

Monster Energy 2025 Motocross of Nations Country Podium

2^nd – Team USA, 33 points*

3^rd – Team France, 33 points

* Team USA wins tiebreaker

Monster Energy 2025 Motocross of Nations Individual Podium

2^nd – Tomac, MXGP class

2^nd – Cooper, MX2 class

Monster Energy 2025 Motocross of Nations Top Ten Placers (by race #)

Team USA

2^nd – Tomac, Race 3 (MXGP/Open)

4^th – Tomac, Race 1 (MXGP/MX2)

10^th – Cooper, Race 1 (MXGP/MX2)

10^th – Cooper, Race 2 (MX2/Open)

Team France

5^th – Febvre, Race 1 (MXGP/MX2)

5^th – Febvre, Race 3 (MXGP/Open)

5^th – Renaux, Race 2 (MX2/Open)

9^th – Renaux, Race 3 (MXGP/Open)

Team Netherlands

9^th – Vlaanderen, Race 2 (MX2/Open)

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