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"Yeah, it is wide open," ex- plained the 30-time 450SX main- event winner. "I had the Yamaha Wall of Champions dinner in Georgia. Then we started back to our normal training after that. We also had the Feld Supercross media day over in Anaheim, California, so December has been wide open. Then you have Christmas, so it is kind of the crunch time before it gets really hectic. Obviously, for me, having a great year last year, there are a lot of obligations we have with sponsors and the team and stuff like that. That's part of it when you are the Champion of the Supercross series. "And I'm glad I just did the Australian World Supercross race. It was cool. It was hon - estly killer in Australia. We had a great time on the Gold Coast. It was a beautiful area. The beaches were stunning. The event was sold out. The fans were awesome. The track was pretty good. Honestly, it was a lot of fast guys. It was me and Eli Tomac and Ken Roczen and Jason Anderson. We had the young gun Haiden Deegan there. A lot of top-notch talent and a lot of champions. It was kind of strange to race Haiden P76 INTERVIEW I 2025 MONSTER ENERGY AMA SUPERCROSS CHAMPION COOPER WEBB also been developing the 2026 YZ450F. It's a new bike, and we just have stuff to run through. Last year's bike was awesome, so it's just whenever you get a new bike, there is always a little bit to run through and all these goods and bads. I've been doing that kind of thing, but other than that, it's all good." Webb has had the hammer down, and it is all systems go well into a month of testing and training in December. I caught up with Cooper dur - ing the off-season to discuss the 2025 Supercross sea- son— the "off" season—and the upcoming championship. "Yeah, man, busy. Busy for sure," said Webb, several days after placing third overall in round three of the 2025 FIM Supercross World Champion - ship at Cbus Super Stadium in Australia. "We just went to Aus- tralia, and then we had our 2026 team photo shoot, and we've When the 30-year- old Webb lines up for Anaheim 1 in 2026, he'll be the oldest rider ever to wear the number one plate in Supercross.