After his ugly crash in supercross that left him with a broken arm and a broken nose, leaving many fearing he could miss all of the outdoors and maybe the rest of the season such was the ferocity of the crash, Cole Davies has declared that, while he won’t be lining up at round one he is planning on being back before the end of motocross season.
Underneath a video of him riding, Davies wrote on Instagram, “Missing this right now, wish I was lining up for round one, but you guys will see me this summer.”
Ben Townley told us he had Cole concentrate more on supercross in New Zealand because that is what American teams care about most: “I think the big thing for Cole is that he just rode a lot of Supercross, just repetition day in, day out from a very young age. I had some, like, inside knowledge that that Futures thing was going to become a big part of the American program. And so I just said to them when we mapped out a plan, I said, like, just focus on that. If you can be successful in Supercross, you’ll write yourself a contract. It’s how it works.
You go to motocross, the first question they ask, can you ride supercross? If you ride supercross well, they don’t ask if you’re good on motocross. They don’t care. So, Supercross is so important.
“And I’m not sure he’s going to be ready for that just yet. He struggled at Loretta Lynn’s last year, a little bit with that. And that’s not a touch on what he’s going to have to do. Two motos back to back within an hour and outdoors because of the TV program. So, that’ll be challenging for him. And so, it’ll be interesting to see how he can navigate through that.
But he does think Davies will be able to adapt to the outdoors: “He’ll be very good. He will be good. But I think one of his biggest stumbling blocks is going to be just around, it’ll be a lot tougher, like mentally and physically tougher. And I don’t know if he’s going to be prepared enough for that just yet. American racing outdoors in that heat, you got to be able to suffer.
“In saying that, like he’s showing me a lot of resilience just in Supercross. So, hopefully he can carry that over.“
Thankfully, after a bit of delay, Davies looks likely to be able to get some outdoor experience in 2025 and, while, he won’t be at his full potential after the injury it will still be some experience ahead of 2026.
As you can see in his video via Davies IG below, the super talented Kiwi looks ultra smooth outdoors too!
