The Round 4 EX Pro overall podium: Jonny Walker (second), Trystan Hart (first) and Ryder LeBlond (third). Photo: Jack Jaxson.
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — November 7, 2026 — Trystan Hart won two of the three EX Pro motos Saturday night at the Maverik Center to take his third consecutive overall victory in the 2026 AMA EnduroCross Championship. The Round 4 win cut Jonny Walker’s championship lead to a single point with two rounds remaining.
Hart’s 1-2-1 finishes gave him four Olympic points. Walker finished second overall with a 2-4-5 scorecard and 11 points, while Ryder LeBlond’s 3-1-8 finishes earned third with 12.
LeBlond won the second moto to set up a showdown with Hart for the overall. His final race was far less straightforward: he battled Cooper Abbott and Walker, went down several times and suffered a hard crash across the finish line late in the moto. He finished eighth, but still took third overall for his fourth podium in four rounds.
EX PRO MOTO 1
Hart led the opening lap ahead of LeBlond and Walker, then stayed out front for all 12 laps. Walker moved into second on Lap 2 and kept the pressure on, closing to within 0.484 seconds after Lap 6.
The gap grew again over the second half of the race. Hart finished 2.353 seconds ahead of Walker. LeBlond held third from Lap 2 onward.
Cody Webb recovered from ninth on Lap 3 to fourth, moving ahead of Niko Piazza on Lap 11. Piazza finished fifth, with Abbott sixth.
EX PRO MOTO 2
Max Eppelmann led the first three laps of the second moto. From fifth on the opening lap, LeBlond picked his way into second by Lap 3 and took the lead a lap later. He stayed there to win the 11-lap race by 8.704 seconds.
Hart had more ground to make up. He was 12th after the opening lap and reached third on Lap 7. He moved ahead of Utah’s Braxton Hintze for second on Lap 9. Hintze held on for third, his best moto finish of the night.
Walker was eighth after Lap 1 and dropped to 14th on Lap 2. He recovered to fifth with one lap remaining and took fourth on the final lap, ahead of James Flynn. Hart and LeBlond entered the finale tied on three Olympic points, with Walker on six.
EX PRO MOTO 3
Hart took control from the opening lap and led all 12 laps to secure the overall. Behind him, Abbott, Walker and LeBlond traded positions in a close fight, with Webb also in contention.
Abbott held second through the first eight laps. Walker worked forward from sixth on the opening lap and reached second on Lap 9, but Abbott reclaimed the position on Lap 10. Despite several falls, LeBlond was back in third on Lap 10. A hard crash across the finish line came late in the race; the timing record shows a 56.005-second Lap 11 and a drop from third to eighth.
Abbott finished second, 17.090 seconds behind Hart. Webb moved from fifth to third on Lap 11, with Hintze taking fourth and Walker fifth. LeBlond finished eighth, enough to retain third overall by three points over Abbott.
The final-moto result gave Abbott fourth overall with 15 Olympic points. Webb took fifth with 16, and Hintze’s 12-3-4 finishes earned sixth with 19.
EX PRO OVERALL RESULTS
| Position | Rider | Moto Finishes | Olympic Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Trystan Hart #84 | 1-2-1 | 4 |
| 2 | Jonny Walker #1 | 2-4-5 | 11 |
| 3 | Ryder LeBlond #513 | 3-1-8 | 12 |
| 4 | Cooper Abbott #12 | 6-7-2 | 15 |
| 5 | Cody Webb #2 | 4-9-3 | 16 |
| 6 | Braxton Hintze #53 | 12-3-4 | 19 |
| 7 | James Flynn #55 | 13-5-7 | 25 |
| 8 | Branden Petrie #99 | 9-12-6 | 27 |
| 9 | Colton Haaker #10 | 8-10-9 | 27 |
| 10 | Tim Apolle #96 | 11-6-10 | 27 |
Petrie, Haaker and Apolle tied on 27 Olympic points. Petrie’s sixth in the final moto gave him eighth overall, ahead of Haaker and Apolle.
EX EXPERT
Jaden Dahners won the Expert final ahead of Niko Piazza and Max Eppelmann. James Flynn finished fourth, with Riley Bender fifth.
EX INTERMEDIATE
Cole Clarkson took the Intermediate win, followed by Makana Barger and Karver Grover. Ethan Surry finished fourth and Cayden Hatcher fifth.
EX NOVICE
Damon Ellis won the Novice final ahead of Cooper Arave and Landon Johnson. Kyler Brabec took fourth, followed by Dexter Swart.
EX JUNIOR
Kael Widdicombe swept the two Junior main motos to take the overall. Clarkson’s 3-2 finishes put him second overall ahead of Barger, who went 2-3. Surry finished fourth overall and Hatcher fifth.
EX VETERAN
Bobby Prochnau won the Veteran final ahead of TJ Scrupps and Eddie Findling. Josh Grover finished fourth, with Clint Treasure fifth.
EX CLUB
Karver Grover won the Club final, followed by Eli Hammons and Landon Lampinen. Tegan Warnick took fourth and Justin Leineweber fifth.
CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS
Walker retains the championship lead with 91 points, but Hart’s third straight overall win leaves him just one point behind on 90. LeBlond remains third with 82, nine points off the lead. Abbott holds fourth on 73 and Webb fifth on 68.
Haaker is sixth with 62 points. Hintze moves into seventh on 58, ahead of Apolle on 55, Petrie on 54 and Flynn on 49.
EX PRO CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS — AFTER ROUND 4
| Position | Rider | Championship Points | Behind Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jonny Walker #1 | 91 | — |
| 2 | Trystan Hart #84 | 90 | 1 |
| 3 | Ryder LeBlond #513 | 82 | 9 |
| 4 | Cooper Abbott #12 | 73 | 18 |
| 5 | Cody Webb #2 | 68 | 23 |
| 6 | Colton Haaker #10 | 62 | 29 |
| 7 | Braxton Hintze #53 | 58 | 33 |
| 8 | Tim Apolle #96 | 55 | 36 |
| 9 | Branden Petrie #99 | 54 | 37 |
| 10 | James Flynn #55 | 49 | 42 |
NEXT UP: IDAHO FALLS, IDAHO
The 2026 AMA EnduroCross Championship concludes with back-to-back rounds at the Mountain America Center in Idaho Falls, Idaho, on Friday, November 13, and Saturday, November 14. With Walker and Hart separated by one point, the final two nights will decide the championship.
Tickets and event information are available at endurocross.com. All six rounds are broadcast live on FloRacing and the FloSports app.