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Christian Craig will make his 2025 season debut this weekend when Monster Energy AMA Supercross returns from an off-weekend in Birmingham, Alabama, he announced on his Instagram.
Following off-season knee surgery for an injury sustained at the 2024 SuperMotocross Playoffs season finale in Las Vegas, Craig missed the opening nine rounds of the 2025 season.
This weekend will also mark Craig’s return to the Monster Energy/Yamaha Star Racing team. Craig joined the team prior to the 2021 season and won the 2022 250SX West Region title before moving up to the 450 Class with the team in 2023.
He signed a two-year deal with Rockstar Energy Husqvarna prior to the 2023 season.
Following two years with Husqvarna, Craig inked a two-year deal to return to Star in a role that would see him race in the 450 Class, while also helping develop the teams 250 riders.
On Friday prior to Arlington Supercross, Haiden Deegan announced that he was no longer working one-on-one with Craig and had rejoined the rest of the 250 squad in training alongside Gareth Swanepoel.
“Christian is still a big part of the Star program,” he explained. “He’s still helping mentor all of us and he is still in my corner deeply as a friend and he still helps us out. Swanny was kind of already helping us in the first place, like sending the program to Christian and stuff. He [Craig] was just kind of there to apply it, and I was trying my own one-on-one thing, you know? I was trying to see if I could get better in a way. It is none of Christian’s fault, it’s my decision in the end. I just went back to training with the team and Swanny and get that intensity back. I feel like riding by myself, maybe I lost a little of that. I just had to get back in that Swanny [group] and train with those guys and battling it out and having those little rivals during the week. That’s really the only reason.”
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