ANAHEIM, California — In the 250 division, Jo Shimoda opened the season with a victory after leading flag-to-flag.
Shimoda showed steady improvement last year in each of the SuperMotocross League’s three championships, but he knew that to legitimately challenge for the championship, he needed to win early.
“This is the start I was looking for every single year,” Shimoda told Peacock’s Jason Thomas. “I think I was honestly sleeping on the gate, but we came out with a good start and put in consistent laps and never looked back.”
He crossed under the checkers nearly five seconds ahead of Julien Beaumer and 11.5 seconds over Jordon Smith. Ryde DiFrancesco finished fourth.
Smith’s third-place finish is the first podium for Factory Triumph Racing.
“I’m really happy with my riding tonight,” Smith said. “I caught a bale with my clutch and tipped over, but I was feeling really good in the Main.”
But one of the biggest storylines of the night was a rider who barely cracked the top five.
Haiden Deegan crashed on the opening lap and fell back to 19th. He remounted and sliced through the field to salvage as many points as possible by passing Coty Schock on the final lap.
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The 450 division was frenetic with Jett Lawrence getting a poor start after tangling with Cooper Webb in Heat 1. Malcolm Stewart crashed in Heat 2 after the bike kicked sideways, so they will have poor gate picks.
Dylan Ferrandis and Colt Nichols also failed to move directly into the Feature.
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In the 250 division, the cream rose to the top with Haiden Deegan winning Heat 1 and Jordon Smith second in Heat 2. There are some fresh faces in the front of the pack, however, with Julien Beaumer winning the second heat.
Sunny skies and highs in the 70s make today a beautiful one to kick-off the 2025 Monster Energy Supercross season.
The full field of 450 riders is healthy and ready to begin with qualification next up on the schedule.
Jett Lawrence is defending the season-opener as well as the championship while dozens of riders hope to stop his domination.
NXTBets.com is favoring Lawrence by a wide margin for both the race win and the title, but anyone who has watched SuperMotocross knows there are half a dozen riders with a legitimate chance to win; Anaheim 1 always brings out the best in a racer.
450s
Eli Tomac got a great start, but he goes down on Lap 1 and gets run over by Chase Sexton.
Jason Anderson is the beneficiary with the lead.
On Lap 2, Jett Lawrence crashes and falls all the way back to the final spot.
Up front, Sexton survived his contact with Tomac and takes the lead on Lap 3 from Anderson. Ken Roczen, winner of his heat, moves into third.
Roczen moves into second on Lap 5. Jorge Prado in fourth and Justin Cooper round out the top five.
Meanwhile, Jett has not made up much ground. He’s 19th on Lap 5.
Sexton begins to stretch his lead on Lap 8 as Tomac climbs back into the top 10. He’s eighth. Jett cracks the top 15 as Hunter crashes and falls to 10th.
At the halfway point, Sexton holds a 3.5-second lead over Roczen with Anderson rounding out the top five.
Fourth-place Cooper Webb and Justin Barcia round out the top five.
Tomac is knocking on the top five on Lap 12. Prado has fallen to seventh.
250s
Jo Shimoda gets the jump.
Haiden Deegan crashes on the first lap and falls back to 19th. He overcame several poor starts in Motocross last year, but the Supercross features are much shorter.
Julien Beaumer in second and third-place Garrett Marchbanks look to capitalize on Deegan’s misfortune.
Deegan moves up to 10th on Lap 4.
Smith took a peek at third, but cross ruts and falls back to sixth on Lap 5.
Deegan picks up two points on Lap 6 by moving into eighth.
Marchbanks was riding in a podium position for most of the first half of the race, but he goes down and drops to eighth. Deegan is sniffing a top-five on Lap 10.
White flag waves over Shimoda, Julien Beaumer and Jordon Smith in first through third.
Deegan can see fifth-place Coty Schock, but does he have enough time to get a top-five?
450s
Fredrik Noren leads Lap 1 as he looks to make the season opener.
Dylan Ferrandis gets pushed wide by Ryan Breece and falls out of a transfer position. His loss is Stewart’s gain, however.
Noren holds on for the victory with Stewart moving up to second on the final lap.
Breece retains third as Mitchell Harrison passes Kevin Moranz on the final lap for the last transfer spot.
Nichols (sixth) and Ferrandis (20th) will not make the Feature.
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250s
Four riders will advance from the 250 West LCQ.
Gavin Towers earns the holeshot but Parker Ross has the early lead.
Towers made the pass on Ross with time running off the clock and holds on for the win.
Ross finished second with Avery Long in third and TJ Albright rounding out the transfer positions.
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450 Heat 1
Justin Cooper gets the jump off the gate, but Ken Roczen leads Lap 1.
There was a snarl at the start and Lawrence ended the first lap in 11th after tangling with Cooper Webb. Lawrence is ninth and in a transfer position by Lap 2.
With time running off the clock, Jason Anderson gets around Cooper for second.
Webb crosses under the checkers in fourth and Lawrence made his way back to fifth. Lawrence will not have the best gate pick, but that should not matter for the defending champion.
In sixth, Justin Hill advances to the feature ahead of Benny Bloss (seventh), Shane McElrath (eighth) and Mitchell Oldenburg (ninth).
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450 Heat 2
Chase Sexton gets the jump over Spanish native Jorge Prado. Welcome to America.
Stewart had the third-place spot early, but he crashes on Lap 2 moving Hunter Lawrence up a position.
Stewart is slow to rise and is helped to the medical cart two laps later.
With time running off the clock, Sexton has a 5.8-second lead over Prado. Justin Barcia moved into third.
Hunter and Eli Tomac put on a show but Hunter holds onto the spot. Tomac finishes fifth.
Aaron Plessinger (sixth), Joey Savatgy (seventh), Vince Friese (eighth) and Kyle Chisholm (ninth) will also advance directly to the Main.
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250 Heat 1
Haiden Deegan grabs the lead early, but was pressured by Cole Davies in the early laps.
With a minute on the clock, Deegan has built a six-second lead over Davies. Hunter Yoder, Jo Shimoda, and Stilez Robertson round out the top five.
The battle for the transfer position is between Noah Viney in ninth and Dylan Walsh in 10th.
Evan Ferry had a transfer spot before he crashed.
Deegan wins Heat 1 by seven seconds over Davies.
Yoder takes the last spot on the podium in third.
Fourth-place Shimoda and Garrett Marchbanks round out the top five.
Also transferring directly into the Main are sixth through ninth: Stilez Robertson, Max Miller, Noah Viney, and Coty Schock, who grabbed the final spot on the last lap.
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250 Heat 2
Jordon Smith gets the jump on the fastest qualifier Julien Beaumer. Ryder DiFrancesco settles into third.
Lux Turner in fourth and Cole Thompson are mixing it up in the top five. These riders aren’t always at the front of the pack with one minute on the clock.
With time running off the clock, Beaumer takes the lead from Smith.
Beaumer wins over Smith with DiFrancesco in third.
Thompson and Turner hold onto their top-fives
Coming back from injury, Michael Mosiman heads to the night show after finishing sixth.
Seventh-place Jett Reynolds, eighth-place Josh Varize, and Anthony Bourdon also avoid the LCQ.
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450s
Tomac (1:04.043) posts the fastest speed in the fist qualification session by .235 seconds over Jett.
Sexton settled into third, .409 seconds behind the leader.
Fourth-place Anderson and Cooper round out the top five.
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In Qualification 2, Tomac tops the board again with a time of 1:03.120. He’s .253 seconds faster than Lawrence this time around.
Sexton is close behind with a tenth of a second gap in third.
Fourth-place Anderson and Hunter round out the top five. This is a significant leap up the chart for Lawrence, who was 14th in Q1.
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250s
Several riders crash during the first Qualification session, including Shimoda in Group A.
But it’s Deegan who posts the fastest lap in the first session with a lap of 1:06:.077 ahead of Beaumer (1:06.189), Garrett Marchbanks and Michael Mosiman round out the top five.
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Beaumer improves his position in Qualification 2 and jumps to the top of the board with a time of 1:04.669, which is .127 seconds faster than Deegan.
DiFrancesco is also within a second of the leaders in third.
Fourth-place Shimoda and Jordon Smith round out the top five.
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The 450 riders take to the track for the first time today with Chase Sexton setting the pace with a lap of 1:05.467, which is 0.773 seconds faster than Eli Tomac.
Jett Lawrence landed third on the chart with an almost identical time to Tomac.
Fourth-place Anderson and Cooper Webb round out the top five.
Jorge Prado is taking a moment to find his Supercross rhythm and lands 17th on the chart.
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Free Practice is underway and Haiden Deegan made a statement by posting a lap that was 1.27 seconds faster than Jo Shimoda.
Julien Beaumer in third, DiFrancesco in fourth, and Jordon Smith round out the top five.
In his first race back after missing most of 2024 to injury, Mosiman landed sixth on the chart.
Levi Kitchen attempted to ride Free Practice despite battling flu-like symptoms. He was well down the order.
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