Haiden Deegan enters the 2024 Southwick National with all the momentum and a 32-point lead over Chance Hymas who is second, 38-point gap on Tom Vialle, 47-point gap on Levi Kitchen and 55-point gap on Jo Shimoda. Southwick comes after a weekend off in the series, and surprisingly, the Star Racing Yamaha team was actually in Massachusetts last week riding at Southwick during their last two open practice days before the National. Haiden Deegan’s worst race of the 2023 Pro Motocross series came at Southwick last year, going 4-10 in the motos, so this year he and the team made the extra effort to go to Southwick early and ride the track with the rest of the New England locals. Did it pay off?
See the results from both 250 motos at Southwick, brought to you by Dunlop tires.
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250 OVERALL RESULTS
Tom Vialle was in the driver’s seat for the overall after Haiden went down, but he lost steam at the end of the moto, allowing Jo Shimoda to take the lead and then going down on the last lap.
The second 250 moto started off with Levi Kitchen out front and Haiden Deegan around fifth, but then Julien Beaumer went down hard on the first lap, causing a red flag and a full restart. The second time around, Levi Kitchen amazingly got another holeshot, but Haiden Deegan was closer behind and was able to scrub past Levi with a kamikaze move right after the start.
Haiden led early with Levi second and Tom Vialle third. Then, Tom made the pass on Levi and began to pressure Haiden. Eventually, seven and a half minutes into the race, Haiden made a mistake and buried his front wheel in a berm and went down. Tom almost ran into him, but he dodged him and then inherited the lead.
Haiden Deegan got back on the bike in sixth place, but quickly made passes on Masterpool, Savatgy and Kitchen to get back into third. It looked like Tom would finish strong with the win, but he started to fatigue in the final four laps and Jo Shimoda came up and passed him and then Haiden Deegan was pressuring him again and Tom went down on the final lap. This gives Haiden the overall and Vialle gets second overall.
| POS. | # | RIDER | M1 – M2 | |
| 1 | 38 | Haiden Deegan | 1 | 2 |
| 2 | 16 | Tom Vialle | 2 | 3 |
| 3 | 30 | Jo Shimoda | 9 | 1 |
| 4 | 48 | Chance Hymas | 3 | 5 |
| 5 | 31 | Jordon Smith | 7 | 4 |
| 6 | 17 | Joseph Savatgy | 5 | 6 |
| 7 | 47 | Levi Kitchen | 4 | 7 |
| 8 | 29 | Ty Masterpool | 6 | 8 |
| 9 | 39 | Pierce Brown | 8 | 12 |
| 10 | 166 | Casey Cochran | 11 | 10 |
| 11 | 34 | Ryder DiFrancesco | 10 | 11 |
| 12 | 59 | Daxton Bennick | 13 | 15 |
| 13 | 37 | Max Anstie | 39 | 9 |
| 14 | 35 | Talon Hawkins | 15 | 16 |
| 15 | 99 | Jett Reynolds | 12 | 38 |
| 16 | 108 | Jorgen-Matthias | 23 | 13 |
| 17 | 107 | Ryder McNabb | 16 | 19 |
| 18 | 33 | Jalek Swoll | 36 | 14 |
| 19 | 705 | Mark Fineis | 14 | 39 |
| 20 | 511 | Nicholas Romano | 17 | 20 |
| 21 | 40 | Dilan Schwartz | 21 | 17 |
| 22 | 473 | Lux Turner | 38 | 18 |
| 23 | 413 | Crockett Myers | 19 | 21 |
| 24 | 929 | Julien Beaumer | 18 | 40 |
| 25 | 914 | Russell Buccheri | 20 | 29 |
| 26 | 751 | Evan Ferry | 24 | 22 |
| 27 | 560 | Kyle Murdoch | 26 | 23 |
| 28 | 114 | Geran Stapleton | 25 | 24 |
| 29 | 935 | Eric Grondahl | 27 | 25 |
| 30 | 181 | Ashton Arruda | 28 | 26 |
| 31 | 404 | Tom Guyon | 22 | 34 |
| 32 | 640 | Aaron Zielfelder | 33 | 28 |
| 33 | 162 | Max Sanford | 30 | 32 |
| 34 | 460 | Grant Lafrance | 29 | 35 |
| 35 | 441 | Zayden Mason | 35 | 31 |
| 36 | 584 | Cameron Durow | 40 | 27 |
| 37 | 805 | Slade Varola | 37 | 30 |
| 38 | 746 | Trevor Schmidt | 34 | 33 |
| 39 | 508 | Jesse Wessell | 36 | |
| 40 | 375 | Larry Fortin | 31 | 37 |
250 MOTO 1 RESULTS
Haiden Deegan won the first moto by 15 seconds at Southwick.-Photo by Pro Motocross
Haiden Deegan grabbed the holeshot in the first 250 moto with Levi Kitchen second, but Levi couldn’t stay there on the first lap. He made a mistake and got passed by Chance Hymas and then Tom Vialle passed him on the first lap too. Jo Shimoda and Max Anstie went down in the first turn, and then Max Anstie’s bike expired later that same lap. Eight minutes into the race Nick Romano was fifth, Joey Savatgy sixth, Ryder Difrancesco seventh and Jalek Swoll eighth. Last week’s overall winner, Ty Masterpool, was ninth early. Dilan Schwartz was making good progress on the BarX Suzuki, catching Ryder DiFrancesco who was 11th after a crash, and Nick Romano who was 10th. Ryder passed Nick and then Nick made a mistake and accidentally cut across Dilan’s line and took him out. Then Dilan got hit in the head by Casey Cochran, unfortunately.
At the halfway mark, Tom Vialle passed Chance Hymas for second. With three laps to go, Jalek Swoll’s Triumph TF250-X quit, causing him to DNF. Jalek’s trainer, Mike Brown, was there to push the bike back. Tom Vialle caught Haiden Deegan with about ten minutes to go, but Tom ran into some lap traffic and lost time. From there, Tom slowed down and looked like he was trying to save energy for moto 2.
| POS. | # | RIDER | |
| 1 | 38 | Haiden Deegan | |
| 2 | 16 | Tom Vialle | |
| 3 | 48 | Chance Hymas | |
| 4 | 47 | Levi Kitchen | |
| 5 | 17 | Joseph Savatgy | |
| 6 | 29 | Ty Masterpool | |
| 7 | 31 | Jordon Smith | |
| 8 | 39 | Pierce Brown | |
| 9 | 30 | Jo Shimoda | |
| 10 | 34 | Ryder DiFrancesco | |
| 11 | 166 | CaseyCochran | |
| 12 | 99 | Jett Reynolds | |
| 13 | 59 | Daxton Bennick | |
| 14 | 705 | Mark Fineis | |
| 15 | 35 | Talon Hawkins | |
| 16 | 107 | Ryder McNabb | |
| 17 | 511 | Nicholas Romano | |
| 18 | 929 | Julien Beaumer | |
| 19 | 413 | Crockett Myers | |
| 20 | 914 | Russell Buccheri | |
| 21 | 40 | Dilan Schwartz | |
| 22 | 404 | Tom Guyon | |
| 23 | 108 | Jorgen-Matthias Talvi | |
| 24 | 751 | Evan Ferry | |
| 25 | 114 | Geran Stapleton | |
| 26 | 560 | Kyle Murdoch | |
| 27 | 935 | Eric Grondahl | |
| 28 | 181 | Ashton Arruda | |
| 29 | 460 | Grant Lafrance | |
| 30 | 162 | Max Sanford | |
| 31 | 375 | Larry Fortin | |
| 32 | 508 | Jesse Wessell | |
| 33 | 640 | Aaron Zielfelder | |
| 34 | 746 | Trevor Schmidt | |
| 35 | 441 | Zayden Mason | |
| 36 | 33 | Jalek Swoll | |
| 37 | 805 | Slade Varola | |
| 38 | 473 | Lux Turner | |
| 39 | 37 | Max Anstie | |
| 40 | 584 | Cameron Durow | |
Levi Kitchen was fourth in the first moto.
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