In terms of the championship, the Lawrence brothers still remain in control. In the 250 Class, Hunter Lawrence regained the championship lead with a rather dominant weekend in Minnesota. He has a 13-point lead over Haiden Deegan as the #96 looks to keep his momentum rolling into this final race before the two-week break. Deegan, his #238 and his teammates bikes decked out in special 1993 livery as Yamaha celebrates 50 years of the YZ motorcycle, is once again at a brand-new track. Washington natives Levi Kitchen and debutant Preston Boespflug will be racing their first pro races at their home track. Kitchen missed this event last year due to a wrist injury and Boespflug is making his pro debut ahead of the Monster Energy AMA Amateur National Motocross Championship at Loretta Lynn’s Ranch next week in Tennessee.

In the 450 Class, Jett Lawrence has yet to lose a moto so far this year as he enters today with 14 straight moto wins as he has been putting on a clinic so far this season. The #18 enters today’s race with a commanding 81-point lead over Dylan Ferrandis in the championship. Chase Sexton has won the overall at Washougal Motocross Park the last two years as the #23 looks to become the first rider to top the #18 this season. Today also has some more excitement as Colt Nichols is competing in order to gain some qualifying points for the SuperMotocross World Championship (SMX) playoffs, plus a bunch of riders are competing today on 250cc two-strokes (Carson Brown, Jerry Robin, Jeremy Hand, Kevin Moranz, Justin Rodbell, Anthony Rodriguez, Brandon Ray, Gared Steinke, and more). With this being the last round before a two-week break, look to see who capitalizes and enters the break on a positive note.

Riders are taking to the track shortly as qualifying is about to begin. For more information, read our full injury report and check out our First Look preview video from Friday's press day.

And to tune in from home, here is the broadcast schedule for today as we have the first motos airing live on NBC starting at 4 p.m. EDT/1 p.m. PDT.

First Qualifying Sessions

250 Class

In the first qualifying session of the day, it was Preston Boespflug who topped the 250 group B board in his pro debut. The Washington native out down a 2:20:865, topping the session by six seconds over Brock Bennett's 2:26.124.

In the first 250 group A session of the day, Carson Mumford led the field on live timing and scoring until Haiden Deegan laid down a heater to move into P1. Late in the session, Justin Cooper topped the field with a 2:14.175 over Deegan’s best of 2:15.289.

450 Class

As the 450 group A session took to the track, Josh Hill led the field on the course and on the live timing and scoring page. Jason Anderson and Freddie Noren on the scoring sheet were second and third on the scoring page. Carson Brown was the first two-stroke around the track as he led a handful of other 250cc two-stroke riders around the hilly circuit. Adam Cianciarulo jumped to first on the board but was then topped by Anderson. Chase Sexton made his heaters count as he moved into the top time. At the end of the session, Anderson (2:15.407) took the top spot from Sexton (2:15.801) as the duo were the only two riders to go under the 2:16 mark. Jett Lawrence's 2:16.488 was the third fastest of the session.

Gared Steinke (2:23.693) topped the 450 group B session aboard his Husqvarna TC 250 two-stroke over local Collin Jurin (2:24.304).

Second Qualifying Sessions

250 Class

Preston Boespflug again topped the 250 group B session with a 2:22.006 over Brock Bennett's 2:25.412. 

Hunter Lawrence was leading the 250 group A session with a 2:16.228 over Carson Mumford’s 2:16.394. Max Vohland moved into the top spot in the session with a 2:16.058. Towards the end of the session, Hunter Lawrence put in a 2:14.579 to move into P1. Austin Forkner moved into second in the session with a 2:15.818 on the final lap but on then RJ Hampshire came through with a heater of his own, a 2:15.432, to bump Forkner back to third in the session. Justin Cooper’s 2:14.175 from the first 250 A qualifying session will stand as the fastest overall qualifying time of the day. 

Cooper, Hunter Lawrence, Haiden Deegan, RJ Hampshire, and Austin Forkner round out the top five in overall qualifying. Boespflug's time from the first session sits him 20th in overall qualifying.

450 Class

As the 450A group hit the track for their second set of qualifying, the track was drying out quick and the ruts that were laid down from the first sessions were starting to harden up. Jett Lawrence chose the exact same gameplan he had in the first session as he waited until nearly the whole field went before he followed in behind them to get a little bit of clear track.

It was once again Adam Cianciarulo who put the first true hot lap down as he shot to the top of the board with a 2:15.632. That time was only just slower than what his teammate Jason Anderson put down in the first qualifying session, but it soon didn’t matter. Jett Lawrence flew around on his fourth lap and shot down to a 2:14.510 to jump to the top by nearly a second. Nobody could match that pace from there as Jett Lawrence once again has qualified P1 as we head into the motos later.

First Motos

250 Class

Off the start of the first moto, Haiden Deegan grabbed the holeshot and early race lead. The #238 would not look back. Going down the starting straight Austin Forkner got collected with another rider and the Kawasaki rider started dead, dead last. When he came around the first turn by himself, the crowd cheered him on all the way around the track. As Forkner charged to a 21st-place finish, making his way through half the field, the crowd cheered him on, screaming and waving towels. Tom Vialle went down at some point and was helped off the track by the Alpinestars medical crew. Out front, Deegan led Justin Cooper, Max Vohland, Seth Hammaker, Levi Kitchen, Hunter Lawrence, and Jo Shimoda. Deegan opened up a lead as the #96 Honda HRC CRF250R charged through his competitors. Monster Energy Yamaha Star Racing’s Deegan claimed the moto win aboard his YZ250F throwback themed bike that celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Yamaha YZ. Hunter Lawrence made his way into second place by the checkered flag, cutting Deegan's advantage to just 2.762 seconds at the checkered flag as Cooper came through third. RJ Hampshire charged to a fourth-place finish as Vohland rounded out the top five.

450 Moto 1

Off the start in the first 450 class moto of the day, it was the flashy white Yamaha of Dylan Ferrandis that poked his nose out to grab the holeshot. Adam Cianciarulo was right alongside of him over the line but swapped a little bit and almost went down. That handed Jett Lawrence second place and it looked like he might nab the lead from Ferrandis, but Ferrandis was able to hold on.

In fact, Ferrandis held on for the opening couple laps of the race which ended Jett’s consecutive laps led streak right at 105, good for third best since at least 2002. But eventually, Jett Lawrence did find a way around Ferrandis and started taking off with the lead.

Jason Anderson and Adam Cianciarulo were on the move early as they shuffled around Ty Masterpool into fourth and fifth to settle in behind Chase Sexton. For a while, the top seven riders with Aaron Plessinger bringing up the caboose were nearly nose to tail with just Lawrence getting away at the front.

Chase Sexton took a little while to get to and pass Ferrandis for second but as soon as he did, he took off with the position. Instead Ferrandis was left to deal with Jason Anderson who was closing down on him from fourth. By this point, Anderson had dropped Cianciarulo who was settled into a battle with Masterpool and Plessinger. But Plessinger fell late in the moto and dropped a way back, still finishing seventh.

Carson Brown was the best two stroke rider in the first moto pretty clearly as he ran well in the points the whole moto, eventually finishing in 18^th. Anthony Rodriguez was the next closest rider finishing up in 21^st so there’s still a chance he or even Jeremy Hand who finished 23^rd can turn it around in the second moto.

Out front though, it was all Jett Lawrence as he improved to 15-0 on the season. He would end up beating Sexton by eight seconds and then it was another eight seconds back to Ferrandis in third. But Ferrandis and Anderson were much closer to the front in that first moto and could factor in when the second moto rolls around.

Second Motos

250 Class

Tom Vialle, who went down in a hard crash early in the first moto, was confirmed out for the second moto. The gates dropped on the second moto and it was Yamaha teammates Justin Cooper and Levi Kitchen out front. Haiden Deegan shuffled into third place after a pass on Seth Hammaker and eventually made a run at his teammates out front as Hunter Lawrence charged as well. Lawrence got around Hammaker and Deegan got around Kitchen. Then Deegan made a run at Cooper and quickly blew by his teammate as he jumped downhill and got the power down, landing on the rear wheel and blasting into the race lead! Deegan pulled out a gap as he cruised to his first ever 1-1 day. Cooper came through second and Kitchen held onto third, holding off a late, hard charge from Hunter Lawrence. Cooper’s 3-2 was good enough for second overall over Lawrence’s 2-4 for third overall.

450 Moto 2

The final moto of the day fired into the first corner and initially saw Dylan Ferrandis pull the holeshot just ahead of Jett Lawrence, but the race would immediately be red flagged from a gate malfunction. The gate had been having issues all day and even wouldn’t drop during the 450 class consolation race but they would reset it and get it right the second time out. On the restart, it was Aaron Plessinger grabbing the holeshot this time just ahead of Lawrence and Chase Sexton.

Plessinger would lead the opening three laps, much to the delight of the crowd who was cheering the #7 machine on. But Lawrence put the power down on his Honda on the fourth lap to charge around Plessinger and take over the lead.

On the very next lap, Sexton wasted no time at all to scoot by Plessinger as well in an attempt to keep Jett as close as he could. Plessinger lost touch with the two leaders quickly but after a lengthy defense on Jason Anderson, he was able to break free from the Kawasaki rider and hold second to himself. Dylan Ferrandis had a very quiet fifth place run in the second moto with no pressure from behind, but he just couldn’t run the same form he had in the first moto to stay with Anderson and Plessinger.

Much of the attention in the moto then would turn to the Lawrence/Sexton dynamic as they sprinted away from everyone, much like they did at Spring Creek. Sexton slowly reeled Lawrence in until it was just over a second for the gap and it remained there for quite some time. Every time Sexton would close down a little bit, Lawrence would inch back away slightly to maintain his narrow advantage.

With just a few minutes left to go, Sexton finally had a mistake as he fell in the U-turns coming back into the center of the track. The gap immediately ballooned from one second to about 10 seconds as Sexton remounted. Despite charging as hard as he could all the way to the flag, it wasn’t enough again.

Jett Lawrence swept the day at Washougal to improve to 16-0, his eighth overall victory of the season as well. He now has the points out far enough that if he simply outscores Ferrandis by five points at Unadilla in two weeks, he will be crowned champions. Sexton would finish in second to complete another 2-2 day while Plessinger ended up third in the race but missed out on third overall which went to Anderson with 4-4 scores.