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Morning Report

Good morning race fans! Welcome to the Southwestern corner of Pennsylvania for round four of the 2025 AMA Pro Motocross Championship. As we enter the first East Coast swing of the schedule, we can expect different conditions than the first few rounds. Some gnarly ruts will keep the riders on their toes, literally, as they navigate this tricky course, but the cream will rise to the top. Fans will pack the fences here at High Point Raceway—I saw some fans already with chairs placed along the fence line on Thursday afternoon. Yes, 48 hours before the motos even start! Us East Coasters are ramped up and ready to watch these guys battle it out here today. 

Expect a chilly and damp morning to warm up to a high of around 75° Fahrenheit with rain showers throughout the day. The key will be how much rain and how it impacts the circuit.

You know the main riders to watch: Jett Lawrence and Haiden Deegan are leading their respective classes and have the red plates on their race machines. Jett Lawrence has taken all three overall wins on his CRF450R to start the season, but he has had competition. Expect that to be the case again today as Hunter Lawrence, Eli Tomac, Aaron Plessinger, Justin Cooper, and more all want to stop the #18’s roll. It would not be surprising to see the European riders do well here today in the off-camber hills and possibly muddy conditions.

In the 250 Class, Chance Hymas is coming off his first ever 1-1 day and he anticipates a strong day today in the rutted conditions. He looks to steal more moto wins from Haiden Deegan, the championship leader who started the season with four straight moto wins but took second twice last weekend in Colorado. Jo Shimoda and Garrett Marchbanks have been great to start the season as well, and we expect both of those two to battle for podium finishes today. Ty Masterpool won last year’s overall here—the 300th AMA Supercross and Motocross win for Mitch Payton’s Monster Energy/Pro Circuit Kawasaki team—so he surely wants to back that up with a strong ride here today. Making his return to racing is Jalek Swoll, who is gearing up for his first race of the 2025 season after a pre-season Achilles tendon injury sidelined him for all of the races up to this point. Swoll won his maiden overall here at High Point Raceway in 2021, so he has good vibes returning to this venue.

Check out the full race day schedule. We are back to a normal schedule, so the 250 Class racing is first today.

First Qualifying Sessions

250 Class

The 250 Class group B riders took to the track and although it was damp and muddy, it was not a complete mess, despite the heavy rainfall that took place last night. Lots of riders were coming up short on the big triple before the finish line, a few of which went down. 

When the 250 Class group A qualifying session got underway, they really started ripping, finding good lines. Haiden Deegan topped the session with a 2:02.798, followed by a 2:04.621 by Chance Hymas. Drew Adams was fifth fastest with a 2:05.793.

450 Class

Jason Anderson was fastest early in the 450 Class group A session, but then Justin Cooper and Jett Lawrence put down fast laps, with the #18 taking the top spot. But late in the session, Jorge Prado hit a heater lap, a 1:59.330, and took over the top spot! Signs of life here from Prado. Derek Kelley and Eli Tomac rounded out the top five as Hunter Lawrence was sixth.

Update: Live Timing Issue in 450 Group A 

Scratch everything about Prado, live timing and scoring was messed up, his fastest actual lap was a 2:17.479, which was 36th in the first group A session... Justin Cooper's 2:01.772 was the top legitimate time.

Second Qualifying Sessions

250 Class

Chance Hymas topped the second 250 Class group A qualifying session. Haiden Deegan as second fastest in the session, but Deegan's 2:02.798 from the first session stood as the top time overall. Hamden Hudson, who raced this track last year at the Loretta Lynn's Regional, topped the 250 Class group B session over Reid Taylor. Deegan, Hymas, Levi Kitchen, Jo Shimoda, and Drew Adams rounded out the top five overall.

450 Class

Jett Lawrence topped the second 450 Class group B qualifying session with a 2:03.263, just barely taking P1 over his brother Hunter's 2:03.476. Eli Tomac was third fastest with a 2:05.178 as Aaron Plessinger (2:05.513) and Jorge Prado (2:05.752) rounded out the top five (with Prado's time indeed being legit this time). Local guy Vinny Luhovey topped the 450 Class group B session with a 2:14.425.

Justin Cooper's 2:01.772 from the first session, stood at the top 450 overall qualifying spot, so that is two straight overall qualifying spots for the #32.

First Motos

250 Class

Nate Thrasher with the holeshot then Haiden Deegan. Deegan got into the race lead a few turns in and led wire-to-wire. Then Monster Energy/Pro Circuit Kawasaki duo of Seth Hammaker and Levi Kitchen were battling for second and. Kitchen would eventually best his teammate. Jo Shimoda went down and hard to charge from outside of the top ten. Towards the back half of the top ten, Ty Masterpool was eating roost from Casey Cochran. Cochran quickly came under pressure from both Masterpool and the charging Shimoda. Shimoda made a pass and Masterpool followed. Out front, Deegan had breathing room out front as he took the moto win with ease. Kitchen and Hammaker rounded out the podium as Tom Vialle and Chance Hymas rounded out the top five. Shimoda came through seventh, Masterpool eighth, Michael Mosiman ninth, and Thrasher tenth. Jalek Swoll was riding solid in his first moto of the year before finishing 14th.

450 Class

Jett Lawrence with the holeshot over Aaron Plessinger, Eli Tomac, Justin Cooper, Jorge Prado, and Joey Savatgy, but as they went down the rollers Cooper jumped into the lead momentarily! Jett Lawrence would retake the lead was starting to open up a gap but then he had a mistake on the starting straight a couple of laps in! Looked like he stalled the bike, and it took a few seconds to restart, allowing both Plessinger by and into the lead and his brother Hunter into second place. When Plessinger went by into the race lead it brought an uproar from the crowd! Jett was third behind his brother Hunter Lawrence but then got back into second. Justin Cooper ran fourth, then Eli Tomac. Jorge Prado was battling RJ Hampshire but dropped back significantly late in the race. It looked like Prado had some kind of bike issue as he would drop back to 12th over half a lap back from Hampshire, who he was battling. Jett Lawrence would get back into the race lead, then Hunter Lawrence got by Plessinger late! Cooper held off Tomac at the end of the race, as Hampshire would finish sixth. Jason Anderson rode a solid seventh and Joey Savatgy, Cooper Webb, and Coty Schock rounded out the top ten. Late in the race, Schock held off Benoit Paturel after both of them passed Prado. Grant Harlan was 15th in his return to racing after breaking ribs at the second round Hangtown Motocross Classic. Early in the race, Malcolm Stewart suffered a crash where he took a handlebar hit to the chin in a nasty get off on the far side of the track. He did not finish the race.

Second Motos

250 Class

Haiden Deegan got into the race lead when the second moto began and it was the #1, #10, and #16 out front early on! Casey Cochran was fourth, followed by Jo Shimoda. Julien Beaumer had a big crash on the jump before the mechanics’ area, which ended his moto early. Levi Kitchen was outside the top 15 early after catching the rear wheel of the rider ahead of him. Kitchen and his teammate Garrett Marchbanks were battling through the field. they both got around Jalek Swoll, and then it became a three-way Kawasaki battle with Seth Hammaker. Jo Shimoda made passes and was going after Vialle for third place, their battle followed by Cochran. But then Shimoda went down in the back pro section, which dropped him back to tenth. Marchbanks was able to get both teammates Kitchen and Hammaker to take over fifth. Marchbanks then got Cochran to take over fourth. Kitchen and Shimoda both followed through to get by Cochran as well but then Shimoda passed Kitchen, which would bump the #47 off the overall podium. Deegan took the race win and on the final lap, Hymas had a crash. That bumped Vialle to second in the race and changed the overall podium. Deegan won by 17.577.

After the race, Hymas rode straight back to the Honda HRC Progressive truck, then had to be helped to the team truck as he limped on the shoulder of two of his crew members. He was pointing to his right knee once he came off the track and was visually in pain. 

Deegan still took the race win with 1-1 finishes, followed by Vialle’s 4-2 and Kitchen 2-6, then Hymas’ 5-3 finishes for fourth overall. Marchbanks and Shimoda rounded out the top five.