250 MAIN EVENT RESULTS // 2023 DAYTONA SUPERCROSS

The 250 East Coast class has arrived in Daytona Beach, Florida for their fourth round of the 2023 season. Hunter Lawrence is still the top dog of the class but that doesn’t mean he’s had it easy every round. The likes of Nate Thrasher, Jordon Smith, Jeremy Martin, Max Anstie, and even the upcoming rookie Haiden Deegan have been giving the Honda rider a tricky time. But we can’t oversee the giant 11 point gap that he has created over the course of just four rounds. Hunter was also the fastest qualifier this evening setting a lap time half a second faster than second place’s Nate Thrasher.

So will Daytona be the round that the gap shrinks or will Hunter become even more out of reach for the Lites class?

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Photos by Brian Converse

250 MAIN EVENT RESULTS

Nate Thrasher would take the holeshot but Tom Vialle would steal the lead in the second turn. The second corner in the sand section would be chaos for Nate Thrasher as Hunter Lawrence took advantage of the sand flying and pulled a close pass resulting in Nate falling over.

A lap later, Hunter Lawrence would take the lead from Tom and half a lap alter would begin his pull away.

Unfortunately, Tom Vialle would have a giant crash and would pull off the track.

With 10 and a half minutes left, Jeremy Martin tried to give Haiden Deegan some race experience but Haiden was clever enough to slow down and cause Jeremy to tip over.

But just as Nate Thrasher was making progress in eighth place, Nate hit the deck hard adding to the frustration of the night.

Hunter Lawrence would win the Main Event.

POS.	#	RIDER
1	96	Hunter Lawrence
2	63	Max Anstie
3	238	Haiden Deegan
4	58	Jordon Smith
5	6	Jeremy Martin
6	832	Chance Hymas
7	57	Chris Blose
8	285	Coty Schock
9	67	Cullin Park
10	29	Nate Thrasher
11	50	Marshal Weltin
12	91	Jeremy Hand
13	99	Hardy Munoz
14	460	Michael Hicks
15	86	Josiah Natzke
16	170	Devin Simonson
17	192	Jack Chambers
18	339	Talon Hawkins
19	62	Jace Owen
20	243	Caden Braswell
21	31	Michael Mosiman
22	128	Tom Vialle

 

Haiden Deegan scored his first podium of his career.

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250 HEAT RACE 2 RESULTS

Jordon Smith would win the second Heat.

Hardy Munoz and Jordon Smith would fly across the holeshot line but after several turns, Jordon Smith and Hunter Lawrence would be leading the charge. Chance Hymas may be one of the rookies in the class but after a minute, Chance would be on his teammate’s rear wheel.

With a minute remaining in the race, Hunter executed the pass for the lead in the switchbacks before the finish line.

Hunter would go on to win the second Heat Race.

POS.		#	RIDER
1		96	Hunter Lawrence
2		58	Jordon Smith
3		832	Chance Hymas
4		6	Jeremy Martin
5		99	Hardy Munoz
6		63	Max Anstie
7		67	Cullin Park
8		460	Michael Hicks
9		91	Jeremy Hand
10		247	Brock Papi
11		602	Gage Linville
12		330	A J Catanzaro
13		351	Jack Rogers
14		174	Luca Marsalisi
15		511	Jace Kessler
16		191	Curren Thurman
17		242	Garrett Hoffman
18		119	Logan Boye
19		552	Larry Reyes
20		66	Henry Miller

Similar to Haiden Deegan, Chance Hymas grabbed a third place finish in his Heat Race.

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250 HEAT RACE 1 RESULTS

The fans showed up for Daytona Supercross.

Tom Vialle grabbed the holeshot with Nate Thrasher chasing in second place. Before the lap finished, both Nate and Tom would be side-by-side across the whoops section and drag race down the massive straight rhythm section. Nate would eventually make the pass.

With two minutes left, Michael Mosiman made the pass on Coty Schock for third place and Star Yamaha’s Haiden Deegan would follow the lead of the GasGas rider. But a minute later, Michael would go down losing his third place position to Haiden Deegan.

POS.		#	RIDER
1		29	Nate Thrasher
2		128	Tom Vialle
3		238	Haiden Deegan
4		31	Michael Mosiman
5		57	Chris Blose
6		285	Coty Schock
7		62	Jace Owen
8		192	Jack Chambers
9		50	Marshal Weltin
10		170	Devin Simonson
11		339	Talon Hawkins
12		243	Caden Braswell
13		483	Bryton Carroll
14		86	Josiah Natzke
15		300	Lane Allison
16		208	Logan Leitzel
17		118	Cheyenne Harmon
18		544	Noah Willbrandt
19		289	Robert Hailey
20		137	Ayden Shive

 

Nate Thrasher won the first Heat Race of the day.

250 LCQ RESULTS

Natzke grabbed the holeshot with Brock Papi chasing in second and escaping the meat grinder that was the second turn. Talon Hawkins and Braswell would make their way around Papi as the top four ran away from the rest of the field. Unfortunately for Papi, he would go down dropping down the field.

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