250 RACE RESULTS // 2024 SOUTHWICK NATIONAL

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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