450 QUALIFYING RESULTS // 2023 DAYTONA SUPERCROSS

Things are closer than ever after the seventh round in the points chase as Eli Tomac leads the charge with Cooper Webb only two points behind and Chase Sexton just 5 points back. However things are changing this year at Daytona, by not changing. Ricky Carmichael, who has been designing the track layout for years now, has elected to keep the track layout the same so that the riders may “master” the course just like an outdoors track or a road course. While this seems pretty cool, it also means bad news for anyone who has to race up against Eli Tomac, who has won 6 times at the Speedway. So who will be the fastest on the hybrid track? Find out down below as we report all the action LIVE from Daytona!

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450 GROUP A QUALIFYING RESULTS (SESSION 2 OF 2)

Chase has found some fast lines each weekend with this weekend being no different.

As impressive as Chase Sexton’s previous time was, it only took a minute for Chase to completely smoke the previous time by a whole second. Ken Roczen was just under half of a second slower than the leader with Jason Anderson being the last rider to race in the 1:12 lap time. Eli Tomac would sit in fourth and Rj Hampshire, who this is his fourth day on a 450, would round out the top 5 in qualifying in the second session.

POS.	#	NAME	BEST TIME
1	23	Chase Sexton	1:11.990
2	94	Ken Roczen	1:12.399
3	21	Jason Anderson	1:12.889
4	1	Eli Tomac	1:13.070
5	24	Rj Hampshire	1:13.416
6	51	Justin Barcia	1:13.449
7	2	Cooper Webb	1:13.580
8	32	Justin Cooper	1:13.949
9	28	Christian Craig	1:14.411
10	7	Aaron Plessinger	1:14.420
11	12	Shane McElrath	1:14.801
12	15	Dean Wilson	1:15.324
13	14	Dylan Ferrandis	1:15.409
14	46	Justin Hill	1:15.514
15	44	Benny Bloss	1:15.708
16	45	Colt Nichols	1:16.247
17	78	Grant Harlan	1:16.394
18	68	Cade Clason	1:16.651
19	47	Fredrik Noren	1:17.059
20	751	Josh Hill	1:17.081
21	60	Justin Starling	1:17.092
22	519	Joshua Cartwright	1:17.628
23	80	Kevin Moranz	1:17.694
24	73	John Short	1:18.369
25	74	Logan Karnow	1:18.630
26	219	Chase Marquier	1:19.190
27	848	Joan Cros	1:19.524
28	437	Vincent Luhovey	1:19.765
29	604	Max Miller	1:19.894
30	173	Hunter Schlosser	1:20.113
31	89	Kaeden Amerine	1:20.269
32	509	Alexander Nagy	1:20.290
33	129	Lane Shaw	1:20.348
34	412	Jared Lesher	1:20.509
35	501	Scotty Wennerstrom	1:20.558
36	551	Guillaume St-Cyr	1:20.688
37	606	Ronnie Stewart	1:20.766
38	500	Julien Benek	1:20.836
39	411	Scott Meshey	1:21.320
40	597	Mason Kerr	1:21.442

TOP 40 MOVE ON TO THE NIGHT SHOW 

41	282	Theodore Pauli	1:22.057
42	637	Bobby Piazza	1:22.064
43	388	Brandon Ray	1:22.360
44	645	Colby Copp	1:22.598
45	976	Joshua Greco	1:22.704
46	447	Deven Raper	1:22.869
47	824	Carter Stephenson	1:23.874
48	512	Austin Cozadd	1:24.243
49	517	Ty Freehill	1:25.688
50	120	Todd Bannister	1:25.761
51	814	Deven Sorensen	1:28.861
52	364	Chad Saultz	1:29.365
53	672	Brandon Pederson	1:30.963
54	467	Isaiah Goodman	1:34.583

 

Rj Hampshire has spent less than a week on a 450 and has made his way into the top 5 in qualifying.

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450 GROUP A QUALIFYING RESULTS (SESSION 1 OF 2)

Justin Barcia was looking very quick in the first session but Chase Sexton, Ken Roczen, and Cooper Webb would steal the thunder in the last moments.

While the 450s are extremely fast in a normal stadium, they shine at Daytona as the track’s moto-inspired sections with long straightaways allows the power to be fully used and it showed in the lap times of the first session. The top riders in the class were almost a second and a half faster than Hunter Lawrence’s 1:14. Justin Barcia held an impressive lap time up until Chase Sexton and Ken Roczen rose to the occasion grabbing the fastest lap times of the first session.

POS.		#	RIDER		BEST TIME
1		23	Chase Sexton		1:13.071
2		94	Ken Roczen		1:13.502
3		2	Cooper Webb		1:13.738
4		51	Justin Barcia		1:14.210
5		28	Christian Craig		1:14.626
6		21	Jason Anderson		1:14.747
7		24	Rj Hampshire		1:14.877
8		1	Eli Tomac		1:15.238
9		7	Aaron Plessinger		1:15.243
10		32	Justin Cooper		1:15.381
11		14	Dylan Ferrandis		1:15.409
12		15	Dean Wilson		1:15.808
13		45	Colt Nichols		1:16.247
14		44	Benny Bloss		1:16.252
15		46	Justin Hill		1:16.745
16		78	Grant Harlan		1:18.183
17		47	Fredrik Noren		1:18.297
18		12	Shane McElrath		1:18.298
19		751	Josh Hill		1:18.634
20		60	Justin Starling		1:18.915
21		68	Cade Clason		1:18.926
22		80	Kevin Moranz		1:19.761
23		519	Joshua Cartwright		1:20.765

Shane thinks we’re still in Texas.

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