<body><div><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=3tqhHn_0tNwM7Dx00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=3tqhHn_0tNwM7Dx00" width="1440" height="810" >PALA, California: It’s a beautiful day as the Pro Motocross series begins their 11-round championship with a high of 70 and no rain in the forecast. This is Round 18 of the SuperMotocross season with points from both Supercross and Motocross contributing to the playoff seeding.Press Day was active with Garrett Marchbanks and the 250 West Supercross champion RJ Hampshire crashing. They will not be in today’s race. Christian Craig was swept into that incident but was not injured. He and Aaron Plessinger will return to action.Jett Lawrence is the defending winner. He began his quest for the perfect season here by winning both motos.<h2>Moto 1</h2>450sJett Lawrence has never lost an overall at Fox Raceway and never finished worse than second in a moto. He gets the holeshot.250sThe 250 East Supercross champion Tom Vialle takes the early lead with Levi Kitchen and Haiden Deegan giving chase. We have our first pass seven minutes into the moto: Kitchen takes it away from Vialle.Vialle continues to fall back. Haiden Deegan makes the pass at the 10-minute mark. He’s 3.8 seconds behind. Deegan is closing. He’s now 2.3 seconds behind Kitchen. The Triumph riders are running well. Joey Savatgy is fifth and Jalek Swoll sixth.At the halfway point, the closest battle is between Chance Hymas and Savatgy. Kitchen loses a little ground and Deegan is within a second with 11 minutes remaining.Ty Masterpool puts his new Pro Circuit Kawasaki on the ground. He was riding 13th.Deegan is right on Kitchen’s back tire with nine minutes remaining on the clock.Deegan is pressing but Kitchen hands onto the lead.Vialle is still third with five minute to go.Deegan goes wide and jumps the berm. He leaves the track for a moment but doesn’t lose much time. He’s 1.6 seconds behind now.Time runs off the clock and two laps remain. Kitchen leads Deegan by .767 seconds.A track marker gets stuck in Kitchen’s boot. He loses the lead while he reaches down to free it.Deegan makes a statement by winning the first moto. Kitchen lost seven seconds in the final laps to finish second.Vialle will stand on the bottom step of the podium.Fourth-place Hymas and Savatgy round out the top five. On the other Triumph, Swoll finishes sixth. <h2>Last Chance Qualifier</h2>450sBrad West finishes more than four seconds ahead of Bryce Shelly, Dayton Briggs and Josh Mosiman.250sSlade Varola wins over Marcos Phelps, Gavin Brough and Slade Smith.<h2>Qualification</h2>450sChase Sexton was one of the few riders to push Jett Lawrence in Motocross. He finished second in this race last year and picks up where he left off. Sexton (2:20.988) posts the fastest speed in the Qualification 1. Jett Lawrence and Hunter Lawrence slot into second and third respectively.Justin Barcia and Dylan Ferrandis round out the top five.Aaron Plessinger rejoins the field for the outdoor races and lands sixth on the chart.Back from an elbow injury, Christian Craig is 19th in the first session. In Qualification 2, Jett has a close call with Dean Wilson and came close to crashing.At the end of the session, Jett (2:18.467) finds speed and jumps to the top of the board by more than a second over Sexton back to second. Q2 was the faster session, so Jett has first gate pick. Hunter slots into third with Ferrandis and Justin Cooper rounding out the top five. 250sThe 250 riders take to the track early with Chance Hymas (2:24.780) leading the riders in their first session. Today is Hymas’ birthdayHaiden Deegan and Levi Kitchen follow with Tom Vialle and Jo Shimoda rounding out the top five.Joey Savatgy finally gets a chance to ride his new Triumph and he slots into eighth, one tenth of a second behind teammate Jalek Swoll.In Qualification 2, Levi Kitchen posts the fastest Lap 1 but Hymas is not far behind. This session will be faster than Q1.The top spot was in question until the final lap but Kitchen (2:22.285) ended up on top, narrowly edging Joey Savatgy in his first attempt this season on the new Triumph bike. Pierce Brown was third with Hymas fourth . Jordon Smith was fifth.More SuperMotocross NewsWhile we wait on the motos, check out some recent SuperMotocross news:</div></body>

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PALA, California: It’s a beautiful day as the Pro Motocross series begins their 11-round championship with a high of 70 and no rain in the forecast. This is Round 18 of the SuperMotocross season with points from both Supercross and Motocross contributing to the playoff seeding. Press Day was...

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