Budds Creek 2024
RD 10 | Budds Creek
The Mid-Atlantic stop on the Pro Motocross tour, Budds Creek Motocross Park features a challenging mix of ruts, hills, tacky soil and, in the summer, oppressive humidity. Mechanicsville, just under 50 miles from The White House, lies in Maryland’s southern neck between the Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay and is home to over 1,000 Amish citizens. Visit the Budds Creek MX History page for more results and moments.
In his sophomore season of 250 Pro Motocross, Haiden Deegan won the 250MX championship with three motos left to run in the season. Deegan is the 35th different rider to win this crown, going back to the first champion, Marty Smith.
After a wire-to-wire win in Budds Creek Moto 1, where he led by as much as 23 seconds before topping over and losing time, Deegan jumped up on the podium and delivered a spicy interview: “All I cared about on that line was destroying these dudes so bad. I wanted to annihilate everybody.”
In the first 10 rounds of the season, Deegan is the only rider to finish in the top 10 of every single moto.
Despite tucking the front end and falling in both motos, Chase Sexton (2-1) won his 5th consecutive 450MX overall (6th of the year) and heads into the final round of the 2024 Pro Motocross season with a 28 point lead over Hunter Lawrence (1-2).
H. Lawrence pulled both holeshots and led a total of 25 laps at Budds Creek, 14 of them in the first moto. He may have led all 17 laps of moto one had Justin Cooper (20-4) not overshot a jump heading into turn two and unintentionally run into the back of Lawrence. Lawrence stayed upright but went off the track. Cooper slowly reentered the race.
Aaron Plessinger (3-3) led the first few laps of moto one and with third overall to Justin Cooper ‘s 10th, he now holds a comfortable over Cooper for third in the points.
Hunter Lawrence now has three moto wins this season and has led the most laps (96) this season. Sexton, despite his 11 moto wins, has led 73 laps (3rd most in the class).
The most impressive part of moto two was watching Sexton catch Lawrence twice. He fell in his first pass attempt (around lap 6), but remounted in 4th and had the lead on lap 12.
Sexton now has 12 career 450MX overall wins.
Levi Kitchen (3-1) entered Budds Creek after suffering from a bout of COVID in the days leading up to the race, which explains why he faded from 2nd to 4th late in moto 1. But when Chance Hymas (8-2) coughed up second place with a last lap crash, it elevated Kitchen back up to third and, in the end, cost Hymas a chance at the overall.
In moto two, Kitchen pulled the holeshot and was never challenged.
Haiden Deegan (1-10) pulled the holeshot from the far inside gate in moto and steered clear of the game of dominoes in the first turn. He led every lap on his way to victory (and the championship).
In moto 2, however, he started poorly and his charge back to the front stalled out at 10th place, which gave him third overall by just one point.
Hymas needed to pass Kitchen for third overall. Tom Vialle (2-3) finished second overall. Vialle was 9th place after lap one.
