Philadelphia 2024
RD 15 | Lincoln Financial Field
Who’s happy to be back on the east coast!? Brett Smith is pumped for this weekends racing and will be bringing you all the action from the comfort of the broadcast booth.
Jett Lawrence won his 7th 450SX overall of 2024, and led every single lap for the 4th time (in traditional main events). Eli Tomac was second early in the main, but acquiesced to pressure from his teammate Cooper Webb, who never got close to catching Lawrence.
Chase Sexton finished the first lap in 5th and passed Webb for second on lap 15. Sexton was the fastest rider on the track for several laps, but Lawrence adjusted and kept his lead comfortable.
Jason Anderson caught Webb on the final lap and passed him entering the final corner. Webb went down trying to hold position and took fourth. He lost 7 championship points and heads to Denver -12.
Max Anstie earned his 4th fastest qualifier of the season and finally backed up that speed with a win, the second of his career. Anstie, who held the red plate in Daytona and Birmingham still hadn’t led a single lap in 2024 prior to Philly. Anstie battled home state hero Seth Hammaker for several laps before making a pass stick on lap 12.
Jalek Swoll, who won his first career heat race earlier in the day, ran third for the first 15 laps of the main, but an aggressive and miscalculated move put both him and Hammaker on the ground and handed second and third to Tom Vialle and Pierce Brown.
Then, Brown crashed wildly over the finish line upon taking the white flag and Haiden Deegan wound up on the podium. Vialle left Philly with a 15 point lead.
