Haiden Deegan has only been off the podium in two motos and he’s only been outside of the top five in one moto this summer, making it extremely hard for the competition to gain points on the young star. The 2024 Budds Creek National is the penultimate round of the 2024 Pro Motocross season, and with a 70-point lead, Haiden is looking to wrap up this Championship one race early. The Budds Creek National is highly rated amongst the pro riders as one of the best tracks on the circuit, and the track is extra technical today with the rain we got earlier this morning.
Haiden Deegan had already clinched the Championship in the first moto and he started on the very inside gate again, but this time he got pinched off coming off the gate and was dead last coming into the first turn, just like Chase Sexton in 450 moto 1. However, Haiden wasn’t as quick to make passes on the first lap, he was in 11th place after five and a half minutes of racing. Levi Kitchen grabbed the holeshot and he led early. Chance Hymas passed Jalek Swoll for a second and quickly caught up to the backside of Levi Kitchen who explained on the podium after the first moto that he’s been sick all week, not riding in between Unadilla and Budds Creek.
Closing in on the halfway point, Haiden was running tenth, stuck behind his teammate Nick Romano. Being that Haiden had already wrapped up the title, you could tell that he didn’t have the same fight in him for moto 2. The second moto has been much better for Levi Kitchen, Chance caught up to him five minutes into the race, and Levi held him off despite lots of challenges from the HRC Honda rider. Impressively, Levi was able to hold Hymas off and go on to win the moto and the overall with 3-1