DENVER, Colorado: Haiden Deegan tracked down teammate Cole Davies and pushed him off course two laps remaining to secure the win and enough points for the championship.
The pass went under review, but the American Motorcycle Association (AMA) deemed the pass was not illegal.
“Two laps to go, I wanted that win; I was going to do anything for it,” Deegan told Peacock’s Jason Thomas. “This means a lot to me because people doubted me the whole way saying I was all hype coming into Supercross and Motocross. They just mad that I’m him and they have to deal with it. If they don’t like it, they can suck it.”
Deegan has now won championships in all three SuperMotocross divisions as the defending title holder of Pro Motocross and the SuperMotocross World Championship.
Despite dominating most of the race, Davies was unable to remount quickly and faded to fifth, handing the title to Deegan with one race remaining in the 250 West division.
“I got a good start and was focusing on trying to build a bit of a gap from there, but I got caught up with some lappers,” Davies said after the race. “I should have capitalized on that better, so that’s on me. I shouldn’t have put myself in that position.”
Julien Beaumer took the second position.
“I was just trying to get back to myself; the guy that I was at the start of the season,” Beaumer said. “I think I showed I back and I’m ready to fight for another one and will see you in Salt Lake.”
Garrett Marchbanks took the final podium position. This is his second podium in the last three starts and back-to-back in 250 West only competition. He finished seventh in the East / West Showdown in Philadelphia.
Fourth-place Jordon Smith and Davies rounded out the top five.
In-Race Notes
Cole Davies won the holeshot and grabbed the early lead with Michael Mosiman on his back tire.
Haiden Deegan was comfortably in third on the first lap.
Julien Beaumer moved up to fourth in the early stages of the race to underscore his earlier Denver speed in preliminaries.
Deegan took over the second spot from Mosiman in the bowl turn leading to the finish jump on Lap 7. Deegan was 3.4 seconds behind Davies when he mounted this charge.
Deegan was initially unable to close the distance in traffic, but after they cleared traffic, with two minutes on the clock, Deegan cut the gap to 1.5 seconds. Davies lost momentum in heavy traffic.
On Lap 16, Deegan caught Davies and they battled side-by-side.
Deegan moved his teammate out of the groove, over a Tuff Blox, and into no-man’s land.
Deegan went on to win.
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