Blow by blow reports from 250-450 AMA SX in Seattle

2024 AMA Supercross Championship

Round 11 – Lumen Field, Seattle

450 Main

The slippery track and sticky ruts saw Ken Roczen go down in his Heat race and have to progress through the LCQ. Hunter Lawrence won that Heat ahead of Eli Tomac, Chase Sexton, and Justin Barcia. Jett Lawrence won the second Heat ahead of Aaron Plessinger and Cooper Webb.

Roczen won the LCQ contest to win his transfer spot to the Main on what the riders themselves described as a really gnarly track that took no prisoners.

Chase Sexton had the inside run for turn one and navigated it safely to score the holeshot ahead of Ken Roczen. Jason Anderson and Adam Cianciarulo were third and fourth early on. Jett Lawrence was down in ninth, while Eli Tomac was way back in 16th.

Cooper Webb was on a charge, dispensing with McElrath, Barcia, Cianciarulo, and then Anderson to move up to third place over the course of the opening two laps.

Jett Lawrence started to hit his straps on lap three, moving past Cianciarulo, Plessinger, Justin Cooper, and Justin Barcia to move all the way up to fifth.

Cooper Webb closed in on Ken Roczen and made short work of the German to take second place. He was on a mission and reeled Sexton in with apparent ease. With 15 minutes to run, Sexton led Webb by 1.3 seconds, but looming large further behind was Jett Lawrence. The Aussie youngster blew past Roczen like he was standing still and was the fastest man on track by a significant margin.

Just when it looked as though Cooper Webb was going to run down Sexton and then run away with it, Jett Lawrence reeled him in with ease, and just when he was shaping up to make a move, he came together with Webb in a soft section. Jett had so much more speed but not that much patience; he lost that third position to Roczen by the time he had picked himself up and got back up to speed.

With ten-minutes left on the clock, Webb was all over the back of the Sexton after the KTM made a small mistake, which allowed the Yamaha to close right in. Further back, Jett had passed Roczen once again to move up to third place and immediately pulled away from the Suzuki man. He was almost eight-seconds behind the leading duo. Could he do it from there?

Chase Sexton stalled out with six-minutes left on the clock, which saw Webb sweep past to take the lead, but then he made a mistake himself, which allowed Sexton to close right back onto his tail. Further back Jett had been brought to a standstill by a stalled lapper that left him with nowhere to go which cost him around ten-seconds and his remote chance for victory.

Cooper Webb and Chase Sexton swapped positions up front over the next couple of laps, but eventually, Webb asserted his dominance and broke away from the defending champ to take the victory and claw an important five-points back in the championship chase on Jett Lawrence. Sexton chased him hard to the flag though and almost snatched victory at the last gasp.

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Jett rounded out the podium well clear of Aaron Plessinger, Ken Roczen, and Eli Tomac. The Australian’s fastest lap of the race was 1.5 seconds quicker than Webb or Sexton’s best.

Hunter Lawrence claimed seventh ahead of Justin Cooper, Justin Barcia and Jason Anderson.
Jett’s championship lead over Webb was trimmed from 21 to 16. Chase Sexton is seven points behind in third, 15 points clear of Ken Roczen.

AMA Supercross reconvenes in St. Louis next weekend for the third and final Triple Crown of 2024.

450 Main Results

450 Championship Points

250 Main

Levi Kitchen scored the holeshot, and despite a determined challenge by Julien Beaumier, the Kawasaki rider held on to that lead through the opening sections of the track to establish an early lead.

Jordon Smith worked his way to the back of Beaumier and stole second place on lap two. Michael Mosiman, RJ Hampshire, and Nate Thrasher held fourth through sixth place after two laps, while Jo Shimoda was in seventh. The Honda man hit the deck a couple of laps later and lost a number of positions.

Hampshire got the better of Beaumier for third place just over five-minutes into the contest and Thrasher demoted Beaumier further back to fifth on the following lap.

At half-race distance, Kitchen led Smith by six-seconds, and RJ Hampshire was equidistant further back in third. The battle over fourth was now a heady six-rider affair.

With just under four-minutes left on the clock, second placed Jordon Smith got caught out by the challenging ruts and went down hard.  Inheriting that second place was RJ Hampshire, but Levi Kitchen now had a huge 20-second lead.  Smith eventually got up and running again, only to crash once again shortly thereafter.

Jo Shimoda recovered from his early mistake to scythe his way through the pack, Passing Thrasher, Beaumier, Mosiman, Mumford, and Marchbanks on his way to third place. The Japanese rider was the fastest man on the track late in the race.

Levi Kitchen kept his head to cruise home for victory 21-seconds ahead of Hampshire, much to the appreciation of his home crowd.  Jo Shimoda rounded out the podium four-seconds behind Hampshire.

Kitchen will take a nine-point lead over Hampshire in the 250 West Championship when it reconvenes in St. Louis next weekend.

250 Main Results

250 West Championship Points

250 Qualifying Results

250 Heat One Results

250 Heat Two Results

250 LCQ Results

450 Qualifying Results

450 Heat One Results

450 Heat Two Results

450 LCQ Results