In the third round of the Monster Energy Supercross 250 West division, Haiden Deegan finally got off to a good start and turned it into his first victory of the 2025 season. With red plate holder Julien Beaumer on his back wheel, Deegan earned the holeshot. In Turn 1, Beaumer tried to shove Deegan up the hill after some controversy between those two riders in the heat race, but he couldn’t hold his opponent up. After leading all 17 laps of the race since the East / West Showdown in Salt Lake City during the 2024 season finale, Deegan shot off the banking and vanished from view.
Beaumer lost ground to Deegan on the track, finishing about four and a half seconds behind the leader, but he knew that the rider who makes the fewest mistakes wins the championship. He is still seven points ahead of his primary title opponent, who he lost to by five points. Beaumer “keeps calm and carries on,” making him the most welcome surprise in the 250 West division.
No one knew what to anticipate when Cole Davies finished Lap 1 in eighth place because his Supercross career has been characterized by strong starts in the early races. After moving slowly through the pack, Davies finished sixth on lap three, fifth on lap five, and fourth the next lap. Before Jordon Smith wrecked on the last lap and cleared the path to third, it appeared that his progress would stop there. This was Davies’ second top-five finish of the season and his first podium.
Smith was headed to letting Factory Triumph sweep that position through three rounds after handing them their first podium in the season opener, but he surged too hard on the last lap to try to pass Beaumer for the runner-up spot. Smith lost third place after tipping over on the last lap, but he still has a flawless top-five record. Throughout the Round 3 feature, Coty Schock kept up with the leaders, never going lower than fifth or rising higher than fourth. With two sixth-place finishes in the first rounds and this week’s fifth-place finish, he is demonstrating that last year’s Cinderella season was not an anomaly.
Jo Shimoda, who rode with two broken fingers, placed sixth, narrowly outside the top five. Before the 250 West riders take a break to let the Eastern riders compete, he has one more race this weekend in Glendale, Arizona. Drew Adams was called up to the professional ranks when teammates Ty Masterpool and Garrett Marchbanks suffered injuries. In addition to his first top-10 finish in the division, his Supercross debut was distinguished by his remarkable pace in practice and qualifying. Adams finished ninth in the main after rising as high as sixth.
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