SMX Insider Post Race Show | Round 25 Washougal | SuperMotocross 2026

The SMX insider post-race show presented by Bass Pro Shops. This has been the Fly Racing Washougal National, part of the Monster Energy SMX World Championship and Pro Motocross. Highly anticipated day because you see Hayden Deegan there on the right. This could be the track where he could have put pressure on the Lawrences. It came undone in Moto 1, but you got to give credit to the brothers. They really upped their game on this track today, and they were still the best of the bunch. Yeah, they clearly was. I mean, the gap separation between them and everybody else was pretty significant today. Almost, I'd say, bigger than any other race, especially today here at Washougal as these pals go. Wow. Yeah. It seemed like they had a little bit of chip on the shoulder, but normally when you get in this spot with the championship, the two that's battling, they really rise up, and I think you saw that today as these guys really stepped their game up, and they were head and shoulders better than everybody else today. Wow, that guy's eyes are going to be hurting, but he took it like a champ. He took that whole bottle, basically, from Hunter, the race winner, and the red plate holder. Right there, holding that red plate. And this is even the bigger story. It had not been a great track for Jet, and he didn't even win it last year. For him, not winning any race is a big deal, but for Hunter, he had not even been even on the podium in Motos, and now he's the race winner. Yeah. I mean, look, the way that race kind of started, he's making a lot of mistakes, and we had Chase Sexton on the show last weekend on Race Day Live, and even he said it, like, Hunter's a different guy, and the guy, he's racing him. You can see that, and that's why he's able to come to a track that he's never even been on a podium and win. Yeah, you could say he had help with Jet, but he was there. He made Jet have to ride hard, and we've seen that. The mistakes are going to happen, and Hunter's made his fair share of them. Jet has, and yeah, the guy's just different. Yeah, now we're getting down to the nitty-gritty. So Jet Lawrence crashes with the lead in Moto 2, and Hunter Lawrence wins. I did hear that some of the big brass from Honda were going to be here this weekend, and you see them congratulating Hunter for taking the race win. Well, you know, the bosses are there. You've got to step up. Yeah. Military appreciation, got some new kids, good stuff. Yeah, you mentioned military appreciation. A great theme every year here at Washougal, and we'll give you a little more about the military appreciation race that took place this weekend. Welcome back to Washougal. The crew here in Washington has once again gone above and beyond to stage the military appreciation race during their national weekend. And this is really cool. Military veterans competed in a warrior race on the track on Friday. Riders from different branches of the military were represented. That's the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard. And the winner this year was the U.S. Marine Corps. Special thanks to all of you. And they received the prestigious Branch Battle Trophy from Race Grand Marshal. Also, the Hunter 7 Foundation has been on hand, offering free cancer screenings to eligible veterans on Friday and Saturday. And the race teams never miss an opportunity to run special tribute gear and plastic, celebrating the American military. Yeah, so that's always great to see the unique looks, but more importantly, allowing veterans to actually get involved in the action with the team race on Friday. So again, congratulations to the Marines for winning that one. And it's always good to see Diana Dahlgren, our old friend back at the races, long time Miss Monster Energy Supercross, her husband, who served as part of the SEAL team. So great to see her here and more veterans up on the podium to celebrate what was a great race day at Washougal. These are the highlights. The fly racing, Washougal National, a perfect day for racing. A little bit more overcast, a little bit cooler. So certainly enjoyable for the fans. And they were in great anticipation of maybe this would be the race we'd have a threat to the Lawrence boys. And Hayden Deegan fired early with a hole shot. It looked good for a little while. Yeah, well, early in the day, it looked really good. Hayden Deegan was your fastest and qualifying to first ever. And he had the hole shot pretty clear. But it didn't last that long as he goes down here. You know, later on, he showed his seat at 250. We had issues there as well. But Hayden Deegan, two weekends in a row, first moto. He's going to start it off pretty much almost dead last. But it was Jet Lawrence out front. Hunter Lawrence is going to make his way around Jorge Prado right here. Cooper Webbs in that fourth position. And, yeah, the way these two brothers have been out front, it's going to be unlikely anybody else is going to stay with them. They work together. And the race for the lead was on. But, unfortunately, early in this moto, we're going to lose Garrett Marshbanks. That's a high-speed section where he goes down. Looks like he's, I don't know, maybe he's talking to one of the guys, saying, hey, man, I'm probably going to call it a day. But, yeah, he rides off. But that was the end of his day. Hayden Deegan, as I mentioned earlier, went down in that first corner, was able to get up. Now, he made some massive passes early in that moto, like you'll meet. And it took him a couple laps. He was inside the top ten. He got around Justin Barsher for fifth right there. Cooper Webbs got a little scrub right here. Hayden Deegan throwing it down. We saw a lot of this today from Hayden. He looked a lot looser today. Bike looked pretty good. Had some great lines. And for him, ends up fourth this moto. But Jet Lawrence showed that speed that we saw last weekend, that second moto. Starting to see that resemblance of Jet Lawrence. He was able to ride away from Hunter. Hunter did his best, but kind of a distant second. But like motocross, you get a chance to do it again. So, we're going to do it again here. Hunter Lawrence said he struggled with the starts that first moto. He was fourth off the start. That was a big one. He went back, regrouped. And now you're going to see if Jet Lawrence actually gets the whole shot. But Hunter Lawrence is going to come out first. Horsepower hill. You're going to see Hayden Deegan right there. Horry Prada. So, the race is on. And the way Jet rode that first moto, you might think that he would be able to get around Hunter. But Hunter fought him the whole time. Little guy Cooper back in the day, feet off the pegs. No harm, no foul. He's going to get back on the racetrack. But that's going to be critical because he's off the racetrack. It may rule that he was gassing it. And when you're off the track, you cannot do that. And unfortunately for him, he's going to end up losing a position at the end of the moto. RJ going to do RJ stuff. Right here, he goes down. This is early in the race. You see Justin Barshall in front of him. But RJ going to pick up the bike, catch his breath, and get back. And he passed all those guys. But then the battle for these two was on. Jet looked like he settled there. They were able to get away from Hayden Deegan. And once he put in that floor, he was able to get around Hunter. Hunter did a great job at trying to keep him behind him. But Jet was just stronger. And you're going to see this lap rider. And you're going to see Hunter Lawrence. And you're going to see a head pop up. That is Jet Lawrence. Gets cross-routed out front. He was putting that heater in for Hunter Lawrence, pulling away. But unfortunately for him, he gets to go down and ends up picking it up. Hayden Deegan is going to be right behind him. You're going to see Hayden Deegan pop up here. Hayden tried his best to get around. But Jet was able to pull away. But at the end of the day, Hunter Lawrence is going to go. Last weekend, he goes 1-1. Jet's mistake. Yeah, you can say he allowed him to get there. But I believe Hunter has been here to put that pressure on Jet. Jet closed in. But the results are going to say Hunter wins again. And the results are going to say Hunter extends his points lead. You can see how important that was for Hunter being that distracted. He's never even been on the podium. But today, he erases all that. Jet Lawrence is a little upset. And there you go. Hunter Lawrence with the red plate. Extending it two weeks off. We'll see him at Unadil. Hayden Deegan rounds out third place. Getting better and better. But stories these two for this championship. Good stuff. Yeah, so Jet, on a day he might have had the 1-1, certainly was in his control. The penalty and the crash push him to third in Moto2. And because of that, Hunter not only wins, but he outscores him in points by the day by two. And that would loom large with only six motos to go now in this championship. Now, on the good end, the Lawrences, we really hyped up the chance that Deegan or Prado or someone could take it to them at this race. Well, they still went 1-2 in the end. So, the streak continues. We'll see SMX points in a moment. First, it's Hunter over Jet by now 12 in the PromotoCross standings. Could have been a four if Jet pulled the 1-1. Deegan over Prado at Hampshire, top five. March Banks took a hit in points today. Drifts back to seven. Give a shout out to Jorge right there. Thank you. Yeah. I put us on a second moto. Looked like he was pretty good. So, 4th to 8th, good stuff. And there you go. He's third in the SMX points. Supercross and Motocross together. Hunter Lawrence has clinched the number one seed for the playoffs. See how far Jet Lawrence can move up before it's over. And also, Hayden Deegan as well. Eli Tomac scoring a few points today as well. All right, let's send it down to Katie. Yeah, it was an 8th and an 8th for 8th overall with Jordan Smith, your best finish of the season. One of the things in our show is that when you pop up, we're like, well, Jordan Smith is doing well again. How familiar are you in that position now where you're saying, okay, this is the place I need to be. I'm supposed to be riding this bike at this level. Yeah. The last few weeks or last probably four or five races have been really, like, getting better and better. And very familiar with where I'm at on the track. Me and the number two have been battling every single moto for, like, six motos straight now. So, yeah, no, it's good. We had a pretty hard crash at the beginning of that first practice this morning. And it was pretty banged up. So, luckily, once I started back riding, I loosened up a little bit. And, yeah, had a pretty solid day. As it relates to the team, the camaraderie as a whole, you guys are really building the program out. How proud are you of what everyone's putting out? Yeah, man, it's been good. It's been a long year for us. It started out really, really tough. And everyone kept their head down, has been grinding and pushing, and we've been making some good changes lately. No big changes, but just those small little changes that are just incrementally getting better. And we're learning more and more. So, that's the important part, is just that we're getting better every week. And we're doing that. It's showing in the result sheets and with our riding. So, yeah, I'm proud of the whole team. And it's been good. Congratulations out there on that A-thing. Guys, Mikkel Harup did go down on that last lap in moto two, and he is getting checked out by Alpinestars. Oh, bummer news there. But, overall, good day for Jordan Smith. I'll show you the highlights of the 250 class on the Washougal round of ProMotoCross. It's the fly racing Washougal National Monster Energy SMX. Those are the famous fir trees, the evergreens that make this place the most picturesque circuit in the ProMotoCross campaign. Serious business out on the racetrack, though. Good start for Cole Davies and his teammate Landon Gordon, but not for long for Gordon. Yeah, we just saw Hayden Deegan do the same thing in that 450 class. Landon Gordon goes down and collects half the fuel. You're going to see Juju Gomer here, Levi Kitchen. He was solid today. He knows that, hey, he needed to have a good day, and unfortunately for him, he's down in the first corner. Two weekends in a row in the first moto. But then it was this guy, Cole Davies, who was your fastest qualifier. Pierce Brown came back from an injury. This first moto is going to end up getting out. He was down in that first corner, but he'll be back for that second moto. But it was Levi Kitchen and Juju Gomer battling for 15th, 16th, We thought he was going to be battling for the lead, but unfortunately for those guys, they were down. They worked their way up. Levi's going to be behind Julian, and eventually he's going to end up getting around him as Juju got caught behind another rider. Levi was able to close that gap, make that pass, and just continue making his way up. He's going to end up sixth overall in this moto. Juju's going to finish eighth. But here's another pass. Got to shout out to Hunter Yoder. Rode great all day long. We talked about him a lot. Levi just had that pace, especially that first moto. Gets around him. Had some great lines. And you would say the results are probably not where he wanted it, but I think he rode pretty good here, considering all. Here's Juju going to get around. Maneer, who did a great job at fighting him for a while. We've seen this quite a bit, but Juju's going to make his way around a little bit more pace towards the end of the moto. And that's where he's going to finish. But this guy, he's whipping it for the crowd. A little turn down. He had some other whips. Cole Davies just on a different level, folks. Yeah, we're going to show it. I'm going to say it for you. As Cole Davies way, way, way, way, way out front. And he needed it because last weekend, second moto was a rough one for him. This second moto, not so rough. Didn't get the best of starts from Cole Davies standards. You know, not so many. It's actually a rider outside of Yamaha hold shot. Guys get through the first corner. A couple guys go down. But nonetheless, it was rider D who we didn't really talk about. He finished second at first moto. Chance Hyman finished third. So this was for the overall. Rider D rode really good. Starting to see signs of him. Chance Hyman is going to make some passes. But Cole Davies made his way around a couple guys. And this is the end of the opening lap. He's going to get around Chance Hyman right here. Just a little bit lower. He's going to go out to rider D as well. Like I said, Cole Davies just had that flow. Whipping it, doing all this stuff. And here's that move here. As he's got that run. He's going to scrub on him. Little whip on rider D. Takes a look over. What a disrespect. I'm going to throw it to you again to let you know I'm out of here. But rider D, credit. He did his best to stay there. Levi kitchen, another bad start. This time he didn't go down. He just got a bad start. He's going to stay on the podium or after the race. And, hey, spent a lot of energy that first moto. But, hey, maybe not the best day for him. But he still has the red point. This guy, great day. Goes from 25 points down to only seven. And looking like the Cole Davies we saw earlier in the year. Pretty much made easy work here. And a track that he's never been to. It doesn't take long for him to go 1-1. Cole Davies is back. Closed that gap. Losing the second of the points. Juju is still third. But it was Cole Davies waving his flag. Dominant victory here. Rider D, Chance Hymus, second and third right there. Great ride by both these guys. Cole Davies just on top of the podium. And then you're going to see the rest of the field. Carson Mumford, great ride today. Best ever podium finish here overall. Last week he up-stepped. So good job for him. Levi Kitchen, our red plate. Ends up fifth. Julian, Nate Thrasher ends up seventh. Swartz ends up eighth. Caden Muneer and Casey Cochran ends up top 10. Good day. Pretty consistent for all these guys. Everybody pretty much in the top 10 here. Different than normally in the 250 class. Both motos. And a good day for you on the math. Yes, it was a seven-point gap now between Kitchen and Davies. Which is a massive gain. Because Davies was down 25 on Kitchen coming into this race. He also leapfrogged back ahead of Beaumare. Six motos yet to go. I feel like in the 450 class it feels like, well, that's not a lot. Here, it feels like a ton is probably going to unfold over the final six motos and three rounds for the 250 motocross title. And then you combine that with the supercross standings. And Davies opens it back up over Kitchen, who was starting to close after last week. And that would be playoff seeding on the line right there. DeFrancisco probably underrated how strong he was in supercross. Combine that with the motocross scores. His third best. Not sure when Seth Hamaker will be back in action or Shimoda. Got to imagine Shimoda at least will be back for the playoffs. He is the defending champion. Davies having a good time there getting ready for the press conference. And we're going to send it down to Jason Thomas. Thank you, Jason. Well, Washougal is done and dusted. And I do mean dusted. Track is starting to dry out. And I'm standing in the section where Jet Lawrence crashed in that fateful second moto and cost him the overall. And maybe more importantly, the points that went along with it. Because if you think about what the penalty and the crash did, he could have drawn this thing pretty close. He would have been down to four points winning both motos. Now it goes out to 12. That's a huge difference. But this racetrack changes so much from the morning to the afternoon. And I talked to Jorge Prado just before we went on air with that interview. And we both agreed that it was a little bit, it didn't have enough moisture, for lack of a better term, in the morning, which then made it hard and a little bit slippery in the afternoon. And that's a trend we've seen this year. A good racetrack in qualifying means a very difficult, dry, and hard-packed racetrack in the afternoon. And whether that's by design or whether that's by accident, I'm not really sure. But you can see behind me what happens to these racetracks when they dry out. You see how crooked these ruts are on the takeoffs of the jumps. And that's so brutally difficult for riders to manage. And then you couple that with those guys using a scoop tire, unbelievably, in that second moto. And you can understand how difficult it is to manage here. And yet those guys were still one and two on the afternoon. So the more things change, the more they stay the same. I thought this was a chance for Deegan to maybe get a leg up on the Lawrences, but it was not to be. Those two boys on the Hondas are simply head and shoulders better than everybody else. We don't know yet who will represent the red, white, and blue at Motocross of Nations in Erne, France. You can still support Team USA by going to raiseitforusa.com. Don't mess with America. You can shop exclusive Team USA merch, donate directly to the squad, or participate in a raffle for race-used memorabilia. All proceeds benefit the American effort at the Olympics of motocross. So help your American heroes as they pursue victory at Motocross of Nations. Go to raiseitforusa.com. Don't mess with America. Two weekends off, and then pro motocross and SMX resumes at Unadilla, a track that some riders love and some riders do not. That's what makes it so tough. Jason Weigand, James Stewart here to preview that one. So first we'll talk 450. Like I said earlier, it feels like there's not a lot of time left in that division for Jet Lawrence to make up for some of these mistakes and the points he's handed to his brother. Yeah, he has. But, you know, listening to him, especially the last two weekends, the second moto, I mean, you got to take a lot of positives out of him. He sounds upbeat. And I think the biggest thing is he found that speed again, right? Like he found that speed. I mean, there was a point where Hunter Lawrence was just faster, and he was beating him in all kinds of ways. So he's found the speed. So he knows if he stays up, he has a good chance of beating him. So that's number one, which obviously allows him to be able to say, okay, although I'm losing points, I feel like I can beat him, which I can make it up, and then best man wins. So for him, still a good day. I know he's going to be disappointed, especially on both, even with the penalty. And then the other one, Hayden Deegan, we talked about him possibly coming in here. This is going to be his best track. And I do. I think it was his best opportunity to win. But like JT said, man, you start adding up those two brothers and the way they're riding, man, hey, it's really them. It's really them. They're going to have to make a mistake. Hey, Deegan's riding great. This is no knock. But you're looking at the two best riders arguably in the world. You start throwing in Lucas Koonin in there, those guys. But, I mean, these two are riding together during the week. They're coming here. The way they even race, they race as a team. And they put on a whooping to everyone else. That first moto, 50 seconds at Washougal. I've raced here. I know how hard that is to do. And they did it pretty easily. That's why they're better than everybody else. It isn't a knock on Deegan because he was able to come from 38th to 10th in like a few minutes of the first moto. That's how well he's riding it, but it's still not enough to beat them as they continue to elevate each other. Now for that 250 class, we're in the opposite. It feels like six motos. We're probably in store for about 100 more crazy things. Although you've maintained that if there's one rider that might be the most dangerous, if he gets rolling, it would be the 37 of Cole Davies. And he kind of showed what he's capable of if he gets rolling today. Absolutely. And it's not that. I mean, yeah, when Cole wins, he wins pretty easily. We saw that a couple times this year, especially the second moto. He makes it look pretty easy. But I've also seen Levi do the same thing. And you can argue Juju kind of did that last weekend in first moto the way he did. But what separates Cole is his mentality. And that's why last weekend at Millville was so shocking, that second moto, for him to continue those mistakes. But if I'm Levi and if I'm Juju, man, this guy has that attitude to where he just has something different about him. Like he's not afraid of the moment. He needed to bounce back. And how did he do that? He came in and just worked these guys. It wasn't really that close. And so when I think about Cole Davies, that's why I was always impressed with him. He has that attitude to not only win these races, but really say, you know what? Give me this title. And that's kind of what he showed today. But I'm going to tell you right now, yeah, he's gained points. But who knows? I mean, next week, he's going to be 50 points down. Who knows the way this class is. But Cole Davies is crushing it. Yeah, we'll go back to the fact that coming into this race, we knew even though it was the home track for Kitchen, it's not his best track. I think the deeply rutted stuff at Unadilla could be better for him. Jaimez has been fast there. Who knows what we're in store for. You just got to watch. We'll show you where and how you can do that. August 15th will be the next race. It's the Elf Fuels Unadilla National from upstate New York, New Berlin. Back to East Coast time. And that one, the Monster Energy upcoming schedule, we'll show it. Race day live qualifying coverage will start at 10 a.m. on Peacock for one hour of qualifying. And then the gate will drop at 1 o'clock. There will be five photos we'll be able to show you live because the Women's Motocross Championship powered by Synchrony returns. And that will run midway through the day, and we'll have that live for you as well. And, of course, this, the SMX Insider Price Race Show presented by Bass Pro Shops. It's pretty much going to wrap it up here from Washougal. The Lawrences ended up battling each other just like they did at every other track. We'll see if that continues. Yamaha track map from Unadilla. What do you see? Yeah, very fast racetrack. A lot of undulating, a lot of hills there. Pretty natural. You know, you would think a lot of rocks, so you got to worry about the roots. But going to be pretty different soils. I mean, we had some ruts here today, but Unadilla has these long ruts, and throwing that in on a track that's very slippery, you never really kind of know if it's going to be like Washougal was to Sekimoto or kind of the slower, you know, rutter one. But, yeah, another tricky track. And, yeah, if I'm Levi Kitchen, he says that he likes these ruts, so he's going to need to bounce back. And, again, Jet Lawrence, Hunter Lawrence, they're good everywhere. So you got to expect Haydee and Jorge to be good. It's going to be great. One other thing to think about, as dynamic as these championships have been, we definitely know we're at the point now where one big mistake would be very difficult to overcome in either class. So it almost is like that microscope, the focus gets even brighter and tighter when we get to Unadilla. Yeah, and absolutely. And you look into 450 class, one big mistake. The way you used to watch Hayden go down in the first corner, he's able to come back up. And you got to expect maybe the Lawrences be able to do the same thing if they're in that position. But, of course, if they have bike issues, yeah, you're getting to that point. But in the 250 class, yeah, it is getting to that point swing to where, really, now I know how crazy it's been, but at some point, somebody's going to take control of this series. Maybe it is Cole Davies. I don't think you're going to see these point swings the way it has been, the way this guy is. And there he is. I mean, just like Cole Davies. He ain't going to say much. He's got that stare in his face. And he stared overall right now in the face. But, yeah, it's going to be good. Like you said, it's the quiet ones you got to worry about. And, heck, I guarantee you someone, before we get to you, Nadilla, will say, oh, these lush green hillsides. Just like New Zealand. There are a couple sheep out there, and he'd be at home. It's going to be up to Kitchen and Bomer to fight back, even though Kitchen has the points advantage. The momentum certainly going back to the 37. And the Lawrence brothers able to survive the challenge from Deegan today. We'll see what Hayden can come up with over the two-week break. That is it for the SMX Insider Post Race Show presented by Bass Pro Shops. Thanks to Katie Osborne and Jason Thomas for patrolling the racetrack and the podium all afternoon. For James Stewart, I'm Jason Wygant. Great racing. Hunter Lawrence going to come out on top again in the 450s. Cole Davies wins the 250 class. We'll see you in two weeks.