Another wild week as 250SX East series hits Daytona
By Team TMX on 3rd Mar 25
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250SX East series leader Max Anstie recovered from a turn two crash at the Daytona Supercross to recover to a sixth-place finish in the Main Event of the third round of the regional series to consolidate a six-point lead in the championship. The Brit battled hard all race to move through the field and keep his championship lead alive in a race won by current 250SX West Champion RJ Hampshire (Rockstar Husqvarna).
Red Bull KTM’s Tom Vialle took the holeshot ahead of Anstie who clipped his rear wheel and went down. Hampshire wasted no time in taking over the lead and was dominant from that point on, even though a hard crash for Levi Kitchen (Monster Energy Pro Circuit Kawasaki) forced a single file restart restart which bunched the field up once more at around the halfway distance.
There was no stopping Hampshire who took an emotional victory. “It’s special,” admitted RJ. “I lost my dad a few months ago and this was his race. Growing up as a kid, this is where I came with him. It was the only Supercross I came to. And he was with us today. Some guy came up to me in the pits and had his old jersey that he raced with back in the day, that was something I never had. He gifted me that and – it just felt different today, man, like my dad was definitely here… Finally got to do a victory burnout on the banked track down here in Daytona, that was for my dad, for sure.”
The series returns to a domes stadium next weekend (March 8) as Lucas Oil Stadium hosts the ninth stop of the series in Indianapolis, Indiana. The Indy Supercross will host the season’s first of three 250SX Class East/West Showdowns in which racers from each division compete for single-event points.
