{"id":906962,"date":"2026-09-27T04:02:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T04:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/906962\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T04:02:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T04:02:14","slug":"jorge-prado-wins-ridgedale-450-moto-2-and-smx-championship-haiden-deegan-overall-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/906962\/","title":{"rendered":"Jorge Prado wins Ridgedale 450 Moto 2 and SMX championship, Haiden Deegan overall winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RIDGEDALE, Missouri: Jorge Prado sone the second moto of the 2026 SuperMotocross Playoff finale at Thunder Ridge Nature Arena and earned the points needed to earn the 450 Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Prado struggled in Moto 1 and finished fifth, turning the final race into essentially a winner-take-all affair. He earned the holeshot, but Haiden Deegan was closely behind in the opening laps.<\/p>\n<p>Deegan rode a bucking bronco during the opening laps of Moto 2 and the riders squeezed some moisture out of the track. A heavy rain fell during the 250 division\u2019s second moto.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter Lawrence finished third in the moto, but he needed Prado to finish off the podium in order to have a shot at the title. Lawrence finished third overall.<\/p>\n<p>Cooper Webb finished he season off with consistent strength and finished fourth in both motos.<\/p>\n<p>Ken Roczen overcame a modest start and passed RJ Hampshire on Lap 6 to take the final top-five position in the race.<\/p>\n<p>Results<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/nbcsports.brightspotcdn.com\/29\/d4\/ba520101442d9705ef892f99894c\/2026-smx-round-31-smx-ridgedale-450-moto-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Moto 1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/nbcsports.brightspotcdn.com\/d7\/b3\/27f625df41199758be79bcd9f0ee\/2026-smx-round-31-smx-ridgedale-450-moto-2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Moto 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/nbcsports.brightspotcdn.com\/df\/8d\/466169d74c1890190c6f37aafdf1\/2026-smx-round-31-smx-ridgedale-450-overall.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Overall<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RIDGEDALE, Missouri: Jorge Prado sone the second moto of the 2026 SuperMotocross Playoff finale at Thunder Ridge Nature&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":906963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-906962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/906963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}