ANAHEIM, California: The first race of the season sets the tone for the 2026 SuperMotocross World Championship in the 250 West division at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California.<\/p>\n
In-Race Notes<\/p>\n
Ryder DiFrancesco earned the holes shot with Chance Hymas close behind in second.<\/p>\n
Haiden Deegan is buried outside the top 10, but Levi Kitchen is worse and barely inside the top 20.<\/p>\n
Deegan moved up to ninth on Lap 2; Kitchen is up to 16th.<\/p>\n
Max Anstie took second away from Hymas on Lap 4.<\/p>\n
Cameron McAdoo in fourth and Michael Mosiman, who advanced via the LCQ rounded out the top five.<\/p>\n
Kitchen cracked the top 10 on Lap 5 as the race closes in on the halfway mark.<\/p>\n
Three position separate Deegan and Kitchen.<\/p>\n
Anstie took the lead from DiFrancesco.<\/p>\n
McAdoo crashed with seven minutes on the clock.<\/p>\n
Hymas and DiFrancesco are embroiled in a battle for second two-thirds of the way through the race.<\/p>\n
Hymas to second on Lap 9. Deegan was up to fifth with Kitchen still three positions back in eighth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANAHEIM, California: The first race of the season sets the tone for the 2026 SuperMotocross World Championship in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-128631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}