{"id":143021,"date":"2026-01-21T11:52:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T11:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/143021\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T11:52:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T11:52:15","slug":"10-things-we-learned-at-san-diego-sx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/143021\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Things We Learned at San Diego SX"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Monster Energy Yamaha Star Racing’s Haiden Deegan<\/a> stole the show in the 250 class, but not for all the right reasons. Deegan rode brilliantly in the main event, but it’s his pass on teammate Max Anstie<\/a> that has people talking. Anstie led for the first six laps, but when Deegan finally pulled up alongside him, Max decided to lay up and let him have the position. However, Deegan had other plans and pulled a brake slide into Anstie’s front wheel, causing Max to go down in a bowl turn. After the race, Deegan apologized, saying he didn’t mean to take his teammate down, but this is not the first time he has pulled this maneuver (i.e., A2 2025 on Julien Beamer), or gotten into it with a teammate (i.e., Detroit 2023 on Jordon Smith<\/a>). Despite being visibly frustrated with the situation, Anstie kept it professional in his post-race interview saying, “I know who I am racing against.”<\/p>\n

Monster Energy\/Pro Circuit Kawasaki’s Levi Kitchen<\/a> has had speed to burn through the first two rounds, but for the second week in a row, he found himself down in the first turn of the main event. Kitchen had a solid charge through the pack to get to fourth, but of the seven factory riders in the 250SX West Division, he is the only one yet to land on the podium. Fortunately for Levi, the results throughout the class have been so all over the place that he sits just nine points off the championship lead. Like his buddy Chase Sexton<\/a>, Kitchen needs to turn his speed into results before it’s too late.<\/p>\n

Cameron McAdoo<\/a>‘s A1 may not have gone to plan, but he bounced back in a huge way, finishing second in San Diego. McAdoo’s ability to miss a significant amount of time and return as an immediate podium guy is truly impressive and speaks volumes to just how much determination and self-belief he has. He touched on that in an emotional podium speech, saying, “I always pride myself in being able to come back and respond after a long time off the bike, and tonight was pretty special.” Cameron may have ridden with a little extra chip on his shoulder this weekend after getting put in the B group for qualifying. Being a three-digit guy in 250 B group probably didn’t sit well with him, but he had the last laugh at that standing up on the podium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monster Energy Yamaha Star Racing’s Haiden Deegan stole the show in the 250 class, but not for all…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[65682,74,76,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-143021","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-2026-supercross2026-supermotocross-world-championship-racer-x-motocross-magazine-supercross-dirt-bike-mx-racerx-illustrated-dirtbike-motorcycle-racing-freestyle-video-news","9":"tag-san-diego","10":"tag-san-diego-headlines","11":"tag-san-diego-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143021","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=143021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}