{"id":176138,"date":"2026-04-25T23:36:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T23:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/176138\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T23:36:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T23:36:20","slug":"nicholas-romano-philadelphia-supercross-250-heat-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/176138\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicholas Romano Philadelphia Supercross 250 Heat 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania: Nicholas Romano scored his first heat race victory in Heat 1. He put his bike in the front of the field and did not have to deal with muddy goggles.<\/p>\n<p>Luca Marsalisi scored a solid second-place finish.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Cole Davies started the heat in sixth before climbing onto the bottom rung of the podium.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/motor-sports\/news\/2026-round-15-philadelphia-250-qualification-updates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"SX 2026 Rd 13 Nashville 250 Seth Hammaker interview NBC Microphone.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/8d0372716c9b4d49ce60aaaa4c621b2d.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SX 2026 Rd 13 Nashville 250 Seth Hammaker interview NBC Microphone.jpg<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/motor-sports\/news\/2026-round-15-philadelphia-250-qualification-updates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Seth Hammaker paces Philadelphia in hometown race;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Seth Hammaker paces Philadelphia in hometown race&quot;}\">Seth Hammaker paces Philadelphia in hometown race<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">With rain in the forecast later today, qualification takes on added significance.<\/p>\n<p>Heat 1<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Romano got the early jump. This will keep his goggles clear of mud for now.<\/p>\n<p>Last week&#8217;s overall winner, Nate Thrasher, is cautiously giving chase. He is five seconds down on Lap 3.<\/p>\n<p>Luca Marsalisi slotted into third.<\/p>\n<p>Cole Davies got a poor start and was outside the top five in sixth, but the most important factor is to stay out of trouble.<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly, Coty Schock was on the outside looking in until Lap 4. And as soon as he cracked the top nine, he lost the position again.<\/p>\n<p>Thrasher crash on Lap 5 with time running off the clock. He lost a position while picking his bike off the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Davies moved up to fourth on the white flag lap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania: Nicholas Romano scored his first heat race victory in Heat 1. He put his bike in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[78840,32817,78842,78839,28,69,71,70,78841],"class_list":{"0":"post-176138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-cole-davies","9":"tag-heat","10":"tag-nate-thrasher","11":"tag-nicholas-romano","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","15":"tag-philadelphia-news","16":"tag-romano"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}