{"id":175040,"date":"2026-02-22T03:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T03:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/175040\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T03:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T03:51:08","slug":"pierce-brown-wins-250-east-opener-in-arlington-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/175040\/","title":{"rendered":"Pierce Brown wins 250 East opener in Arlington, Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

ARLINGTON, Texas: Pierce Brown took the lead from Jo Shimoda early in the 250 East feature at AT&T Stadium and held on for the victory. This was Brown\u2019s first Supercross victory.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t even know where to start,\u201d Brown told Peacock\u2019s Jason Thomas. \u201cThere were so many nights, I didn\u2019t think this was possible. Missing a year, especially with the injury I had. That\u2019s a scary thing to come back from.\u201d<\/p>\n

He beat Shimoda to the checkers by 2.415 seconds as the SuperMotocross World Champion finished second.<\/p>\n

“”The red light came on for some reason,\u201d Shimoda explained his hiccup to Will Christien. \u201cSo I brake-checked since you\u2019re not supposed to jump. I\u2019m not sure what happened there. We will review it, but overall it was a good night for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Daxton Bennick settled into third early and maintained that position for the remainder of the race.<\/p>\n

Fourth-place Seth Hammaker and Cole Davies rounded out the top five.<\/p>\n

Davies had to overcome a Turn 1 crash that mired him deep in the field before he made the dramatic comeback.<\/p>\n

Hammaker was also slowed in the incident, but managed to keep his bike upright.<\/p>\n

In-Race Notes<\/p>\n

Big Pileup in Turn 1, but everyone gets up and remounts.<\/p>\n

Coty Schock, Cole Davies, Caden Dudney, and Nate Thrasher were all involved.<\/p>\n

Marshall Weltin was unable to continue.<\/p>\n

Jo Shimoda and Pierce Brown survived Turn 1 in first and second.<\/p>\n

Daxton Bennick slotted into third.<\/p>\n

Jalek Swoll went down on Lap 3 and was slow to rise. He dealt with injury in 2025.<\/p>\n

Brown took the lead on Lap 5 after Shimoda seemed to stall. Shimoda has a three second lead at the time.<\/p>\n

The top five settle into a rhythm through the next four laps. Drew Adams was fifth.<\/p>\n

Shimoda challenged midway through, but Brown rallies and develops a one-second gap on Lap 11.<\/p>\n

Davies recovered from his Turn 1 crash to settle into sixth with four minutes on the clock.<\/p>\n

Davies moved into fifth on Lap 14, pushing Adams back to sixth.<\/p>\n

Cullin Park crashed at the end of the whoops while racing for sixth. He dropped to ninth.<\/p>\n

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\"SX<\/p>\n

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The top nine in each heat moves directly into the Main Event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas: Pierce Brown took the lead from Jo Shimoda early in the 250 East feature at AT&T…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":["post-175040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}