2025 St Louis SuperMotocross 250 Qualification: Jo Shimoda narrowly leads Haiden Deegan in Q1
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Haiden Deegan and Jo Shimoda enter the weekend as the top two riders in the SuperMotocross World Championship as Round 2 at The Dome at America's Center in St, Louis, Missouri, offers double points.
Qualification 1
Jo Shimoda cannot afford to allow Haiden Deegan to stretch his points' advantage. More importantly, he cannot allow the two-time defending champion to believe he is unbeatable.
Shimoda posted the fastest lap in the first qualification session with a lap of 1:13.351, but that was only 0.070 seconds faster than his principal rival.
Deegan (1:13.421) does not always show his potential in qualification, so the close proximity to the leader is a mental victory.
Nate Thrasher (1:13.515) was another 0.094 seconds behind Deegan and with Qualification 2 still on the horizon, he has a shot at improving and scoring the overall fastest time.
Fourth-place Cole Davies (1:13.861) and Ryder DiFrancesco (1:13.892) rounded out the top five. The five fastest riders were separated by a little more than one-half second (0.541).
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