2025 Budds Creek 250 Qualification: Seth Hammaker fastest on final lap

By
Dan Beaver,

By
Dan Beaver

Published August 23, 2025 09:17 AM

MECHANICSVILLE, Maryland: Haiden Deegan played head games with Jo Shimoda in qualification. Early in the second session, Deegan looked over his shoulder in a slow section of the track and then revved hard to roost his closest Motocross rival.

CJ Bernard crashed hard in the second session and brought out a red flag while he was attended to by the Alpinestars medical crew.

The second session saw a lot of swaps of position with Julien Beaumer, Drew Adams, Seth Hammaker, Deegan, and Levi Kitchen taking a turn at the top of the board. The fastest Qualification 2 lap exchanged hands at least eight times.

That game of one-upmanship ensured that the fastest lap came from this session.

As time ran off the clock, Hammaker made the final lap count and took the fastest time of 1:54.901.

“It was a great last lap,” Hammaker said. “I put everything together and felt really good but had a couple of bobbles and was hit with some hooks in the ruts on that opening lap and finally put one together at the end.”

Adams ended second at 1:55.264.

Garrett Marchbanks (1:55.384) found the speed he lacked in Q1 and finished third overall.

Fourth-place Beaumer (1:55.415) and Shimoda (1:55.461) rounded out the top five in Q2.

Qualification 2 Results
Combined Qualification

Qualification 1

Deegan entered the round with the ability to clinch the championship with a finish of 15th or better in Moto 1 of the Budds Creek National, and was certainly not lacking in speed. He topped the chart in the first qualification session with a time of 1:55.996. He was 1.108 seconds faster than the field.

Hammaker (1:57.102) showed early speed after scoring his second top-five in three rounds last week at Unadilla.

Ryder DiFrancesco (1:57.810) was third in the session. He has three top-10s in 2025 and showed recent improvement.

Beaumer (1:58.214) and Tom Vialle (1:58.474) completed the top five.

One of the storylines this week was the battle between Vialle and Marchbanks for the third seed entering the SuperMotocross Playoffs. Marchbanks (1:59.382) will need to find speed in the second session because he was 13th in Q1.

Qualification 1 Results