Jo Shimoda swept the RedBud Nationals motos in Buchanan, Michigan, in a weekend with the Honda HRC president in attendance. He joined Haiden Deegan and Chance Hymas both as overall winners and sweepers of a National.
Shimoda got strong starts in both motos, but he was forced to show patience in the second race after Jalek Swoll took the early lead.
“I just needed the starts,” Shimoda told Peacock’s Jason Thomas. “My riding has not been that bad, I just needed get ahead of everyone and try. This week, we tried new mapping on the start and it worked out really good.”
After earning a perfect 50 points, Shimoda narrowed the championship points gap to 38.
Swoll lost second to Haiden Deegan after time ran off the clock and two laps where left to contend. But with his sixth-place finish in the first race, Swoll held onto second overall.
“I saw a lot of comments about how it was a waste of money when I got re-signed,” Swoll told Will Christien. “I wonder if I’m still a waste of money?
“I was riding the best I ever had before I had my Achilles injury and I was ready to be a dog in Supercross. It sucks that I couldn’t do it there, but to come back and do it in only my third race back from my Achilles. From the couch to on the box for Triumph, it’s pretty surreal.”
Michael Mosiman came so close to getting on the box last week. At RedBud, he rounded out the podium with fourth-place finishes in both races. Swoll and Mosiman tied in points, with the overall determined by the tiebreaker.
“I put in a lot of work,” Mosiman said. “A lot of hours. Late nights, early mornings. A lot of sweat, blood, and tears. It’s been the whole thing. Stoked to do it here.”
Mosiman finished fourth overall last week in Southwick after experiencing a mechanical failure.
Mikkel Haarup was fourth overall with an 8-5, giving Triumph Racing two top-fives.
Haiden Deegan overcame his Moto 1 problems to finish second in Moto 2 and fifth overall.
“Every athlete has to go through pain; it is what it is,” Deegan said after Moto 2. “I had to punch myself in the head in the second moto.”
In Race Notes
Swoll and Jordon Smith got great starts to put Triumph at the head of the pack
Levi Kitchen was also running up front before riding off track.
Meanwhile Deegan got another poor start in Moto 2.
Smith has a violent excursion off the racing line, which elevated Moto 1 winner Jo Shimoda into second.
Deegan was sixth on Lap 4.
On Lap 5, Michael Mosiman moved into second. Swoll began to fade, but this is only his third race back from an Achilles tendon injury.
Mosiman and Tom Vialle came together on the start, which sent Vialle off course.
At the halfway mark, Shimoda led Mosiman (second), Swoll (third), Ryder DiFrancesco (fourth), and Deegan (fifth).
DiFrancesco immediately made a mistake and fell to seventh, which moved Deegan to fourth.
Haarup took the fifth position.
Shimoda was in the zone and led Mosiman by 12 seconds with eight minutes on the clock.
With six minutes to go, Maximus Vohland moved up to sixth but the fastest qualifier, Ryder DiFrancesco, was in contact.
DiFrancesco got the position one lap later.
Mosiman dropped to third and Deegan closed in on his back wheel.
Deegan took second as time ran off the clock. This is a moral victory for the championship points leader.
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