CLEVELAND, Ohio: Nate Thrasher won the second feature, finished second in Race 1, and fourth in the finale to score his first win of the 2026 season. He has now won a race in all six seasons he has competed professionally.
In his second professional start, Landen Gordon finished second overall with results of fourth, second, and second.
In the post race media scrum, Gordon was non-plussed, but admitted that the reality had not yet settled in.
Cole Davies finished third overall after struggling through two the first two features and winning the third race. He finished fifth, fourth, and first. Davies survived two bad starts, including one in the second race that was invalidated by a crash involving Drew Adams.
Adams crash collected Davies and he was well down the order in 12th, but he got a much jump out of the gate on the restart and turned his good fortune into a top-five
Seth Hammaker earned the same number of points (10) as Davies after finishing first, third, and sixth, but lost third due to the tiebreaker. He was unable to take advantage of Davies misfortune and face elimination next week in his home state race in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania if he loses more than three additional points.
Daxton Bennick (1-3-6) rounded out the top five.
Davies left Cleveland with a 21-point advantage over Hammaker and could clinch the title next week.
Feature 1
Thrasher took the lead early in the first moto with Hammaker and Davies giving chase.
Davies moved into second halfway through the first feature.
With six minutes on the clock, Davies crashed and fell to sixth.
Hammaker took the lead from Thrasher with three and half minutes remaining.
Davies almost fell a second time.
Bennick slotted into third with drama up front.
Rookie Gordon was fourth.
Hammaker held on for the victory by 4.25 seconds over Thrasher.
Bennick finished third with Gordon fourth.
In the closing laps, Davies worked his way back inside the top five with a pass on Coty Schock.
Feature 2
Rain continued to fall between the first and second features. It was not yet a full mudder, but the dirt was getting heavy.
Thrasher earned a second strong start and Hammaker struggled in the opening laps.
Davies crashed again in Feature . He went down with Adams and fell outside the top 10.
Too much carnage on the first lap as Adams needed assistance from the Alpinestars Medical team. Adams was carted off the track.
There will be a complete restart. That gave Davies a second chance.
Thrasher got another great start over Gordon. This time, Davies got a strong start and settled into third.
Devin Simonson was also involved in the Lap 1 crash. He was fourth after the restart with Hammaker rounding out the top five.
Hammaker caught Davies on Lap 4. Davies may have some damage from the early crash.
On the next lap, Hammaker took third from Davies.
Simonson fell to fifth.
On Lap 9, Hammaker bobbled and allowed Davies to close the gap and pass.
Hammaker retook third two laps later. This was important for the overall.
Thrasher won the second feature over Gordon in his second professional race.
Hammaker held on for third with Davies in fourth.
Bennick rounded out the top five.
Through two features
Thrasher held the advantage by one point over Hammaker, three points to four.
Gordon was third with six points, in a position for the overall podium.
Bennick was fourth with eight points.
Davies was fifth (with nine points).
Overall results after two features
Feature 3
Davies finally got a strong start and led Feature 3.
Hammaker crashed in Turn 1. He remounted last, but moved into 10th in Lap 2.
Davies led by 1.4 seconds over Gordon on Lap 4; Hammaker up to seventh.
Bennick was third on Lap 6. Thrasher was fourth, but continued to hold the overall advantage as they ran.
Schock was fifth.
Davies won the third feature, but after suffering problems in the first two features, he was relegated to third overall.
Gordon finished second in the feature and overall.
Bennick was third in the final feature.
Fourth-place Thrasher and Simonson rounded out the top five.
That was enough for Thrasher to score the overall victory.
Hammaker just outside the top five in sixth in this feature.
