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Welcome to the Racer X Race Day Feed, coming to you from RedBud in Buchanan, Michigan for the fifth round of the 2022 Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship. From practice reports to the blow-by-blow from today's racing, you’ll find it all right here. Updates are posted in chronological order, so be sure to scroll down for the latest info. For even more updates be sure to follow us on Twitter, @Racerxonline.

Welcome to REDBUDDDDDDD in Buchanan, Michigan where we are set for a great day of racing. It’s the Fourth of July weekend and fans are going to be coming out in full force to line the fences at this iconic racetrack. Weather figures to be just about perfect today with a high expected to be in the low-80s with a light cloud cover rolling in throughout the day.

As it is American Independence Day on Monday, teams and riders have once again gone all out with USA themed kits here today. Expect to see a lot of red, white, and blue here with some cool mid-90’s MXoN themed Honda HRC machines, stars and stripes line Monster Energy Yamaha Star Racing bikes, and much more.

We’re coming off the first off weekend of the 2022 Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship as the first four rounds completed at High Point two weeks ago. Now we have another four-race run starting today and ending in three weeks at Washougal in Washington. This middle stretch of the championship could prove critical, especially in the hyper-competitive 450 class. With four different winners through the first four rounds, it’s anyone’s guess who will take this series and run with it. The man on top right now is Honda HRC’s Chase Sexton and this race is a bit of a home one for the Illinois native. Perhaps the home field advantage is the perfect opportunity for Sexton to become the first two-time winner of 2022.

In the 250 class, it’s been a Lawrence brothers show as reigning champion Jett Lawrence has a 12-point lead over elder brother Hunter. The duo even went head-to-head for nearly the entire second moto at High Point two weeks to go. Hunter has slowly started to get the ball rolling and seemed rather disappointed his brother beat him to the overall at High Point so perhaps there’s some fireworks to be had for the Australians.

We’re about 40 minutes out from qualifying starting and you can watch the second qualifying sessions in a few hours. Below is a full layout of the broadcast schedule today. Let’s go racing!

The 450 class started the day off as bikes roared to life at RedBud. The track was definitely tilled deep in many sections including before LaRocco’s Leap which made it rather difficult to get the tricky triple. Jason Anderson was the first person to launch the Leap, but most riders elected not to do it as the turn before was pretty muddy still.

Eli Tomac was the first person to lay down hot laps as he shot to the top of the board with a 2:05 and then a 2:04. Chase Sexton quickly responded with a 2:03.718 but that time wouldn’t hold either. The final lap of the session saw not only Eli Tomac leapfrog Sexton, but Monster Energy Kawasaki’s Joey Savatgy did as well. Tomac’s time of a 2:02.784 was plenty enough for him to take the top time in Q1.

In the 250 class, Jo Shimoda and Hunter Lawrence got out front of the pack and began exchanging the top time. Lawrence had it at first, but Shimoda snagged the top spot with a hot lap on his third lap around the track. That time would hold up for a while before Jett Lawrence finally poked his head to the top of the board with a 2:06.051.

Unfortunately, Minnesota’s Cameron Skaalerud crashed before the finish line jump and appeared to injure his leg. That brought out the red flag which halted the sessions with three minutes to go. Skaalerud was eventually carted off with a splint on his leg.

When the session was restarted, riders only got one more flying lap which many riders used to lower their times. Jett Lawrence struggled on his lone lap and dropped down to seventh while Hunter Lawrence shot to the top of the board with a 2:03.753. So, the elder Lawrence takes Q1 in the 250 class.

As the second sessions began, the heat started to bear down on the RedBud facility. With the sun coming through the clouds, the track also was drying up quickly. With a drier track and the corner before the Leap cleaned up a little bit, a decent amount of the 450A group was able to clear LaRocco’s Leap this time around.

However, the track had actually slowed down from the morning session as the track seemed to be getting quite rough from the full lineups in both classes today. Jason Anderson would go fastest on a 2:03.505 but that was still almost a whole second slower than Eli Tomac’s time from the first session. Tomac was third this time in the second session with a 2:04.214 but he will still go to the gate with first pick as his first session time held up to put him P1 in qualifying for the day.

In the 250 class, the dried-out track seemed to help the option of 250 riders doing LaRocco’s Leap but not enough to do it consistently. A handful of guys tried it and made it, but not many seemed to put it into one of their hot laps as the inside line remained the dominant option.

Jalek Swoll missed a healthy portion of the second qualifying session as the Rockstar Energy Husqvarna team did a shock change on Swoll’s bike as the session went on. They eventually got it taken care of and Swoll made it back out there, but he was only able to run a couple laps and would ultimately end up 15th.

The fastest time of the session was also the fastest time of the day for the 250 class, and it came from Monster Energy/Pro Circuit Kawasaki’s Jo Shimoda. Shimoda put down a 2:03.742 around the halfway mark of the session and the time was good enough to hold on despite Jett Lawrence running a late hot lap. So, it’s Shimoda as the fastest qualifier in the 250 class by just a nose over Hunter Lawrence’s 2:03.753 from the first session.

The gates dropped on the opening moto of the day as 450 Moto 1 launched into turn one. Eli Tomac fired out of the gate and controlled it all the way through the first corner to grab the holeshot ahead of Joey Savatgy and Ken Roczen.

Jason Anderson, Alex Martin, and Shane McElrath all went down in the first turn and would end up well down the order. Anderson made quick work to get going again and was already up to points paying positions within the first 10 minutes of the moto.

Tomac was slowing pulling away at the front, but Savatgy was coming with him. Roczen was losing touch with the Monster Energy Kawasaki rider and slipping back to battles behind him which included Justin Barcia and championship leader Chase Sexton. Sexton had been recovering from about a seventh place start and was working his way up to Barcia in fourth.

Sexton made the pass stick as the race approached the halfway point and immediately began gapping Barcia and closing in on Roczen ahead. Suddenly, Barcia fell and slipped from fifth back to eighth with Aaron Plessinger closing in. Barcia’s bike seemed to be a bit tweaked, and it hampered him as the moto continued to go on.

The battle for third heated up but then Sexton made a mistake and lost several seconds to Roczen. Within a few laps though, Sexton was back onto Roczen for second place and made the pass stick with a nice move taking the inside line away before LaRocco’s Leap.

Firepower Honda’s Max Anstie was having a great first moto battling with Christian Craig and then Ryan Dungey inside of the top 10 when he pulled off the track with an issue. He later revealed that he just suffered a bike issue and hoped to have it sorted out by the second moto.

With the time left in the moto starting to wind down, Chase Sexton was on a mission to catch Joey Savatgy for second place and caught him with about three minutes to go. He tried the same pass that he made on this teammate Ken Roczen, but Savatgy was just slightly too quick for Sexton to shut the door.

Before they made it back around in the next lap though, Sexton was able to use the sand rollers to outdrive Savatgy and make a smooth pass to the inside. By the time he got into second place though, Tomac had pulled out a 10 second advantage and it seemed like the #3 machine was on cruise control out front as the two-lap card was displayed.

Despite Tomac even making a big bobble in the off-camber, he had plenty of time in hand to cruise to the first moto victory ahead of Chase Sexton, Joey Savatgy, Ken Roczen, and Christian Craig.

Hunter Lawrence shot out to the holeshot in the first 250 class moto of the day and led early on from Jo Shimoda and Jett Lawrence. Stilez Robertson was right in tow with them and the front four quickly began to pull away from the rest of the field.

Ryder DiFrancesco had a rude awakening to Pro Motocross when he fell in the second corner and then fell again a few corners after that. Fortunately for him, it was all uphill from there as he climbed up into the points just beyond the halfway point of the moto and would keep charging forward.

The battle out front was incredible for nearly the entire moto, and it started with Jett Lawrence sneaking up and passing Jo Shimoda for second. For several laps, it seemed like Shimoda was nearly going to get Jett back for second only for Jett to then pull ahead and close in on his brother for the lead.

Jett finally made the pass stick on Hunter for the lead, and it seemed like he may take off from there. But Hunter did not want to let him go and Shimoda didn’t want to let Hunter get away either. What resulted was the three riders remaining nose to tail for nearly 20 minutes as they battled for the lead.

Then the series flipped in the blink of an eye as Jett Lawrence’s bike started smoking while leading the race. It seemed to only be minor at the beginning, but it started to smoke severely and then went up in smoke just moments after Jett landed a big uphill triple. Jett slowly rolled off the track just shaking his head as Hunter Lawrence and Jo Shimoda flew by. It would be a DNF and no points for Jett Lawrence as the Honda HRC team went right to work on an engine change while Jett took the long walk back to the pits.

That left Hunter Lawrence and Jo Shimoda to battle it out for the win and battle they did. Shimoda kept trying and trying to make a pass for the lead, but Hunter was resilient in holding him back. The dam finally burst open with three minutes to go as Shimoda made a sleek pass on Hunter Lawrence and took the lead.

Troy Lee Designs/Red Bull/GasGas’ Pierce Brown had a late crash in the moto and would need to be carted off. No update at this time on his condition.

Shimoda then led with three laps to go but Hunter Lawrence was remaining right in behind him. In the last two laps, Shimoda was able to slowly inch away and take home an emphatic first career moto victory. Hunter Lawrence followed through in second ahead of Stilez Robertson, RJ Hampshire, and Seth Hammaker.

The start of the second 450 class moto saw Justin Barcia use a crafty inside starting gate to hold the inside line and grab the holeshot. He had Eli Tomac and Ken Roczen right on his heels as they dropped down into the infield for the first time.

Roczen wasted little time to sneak around Tomac for second and then used the outside line entering the sand rollers to take the lead before the first lap is done. Tomac was keen to keep pace with Roczen out front and not let the German get away, so Tomac made a pass on Barcia for second place just a couple laps in and the two former series champions took off at the front.

The battle behind them intensified when Ryan Dungey closed on Justin Barcia for third place. Dungey looked to nearly make the pass on a couple of occasions only for Barcia to slam the door shut each time. Dungey almost landed off the track on the back tabletop and the loss of momentum allowed Jason Anderson and then Chase Sexton to get by the #5.

Then, Anderson tucked his front wheel coming into the first turn just moments later and fell. Sexton was unable to avoid Anderson as he fell to the ground with the Monster Energy Kawasaki rider as well. Sexton picked it up right away still behind Dungey whereas Anderson slipped behind Christian Craig and his teammate Joey Savatgy.

From that point onward, Sexton went on a tear as he ripped up right back to the rear tire of Dungey and passed him before going to pass Justin Barcia on the next lap. He continued to march forward and would catch his teammate Ken Roczen with about eight minutes left in the moto.

Roczen fought Sexton hard, but it would not be enough as Sexton eventually found a way around his teammate to get into second place. At the time, it seemed like Sexton had the pace to potentially catch up to Tomac out front. But quickly Tomac started to turn up the intensity as well and maintained the gap to Sexton behind him.

Things really started to come unglued for Roczen late in the moto as Barcia, Dungey, Jason Anderson, and Christian Craig all caught and passed him in the matter of just a few laps. That flipped the overall podium around as Barcia moved into position to nab the final step of the podium with a third-place finish in the second moto.

Jason Anderson was charging hard late and got Ryan Dungey with a couple laps to go. Anderson would be third overall if he could go get Barcia ahead of him but would fall just short in the end as Barcia held on for third.

Eli Tomac completed the 1-1 sweep to win the RedBud National as he led home Chase Sexton who grabbed second overall with a 2-2 performance. Tomac gained six points in the championship on the day as a result of his overall sweep.

Ryder DiFrancesco shot out to the holeshot in the final 250 class moto of the day. It wouldn’t last long for the debutant though as his teammate Seth Hammaker took the lead away from him in the second turn of the race. That didn’t last long either as Hammaker then went over the bars huge coming out of the fourth corner.

All of that chaos promoted Ty Masterpool into the race lead. Masterpool was able to lead the first three whole laps of the race before Hunter Lawrence snuck up and made a pass on him in the off camber. Even still, Masterpool would hold onto second for some time before Jett Lawrence then came through as well.

More chaos still was to come on the first lap of the race though as Justin Cooper went down halfway through the first lap and several riders piled into him. Jo Shimoda and RJ Hampshire were two of the riders who ended up in the pileup and it left all of them way down the order.

The Lawrence brothers started to battle for the race lead as Jett was a bit fresher from the first moto DNF. He caught his brother and took a few laps to plan out a pass but made it happen and took off from there to well over 15 seconds of a lead from Hunter.

The real story became the charge of Shimoda as he was coming from outside of the top 30 and marching his way through the top 10. With Hunter Lawrence now shuffled back to second, if Shimoda could somehow get into third place, he would win the overall with 1-3 scores.

He and Levi Kitchen both caught Ty Masterpool for third place with about three minutes remaining in the moto. Kitchen quickly got around Masterpool and the job was left for Shimoda to make a quick move on Masterpool as well. Within a lap, he was through and working on closing up to Kitchen.

The duo battled for a couple laps before Shimoda made the pass around the outside of the tricky double out of the fourth corner to take third place in the moto. That would be enough to win the overall at the end of the day if the positions would remain the same.

They ultimately would as Jett Lawrence rebounded from his DNF to win the second moto at RedBud from his brother Hunter and Jo Shimoda. For Jo Shimoda, it would be his first career overall victory and he was beyond excited about it all. Hunter Lawrence now takes over the championship lead by seven points as well.