AMA SX race recaps, results and points standings from A2

2023 AMA Supercross Championship

Round Three – Angel Stadium, Anaheim II, California

Jett Lawrence was fastest in qualifying, and set the fastest laps in all three Mains overnight when Monster Energy Supercross returned to Anaheim for the A2 Triple Crown, but it was Yamaha’s Levi Kitchen that won the overall after Jett made mistakes in the two opening races.

Kitchen won the Triple Crown despite not winning any of the three bouts, the 21-year-old carding 4-2-2 results to best Jett’s 3-6-1.  Stilez Robertson made it two Yamaha men on the podium.

Despite not taking the outright win Jett Lawrence still increased his 250 West Championship lead from six-points to 16-points.  Cameron McAdoo moves up to second in the championship chase while RJ Hampshire slips to third a singe point behind McAdoo.

250 Main One

RJ Hampshire took the holeshot after Levi Kitchen ran into turn one a little too wide which allowed the Husqvarna man to sweep under him to take the early lead. Jett Lawrence was third ahead of Mitch Oldenburg, Pierce Brown and Stilez Robertson.

Lawrence moved past Kitchen for second place two-minutes into the opening bout and at this early juncture Hampshire led that pair by two-seconds. Jett had that gap down to almost nothing less than a minute later but then the championship leader went down and by the time he was up and running again he had been shuffled down to eighth place behind Cameron McAdoo.

Pierce Brown moved up to second place, pushing Kitchen down to third place just before half-race distance.

Jett Lawrence was back up to fifth by the halfway point before then working his way past Mitch Oldenburg and Levi Kitchen to claim third place at the flag.

RJ Hampshire the clear victor after backing things off markedly on the final lap, Pierce Brown just holding on to second place from a charging Jett Lawrence.

250 Main One Results

250 Main Two

Cameron McAdoo and Phil Nicoletti led the field around turn one while Jett Lawrence was eighth off the start but then fell before the end of lap one and was demoted down to 20th place.

Three-minutes into the race 33-year-old Nicoletti enjoyed a six-second lead over Stilez Robertson, Max Vohland was third and Levi Kitchen fourth. Vohland then moved up to second place just as race one winner RJ Hampshire went down hard after his hand came off the bars. Moments later Pierce Brown then got crossed up and went down in the whoops.

Max Vohland went down while in second place with just over three-minutes left on the shot clock. That allowed Stilez Robertson through to that second place and Levi Kitchen up to third. Jett Lawrence was now up to tenth.

Stilez Robertson managed to chase down and pass Nicoletti for the lead three laps from the end and Levi Kitchen pushed Nicoletti further back to third place as they started the penultimate lap and that was how they finished, Robertson the winner ahead of Kitchen and Nicoletti.

Jett Lawrence got the better of Vohland and McAdoo on the final lap to take a sixth place finish.

250 Main Two Results

250 Main Three

Jett Lawrence scored the holeshot in the final bout of the night ahead of Levi Kitchen, Josh Varize, Max Vohland and Stilez Robertson.

Kitchen stuck with Lawrence over the opening couple of laps but the Aussie teenager eventually started pulling away from Kitchen and eventually took the chequered flag more than 12-seconds ahead of Kitchen.

Stilez Robertson was a further eight-seconds back in third place ahead of Max Vohland and Cameron McAdoo.

250 Main Three Results

250 Round Points

250 Championship Points

250 Qualifying Results

450 Main One

Chase Sexton scored the holeshot in the opening bout of the night ahead of Ken Roczen, Adam Cianciarulo and Dylan Ferrandis while championship leader Eli Tomac had to work his way past Christian Craig and Justin Barcia on the opening lap to move up to fifth.

Ken Roczen was aggressive on the opening laps in his quest to challenge Sexton but the Honda man had the speed to eventually start stretching away from the German.  Sexton taking the victory by five-seconds at the chequered flag.

Eli Tomac worked his way through to third place ahead of Dylan Ferrandis and Jason Anderson.

Cooper Webb had been running fifth but a coming together with Jason Anderson on the final lap left the KTM man on the deck. Webb recovering to finish seventh.

450 Main One Results

450 Main Two

Cooper Webb and Eli Tomac came together on the run towards turn one as the second 450 bout got underway as Jason Anderson led Ken Roczen and Aaron Plessinger on the opening lap.

Chase Sexton was fourth early on while Webb and Tomac were running seventh and eighth. That pair were soon up to fourth and fifth while Sexton was pushed back to eighth after making a mistake. Aaron Plessinger also made a mistake which saw him slip from third back to eighth.

Jason Anderson had a two-second buffer over Ken Roczen by the halfway point of the race. Tomac was third, Webb fourth and Chase Sexton back up to fifth at that same juncture.

Tomac eventually chased down and passed Ken Rozcen for second place, the pair had a great battle before Roczen lost the rear and briefly ran off the track which allowed Tomac to sweep past into that second position.  However, Tomac failed to get on terms with Jason Anderson, the Kawasaki man taking the chequered flag 1.6-seconds ahead of the defending champ.

Roczen managed to hold off Cooper Webb to take the final step on the rostrum. Chase Sexton fifth ahead of Dylan Ferrandis.

450 Main Two Results

450 Main Three

Jason Anderson scored the holeshot ahead of Cooper Webb, Chase Sexton and Eli Tomac in the final bout of the night.  Ken Roczen got squeezed on the run to turn one which left the German with some work to do if he was to challenge Tomac, Sexton and Anderson for the round victory.

Eli Tomac was working hard to get past Cooper Webb but the KTM man refused to relinquish that third position.  Tomac then made a mistake and landed on some tough blocks alongside the track after Webb ran him a little wider than he would have liked out of the previous turn which messed up his line to the up-ramp.

Chase Sexton eventually got the better of Jason Anderson and managed to pull away from the Kawasaki man, who was being chased hard by Cooper Webb.

Anderson made a mistake with just over two-minutes left on the clock which allowed Webb to sweep on by and into that seconds position, but Sexton now had a five-second lead and that gap proved insurmountable, the Honda man going on to take the race and round victory despite backing things right off on the final lap.

Dylan Ferrandis and Ken Roczen both chased Anderson hard in the dying stages to try and steal that third place from the Kawasaki man but Anderson held on, while Roczen got the better of Ferrandis for fourth.

Jason Anderson took second outright off the back of 5-1-3 results while Ken Roczen rounded out the overall podium with 2-3-4 scores ahead of Cooper Webb on 7-4-2 and Dylan Ferrandis who carded 4-6-5 results.

Eli Tomac recovered from his mistake to finish 13th giving him 3-2-13 results for the night, that final result pushing him down to sixth place overall. Tomac retains the championship lead on 69-points ahead of Chase Sexton and Cooper Webb who both tally 65-points. Ken Roczen is fourth on 58-points.

450 Main Three Results

450 Round Points

450 Championship Points

450 Qualifying Results