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Aaron Plessinger Wins an Absolute Foxborough Mudder

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Foxborough, Mass. (April 6, 2025) Red Bull KTM’s Aaron Plessinger wins the muddiest race in recent supercross racing history! The rain poured, and the mud got thicker than ever. He mentioned during the post-race conference about how nervous he was before the gate drop, not knowing what was going to happen in the race, but he ended up getting a good start and managing the whole race with Quadlock Honda Racing’s Shane McElrath behind him. McElrath was impressive the whole race, earned his career-first heat race win, and earned his first career-first podium for second place.

But it was Monster Energy Star Racing Yamaha rider Cooper Webb who surprised everyone as he made some late race moves when from position seven he made his way to third place, passing Chase Sexton and Ken Roczen during the last two laps. “In these kinds of conditions you don’t know what can happen. It’s so stressful when you’re leading the championship. You’re hoping your motorcycle makes it first of all, and then just getting into the Main you’re like, ‘All right I can breathe a little bit.’ These are bummer conditions. Nobody truly, I don’t think, wants to race in this unless you’re [Aaron Plessinger], maybe…. [Early on] I had a great pace… then I get excited, and I fall. So, I get up, and you kind of go into panic mode, and then you fall again. So, I fell twice and finally was like, ‘All right, I’m going to just calm down, I’ll take the points loss, but let’s minimize the points, let’s at least get as far up as we can.’ And that’s what happened. I shut my brain off and it’s crazy what happens. You start sending it, you start finding a flow. I don’t know what happened the last lap, I just jumped all the jumps, like my buddy says. It was cool. I’m stoked to be up here on the podium again.” – Cooper Webb
   
In 250 East SX Class racing, Honda’s Chance Hymas moved into the lead half way into the 8minutes plus one lap Main Event. Rounding up inside the podium were Phoenix Racing Honda’s Cullin Park and Dirtb Bike Depot’s Gage Linville who both earned their first career podium. “This means so much to me. We’ve been working our butts off to get here. I took a step back this week and just tried to appreciate where I’m at. I wasn’t even planning on racing [a previous round] Tampa, with my knee [injury]. And just to be in this position – I know these are completely different circumstances, but you know, to finish first you’ve got to finish, first. I’m so excited to have the team behind me; they’ve been working their butts off and they’ve been believing in me since Day 1. I can’t thank those guys enough. And thank you to the fans for sticking it out in the rain… [regarding his outside gate pick] Sometimes you’ve got to take chances and right now I’ve got nothing to lose. Sometimes you take a shot like that and it doesn’t work, sometimes it works; and for me I’d say it worked. I feel like, at our level, everything’s so close you’ve got to be willing to take chances like that.” – Chance Hymas “I’ll tell you what, I was getting a little too excited there with two laps to go. Something about Foxborough and just ripping some good starts. I nailed the start and [Trainer] Heath Harrison [had] told me, ‘You get a start, you ride a good first few laps, and you’ve got a podium,’ and honestly I kind of half believed him. And then I ripped a start and I said [to myself], ‘I’ve got this. I’m in the hunt tonight.’ I just stuck to my laps… My mechanic, with two laps to go, [signaled] ‘Just bring it home.’ Those were probably the two slowest laps I’ve ever done in my career, and they got the job done.” – Cullin Park “I’m pretty speechless right now. I don’t even have words. As a kid you always dream for this moment and for it to come true is just unreal. I’m just really speechless right now.” – Gage Linville  

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