Pro Motocross makes annual visit to High Point this weekend
For the 48th consecutive year, the top motocross riders in the world will come to Mount Morris to test themselves at High Point Raceway on Father’s Day weekend.
The 2025 edition of the High Point National is Saturday.
It’s been a tradition on the schedule since 1977 and the Greene County track is one of the popular stops on the Pro Motocross Championship tour.
Affectionately known as the “Country Club of Motocross,” due to its undulating layout with vibrant green grass contrasted by the reddish-brown color of the racing surface, High Point Raceway provides a natural amphitheater setting with plenty of good viewing points.
The elevation changes provide for huge jumps and some of the most technical sequences riders will see this season.
The High Point National is Round 4 of 11 for the summer.
Each National consists of two motos for the 450 class and the 250 class. The motos are 30 minutes-plus two laps. The best combined finisher in both motos is the overall winner.
Two-time Pro Motocross champion Jett Lawrence is off to an excellent start once again in the 450’s. The Australian has won the overall moto each of the first three rounds. He’s finished first in all but one moto, where he was third. Lawrence, a Honda factory rider, had a clean sweep at Thunder Valley in Colorado last Saturday.
He’s the defending champion of the High Point National.
Eli Tomac, a two-time 450 motocross champ, is the only other rider to win a moto this season.
Lawrence has a 25-point lead on Tomac in the points standings. Aaron Plessinger is in third place, Justin Cooper is in fourth and Hunter Lawrence, Jett’s older brother, is fifth.
2025 Supercross champion Cooper Webb has had a slow start in the outdoor season. He sits seventh in points.
Another 450 rider of note participating this weekend is Spanish World Champion Jorge Prado. He’s eighth in the point standings.
Chase Sexton, last year’s series champion, was injured in a crash in the season opener at the Fox Raceway National in California and hasn’t raced since.
The 250 class has been led by defending series champion Haiden Deegan in the early going.
Deegan is the son of X games legend Brian Deegan and younger brother of NASCAR Xfinity Series driver Hailie Deegan.
Coming off a 250 West championship in Supercross, Deegan has rolled the momentum over to the outdoor season. The Yamaha factory rider has been the overall moto winner in two of the three rounds, but did not win last week at Thunder Valley.
Chance Hymas, a Honda factory rider, swept both motos at Thunder Valley to win the overall. Deegan finished second in each moto.
Deegan holds a 25-point advantage over Japanese rider Jo Shimoda in the standings. Garrett Marchbanks is third, 45 points back. Hymas is fourth and Levi Kitchen sits fifth.
Last year’s overall winner at High Point, Ty Masterpool, is eight in the points standings.
Gavin Towers, a Venetia native, is the lone rider from Washington County participating this weekend. He’s racing with Phoenix Racing with factory support from Honda in the 250 class.
Comprised by Jerin Steele