{"id":22004,"date":"2025-06-02T17:55:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T17:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/beast-mode-eli-tomac-wins-hangtown-moto-his-first-victory-in-1000-days\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T04:10:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:10:22","slug":"beast-mode-eli-tomac-wins-hangtown-moto-his-first-victory-in-1000-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/beast-mode-eli-tomac-wins-hangtown-moto-his-first-victory-in-1000-days\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Beast mode\u2019 Eli Tomac wins Hangtown moto, his first victory in 1,000 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=095c214c-a58f-53e4-aefb-2e139ae7bcb1&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1618\" height=\"905\" alt=\"Eli Tomac won the first race of Round 2 of Motocross at Hangtown. (Screen capture via Pro Motocross YouTube)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Eli Tomac won the first race of Round 2 of Motocross at Hangtown. (Screen capture via Pro Motocross YouTube)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVintage beast mode\u201d Eli Tomac placed first in the first Motocross 450SX race at Hangtown in Rancho Cordova on Sunday, marking his first moto win in 1,000 days.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the exciting win in the first race, Tomac placed ninth in the second race, putting him in fourth overall for the day.<\/p>\n<p>In the first race, a \u201crare\u201d bad start for Jett and Hunter Lawrence allowed Aaron Plessinger to claim the hole shot. Plessinger led for the whole race until he end, when Tomac passed him for first with two laps to go. Tomac placed first, followed by Plessinger in second and Jett Lawrence in third.<\/p>\n<p>Commentators spoke of Tomac\u2019s charge for the win, saying, \u201cHe looked refreshed doing it, it was good to see Beast Mode out front.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They noted that it was his first motocross win in 1,000 days: \u201cHe missed so much \u2026 with injury, but you wouldn\u2019t know it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the second race, Tomac got bumped at the start, causing him to round the first turn in last place. Jett Lawrence claimed the hole shot.<\/p>\n<p>Though Plessinger didn\u2019t have the best start, he was able to get around Webb to chase after third place Hunter, Lawrence, whom he eventually passed. Tomac continued to work his way through the pack from \u201cdead last.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhoever Eli got close to, he was able to blitz them,\u201d commentators said.<\/p>\n<p>At the front, Plessinger and Hunter continued to \u201cduke it out like they did last week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Tomac attempted to make a pass for fifth place, he crashed, causing him to place ninth.<\/p>\n<p>Tomac placed fourth overall for the day. Jett Lawrence won the second race, followed by Plessinger in second and Justin Cooper in third. Chase Sexton didn\u2019t race following last week\u2019s crash.<\/p>\n<p>The next Motocross race will take place at Thunder Valley Motocross Park in Lakewood, Colorado, on Sunday, June 8.<\/p>\n<div class=\"naviga-scoreboard\">\n<p>2025 Motocross Overall Point Standings1. Jett LawrenceHonda952. Aaron PlessingerKTM793. Eli TomacYamaha784. Justin CooperYamaha765. Hunter LawrenceHonda736. Jason AndersonKawasaki597. Jorge PradoKawasaki588. R.J. HampshireHusqvarna569. Joey Savatgy Honda4910. Cooper WebbYamaha45<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>first in the first race and ninth in the second<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,162,28,60,163,29,346],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-22004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-eli-tomac","tag-headlines","tag-montezuma-county","tag-motocross","tag-newsletter","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77541,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22004\/revisions\/77541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22004"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=22004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}