Monster Energy-backed racers sweep Supercross Futures AMA National Championship @ SLC

M-claw clad Chance Hymas (Honda) wins it all, and is joined on the podium by fellow Monster racers Ryder DiFrancesco (Kawasaki) and Gavin Towers (Yamaha)

CORONA, CA – May 10, 2022 – (Motor Sports NewsWire) – The future of the sport of supercross racing was on display at the final round of Monster Energy AMA Supercross this past weekend with the running of the Supercross Futures AMA National Championship at Salt Lake City’s Rice-Eccles Stadium. And as they have at numerous high profile amateur motocross races throughout the past year, young (U16) Monster Energy racers Chance Hymas (Honda), Ryder DiFrancesco (Kawasaki) and Gavin Towers (Yamaha) put on a heck of a racing display while dominating the event’s podium with a 1^st/2^nd/3^rd place sweep, respectively.

For Hymas, Salt Lake City would mark the third time he stepped to the top rung of the Futures rostrum this season (Foxborough, Mass., and Atlanta). Hymas has been on fire at national events, adding the Supercross Futures AMA National Championship to his 2021 resume that included two runner-up finishes (Open Pro Sport & 250 Pro Sport), both to Monster Energy-backed Levi Kitchen (Star Racing/Yamaha), at the 40^th running of the Monster Energy AMA Amateur National Motocross Championship, aka “Loretta’s,” this past August.

DiFrancesco, who was probably favored to win the Futures championship heading in to Salt Lake City, had been running undefeated in Futures competition in a four-round sweep (Oakland, Calif., Anaheim, Calif., Glendale, Ariz., and Arlington, Texas). The Bakersfield, Calif., native had missed the ’21 Loretta’s Championships with a broken femur, but the prior year had gone and incredibly six-for-six in class victories at Loretta’s and was named the AMA’s 2020 Youth Rider of the Year.

And Towers, hailing from Venetia, Pa., had locked down two Supercross Futures…