CHANCE HYMAS - GRIT 243 250SX

GRIT-243 | 250 SX

Arriving at the stadium in Birmingham, Alabama with his mindset prepared to strive for a top-ten overall, Honda's Chance Hymas was anticipating a battle from start to finish as practice began. Soaring over one of the largest doubles on the track before swaying to a gradual right-handed bend, he landed on the throttle while powering into the accompanying berm before storming to the finish line. Excelling through the whoop-pad as well, his chassis remained straight and on a linear path en route to garnering a multitude of promising lap-times via timing and scoring...setting the stage for a tremendous run in heat two where he initiated action in third. Staying-low as he made his way through the longest rhythm lane, he squared-up the turn thereafter before weaving amongst the tight and acute-angled corners that followed. His expectations for this heat race were of the highest regard, but when having to deal with GasGas' Pierce Brown who was behind him, the quest to the main event would be anything but easy...but nonetheless, he prevailed amongst the (surprisingly) dried soil. Though the action in the final stages would bring the crowd to their feet, when he and Jalek Swoll collided amongst a turn just after the finish-line - diverting Swoll from the position, while he (Hymas) briefly claimed second. Though passed by Brown in the moments thereafter, the aggression shown by Hymas (to claim third) proved that the Honda rider wanted to succeed. The makeshift track was far less than technical than what would normally arise within the Monster Energy Supercross circuit...but he would find a way to emerge amongst the chaos around a position of fifth in the initial stages of the main event - though he briefly diverted to seventh, before inheriting sixth (via a mistake from Jalek Swoll). The transitions amongst the longest rhythm lane were hardly recognizable, where clay had been combed by dozen's of tire-paths throughout the evening - making the act of actually jumping spectacular combinations, extremely technical in comparison to a normalized dried atmosphere. He would hook into the deepest, inside rut that converged with the opening corner...ringing the motor of his Honda machine to its fullest extent as the clutch was feathered and accompanying velocities were spiked before leaping into singles that followed. Just in front of Swoll, the mental fatigue that this circuit promoted wouldn't be for the weak. It forced athletes to stay on their toes (both literally and figuratively), as the race progressed, with the slick base of the Alabama clay now becoming another factor to combat as minutes transpired. Nearing the checkered flag, the margin between he and Jalek remained significantly close...until the Triumph rider returned a pit of pay-back per se and block-passed Chance - sending Hymas to the ground, in a bit of retaliation for what had occurred in the heat race! Now hovering near the tenth-place position upon returning to two wheels, Hymas did everything he could to reclaim the points he'd lost...and was ultimately finalized here, as action ceased in Alabama.

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