2024 WORCS Round 5 Results

| May 21, 2024

The Rocky Mountain ATV/MC WORCS Series headed to Cedar Beach Oasis in Cedar City, Utah, May 18-19, for a challenging and fast course. Dare DeMartile put his Beta USA 480 RX on the podium’s top spot for the second time this season to continue his strong and consistent performance. Mason Semmens let the good times roll, as he won again on his RPM Racing-backed KTM 250, and Racer Fry fought for his first Pro-Am win of the season with an impressive victory on his Purvines Racing Yamaha. Kaitlyn Jacobs also extended her points lead in the Women’s Pro class.

Dare DeMartile and Justin Hoeft at 2024 Cedar City WORCS — **Beta’s Dare DeMartile (200) dices with defending champ Justin Hoeft before going on to take the overall win. Hoeft finished out the race in third.**

Story and Photos by Connor Moore

The racers were greeted with quite the Pro section on Sunday, as they had to traverse through and over rocks, tires, a matrix of logs and even a balance beam above an untouched section of dirt and rocks.

Justin Hoeft flew off the line with the holeshot before heading into the fast, windy, tree-filled course. As the pack barreled into the Pro section, they came in almost four-wide, with DeMartile the first over the tire section. Hoeft and Tyler Lynn used the logs to jump over the balance-beam section as they shot in front of DeMartile on the first lap. The most challenging part of the course was easily the matrix of logs—all at different lengths—in between, giving a level of difficulty that played a pivotal role during this race.

Tyler Lynn at 2024 Cedar City WORCS — **Tyler Lynn appeared to have the race won until he crashed with a couple of laps to go. He got up to take second.**

Lynn used every bit of power on his SLR Honda 450 machine as he cemented himself early in the race as the man to beat, capturing a close to 30-second lead over the competition. DeMartile was in second place as Hoeft fell back to third, still recovering after a crash the week before. Lynn found the fast line as he flew into the logs, tripling the section early in the race, giving him the fastest lap of the weekend at 8:20, just over five seconds faster than any other racer on the weekend.

With two laps remaining, Lynn was poised for an easy win at the Oasis until a slight mistake. He hit a tree root that sent him and the bike flying over a berm. He was okay and was able to recover and grab his machine to continue the race.

The crash, however, allowed DeMartile to catch up and slide into the lead with just two laps to go, while Lynn stayed in front of the charging Purvines Racing Yamaha teammates of Hoeft and Jack Simpson.

After a rough start, during which his battery died, Simpson charged hard, reeling in Hoeft lap after lap, but Hoeft was able to push forward in the end to halt him in his tracks long enough to land himself on the podium.

2024 Cedar City WORCS 450 pro podium — **Dare DeMartile, Tyler Lynn and Justin Hoeft were the top three 450 Pro riders at Cedar City WORCS**

Simpson and Giacomo Redondi wrapped up the top five overall.

In 250cc Pro, Kai Aiello showcased his speed early, putting himself in the lead on his 3Bros Husqvarna machine. On the third lap, he found himself stuck on the final section in the Matrix, unable to get the bike up and over the last two logs, which proved to be the trickiest, as they were just close enough together that you couldn’t fit the bike straight between them. He fell to the back of the pack, allowing Colton Aeck to grab the lead on his Hatch Racing Kawasaki.

Aeck led for most of the race once he took the lead, but another small mistake toward the end allowed points leader Semmens to take over at the front and put his KTM on the top step for the fourth race in a row. Aeck bounced back after a rough round five in Blythe to finish in second place.

Mason Semmens at 2024 Cedar City WORCS — **Mason Semmens again won the 250 Pro class.**

Jake Alvarez was in third place, but a last-lap mishap was all Aiello needed to move his way back up into a podium position after another hard-fought two-hour battle.

This track proved to be quite tricky and slippery as the race progressed and, as they pushed their bikes to the max, staying on two wheels was the name of the game. The Pro-Am field had a great battle from start to finish, with teammates Racer Fry and Kayden Lynn fighting with Jackson Glathar for the better part of the 120-minute race. A penalty forced Glathar from second to third, but he stayed on the podium, and Fry was on fire from start to finish, gaining his first-ever Pro-Am win heading into the summer break.

**Racer Fry landed his first-ever Pro-Am win**

Kayden Lynn (226) Keegan Hardy (688) — **Kayden Lynn (226), pictured here with Keegan Hardy, took the second step on the Pro-Am podium.**

On Saturday morning, the two-strokes let it all hang out, and the sounds whistled through the trees as this track was nothing but wide open for the most part for the 125s. Redondi was on rails: for almost the entire race, he separated himself from the competition.

However, on the final lap, with only a few turns to go, disaster struck, as he ran out of gas and had to push his way to the finish line. Tristun Alvarez capitalized on Redondi’s bad luck, getting on the top step of the box for the first time since round one of this year.

Travis Damon finished in second place for the start of his busy race weekend, as he also won in ATV Pro on Sunday. Daemon Woolslayer rounded out the podium in 125 Pro.