2025 Glen Helen NGPC Round 3 Results

Mark Kariya | March 3, 2025

With team owner Mark Samuels taking a red-eye back from Daytona to be present at the Prairie Dogs Motorcycle Club’s 33rd annual Glen Helen Grand Prix, the pressure was on the three riders of his Slam Life Racing (SLR) Honda team. But they responded ably with Tyler Lynn breaking Dante Oliveira’s win streak to capture the overall over Pro Circuit/Precision Concepts Kawasaki’s Giacomo Redondi and FMF KTM Factory Off-Road Racing Team’s Mateo Oliveira. Lynn’s SLR teammate Ryan Surratt was fifth behind Dante Oliveira. Not to be outdone despite being under the weather, Mikayla Nielsen pulled off the Pro Women victory.

2025 Glen Helen NGPC — **The racing was closer than usual at the front, with several lead changes. Winner Tyler Lynn is followed closely by runner-up Giacomo Redondi (18).**

Photos by Mark Kariya

Round three of the Rocky Mountain ATV/MC AMA National Grand Prix Championship (NGPC) Series, Presented by FMF, is somewhat notorious for being a mudder. However, despite the threat of rain, conditions remained perfect over a very different Glen Helen Raceway course that drew almost universal praise from the 1800-plus entries. And it seemed to contribute to some close racing throughout the $8000, 90-minute feature race.

Four riders led at one time or another in the tight lead pack, with the Oliveiras and Redondi all taking turns out front. But Lynn bided his time and grabbed the lead before the white flag aboard his Monster Energy/Lava Propane/Fly Racing-backed CRF450RX. With little time remaining, no one could effectively retaliate, Redondi just four seconds behind with the Team Green/Dunlop/Acerbis KX450 that John Braasch had spent the last two weeks prepping since pulling it out of the crate two weeks ago.

Though Lynn got a decent start, falling over several times in the early going held him back before he got into a flow, saying, “I finally started clicking off laps, finding lines. Following Redondi [near the end], I had to make kind of an aggressive pass for that win, but I had to take it.”

Lynn’s first NGPC win since a Pro II triumph in 2020 moves him to second in points behind Dante Oliveira, who said losing the front in a turn while leading two laps before the finish was a rookie move. He ended up momentarily stuck in some brush, which was all his competition needed to scoot past, relegating him to fourth.

Mason Semmens at 2025 Glen Helen NGPC — **In the Pro II race, defending class champ Mason Semmens had things under control quickly and made his way to seventh overall and the class win.**

A jubilant Redondi said, “I’m super-stoked I was up front the whole race! Me, Dante, Mateo and Tyler, we were pushing very hard. In the end, Lynn caught me when I got bottlenecked a little bit. I was feeling great the whole race, and the results finally came!”

Though third after running up front might’ve been tough to accept, Red Bull/Motorex/Alpinestars 450 XC-F-mounted Mateo Oliveira saw the silver lining. “Here, we were on the limit the whole time—that was pretty crazy,” he said. “A lot of mistakes happening [by all four of us]. I’m just stoked I’m on the podium again. I can take that away from today and not beat myself up too bad because I would’ve killed for these podiums last year.”

Three consecutive podiums—3-2-3—put him third in points at 67 behind Dante (78) and Lynn (69).

Ava Silvestri and Mikayla Nielsen at 2025 Glen Helen NGPC — **Ava Silvestri (454W) and Mikayla Nielsen (1W) battled for the Pro Women’s lead. Nielsen took the win after Silvestri ran out of fuel on the last lap.**

Liqui Moly Beta’s Dare DeMartile found himself unable to ride at his normal pace and settled for a lonely sixth ahead of Pro II winner Mason Semmens. The reigning Pro II champ grabbed the lead shortly after the start, and after that, no other Pro IIs could keep him and his AEO Powersports/Trail Jesters/Moose Racing 250 XC-F in sight.

He said, “This is the first time racing Glen Helen and working with Bob [Bell of Precision Concepts]. Obviously, he knows this place inside and out, and we’ve done a lot of laps around here, so that helped me for sure—suspension felt comfortable. And it was more of a real off-road race today. We had rocks, the Pro section was sick, good up- and downhills—it was more off-road, which my GNCC [experience] the last couple years really sort of helped me in that.”

Simi Valley Cycles Yamaha’s Justin Hoeft finished eighth overall and seventh Open Pro, followed by Pro II runner-up Sam Pretscherer. The 3Bros/Hatch Racing/Troy Lee Designs Husqvarna rider was the caboose in a train of Pro IIs behind Kai Aiello, Cole Zeller and Colton Aeck in the early going, but about an hour in, he’d found a way past them all and matched his class runner-up from round two. Zeller took the final podium spot and 10th overall on his Gainslinger Human Performance/Lake Elsinore Casino/O’Neal Racing FC 250.

In Pro Women, Nielsen and her Progressive/Maxima/Alpinestars CRF250RX faced a much sterner test due to a combination of being sick and rival Ava Silvestri’s newfound speed of late. In fact, 395 Motorsports/Racer Decal/Troy Lee Designs GasGas rider Silvestri had the lead a couple of times during the race, including in the penultimate lap.

But the length of the race and the decision to skip refueling caught her out as she ran dry, forcing her to settle for the runner-up spot a minute and 43 seconds back. If you added her deficits for all previous laps, they’d combine for only seven seconds. North County Yamaha-KTM’s Maddy Weber finished third in her NGPC Pro Women debut.

Nielsen admitted, “I’m happy with my speed, but I’m not super-happy, obviously, letting her [Silvestri] get a couple laps in front, because that obviously builds her confidence, and that’s the last thing I need.”

With a trip to race a women’s motocross in Australia with an American team before the next round, that could be the reset she needs. But Silvestri will be honing her skills with both GNCCs and a hare & hound on her menu. Round four could be even more interesting.