2025 AMA West Hare Scrambles Round 4 Results

Mark Kariya | May 27, 2025

“I’m getting tired of seeing Oliveira on the jersey in front of me!” Liqui Moly Beta’s Zane Roberts said. However, he’ll have to wait a couple of weeks for the chance to show an Oliveira the back of his jersey.

For the second weekend in a row, Roberts and his FMF/Bridgestone/Klim 480 RR found himself chasing an Oliveira, though this time it was not Dante in the desert but Mateo, at round four of the AMA West Hare Scrambles (WHS) Regional Championship Series, Presented by FMF.

Mateo Oliveira at 2025 Glen Helen WHS — **Mateo Oliveira jumped out to an early lead over Zane Roberts and held it the entire two and a half hours. He now has a 15-point cushion in Pro/AA points over his rival with two rounds left.**

Hosted by the National Hare & Hound Association (NHHA), which runs both the WHS and AMA Hare & Hound Nationals, it provided some of the usual Glen Helen Raceway features plus a number of new trails cut in especially for the Memorial Day Hare Scramble, making it not just another race at Glen Helen. (In addition, the weather proved far more comfortable than last year’s inaugural event at the end of summer that had temperatures over 100 degrees!)

For FMF KTM Factory Off-Road Racing Team’s Mateo Oliveira and his Red Bull/Dunlop/Alpinestars 450 XC-F, it was a good test of the hand he had surgically repaired after the previous round last month.

“I’ve got a screw in my metacarpal, and I just had to rest for a little bit [after my surgery on April 21],” he said. “I was still able to train, which was cool; they didn’t put me in a cast or anything.

Dustyn Davis at 2025 Glen Helen WHS — **Dustyn Davis, in only his second AMA WHS and his first as a Pro 250 rider, won the class comfortably and finished third overall.**

“It definitely was tight in the beginning [of the race today], but it loosened up and wasn’t too bad. I don’t think it gave me a problem—just lack of bike time [was my biggest hurdle]. I think I was pretty strong today; besides my hand, my physical strength and my cardio was the best it’s been. For two and a half hours, it felt pretty solid.”

But getting the holeshot and leading from the outset allowed him to control the pace. Being familiar with Glen Helen after years of racing GPs also helped—and he needed it, as Roberts was relentless on his FMF/Bridgestone/Klim 480 RR.

“I was staying pretty close until I had a little tipover [in the first hour], and that kind of gave us a bigger gap [to close],” Roberts said.

But he narrowed that chasm until an off-course excursion about 30 minutes later passing a lapper left him stuck in the tenacious brush that lines much of the hilly trails.

“There’s just not room for those little mistakes right now,” he said.

A look at the lap times showed him closing right up to Mateo Oliveira and spending the final two laps of the race just two seconds behind, waiting for Mateo to make a mistake, which ultimately didn’t happen.

Mateo Oliveira’s second win of the season gives him a little more breathing room at the top of Pro/AA points over Roberts, 106-91, with two rounds left.

Just a couple of minutes behind came a battling group of Pro 250 riders. At first, it was round-three winner Cole Zeller leading that row on his Gainslinger Human Performance Husqvarna.

However, he got held up in a bottleneck while Dustyn Davis, for whom Glen Helen is like a second home, took an alternate line that put him in front. The Zip-Ty Racing/Pro Circuit/FXR GasGas-supported rider had started off third behind Zeller and AMA Hare & Hound Pro 250 champ Sam Pretscherer, who had to duck into the pits early to replace a broken shifter on his Hatch Racing/3Bros Husky.

From there, Davis sprinted to build a lead of over a minute on eventual Pro 250 runner-up Colton Aeck, sliding into third overall in the process.

The first-year Pro held that lead to the finish line in only his second WHS race (his first was last year in the 250cc A class); primarily a GP and MX racer, Davis said, “I was excited [to race this]. I like riding some tight stuff, and definitely the length of [a hare scramble] makes it hard. It was straight from moto [last weekend] to this—it’s a lot different, but I really enjoyed it, though the length of [a hare scramble] was hard. The tight stuff made it so we weren’t doing a million laps, and they did a really good job today on the course layout.”

Aeck continues to rebuild from his concussion in January and earned second Pro 250 and fourth overall on his Hatch Racing/McCarthy Electric/O’Neal Racing KX250, followed by the fast-closing Pretscherer and Zeller. 395 Motorsports Husqvarna’s Ryder Thomaselli was 12 seconds behind Zeller, and his first time off the podium this season drops him to second in Pro 250 points behind Aeck, 94-92.

Defending Pro 250 champ Layton Smail finished sixth in the stacked class and eighth overall on his Canyon Excavation/Team Green KX250, followed by 250cc A winner Lane Lorenzo aboard his 707 Suspension GasGas. Lorenzo suffered a possible broken hand after crashing early.

Racer Decal GasGas rider Zach Kerling rounded out the top 10 overall and was seventh Pro 250.

Ava Silvestri at 2025 Glen Helen WHS — **Three-time Pro Women champ Ava Silvestri claimed the holeshot and a runaway win.**

The 90-minute morning race saw 395 Motorsports/Dunlop/Troy Lee Designs GasGas rider Ava Silvestri blow away the field at a venue she knows well, besting runner-up Rachel Stout by over nine minutes.

Though the three-time AMA WHS Pro Women champ isn’t chasing the title this year, her performance demonstrated her resilience after a nearly non-stop schedule of races around the country this year. Additionally, it demonstrated her ability to turn a slump around, as this came on the heels of her Hare & Hound win in Utah the previous weekend.

“For those three weekends in a row that I was not doing very well, I think it was just more like a mental [block],” Silvestri said. “I would say I never lost any speed or anything over those last couple weeks. Maybe I did gain some speed—I’m not exactly sure, but it was definitely a mental [block I overcame].”

FMF RPM Racing KTM’s Stout continues to lead the points chase, however, with 106, while Woolslayer Racing Yamaha rider Ty Woolslayer sits second at 92. She rallied back to finish the day third after getting stuck on a hill with both Ashlee Gage and Catalina Springstroh passing her there, though Woolslayer repassed both by the end.