Photo by: Chase Yocom

The 2018 Eastern Regional 250SX Championship kicked off in Arlington last night and up until the first turn of the main event, Monster Energy / Pro Circuit / Kawasaki’s Martin Davalos was looking prepared, fast and ready to fight for this Championship. The #29 was the fastest overall qualifier in timed qualifying, and easily ran away with the first heat race win of the season. Then came the main event.

When the gate dropped on the first 250SX east main event of the year, it looked like Davalos was going to continue his perfect day so far with a great start. Unfortunately, Josh Osby drove it in a little too far on the inside, hit Martin’s rear wheel and a huge first turn pileup ensued. Martin hit the ground hard, taking half of the class and quite a few title favorites with him.

Martin and his bike were too banged up to continue, and today he sent out this update from his @MDavalos29 Instagram account.

“Honestly last night was so insane and I’m so thankful and blessed I was able to walk away from that nasty crash …. my thoughts are, if u get beat to the first turn and everybody is breaking to make the turn, that means u gotta f#%?!*£ break man, it’s that simple. It just makes racing so much more dangerous when s#%* like that happens specially when you get hit from behind and your not expecting it. I’m so bummed I felt great all day and I was riding to my full potential. I wanted to really race the guys hard and give it my best for such a hard working team I’m on!!!Thank you to everybody that supports me I’ll get further evaluation this week on how my body is doing but I’m expecting to race again!!! and let me tell you bods this ain’t over till it’s over!!!”

Martin announced earlier in the day in Arlington that he is planning on making this his last year on the 250—wanting to end his lengthy 250 career with a title—but scoring zero points at the opener does not help that cause at all. We are hoping to see Martin back next weekend. We will update you more when we get more information.

Check out Martin’s Instagram post below.

Honestly last night was so insane and I'm so thankful and blessed I was able to walk away from that nasty crash …. my thoughts are, if u get beat to the first turn and everybody is breaking to make the turn, that means u gotta f#%?!*£ break man it’s that simple…..it just makes racing so much more dangerous when s#%* like that happens specially when you get hit from behind and your not expecting it. I'm so bummed I felt great all day and I was riding to my full potential. I wanted to really race the guys hard and give it my best for such a hard working team I'm on!!!Thank you to everybody that supports me I'll get further evaluation this week on how my body is doing but I'm expecting to race again!!! and let me tell you bods this ain't over till it's over!!! @mxmatt

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