October 2024

Honda's all-new 2025 CRF450R, Can Haiden Deegan be stopped? The 1999 X Games and Travis Pastrana, and revisiting the Bakersfield Boys. All this and much more in the October 2024 Issue of Racer X Illustrated.  Cover:  Red Bull KTM’s Chase Sexton crosses the finish line first at his home race in the RedBud National and onto the cover of our October 2024 issue of Racer X. Racing to the Showroom Floor After finally getting back on top of the premier 450 class in Monster Energy Supercross and AMA Pro Motocross, Honda injected much of what it learned out on the racetrack into its 2025 CRF450R.  The Phenom Haiden Deegan is doing what should be done, but is rarely done: winning at every level. Who can stop him? Splashdown Hard to believe it’s been 25 years—more than half his lifetime ago—that Travis Pastrana entered those first X Games for freestyle motocross.  The Bakersfield Boys Revisited With a healthy pack of fast young talent in the pipeline, Bakersfield, California, was once poised to take over the motocross world. Ten years further on, things haven’t quite panned out that way.