Monday Morning Coffee

Grab another cup for this week’s Monday Morning Coffee opinion column covering some of what happened in Motocross this weekend

By Billy Rainford

I hope every dad out there had a great Father’s Day weekend. I’m sure most of you spent it cleaning bikes (most of which likely weren’t even yours) and sleeping at a race track somewhere. I bet there was some congratulating and some consoling mixed in there too.

There’s a time when fathers spend every weekend chasing the Motocross dream. It means getting home late Sunday night and wondering if everything will be fine if you just unhook the trailer and leave it all in the trailer and go straight to bed. I’m sure it’ll be fine…

Then Junior hits the age where he/she is old enough to drive. Do you share the driving with your 16-year-old kid? I remember being 16 and still thinking I was too precious and the upcoming or previous race day made it so that I needed to relax in the back seat while Dad red-eyed it both to and from the races. In hindsight, I really should have done more driving back then.

I’m not a parent but I know it can be a thankless job. But you don’t do it for the praise, you do it because you still love being at the track and having family of your own to go through it is enough.

As a kid, you’re not supposed to be thoughtful enough to consider everyone else’s feelings. You just go and race. That’s your job. Like I said, I’m not a parent but I get to witness this dynamic many many weekends of the calendar year.

I hope you all had a great weekend and have made it back to work today.

If you want to look at a perfect father/son weekend, just think about Tyler Medaglia and Talon Medaglia driving home from Birch Creek MX in Virginia after Talon went 1-1-1-1 in his classes at the Loretta Lynn’s MX Regional Qualifier this past weekend.

#5 Talon Medaglia just won all 4 of his classes at Birch Creek MX in #Virginia.

Mini Sr. 1: 1-1-1
Mini Sr. 2: 1-1-1
125 Jr. B/C: 2-2-3
Schoolboy 1: 2-1-1

We’ll see Talon at the ECAN at Motocross Deschambault and the #transcan at Walton Raceway. Congratulations, Talon. I bet that makes the drive home to Nova Scotia much more enjoyable!

You can scroll through all of the results from this event HERE.

It was an off weekend in our Canadian Triple Crown Series Motocross Nationals. It gave everyone the chance to either go home for a week or make the trek to the next round of the series which will be held at Ste Julie just east of Montreal on June 28th.

Let’s have a look at the standings after the first 2 rounds of racing:

WMX Points:

1. 1 Jamie Astudillo 90
2. 301 Jordan Jarvis 89
3. 2 Kaylie Kayer 81
4. 7 Brandy McLarty 69
5. 4 Kiana Kurtz 61
6. 1W Katrine Ferguson 57
7. 3 Hannah Cole 55
8. 8 Amelie Croteau 51
9. Tea Ferguson 45
10. 11 Victoria Dillon 45

250 Points:

1. 1 Preston Kilroy 90
2. 31 Ryder Malinoski 82
3. 24 Dylan Rempel 74
4. 227 Vincent Wey 73
5. 177 Kade Johnson 72
6. 64 Wyatt Kerr 61
7. 27 Josh Boaz 54
8. 247 Tegan Kortenbach 49
9. 38 Zach Ufimzeff 44
10. 25 Cole Pranger 37

450 Points:

1. 9 Dylan Wright 100
2. 151 Harri Kullas 84
3. 12 Sebastien Racine 74
4. 84 Tanner Ward 61
5. 377 Daniel Elmore 60
6. 14 Quinn Amyotte 57
7. 19 Noah Porter 53
8. 15 Jess Pettis 44
9. 482 Teren Gerber 41
10. 58 Blake Davies 37
11. 6 Ryder McNabb 36
12. 36 Tyler Shewchyk 33
13. 737 Tee Perrott 32
14. 208 Logan Leitzel 24
15. 62 Danny Robertson 21

Unfortunately, we lost #15 Jess Pettis to a torn right ACL at Round 2 at Prairie Hill MX In Manitoba. He’s already got surgery scheduled so he’ll be onto the next step which is the long and tedious rehad from this particular repair. Here’s what he said on his Instagram page:

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All of these injuries that force you to miss an entire racing season hurt, but I think this one hits him even harder than the rest. He showed he has the speed to go for wins in this 450 series again this year and now he won’t get to prove it. Heal up, Jess.

We had 3 Canadians trying to qualify for Round 4 of the AMA Pro Motocross Championship at High Point MX in Pennsylvania. Let’s have a look at their results:

Preston Masciangelo 250
Qualifying: 30
Moto 1: 29
Moto 2: 26
Overall: 29

Tegan Kortenbach 250
Qualifying: 51
LCQ: 33

Payton Morningstar 450
Qualifying: 41
LCQ: 8

Video Highlights:

AMO Ontario Provincial Championships headed to Walton Raceway. I clicked on the results to see who would have won the Dirt Care “Stud Status” this week and wouldn’t you know it, #165 Braxton Becker from Calgary, AB has made it to Ontario and made an appearance on the newly, re-designed track and went 1-1:

2026 RD6 – WALTON Raceway – 6/20/2026

250 JUNIOR – Overall Finish Positions    View Laptimes Moto 1 Moto 2     Points for this class   2026 TRUE NORTH FLEET OPC   2026 HUDSONS MOTOCYCLES WEST

Overall   Name Moto 1 Moto 2 Points Earned 1st #165  BRAXTON BECKER  Calgary, AB  1st 1st 50 2nd #365  MASON SNIVELY  StWilliams, QC  2nd 2nd 44 3rd #521  AJ BETH  Burketon, ON  5th 3rd 36 4th #83  SULLY WATSON  Clinton, ON  3rd 6th 35 5th #119  AUSTIN CULP  Cayuga, ON  4th 5th 34 6th #717  HUDSON CULP  Cayuga, ON  6th 4th 33 7th #601  LUKE MILES  Marysville, ON  10th 8th 24 8th #67  COOPER WALLIS  , ON  9th 11th 22 9th #310  GIDEON ELMORE  Telkwa, BR  7th 13th 22 10th #147  ELLIOTT MCDONALD  Garson, ON  12th 10th 20 11th #7X  BRANDY MCLARTY  ONTARIOCANADA, ON  15th 9th 18

You can scroll all of these results HERE.

And don’t forget, if you’re looking for photos of yourself or your rider(s), check out our SmugMug site. I’ve tried to label as many as I can so you can try the search section to see if we’ve got them.

Click the link: Direct Motocross SmugMug.

Thanks for reading and have a great week. I’ll try to get in touch with Payton and Tegan for podcast interviews, since it was both of their first-ever attempts at an AMA Pro Motocross National.