Monster Energy Yamaha Star Racing’s Haiden Deegan is in full supercross preparation mode. Working with friend, teammate and training partner, Christian Craig, he hopes to finally obtain the one championship he has yet to win in his young career, a 250 Monster Energy Supercross Championship. Deegan sat down with the media this week at the SuperMotocross World Championship media days to discuss his off-season prep, goals for 2025, trash talking his competitors and more.
You’re pretty much the first guy to grow up through social media. How do you deal with the social media chirping and turn that off and focus on your racing?
Haiden Deegan: Yeah, I mean, I’ve had the hype and the followers since I was super young. So, I think that’s something that I’m just used to at this point. So more just focusing on my goals in racing and then the noise is separate. I have my goals, I wanna go win races and championships and what people are gonna say isn’t gonna change how that’s gonna go. I mean, it may motivate me but I’m just used to it by now. Growing up like that, it’s just focus on my goals, racing and the media stuff, but let them talk.
Can you kind of explain Christian’s [Craig] role with your program this year?
Yeah, I feel like the program I was on with Star training with all the guys was good. It got me up to pace, but I feel like I’m to the point now where I mean, I can win but I wanna dominate and I wanna fine tune everything in my technique, riding wise and it was just finding a guy that’s willing to spend time doing that and can focus on that. So, yeah, we brought in Christian, and it was honestly, as bad as it sounds, him getting injured was honestly a kind of a good help to really lock in and help me this preseason. Once he’s back on the bike we’ll start training together and stuff. So, he’s been a big help. I mean, I’ve upped my training, and I feel a whole lot better this year than I did last year coming into the season. So that’s good news.
