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00:00That's why we line them up and we go racing because anything can happen and just that highlight we show hey Deegan going down last year so you know this track here at Southwick presents its own challenge so we're going to find out next 30 plus two. And the starts have actually been a weakness for Deegan this year both in Supercross and Motocross. Does not have a whole shot outdoors yet. Had three at this point last year so let's see what kind of launch he gets going a little bit outside. I wouldn't say it's a weakness I just say he's probably not as focused on it.
00:29Maybe doesn't need to be. Let's find out. Rebs are up. Gates down. Well he certainly got the launch this time. Deegan has that first hole shot of the year. And you were saying Jack. Okay is he more focused on that today? Yeah well he probably doesn't want to get dirty out here but he knows just like I mean there's a lot of motivation to what he just saw what Jet Lawrence did in that 450 class and Aiden knows he can get out here and execute
00:59these first few lapses and we see Tom Biao trying to get around the 93 and Michael Moseman. He can put this race away early and really just ride this race on out but good to see Tom Biao and Mikko Nora been here at Harrop. Excuse me. Yep. It's right there. Oh and then someone just tucked the front and went down. Was that Hamaker right behind Harrop.
01:21But then Jalik Swole was the next. Oh that got close. Yeah that was a hands up riding by both those guys because that gap started closing down and both of them made the decision. So yeah I think that was. I thought Jalik Swole was up there. So it must have been South Hamaker that went down. Bummer for him.
01:37Yeah because Kitchen that's the other Monster Pro Sergeant Kawasaki is still there on the 47. Look man I know Deegan gets motivated when people say he's got a weakness. That was record time. I mean five seconds after I said no hold shots he has one. I swear he's not listening to the show as it goes but he's already pulling away. He's got Moseman second and here's Vial third.
01:57Nah he's got the teleport right there. Jason said I'm struggling. I'll do him but it wasn't even close so you know we're good but I think that really comes down to a lot with the track and Hayden being his third time here. He knows the vision is a big thing so why don't you make life easier on yourself by getting out front.
02:16I mean Jent Lawrence wasn't much different in that 450 mode of he always gets starts but that early pulling away so now the battle shifts to second. Moseman who is quick and qualifying and has really been building
02:27throughout this pro motocross championship running well in second of the 93. Yeah Michael's been around really good all year long and especially this motocross series and he's been up in the top five a few motos and just has some falls here and there that you know the finishes are not as good as what he's been riding so for him good to see him up there but I'm really interested to see what Tom Vial does. He's been talking about you know he's. Oh just held on to that James. Yeah. Oh and Vial goes down. Yeah and I can tell you what that was caused. He wasn't sure if Michael was going to get back on the track so Tom was
02:56out of sorts because he was looking at Michael lost the front end and that was a bummer but I was going to say what Tom was these opening laps haven't been his strongest point of the year so we won't be able to find that out until second moto but man that's a bummer for
03:09actually both these guys because they lose Tom to Hayden Deegan but especially Tom. Oh yeah and early in the race Vial is going to go way back now. I think he's in 11th place.
03:19Harrop up to third now ahead of Kitchen. Yeah. He's been riding really good so we'll see. Will.
03:25So look at Michael Mosmer in the great position that he's in right now. He was talking to me early and telling me honestly this is sort of the first time that he's felt really good. Apparently he had a stomach virus off the back of Thunder Valley there that took him out he said for two whole weeks. He said he was so depleted he was drinking chicken noodle soup twice a day for like a week and he said he got to the high point round and just had absolutely nothing. James you know how tough these tracks are. These outdoor trucks and how much it takes out of you.
03:53So if you don't have any energy in the first place you're basically done. So he said now I'm healthy. I was able to put in some good days on the bike and hopefully it's going to show up today and it is a moto one guys.
04:04Yeah no that's that's tough and I've been in a position as all these riders have when you go up to the second moto. Sometimes I'm sitting there in between motos I'm like I don't I don't know how I'm even going to finish this race let alone you know go out there and compete. So it just shows you how much determination Michael has.
04:20And I'm sure a lot of that comes from just his you know excitement to be back and you know his perspective on life. You know this guy broke his neck people like he he was out wasn't sure if he's ever going to race again.
04:30And so him being back out here he's looking at this you know being out here just a good thing compared to where he was as Levi kitchen makes his pass across McHale for a third place.
04:41I'm happy for Michael.
04:43It is a great story in the return but I want to ask you this. Okay he's sick. We hear fighters talk about illness all the time. Jet Lawrence mentioned to the podium. Cooper Webb said he's been under the weather for all five rounds now.
04:56What is it about the lifestyle the training travel whatever it is because we hear this all the time in this sport. Yeah I mean what it really comes down to it's like you know for an average day you know fan out there is the days that you don't feel good.
05:07You go to work you call in a sick day well here a sick day you feel like you're letting your whole team down you know not only your team your sponsors everybody out here so you just continue you know going and going and then this year we've been in altitude we've been in 100 degree weather there's been a lot of things that these guys are still going out there competing so if you're not whether you were sick or not it was going to be hard to get through these first four races and being sick only makes it difficult so I just think it's the lifestyle as you just mentioned Jason they're training during the week all
05:37the riding it's just a toll on these guys whether they're sick or not and being sick puts you behind the eight ball off the beginning. Do you think even in your experience are you more susceptible because you're draining yourself so much to catch something? Yeah absolutely it's I mean it's kind of the same concept where you know your kid comes home with a sickness from school you know you eventually somebody in the household is going to catch it so for with these guys and it's a different way once that body gets depleted you're going out here still running through the same you know physical conditions because the track
06:07doesn't care Southwick doesn't care Southwick doesn't care you're sick or not and I know these other riders don't care they're pushing your body and eventually something has to give and it's usually your immune system and these guys have to deal with it. Deegan starting to get away he's got an eight second lead that's him in the bottom box you mentioned that kitchen made the move on Haram for third going to try to run Moseman down but has about three seconds to make up. JT what do you think with the leader there? Well I think he's pretty spectacular here and let's flash back to a year ago here
06:37there were a lot of questions about whether he could come into a race like Southwick a full sand track and get the job done and he really fed off of that he really leaned into it and used it as motivation and he's been really vocal about hey you guys all doubted me I proved you wrong and let's let's think about what he's doing here this is a racetrack where we weren't sure if sand was really his thing not only is he out to win he's already got almost a 10 second lead and we're not even 10 minutes into this race so it's not that he's winning he's been
07:07winning all year it's the way he's going about the winning and we're you know we're coming up and halfway through the season I just see him grabbing another gear and he's finding the maturity that I think you really needed before he takes that step to a 450. JT it's talent it's maturity but it's also a lot of hard work from him and the whole team there because they didn't just rest on the achievements that they made those gains that they made in the sand last year they were in North Carolina this past week going back to work they pulled out the notebook
07:36and went over everything that they told hey to make sure in these turns you do that body position wise handling all this potential mistakes that we're seeing out here on the track so they didn't stop there it was a reminder this whole week was a reminder of what to do so you can go out in a day like today and execute
07:53yeah and that's a that's a good point and having a team like star racing yamaha keeping them focused because you know I I almost would put money on that Hayden was sitting on the gate after watching jet lawrence
08:04win and just the motivation and the sound bike we we have from him in the beginning part him knowing and where his his ultimate goals is to eventually get to that 450 class in the race against jet lawrence I bet he was sitting on the gate saying you know what if you can do that I'm going to do it better
08:19and it's easy for a young kid to start over riding the motorcycle doing things out of characteristic and how you got here and that's why I do believe a team like star racing who has the championships and the pedigree to be like hey hey we know you want to go out there and do this but we got to still go through the motions we got to practice we have to ride the sand tracks because we know you can win but if you don't execute and do the things that got you here you will get beat
08:49and you're watching something spectacular just like we were watching with jet lawrence this kids got it all for sure
08:54and the bottom box below deacon there the yellow in orange has made his way back up
08:59he's got Nate thrasher right ahead of him in eight he is nine and then time masterpool is 10 shout out to parker ross running well on the bar x toyota redlands yamaha they only get a limited amount of help from yamaha riding well
09:12in 11th and they all started to close on thrasher then boland is up ahead in seventh
09:20you know and sometimes with in a position like you know tom vial like don't don't mistake and we talk about hayden deacon but tom vial it's looked pretty aggressive all day today and he's obviously gotten up and he's motivated to move forward which he might be able to make his way but sometimes when you go down
09:36it might be a better space to be at as he makes the pass um right here it might be a better space because for him he wants to get better and get the opening laps and the last thing he wants to see is him be in second place and watch hayden deacon pull away from him so it might be in a sense that he goes down and now he's making his way up getting better and finding that flow and since he's went down he doesn't have to worry about hayden deacon he can just get that confidence instead of maybe watching hayden deacon
10:01right away from jt okay there's no doubt about it he's riding really well here the one thing i want to see from these guys whether it's tom vial whether it's levi kitchen is i want to see them be able to overcome the adversity that we've seen deacon be able to do of course in 2024
10:18now for vial this is the perfect opportunity you go down a small crash but you have the pace now can you get back to a podium position which is where you belong on this racetrack because that's what hayden deacon would be doing out front
10:30that's when i want to see them be able to turn the corner and be that guy that can fight for a championship because on your bad days you still need to be near the podium that's how championships get done
10:39it's certainly going to be a test for vial to get back to that podium type spot after that early crash
10:46have voland in his sights and this is it kitchen has closed the gap on mosevin for the number two spot
10:52yeah levi's been rotten good the last few weekends and so has michael so uh you know you're about 10 minutes in this race and it's going to be a long
11:00moto from these guys and and that that back and forth that you're going to see that cat and mouse it's going to be a lot of that today and like i mentioned earlier it really just comes down to in some of these one line section is that these guys got to back off and get these the guy in front of them room otherwise you're just going to run into vision issues and then again all the sand and all that so
11:18uh levi will close in on them and then michael stretch it out but still good ride by both these guys they've been riding really good this might be an opportunity for levi to try to get around michael if he can close the gap
11:29oh this is going to be good let's see how this outside yeah that outside is just not uh formed up yet
11:39she goes back to work
11:44ah fun to hear the bikes labor through the sand
11:49and they're going to wind it back out past the mechanics area
12:01the motivation for most of it keep going
12:08yeah i feel like with this racetrack you know there's only certain parts where you're like
12:13your white knuckle in here where you're like i'm scared and that's one of the sections when you go past that mechanics area it's a high speed really the bikes moving around it's sliding and it's like man i'm just happy to get through it the rest of this racetrack really just comes out the mental and physical like these rollers going up this hill it is so much energy to continue doing that over uh 230 minute moto so again it's two different challenges there's not too many scary parts of this racetrack but there's a lot of physical parts that eventually just wears you down
12:42and um and um the reason is because all the corners have bumps in them and so it makes it difficult for all these riders
12:48boseman has not had a moto podium james since 2022 and that was at hangtown very early in that season for
12:56so over three years has not had an overall podium since 2021 we've talked about his comeback quite a bit
13:02broke his neck multiple concussions thought his career was over found the right people that said you know what
13:08you're not at any more risk than you were before with the deck so he decided to go back out there he just wanted a shot at it to do it differently and see how it would turn out it's been very good but is it good enough to hold off kitchen
13:19oh a nice line by levi the reason i like that line because it opens up this next corner
13:25and now he's going to funnel michael goes outside levi be back on the inside so
13:31so this is it's another spot maybe levi if he can get this corner right he should be next to michael
13:36michael squares him up but
13:38oh you can see the address he was evil knievel style launching that single trying to stay close but it wasn't
13:45enough yeah he just knows there's only a few opportunities he's going to try to do this slingshot move
13:49around but he knows his outside berm isn't you know built yet as he tries to come back in so
13:54he's got to go back to work again so in previous years that would have been enough of a berm there
13:59to make that move well i mean as the day goes on that outside will come up it's just earlier in the
14:04day that it hasn't you know progressed yet so uh yeah the lines that they're running right now it'll
14:09change and they'll start getting some of these outside lines where the lighter part of the track where
14:14they're not going that'll get darker as the day goes on but for sure levi just remembered last last
14:19lap it wasn't there yet so and still not able to make it work her up still running fourth great
14:25ride for him and now his triumph teammates swole is up to fifth so two triumphs in the top five
14:30you see boats have been hit that hole at the bottom of that jump yeah eventually these there gets
14:36these big old holes and how they're jumping into like what michael just did right there
14:40they'll be able to do that oh kitchen now let's see levi's gonna try to square him up and get back
14:46down the inside of him here still not enough no but this is another spot right here levi can maybe
14:57get this corner good as he does it no it was all out of sorts you mentioned energy going up that hill
15:03but you kitchen used a whole bunch right there yeah he used a lot i mean now he probably sit back and
15:10you see that now he's trying to rest he's sitting on this seat and that's all that energy that he's
15:14using especially on these 250 bikes you know he buries it in his corners he's got to try to stay
15:18with michael so man this track will wear you out so you'll literally see him hammer a section and then
15:24you see a little bit of resting yeah absolutely when you see a guy especially on these sand tracks if
15:29you just pay attention when you see a guy get close to him that means they're going after the pass it's
15:33not like they're getting close to him just to wait for him a few corners down the road no they're trying
15:37to make that pass instantly otherwise they're going to drop back because that ruse it wears you out and
15:42again with levi he just knows there's certain parts of this racetrack that i've got to be close to him
15:47to be able to make a pass and now he'll probably go down the same lines that michael does and then
15:51just funnel back in until he gets a lot closer to him and get a little strength back in the legs for
15:57another attack got her up swole march bank six vl seven he's got around bowling this track is getting
16:05rough most men just able to hang on in the entrance to the corner almost throws it down yeah that's
16:11because he was losing the front end like he said but now he knew that berm eventually catch him so
16:15you know just got to keep that up just slid into it i just let him i mean he didn't have no choice so
16:20it wasn't like he the bike said i'm this is what's going to happen either you accept it you don't so
16:27oh this is great stuff looking at these two on the edge as this track starting to show some teeth
16:34450 moto two going to be even worse than this yeah i mean and the 250 moto is going to be even worse
16:39than this yeah that's the hard part every lap you come by you just like man we only in the first moto
16:45like i got to deal with this so that's why i say you got to survive the day out here
16:49now it's the key to the moto definitely is right now this is joe shimoto this is just to get into
16:54the points he's 20th rider second in the standings getting around and battling with julian bomare 24th
17:03early in this one not sure what happened to joe maybe a problem off the start oh it was first turn
17:09crash a lot of work to do jt well joe shimoto is certainly coming from the back but he was caught
17:14up in a pileup with the likes of rider defrancisco and a few others like we saw in that first moto
17:19this first corner they come in there with a lot of people it gets really deep really fast everybody
17:24has those hole shot devices still compressed it's a really tricky first corner here and it wouldn't
17:29really seem that way on the surface we've already seen two crashes through two starts and then apparently
17:34shimoto went down again after the first turn crash that's another reason why he is this far back
17:4119th 18th no and got a long way to go he's also uh got the jersey or is that a tear-off dangling in the
17:53side yeah it looks like the jersey so that means he might have got ran over at that point will
17:57okay so we'll go back to bomare these are great riders here battling just inside the top 20 and
18:04there's still half the race left reminder that monster energy is available now as we get halfway
18:10through this moto let's send it back down to will and what a shame that julian bomare got caught up the
18:15way jt was saying at the beginning there because he was looking really good in qualifying seventh in the
18:20first i believe third in the second qualifying session and that was what surprised him that's
18:27what surprised the whole team they basically took him to ride in the sand this week carlos rivera the
18:31crew chief said we know we're going to have to put him in the sand he's from lake havasu he's from
18:36california he's used to a hard face let's see how he goes and both juju and carlos when he showed
18:42when they showed up they went oh no they shook their heads they said what are we going to do and i said he's
18:46had no experience in the sand and carlos said put it like this the most experience that juju's had
18:51in the sand was probably in his little turtle sandpit when he was a kid unbelievably he managed to get
18:58through the week lots of improvement was made and when i asked juju about those good qualifying times
19:02i said look i'm a racer i can make it happen on race day so uh not much experience apparently but he was
19:08doing well and yeah i believe i believe he got knocked out at this race last year so didn't really
19:15get any laps in a year ago so that adds to the lack of sad experience deegan has the experience right
19:20now the one you want out front yeah but i mean to carlos point i mean this is one of the racetracks
19:26that you you do have to understand that it's it's not like your typical sand track i mean it's like a
19:30sand hard pack uh racetrack and all the experience that juju had last year he got knocked out so he
19:35don't remember what happened anyway so but when you go back to a couple years ago jt was mentioned hayden
19:41struggled it was one of his only races that he struggled you know without going down you know
19:45and i think it was a couple six or something like that but then he comes back last year
19:49you know and wins and then this year dominates so juju will eventually figure this racetrack
19:54out it just takes time and um you know hard part is you got the number one he ain't wasting time for
20:00anybody so yeah 18 dnf were the scores for boomer a year ago so if you're wondering why he doesn't have
20:07much experience instead didn't learn much at southwick last year deegan's lead is 17 seconds
20:14most of it though has been able to shed off that pressure from kitchen a great ride for him and it
20:21will be a one two from australia yamaha star racing if they can hold on great view overhead yeah levi's
20:28probably like i'm gonna have to drop back and attack him but you know i will say this um you don't
20:33really know how to ride this racetrack and learn how to ride it until you're out front like we saw
20:38jet lawrence and hayden deegan where you're able to really you know pick the lines and really get a
20:44feel of how the bike is because otherwise you're following somebody you're getting roosted you got
20:47your head down and and that's not how this racetrack is so i do feel like once you're out front and you
20:54really get a sense of um the way this track is and you don't have to worry about somebody right on the back
20:59you learn how to ride southwick and um to me doing this hayden deegan jumping out that far
21:05that's part of learning how to ride southwick the farther you jump out actually the smoother it is
21:09you wouldn't know that if you're getting battling somebody because you're getting roosted the whole
21:12time a couple battles right here march banks and the owl sixth and seventh march banks kind of
21:19quietly closing up to third i believe in the championship
21:22and they're small right ahead of them it's going to be a good showdown last 10 minutes and two laps
21:29yeah when we go back two weeks ago jalee came back off an injury so man i was impressed with him at
21:35high point i'm just equally as pressed um today and it just makes you wonder if you'd have been in this
21:40championship from the beginning and had all the season to ride how much better would he be so good
21:46showing by the triumph team being you know fourth and fifth out here but really shout out to jaleek
21:51swolez looks like uh tom vial is going to get up on the inside of march banks he's trying so hard
21:57these last couple of corners and sections and it pays off 16 makes the pass on march banks yeah i don't
22:03know if it's just the racetrack and tom just feels more comfortable here but whatever it is there
22:07there is a change on his riding style and i know again he'll be bummed at the results especially being
22:12a lot higher and going down that first lap with michael mosman but he looks better and he looks more
22:17aggressive and this is a tom vial that we kind of expected to see at the beginning part of the season so
22:21whatever they did they obviously figured something out over the weekend off so it's good to see jt
22:26i agree with you i was thinking the same thing when you said that and the way i was going to think
22:30about he looks like he's attacking the racetrack right now where the first few rounds he looked
22:35very complacent he was kind of having to take what the track gave him and now he just looks so much
22:40more aggressive in his tact and the way he's going about things so i agree with you i don't know if it
22:44was testing in the off week or whatever it is but this is a different looking tom vial
22:48not going to show in the results or maybe it will because he's not done now has swollen his sights and
22:55then harrop is about four seconds up the road vial is absolutely throwing down now yeah and you see
23:01what tom did now as i mentioned earlier like when guys get close to him he's not going to get closer
23:05just to follow he feels like he has an opportunity to pass him now him and jalique are in the same line
23:11so tom would probably back it off unless he feels like he can get by him at the finish line
23:15on our body mechanics here but yeah i i'm with you jt he just looks like he's a lot more aggressive
23:21being loose making some mistakes the bike's flipping around and that's not how tom has been riding so
23:26far this year so definitely uh good signs on that uh rebel ktm to see that
23:33oh nice line by jalique right there trying to keep it smooth now well you mentioned an injury came back
23:39from an achilles swole in the last race at high point then hit him hold the back section of the
23:44track of the first moto felt some pain in that ankle foot he was worried for a second but then realized
23:49that's probably the scar tissue some scar tissue built up there for vial hard landing but makes the
23:56pass yeah no that actually wasn't a hard landing because he landed it that way yeah it was smoother and
24:01clearly he was able to get it but that's what we've seen whoa hey you'd lap rob you better watch out tom
24:06coming through i'll knock anybody down so captain tom's out here getting it done i don't know if
24:12i've ever seen it all this aggressive no and then you can tell he's feeling but here's levi he caught
24:17back up to michael again let's see if he can open up the kitchen for business does he have another
24:23attack in him a little bit quicker last time around the kitchen over moesman for second place
24:30yeah levi was about two seconds faster than michael and you're not sure if that was because of
24:33lap riders but as i said i thought levi was going to sit back and just go after michael and then
24:39try to attack him because once you're about 20 seconds behind first place your whole goal is just
24:43to get second at this point so you know you got the whole motor to do it and maybe if you let michael
24:48go he starts relaxing and then you can attack him because he might think you had him broken we'll find out
24:53that line by kitchen all the way down to the bottom of that corner where there weren't any tire tracks at
25:02all it sure looks slippery but trying to save energy at this point no that's actually how southward
25:06breaks down if you you know we saw jaleek do that right before the mechanics there right those um
25:11those inside lines and it's hard to get there because it is so slippery but as this track goes
25:16it's normally slower but as the track breaks down the outside is going to get slower and slower and
25:21get rougher uh more rough because of those conditions so that inside is actually you're saving energy but
25:26it is probably the faster way around the racetrack okay well watch those insides could pay off for
25:31kitchen rider out of washington moesman the northern california native
25:37it's fun to hear the bikes through here
25:53oh it's wide open through that section here's the big jump
25:59yeah you see the difference where michael came up about a couple feet shorter and how much
26:03harder it was for him and levi jumped out there so let's see if levi tried to switch him oh yeah
26:08he wanted to get to the inside but i believe michael's mistake caused him to slow it down and he
26:13wasn't really sure but great rod by him and right back where they were about three laps ago
26:20kitchen with the attack
26:25all right now levi he's got to get this bike on the inside michael's going to keep pushing to the
26:30outside so if you can get on the inside of him he's trying yeah it's going to be hard for michael
26:35to get back to the inside all levi could have been more aggressive but
26:38at this point levi knows i feel like i got him but at the same time michael's still fighting
26:47oh just throwing everything out of kitchen
26:53like they say he's throwing everything and the kitchen sink everything but the kitchen sink
26:56oh lap traffic still not enough to hold up bozeman survives another attack no
27:04tips of the inside lost traction yeah now i would tell you from that point levi wasn't actually trying
27:09to pass michael he had to gas it because he knew the only way he could make this turn is by sliding
27:13the rear because he didn't want to just follow michael he would have got roosted so i think that was
27:17more of a cost of vision um than anything and you can see how much time he lost because of that
27:22he just wanted to turn it into oversteer instead of understeer don't push off the track well sometimes
27:26if you get so close to somebody you can actually miss the roost and i just think levi was trying to
27:31stay out of that um so we'll find out but i don't think that was him trying to actually pass michael
27:37that corner was way too tight that's tom vial's working on jalique swole for fourth place now or no
27:42that's he's already passed well man what a moto for vial right near the section where he crashed earlier
27:49at the top of your kitchen still going for it bottom boxes vial and uh harrop they're putting
28:00a lap rider behind them yeah a very impressive route by tom vial to get out um and pick that
28:07bike up because how the season's been going he could have easily been like man another race but
28:11this is a lot more fight um than we've seen all year long so good rod by him
28:19you know we talked so much about the supercross championship hangover we talked about it with
28:23cooper webb a lot in the 450 class vial did win a title in the most dramatic
28:28circumstances you can with hampshire hamacre and then he rolls by
28:33you think there's any of that residual because we haven't seen that vial we expected the first
28:37couple weeks outdoors no i i don't i don't personally think it was that i mean i think the way that
28:42supercross if anything you might have been more shocked on how it happened and and so eventually the
28:48supercross hangover if he did have it it would have went away and we would have saw some rods like
28:51this as you mentioned earlier you don't know if you've ever seen him ride this aggressive especially
28:56like this year so yeah yeah i don't think the supercross it wasn't like he had a big points lead
29:01and he was more stressed on trying to um you know uh win that thing i think he knew he had to step up
29:06and ride and and get focused because i don't even know if he was the best guy in that championship at
29:11that moment until he was able to get it done so no supercross hang up here here i think he's just
29:16figured out whatever as he makes the pass she's going for it just putting that rear wheel into
29:21the ground and making the pass on harap for fourth harap coming back yeah he's coming back that tom
29:28saw he was spinning up that bike and um michael was going to get him back so he had to cut him off so
29:34i love it but still a great ride um by michael harap here top five and said he was feeling good about
29:41this sand so yeah he's putting up right now still that fifth and six for he and small
29:46a good run for the triumph team march banks master pole seventh and eighth half acre ninth bull and
29:51tenth jt well guys i said i wanted to see some fight out of tom yeah i wanted to see him come back
29:58and show us some part show us the guy that wants to be in the fight for this championship the guy that
30:03won his first ever race at this racetrack and i think we've gotten now on the score sheet is going to
30:07show us fourth in a moto but i think we can all agree that this effort was much more than that and
30:12if tom vial wants to find any success in the rest of 2025 this is a great way to kick things off
30:18well to that end jt i want to ask you we were talking about jorge prado with the good qualifying in
30:21the morning obviously feeling good at this track but you said that can unlock something from all the
30:26tracks can the same thing apply to the 16th yeah absolutely absolutely and and again when you come into
30:32a championship you know with tom vial especially with you know i don't think he thought hey deegan
30:37was going to run away from he felt like he was going to be at least trying to get some wins in here
30:41when things don't go right it's frustrating and when you go back to supercross maybe not going the way
30:46you want even though you won the championship you know you can rob better so to me i do feel like
30:50this will unlock um some things for tom to build or at least get up there and battle with hayden deegan
30:56so we'll find out the same thing with jorge and all roads lead to the super motocross playoffs where
31:03vial and deegan have been strong in the past starts september 6th charlotte north carolina that's
31:08september 13th st louis missouri at the dome and then the smx world championship final for the second
31:14year in a row in las vegas that's where the champions are crowned tickets and information go to supermotocross.com
31:26is there any time left vial is a massive gap to make up if he were to get to that kitchen
31:33and moseman battle this might be as far as he can go fourth place for the frenchman of the red bull ktm
31:41yeah you see him take a little look up there i think he's too far behind levi unless levi goes into
31:47you know shutdown mode but i mean i got to give credit to michael moseman i feel like he might have
31:52broken levi and levi probably thought he had him once he attacked him once michael held on to that
31:59just a lot of respect for him then the guy starts thinking about the next moto so good
32:02shout out by them all three of these guys
32:06yeah i love it man that's why you fight so hard he could have relented to kitchen
32:09jeez two three times never let him by deegan's lead is 23 seconds almost right on cue we talked
32:17about gent lords with his most dominant ride of the year in the first 450 moto now deegan doing
32:23similar things as his mechanic brent duffy got the smile because this is exactly what they want to see
32:29with the big gap yeah i guarantee if you ask him honestly like hey how difficult was that race
32:35he'd be like well it's probably the easiest race i had all year because you you get the point to where
32:40you actually start you're able to rest because this track if you do find a flow it becomes i wouldn't
32:47say easy because southwick is a hard racetrack but just like that line right there how he's able to go
32:51to the inside well he doesn't have anybody near him so he's able to do that so he can take his time and
32:57and miss all the bumps and i bet if you just watch hayden uh rod he's going to be pulling away from
33:02these guys doing it on the smoothest um smoothest line around this racetrack and the reason he's able
33:06to do that because he's so far up front so really easy race for him and all that damage was done the
33:11first three laps and deegan the real story for him was how large the points lead was early in the
33:17year because a lot of the contenders have had their problems while he's winning you got chance heimats
33:21the only rider to beat him this year out now with the torn acl kitchen had a dnf and a moto vl had a
33:27bad moto and then shibota who's second in points coming into this one first turn crash he's in 12th
33:34trying to track thrasher down might come down to the last lap to get to 11th place and that is that
33:41battle you're looking at the bottom that's shibota you see the red fenders of the honda with the yamaha
33:46of thrasher right ahead of him but only for 11th place shibota's got speed but showing the results
33:54yeah it seems like we said a lot of that for a lot of these guys they got speed but the results aren't
33:58showing and especially here at south wake makes it really hard to to get around when you come into back
34:02uh you get a bad start but yeah i mean i think with hayden we go back a couple weekends ago at
34:09thunder valley i mean he almost had a dnf that first moto so when you look at the championship
34:13there's a long way to go but he feels we see if if he's riding and no mechanicals and he doesn't go
34:21down it's gonna be hard for anybody to beat him and that's any rider that's exactly where you want to
34:26be at that's all you can hope for is just a chance if i put my best foot forward and you do
34:30you're gonna lose and i think a deacon feels like that shibota made the move on thrasher and
34:35is now caught bowling he might be able to get to 10th place from down in turn one now here's the
34:41strange thing about shibota he's won the second moto here at southwick the last two years but at a
34:47sixth and a first moto and a ninth in a first moto and now he's running 11th in a first moto so the
34:53problems early at southwick have killed his chances for an overall and a trap where he is very fast
34:59but look at this oh almost had the move on bowling yeah that was a good line by joe but again those
35:04smoother lines uh like i was saying they'll eventually pay us joe jumps in that soft part but in his stats
35:11he's right on point he's on this is average joe right right here first moto who kind of gives it
35:16back but you know again joe's been running really good all year long and anyone outside of hayden deegan
35:21it just seems like if you don't get that star this phil is too close everybody's too close to um
35:26really separate it and there it is he's made the pass on bowling so he's up to 10th
35:32maybe a 10 one day in order for shibota after a 6 1 and a 9 1 here the last two years yeah i mean
35:39he ran at 216 on that last lap i mean the only one that was close to that was tommy out with a 216
35:46as well but joe shimota just ran his fastest lap of the race that last lap and we saw him trying to
35:51get around make those paths so clearly he has the speed um he just kind of can't go down well james
35:58he started this moto symbolically talking about deegan versus jett lawrence is this on a collision
36:03course ironically or coincidentally if he wins this moto which it looks like he will he's going to tie
36:09lawrence for career moto wins in this class this is biao i think we might have lost wait a minute
36:15where is mozeman we are now seeing kitchen second and biao third and a bad lap time for mozeman at 223
36:25yeah i just saw him pop up so he must have went down oh the last lap oh bummer
36:33well jt says he saw the move made by bl so not sure if he crashed or if he just lost the pace
36:39but either way it's going to cost him a moto podium mozeman will yield to both kitchen and biao
36:45no yielding here another checkered flag another moto win for hayden began
36:55what a journey to the podium for tom biao
37:00kitchen trying to spot him for second there he is on the 47.
37:06yeah they're rob i believe i'm not sure what happened to michael it seems like that lap time was too
37:10close to be able to go down unless he just maybe tipped it or stalled it and ran off the racetrack but
37:16keep fighting to the end and he's good and that that might uh sit well tom biao to go down like
37:21he did to come back up and end up with third place just never know what happens in second moto
37:25yep they could be in position for the overall there's a problem for this young man haven't been many lately