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00:00James KTEM keys to the moto. What does it take to do that here?
00:02Well, a lot of momentum. These guys are going to have to carry their momentum.
00:05It's a sand track, so keep the gearing up.
00:07And then the most important part, start in front of Chet.
00:10That's your chance to have it. So those are my keys to the moto.
00:13So this is so critical on this deep, sandy track to get a good start.
00:17Shout out to the 206. Josh Tothi won a race in the mountains of West Virginia,
00:21the Snowshoe GNCC last weekend.
00:23But he's from Connecticut, wanted to race his home motocross race,
00:26a totally different style.
00:27He's going to pick up $2,000 from Rocky Melton.
00:30Let's go racing, live from Southwick.
00:36And Jett Lawrence and Plessinger battling for it.
00:40Lawrence of the 18 has the whole shot with his brother right behind him.
00:43Yeah, big old pileup in that first corner.
00:45Almost called Jorge Prada. He was up there, barely missed it.
00:48But that's my keys to the moto. These guys did not hear me.
00:51It's Jett Lawrence out front, like you said, followed by his brother.
00:54It's going to be tough for these guys.
00:55But Plessinger right there, knocking on the door as well as Cooper Webb.
00:59Prado in green. Watch him on the outside.
01:01Yeah, Jorge Prada was almost two and a half seconds faster than all these guys in that second practice.
01:06So we'll see how he goes.
01:07But good to see the Cowboy.
01:09They know they need to make some passes to get up there with that 18.
01:12Once he gets comfortable, it's going to be difficult to get around him.
01:15And Eli Tomac is back in 11th, the multi-time champion, who's so good at this track.
01:20He has work to do.
01:22Prado.
01:23See him there on the left side, trying to get the number two of Webb.
01:27Yeah, Jorge wanted to get to that line where Cooper Webb was.
01:29But sometimes it funnels into one line.
01:31But it's good to see the number seven, Monster Energy Kawasaki, being super aggressive.
01:35He should maybe have the power on the inside of Cooper Webb if he can get to the inside of him.
01:40And Plessica working on Hunter Lawrence for second.
01:45Not able to make it happen.
01:48No, Aaron's going to try to slingshot around this outside.
01:50He's going to funnel back into one line.
01:52But here at Southwick, you've got to be careful of being so close to the guy.
01:56You're going to run out of vision.
01:57And it's hard to do that when you see the number 18 out front.
02:00You want to get going.
02:01But quickly as we say that, we can see the gap already growing with Jet Lawrence.
02:05And the reason Prado there on that green machine is such a story,
02:08this is the multi-time MXGP champion from Europe who is expected to contend for race wins and podiums this year.
02:15And it has not gone that way at all this morning in qualifying the first real show of speed in America for him
02:21with those fast qualifying times.
02:23Could today be a turnaround?
02:24He needs to get Webb.
02:25And he's trying again.
02:26Yeah, he's trying to get it.
02:28And one thing that we haven't seen all year really is Jet Lawrence.
02:31Once he's out front, he's been out front a lot.
02:32But him being able to pull away from these guys, he must have been working on that.
02:36So you can see the sense of urgency in all the rest of these guys trying to get around.
02:40Jorge's maybe getting a little frustrated, but good to see him.
02:42And you can see that number three behind him, a couple of positions behind him.
02:45Will?
02:47James, you said it.
02:48Good to see Jorge running up front there with that front pack.
02:51And the team, no doubt, will feel exactly the same way because they have been working very hard.
02:56We had the off weekend after High Point last weekend, and they have been at it just testing.
03:01They've been on the sand, trying to find good sand settings for Jorge.
03:05And I asked Oscar Villeman there, the crew chief for him, what's made the difference?
03:10He said, well, one, a little bit of gaps made up with this being sand.
03:13No, it's not European-style sand track, but it is more familiar.
03:17Everything this year for him is new.
03:20So a bit of familiarity will take it.
03:22And he said, on top of that, it's just adjustment to the bike.
03:25But there's a lot of things he said that the Kawasaki is just different.
03:28They've worked to sort of bring that familiarity back to him.
03:31And Jorge, they said, it's just kind of like he's got this attitude of just adjusting to the bike, too.
03:36So those things coming together, we're just seeing a stronger start to the day, too, for him, James.
03:40Yeah, no, I agree.
03:42And I had a chance.
03:43He was my, Oscar was my mechanic.
03:44So they got a lot of experience over there at Kawasaki.
03:46So Jorge needs to just continue fighting the game, and he'll continue to get better.
03:50It's hard being the champion that he is.
03:52He wants to win.
03:53And, you know, when you've got the number three, Eli Tomac coming behind you, makes things really difficult.
03:58But Eli made a lot of passes early, Jason.
04:00We said he was outside the top ten for him to be up, making moves.
04:03That's a good sign to see the number three.
04:05Yeah, James, 11th to 6th now.
04:07He's gotten around Cornelius Pondola at 417.
04:10A visitor from Norway.
04:12Just a guest appearance today.
04:14Tomac has gotten around him.
04:15And Tomac, you see him in that yellow gear, looking to make the move on Prado.
04:19Yeah, you can tell his sense of urgency with Eli Tomac.
04:23And I believe if he's going to be able to make a pass, now it starts opening up.
04:26If he can get alongside of Jorge right here, he might have an opportunity.
04:29Because to a lot of parts on this racetrack, you have to funnel back in.
04:32It's going to be difficult to pass the Monster Ninja Kawasaki number seven as he tries to go back.
04:37Eli's teammate, Cooper Webb.
04:38Yeah, he's trying to get around Webb.
04:40He's used this outside line a few times, side by side.
04:43Not enough.
04:43A battle for Ford.
04:46Yeah, you've got to see these guys funnel back in towards the same line.
04:48Eli's going to switch around.
04:50And I love here at Southwick, but you've got to make it.
04:52When you see the opportunity, you've got to really strike on it.
04:55Because, again, vision, it becomes a problem here.
05:00Prado is still working on the two of Webb with Tomac in hot pursuit, JT.
05:05Yeah, Tomac's trying to make a move here, Jason.
05:08And it's so important that he doesn't get stuck into their pace.
05:12He's fallen into that trap a couple of times this season.
05:15The same thing Prado's dealing with.
05:16He needs to get really urgent and really aggressive.
05:18Because I'll tell you what I think.
05:20I think he's looking around for where is Jett Lawrence.
05:22And you wonder why is Jett Lawrence being so aggressive early?
05:25He's worried about Eli Tomac as well.
05:27Those two know that if they were out front together, that they might be able to get away.
05:32So Eli Tomac, if he wants any chance at getting to the front of this race,
05:35he's got to make a quick pass.
05:36When you see the urgency, JT with Prado, motorcycle was completely sideways.
05:41He was trying to get Webb.
05:43He holds him off.
05:44And now Tomac is through as well.
05:46Yeah, that's what you have to do.
05:47Eli, when Jorge strikes, you know, I don't think Cooper realized that Eli was that close.
05:51So he made that pass.
05:52But the problem for him, I mean, Jett Lawrence is seven seconds up front right now ahead of his brother.
05:58So Eli would look around and see he ain't looking for the 18 because the 18 is gone.
06:02He's got a lot of work.
06:03And James, you made this point earlier.
06:05This is not normally the way Jett Lawrence does it.
06:07Yes, he wins nearly every time he's out there, but doesn't normally build the big early gap.
06:12No, Jeff's very patient.
06:14And he just kind of allows the racetrack to suit in and settle in for him to go.
06:18But I think what JT said was an excellent point.
06:21He wants to get away from that number three.
06:23There's no sense of battling with him because we know how strong Eli is.
06:26So a lot of these races, I felt like Jett could have put the race away if he would have been like this.
06:31So I believe he worked on that during this off weekend.
06:34And it's showing for sure.
06:35And it's 1-2 for the Brothers Lawrence.
06:38Also teammates on the Honda HRC Progressive Team out of Australia.
06:44Little adjustment to the motorcycle at the beginning of this championship,
06:47but now into round five, they have certainly solved any of those problems.
06:51But listen to the crowd cheering the Cowboy on.
06:53They love Plessinger.
06:54Yeah, they love the Cowboy, but I think what they love is that number three coming up.
06:59And you can see Jorge starting to close back in on air.
07:01And you can hear that Yamaha of Eli Tomek wide open going.
07:06He knows what time it is.
07:12This is another battle that everyone wanted to see.
07:14Where would Prado slot in on a good day?
07:16They have not been the type of results expected.
07:18The first few races, he's up front now.
07:20Let's see how it shakes down between he and Tomek.
07:25Oh, Jorge almost went off the track right there.
07:27You can see the front end dancing around.
07:29And this track, even though it's a sand racetrack, it has a really hard base.
07:32So you're going to see a lot of movement from the bike with these guys.
07:34And the key is to have the movement, but not to slam into these corners
07:38and get so deep into it, you lose all your momentum.
07:40So, so far, it's going pretty good.
07:44You're going to see a lot of back and forth.
07:45Guys starting to get away and it looks like they're playing that cat and mouse game.
07:48But a lot of that happens because the guy wants to stay out of his ruse.
07:51So, you know, there's only certain parts of this racetrack where you have to strike.
07:55So right now, Eli is probably setting up that move.
07:57So you think Tomek actually will strategically drop back enough to not catch the sand
08:01off the back of the bike?
08:03Yeah, 100%.
08:04Like, there are certain parts where he won't be able to pass him.
08:07So you don't want to eat that ruse.
08:08It not only messes your vision up, it messes your breathing up as well.
08:11So you'll probably see Eli close back in up on the end of his lap.
08:15But JT.
08:16Just watching Jorge Prado there, James.
08:19You know, so much of this season just looks like he's lost some confidence.
08:23This is a guy who's really never lost much in his entire career.
08:27Like, he went on a four-year run of winning championships in Europe.
08:31He comes to America, really hasn't seen the same success.
08:33And part of that has to be believing in himself.
08:37And you see, he's pulling back out of gap on Eli Tomek.
08:40The longer he can stay up here, the longer he can see the lead,
08:43the more that confidence is going to come back
08:45and it's going to unlock all of the great things that he's capable of.
08:48Yeah, I completely agree.
08:50And I think with Jorge, as you just said, it's the confidence.
08:52And so he might be in fourth place right now.
08:55And you would think, like, he wants to win.
08:57But this is a huge step compared to what we've seen the last few weekends.
09:00And just what you saw with Jorge right there, lifting the front end, jumping around,
09:04that's the guy that we kind of expected to see.
09:06And we haven't seen that these first four motos, but four races.
09:11And they've left Webb behind.
09:13There goes Tondol.
09:13Again, the rider out of Norway.
09:15It's Jason Anderson out of New Mexico.
09:17That's the teammate of Prado on the Kawasaki.
09:21Okay, Koulos coming by.
09:22And Justin Barsha welcome back to racing.
09:24First motocross race of the year for him.
09:26He's in 10th, coming off a knee injury.
09:29Jen Lawrence doing what he has done quite incredibly.
09:32He has only lost one race on a 450 in motocross
09:37and starting it out well again today.
09:40Enjoy the sounds of motocross as we go to break.
09:42If you're watching on Peacock.
09:44He's trying his feet to you.
09:46His feet, is that a breaking form of a jade?
09:49Yeah.
09:58That's all that happens.
09:59Much like the Goat.
10:01Only a couple seconds back off a time actually made some adjustments.
10:20All right.
10:23Now.
10:24All right.
10:39All right.
10:49All right.
10:49On left.
15:44This is where a lap ago.
15:45He got really close to Jorge, but couldn't make that pass and see what he does.
15:50He'll settle back down and try to go at them again.
15:53Halfway through this first race of the day.
15:56A reminder, Monster Energy available.
15:58Now go grab some, but keep watching this action because Tomac definitely have some spots
16:04on the track as he resets and goes back after Prado.
16:08Hammering through that corner.
16:10Yeah, that's what Eli's really known for, really charging into a lot of these sections.
16:14And the hard part is he can charge into it and get into a one-liner racetrack.
16:18And then he's got to follow him and just eat that sand.
16:21So he's got to pick his spots, JT.
16:23He does.
16:24And James, you were talking about this before the race, where it's so important for Eli Tomac to get out front.
16:29And that doesn't mean he has to get the whole shot.
16:30But if he could just be with Jet on the first lap, that would help him avoid all of these things
16:36because you look back over this championship at Colorado, at High Point.
16:40He gets stuck behind guys.
16:41He falls into their pace and he cannot find a way around him.
16:44And the guys he really wants to be battling with are riding off into the distance and taking points with him.
16:50And the team manager of Monster Energy Yamaha Star Racing couldn't agree with you more, JT.
16:55Rich Simmons was talking about exactly that subject with me earlier.
16:58They said, you know, they really want Tomac out there in that top five.
17:02And one of the things that he added to that, he said, past top five back there, he starts getting crowded.
17:06It starts getting a little risky.
17:08There's a lot of elbows in there.
17:09Everyone's packed in.
17:10It's kind of bored of that top five.
17:12There's more room.
17:13More room to be aggressive and more room to chase up front there.
17:16To your point, JT, and not let Jet Lawrence get away the way he has.
17:20He didn't get that start here.
17:22Maybe you'll try again now.
17:23He's usually stronger at the start at the moment too.
17:25Thanks, Bill.
17:26And Prado is now the rider on the move.
17:28He's got a line on Klesinger.
17:30And he's up to third.
17:31Yeah, nice move.
17:32You can see that one coming.
17:33You can start to see Aaron starting to stand up a little bit.
17:36And again, it's Southwick.
17:37And Aaron's getting in a tough spot because he's 10 seconds behind Hunter Lawrence.
17:40So he doesn't have that rabbit to chase.
17:42And it's easy when the guy behind you, Jorge, he's getting confidence by every lap.
17:46Now comes the number three.
17:49Quickly, his arrow is in third.
17:50Now he's in fifth place.
17:51That just happened instantly.
17:53Now I expect Eli since he's got it.
17:55Sometimes when you make a pass on a rider, you kind of relax a little bit.
17:58You know, if you're Jorge.
17:59So maybe Eli can try to shock him.
18:01But now as soon as I say that, the number seven, Aaron's trying to get him down.
18:04Plus you're trying to get it back at the bottom.
18:06That's a battle for ninth.
18:07Harry Kulas, the rider from Estonia, has it.
18:10But the rider with those orange pants on the blue bike, that is Justin Cooper.
18:14One of the favorites today, but a rare bad start for him.
18:19Kulas right now.
18:20His season best in a moto is 12th.
18:22He's in ninth.
18:23Cooper trying to get him as Tomac.
18:25This is big.
18:26If he could get Prado for third, because in motocross, the overall win for the day is two races combined.
18:33You're watching the first one here.
18:34They'll race again in an hour.
18:36And if Tomac could maybe get to third, you've got to win the second moto.
18:40A 3-1 could still get the overall for the day.
18:43Yeah, no, it'd be important for Eli.
18:45But, I mean, you've got to give Jorge a lot of credit because he's riding really good.
18:48Eli got another face full of roots.
18:50And, again, that just demoralized you as a rider.
18:54You just eventually just like, man, I can't deal with this.
18:56So, you know, yeah, it's going to be important for Eli to try to continue to move forward.
19:01Because right now, it's easy to get stuck in that position.
19:04And the next thing you know, you're riding in fourth place.
19:06And I know for him, he wants to be out there with Jett Lawrence.
19:09But he's always 22 seconds behind the guy.
19:11And all that was done that first couple laps.
19:13Yeah, Jett Lawrence in complete control up front.
19:16Ken Tomac, as Jason Thomas mentioned at the top of the show, third all-time.
19:21He wins at this racetrack.
19:23Any stat you want, Supercross in the indoor stadiums, motocross here outdoors.
19:28All-time starts, wins, podiums, you name it.
19:31He's in the top three in nearly every statistical category all-time.
19:34That's how strong Tomac is.
19:36Right now, though, one of the first face-offs between he and perhaps Europe's best,
19:41the Spaniard, Jorge Prado.
19:46And the fans trying to will Tomac toward the podium.
19:49Yeah, Eli's actually going a lot faster than what his lifetime say.
19:53You can tell, like, with him, how quickly he can catch Jorge.
19:57It's just certain parts of the racetrack.
19:58Like I said, he backs off and then tries to avoid that ruse.
20:01But what Eli's starting to do now, he's starting to pivot his motorcycle and run straight into the corners.
20:06Like right here, he doesn't lean the bike.
20:08Instead of being on that angle, because that's one big sweeper, he's starting to straighten the motorcycle up and doing that point-and-shoot.
20:13And it's really easy to catch a guy like that, especially at his racetrack.
20:17But the problem is, if you don't get him to beat him to the corner, now you're stuck behind him again.
20:22And not able to find daylight yet.
20:25Tomac and Prado might be the last battle left for the podium.
20:28But the Lawrences just continuing their run up front, 1-2.
20:36Hunter Lawrence in second place right now on that 96, deep in lap traffic.
20:42And one of the stories of this racetrack is all the locals who race here consistently, they know the lines around this track.
20:49So you'll have a lot of unfamiliar names to deal with, both on the lead lap and when passing them.
20:55The lap dealt, Hunter able to make it happen there.
20:57And you can see the building of his results as the season has gone on, Will.
21:02They've just been getting better and better, Jason.
21:04And we talked about the top of the show, their second overall at High Point a couple of weekends ago, their best result of the season.
21:11And that is testament to all the work that has gone in to get this Honda machine in the place that it is now.
21:18And that's not just work from Hunter.
21:20He's talked about it multiple times, how much the team has worked.
21:23And I was talking to Johnny O'Meara, their trainer, earlier on today.
21:26And he said, look, that comes right from the very top.
21:29HRC in Japan.
21:30He's like, what they give us, the things they've made available.
21:32And that filters right the way through, through the teams, mechanics, everybody down to the riders.
21:37And, of course, himself as a trainer as well.
21:39He said, I've never seen such work put in to get them to where they need to be.
21:44And it's starting to show.
21:45And, Will, that speaks volumes because Johnny O'Meara, who is the coach for them, raced for that team.
21:50One of the greats of the 1980s in Honda's powerhouse days then.
21:53So he has seen how Honda Racing Corporation works at every angle.
21:57And you don't impress him easily.
21:59Tomac continuing to work on Prado.
22:01That's the battle for third you're watching here.
22:04Again, if you're watching on Peacock, stay with us during the break.
22:08Continue to watch and listen to this battle.
22:14Tomac looking for a wheel on the number 70.
22:18He's got the inside.
22:22Not enough.
22:23Oh!
22:24And Prado tucked into the corner and goes down.
22:27Yeah, you can see that.
22:28And I think a lot of that was caused by Eli putting that pressure on him.
22:31And, as I mentioned, it's really the inside of these corners really slippery.
22:35So Jorge got in there.
22:36He lost that front end and then hit that sand.
22:38And he just went over to Hanna bars.
22:40Tomek pushing it and pushing him as well?
22:43Yeah, because you can see Eli was closing in on Jorge.
22:46And he tried switching it up.
22:48Jorge felt that pressure and just pushed that front end and went down.
22:51So bummer for him.
22:52But still a good rider.
22:53Good ride by him.
22:54That will drop him behind Plessinger as well.
22:56Watch Prado the lead rider here in this duo.
22:59Yeah, you can see Jorge going and he starts losing the front end.
23:02And it just hits that sand and it just swallowed you up.
23:04And with them bringing that extra sand on this racetrack,
23:07the berms on the outside are getting a lot deeper.
23:09So easy crash to happen but a costly one for Jorge.
23:13Caught in the sandbox.
23:14Jorge Prado now back to fifth.
23:16Plessinger and Tomek pass him.
23:18It's still the Lawrence's second.
23:20Hunter Jett out front.
23:39He's hiding a lot of his car.
23:43He's hiding his car.
23:44He's hiding!
23:45I hope he's hiding it.
23:46It's still the one he's hiding.
23:48There he goes.
23:49There he goes.
23:50He's hiding it.
23:51I'm hiding it!
23:52It's the only one he knows.
23:53But what he does now is to catch him in the distance.
23:54So very quick I think he's hiding.
23:55He's hiding it.
23:56It's home.
23:57Here he goes.
23:58To make a � like a Tomek.
27:20I've got to be a professional
27:22sport that we're really
27:24impressed with.
27:26You know we talked about
27:27certain races and Supercross
27:28like Daytona is a known track
27:30for Eli Toolman.
27:31He's always been really
27:32successful all-time winnings
27:33rider at that particular
27:35supercross.
27:36But jet launch shows up at that
27:37race more focused more
27:38determined to beat Eli there.
27:40coach's job to find the weakest point of any athlete.
27:43You know, they try to exploit that.
27:45Where in motocross, you really can't hide it.
27:47You know, Eli's very good at this racetrack.
27:49And my whole point is, I feel like Jett has came to this racetrack more focused,
27:54knowing that this could be a knockout punch for a guy like Eli Tomac.
27:59And so as an athlete where Jett Lawrence is, you try to beat that guy at his best,
28:03on his best surface, and unlike the other sports,
28:06you're not relying on anybody else to accomplish that except for yourself.
28:09So it's cool to see Jett Lawrence go out here and do this.
28:12And, you know, so far, with two and a half minutes to go, man, the kid's got it going, JT.
28:17He certainly does, James.
28:18And I'm wondering, so the setup for you in 2008 was very similar to this.
28:22You come back really quickly from an ACL surgery, and you go on a streak of winning.
28:27You won every overall, every race that year.
28:29But Jett's done the same, minus two motos.
28:31But at some point, did you feel like, okay, now I can start to actually ride by myself?
28:36Now I can actually be 100% an uncork one?
28:39Because when I watch Jett, that's what I'm seeing.
28:41But I wonder for you, did you feel that way?
28:44Yeah, no, I did.
28:46And I think, like, the difference between me and where Jett is right now,
28:49in 2008, after I showed up and I'm like, I won that first moto,
28:53I felt like, look, I got the speed and I can beat these guys.
28:56I just got to stay up.
28:57So my mentality was a little bit different.
28:59I was trying to motivate myself in different ways where I feel like with Jett,
29:03even though he's got, you know, Eli Tomac, his brother out here,
29:06it almost makes it easier for him to stay focused because he knows every week he has to show up.
29:11As dominant as this kid is right now with a 10-second gap, Eli Tomac is riding really good.
29:17He's just caught behind these guys.
29:19And so for me, I think it's easier for Jett knowing I've got to show up here and bring my A game
29:23because otherwise I'm going to get beat and I've been beat twice this year.
29:27So he's really, as an athlete, you're watching probably the best he ever has written in his whole career
29:32because of the competition and him knowing that he's got to step his game up.
29:36So to answer your question, I just realized, I know he realized how good everybody else is
29:41and he has to bring it to win.
29:43He's not having to imagine these threats.
29:45They are legitimate threats.
29:46They are legitimate threats where I feel like with this race,
29:50there's a difference between how he attacked this race, you know,
29:53some of the paths where Eli and all these guys, we've been talking about,
29:56you've got to get in front of Jett Lawrence.
29:58Well, Jett got a start and Jett put in opening three laps that I haven't seen him do in the motocross here,
30:05really like sprint laps or other things, like, you know, really trying to get out.
30:09And he's been able to break those guys and get that gap.
30:12And then what happens is now he's riding this whole race on his own terms
30:16and what he's really good at, now he's been able to do that, you know, on his own.
30:20So really impressed with the way he's going to attack in this whole racetrack and this race in particular here today.
30:25The 21-year-old phenom out of Australia who is rapidly moving up the all-time charts statistically
30:31and rapidly moving up in this race is the veteran out of Florida here, the 24 of R.J. Hefshire.
30:37He crashed in the first turn of this race.
30:40He was essentially last around 40th, and he has come all the way up to 8th now.
30:46Show you the start again.
30:47Yeah, this is that right-handed first corner I was talking about,
30:50and it looks like somebody in the middle, they start sliding because these guys can't get on their brakes.
30:55Yeah, when you've got a right-handed first corner and you've got guys going left, it's not good.
31:03Well, you mentioned why that, you said that right-hand first turn is very rare.
31:08Why is that so tricky, and why do we not see it more often?
31:11Well, it's one of the reasons it's difficult because the guys can't get on their brakes, you know,
31:15so they can't hit the rear brakes to slow down.
31:17So once you decide to put your foot out, you've got that roll speed, so that's when you have a lot of issues.
31:23But here at Southwick, it is an uphill start, so you have that momentum.
31:27As soon as you let off the gas, the bike slows down a lot quicker, and with that sand,
31:31so I think it just catches these guys out.
31:32They're running into it, the bike slows down, and the next thing you know,
31:35they can't hit the brakes, and all the things go haywire up here.
31:38Yeah, their right foot controls the rear brake, but when you stick it out for a corner, you can't use it.
31:43That caught several riders.
31:44Hampshire has made up a ton of ground.
31:46He's going about as fast now as he did in the opening laps of the race.
31:51Shot gets rougher.
31:51There's fatigue.
31:52It has not stopped the 24.
31:54It's been very good.
31:56Moving up to the bigger 450 bike.
31:58The 250 class will be up next.
32:01You're going to watch on Peacock or the SMX Video Pass.
32:03It'll be a full day of racing, even after this moto concludes.
32:07Now up ahead, Cooper Webb and Justin Cooper fighting for sixth,
32:11and that could have big numbers when it comes to calculating the points.
32:17This is that battle.
32:18Justin Cooper, and a lap rider between he and Webb.
32:20No, he has caught Webb completely, and at the end of this summer, they're going to take the points from Monster Energy Supercross
32:27and the Pro Motocross Championship to create seeding for the SMX playoffs, and these are the riders 1-2 in the combined rankings right now.
32:35And Justin Cooper is looking to make a move and steal more points from his teammate.
32:39Yeah, I'm not sure what happened to Justin Cooper in that opening off the start because normally he's a good starter.
32:44He was really far back, and he's going three seconds a lap faster than his teammates, so the pass was going to happen at this point.
32:50And being our Monster Energy fastest qualifier, you know Justin Cooper has some speed to play with.
32:54So for him, he's going to be another moto where he's fastest in practice, but the results don't show it.
32:59But overall, with two minutes, a little under two laps to go, it's good to see Justin Cooper with this much speed and looks pretty fit to me.
33:07Oh, and Hampshire has joined the party on that white Rockstar Husqvarna.
33:12He wants Webb as well.
33:13Yeah, RJ's got some good pace, and I had a chance to talk to him in between practice, and he said they made some changes on the bike.
33:19He feels really comfortable, and ever since he's been on this 450, he feels like this bike suits him a lot better, his riding style.
33:26So some of the wild things that we used to say with RJ, maybe some RJ-ish things where he might hit the ground.
33:32He doesn't feel like that sketchy on this motorcycle, so it's good to see.
33:36He's definitely got some pace if he can work this number two.
33:38But we know the defending Supercross champion in Cooper Webb is not an easy guy to pass, especially when he realizes he's only got a lap left.
33:45He's going to try to hold that number 24 off.
33:48It's going to be grit in that battle for seventh and eighth as Justin Cooper looks to get away.
33:52The rider out of Long Island, New York, but did not come to Southwick that much when he was growing up.
33:58There's a weird situation where the New England riders race here all the time, and the people from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania rarely enter their territory.
34:06Oh, and Hefshire dumps it on the last lap.
34:10RJ, come on.
34:11I was just talking about you being a lot smoother, so I'm going to just chalk that up.
34:15He was trying to make a pass on Cooper on that inside, just easy to fall out.
34:18But still a good ride by him, and I want to keep an eye on this battle right here for fourth place with Aaron Plesserner, Jorge Prada,
34:25because we saw Jorge go down early in that race.
34:27Well, he's catching the number seven of Aaron Plesserner for four.
34:30So it just shows you how much confidence Jorge has gotten in this moto, and he might be able to get him.
34:37Meanwhile, no one is catching Jet Lawrence.
34:42Just an incredible start to his career in three years.
34:46He has only been beaten one time in motocross on a 450.
34:50Now, missed the title last year, went out with injury.
34:53Rumors that last year's champion, Chase Sexton, might return to action next weekend at Redbud.
34:58He's been out after a big crash at the opening round.
35:03And there's that battle in the bottom box between Plesserner.
35:07He's on the orange KTM and the green machine, the Kawasaki Prado.
35:10That is for fourth.
35:12Yeah, Jorge knows Aaron's stuck behind his lap rider, so you've got to try to get him.
35:16You've got to get him now.
35:17But, yeah, what can you say about Jet Lawrence?
35:19I mean, at this point, you hope when a guy has this bigger lead, if you're Eli Tomek, you're like, man, maybe he was riding really hard.
35:26But you see him.
35:27He's recovering right now.
35:28So it's almost like he's going to be just as fresh as he was when he first went out there because of the lead he's got.
35:34And he's going to be trouble for these guys.
35:36Yeah, moto too.
35:37He's definitely saving something for the end.
35:38Continuing to build a legacy, even early in his career, he just keeps on winning.
35:45Jet Lawrence takes the first moto at Southwick.
35:49Prado leaving it all on the racetrack as he tries to get Plessinger.
35:55Yeah, if he stays close, he might have another opportunity, I think, if it would be right here.
36:00So Aaron, you've got to give him number seven credit.
36:02He heard him and he stepped it up.
36:03But, yeah, he might have that gap right now.
36:05Jorge's not close enough for him, but still a great route for Austin and Kawasaki, especially what happened in these first four rounds.
36:12Oh, yeah, still going to tie his season best with a fifth.
36:15But remember, he was running further up than that for the first time this year in this moto.
36:19But now only one turn remains.
36:22The Lawrences have gone one, two.
36:23The brothers from Australia, Tomek third, fourth to Plessinger.
36:29And for the first time this year, some noise in the corner of Jorge Prado,
36:33looking to show everyone that he could be a contender.
36:36As.
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