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00:00On motocross here this weekend at Southwick and I guess the question could be can he live up to the billing but that's all he's done all season long. So I guess the bigger onus is really on everyone else. He's trying to match him. Yeah it really is. I mean you can see where Hayden's mindset is but again that's why we line him up when we go racing because anything can happen and just that highlight we saw Hayden going down last year so you know this track here at Southwick presents his own challenge so we're going to find out next 30 plus two.
00:29And the starts have actually been a weakness for Deegan this year both in supercross and motocross. Does not have a hole 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'd just say he's probably not as focused on it. Maybe doesn't need to be. Let's find out. Rebs are up. Gates down. Well he's certainly got the launch this time.
00:54Deegan has that first hole shot of the year. And you were saying Jack. Okay is he more focused on that today. Yeah well he most probably he probably doesn't want to get dirty out here but he you know it's just like I mean there's a lot of motivation to what he just saw what Jet Lawrence did in that 450 class.
01:12And Hayden knows he can get out here and execute these first few lapses and we see Tom Vial 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 Vial and Mikko Nore up in here.
01:29Harap excuse me. It's right there. Oh and then someone just tucked the front and went down. Was that Hamaker right behind Harap and then Jalik Swole was the next. Oh that got close. Yeah that was a heads 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 Seth Hamaker that went down. Bummer for him.
01:53Yeah because Kitchen that's the other monster proser to 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.
02:13Nah he's got the teleport right there. Jason said I'm struggling. I'll do him but he 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 division is a big thing so why don't you make life easier on yourself by getting out front.
02:31I mean Jent Lawrence wasn't much different in that 450 moto. 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 throughout this pro motocross championship running well in second of the 93.
02:47Yeah 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.
02:58So 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.
03:04Uh oh. Just held onto 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 out of sorts because he was looking at Michael. Lost the front end and that was a bummer.
03:17What I was going to say with 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 actually both these guys because they lose Tom
03:28and the Hayden Deegan but especially Tom. Oh yeah and early in the race Vial's going to go way back now. I think he's in 11th place.
03:35Harrop up to third now ahead of Kitchen. Yeah Harrop he's been around really good so we'll see. Will.
03:43So 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.
03:51Apparently 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.
04:06James you know how tough these tracks are. These outdoor trucks and how much it takes out of you so if you don't have any energy in the first place you're basically done.
04:13As we said now I'm healthy I was able to put in some good days on the bike and hopefully it's going to show today and it is a moto one guys.
04:20Yeah 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.
04:26Sometimes 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.
04:33So it just shows you how much determination Michael has and I'm sure a lot of that comes from just his you know excitement to be back and you know his perspective on life.
04:41You know this guy broke his neck people like he he was out wasn't sure if he's ever going to race again 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 third place.
04:56Um I'm happy for Michael.
05:00It is a great story in return but I want to ask you this okay he's sick we hear fighters talk about illness all the time.
05:06Chet Lawrence mentioned on the podium Cooper Webb said he's been under the weather for all five rounds now.
05:12What is it about the lifestyle the training travel whatever it is because we hear this all the time in this sport.
05:17Yeah 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 you go to work you call in a sick day.
05:25Well 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're sick or not it was going to be hard to get through these first four races and being sick only makes it difficult.
05:48So I just think it's the lifestyle as you just mentioned Jason they're training during the week all the 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.
05:59Do you think even in your experience are you more susceptible because you're training yourself so much to catch something.
06:05Yeah 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.
06:14So 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 doesn't care.
06:24Southwick doesn't care if you're sick or not.
06:26Yeah.
06:26And 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.
06:33Deegan 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 Harrop for a third going to try to run Moseman down but has about three seconds to make up.
06:47JT what do you think with the leader there.
06:48Well I think he's pretty spectacular here and let's flash back to a year ago here there 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 think about what he's doing here.
07:11This is a racetrack where we weren't sure if sand was really his thing not always 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 winning 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 he really needed before he takes that step to a 450.
07:35JT 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 and went over everything that they told hey to make sure in these terms 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
08:05and then this whole week was a reminder of what to do so he could go out on a day like today and execute.
08:10Yeah and that's a good point and having a team like Star Race and Yamaha keeping them focused because you know I almost would put money on that Hayden was sitting on the gate after watching Jet Lawrence win and just the motivation and the sound bike we have from him in the beginning part him knowing and where his ultimate goal is to eventually get to that 450 class in the race against Jet Lawrence.
08:31I bet he was sitting on the gate saying you know what if you can do that I'm going to do it better and it's easy for a young kid to start over riding the motorcycle and 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 and you will end up you know you're going to do it.
08:59You will get beat and you will end up you know being in a position so it's a deadly combination to deal with and you're watching something spectacular just like we were watching with Jet Lawrence this kid's got it all for sure.
09:11And the bottom box below Deegan there Villal in orange has made his way back up he's got Nate Thrasher right ahead of him in eight he is ninth and then Ty Masterpool is tenth shout out to Parker Ross running well on the Bar X Toyota of Redlands Yamaha they only get a limited amount of help from Yamaha riding well
09:29in 11th and they all started to close on Thrasher then Boland is up ahead in seventh you know and sometimes with in a position like you know Tom Vial like don't don't mistake him we talk about Hayden Deegan 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 it might be a better space to be at as he makes the pass right here it might be a better space
09:59he wants to get better get the opening laps and the last thing he wants to see is him be in second place and watch Hayden Deegan 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 finding that flow and since he went down he doesn't have to worry about Hayden Deegan he can just get that confidence instead of maybe watching Hayden Deegan ride away from JT.
10:19there'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 Deegan be able to do of course in 2024
10:34now 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 Deegan would be doing out front that'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
10:55it's certainly going to be a test for Vial to get back to that podium type spot after that early crash of Boland in his sights and this is it Kitchen has closed the gap on Moseman for the number two spot
11:08yeah Levi's been riding good the last few weekends and so has Michael so you know you're about 10 minutes in this race and it's going to be a long moto from these guys 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 somebody
11:25his one line section is that these guys got to back off and get these the guy in front of room otherwise you're just going to run into vision issues and then again all the sand and all that so Levi will close in on them and then Michael will 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
11:45oh this is going to be good let's see how this outside yeah that outside is just not formed up yet
11:55she goes back to work
12:00not fun to hear the bikes labor through the sand
12:05and they're going to wind it back out past the mechanics area
12:17the motivation for Moseman keep going
12:24yeah I feel like with this racetrack you know there's only certain parts where you're like
12:29you're white knuckling here where you're like I'm scared and that's one of the sections
12:33when you go past that mechanics area it's a high speed really the bike's moving around
12:37it's sliding and it's like man I'm just happy to get through it
12:40the rest of this racetrack really just comes down to mental and physical like
12:44these rollers going up this hill
12:46it is so much energy to continue doing that over
12:49two thirty minute motos so again it's two different challenges
12:52there's not too many scary parts of this racetrack but there's a lot of physical
12:56parts that eventually just wears you down
12:58and um the reason is because all the corners have bumps in them and so it makes it difficult
13:03for all these riders
13:05Moseman has not had a moto podium james since 2022
13:09and that was at hangtown very early in that season for so over three years has not had an overall podium since 2021 we've talked about his comeback quite a bit broke his neck multiple concussions thought his career was over found the right people that said you know what you're not at any more risk than you were before with the deck
13:28he 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
13:35oh the next line by levi the reason I like that line because it opens up this next corner
13:41and now he's going to funnel michael goes outside levi be back on the inside so
13:47side is this it's another spot maybe levi if he can get this corner right he should be next to michael
13:52michael squares him up but
13:54oh you can see the address he was evil knievel style launching that single trying to stay close but it wasn't enough
14:01yeah he just knows there's only a few opportunities he's going to try to do this slingshot move around but
14:05he knows his outside berm isn't you know built yet as he tries to cut back in so
14:10he's got to go back to work again
14:12so in previous years that would have been enough for a berm there to make that move
14:16well i mean as the day goes on that outside will come up it's just earlier in the day that it hasn't you know progressed yet so
14:23yeah the lines that they're running right now it'll change and they'll start getting some of these outside lines where the lighter part of the track where they're not going that'll get darker as the day goes on
14:32but for sure levi just remembered last last lap it wasn't there yet so
14:38and still not able to make it work
14:40hurrah still running fourth great ride for him and now his triumph teammate swole is up to fifth so two triumphs in the top five
14:47you see bozeman hit that hole at the bottom of that jump
14:50yeah eventually these they're getting these big old holes and how they're jumping into like what michael just did right there
14:56they'll be able to do that
14:57oh kitchen
14:59now let's see if levi's going to try to square him up and get back down the inside of him here
15:04still not enough
15:09no but this is another spot right here if levi can maybe get this corner good
15:15as he does it
15:16no it was all out of sorts you mentioned energy going up that hill
15:20betcha kitchen used a whole bunch right there
15:22yeah no he used a lot i mean now he probably sit back and you see that now he's trying to rest he's sitting on his seat and that's all that energy that he was using especially on these 250 bikes
15:32you know he buries it in his corners he's got to try to stay with michael so
15:36man this track will wear you out so you'll literally see him hammer a section and then you see a little bit of resting
15:42yeah absolutely when you see a guy especially on these sand tracks if you just pay attention when you see a guy get close to him that means they're going after the pass it's not like they're getting close to him just to wait for him a few corners down the road no they're trying to make that pass instantly otherwise they're going to drop back because that ruse it wears you out and again with levi he just knows there's certain parts of this racetrack
16:01that i've got to be close to him to be able to make a pass and now he'll probably go down the same lines that michael does and then just funnel back in until he gets a lot closer to him
16:08and get a little strength back in the legs for another attack got haram swole march bank 6 vl 7 he's gone around boland this track is getting rough
16:22moseman just able to hang on and then the entrance to the corner almost throws it down yeah that's because he was losing the front end like you said but now he knew that berm eventually kept it
16:30so you know just got to keep that up just slid into it he just slid into it he didn't have no choice so it wasn't like the bike said this is what's going to happen either you accept it or you don't so
16:43this is great stuff looking at these two on the edge as this track starting to show some teeth
16:49this is what's going on
16:50this is what's going on
16:51this is what's going on
16:52it's going on
16:53this is going to be even worse
16:55yeah i mean in the 250 motos is going to be even worse than this
16:56so
16:57yeah that's the hard part every lap you come by you just like man we only in the first moto like i got to deal with this so
17:03that's why i say you got to survive the day out here
17:05now it's the key to the moto definitely is right now
17:08this is joe shimodo this is just to get into the points
17:11He's 20th, Ryder's second in the standings, getting it around, battling with Julien Bomair, 24th early in this one.
17:21Not sure what happened to Joe, maybe a problem at the start of his first turn crash.
17:25A lot of work to do, JT.
17:28Well, Joe Shimoda is certainly coming from the back, but he was caught up in a pileup with the likes of Ryder DiFrancisco and a few others,
17:34like we saw in that first moto.
17:36This first corner, they come in there with a lot of speed, but it gets really deep, really fast.
17:40Everybody has those hole-shot devices still compressed.
17:42It's a really tricky first corner here, and it wouldn't really seem that way on the surface.
17:46We've already seen two crashes through two starts.
17:49And then apparently Shimoda went down again after the first turn crash.
17:53That's another reason why he's this far back.
17:5719th, 18th now.
18:00And got a long way to go.
18:02He's also got the jersey, or is that a tear-off dangling in the side?
18:09Yeah, it looks like the jersey, so that means he might have got ran over at that point.
18:13Will?
18:15Okay, so we'll go back to Bomer.
18:17These are great riders who are battling just inside the top 20, and there's still half the race left.
18:22Reminder that Monster Energy is available now.
18:25As we get halfway through this moto, let's send it back down to Will.
18:28And what a shame that Julian Vermeer got caught up the way JT was saying at the beginning there,
18:33because he was looking really good in qualifying.
18:367th in the first, I believe 3rd in the second qualifying session.
18:40And that was what surprised him.
18:42That's what surprised the whole team.
18:44They basically took him to ride in the sand this week.
18:47Carlos Rivera, the crew chief, said, we know we're going to have to put him in the sand.
18:50He's from Lake Havasu, he's from California, he's used to a hard face, let's see how he goes.
18:55And both Juju and Carlos, when they showed up, they went, oh no.
19:00They shook their heads, they said, what are we going to do?
19:02And I said, he's had no experience in the sand.
19:04And Carlos said, put it like this, the most experience that Juju's had in the sand
19:08was probably in his little turtle sand pit when he was a kid.
19:11Unbelievably, he managed to get through the week, lots of improvement was made.
19:16And when I asked Juju about those good qualifying times, he said, look, I'm a racer.
19:19I can make it happen on race day.
19:21So not much experience apparently, but he was doing well.
19:25And yeah, I believe he got knocked out at this race last year.
19:30So didn't really get any laps in a year ago.
19:32So that adds to the lack of sand experience.
19:35Deegan has the experience right now, the one you want out front.
19:38Yeah, but I mean, to Carlos' point, I mean, this is one of the racetracks that you do
19:42have to understand that it's not like your typical sand track.
19:46I mean, it's like a sand hard pack racetrack.
19:49And all the experience that Juju had last year, he got knocked out.
19:51So he don't remember what happened anyway.
19:53But when you go back to a couple of years ago, as JT was mentioned, Hayden struggled.
19:57It was one of his only races that he struggled, you know, without going down, you know,
20:01and I think it was a couple of six or something like that.
20:04But then he comes back last year, you know, and wins.
20:06And then this year, dominating.
20:08So Juju will eventually figure this racetrack out.
20:10It just takes time.
20:11And, you know, the hard part is you got to number one.
20:15He ain't wasting time for anybody.
20:17So.
20:19Yeah, 18 DNF were the scores for Bo Mary a year ago.
20:22So if you're wondering why he doesn't have much experience in sand,
20:25didn't learn much at Southwick last year.
20:28Deegan's lead is 17 seconds.
20:30Most of it, though, has been able to shed off that pressure from Kitchen.
20:36It would be a great ride for him.
20:37And it would be a 1-2 from Oxford Yamaha Star Racing if they can hold on.
20:42Great view overhead.
20:43Yeah, Levi's probably like, I'm going to have to drop back and attack him.
20:46But, you know, I will say this.
20:48You don't really know how to ride this racetrack and learn how to ride it
20:52until you're out front, like we saw Jet Lawrence and Hayden Deegan,
20:56where you're able to really, you know, pick the lines
20:59and really get a feel of how the bike is.
21:01Because otherwise, you're following somebody.
21:03You're getting roosted.
21:03You've got your head down.
21:04And that's not how this racetrack is.
21:07So I do feel like once you're out front
21:09and you really get a sense of the way this track is
21:13and you don't have to worry about somebody right on the back,
21:15you learn how to ride Southwick.
21:17And to me, doing this, Hayden Deegan jumping out that far,
21:21that's part of learning how to ride Southwick.
21:23The farther you jump out, actually, the smoother it is.
21:25You wouldn't know that if you're getting battling somebody
21:27because you're getting roosted the whole time.
21:30A couple of battles right here at Marchbanks and the Owl, 6th and 7th.
21:34And Marchbanks kind of quietly closing up to 3rd, I believe,
21:37in the championship.
21:40And there's Swole right ahead of them.
21:42So it's going to be a good showdown.
21:44Last 10 minutes and two laps.
21:46Yeah, well, we go back two weeks ago.
21:47Jaleed came back off an injury.
21:49So, man, I was impressed with him at high point.
21:51I'm just equally as impressed today.
21:54And it just makes you wonder if he would have been in this championship
21:56from the beginning and had all the season to ride,
21:59how much better would he be?
22:01So good showing by the Triumph team
22:03being, you know, 4th and 5th out here.
22:06But really, shout-out to Jaleed Swole.
22:08Looks like Tom Vial is going to get up on the inside of Marchbanks.
22:11He's trying so hard.
22:13These last couple of corners and sections, and it pays off.
22:1616 makes the pass on Marchbanks.
22:19Yeah, I don't know if it's just the racetrack
22:21and Tom just feels more comfortable here.
22:22But whatever it is, there is a change on his riding style.
22:25And I know, again, he'll be bummed at the results,
22:27especially being a lot higher and going down that first lap
22:30with Michael Mosin, but he looks better
22:32and he looks more aggressive.
22:33And this is a Tom Vial that we kind of expected to see
22:35at the beginning part of the season.
22:37So whatever they did, they obviously figured something out
22:40over the weekend off.
22:41So it's good to see, JT.
22:42I agree with you.
22:43I was thinking the same thing when you said that.
22:45And the way I was kind of thinking about it,
22:47he looks like he's attacking the racetrack right now
22:49where the first few rounds, he looked very complacent.
22:52He was kind of having to take what the track gave him.
22:54And now he just looks so much more aggressive
22:57in his tact and the way he's going about things.
22:59So I agree with you.
23:00I don't know if it was testing in the off week
23:02or whatever it is, but this is a different looking Tom Vial.
23:05Not going to show in the results, or maybe it will,
23:09because he's not done.
23:10Now has swollen his sights.
23:11And then Harrop is about four seconds up the road.
23:14Vial is absolutely throwing down now.
23:16Yeah, and you see what Tom did now, as I mentioned earlier,
23:19like when guys get close to him,
23:21he's not going to get closer just to follow.
23:22He feels like he has an opportunity to pass him.
23:25Now him and Jalik are in the same line,
23:27so Tom would probably back it off
23:29unless he feels like he can get by him
23:30at the finish line by the mechanics there.
23:33But, yeah, I'm with you, JT.
23:35He just looks like he's a lot more aggressive,
23:37being loose, making some mistakes, the bike's flipping around,
23:40and that's not how Tom has been riding so far this year.
23:43So definitely good signs on that Red Bull KTM to see that.
23:49Ooh, nice line by Jalik right there.
23:52Trying to keep it smooth.
23:53Now, you mentioned that injury came back from an Achilles swole
23:56in the last race at high point,
23:58then hit him whole in the back section of the track
24:00of the first moto, felt some pain in that ankle foot.
24:03He was worried for a second,
24:05but then realized that's probably the scar tissue.
24:07Woo!
24:09Some scar tissue built up there for Vial.
24:11Hard landing, but makes the pass.
24:13Yeah, no, that actually wasn't a hard landing
24:15because he landed it that way.
24:16Yeah, it was smoother,
24:17and clearly he was able to get it.
24:18But that's what we've seen.
24:19Whoa!
24:20Hey, Rob, you better watch out.
24:22Tom coming through.
24:22I'll knock anybody down.
24:24So Captain Tom's out here getting it done.
24:27I don't know if I've ever seen Vial this aggressive.
24:30No, and you can tell he's feeling,
24:31but here's Levi.
24:32He caught back up to Michael again.
24:35Let's see if he can open up the kitchen for business.
24:38Does he have another attack in him?
24:40A little bit quicker last time around.
24:42Kitchen over Mosman for second place.
24:46Yeah, Levi was about two seconds faster than Michael,
24:48and you're not sure if that was because of lap riders,
24:50but as I said, I thought Levi was going to sit back
24:53and just go after Michael and then try to attack him
24:56because once you're about 20 seconds behind first place,
24:58your whole goal is just to get second at this point.
25:00So you know you got the whole motor to do it,
25:03and maybe if you let Michael go, he starts relaxing,
25:06and then you can attack him because he might think you had him broken.
25:08We'll find out here.
25:09That line by Kitchen, all the way down to the bottom of that corner
25:16where there weren't any tire tracks at all.
25:18It sure looks slippery, but trying to save energy at this point?
25:21No, that's actually how Southward breaks down.
25:23If you, you know, we saw Jalik do that right before the mechanics there,
25:26right through those inside lines,
25:29and it's hard to get there because it is so slippery,
25:31but as this track goes, it's normally slower,
25:34but as the track breaks down, the outside's going to get slower and slower
25:36and get rougher, more rough,
25:38because of those conditions.
25:40So that inside, it actually, you're saving energy,
25:42but it is probably the faster way around the racetrack.
25:44Okay, well, watch those insides.
25:46Could pay off for Kitchen.
25:48Rider out of Washington.
25:51Moseman, the Northern California native.
25:53It's fun to hear the bikes through here.
26:09Oh, it's wide open through that section.
26:11Here's the big jump.
26:12Yeah, you see the difference where Michael came up about a couple feet shorter
26:19and how much harder it was for him, and Levi jumped out there.
26:22So let's see if Levi tried to switch him up.
26:24Oh, yeah, he wanted to get to the inside,
26:25but I believe Michael's mistake caused him to slow it down,
26:29and he wasn't really sure, but great rod by him.
26:33And right back where they were about three laps ago,
26:36Kitchen with the attack.
26:38All right, now Levi has got to get this bike on the inside.
26:45Michael's going to keep pushing to the outside,
26:46so if he can get on the inside of him.
26:49He's trying.
26:50Yeah, it's going to be hard for Michael to get back to the inside.
26:52Oh, Levi could have been more aggressive,
26:53but at this point, Levi knows.
26:56I feel like I got him, but at the same time,
26:58Michael's still fighting.
27:03Oh, just throwing everything out of Kitchen.
27:06Like they say, he's throwing everything in the Kitchen Sink.
27:11Everything but the Kitchen Sink.
27:12Oh, lap traffic.
27:15Still not enough to hold up Moseman.
27:18Survives another attack.
27:19No!
27:20Kitzer of the inside lost traction.
27:22Yeah, now I would tell you from that point,
27:23Levi wasn't actually trying to pass Michael.
27:25He had to gas it because he knew
27:27the only way he could make this turn is by sliding the rear end
27:29because he didn't want to just follow Michael.
27:31He would have got roosted.
27:32So I think that was more of a cost of vision than anything.
27:35And you can see how much time he lost because of that.
27:38He just wanted to turn it into oversteer instead of understeer.
27:41Well, sometimes if you get so close to somebody,
27:44you can actually miss the roost.
27:45And I just think Levi was trying to stay out of that.
27:49So we'll find out.
27:50But I don't think that was him trying to actually pass Michael.
27:53That corner was way too tight.
27:54That's Tom Vial working on Jalik Swole for fourth place now.
27:57Man, what a moto for Vial.
28:03Right near the section where he crashed earlier.
28:08And at the top of your kitchen still going for it.
28:12Bottom boxes Vial.
28:13And Harrop, they're putting a lap rider behind them.
28:19Yeah, very impressive ride by Tom Vial to get out and pick that bike up
28:23because how the season's been going, he could have easily been like,
28:26man, another race.
28:27But this is a lot more fight than we've seen all year long.
28:31So a good ride by him.
28:32You know, we've talked so much about the Supercross Championship hangover.
28:38We've talked about it with Cooper Webb a lot in the 450 class.
28:41Vial did win a title in the most dramatic circumstances you can
28:45with Hampshire and Hamacre, and then he rolls by.
28:49Do you think there was any of that residual?
28:51Because we haven't seen the Vial we expected the first couple weeks outdoors.
28:54No, I don't personally think it was that.
28:57I mean, I think the way that Supercross, if anything,
28:59he might have been more shocked on how it happened.
29:03And so eventually the Supercross hangover, if he did have it,
29:06it would have went away, and we would have saw some rides like this.
29:08Like you mentioned earlier, you don't know if you've ever seen him ride this aggressive,
29:12especially like this year.
29:13Next level, yeah.
29:14Yeah, I don't think the Supercross, it wasn't like he had a big points lead
29:17and he was more stressed on trying to, you know, win that thing.
29:21I think he knew he had to step up and ride and get focused
29:24because I don't even know if he was the best guy in that championship at that moment
29:28until he was able to get it done.
29:29So no Supercross hangover here.
29:31I think he's just figured out whatever as he makes the pass.
29:34She's going for it, just putting that rear wheel into the ground
29:37and making the pass on Harap for fourth.
29:41Harap coming back.
29:42Yeah, he's coming back.
29:43Tom saw he was spinning up that bike,
29:46and Miguel was going to get him back, so he had to cut him off.
29:49So I love it.
29:51But still a great ride by Miguel Harap here, top five,
29:55and he said he was feeling good about this sand, so...
29:59Yeah, he's putting up right now.
30:00Still that fifth and sixth for he and Swole.
30:02A good run for the Triumph team.
30:04March Banks, Master Pole, seventh and eighth.
30:06Have anchor ninth, Bullen tenth.
30:08JT.
30:09Well, guys, I said I wanted to see some fight out of Tom Vial.
30:13I wanted to see him come back and show us some heart.
30:16Show us the guy that wants to be in the fight for this championship,
30:18the guy that won his first ever race at this racetrack,
30:20and I think we've gotten it.
30:22Now, on the score sheet, it's going to show a fourth in Emoto,
30:24but I think we can all agree that this effort was much more than that,
30:28and if Tom Vial wants to find any success in the rest of 2025,
30:31this is a great way to kick things off.
30:34Well, to that end, JT, I want to ask you,
30:35we were talking about Jorge Prado with a good qualifying in the morning.
30:38Obviously, feeling good at this track,
30:40but you said that could unlock something for all the tracks.
30:43Can the same thing apply to the sixth team?
30:45Yeah, absolutely.
30:45Absolutely.
30:46And again, when you come into a championship, you know,
30:49with Tom Vial, especially with, you know,
30:52I don't think he thought Hayden Deegan was going to run away from him.
30:55He felt like he was going to be able to try to get some wins in here.
30:57When things don't go right, it's frustrating,
30:59and when you go back to Supercross, maybe not going the way you want,
31:02even though you won the championship, you know you can ride better.
31:05So to me, I do feel like this will unlock some things for Tom
31:09to be able to at least get up there and battle with Hayden Deegan.
31:12So we'll find out.
31:13The same thing with Jorge.
31:15And all roads lead to the Super Motocross playoffs
31:18where Vial and Deegan have been strong in the past.
31:21Start September 6th, Charlotte, North Carolina.
31:24Then September 13th, St. Louis, Missouri at the Dome.
31:27And then the SMX World Championship final
31:29for the second year in a row in Las Vegas.
31:32That's where the champions are crowned.
31:34Tickets and information go to SuperMotocross.com.
31:42Is there any time left?
31:44Vial is a massive gap to make up.
31:46If he were to get to that Kitchen and Mosman battle,
31:51this might be as far as he can go.
31:52Fourth place for the Frenchman of the Red Bull KTM.
31:57Yeah, you can see him take a little look up there.
31:59I think he's too far behind Levi unless Levi goes into, you know, shutdown mode.
32:04But, I mean, I've got to give credit to Michael Mosman.
32:07I feel like he might have broken Levi.
32:09And Levi probably thought he had him once he attacked him,
32:12once Michael held on to that.
32:13Just a lot of respect for him.
32:16Then the guy starts thinking about the next moto.
32:18So, good shout-out by them, all three of these guys.
32:22Yeah, I love it, man.
32:22That's why you fight so hard.
32:24He could have relented to Kitchen, jeez, two, three times.
32:27Never let him by.
32:29Deegan's lead is 23 seconds, almost right on cue.
32:33We talked about Chet Lawrence with his most dominant ride of the year in the first 450 moto.
32:39Now, Deegan doing similar things as his mechanic, Brett Duffy.
32:42Got the smile because this is exactly what they want to see with the big gap.
32:46Yeah, I guarantee if you ask him, honestly, like, hey, how difficult was that race?
32:51He'd be like, well, that's probably the easiest race I had all year.
32:53You know, because you get to the point to where you actually start, you're able to rest
32:59because this track, if you do find a flow, it becomes, I wouldn't say easy
33:03because Southwick is a hard racetrack, but just like that line right there,
33:06how he's able to go to the inside.
33:08Well, he doesn't have anybody near him, so he's able to do that
33:11so he can take his time and miss all the bumps.
33:14And I bet if you just watch Hayden ride, he's going to be pulling away from these guys,
33:18doing it on the smoothest line around this racetrack.
33:21And the reason he's able to do that is because he's so far up front.
33:23So, really easy race for him, and all that damage was done the first three laps.
33:29And Deegan, the real story for him was how large the points lead was early in the year
33:34because a lot of the contenders have had their problems while he's winning.
33:37You got Chance Hyman, it's the only rider to beat him this year, out now with a torn ACL.
33:41Kitchen had a DNF and a moto, Vial had a bad moto,
33:44and then Shimoda, who's second in points coming into this one.
33:48First turn crash, he's in 12th, trying to track Thrasher down.
33:53Might come down to the last lap to get to 11th place, and that is that batter.
33:57So, you're looking at the bottom, that's Shimoda.
33:59You see the red fenders on the Honda with the Yamaha of Thrasher right ahead of him,
34:05but only for 11th place.
34:06Shimoda's got speed, but he's showing the results.
34:10Yeah, it seems like we said a lot of that for a lot of these guys.
34:13They got speed, but the results aren't showing,
34:15and especially here at Southwick, it makes it really hard to get around when you come into back,
34:19you get a bad start.
34:20But, yeah, I mean, I think with Hayden, we go back a couple weekends ago at Thunder Valley.
34:26I mean, he almost had a DNF that first moto, so when you look at the championship,
34:29there's a long way to go.
34:31But he feels, we see, if he's riding and no mechanicals and he doesn't go down,
34:37it's going to be hard for anybody to beat him.
34:39And that's any rider, that's exactly where you want to be at.
34:42That's all you can hope for, it's just a chance.
34:44If I put my best foot forward and you do, you're going to lose.
34:47And I think Hayden Deacon feels like that.
34:49Shimoda made the move on Thrasher and has now caught Boland.
34:52He might be able to get to 10th place from down in turn one.
34:56Now, here's the strange thing about Shimoda.
34:58He's won the second moto here at Southwick the last two years.
35:03But had a sixth and a first moto and a ninth and a first moto,
35:05and now is running 11th and a first moto.
35:08So the problems early at Southwick have killed his chances for an overall
35:13at a track where he is very fast.
35:15But look at this.
35:16Oh, almost had the move on Boland.
35:18Yeah, that was a good line by Joe.
35:20But, again, those smoother lines, like I was saying,
35:23they'll eventually pay out as Joe jumps in that soft part.
35:26But in his stats, he's right on point.
35:28This is average Joe right here at first moto who kind of gives it back.
35:32But, you know, again, Joe's been running really good all year long.
35:35And anyone outside of Hayden Deacon, it just seems like if you don't get that start,
35:39this field is too close.
35:40Everybody's too close to really separate it.
35:44And there it is.
35:44He's made the pass on Boland.
35:46So he's up to 10th.
35:48Maybe a 10-1 day in order for Shimoda after a 6-1 and a 9-1 here the last two years.
35:55Yeah, I mean, he ran a 2-16 on that last lap.
35:58I mean, the only one that was close to that was Tommy Alwood at 2-16 as well.
36:02But Joe Shimoda just ran his fastest lap of the race that last lap,
36:06and we saw him trying to get around and make those paths.
36:08So clearly he has the speed.
36:10He just kind of can't go down.
36:13Well, James, we started this moto symbolically talking about Deacon versus Jet Lawrence.
36:18Is this on a collision course?
36:19Ironically, or coincidentally, if he wins this moto, which it looks like he will,
36:24he's going to tie Lawrence for career moto wins in his class.
36:28This is Villal.
36:30I think we might have lost Michael.
36:31Wait a minute.
36:31Where is Mozeman?
36:32Mozeman, we are now seeing Kitschern second and Villal third.
36:37And a bad lap time for Mozeman at 2-23.
36:41Yeah, I just saw him pop up, so he must have went down.
36:44Oh, the last lap.
36:46Oh, bummer.
36:46Well, JT says he saw the move made by Villal, so I'm not sure if he crashed
36:53or if he's just lost the pace.
36:55But either way, it's going to cost him a moto podium.
36:58Mozeman will yield to both Kitschern and Villal.
37:01No yielding here.
37:04Another checkered flag.
37:05Another moto win for Hayden Deacon.
37:07What a journey to the podium for Tom Villal.
37:16Kitschern trying to spot him for a second.
37:19There he is on the 47.
37:22Yeah, good route by leave.
37:23I'm not sure what happened to Michael.
37:24It seems like that lap time was too close to be able to go down
37:27unless he just maybe tipped it or stalled it and ran off the racetrack.
37:30But keep fighting to the end, and he's good.
37:33And that might sit well.
37:35Tom Villal to go down like he did to come back up
37:37and end up in third place.
37:39Just never know what happens in second moto.
37:41Yep.
37:41They could be in position for the overall if there's a problem
37:44for this young man.
37:45Haven't been many lately.
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