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  • 7/5/2025
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00:00Bring it to the races 250 moto one from Redbud let's go
00:12Oh no Ryder D gets buried and tangled off the start but Shimoda grabs the whole shot great start by Joe
00:19He just heard the key up there get in front of the situation and now
00:23Let's see what the number 30 can do is good to see him out front
00:26It's actually one of the first times if not the first time he's been in the lead to see what
00:31HRC Honda could do in front of the boss, man. Yeah, you nailed it James
00:34That is his first whole shot of the year
00:35But here comes Tom VL 16 on the orange Red Bull KTM now
00:39We heard Tom been talking about the last couple weeks special last weekend opening lap as he makes his way around
00:45Joe Shimoda working about that opening lap intensity knows that's where Hayden Deegan is really strong
00:50He's strong everywhere, but can't start if you can't start in front of you got to have that intensity
00:54It's good to see these two and I would say probably the two ones that we likely to maybe upset Deegan
01:00Outside of chance time is who's out injured
01:02Yeah, these writers are second and third at points. Yeah, Shemoda and BL you got to leak swole been very good coming back from injury on the trial
01:11Seth hammaker harrop. Where is Deegan? He is
01:1417th and deep francisco 22nd
01:18Yeah, that's a crazy start. I thought Hayden was who hang on there tom
01:22Right there feet ripping off, but I mean look at the gap
01:25He's already got you talking about the intensity that is good time for the number 16
01:29But yeah, hey deegan's in the back and if i'm tom vl
01:32I'm running away
01:33I don't want to see anything to do with that number one because eventually he will come
01:37Maybe he'll worry about maybe that injury is a little bit worse than what it is the charley horse
01:40We don't know but hayden might start thinking about the championship if tom's 15 seconds out front will
01:46Even though tom vl got round joe shemoda that that was an incredible start from joe
01:52And it's been a very kind of hit and miss situation with his starts
01:55They've sort of been okay, but they've been working on them both himself and the team
01:58And when I asked what specifically they said well, it's a little bit of both
02:01But they've definitely been looking at some mapping to help within that's how they obviously control the power delivery there
02:07And they said but with that we need joe to adjust to so both of those things has come together
02:11It's been a real focus over the last week and definitely help for the start of moto one
02:15Well, that is shemoda's first hole shot will since 2023 so it worked there
02:21And with deegan way back
02:23believe it or not even though the yowl and shemoda
02:26Our top three in points neither of them had a lap led this year until now with be all getting that first lap
02:32Yeah, and we're just talking about in the 450 class just that different mindset where we were talking with aaron that intensity in the early part of the raise
02:39Now since they've gotten his start they got a gap on hayden
02:42Let's see how they react because just honda was talking about joe's gonna have to adjust
02:47I think what he's gonna have to adjust as well is getting that pace and being used to not chasing but rather leading
02:52Obviously has tom be allen front, but I think both those guys might be in the same situation. Let's see what they can do with it
02:58Right at a watch in green. That is set hammaker monster energy pro circuit kawasaki fourth and he's got an inside line on swole for third
03:06See if he can make this pass. He's got it jt
03:10Well, watching jaleek swole if you're wondering why hayden deegan didn't get such a great start
03:14You can point to none other than jaleek swole. They both got out to great jumps or accelerating side by side
03:20Swole had just the edge forced deegan to let off deegan had to drop back into the pack swole came out third
03:27You know, what's interesting deegan
03:29The headline would be that he's had great success at this track. He dominated
03:33In one of his final amateur races. That was the scouting moto combine back in 2022. He won his first pro race here in 2023
03:41But it's been through consistency deegan has actually never won a moto professionally at redbud
03:47And he's got a tall order today running in 11th and a golden opportunity for the likes of vl
03:52Well, if I was a betting man, which i'm not
03:54I think that might change at some point today
03:57But yeah, I think you know those stats the way he's riding this year
04:01It doesn't really matter
04:02But yeah, some places you just feel more comfortable at it in some places you come to you feel comfortable
04:06You just don't have the luck to be able to get the wins
04:09But I'd say he's definitely has that pace to be able to get that done
04:12But that is a strange stat to see he's never won a moto here
04:15Yep, and a couple other riders on the move here date thrasher on the 41
04:19That's the monster energy yamaha star racing machine schwartz has a good start backing up that good qualifying time deegan
04:26Well, he made a mistake. I think in those rollers
04:29Yeah, you got to hang on to that bike
04:31It's on but you can see the gap that he's already lost in in two laps, you know
04:35That's where I was saying how these the weight is feel it just spreads out even though he's only you know 14 seconds down
04:42He's got a group of riders to get around and you heard jet that last moto saying its tracks kind of difficult to pass on
04:48It's really deep so him exploring finding those lines going to be a little bit of disadvantage at this early stage of the race
04:55well
04:57There's going to be some serious motivation out of this kid right now as he works his way forward he started the season perfect and then we know
05:04He did not until the time is there stole a couple of motos away from him
05:10And we were all wondering how much was that affecting him you know his narrative was well, you know be a tall order
05:15I'm not really focused on that well
05:17He very much was and apparently he did not like the fact that that strong that string came to an end
05:23And they said from this point onwards he has made it very clear that he wants to win every single moto remaining in the season
05:30So i'm sure he's going to want to fight as hard as he can james to get up to the front here and make that happen
05:35Yeah, I I know I know he will and I know he's definitely a kid of the stats
05:39I mean he knew about the stats of how many um, you know moto win the tied in the record
05:44So this kid's very well and it just keeps him motivated
05:46And i'm sure he's aware that he's never won a moto here too. So that's probably motivating his uh form as well jt
05:52Uh, james, you know, it's going to be interesting to watch this and what I want to see here from hayden deegan is the last 10 minutes
05:59Let's say the last five to six laps
06:01Let's see what his lap times are compared to the leaders because every time he's been in this situation
06:07Where he's had to close a lead down that is when he does his best work
06:10He can put three four five seconds in the guys in the last couple laps and on a hot day like today
06:15That could be a weapon he could wield
06:17And said jt earlier told us as he hits la rocco's leaf on the 250 and
06:24Schwartz just fell in front of him so he's making up time and track positions anyway jt told us about
06:30Deegan and swole off the start we have a replay to show you
06:36Yeah, hayden didn't get the best of jumps so it leaks on the leave jalees on the outside so jalees leans in on him
06:42No big deal, but that was really started off bat for hayden
06:45He didn't get the jump and when you don't these things kind of happen, but yeah
06:49He launches that leave but you know thinking about it because he was launched that leave
06:53He was able to see the guy who fell in that corner
06:55If he wouldn't have been able to do it and then jump in he might have a chance to run into him
06:59So when things are working, they're just working and i'm gonna tell you this if top the aisle
07:04They don't have at least 10 12 13 seconds on this dude after about 10 minutes left. He's still gonna win this race
07:10Well, we know it can make up time. We've seen him do it before but even on that lap. He's still lost ground
07:16He's in the pack and the gap went from 14 seconds to 15 and now dig it goes down
07:23This is what we needed to see you know like it look hayden's moving his way up
07:27We needed to see from the other guys. This is gonna help help those guys out
07:31This is what they needed to happen and far as hayden. He'll still march his way back up
07:35He didn't lose too many positions, but now you start to wonder is he gonna change that mindset and go to championship mode
07:41Need to get back on that podium or is he still gonna go continue hitting the league and try to win this race?
07:46So we'll find out just past levi kitchen back. This is for a now kitchens on the inside
07:53Lines all over this racetrack kitchen
07:55gets him
07:57Yeah, I don't think levi really did much besides just continue down that inside that outside just funneled in and hayden got stuck into it
08:03So a couple of mistakes, you know, you go back to that practice crash and then this one
08:08I don't think it's hayden doing anything like he doesn't like he's rotting out of control
08:12But when things are just start going off a little bit
08:15It's easy to make one mistake into two or three but hayden's a smart router. He'll he'll regroup and then ahead of them is
08:21Mikkel harrap on the triumph
08:23That is a battle right now. It's seven eight nine is what you're seeing on screen
08:29But it's gonna be interesting to see the interval
08:32Next time around right now. I'd say they're in the 30s
08:34Not sure if that's accurate yet. We'll reset that and see how far back deegan is meanwhile tom vl getting it done up front
08:41over shimoda and hamacre
08:43And kitchen he's pulled away from deegan is going after harrap on that 107
08:48yeah, good to see levi moving up and
08:51You know no matter if hayden made a mistake levi making that pass probably helps him out
08:55Just motivates him to continue moving forward. So another pass by levi and um
09:00You know looking at our timing and scoring we lost dylan schwartz
09:03That was him on the inside of that so bummer for him being that quick in practice
09:07But yeah, let's see what hayden does now. He's gonna regroup
09:11race is still
09:14Yeah, our timing and scoring is down so you can't really see it
09:17Yeah, well, we're only we know this he's only 10 minutes into the moto. So there's plenty of time
09:21We don't have the intervals at the moment as vl tries to control it out front
09:26And deegan has to go to work on harrap now because kitchen is moving forward
09:34There is vl the leader made some bike changes they went back a little bit more of a 2024 setup
09:41Starting last week at southwick was a lot better. It's funny
09:44I actually talked to chase sexton yesterday and he said I was watching the races on tv and I told tom
09:49It's ain't gonna work. We got to go back to what was good in 2024. They've done that and vl is riding better
09:54We talked to the owl yesterday about trying to get back into this championship fight
10:00I didn't to be honest. Yes, we are halfway
10:04I've been making a couple mistakes, especially in that second round in hangton
10:10I did not finish a motto. So I lost a lot for the championships
10:13I'm acting turd right now in the championship pretty close from from joe with second
10:19But aiden is far away and obviously he has been riding well
10:24Didn't really do any mistake. He starts in front. So it's tough right now. It's tough to beat him
10:28But keep on trying
10:30That's my goal each weekend to go to the race and keep on trying
10:34Keep on winning the race and keep fighting till uh till the end
10:40Tom vial guys so you hear it there in that clip he's so motivated to keep this going
10:45It's got to be tough and i've asked him it's hard right when it's kind of this gap is already there
10:49But the motivation for tom vial is there and we saw it last week in southwick
10:54Then that first moto he just fought so hard to get back after going down for that crash
10:59And he said that's what i just need to eliminate he told me earlier today i the bike's comfortable now southwick was good
11:05We've kept what we had set up there coming into this weekend
11:09He said i've just got to put myself in the right position to get all this coming together and as far as the bike setup goes we
11:15Like you said they're basically on last year's setup. It is a little bit different
11:19They said you know their bike they had a bridge in the beginning of the year great for hard pack
11:23That was working well, but when they sort of tried to develop that version of it
11:26It wasn't going well for them, so they had to sort of back up a little bit and go down a bit of a back and now they're having you in
11:31Thompson is far happier where he is now
11:34Well, it certainly looks that way it was uh on the podium last week really the breakout was a better second moto at high point
11:42Then the good southwick we mentioned and now out front and
11:46I think these gaps are legitimately what they are as you see on screen deegan is 24 seconds back the alibi have a breakthrough
11:52Deegan still digging down here seventh behind him is his teammate thrasher the bottom box
11:59Yeah, it's good. Uh, we knew hayden would regroup and come back up here
12:03So eventually he's going to come up to the front
12:04But yeah, I think that this race goes on another maybe five minutes
12:08Then if tom keeps that gap then he'll he'll start relaxing at this point
12:12He's still trying to pull away because look he knows that one isn't behind him, but he's somewhere behind him
12:18So I think as a rider he's still riding a little tense at the moment
12:22And so as this race start getting on he keeps that gap he'll funnel in and I think that to just look a little
12:27A little bit cleaner around the racetrack
12:29That being said only joe shimodo he'll we know how he is he gets better as the race goes on
12:33He's only five seconds behind him as well. So race ain't over for the win
12:36So that's key that you said that when a rider gets as dominant as deegan has been or say jett lawrence in the 450s
12:42Every rider says I want to ride my own race
12:44But you're thinking about the guy even when you're logging your own laps. Oh, yeah, absolutely
12:48And my boy the counter partner ricky carmichael. Yeah, it really wouldn't matter if I was out front unless I was just feeling
12:55Like i'm gonna just beat him which wasn't that many times
12:58I was always racing against him and at some point
13:01He just knew if I wasn't out front by you know 15 seconds with halfway to go
13:06There's no point in trying to just run away from this guy
13:08This guy's gonna eventually so as i'm riding my own race
13:10I'm riding my race thinking about where ricky is at this point and tom vial
13:14Because deegan has been so dominant because deegan is so strong at the end of the race tom is rotting
13:19um, you know thinking about where he is so
13:22There'll be a point where he'll know that he won't be able to catch up, but I don't think that points yet will all right think about
13:28well
13:29Just watching these two guys here in ninth and eighth that battle for eighth we've got michael hara and nate thrasher
13:35And neither of them really with much experience riding here at motocross that might sound strange to say about nate thrasher
13:42But due to injuries, he's never gone this deep into an outdoor season before the team were telling me this is just
13:49Kind of a building year for him in that sense like every week
13:52He's getting stronger during the week
13:54They're picking stuff out with setup and the bike and him personally we think of nate thrasher as this guy who's who'd be great outdoors
14:01Because he's such a gutsy gritty rider, but uh at this point this is all kind of new for him from this long from this point onwards
14:08Yeah, and thrasher's on the radar because he's won several supercross races the last couple of years
14:13But on the downside he's gotten hurt in supercross the last couple of years
14:16So that's why he does not have the outdoor results to match his supercross success checking in with shimota here
14:23Second and he's closed up a little bit on vl on the honda hrc progressive bike
14:28could still be a run in it because
14:31somehow there's still a lot of racing left
14:35In this moto feels like we've been out here a while, but not even halfway yeah, there's a lot of racing and tom didn't have a great lap
14:40I mean he ran a 214 to
14:42214.1 to joe's 212 to hayden deacon was a 211 along with levi levi kitchen so tom lost a lot of time
14:51So that's why I was mentioning like he still looks like he's racing behind him just because he's not comfortable being out front
14:57Because you know that number one's going but this guy good to see set back up here
15:01Talked about his injuries throughout the supercross season was a nice confidence booster for him the outdoors hasn't started off
15:07Great for him. He missed a couple rounds, but good to see set back
15:10And we know he has the speed as well once he can get through these injuries and just log these laps
15:14Yeah, it's a couple weeks ago at high point had his first ever moto podium
15:19In motocross not quite as good in the sand of southwick, but back up there today will
15:22Yeah, now we've got the chance to talk to him earlier we um about
15:28Supercross and how the end of that season has perhaps affected him going into the motocross season here
15:33You said I mean he was right there right that that supercross championship was kind of snatched away from him
15:39If you like right in the finale there, and he said honestly it would have been kind of better if I had a supercross hangover
15:44In other words if he'd won that championship, then he's like all right that that's I can handle that
15:49He's like but honestly the way it went down. He's like i'm not going to dwell on it
15:52I can't be there every week thinking about this. He said but i'll be honest
15:56It took its toll emotionally physically
16:00And sort of kind of just rebuild the confidence back from that
16:03Yeah, no, I agree with seth and there's not a lot of hangovers over life that you like you want to have but a supercross hangover
16:09That's not a bad one to have championship one. Yeah, the championship one comes with a big check probably about half a million bucks
16:16His hangover is the fact that he didn't get it you have because of the drama with the battling r.j. Hampshire
16:21Julian boomer and then vial was able to sneak it out
16:24Sneaking up now on hammocker is his teammate levi kitchen
16:29Yeah, i'm looking at the timing and scoring. I don't know if hayden went down again or or what not so levi's just really cruising because
16:37Yeah, levi's got around
16:39Yeah, and michael bozeman and hayden behind him so i'm sure what happened there i thought hayden was right behind levi but levi's got the pace and
16:48You know you starting to wonder was it just that pass him making that pass on hayden going down that hill
16:53I mean he's he's lit a candle he's got the fire going so
16:57Good to see that and he's gonna have this pass on his teammate right here
16:59Got to slow it down a little bit make sure he doesn't cut mike underneath you
17:06That's good stuff. Okay, so kitchen all the way up to third from outside the top 10
17:13And what's interesting about the 250 class high miss is now out
17:17But for all the chaos and all the things that have happened
17:20It's honestly the same players that are the quote-unquote deacon challengers vial shimoda
17:25Really kitchen has come back to life the last couple of weeks and those really were the three along with hymas that were expected
17:31To be the guys closest to him. Yeah, no, absolutely and then yeah
17:34It's bummer to see chance because I feel like when hayden's on his best chance on his best like chance can beat hayden
17:40I feel like with these other guys hayden's got to get a bad start and just because of where their confidence is at this moment
17:46Not just their speed because levi knows how to ride same thing with joe shimoda things got to happen, right as it does for all these guys
17:53So, um, yeah, the same players are going to be there
17:57He's going to get it done looks like hey, we said as you see deacon catching mozeman
18:01For fifth the kate kate keys of moto take advantage of the situation the situation ended up being bad start and a tip over
18:09For digging and they're taking advantage as the check-in here for the monster energy yamaha star racing team begins
18:16mozeman and deacon battling six and seven you see them and then thrasher back there in eighth but
18:23Yes, they are indeed taking advantage of the situation. Yeah, you got to hayden got a little swole up off the gate
18:31Yeah, he did no pun. I see what you did there
18:35Swole is actually seventh right behind deacon at the moment
18:38Oh, that's been his concept have maker just like that. Yeah, or did set go down?
18:45Over here because george. Yeah, that happened in a hurry. So we're gonna see has hammaker lost some steam here. Was it just one error?
18:54Um, mentioned earlier michael's been running really good this battle for lead wait a minute. Yes, joe time
19:02joe shimoda has caught tom biao
19:08battle for the lead just like that it was a nearly five second gap then a three second gap and now a
19:17No second gap for the frenchman
19:20Yeah, now the best part of this, you know when you start thinking about this race
19:23This might have worked out for joe because I don't know how comfortable he would have felt in the lead
19:28We know how strong he is in the um at the end of the races
19:31But because tom was able to pass and we saw the gap that tom had he had almost six seconds on him
19:35Now joe was able to ride and kind of fill in this normal zone as this guy behind him almost kaos himself
19:42Showing us how rough this track is
19:45Joe's been in more of a comfortable spot
19:47He's been able to watch where tom has been fast that and now it's go time for joe
19:51And we can go back years ago where joe had one of the most dominant rods out here
19:55winning a moto so
19:57Let's go get some by east coast
19:59Battle for the lead for the 250 moto one
20:07He's gonna listen in
20:12Bottom box deegan doing more work mozeman around hamacre deegan right behind them that is for fourth fifth and sixth
20:19Now big difference in lines between these two riders out front
20:32Shimoda trying to make it happen james yeah joe is trying to when he gets close to uh tom right here
20:37He kind of makes some mistakes. I think that's just the way that these ruts are so long
20:42It looks like michael gets around set right down there
20:44But these ruts are so long as easy to just make a mistake because you're so close to the guy
20:49Deegan almost got hamacre in that bottom box as well good three rider fight
20:54For fourth but kitchen not too far ahead deegan squaring up hamacre
20:58Shimoda right there for the lead
21:01Now tom's gonna be stuck in his rush joe can just run it down the inside
21:04He's gonna have this hump here so he's gonna have to get out of his berm and cut him off
21:08Got it there you go
21:12Let's listen for the drag race up to the monza wall
21:14And this crowd coming to life with shimoda's charge
21:22Yeah international they love joe out here joe's one of the fan favorites so cool to see him out here
21:28Expect joe probably put in a couple laps and maybe get her start pulling away
21:32On tom because he looks really comfortable at doing it as we're watching these guys go at it in the bottom down here
21:37Yeah deegan made the move on hamacre
21:41Lap rider there needs to get to mozeman
21:45That would be next
21:47That's shimoda go
21:50Here's deegan with the attack on his teammate mozeman
21:54Mozeman riding very well as of late oh no now deegan has the steam coming out of the bike similar to
22:01Eli tomac in the first moto yeah now i believe the way we are in this moto that steam might be just
22:07Clutching and overheating i can see hayden rushing some of these corners getting cross running
22:12Which means you got to pull in the clutch to get this thing going and hayden doesn't like to let off the throttle
22:16But now she's smoking pretty hard jt he is and remember thunder valley we talked to brian a little bit after the race
22:23He's just saying he's overriding the motorcycle too high of rpms using the clutch too much out of frustration
22:29And it feels like he's right back in that place again
22:32So i'm going to take a look at the pit board this time and see if they're telling him to get off of the clutch similar to
22:36They did in thunder valley
22:39That'll be next corner here
22:47Trying to listen to deegan's style though
22:53Yeah, he's hard on a bike no doubt about it with the aggressive style
22:59Will he pack it in and just try to take points?
23:02Yeah, I mean I could just tell by those couple corners
23:04He's he must have got the feeling or somebody told him because he's definitely not
23:09You know running in his corners bike wide open the clutch pulled in which he was doing and that was because as jt mentioned
23:14He was getting frustrated you see by his body language right here has changed up a little bit
23:18So hard part about hayden you're a racer once you get back up to michael and you start battling
23:23You got to go back to who you normally are and how you ride so he's got to be conscious of that
23:29Got to be conscious of that got cross running downhill and then down
23:33Oh man, you saw that coming and look at that bike starting to smoke and now he knows that the bike's steaming
23:38He just got to look at it. Sometimes the riders don't even realize because it's underneath them as they ride
23:43It's falling apart quickly for the series leader
23:45Now that bike's so hot sometimes they don't like to start even with the electric started did that time
23:53But it has come undone. Yeah, it's come undone
23:56You can start to see a few of those mistakes starting to happen earlier. He was starting to run in these berms
24:01Getting crotch right now. It's because he's just really too aggressive going down into these things and these potholes
24:06They are red, but they'll come up and bite you and how long these ruts is it's really easy to for that to happen. So
24:12These guys have keys to race. They took advantage of the situation. They did us absolutely shimota most right now
24:20Now I mentioned that deacon doesn't have a moto win here. It's a short sample size. It's only uh
24:25Four motos over the last two seasons and now moto number five
24:29Is there anything about that aggressive style that maybe?
24:32Doesn't work as well at red butters. It's just circumstances now. I mean, I I think
24:38Though he can't ride the way he's riding in the way, um, you know running it down in these corners
24:43Because we talked about jt mentioned that patience
24:46So when you get frustrated one thing you don't have is patience
24:50That's why people have horns on their car they hunk it
24:52And so you can see hayden really running it down in these corners and I think with him
24:56It's not that his riding style doesn't work
24:58It's just a way you have to ride this racetrack and hayden when he's out front he's comfortable
25:02He doesn't ride that way so when he's not he runs it into these and red butt will bite you if they would
25:09Come up and bite you because of how long these ruts is so
25:12I wouldn't say anything his riding style is the reason why he hasn't won here at this racetrack
25:16But for sure no matter how he rides he can't ride that way and normally he doesn't so
25:21Yeah, we're talking about at the top of the show jt talking about maybe slower into the corner
25:25On this track ends up being faster around the track
25:28Yeah, and the reason it is because the ruts are so long so if you run it in what hayden did right there
25:34That was literally him just rushing that
25:36Downhill and he hit one bump and because the ruts are so long you get cross-rutted
25:41And he just got cross-rutted and there's five or six ruts that he has to deal with and eventually they end up catching them out
25:45So you got to be patient and the whole thing is not to run it in there
25:49The bike reacts and you slam into the rut and it's not like other tracks where you just hop out a run rut
25:54You got to cross four or five ruts to get out of there and that's when it really comes out and bites you
25:58So you got to be patient going in and then as for shimota here leading the way
26:04Joe has said before he used to take heat for not being aggressive early in the races and not being a good starter
26:10And he would say a lot of it is he feels like his
26:13Asset is as a track gets rougher
26:16He can be creative and find lines and at the beginning of the day the beginning of the moto
26:20Tracks it on his route and lo and behold second half of this moto
26:24This dude has come to life. Yeah, I mean joe has been strong in the second moto second half of the season
26:29And as I mentioned last weekend when he's that second moto he got in second hayden was right there
26:34I mean, uh, he didn't lose any time to hayden
26:36The problem is with joe is that because he's not aggressive all the other riders know
26:40He's not aggressive and so they race him differently than they do anybody else
26:43Which makes it even more tougher for him to get past anybody so he's figured it out this moto will
26:49Oh
26:50Is this a mechanic?
26:52There's no rest
26:54I was talking to the team specifically team manager lars lindstrom over at honda hrc about joe and his fitness
27:00Because joe's mentioned to me several times how he thinks that that is a strength for him
27:04Especially in motocross late in motors when it gets rough and lars said to me
27:10He said honestly, I think it's genetic
27:11He said he's doesn't really have a different program than anybody else
27:15He doesn't necessarily train on in that sense trains hard
27:18But he said honestly genetically
27:20He's just gifted in that area his fitness is good. He's always strong throughout the motors
27:25We've said it a lot of times James
27:27You mentioned how tough
27:29Joe knows that he's going to need that and that he's qualified in that area in order to be able to challenge Hayden
27:36We saw at the end of moto 2 at sound
27:38Whitney he was the one who was able to keep the gap while everybody else fell back
27:41And now again in moto 1 here today in the heat and strung again
27:45The mechanic must have been talking to me, you know, I must have told him because I'm
27:49Hey, Jay, how are you so good genetics, baby genetics?
27:54Joe's got some good with jt
27:56Just a follow on kind of what will was saying the mechanic
27:59I think he played a big role here in this moto because when tom vial was starting to pull away every single lap that joe came around
28:07It was a similar message to stay in the fight stay focused on vl
28:11Because I think they knew if joe could stay close enough
28:14He was going to have an opportunity in the second half of this moto and he definitely made the most of that
28:19Yeah, absolutely and as a rider, you know when you get passed by a guy
28:24They pull aways looking at eli getting that bike ready for the next race
28:27Yeah, that bike didn't make it to the finish of moto 1
28:30Yeah, the way tom passed you in the beginning part he pulls you know those few seconds about three laps into it once that gap stabilized
28:36You as a rider know in your heart whether you can get back to him because otherwise if you would have just kept pulling that pace
28:41Then joe would have started riding for a second
28:43So his mechanic told him stay in that fight because tom that gap stabilized and that's what ends up working and joe was right there for it
28:50And took it full advantage
28:52deegan is back in 12th now
28:53We're showing tomat's bike because remember that started smoking that didn't make it to the finish line
28:58And then we saw deegan the championship leader having the same problem
29:03In this moto still running though, but all the way back in 12th. So well done
29:07For shimoda gonna make up a ton of points here
29:13And he's got it now feeling six seconds on bl
29:17Yeah, that's a great route from joe
29:19And he's coming up to that section where hayden went down and looking more after it
29:23You see guys out the window going down. It's a huge hole in the middle part of that racetrack and so
29:30Last lap joe really slowed down to to try not to get that bike to bottom out in it
29:34But it's just easy to catch them out especially if you override it
29:38It's a reminder that the next moto keep watching here on peacock or the smx video pass
29:43It will also air live on nbc in the united states
29:46So your friends want to check in on motocross let them know coming up at the top of the hour
29:51450 moto 2 from redbud we're excited to get that crowd and that podium
29:54On the live nbc show nothing quite like it
29:59That's ceremony at redbud and joe shimoda made some fans on that podium a couple years ago. I remember uh came up to the podium. Remember he had
30:07high heart usa, I think written
30:09On his chest under his jersey
30:11Yeah, gonna love it today
30:13Yeah, no when he got in the lead. I mean these fans were cheering him
30:17You know joe's joe's us man. We all like family out here. So but good. You're just happy for joe
30:22Really quiet, you know goes about his business the right way always trying
30:27You had the supercross where had a broken finger kept going out there broken finger by pit board. I mean, how's that happen?
30:33But joe's out here fighting and man, you just got to love it
30:36So these crowds they recognize that they love it when they see a guy out there
30:40You know fight through that they don't get a victory if you can hold on and as i've heard many people who've worked with shimoda before
30:46Has said like adam seen cerulo used to train with him the leader in the unintentional comedy scale
30:51Joe's a great time to hang out with
30:53Not even sure sometimes of some of the things he says are on purpose to make people laugh
30:57But he's definitely fun to hang out with
30:59fial is second shout out to levi kitchen from way back to third 13th on lap one
31:08And even more passing if you look all the way back in 10th garrett marchbanks started in 34th marchbanks has now passed
31:16100 riders
31:18So far this year so the stars have not been there for a couple of these
31:22monster pro circuit kawasaki riders
31:25But boy have they been strong yeah definitely you didn't it's one of those stats that you don't know it's a good thing or bad
31:30You know yeah
31:32Yeah, we know we know you got the pace, but I mean dude like you pass a lot of guys
31:36Nonetheless, it's good to see him, but i'm with you. I'm impressed by this rod by levi
31:41It almost looks like it was in that second moto where he was able to regroup last weekend and keep fighting
31:46The beginning part of that second moto this is the levi we like to see love this
31:53And again, it's the riders that are up there in the points
31:57That are taking advantage of deacon's misfortune in this one to claw some back
32:02So you have vial who was third of the championship second to this moto we check back in with him
32:07A lot of rumors about vial getting an offer from honda's mxgp team to potentially go back to europe
32:13I've heard he has not signed that and then he put on his social media this week looking forward to redbud
32:20This year and next year on a 450
32:22So he's indicating that uh, he might not be going back
32:25He has to race a 450 in supercross next year because he won two 250 supercross titles
32:31We presume if he did that he'd probably race 450 in motocross as well
32:35KTM has offered for him to return on a 450 next year, so we'll see what direction
32:41vial goes nothing signed yet
32:44but uh
32:45Hey, nothing over yet
32:47Deacon had this gigantic point lead but this today showing
32:51Anything can happen now. That's why we go racing anything can happen and speaking of back, you know going back if he looks back
32:57He's going to see
32:58Levi really all over him. Yeah, levi's in the shot. So even the second place
33:02Um, it's not over you're going to see levi pop in this. Oh, yeah
33:07And what has happened to be owl who had checked out the first 10 minutes of this moto? You are right james
33:13Kitchen on the attack. Yeah, I wouldn't even say there's something happening to the uh tom
33:17I just how good levi's rotting right now. He's found the flow the kitchen is open. It's serving
33:25Yeah, be all running at 214 that's not actually that bad of a lot, but it was actually quicker than shimota. It's just
33:32Kitchen ran a 211 kitchen just ran his best lap of the moto
33:38Six seconds faster than tom vial and he's coming. Yeah
33:44I can't tell if that was a mistake or on purpose both
33:4847 is on fire
33:50The kitchen's on fire. We call the fire marshal. Let's keep him open
33:56Yeah, levi's just got a good flow and he's making up a lot of time right before that finish line
34:00And you know as a rider when your confidence levi would have never went out to that line
34:03But he's confident that he has the pace of able to catch him just start making them nervous. This is a good line for him as well
34:11He made up so much ground they almost came together in that corner
34:15Kitchen can go anywhere he wants right now
34:17I believe what they serve in french baguettes up in here, so yeah get up in there
34:26And again, I I see some of the lines kitchen's taking and i'm like what are you doing out there?
34:30But then it actually works out you think it's a mistake and it actually works out
34:34He's got the flow right now on the outside. He's got him right here the same place that dom joe got him now
34:39Levi's got to get out of this corner cut him off. There you go
34:43You said about 20 minutes ago. He passed deacon back in that section
34:48And since then he has unlocked something yeah levi's the the confidence we talk every weekend and you hear these guys
34:54They're trying to find that little bit of confidence and who knows him?
34:58He doesn't know what happened to hayden hayden got around him
35:00He passed them back and ever since then the kitchen has been wide open on fire
35:04And you got to think if you had a few more laps joe time might be in trouble
35:09But levi's definitely got the flow but still at the end of the day what he can say about this guy
35:14hrc joe shimodo comes out last weekend had that second placement second a lot of motos this year
35:20Get him a good start joe gets it done
35:24It's the honda redbud national we mentioned that the president of honda hrc
35:28Visiting from japan does not come to american motocross races very often and he's seen two moto wins already
35:35Joe shimodo takes 250 moto one at redbud
35:41Kitchen a great charge and boy does this set the scene for moto to kitchen shimodo vl you know deegan will try to quickly extinguish
35:50The fire that we're mentioning these riders have
35:53Deegan right now though is just in points mode
35:56Yeah, I don't know if hayden went down. He's in 14th now. I thought he was up to 12. So
36:01It's his worst moto finish since butts creek in 2023 where he finished 16th and if you remember that race
36:07He actually was gone at a giant lead and the race got red flag restarted. He went down to the first turn
36:13And yeah 14th right now
36:19Yeah, i'm not sure if he's
36:21If he went down again or is he just trying to save the bike baby
36:24Yeah, trying to save the bike we remember in colorado the same thing happened towards the end of that first moto
36:31We really had to um slow down where garrett march paints almost got him in that dinner race
36:36So a few turns for it to go here for the champion to nurse at home
36:45and 14th
36:48Gonna pay seven or eight championship points
36:51So shimodo is going to make up around 20 in this one
36:57And get it back under a two motos gap lead
37:01It'll be a 41 point lead for deacon now
37:07A little bit interesting to hear what happened and to see how he rebounds in moto 2
37:11Chet
37:18You
37:20You
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