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00:00Ele está indo para o turno agora.
00:02Eu perguntei se isso iria para Kuhnen e Langenfelder.
00:04Aparentemente, eles fizeram um e dois.
00:09Sacha Kuhnen, para o lado de Ferreira,
00:11para ter segundo no final.
00:12Então, um bom move de novo para o número 19, Belgião.
00:16E Langenfelder não tinha isso.
00:18Ele não tinha um bom dia em Fendelin.
00:20Ele não tinha um bom dia em Fendelin.
00:22E você pode sentir o momento em que ele está em frente,
00:24para o Adamo, especialmente Kai de Wolff.
00:26Ele precisava chegar aqui e tentar mudar o tone
00:29de forma como o que o Series foi indo.
00:30E a parte da parte da parte que é muito perto da cidade aqui em Lóquette.
00:38Sacha Kuhnen aqui,
00:39na segunda posição,
00:41atrás Rebel KTM rider,
00:43Simón Langenfelder, Ferez, Valan, Valan.
00:45Ele poderia até chegar no podium.
00:47Ele poderia ter um ganho, você não vai saber.
00:50Tipo Menestão, ele poderia dizer algo sobre isso.
00:53Ele poderia dizer algo sobre isso,
00:54como o lado de Ferreira,
00:55para o Manning Green.
00:57E custa ele tempo também,
00:58porque Benestão,
00:59tentando sneak em cima,
01:00vem um short,
01:01mas o back-end,
01:02no rear-wheel da 19,
01:04também lights up underneath the trees,
01:06onde é still wet and foggy.
01:07A lot of these guys are running scoop tires,
01:09so you can see it stepping out on the hard stuff,
01:11and then grabbing traction.
01:12So you're gonna have to manage this.
01:13The first lap is always the trickiest one, too.
01:16Working our way towards the end of this lap.
01:19Ferez,
01:20still there in third.
01:21Valan, 317.
01:24Kawasaki Racing Team is next.
01:26Great to see Valerio Latta
01:27with a good start on the Honda.
01:29Glenn looks good here.
01:30He looks confident,
01:31kind of choosing different lines,
01:33able to move around the racetrack.
01:35Well, obviously,
01:36you know what the French tracks are like as well.
01:37Hard, slick, stony,
01:38not too dissimilar to this.
01:39Ferez and Thibaut Benestan
01:41fighting over that.
01:44Well, tell you what,
01:45not for much longer,
01:45because the Spanion parks the Frenchman,
01:47and that allows Valerio Latta
01:49to nip up the inside.
01:50So Ferez hanging on to that four.
01:53Benestan quickly get back into fifth.
01:55Latta still there in sixth position,
01:57but early warning signs there from Thibaut.
01:59Don't mess with the Spanion.
02:01Kai looming back there,
02:02trying to make moves,
02:03just not as effective as he was yesterday
02:05on the opening lap.
02:09Through this right-hander behind the pit lane area,
02:12stepping up into turn 10 and 11.
02:14Simon Langenfeld looking very good.
02:16He's 2.4 seconds clear at the moment.
02:18The opening lap was a 152.6
02:19compared to the 54s of Coonan
02:22and 55s after that.
02:24So he's looking like he's got his game face back on
02:27and he's back to normal.
02:29Business being resumed.
02:30Yeah, and these early laps are really important
02:32because DeWolf and Adamo are seventh and eighth.
02:35And if he knows that,
02:36if there's a way to communicate that,
02:37or if he can see them peripherally,
02:39to build a gap right now would make his race,
02:41the last 15 minutes, so much easier.
02:43The last thing he wants to do is everybody
02:45to stay collected together.
02:46If DeWolf and Adamo move forward,
02:48they get into second, third, and the gap's still tight,
02:50then the race is still wide open.
02:52And that's Camden McClellan out of what,
02:5412th or 13th place.
02:56So more problems for the number eight.
03:01Ferez still trying to keep
03:03Tebow Beniston back at bay in that fourth place.
03:07Benny tried to find his way around the outside of him
03:09at the end of the previous lap.
03:10Ferez said, no way, Jose.
03:13Benny trying to find his way back past the Spaniard.
03:15Once again, this is McClellan.
03:17Oh, just at the bottom of the hill,
03:19surfs his way over the handlebar there as well.
03:21Lucky not to take the bar in the internals there.
03:24Yeah, it's an awkward crash.
03:26Beniston not going to find his way through there,
03:28but confidence in the tires on that loose, slick dirt.
03:31The Frenchman, two laps complete.
03:34Another fast lap for Langenfelder.
03:362.8 seconds playing out the head of the field.
03:39And you're talking a moment ago about how if DeWolf
03:42and everybody being very bunched together
03:45might be a different outcome for Langenfelder,
03:46but he's making hay while the sun shines.
03:49And with those guys there in, what, seventh and eighth,
03:52if they were second and third,
03:53that's a different race altogether, isn't it?
03:54Because they're pushing on.
03:55Even if they're third and fourth,
03:56that's a different race early on.
03:58Yeah, and you just, there's different ways of thinking about it.
04:01You know, you can think, okay, he has the lead.
04:03His championship contenders are pretty far back.
04:05You want to take it easy, make sure you don't make a mistake.
04:07Or the other side, which I think he is trying to execute,
04:10is build a gap now.
04:11And then he'll be able to manage from the front
04:12with his teammate sitting wingman there.
04:15And then even if DeWolf and Adama move forward,
04:17they still have this colossal gap they have to try to close,
04:20which is unlikely.
04:21DeWolf a little bit untidy in that right-hander
04:23at the top of the hill there,
04:24as he continues to pursue Adama in that seventh place.
04:27Lata hanging on to that sixth position on the Honda HRC machine.
04:31He goes short, Adama tries to go around the outside,
04:33just out of our view.
04:34But the Italian on the number 18 Honda, hanging on,
04:37keeping the 80 at bay, the middle rider in shot,
04:39hitting the monster energy jump.
04:40Now, Kyle DeWolf just getting frustrated here.
04:45I'll tell you what I think the most difficult thing about this
04:47for DeWolf is he wants to move forward.
04:49He's too far back position-wise,
04:51but he's got a former world champion in front of him
04:53who knows how to ride defensively,
04:54has a really strong pace also.
04:56Otherwise, if it was just Lata or Beneson,
04:58I think he would be able to move quickly,
05:00move forward more quickly.
05:02This is the kind of thing we spoke about on our studio show yesterday,
05:04around midday, when we were talking MX2 to the point where we're at now.
05:09Langenfelder, the championship leader,
05:10but with Adama second in the championship,
05:13Kyle DeWolf third in the championship,
05:14both with world championship winning experience,
05:17does that play into their hands further down the track
05:20when Langenfelder starts to think,
05:21oh, we're getting closer to the title?
05:23Yeah.
05:24You know, it gets a little bit nervy.
05:25You hope not, but you never know.
05:27Yeah, and I just think it's so critically important for the racetracks where you know
05:32you will be competent and capable, you have to make the most of it.
05:35I was very worried for Langenfelder after yesterday,
05:38and he looks like a completely different racer.
05:40Now, it's a completely different racetrack, to be fair,
05:42but he looks very, very different in his confidence,
05:45his effectiveness, the way he's attacked this racetrack this morning.
05:48You can tell that he kind of had a talk with himself way last night,
05:51and he came out a different guy today.
05:52Well, he's definitely a different guy.
05:53Look how he's blown this field apart with a 148.6 lap time last time around.
05:57No one else, even in the 50s that time.
06:0051 is the best from Kunin or Vallat.
06:04So that gap now, almost six seconds between Langenfelder,
06:07who looks like he's just taken the first two or three laps just to settle down.
06:11Now he's kind of figured out the track and the lines where it's wet or soft,
06:14and this and that.
06:15We've lost DeWolf, have we?
06:18DeWolf down to 11th,
06:20because Adamo just came through on the back of Valerio Latter here,
06:24and DeWolf was nowhere to be seen.
06:25So problems then for Kai DeWolf, who was perfect in Finland two weekends ago.
06:30He's out of seventh, eighth place.
06:34This is reminiscent of how he was down to a 70-point deficit.
06:38Mistakes like this.
06:40And I really thought, when you look at the setup for DeWolf,
06:42his main competitor from last year, Lucas Kunin moves out of the class.
06:46I thought he would dominate.
06:47I really thought he would dominate in 2025.
06:49And when he's on, he does dominate.
06:51But it has been mistakes like that that are costing him a chance at this championship.
06:55So basically, his biggest competition is himself.
06:57It has been.
06:58Just fighting himself.
06:59Yep, it has been.
07:00Here's David Braceres leading this trio of riders.
07:04Braceres in ninth place on the JM Honda.
07:07Right, here's Kai DeWolf from our overhead cam.
07:10Hopefully, we can pick him out, top of your screen, into the right-hander.
07:13Now, look, he's going to fold the front.
07:15Oh, yeah, Stuffsit kind of went straight on in the middle of the turn there.
07:19That's why he was parked there from that eighth place and now remounts in 11th position.
07:25When you look at the state of the championship, that's a 10-point scoring ride for him.
07:28Langenfelder, 25, sitting pretty at the moment.
07:31Well, you think it's not going to end this way, but that would go back to 60 points.
07:36Like, he completely changes the tone of the championship from even 24 hours ago.
07:41Seymour Langenfelder.
07:44Here he is.
07:46This is in the right-hander after the finish line.
07:49Did he hit neutral there?
07:50Yes, he did.
07:50So he was searching for a bit of a stand there on that right foot, wasn't he?
07:55Yeah, I mean, okay, maybe that was a half a second mistake.
07:57He's still turning a full second.
08:00The last thought before that was three seconds quicker than everybody.
08:02So he can afford small mistakes like that.
08:04He's already built up a six-second gap.
08:07Kaido Wolf then going to get his head down.
08:08He's down his way past Racialist.
08:10He's moved into 10th position.
08:12Yeah, he has to be riding with some urgency here.
08:16This is up towards pit lane.
08:17Randy outside jumps along.
08:20Gets the distance.
08:21Got to do that kind of thing.
08:23That's the kind of thing as well when you see people overjump.
08:25I mean, onto the plateau there, you're not really overjumping.
08:27But, you know, when you see people on small tabletops, you certainly see it in the sand.
08:31We're going to see it in Lommel in a week's time.
08:33Most riders, they go, oh, yeah, let's jump, clear the table, and land on the downside.
08:36The good guys will clear three, four, five holes after that, that momentum.
08:40So when you think of it as an overjump, it's actually a softer landing
08:43because you're landing on a downside.
08:44You know, it might be a four or five downside somewhere else.
08:47But the Wolf executing perfectly there.
08:49Yeah, it's just efficiency.
08:50You know, it's just the little things like that.
08:52We see these guys do it in the sand so often.
08:54Jump across bumps.
08:56They will, you know, triple through bumps so they don't have to take that impact
09:00through each one.
09:02DeWolf all over the back at Braceres there.
09:04The Spaniard who missed Finland through a slight injury.
09:08Good start for him.
09:10He's got to make some decisive passes here.
09:12He can simply can't afford to get stuck behind these guys.
09:16Working his way towards the end of that five.
09:20Will he commit to the outside here?
09:21Well, he'll wait for the decision, and that's it.
09:24Oh, nicely done.
09:26That's a nice transfer of line there that's just starting to develop,
09:28and he waited for Braceres to commit.
09:31Braceres heard him on the outside, and then he landed, went left.
09:34DeWolf went right, and then he saw that line last minute
09:37and cut him off through the middle of the turn.
09:38Watch this.
09:40Just gets in here, sees that line.
09:41He was going to go right here, and then was like, hang on.
09:44That's just opened up.
09:45Braceres now down to 10th, and DeWolf up to 9th.
09:51Yeah, and a lot of these lines are forming by the lap.
09:53They're changing that. That line was not there two laps ago,
09:56so you have to keep an open mind.
09:58You cannot get tunnel vision in your line choice,
10:00because this track's going to evolve quite a bit
10:01from the moisture we got yesterday.
10:03Nagenfelder, nine and a half seconds clear at the head of the field.
10:07What a great start to Sunday for the German.
10:13Take a look at the start again, then.
10:15How we got that foxhole shot.
10:16What a great start.
10:21Almost six laps ago.
10:27Simon Langenfelder, red plate holder,
10:29middle of the gate, look in those yellow boots,
10:32hanging off the back of that Red Bull KTM.
10:33Kaz Valk, as you said, made a good transition from outside to inside.
10:37Came out and ran about six, but Simon Langenfelder with the foxhole shot.
10:40Valen was right there as well on the Kawasaki 3.17.
10:44We got Valk on the outside there.
10:47Yeah, that was amazing.
10:48Took a punt. Well, he's got nothing to lose, has he?
10:50But Kaida Wolf, once bitten, twice shy.
10:52You don't want to make that same mistake again,
10:54but maybe that changes again in race two. Who knows?
10:58Yeah, I think the theory is valid.
11:00You know, the concept works, but you have to execute.
11:02He simply did not execute.
11:04He allowed Braceres to get clear of him and then pushed him wide.
11:07Terms of race wins so far this year, Kaida Wolf and Simon Langenfelder,
11:10both with seven race wins.
11:12So whatever happens here,
11:15well, not whatever happens.
11:16If Simon Langenfelder wins this race, of course, he'll be the, uh,
11:19the rider with the most race wins in 2025 with eight.
11:22And also the psychological advantage of that as Sasha Coonan knack-knacks his way through that right-hander a moment ago.
11:31The same corner that caught out Kaida Wolf two laps ago.
11:34just pushing too hard maybe on the number 19 in that second place under pressure from Mattis Valet,
11:42who we said after winning the qualifying race yesterday and after getting a good start today,
11:46could be a danger man, could be a top three guy, could be a race winner.
11:49Could be a grand prix winner this weekend for the first time.
11:52Valet looks fantastic.
11:53Uh, he looks the part, you know, he doesn't look out of place.
11:56You don't see a lot of outsized mistakes.
11:58He looks like he belongs here.
12:00You know, I think the next step in his growth will be to bring this every weekend,
12:04regardless of the type of terrain, good start, bad start.
12:06Like that's what he's missing right now.
12:08A little bit of inconsistency, but yeah, it's gross.
12:11Had a couple of fourth place finishes so far this year.
12:13Race two in the opening round in Argentina and race one at Latvia round 11.
12:20You get a qualifying win.
12:22It still counts as an MX2 race win.
12:24The confidence, the boost that that gives you as the reigning EMX European 250 champion as well,
12:30where you put yourself on this pedestal where you believe you can compete.
12:33At this level, that's massive, isn't it?
12:35And I think we're seeing that now.
12:37He slept well overnight.
12:39He's probably just gone.
12:39Thank you.
12:40The relief is off there to see.
12:43And I think this is part of that, you know, the sort of the fruition of that.
12:47Well, riding at the front, he's familiar with, right?
12:50That concept is familiar.
12:52So once he understands who he's racing against and he's not reading the names on the back of the jerseys
12:56and all that starts to wear away and it simply comes down to racing again,
13:00being at the front is what he's used to.
13:02That's why it was the EMX champion.
13:03That's why he won the qualifying race yesterday.
13:05He is comfortable doing that.
13:07But Sasha Kunin and Valin, they're not breaking away from Giam Perez.
13:10Perez still there in fourth.
13:11Only about a second and a half further back in the right-hander dropping down now.
13:15And then the rider behind them, Thibaut Benistan, in fifth place.
13:17This was Sasha Kunin's mistake a lap ago when he just came in hot.
13:22And then lost the front.
13:23Yeah, lost the front a couple of times, didn't he?
13:25And then lucky to stay on.
13:30How many steps does he have in this corner?
13:31One, two, three.
13:34Gets away with that one.
13:35He rode sides out of there for about 20 meters.
13:38Very, almost very Randy Mimola-esque in the wet on the Honda all those years ago.
13:4440-ish.
13:48McClellan is back up to 17.
13:49When he fell, he fell from 11th down to 23rd.
13:52He's now back up to 17.
13:55And no matter what points he gets, that's a lot of work for that amount of points, isn't it?
13:59For the Monster Energy Triumph rider who, as he said in his pre-grid interview,
14:03won a 85cc European Championship here five, six years ago.
14:06But made it hard work for himself yesterday.
14:11Very similar to Roman Fevre's performance in Finland, where put himself behind an eight ball
14:17in the qualifying race.
14:18That then translated into race one problems, race two problems.
14:21Bad start, wrong place, wrong time.
14:23And Kevin McClellan seemingly having that similar kind of Grand Prix at the moment.
14:29Well, momentum works both directions.
14:31It can work to your favor, and if it gets going the wrong way,
14:33it can make life much more difficult.
14:35Bad gate choices, bad starts, turn into bad results.
14:37If you're racing with riders, you absolutely have no idea what their tendencies are,
14:41where they're going to go.
14:44Just, yeah, it's just one of those things where
14:48all the racing I've done around the world qualify well,
14:51which turns into a good gate pick, which turns into a good start,
14:53which turns into a good result.
14:54And yeah, for McClellan, he's on the back side of that at the moment.
14:57Heading uphill here, Julius Minkler on the TM.
14:59Number 20, is that? No, it's not.
15:01It's a back marker, also on a TM.
15:05The 524 there.
15:09But Julius Minkler is in 13th place at his home Grand Prix.
15:13Mattis Vallin here, though, on the Karaseki.
15:17Parked between him and Sacha Kunin is a back marker that's holding up his progress at the moment.
15:22Pretty interesting kind of difference between MX2 and MXGP right now.
15:28Like, look at all the points that are up for grabs between first and sixth, you know,
15:33or eighth in the championship fight.
15:35In MXGP, it seems like the top two are separating themselves.
15:38This can give a lot of variance in the points from weekend to weekend.
15:42Absolutely.
15:42And look how one line it is in that bottom corner there.
15:44Just too heavy to take that chance around the outside, losing too much time.
15:48Even following the back markers through there, Guillem-Ferez and Thibaut Beniston.
15:51Adomo coming in, though, hot in that sixth place.
15:54Around the outside.
15:55Beniston sensed the danger.
15:57Cut the line off from the Italian.
15:59What a massive crash on that jump on this part of the racetrack last year in the qualifying race.
16:02Yeah, this lap rider needs to get out of the way.
16:05He's, uh...
16:05I swear, some of these back markers are, uh, colorblind.
16:08Don't know what blue, even though he's riding a blue TM.
16:10Yeah.
16:11I've been that guy, I've been that guy, and you can simply cannot sit in the raceline there.
16:15Cannot do it.
16:17Beniston now, under attack from Adomo.
16:23Then he goes to the inside.
16:24Is there a swing around the outside?
16:26No.
16:28So Beniston hanging on to that fifth.
16:29Adomo probably frustrated as well in that sixth position.
16:32We're going to get to the point where he's going to start getting alongside
16:34or behind the rider ahead of him, clutching, gas on.
16:37The big panic rev trying to spook the rider ahead of him.
16:41But also, he does that, and he shows his frustration.
16:43But that line now is the best line, the quickest line.
16:46Everybody on it.
16:47Yeah, and it wasn't...
16:48That's not an intentional line.
16:49You know, that's...
16:50Somebody said, hey, this inside is going away.
16:53This wall that was built to separate the two has become breachable and new line forms.
17:01But I think what we're seeing now is how important track position is going to be today.
17:05The starts are so critically important.
17:07We really haven't seen much passing within the top five at all.
17:10Not.
17:11The pace is similar.
17:12You know, maybe you could argue that Langenfelder's pace is better than everybody else.
17:15But the rest of these guys, two through eight, are on a similar pace.
17:18We'll see my Langenfelder, best seat in the house at the moment.
17:22That foxhole shot right at the start of the race.
17:24And he's gradually been building that lead.
17:26And he's still three seconds quicker than anybody else last time around.
17:29Look, 1.50.7.
17:30Sasha Coonan fighting himself, fighting the bike at 1.53.7.
17:35No wonder that gap is out to 16 and a half seconds here with 11 and a half minutes to go.
17:39Back in, kicks out, though, wildly on the number 27's machine.
17:46It's not over until it's over, especially when you have moments like that.
17:49That was a warning sign for Langenfelder.
17:52Sasha Coonan fighting again through that left-hander.
17:57Hasn't got the longest legs in the world, but even he managed to keep himself up right there.
18:02This is a big answer from Langenfelder, though.
18:04Big, big answer.
18:06A lot of whispering going on about the points coming down that quickly.
18:10To come out and put in a race like this, the way it's going,
18:12you can see him having a 20-second differential at the end.
18:16He needed this type of ride.
18:17And so, too, Mattis Vallant getting closer to Sasha Coonan,
18:22who's just made one or two little mistakes in the last couple of laps
18:25to allow the Frenchman to get back into contention.
18:29With about 11 minutes to go, just under 11 minutes to go.
18:32Guillain Ferret's keeping a watch in brief, ready to pick up any pieces,
18:34should there be any between the Belgian and the Frenchy.
18:38For the rider who's having a decent ride, the number 20, Julius Micheler.
18:41He's in 13th place at the moment.
18:43He'll be getting ready to come over the line in just a few moments' time.
18:48Hope fans get behind him.
18:55That's not a nice corner, is it?
18:57Whether you go inside or outside, just the track chewed up.
19:00Yeah, it's like three corners in one. It's a trouble.
19:04McClellan up to 14th.
19:05He's putting in personal best after personal best
19:08as he tries to salvage something from this race.
19:12Mattis Vallant, fantastic for him as well to be up there in that third place.
19:16It was a good day for them yesterday, wasn't it, with Vallant winning the qualifying race
19:22and Roma Febura winning the qualifying race in MXGP.
19:24Both French, both Kawasaki, both the same team.
19:28I like Vallant's line choice.
19:29He's consciously not jumping some of the jumps so he can stick to the insides.
19:33He's just trying to shorten the racetrack up a bit,
19:36where you see Sasha carrying a lot of speed around the outside,
19:38but he's adding so much distance to the racetrack.
19:40Adolmo's been down, and DeWolf is right back on the rear wheel of the Italian once again.
19:44So these two now in seventh and eighth, Adolmo in that seventh place.
19:55So Adolmo then, his wheel's starting to fall off in that 180 turn, picks himself up.
20:01Did DeWolf go by him briefly?
20:03I think he did, you know, when they dropped into that left-hander after that,
20:06because that's where the split is, and it showed DeWolf ahead.
20:09But Adolmo now back into that seventh position, and it's critical, isn't it,
20:14how quickly you pick yourself up, take that deep breath, and rejoin the race,
20:19as if nothing's happened, and just put that incident behind.
20:21Well, your heart rate's spiking.
20:23You're, you know, cursing at yourself for making such a big mistake,
20:27but you have to focus quickly, and credit to him.
20:30You know, that's how, it's what world champions are expected to do,
20:33is regroup and refocus it that fast.
20:35So it gets back in the race.
20:38Valerio Lata now, though, six seconds further up the track.
20:42So you've got to say, it's cost him about six seconds in the greater scheme of things,
20:46but he's now got DeWolf right there behind him.
20:49DeWolf was probably thinking, well, six seconds, that's difficult to make up with
20:52ten minutes plus two laps to go.
20:53But now he's got the rider who sits directly ahead of him in the championship,
20:57right there in his line of sight, Adolmo.
20:59And that gives him another reason to focus.
21:02Wave Jellos on the exit of the turn, the other side of this jump.
21:07So those deep ruts catching out riders, he's picked himself up, but who was it?
21:16Just looking at the splits here, it wasn't Langenfeld, it wasn't Sashikunen.
21:22Anyway, there's Adolmo, DeWolf, Beniston just ahead of them,
21:25only about four seconds further up the track.
21:27So, in that respect, Thibaut Beniston having a bit of a mid-race long.
21:36But very much advantage of Simon Langenfelder in this race, as we've been saying.
21:40And as you alluded to, Jason Thomas, the fact that a lot of whispers,
21:45a lot of people just trying to amp up that pressure on the German, saying, you know,
21:49he hasn't got what it takes, or the points are coming down,
21:52trying to verbally apply that pressure, you know, with all these little whispers here and there,
21:57best way to come out that silence your critics is just go, you know what, pull a whole shot,
22:01get your head down, come out with a 25 point. If these guys finish second and third,
22:06you still gain three or five points, you know, depending on who was there in that second or
22:10third place. But to have them down there in seventh and eighth, you know, sort of 10,
22:1412 points further back, doesn't get better than that, does it?
22:17It doesn't. And this didn't feel likely. And I did not see this type of race,
22:22this type of domination. I mean, he's 17 seconds out front. He's consistently been turning a second
22:27or two faster than a lap than the entire field. It didn't feel like that type of weekend. So,
22:32you know, I don't know if, if the weather was yesterday was just not, he wasn't quite there
22:36with the weather, but this is, this is vintage Simon Langefelder here.
22:39Yeah, it's almost like he's on a different racetrack. When we saw him at Matchley Basin,
22:45and he was just Mr. Perfect that weekend, won the qualifying race, won the both races as well.
22:49And he just didn't look fazed by anything. He was very smooth, very precise,
22:53hitting all of his marks and beyond that, you know, and everybody else looking like their fight,
22:58like Sasha Koonin looking like he's fighting. The only other rider that doesn't look like he's fighting
23:02is Valan, who is equally comfortable in these conditions. Yeah, and you know, this,
23:06this type of track is what he's supposed to excel on. German rider, if you can't win on days where
23:13the track favors you, I don't understand how you think you'll be world champion. It's that simple.
23:18You have to win on days like this. Julius Mikula here, seventh in the qualifying race on Saturday,
23:22the home rider from Czech Republic on the TM MotoCRD Motorsport Machine, wants to get this one out of
23:29his way, out of the way really, because he crashed here last year and didn't finish the rest of the
23:34season. We didn't see him until the Motocrosser Nations right at the end of the year. Jens Wolvoort,
23:39he was applying the pressure on him. Wolvoort goes down under the pressure from the TM rider.
23:45And all of a sudden Mikula now up into 12th place. The fans all like that. He'll enjoy that as well.
23:50He had a big day of commitment here yesterday and being pulled from pillar to post, something he's not
23:55really used to doing. And I think that affected his performance somewhat when he came to do our GoPro lap,
24:01let's say. But he knuckled down, got seventh in the quality race. Here he is in 12th position now
24:06and just looking very, very smooth and actually looking calm, like the helmet is on and everything
24:11else is taking care of, taking care of itself, which is good to see. Not easy to come and do your
24:16home Grand Prix. No, no. And I'm sure he won't be thrilled with the 12th. But again, cannot stress
24:22this enough. Track position on the opening lap is going to be the stories the rest of the day,
24:26has been so far in anyway. Yeah, Mikula has had a couple of eighth place finishes. They were both
24:30in Spain in Kosar and another eighth place finish in race one in Portugal. They were all muddy
24:36conditions. The eighth place that he got in Germany race two as it was getting wet. So no surprise that
24:42he said to Lisa Lane in the pre-grid, yeah, it rained and I also like that yesterday. So,
24:47but coming good, you know, in these home conditions up to 12th.
24:51Sasha Kunin, weather in the storm, keeping Valant at bay and with four minutes plus two laps to go,
24:55do you sense there's an opportunity here for Valant to charge? We're looking at the lap time,
25:0152-7 last time around and Kunin 53-4. Maybe there's a little bit of life in the tank for the
25:06Frenchman to launch an attack in the last few laps, Jason. Well, he's going to have to get closer and
25:12I haven't seen anywhere where he's tested any lines to see if there's a passing opportunity. Now,
25:16this corner right here, he's going to the inside in this section. I think if he got close,
25:20maybe he could surprise Kunin going inside there. But first things first,
25:24he's got to get up there and apply some pressure because Kunin sitting with a,
25:27you know, two second gap is not really nervous at this point.
25:32Like right now, he doesn't hear Valant everywhere. It's not in his parade. He's not thinking about
25:38him. You know, he's racing his own race, choosing his own line, his own lines. He doesn't have to
25:41ride defensively. So until Matisse can get there and change that, I don't see a pass in the work.
25:46And here's the thing, you know, like you see the back end working overtime on
25:48Sacha Kunin's KTM compared to see him on Langenfelder, who that bike looks a lot more stable,
25:53a lot more planted. Second, on a motorcycle where you feel maybe it's difficult to ride,
25:58when we're just comparing, you know, the lead bike of Langenfelder and Sacha Kunin,
26:03how hard one's working more than the other. Yeah, he'll go back and make some changes.
26:08And obviously he knows in second or third, he's in with a shot of an overall podium visit to the
26:13top step. So don't panic. Just keep the guy behind you in third and see how it plays out.
26:18Yeah. And I think some of that is comes down to riding style. As you see,
26:21DeWolf still, still working on Adamo here. Valerio Latta in fifth under pressure from
26:27Thibaut Beniston. The Italian and the Frenchie heading uphill past pit lane here. And just behind
26:32them, you've got Adamo and Kai DeWolf. We've got a bit of an eight-wheeler starting to fall.
26:36Four riders and Beniston into the side of Latta, who makes a mistake. And from looking like he was
26:43in the ascendancy, all of a sudden he's under pressure, loses one position to Adamo and he could
26:47lose another one to DeWolf. Big moment that. And certainly for Beniston, but even better though,
26:53the outcome for Adamo because he gained a position at that moment in time. Watch this here.
26:59Latta just comes in, stuffs it into the berm and Beniston nowhere to go.
27:02He had a great idea there though. If, if, uh, doesn't get stuck in that line, if Latta doesn't
27:09get stuck in the rut, I think that Beniston could have come underneath him and got to the inside at
27:13the bottom of that hill. Loses a position in the process, but we saw that at Mati Basin at the end of
27:19the waves on the opening lap of race two, Oriol Oliver made a good start. It was eyeing up his
27:22first podium. And then it was, uh, Thibaut Beniston that made the mistake at the end of the waves
27:27before you go left up onto the opposite side of the bank. And he made that mistake. Oriol Oliver
27:32was just too close. Exactly the same for him. He went down. Podium chance was scoffered. He still
27:35came away with fourth overall though, but even still not exactly what he, uh, what he wanted,
27:40but there you go. It happens. Tell you what, if DeWolf doesn't make any progress from here,
27:45that is a, that's a really difficult race for him. Yeah, it's not over, but it's, uh, a nail in the
27:51coffin, isn't it? He can't just go to Lommel in a week from now thinking I'll pull all those points
27:56back as Adamo gets around the outside of a fading Valerio Latta gains another couple of points there
28:01on the Italian crucially on DeWolf and pulls them back. And the, uh, runaway leader, Simon Langenfelder
28:08at the moment as well. So a lot going on with the passes for Adamo in the last lap on Beniston and on
28:14Valerio Latta. It feels like DeWolf's going to make some moves here. He's up in the aggression.
28:18He might make a pass right here, but man, I cannot stress enough that these, even if it's two points,
28:24three, whatever, he cannot simply, he simply cannot afford to be eighth here. Yeah, Timo Beniston
28:29getting across the Dutchman here who tries to sneak up the inside. Great vision that from DeWolf had no
28:36other option, did he, to square off and carve his way down the inside of the Frenchman. DeWolf now up into
28:41seventh and going after Latta. That's cruel for Beniston. That's the line he tried to pass Latta
28:45with. He gets used against him effectively this time though. Yeah, he'd already figured it out,
28:50hadn't he? Yeah, just getting it out of there early. Backhand came around on him though, but
28:54wasn't pretty, but he got the job done. Difference was DeWolf got further right, so he wasn't subject
28:59to whatever Beniston had done in that rut. And actually got out of the turn early, hit the berm
29:04earlier to be able to turn off of that earlier, to be on that right side and out of danger.
29:10So, uh, DeWolf then up into seventh.
29:16I've seen my Langenfelder getting ready to take the two lap board here. The Red Bull KTM rider
29:20number 27. I don't think he's pulled a tear off, has he all race? Barely a speck of dirt on him,
29:25been out front this whole time. Apart from that gear slip here, on one lap, where he still was able to
29:31turn on a lap time quicker than everybody else. He's just been on a different level in this race,
29:38and he'll be hoping when he gets back to the truck to continue that into race two. No reason why he
29:42can't. And it's that, that's the kind of weekend that he needs, isn't it, going into Lommel,
29:48a weekend from now. And that line there, Valerio Latta falling victim to two laps in a row,
29:56because it was Adamo who went around the outside of him a lap ago. DeWolf doing exactly the same
29:59thing on the same line. DeWolf hits the line now, and moves up another position into sixth place.
30:07Still chasing down Andrea and Damo though.
30:11But tough end to the race for Thibaut Benestan, from looking like moving into what fifth place,
30:17all of a sudden still finds himself down in eighth, and can't find his way past Latter.
30:21Trying to decide who this race has been the most frustrating for.
30:25And probably Benestan, trying that line again to no avail.
30:34DeWolf has just disappeared look, so you've got to imagine that Valerio Latta just fading in the
30:38latter stages of this race. And for someone like Thibaut Benestan, who loves these kind of conditions
30:42normally, just to be part there in that eighth place, not ideal for him, but maybe that's also a
30:46sign of the championship year that he's had already, and a rider that should be winning world
30:50championships already. Well, and he's been better than eighth in this race. That's the most frustrating
30:56part. When you're riding, I think he was riding well enough to be in the fight for fourth,
31:00and you just know we're near that because of mistakes, you know, the tip over, the, you know,
31:05poor, poor line choice, poor execution on the pass of Latter.
31:11Sasha Kunin, he's been solid in that second place. He's got two and a half seconds between
31:15himself and Mattis Valand now as he takes control of that second of those 22 points.
31:20Nice doubling into that turn through the right hand. He's got a back marker ahead of him here,
31:24though, that he doesn't need.
31:27The number 55 at Werner. Werner fell on the exit of turn two, yes, in the qualifying race,
31:32which gave himself a lot of work to do. Ended up, what, 26th. Into the final lap though,
31:37Langenfelder already 19 seconds clear of the number 19, who now has three seconds over Mattis Valand.
31:44So this is his position to lose. See how this track is drying out rapidly now as well.
31:48Sun coming out, maybe something to do with the ozone over this place.
31:55But this is how Simon Langenfelder has approached this race, just in cruise mode,
31:59apart from the aggression at the start to get himself over the whole shot line.
32:03He's not looked back as he's not been phased. And that says something about his resolve and his
32:08mental determination, I think. Well, this is, this is the type of ride
32:11for a leader with a 40 point lead. That's what this is. I'm not sure what was going on in Finland.
32:17Wasn't quite his weekend, but this would indicate a rider who has a massive points lead in the
32:23championship. So good for him, as you said, mentally to bounce back here because things
32:28were going the wrong direction. And that can snowball on you very, very quickly, very quickly.
32:32Well, just a few corners to go then before Simon Langenfelder hits the line for the eighth time as a
32:39race winner in 2025. He's managed the race perfectly from start to finish.
32:4818 seconds clear. He's in a different zip code to everybody else. Two or three corners to go before
32:53he hits the finish line. And Simon Langenfelder doubts what doubts. Turns up on race day when it
32:59matters. Grabs the start when he needed it most. And he's put the sort of the naysayers to bed for
33:07now in this first race. And Simon Langenfelder will cross the line in race one. He'll take the full 25
33:13points, re-establishes himself with a points lead extension. Takes a look back and goes, where is
33:19everybody there? That was a very, very important race for the German. Well, he went 148 is his
33:26quickest lap. There wasn't anybody even in the 149s on a quickest lap. That was, uh, that was a
33:31statement win. It truly was. Sacha Kuhner crossed the line 17 and a half seconds down. Valant already
33:38over the line in third. Ferez will cross the line in fourth place here on the triumph and fifth for
33:44Andrea Adamo. He's done one of those jobs. That is to beat Kaida Wolf, who crosses him,
33:49crosses over the line and follows him over the line in sixth place. Gains ground on DeWolf,
33:53loses ground on Langenfelder, but...
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