00:00 Or text the word SUPER to 785833 and get our commemorative t-shirt
00:06 All right, 250 heats are done
00:10 Let's move on to 450s and there is the SMX world champion and A1 winner with the red championship leading plate
00:17 Aboard his factory HRC Honda. That's Jet Lawrence ready to go 450 heat one. Let's see how the mud treats the big boys
00:27 Lawrence with the great start but runs way wide
00:30 Leaves the game way open for Jorge Prado the MXGP world champion
00:36 Look at this. This guy is checking out and we talked about it all day long and qualifying practice earlier today
00:44 Lee, this was this is an equalizer condition for Jorge Prada
00:48 It's going to slow things down and he has spent a ton of time in the MXGP series
00:54 Racing in these type of elements keep your eye on him
00:58 We talked about sitting down standing up you can see Jorge Prado number 111 right there standing up to the whoops
01:05 Will what you got
01:09 Ricky you talk about the conditions there MXGP riding for Jorge Prado
01:13 I spoke to him while he was on his way over here walking over to the track and I said are we making this up?
01:19 Is this something we're seeing and he said well, no, not at all. Obviously i'm used to the rain up from europe
01:23 He said but I haven't ridden supercross in the rain. Everything about supercross is unusual to me and i'm learning it
01:29 Excuse me, but he did say the start
01:32 He said that's the one thing he said the starts are going to be the key because what I have done is great starts
01:37 Into the mud a lot of times he said that if i'm going to get it anywhere is where things will go well for me tonight
01:43 Well, it's at the will's point the hardest thing about supercross is finding that intensity because all these riders in the 450 class have years
01:52 Of experience you have multi-race winners former 250 champions gaining that experience is going to take a very long time
01:58 But when you have conditions like this everything slows down, you don't have to have that sprint speed
02:03 You don't have to have all that experience because the pace of racing is that much slower
02:07 So all that has gone to the wayside and now jorge prado can just do what he knows best get the start
02:12 And put laps together in the ruts. He was running in the top 10
02:16 Very well last week at a1 jt and just fell outside the top 10 in the finish
02:21 So the big question begs. Why is he here? Why is he doing this?
02:24 Well after making a dream come true, uh, like uh, that makes you be title this year, I feel like I I wanted to experience
02:33 Uh new adventures and for sure racing supercross. It's something completely different
02:38 In that i've always look up to so I think it's the right time and that's why i'm here to
02:45 To see if there's something
02:47 Uh positive that I can and take for the future and maybe even if I like it, you know come over
02:52 uh in a few years or
02:55 Or maybe sooner than later
02:57 Folks in early december we get to spend a couple of days with the writer riders at
03:03 Monster energy supercross media days where they come into a room and in a relaxed atmosphere
03:07 We get to talk long form with them prado was mesmerized by simply the fact that ricky karmichael was in the room
03:14 One of his lifetime heroes, but rc his eyes were ablaze with just excitement at the fact that he was coming to america
03:21 To race supercross something he's been thinking about since he was a kid. Well, i'm sitting here watching
03:27 jorge prado
03:29 Just put on a riding clinic and this muddy supercross race is 5.7
03:34 Seconds ahead of the defending supercross champion. He's going to go. I mean watch when you guys watch him ride
03:41 He basically stays in a straight line on all of the obstacles minus the whoop section
03:46 I don't think anyone has stayed in a straight line through there
03:48 So when i'm watching him, that's what i'm looking at and he doesn't look like he's rushing anything
03:53 He just looks cool calm and collected
03:56 and and not panic stricken this is this is very dangerous for his competitors and
04:02 This is awesome to see him putting on a ride like this
04:05 Even though it's a heat race last week watching him through the sand section at angel stadium of anaheim was something else and here in the mud
04:12 This is quite the display five and a half seconds back to the champ chase sexton who podiumed last week in his first ride aboard his
04:20 Ktm the red bull ktm and then jet lawrence lawrence may have just lost a position to roxanne
04:27 Let's see what happened to jet the championship leader
04:31 Let's go back and show you because there has been a little hiccup. Did he just have an easy fall?
04:36 Why has roxanne got by him up the inside to go through the whoops? Oh goes sideways
04:42 The whoops are so challenging
04:44 And the reason they are like I said, they're getting rut they're getting rutted up and when they when there's a long run
04:49 It's so hard to keep your balance because you're going so slow through there
04:53 Oh, and by the way, it's like imagine the road being completely wet and greased all over and you're trying to hold a straight line
05:00 It's impossible and look out here comes eli tomac in the background taking the fight to jet lawrence
05:06 This is something he spoke about in the offseason
05:08 He's looking forward to racing lawrence the one guy on the list that he had
05:12 Gone up against and he wanted to take the fight to him. But look vision is a problem balance is a problem traction is a problem
05:19 Line selection is a problem. Yeah, it looks like he's having a malfunction with his goggles jet lawrence
05:25 You see that long string hanging from his goggle or helmet area. That is what they call roll-offs
05:31 so when they pull this there's two canisters on the side of the lens and they'll pull a string and as they pull a string
05:36 there's a clear little
05:38 Uh, I don't know what you could yeah strip to uh, so you can so you can have clear vision
05:43 And clearly there has been an issue there. So that's going to be tough
05:46 But where this is really going to sting for a guy like say eli tomac or even uh, jet lawrence for that matter
05:54 You got jorge prado up front and the defending champ
05:57 Chase sexton, they're gonna have a better start. They're gonna have a better starting position 20 seconds left and sexton has all but caught prado
06:06 Somebody has just dropped it there and as we watch this battle at the front
06:10 Let's give a shout out to the 144 of jason clermont who sits in the top 10. He's just lost seventh to rodbell
06:18 So good work there
06:21 This is a great run too by chase sexton
06:23 Right here being able to reel in jorge prado. Just have to assume that chase sexton knows the abilities of a guy like jorge
06:31 Uh in these type of conditions
06:34 So to be able to uh to be able to hang there and close the gap
06:39 Should be comforting for chase and give him a lot of confidence going into this main event here
06:44 Shane macklerath is above that cut line as well
06:48 Abort his hep suzuki. Look at this. This is for the win
06:52 Can you imagine in just his second weekend in monster energy supercross jorge prado? Could he get a heat win sexton gets caught up?
06:58 Couldn't get going there. That's given the triple one of prado some breathing room. He goes off track back on sexton's with him
07:07 I can't believe he's saying that it's so hard to save
07:10 A potential crash when you ride over a tough block. Look at there's justin barcia right in front of
07:17 Jorge prado he goes by
07:19 barcia
07:21 And barcia was outside the transfer zone. He's been doing it tough
07:25 So on the same machine on the red bull troy lee design gas gas his teammate for the first three rounds this year
07:32 Is leading this heat this track is so challenging and man has it went away?
07:38 Thinking about that first heat race in the 250 class to where it is now
07:44 On their way home jorge prado. Can he get through these whoops? Hold on. Hold on
07:49 Uh, he's gonna I believe he's gonna get it. Yeah
07:54 Look at that front plate nice and clean compared to everybody else
07:58 He got up the inside of jet lawrence nice and early on the opening lap and then just took off
08:03 He had at one stage almost six seconds over the rest of the field
08:07 But chase sexton did a nice job in catching him and he's catching him in again on this final lap
08:13 Prado trying to get there and does the mxgp world champion is a heat winner in monster energy supercross
08:20 Yeah, superb ride
08:24 So prado and sexton are the first two across
08:27 There's more troubles for jet lawrence down face first into the mud
08:33 He's frustrated with his lack of vision tears his goggles off and tries to get going again. Jt. What a troublesome heat
08:43 Unbelievable and bad news for justin barsha there. He's dealing with an illness this week. Certainly not 100
08:47 But he did not qualify out of that heat race. So similarly to hunter lawrence and the struggles he saw last weekend. He's
Écris le tout premier commentaire