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00:00The Pro Motocross Championship is fueled by Monster Energy, Unleash the Beast, and by Honda and the dominant line of CRF Motocrossers.
00:16Well, that's the scene at High Point. Huge crowd on hand. This place has been packed the last couple of years, and what they've seen each time is this.
00:24Monster Energy 250 Fast Qualifier powered by BFS Foods. Today, Hayden Deegan, he also did it in 2023 and 2024 at this track.
00:34Yeah, Hayden Deegan's got this track figured out, and one of the key to it is roll speed.
00:40These guys, as we heard down at JT talking about some of the insides and outsides, you know, you got to choose a lot.
00:45Well, these guys got to make that choice, but also keep up their roll speed.
00:48So today's going to be super important for all of them. One, to get a good start, but keep that momentum up and chase that number one down.
00:54And that's the KTM keys to the moto. Fly Racing 30-second card is up. 40 riders on the gate.
01:00Each class will race twice today. The duration, 30 minutes and two laps.
01:04So stay with us for the next four-plus hours. Live action here on Peacock and the SMX Video Pass.
01:10Get the pointers on Haymus and Deegan. A rematch from last week. Let's go!
01:14Looks like Deegan and his teammate, Nate Thrasher, battling for the whole shot. Thrasher on the 41.
01:24Has it. Look at the 16 of the inside. Tom Vielle and the Australian, Caden Meneer.
01:30Second pro race going for it as well.
01:32Oh, I've been waiting for this to happen. Good to see Nate out front.
01:35And quickly as that, Hayden Deegan moves his way up to the second position.
01:38So, great start for the star, Yamaha. These guys are out front. So many things going on.
01:46Yeah, well, one, two, three. Hard to call them all. Yes, it's now Thrasher, Deegan, and Meneer.
01:50We mentioned Vielle. A good start by Drew Adams.
01:54Good to see the rookie right there. I think he just made some more passes.
01:58Yeah, Drew made his way around. Caden Meneer actually looked like Tom Vielle.
02:01Excuse me. Good start for him. Both these rookies up here trying to do something.
02:06And Caden Meneer, which is a young one. Last weekend was his first race.
02:10So, got his teammates, which he rides with every single, every day during the week.
02:14Let's see what he can do with it.
02:16Let's watch Deegan, who is right there battling.
02:20Trying to follow a Thrasher. Was those lines JT was talking about.
02:23That outside, inside. So wide, this racetrack.
02:28Yeah, there it is.
02:29They worked on some of this. It looks like Hayden's going to try to go around the outside.
02:32It's going to funnel back down. Let's see if Nate can close that off.
02:34A lot of ruts down here, which you can't see, but number one is up the inside already.
02:39And into the lead already.
02:41So, Deegan to the number one spot.
02:44Back section of the track. About to emerge at the top of the hill.
02:49Yeah, it looks like we lost Caden Meneer.
02:51It looks like he goes down. That moves Drew Adams up to third place.
02:54So, good to see the rookie up here.
02:55Yeah, there you see the green machine, the monster, Pro Circuit Kawasaki in third.
03:02What's the goal for Deegan now? Get away?
03:04Yeah, I mean, I think after last weekend, going 2-2, which is a great day for most, but not good enough for Hayden Deegan.
03:10This is exactly where he wants to be.
03:12When you go back to last year, he got bad starts.
03:14So, this is new to him. Normally, this is after 15 minutes, but I suspect Hayden Deegan is going to throw down the gauntlet right here.
03:20Try to get a little gap and manage it from that point.
03:23Well, here's this interesting. It's the first time Deegan has led the first lap of a race this year.
03:27He's been awfully patient early in these races and then works his way forward today out front early.
03:34Katie.
03:34Well, the team was telling me that Hayden Deegan had that kind of pressure off of his back, guys.
03:39It was like that winning streak was gone, and so he didn't have to worry about having that perfect season.
03:44But, in fact, that's something that I think is really interesting, Stu, from a writer's perspective.
03:48The fact that that streak is over for him, doesn't he maybe want to start that streak again and see when he can, you know, kind of come alive with it?
03:55Yeah, he almost came off the track with it right there.
03:57But, yeah, I think for Hayden, it's one thing losing a winning streak, you know, on your own mistake, but it's another one getting beat.
04:03And I think with him, you know, it's pretty easy for him to refocus because, oh, the way it happened last week, he was trying to chase down chances.
04:11We were watching Levi try to get around his teammate right here for third place.
04:15But back to Hayden, he takes a look back.
04:17I think he's just easy to just go back out there and win because that's where he belongs at.
04:21And it's a great way to start another streak up by being out front.
04:26You saw Kitchen make the move on Adams.
04:27You mentioned, James, this is at least better.
04:30Remember, this Pro Circuit team, they have been fast, but they have not been able to get good starts together.
04:34Oh, that's actually Hamaker up there.
04:36So we've lost both Minear and Drew Adams, the two rookies who started well.
04:42First lap, not kind to them.
04:44But anyway, this is at least some progress off the gate to see Kitchen and Hamaker third and fourth early.
04:50Yeah, I mean, this would be a great start.
04:52I mean, we saw Levi finish the motos last weekend.
04:54And so he was really confident as one, how he finished that moto, but his fitness, everything was coming good.
05:00And the weekend before, he was able to get third.
05:01So I like when I see Levi Kitchen opening up the kitchen for business for free.
05:06Only problem is he's got to chase down at number one, which is looking back, already trying to get away from him.
05:10And then there's Nate Thrasher in second.
05:12A bad weekend last weekend.
05:14A crash the weekend before that at Hangtown.
05:17It has been a very rough start to pro motocross.
05:20He's running well.
05:21And now it looks like the 16 of the owls starting to come back to life in orange on the Red Bull KTM.
05:27Yeah, we heard Seth talk before the moto.
05:29He has a shoulder injury.
05:30So with this racetrack, these downhills are probably going to be really tough for him.
05:33So if you see him starting to struggle, these guys have been able to catch up on him as he's moving downhill.
05:38You've got to believe that's partly of that shoulder.
05:40So it's going to be a tough day for Nate.
05:42If he can just survive these opening laps, that shoulder will loosen up, and then he'll be able to maybe catch a toe with these guys.
05:47Now, meanwhile, Muneer, who was up there early, is 15th, and Drew Adams is 23rd.
05:55Muneer, you mentioned that he turned pro last week.
05:58He still had his amateur suspension because he had not ridden the pro bike.
06:01It was such a late call-up.
06:03And then they had a lot of rain at home.
06:04So this is actually his debut racing with the real pro-level stiffer suspension.
06:10Would have been interesting to see what he could do.
06:12But then the crash after running second early.
06:14Followed Villal here in fifth.
06:16Yeah, well, just speaking on that, I know that's a big change for anyone to make that change because it is a lot different.
06:23Amateur bumps compared to the pro bump.
06:25So we're watching some passes being made right here.
06:27I think that's Casey Cochran, I believe.
06:29And Jalik Swole.
06:31Yeah.
06:31Yeah, 22.
06:32Yep.
06:33Swole, welcome back.
06:34Yeah.
06:34When I see that 22, I think I'm aboard Chad Reed.
06:37So, you know, good to see Jalik out here.
06:39You know, a lot of things are probably going to happen for him fast because he's been out.
06:43But, yeah, just that suspension change, as Cade Muneer has to deal with, it's going to be a big change because the amateur bumps are a lot smaller.
06:49So making that change here, not having a lot of time, I'm sure it's going to be a lot to get used to it for the rookie.
06:54Let's see if he can move forward as you're watching the Honda teammates here, Shimoda and Haimus.
07:00Haimus has had great starts this year, three hole shots and six motos, but sorry, he didn't get the jump in this one.
07:06JT.
07:07Yeah, speaking of that, Weegee, you know, talking about the jump, it seems like so many of these guys have been so start dependent.
07:13And most of the time it's been for the net positive.
07:16Shimoda had such a strong start to the series with reasonably good starts.
07:20Haimus, we saw how powerful that could be last weekend.
07:23But the one rider who really hasn't been subject to any of that has been Hayden Deacon.
07:27Then you glance up at the points and you start to understand why he has a 25-point lead.
07:31And also, James, I just wanted to throw out there the phrase, my boy Chad Reed is something I never, ever thought you would say in this lifetime.
07:38So well done on that one.
07:39Hey, everybody's changed, it's Father's Day weekend, Chad, what up?
07:42But everybody's got to change.
07:44But, you know, nonetheless, I think this is what we talked about in Race Day a lot when you talk about Chance Haimus.
07:48To be a title threat, I think it's important for him to move his way up through these guys.
07:53Because the only way you're going to be a title threat for Hayden, you might not be able to beat him in his first moto because Hayden's out front.
07:59But you've got to finish behind him.
08:00And the only way you can be able to do that is to be able to pass these group of riders.
08:04And as JT said, a lot of these guys will start dependent.
08:06So let's see if Chance, that 1-1, gave him that confidence as his teammate's trying to get around Casey Cochran right in front of him.
08:13Cochran on that Rockstar Gas Gas, he is not making it easy on Shimoda.
08:18No, Casey's been running really good.
08:19I ran into him at the airport.
08:20And he said just being up front, he's starting to learn that pace.
08:24And coming off the injury, it's tough for you if you're not out here racing all year long, which he hasn't.
08:29He's going to get confidence.
08:30And he's going to be hard to pace to beat.
08:33And Joe Shimoda's finding that right now.
08:35Bottom box is the leader, Deegan, who has opened it up to five and a half seconds over Thrasher.
08:41Kitchen in third.
08:42A little bit further back is this battle.
08:45Hymas on the 10.
08:47Got Mike Spence.
08:48Oh, yeah.
08:48Yeah.
08:49Unfortunately for Garrett, this has been a similar story all year long.
08:52And he's been running really good to be able to make his way up.
08:55At least a lot of times in the top five, finishing third overall last weekend.
08:59Great second moto getting eighth after going down to the first corner.
09:01But you can't start in the back if you're trying to get up and win these races.
09:05And maybe some of the results doesn't show how good Garrett's been riding all year long.
09:10A little bit in defense of that Pro Circuit team with the bad starts.
09:13Adams, Kitchen, and Marchbanks.
09:16They might be the three heaviest guys in this field.
09:19Kitchen really tall.
09:20The other two are pretty stout.
09:21As Shimoda and Cochran continue to battle.
09:24Nice line by the 30 of Shimoda.
09:27Yeah, that was beautiful.
09:28And that's the one thing that I love about here at Mount Morris is that it opens up a lot of corners.
09:33Especially if it's not rutted, these guys can move around.
09:37And Shimoda makes the pass.
09:38Has for Hymas right behind them.
09:40Give you a replay.
09:40Oh, Shimoda down to the bottom of the hill.
09:43Yeah, easily can happen.
09:44What you can't tell on TV how steep that corner is.
09:47And Joe was just trying to get down to that inside rutt because there's a really good inside rutt that these guys can bank off.
09:52It's going to be costly for Joe.
09:54Now, as Boland and Masterpool battle past Shimoda, we'll show you Hymas' start here in the box.
10:01Yeah, we're watching for the overhead shot.
10:04And you can tell off the gate he didn't get the jump.
10:06And when he didn't get the jump, he got closed off.
10:08And that's all she wrote.
10:09So now he's going to be a salmon swimming upstream at this point trying to move around.
10:14And here's Shimoda's crash.
10:15Yeah, Joe's right here.
10:17He's trying to get – it looks like he's trying to move over to the inside.
10:20You can see his front tire just pops over that rutt.
10:22There's one where a chance there was an inside rutt that Joe was trying to get to.
10:26Didn't happen.
10:27Easy way to lose the front end there.
10:29And that's going to be costly for him.
10:32JT.
10:33Yeah, just watching that Joe's a motor crash.
10:34We saw a similar type of crash from Cooper Webb in qualifying practice.
10:38Same corner, different line.
10:40But it's coming down that hill.
10:41It's so steep there, and they're putting so much pressure on the front end there.
10:46If you lose traction even for a split second with that front tire, you end up on your head.
10:50So those guys have to be really mindful in those sections to really practice their technique,
10:54get their body English, and really weight that front tire to make sure that they don't slip at all.
10:59Yeah, absolutely.
10:59And what makes it even more difficult, a lot of these corners are off-camber.
11:03And what that means is, like, if you're walking, all of us have walked up the side of a hill.
11:06Well, if you just try to walk up a hill and then try to walk sideways, that's what off-camber it is.
11:11So your feet are always slipping away.
11:13That's what happens to Joe.
11:14Losing that front end goes down.
11:16Easy to happen.
11:17And a couple of battles to watch here.
11:19You've got the teammates, Kitchen and Handmaker, in the bottom box battling for third, trying to close on Thrasher.
11:26And in this top box, that's Bolin versus Masterpool, who's last year's winner of this race.
11:32And then Shimoda.
11:34Yeah, and earlier I was talking about Ty, if he can – excuse me, not Ty, but Seth,
11:38if he can just hold on and get that shoulder warmed up, maybe he'll be able to catch a toe.
11:42And it looks like that's what he's doing, because behind him, he's got Tom Biao right behind him.
11:48So they're kind of pushing the pace.
11:49Unfortunately, everybody's almost seven seconds behind the leader, Hayden Deegan,
11:52which is just trying to run away from him.
11:54Now, at the bottom, you see Kitchen has bridged the gap to second-place Thrasher.
11:59That was a nice move that was just made right there.
12:05This is going to be interesting as Kitchen moves up, Katie.
12:08That would be.
12:09He knows that he has the pace.
12:10He actually told me earlier today it was a start that he really needed to work on.
12:14But his opening lap speed, those two combined, if he could get those dialed in,
12:18he knew he had the pace to get the job done.
12:21Something to take into consideration, though, is he's had a mental coach that he said has changed the game for him.
12:26He also has put on a lot of weight, and that's actually been helpful.
12:29You guys were talking about him and Garrett earlier about the weight and the heaviness of them.
12:33He knows that's one of actually the things he's been working on and one of the important factors for him as well
12:38in hopes that he can get around here, Nate Thrasher.
12:42Definitely getting stronger, Katie.
12:43He just makes the move here, James, for second.
12:45Yeah, well, you can see that pass.
12:46Nate was trying to get back to the inside, but because these corners are so off-camera,
12:49Nate couldn't get back towards it to close that door off.
12:51But a nice pass by Levi.
12:53And when these guys are talking about putting on weights, they're talking about putting on muscle.
12:56We're not talking about going from 150 pounds to 170.
12:59It's just about putting on weight in the right position.
13:01So Levi Kitchen definitely not figured out whatever it is, the mental culture, whatever it is.
13:07He's starting to figure that part out.
13:08So maybe he can cut into Hayden Deegan's league.
13:12As for Thrasher there in third, I said it's been a slow start to the season.
13:16His best moto finish so far this year is 18th.
13:20And now he's running third.
13:22Yeah, I mean, that just showed you what a start.
13:24Things are starting to come quickly for Nate.
13:26But it's weird because if you haven't been up here, that pace really happens fast.
13:32And in this field, as you can see, there's a guy behind him.
13:35There's another guy behind the other guy.
13:37There's always going.
13:38So Nate, when things start coming unrattled, there's about five guys that you can instantly get past.
13:43And then it just starts to go downhill.
13:44So Nate knows how to.
13:46He's won races before in Supercross.
13:49He just needs to get used to all these guys because I believe he has the pace.
13:52It's really about just being comfortable up front, then being able to run that pace.
13:56And he'll figure it out.
13:58Give me a check-in with that monster energy.
14:00Yamaha Star Racing Team Deegan in the lead.
14:04Thrasher now third.
14:05Moseman, another quiet but very effective ride, is sixth.
14:08And Muneer, who had that great start, now back to 18th.
14:12Again, in his second pro race, the young Australian.
14:16Now, the career-best finish outdoors for Thrasher is a fourth.
14:20Chad at Ironman a couple of years ago.
14:22See if he can stay in that spot.
14:24He's third at the moment.
14:25But Seth Hamaker closing on the 56.
14:28Yeah, I like Seth in out here.
14:30He said he wanted to get top five.
14:31So normally when a guy like Seth is up here, obviously the crashes and stuff have been hindering him.
14:36So for him, he's rotting.
14:38He's trying 100%.
14:39But at the same time, he's also trying to be cautious and make sure he doesn't go down, hurt that shoulder again.
14:43And he knows top fives, he can build that confidence and then eventually get a win.
14:48And yeah, Seth, actually, he and Thrasher crashed together at Hangtown.
14:56Second turn of the race.
14:58Hamaker got up and then immediately crashed even bigger going downhill in the very next section of the track.
15:04And that's what led to the shoulder injury that prevented him from racing last weekend.
15:10So a nice comeback here for Seth.
15:13And that is third and fourth.
15:16Fifth is Vial next.
15:19Send it back to JT.
15:20Well, Tom Vial, he really, you know, came into this series thinking he was going to be a championship contender.
15:26And it started pretty well.
15:28His first round at Fox Raceway gets on the podium.
15:30I even asked him, hey, are you content with beating a podium guy?
15:33He's like, no, absolutely not.
15:34I want to win.
15:35Well, ever since then, things have not gone very well.
15:38So he's back running around near the top five.
15:40But he has got to try to find the positive momentum and get back to the form that we know he has.
15:45Yeah, speaking about some form, Michael Moselman, before he got out there on track,
15:49he was so chill on the start line.
15:51He was doing some yoga, actually some stretching.
15:53It was pretty cool to see him in that position.
15:56Of course, he's had three podiums.
15:58But this season, right, so far, it's only been an eighth, a tenth, and a 14th.
16:02And he's a guy that knows how to get the job done.
16:04In fact, here at High Point, last time he was out here racing, which was, by the way, in 2022, he ran a fourth.
16:10So it's a place he's been comfortable at, but he really needs to dial it in a little bit more.
16:15Yeah, if your chance, Hyme, is right here, you've got to be somewhat bummed.
16:18Because coming off last weekend, going that 1-1, being fast in practice as well,
16:21you knew you wanted to come out here and try to get another win.
16:25And it's going to be hard for you because you don't really see the guy in front of you.
16:28So you've got to continue to race forward.
16:30Look at that pit board.
16:31Now, McCannis here, chase the guy in front of you, chase that pit board,
16:34try to bring those lap times down to see if you can close the gap.
16:37Because right now, you're about a second off of what the pace you need to be running
16:39to catch the guys in front of you.
16:41And dealing with a little pressure from Marchbanks, who's behind him in eighth.
16:47Marchbanks, only man left out in California for that Monster Pro Circuit Kawasaki team.
16:52His teammates have all headed east, but the factory 450 riders like Jason Anderson
16:58are still out in California.
17:00So he's been riding with Anderson now.
17:02That is, 250 teammates are gone.
17:04Also gone is half the moto here.
17:07Hold up.
17:08Shout out to Monster Energy for backing us here.
17:11And a reminder that you can purchase Monster Energy.
17:13It's available at BFS Foods.
17:16What are you seeing here, James?
17:17Yeah, I was looking at Seth Handmaker got around Nate Thrasher.
17:20So he moves his way up to third and see if he can keep on with his teammate.
17:25Levi has a pretty good pace.
17:26He's losing.
17:27He was able to catch Hayden a lot before, but then Hayden dropped the hammer
17:30and went back to 209.
17:31Levi in the 211, and I think a lot of that comes from is that Levi eventually
17:36is going to start riding behind him because he can't see Hayden,
17:39and it's just hard to chase a rabbit that you can't see.
17:42And it's easy to start looking back at your teammate coming up,
17:44and you always want to beat your teammate.
17:46So this race is going to go all the way down to the finish if these two stay up.
17:50What surprised me, some of these back sections here,
17:53it looks like he is not charging at all.
17:55That must be how technical, how difficult the track is
17:57because obviously he's still going fast.
17:59Yeah, I think a lot in these back sections where we had some rain,
18:02some of it was the gnarly G outs.
18:04What you can't see is the holes in the bottom of it
18:07because the rain water had to come off somewhere.
18:09So some of these sections you can see these guys, if we come back to it,
18:13they'll slow down because actually the rain is sitting down there
18:16just getting a deeper, deeper hole.
18:17So Levi, I think he's doing a good job.
18:19He's pushing it, but it's a difficult racetrack.
18:22And it's hard when you're seeing this number one just pulling it away from you
18:26no matter how hard you try.
18:28JT.
18:29Well, speaking of doing a good job, Hayden Deegan is certainly doing that.
18:32And I wanted to ask you guys, did you guys notice him?
18:34He was our fastest qualifier, and I got a chance to speak to him right afterwards.
18:38There was not a lot of joking around.
18:40You know, typically he's got to take a jab to people, having some fun with the interview.
18:43He was all business this morning.
18:46James, I'm just wondering, do you think that is coming off of last weekend
18:50and just his overall mindset entering this round?
18:52Oh, 100%.
18:53100%.
18:54And you would think that because of his points lead, he'd be really relaxed.
18:58And I heard him.
18:59We spoke to his dad, Brian, and he said, you know, what's the message being sent?
19:03And he didn't really throw us out there.
19:06You know, he said he won.
19:06Hayden wanted to win.
19:07But he also said that as he gets close to jumping off the racetrack,
19:10he also said Hayden woke up.
19:12He can tell by his son's attitude that it was going to be a good day.
19:14And when you were talking to him, JT, it seemed like that.
19:17No playing around.
19:18He knew he wanted to stop that number 10 from getting any confidence.
19:21And what better way to do it than what you're doing right now with an 11-second lead.
19:25And as he pulls away, you can focus on that bottom box.
19:28Good battle now between the teammates, Moseman and Thrasher, fifth and sixth.
19:32Katie.
19:33Going back up to Hayden Deacon.
19:34Guys, there's so much you could talk about with this guy.
19:36But Brent Duffy, his mechanic, was telling me after practice today, he came off the track,
19:40and he said, man, I left some speed out there.
19:43So, of course, that shows the team that he is confident.
19:46And, guys, confidence brings confidence, right?
19:48Stu, you know that one well.
19:50Yeah.
19:50And if you're looking at dictionary confidence, you've got to see a picture of Hayden Deacon
19:55because he has the confidence.
19:56And why wouldn't you?
19:58Now he has the luxury right now.
20:00Like he's pulling away from these guys.
20:01But, honestly, he's probably rotting in his heart probably 80%.
20:04So, he's saving energy.
20:06He's being able to move around.
20:08And on this racetrack that is easy to make mistakes, he's being able to choose his own lines
20:12and not rush certain sections.
20:14So, compared to a guy like Levi, has to make up time.
20:17So, he has to push it down.
20:19Hayden's in the perfect position.
20:20And I'm sure he's saving energy at this point.
20:23And it's going to be hard for these guys to beat him in the second moto
20:25because he's not riding that hard at the moment.
20:29We saw the work he could do without good starts
20:32and how strong he could be late in the motos a year ago.
20:35Yeah, now it's making life much easier on himself.
20:38Yeah, I like this inside line.
20:40We saw it a lot before Garrett Marchbank.
20:42He went on the outside.
20:43Then he cut all the way back to the right.
20:44So, being patient.
20:46And Hayden has that luxury to be able to just slow down and get to that inside.
20:49It sets you up better for that tunnel jump.
20:51And if you just watch him, all his lines, he's not rushing in any corner.
20:55He's going exactly where he wants to go.
20:57If he wants to miss a bump, he'll slow down and move his way around the racetrack.
21:01And the reason he's able to do that is because he's out front.
21:03Nobody's pressuring him.
21:06And the Super Motocross playoffs return with racing September 6th in Charlotte, North Carolina.
21:11September 13th, St. Louis, Missouri.
21:14And then in September, join us for the SMX World Championship Final in Las Vegas, Nevada.
21:19The Champions are crowned like Hayden Deegan has been the last two years.
21:23For tickets and information, go to SuperMotocross.com.
21:27Love the hybrid tracks, the two-day format, and much, much more.
21:31And Deegan will be aiming for the three-peat in the 250 division.
21:34As will Jet Lawrence.
21:36Trying to do the same in the 450 class.
21:38The clutch adjustment over there, like this outside line.
21:46Slow down right here.
21:47Pop over this.
21:48JT.
21:49Yeah, just watching Deegan's line choice here.
21:52James, this is the position you found yourself in.
21:54I would say 12 seconds might be on the lower side of the position you found yourself in at this racetrack.
21:59But you notice, he's taking the smoothest lines all the way around the racetrack.
22:03And I just wanted to follow what you were talking about.
22:05This is the advantage you get when you have a lead like this.
22:08He doesn't have to take necessarily the fastest line.
22:11He can take the smoothest line.
22:12That's going to set him up so nicely for the second moto.
22:15Because he's not hitting any bumps.
22:16He's saving so much energy.
22:18Those guys in the battle, they are forced to take the absolute fastest and most often roughest line around the racetrack.
22:25So there's so many benefits to getting out and getting a lead like this.
22:28No, absolutely.
22:29You saw him jump all the way down that hill.
22:31And if he had somebody behind him, he would have to try to make it to that inside.
22:35Because he would have to worry about somebody to come to him.
22:36But because he's out front, as you can see him, you know, cut back across that corner.
22:41It just works out beautiful for him.
22:43Now we're watching a battle.
22:44It's Master Pole.
22:46Moving up, battling Shimoda.
22:49Oh, that's Joe got back up.
22:50Okay, good.
22:52And here's that downhill from a different view.
22:54So, yeah, Shimoda's got to go inside here, right?
22:56Yeah, so Hayden jumped all the way down.
22:58And if somebody like Joe was behind him, he would have to get back over.
23:01But Joe didn't get that corner properly.
23:03Now he's getting passed.
23:05And he's going to be frustrated because, again, he just lost that time.
23:07Now he's got to go back to work and try to get back through him.
23:10Katie?
23:10One thing to note about Ty Master Pole is he went back to Texas this week.
23:15And why is that important?
23:16Well, last year at high point when he got the 300th win for Pro Circuit and he won this race,
23:21he also went back to Texas.
23:23And it was a bit of a reset.
23:25That's exactly what he needed after the last few rounds where he's felt sick.
23:28He's had issues even throwing up and different things.
23:31He's hoping that Texas homage would have paid a little bit of just relaxation and rest for him.
23:37Another thing to note about Ty is he changed to a nutritionist recently.
23:40And he's hoping that also helps his health both on and off track.
23:44Yeah, thanks, Katie.
23:44He said he actually hooked up with a nutritionist through Levi Kitchen because Ty has had some problems.
23:50Kitchen said when he was battling him last weekend in that second moto, he's like,
23:53well, I knew the guy was going to fade.
23:54I literally saw him throwing up before the second moto.
23:58And we've been talking about that all year as you're saying the teammates can't quite hide the ailments of each other.
24:03No, they can't.
24:04And especially, like, you know, in Ty's situation and Levi, he's like, look, you know, I fed him.
24:09He's working with my nutrition.
24:10I know he's throwing up over there.
24:12So come to my kitchen.
24:13I'll help you out.
24:14But, yeah, when your teammate, you're battling for your teammate for a championship, you know all the secrets.
24:19And you've got to think about it in the 450 class, the Lawrence brothers, you know, Jen Lawrence.
24:23He knows everything about his brothers, so there's no secrets.
24:26Just got to go out there and see if Joe can go back to work on Ty.
24:30There will be some opportunities to make some passes, and here might be one of them right here.
24:34Joe's getting close, but Ty's going to be back alongside of him.
24:37Got this gnarly breaking bump.
24:38Let's see if Ty can get close to him on the inside or Joe's going to cut him off.
24:41There you go.
24:42He did.
24:43That's a great battle.
24:44They passed each other a couple of times.
24:46And, look, Masterpool fighting back again.
24:48Yeah, but Ty's going to try to set him up and see if he can square him up.
24:51But Joe did a pretty good line right there being defensive.
24:54But there you go.
24:55A lot of opportunities.
24:57I expect Joe's going to go around the outside.
24:59Good job, Ty.
25:01Wow.
25:01And they've caught Thrasher now, who's right in front of them.
25:05Top box is Hymas, who is catching Moseman for fifth.
25:09Three-rider fight now.
25:12Thrasher, Masterpool Shimoda.
25:14Yeah, that's one thing here at Mount Morris, all these different lines.
25:18Once you get into it, some of these corners, you've got to stay in that rut.
25:21But it gives you an opportunity to make some passes if you're Joe Shimoda.
25:25And this will be another opportunity to see what Ty does.
25:28Now he's going to run it up the inside.
25:29Ty will probably hit the brakes and try to square underneath him like that.
25:33It's unbelievable.
25:34It's good.
25:35And all that being said, they're closing in on Nate Thrasher right in front of him.
25:40So great stuff.
25:42And then Hymas continuing to close.
25:45Moseman for fifth.
25:46They all up to fourth.
25:49Masterpool Shimoda.
25:50More passes en route.
25:53Yeah, one of them is trying to get a twofer.
25:55Bogo is special.
25:57And it ties in a difficult spot because he wants to try to pass Michael.
26:00But then he's got Joe, and sometimes you've got to leave that door open.
26:03Now Michael's starting to slow him down.
26:06And Joe's going to go around the outside of both of them.
26:09Here's the Bogo.
26:10Yeah, Bogo special.
26:11Got it.
26:12Got the lightning deal right there.
26:14Oh, I like it, man.
26:16For those labels on the clearance rack, you know.
26:18You see the bright colors.
26:20It's a good deal.
26:21And Masterpool able to pass Moseman.
26:24Thrasher as well.
26:25They're going.
26:26Yeah, we were looking at Michael.
26:27But, yeah, that didn't say Thrasher right there.
26:29Yep.
26:30Yeah, Moseman is battling with the other Honda.
26:32Yeah.
26:32Hymas in the other box.
26:33He was in that battle box earlier.
26:35Uh-huh.
26:36Hey, lots of teammates out here.
26:37Okay, so now will Shimoda be able to end this with Masterpool?
26:43Or will Ty come back on him?
26:45Yeah, normally most riders that Joe, if he has somebody to chase,
26:49then I think he'll be able to end it.
26:50Because clearly, I think he's faster than Ty at this point.
26:55But if he doesn't have a rabid to chase, as I mentioned with Levi,
26:58it's easy to start riding behind you.
27:00So we'll see what happens.
27:01But somewhat a good ride by Chance.
27:04This is what I wanted to see.
27:05Could he be able to come up through the pack?
27:06These guys spread it out for him.
27:08So now he's got to close the gap.
27:10But still, if he can get within the top five, maybe even, you know, close to Tom Vial,
27:14it would be somewhat of a good ride for him mentally, that is,
27:18compared to what we saw a couple weeks ago with him having food poisoning,
27:21pulling off the racetrack and stuff.
27:22If you've got to at least back up another 1-1 with at least the top five,
27:25because that's the best you can do today.
27:27Yeah, just looking for fifth with Moseman here on the 93 right in front of him.
27:32I told you Moseman's story several times.
27:34A broken neck and several concussions led him to think that his racing days were over.
27:40The neck healed up.
27:41The doctor said,
27:41You're not any more likely to have a problem than anyone who had not broken their neck.
27:45No long-term complications.
27:46So he decided to give this one more shot.
27:48And because he's always been fast, he got a shot with this Yamaha team.
27:54So he's got the good equipment, the good squad, trying to make the most of it.
27:58Yeah, and you saw that line where we got the sky shot, the double.
28:03Let's see if Chance can bully himself up the inside.
28:06There you go.
28:07Move out my way.
28:07Move or be hit.
28:09Love it.
28:11So fifth for Hymas, despite the bad start.
28:13Send it to Katie.
28:17See what the strategy is for the Honda crew.
28:19It's one of those strategies that is pretty funny.
28:22It says stay loose and dig.
28:24And that is all the pit boards are saying right now for Chance High Misses.
28:27Stay loose and dig.
28:28Well, Katie, I'll tell you who's staying loose.
28:30Maybe a little too much.
28:31We saw Michael Moseman.
28:32I don't know if he saved that or not.
28:34That bike was full swap left to right.
28:36He's still there.
28:37He's still there.
28:38Man, that was a close one.
28:40So that's definitely a loosey-goosey at that point.
28:42And, yeah, but I can tell you one thing.
28:44Like, he won't remember that happened until somebody brings it up.
28:47He'll be like, oh, yeah, almost died out there.
28:48But he's going to continue racing forward.
28:50That's what I love about all these athletes, man, things.
28:53They almost just died a corner before.
28:54But they forget about it a corner later until somebody brings it up.
28:59Yeah.
29:00Let's see this again.
29:02Oh, Julian Bomer having his problems in this moto.
29:05We caught it.
29:06Give it the replay at the top of the screen.
29:09Julian going down.
29:10So there's ruts right there.
29:12And he starts losing the front end, going off that little hump.
29:14And, yeah, just lost it and just slid all the way down the hill.
29:17And that's what I'm saying on camera.
29:19You can't tell how steep these hills are.
29:20But once you start losing the front end, it's easy to just fall over
29:23as we watch Joe do the same thing early in the day.
29:25So, yeah, Shimoda fell to the bottom of that hill where you just saw
29:30Hymas in qualifying.
29:33So Hymas, fifth, three-second gap to be out.
29:37Let's see if he can make one more run.
29:40Yeah, I think he's a little closer to Tom than that.
29:44Let's see if he can get around these lappers.
29:45Like you saw, Tom just popped out of that screen.
29:47So Chance has some pretty good lines.
29:49You can see how patient he is.
29:51And the lap before, I was saying with Michael how he was so far on the outside
29:55and he had to cut back.
29:56Well, I like the line that Chance is doing.
29:57And he's just taking his time being slow.
29:59But it sets him up better for this next corner,
30:01which sets him up better for this whole section.
30:04So he's got a toe in on Tom Bial.
30:09It's pretty close now.
30:10Yeah.
30:10Yep.
30:12Man, you talked so much, especially this year,
30:14about the difference, having that toe, seeing the guy.
30:17And what a difference that makes.
30:18No, I mean, it really is.
30:19It's like a person training.
30:21You know, your goal, I want to lose weight.
30:23Well, you've got to have some kind of goal to do it
30:25or any kind of goal in life.
30:26And I think with these riders, you know, of course, they're all fast.
30:29But you've got to have a toe.
30:31And especially when you get close to somebody,
30:32you know when they're braking.
30:34So you can just stay on that little bit of, you know,
30:36stay on the throttle a little bit harder.
30:37That's why it's a lot easier to catch a guy compared to passing him.
30:41I think if he stays a little bit closer,
30:42he might have a shot again, Tom.
30:45And that could put him in perhaps overall territory,
30:49depending on how the second moto breaks.
30:51A five would make it tough.
30:54This would be huge, potentially, by the end of the day.
30:57The difference between this fourth and fifth.
30:58Who's going to get it?
30:59VL versus Heimitz.
31:01Yeah, I mean, I think for overall, it's, you know,
31:04Hayden, the way how strong he's been all year long.
31:07You're probably going to have to be closer to Levi,
31:09that second, third place, fourth place.
31:11In case something happens, yeah, it puts you in an overall situation.
31:13But I think what it does is just lets everybody know chances here.
31:18Like his fitness is there.
31:20He's able to not get the best star.
31:21He's going to climb his way back up to, you know, the top five.
31:25And I think that just more sends a message to him.
31:28But also, even Hayden Deegan, you know,
31:30you're not going to have the situation where Chance doesn't get a start.
31:33Okay, he doesn't get a start.
31:33He's out.
31:34No big deal.
31:35Kid's starting to find his confidence.
31:37And the only way he does that, by that 1-1 last weekend,
31:39allows him to be able to move his way up front.
31:42I think this is going to continue to help him throughout the rest of this year.
31:44Yeah, no doubt.
31:46I didn't want to say.
31:47But, yes, to turn a fourth or fifth in the overall with Deegan,
31:49they're going to need some help, some luck in the second moto.
31:53Oh, Seth Hamaker, hang on to that thing.
31:56This would be big if he can, he almost crashed there,
31:58if he can keep it on two wheels and bring it to the end.
32:01This will actually be the first ever moto podium for Seth Hamaker in pro motocross.
32:06His career best is a fourth right here at High Point about two years ago.
32:11Yeah, that's crazy to think how good Seth has been.
32:15But that's really what injuries are.
32:17And, you know, if his shoulder's starting to bottom, I can tell you one thing,
32:19those rollers that he came down hitting at, that is going to bother him quite a bit.
32:24Not only with that, but these downhills.
32:26A lot of these corners, there's like you're slamming down,
32:28and then you have an instant stop.
32:30So Seth is doing a good job.
32:32If he can finish with his podium with his teammate, it would be a great ride.
32:37And the work he has put in with the Lawrences there at their compound,
32:41on the Dog Pound has really paid off.
32:44A lot of work on riding technique.
32:46And they tell me that Seth will land on Sundays after Supercross from the airport,
32:51go to the track, get on a pit bike.
32:53Not a full practice day on the real bike, but just work on drills,
32:56work on figure eights, work on turns to really get that riding technique
33:00to set in on a Sunday before going back to the regular Monday through Thursday schedule.
33:05So he's doing everything he can to accelerate the learning curve.
33:08But we've seen big advancements this year.
33:11Yeah, no, I agree.
33:12And Seth looks like that type of guy.
33:14Like, when you see certain riders, you just know they have that work ethic.
33:18And then I think the way he rides, he looks like a goddess.
33:21He's never going to give up.
33:22Kind of like Tom Masterpool, I like to say.
33:24Certain guys are just dogs out there.
33:26When you look at Seth, all the injuries that bounce back, he's got the heart.
33:30He's just got to find that health and that belief, and he'll be fine.
33:33But the one guy who doesn't have any problems with any of that is Hayden Deegan, man.
33:37I'm telling you right now, he's going to be just as fresh for that second moto as he was this first one
33:42because he's been saving some energy all race long.
33:45Love it.
33:46Check in again with the 2-2.
33:49Jalik Swole coming back from the Achilles injury.
33:53That's pretty darn fast.
33:54I think that happened in November, if I remember right.
33:57So here we are, just a little over six months, and back on the racetrack on the Triumph.
34:04And he admitted to me yesterday, yeah, maybe the cardio fitness is not quite there.
34:08It's only been about two and a half weeks on the bike.
34:10But, hey, racing is training in its own way.
34:13No, absolutely.
34:14I think Jalik's doing a great job out here.
34:16I mean, this is going to be a good job just finishing these motos.
34:20And like he said, he maybe shouldn't be dancing on that thing, but he put his dance shoes on today.
34:24So if he can finish top 15 in the first ride, I'm sure everybody had the triumph to be happy.
34:29And his speed is there.
34:31To come back, he was, you know, top six in qualifying.
34:34So he has his speed.
34:35This is expected with the race fitness.
34:38Back to the leader, Hayden Deegan.
34:40Final lap now.
34:42And looking to make it six moto wins.
34:45Sorry, five moto wins in, do my math right here.
34:50Seven starts.
34:51Yes, that would be correct.
34:53Seventh moto of the year.
34:54And this one, probably the easiest so far this season.
34:58Yeah, you got my math skills going on.
35:00Five out of four?
35:01Five out of four people struggling with math.
35:03All right, I'll point.
35:03I'm one of the five.
35:04Yeah, no, it's all good.
35:06Just bad influences off you.
35:08You're getting it from me.
35:10Contagious here.
35:11Well, hey, look, math is easy.
35:13Just look at the gap he has.
35:15He's on cruise control on this final lap.
35:18No, he's on cruise control.
35:19And then still, say, a great route for him.
35:21But also a great route for Levi.
35:23I think that's going to help Levi.
35:25Again, Hayden Deegan is resting up.
35:27He'll be ready for that second moto.
35:29It's been a fun moto for him, I can tell you that much.
35:31Just able to tuck it into that rut at the bottom of the hill.
35:35Now headed for daylight.
35:36One turn remains.
35:39And the fans salute him at the top.
35:42Hayden Deegan wins moto one at high point.
35:47Battle still going.
35:48Shimoda and March Banks.
35:51Sixth place.
35:52I've been seeing this all year long for Joe.
35:54Good job to be able to catch Garrett because he wasn't even close to him.
35:58Now let's see what happens.
35:59Garrett's probably going to try to block this inside.
36:01Joe might have an opportunity.
36:03If he gets a run on the outside, he should be able to get around him.
36:06Here it is, James.
36:07Yeah, Joe has this because he's going to put him on the inside of the next one.
36:10Nice move by Joe.
36:11Wow, what a charge.
36:14And Shimoda, as March Banks rushes that last corner to get him back, can't do it.
36:18And Shimoda's going to rip sixth place away with two turns to go.
36:23And Garrett's trying to rip them goggles off.
36:24I don't think he was too happy.
36:26But he was stuck in a weird spot.
36:28He didn't have no choice.
36:29If he went outside, he was going to get passed.
36:30But, yeah, did his best.
36:33And so did this guy, Hayden Deegan.
36:35Another win.
36:37Reestablishing himself after the second last weekend.
36:41And some bike problems.
36:42Some tip overs.
36:43Hyman's got the better of him.
36:44And he quickly resets the order right here.
36:48And you know there's plenty of Deegan fans pumped up on that.
36:51And they're going to head to the podium.
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