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00:00Anytime you make a mistake if you don't do that you're clearly the fastest guy
00:03so can I keep that going and it's gonna be important for these guys and if
00:07anybody's happy right now to see this big old raindrop because it is starting
00:10to rain folks it is this number seven so let's see if Aaron Plessinger can finish
00:13this race. Let's see what we can do with number seven. It's pretty wild here we
00:18literally see sunshine and clouds over different parts of the track so I'd say
00:24it's raining on some of the track not at all. We got tons of thunderstorms yeah
00:30proven yep 30 second card is up back by Fly Racing typical spring slash summer
00:37afternoon here at Mount Morris you're gonna get all sorts of weather it's not
00:42over Moto 2 30 minutes will the weather hold will the results change can Jet
00:48Lawrence keep it going at the 18.
00:51Messinger's fired up you can see there on the seventh toward the inside can Eli
00:56Tomac get a better jump than Moto 1. It's time for Moto 2. Let's go.
01:07Hunter Lawrence, Justin Cooper up front Joey Sabacci finally a good start the 17 and
01:13there's Tomac going to the front he's got the lead. Eli Tomac out front you can hear
01:20this crowd going wild Jeff Lawrence didn't get the best to start we saw somebody go
01:24down and right now these guys haven't had a chance to prepare for the rain so
01:28they really was on the gate thinking that might be a sun race and so for him
01:32Eli Tomac did the best job out front let's see what he can do because at this time it is
01:37right now. The moment Tomac jumped into the lead is the moment the skies opened up and
01:43speaking of open it up look at the lead he's built. Check out the start here his teammate Cooper Webb
01:50right side. Yeah you can see Cooper Webb left side in the front like he just loses his front and easy to happen then all he gets ran over it. You don't give a father's day gift for him like that. A couple other guys going down but when you fall in the front of the pack that's easy easy to happen.
02:07That was Freddie Noren there. The international racing Kawasaki also down there rough start to the
02:14year for Freddie. Great start to the moto though for ET3. Yeah now if I'm Eli with all this rain like
02:21I'm going to try to build me a big old gap just try to hammer down before this track gets really
02:26slippery because the hard part is you can see Jet Lawrence way back in the pack and the way his
02:32stars have been that's way back in the pack I think he's outside the top 10. If I'm Eli Tomac I'm going to try to get
02:37the gap because at some point you know Jet's going to be more concerned about finishing this race
02:42and if I can get as RJ does a little donut right there. Wow. Jason you're talking about a track that's
02:47going to be difficult to race all these shiny spots and getting slippery. Oh man vision again these guys
02:55went to the gate thinking it's a dry race so they have not prepared to uh you know prepare for this and
03:01I don't know what they're complaining about because it's very dry in the booth right here.
03:07James just talking about the goggle situation we talk about roll-off tear-offs for the mud but the
03:11rain there's really nothing you can do about that. No it's nothing you can do and tear-offs are almost
03:17the worst situation if you get any water behind one of them you almost have to yank them all off because
03:22the way they're set up and so like I said these guys didn't go to the gate thinking that it was going
03:27to be a mud race and if anything like it continues it really gives Eli Tomac and these other guys an
03:34advantage to get a start. Yeah there's a couple things they can do I'm thinking about sometimes
03:37they'll have the extended visor on the front of the helmet if they know it's going to rain but I
03:41don't think anyone has it because it wasn't raining until about 15 seconds after the gate dropped
03:46and you see Plessinger ripping a tear off there it's Tomac, Hunter Lawrence, Cooper and here's Plessinger
03:53in fourth. Yeah and the hard part is it's like if it's raining at this point as a rider you just
03:57want it to keep flooding you know because you want it to slow this racetrack down what would be
04:01bad if it rains like this for another few minutes and then it stops because you'll still have the pace
04:06but this track is going to be ice cold ice slippery out here you can see all those shiny parts the fact
04:12that these guys are still jumping these jumps just shows how good it is. The only benefit is that they
04:17all use the paddle tires so they get to use it and it works out at this point. Well does it or are there
04:24some spots where it's actually bad those hard shiny spots as the paddle deep mud is great what about
04:29that? Yeah well I just think because it's it's hard shiny it doesn't necessarily work on a hard spot
04:34but if you have the normal traditional tire that thing is going to fill up with mud so the tire
04:39the paddle tire spits that part out Katie. Yeah and you guys might remember earlier when AP was
04:44beaming with the fact that he was with that moto one and all the fans he was like man I just wish it
04:48had been a rain race and of course he's getting his wish right now this is one of those areas that he
04:53excels in and in fact this track in particular the team was saying a little bit of panic initially when
04:58he came to it and this as he goes off just a little bit there but you can you can tell that he gets
05:03much more excited when it's one of these rain down and dirty type of tracks. Well Katie a lot of the fans
05:09here grew up watching him races from Ohio not too far away and his dad Scott the AMA Hall of Famer
05:14great mud rider in his own right I'll tell you that Ohio clay nothing nothing is worse to ride in
05:21mud than that it gets so slippery so these conditions right up the alley for the Plessingers and he's
05:28putting the heat on Justin Cooper right now. Yeah the rain's starting to slow so it's allowed this
05:32track this throws it's going to be super slippery but it's still racy and and at this point if you
05:37don't have the rollers off you want to be in front of guys you don't want to be behind Justin Cooper
05:41that close but you know same thing we talked about with Jet Lawrence in the first moto because
05:45the way he rides I think this track's not going to change too much for him it's going to be very
05:50technical we've got to be super patient and you can see Aaron Plessinger ripping a tear off now
05:54down and it's stopping raining on this side of the racetrack so a lot of different things happening
06:00at the moment. Now by the way as we watch Plessinger and Cooper fight for third Jet Lawrence not
06:07making much progress at eighth at the moment oh there's Plessinger off the inside. Yeah nice line
06:12short time but yeah Justin was able to carry that momentum around the outside just basically continue
06:19rolling down Aaron see how slippery this thing is still a little bit of dust showing so this water's
06:25just sitting on top of this racetrack making it super slippery. And because Jet is not advancing
06:31toward the front right now Hunter Lawrence is in position to win the overall and believe it or
06:36not that would actually be his first 450 pro moto cross win it was close so many times battling with
06:43Chase Sexton last year never got one. Plessinger has been close so many times to passing Justin Cooper
06:50hasn't been able to do it and finally does. Yeah but don't sleep on this number seven KTM
06:56up Aaron Plessinger because you know right there just shows you that bike kicking around loose but
07:00Aaron throws those long legs out and that's probably why he's so comfortable in this position
07:04because you got to be comfortable being uncomfortable and you know Aaron Plessinger knows how to make
07:09anything work and when these tracks get conditions like this he loves it. When in doubt throw them
07:15big old anchors out both of them sit on the seat put some weight on that thing.
07:19And that is what we saw at Foxborough Supercross earlier this year the art of racing in the rain. He
07:26just threw those legs out and powered his way to the wind. There is Hunter Lawrence in second. You see
07:32the overall score right now on the lower left. It would be Hunter over Tomac over Plessinger. Can
07:38Plessinger run Hunter Lawrence down?
07:41And Jett's still back there in seventh now. He's got around Cody Shock and Ben Ra Patrell.
07:51And as I said in the beginning this actually happened. Literally half the track is raining and
07:57Heather half it is not. Yeah and we saw what Jett was in this position earlier this year at Hangtown. We
08:03were wondering like all right how much he's going to push and try to catch these guys. Well I think Jett
08:08you know age and maybe the injuries. He's just going to continue doing his thing. I think he'll
08:12just continue marching his way up. Let's not turn a you know a seventh place into a 13th or 20th place.
08:19And the only way that can happen is you just try to overroute this racetrack. If you methodically pick
08:24your way up through this racetrack just like you did in that first moto. You have the pace on these
08:28guys. You can at least get back up to possibly that top five. Maybe even a podium as this race going. But if
08:33you throw it down it's going to be losing more than just this race. Yeah we're talking about
08:40all the wins he has. But the main goal of course is the championship. So how will he play it?
08:45And it is wild to see them literally riding in and out of the rain depending on what part of the
08:51track they're on. There's Tomac. Nearly a five second gap now. Oh this track is going to get so
09:00slippery. And again it was wasn't raining in the shot that we were showing jet launch but over here
09:06it is so. Oh Eli came prepared with the real loss. Wow. All right smart move there. So the 32 year old
09:18out of Colorado should be the second moto win of the year. If he can hold it as you're watching him on
09:24the parts unlimited leader cam. But can he get the overall? It's all hanging in the balance at least
09:30as of now between Tomac, Hunter Lawrence and Plessinger. But then of course if jet moves up that
09:38can change the mouth as well. Yeah these guys are so close and right now this this gap that Eli has
09:45about five seconds over 104 and a half seconds. He's going to just try to manage that gap but his AP
09:50is going to have to try to do the damage to move up. Otherwise as you said like Hunter Lawrence is
09:54still going to be able to walk away with his overall victory. And I don't know how many positions
09:58Jet will be able to make up to close that gap because Hunter finished second. So at this point
10:04you know these guys just got to continue racing. It's still a long ways to go. 20 minutes left.
10:07And just like Plessinger moto one crowd loving Tomac leading this. Set it back down. Well after that last
10:18moto I went over the team and said hey what happened? How's the vibes over here? And the team kind of
10:23scratched her head and said it was a little puzzling that moto. Eli Tomac coming in fifth. Remember guys
10:28at the top of the show he told us he told us the number one goal is for him to stay off the ground so
10:34we can stay on two wheels. Obviously this is a track that is difficult as Stu you're leaning into
10:39difficult to do so but that's his main goal to make sure he does get the job done. Yeah and I'm sure
10:45what they were a little puzzled at was that how quickly he was able to close on Justin Cooper running
10:50at 204 which is the fastest lifetime of anybody and then to get stuck there almost brings you back to
10:56the Eli Tomac back in on the Kawasaki days before he came the champion that he is. So um you just
11:03wonder yourself as we're watching Hunter Lawrence starting to close the gap a little bit on Eli um
11:08you just start to wonder like where did that come from because this guy usually should be able to if
11:13he's got that pace you should be able to get around him and people around you shouldn't affect you that
11:17much and obviously it did um I think it's just more frustrating from Eli. As for Hunter here who like
11:23you said is starting to close on Tomac and they're making a lot of progress with the motorcycle we checked
11:28in with him about that yesterday. Yeah it was a lot closer last weekend and uh a big thing in the
11:33first ones we we were working a lot on the motorcycle just familiarity uh wasn't willing to push it past
11:40a certain point in and just not sure what the motorcycle was doing and and we've made a lot of
11:47progress on that so just honestly this week was just getting laps under my belt you know last weekend we
11:51tested leading up to thunder valley thunder valley was the first full day of riding on that suspension
11:57setting which was awesome this week we got two more days on it so yeah looking forward to going out
12:02and riding my bike the team did an amazing job and we got the bike in a lot better position and uh
12:07extremely thankful to have a group of great people behind us. And what was interesting Hunter's
12:13comments after the race last week as he rides back into this rain there's Jet
12:17catching Savace now for sixth so Hunter said yeah Jet's just a freak he can get on a bike for the
12:24first time and just win a race on it immediately I need some laps some days to just get used to it
12:29they haven't touched the bike since last Saturday and obviously Hunter has adapted well now Jet looking
12:35to make a pass. Yeah you know and I think that just comes with age you know Jet's a little bit younger
12:40is like you know when you tell your kids like don't touch that stove and they're gonna touch it anyway
12:44like look I burnt myself I know how hot it is when I think Jet's just younger and he's like you know
12:48what I'm gonna still go win but Hunter you know just an injury and it is flooding out here right now
12:54um you know he just takes a little bit of time to uh you know just prepare and I guess
13:00you know make sure everything is right and when it is right he can come out here and possibly have
13:05his first overall victory of the year um but it has to be right and he has to be comfortable as
13:09Jet Lawrence makes his way up now puts him on the podium tie with Eli for uh second place but
13:15Eli's obviously ahead of him so he'll give him the nod so that's two points that Jet has just made up
13:20he passed Tabachi on the quad lock Honda and then the monster Kawasaki of Anderson he's looking up the
13:26track Justin Cooper is four seconds up ahead at the moment Hunter Lawrence would have the overall first
13:33ever for him on a 450 if he can get it done yeah Jet's gonna continue moving up as I mentioned
13:40you know just let this race come especially with all this rain there's gonna be mistakes made from
13:44the guys in front of you pretty easily and I feel like even with um Hunter Lawrence he can probably
13:49close in on Eli quite a bit when it's a mud race it's all it's really easy to make time up you know
13:55and the hard part is making that pass so he just continues doing his thing as we're watching the
14:00lead come down up the um up front to 28.8 seconds Chet Lawrence is starting to close on uh Justin
14:07Cooper as well see if he can make his way around and that would change a lot of things
14:13yeah be a 1-5 for Chet Lawrence right now
14:21which as we mentioned be tied for second overall with Tobac but Tobac has the second moto tiebreaker but
14:27we're not even at the halfway mark so anything could happen also with Hunter starting to close
14:32on Tobac that could change things as well
14:38because if for example Jet were to get all the way to third and Hunter were to finish second the
14:451-3 would beat the 2-2 so Jet still has a shot at it even if he doesn't pass Hunter but he needs to get
14:53Cooper and Plessinger that's not going to be easy yeah but he's got a really good pace and I think
14:58the way he's riding consistency is going to end up winning out if he could just turn these solid laps in
15:03as I mentioned the mistakes would be made and and he's within nine seconds of Aaron Plessinger so if he
15:09can get around Justin Cooper and not stall out you know then he can continue doing that maybe he can
15:14have a chance to get to that third place because then that would really change it so overall victory
15:18is still on the deck for Jet Lawrence if you keep moving forward now one other thing to note the
15:24rulebook says that if a race had to be called due to weather if it's called past the 20 minute mark
15:31the results stand as if it was a full moto we're about five minutes away from that so we'll see if it
15:38gets there then if the race had to be cut short that would be extreme weather lightning things like
15:42that that's not the case at least at the moment you know we talked I said in the first moto jets one of
15:48the best I've ever seen like you know one adapting to the track but you know his line selection is
15:52better so he was going really far inside on a lot of corners now he's going outside on a lot of the
15:58corners and the reason he's doing that is because now you know we talked about the paddle tire not
16:02working on this hard stuff best place to be at is in this bluff so you notice he basically totally
16:07switched his line yeah he's totally inside last lap inside and even the corners before that he's
16:13going outside that's what he's so good at doing it's just an adapting to his situation because
16:17these lines are 90 day difference than he was early in the race but earlier today
16:23kids got it going for him halfway through the final race of the day a reminder that monster energy
16:30is available at bfs foods okay so lawrence has caught cooper but can he pass him in the mud yeah
16:39and he's going to have to get around them pretty quick because you can notice he's starting to pull
16:42a lot of tear offs out there and eventually he's going to run out and then with all this but we saw
16:47what happened when you pull your tear offs off we chase sex in the goggles you know this ain't the
16:51track any of these racetracks you don't want to have to deal with that so jett's gonna have to be
16:55mindful of this as i think he tried pulling tear off and he doesn't have any more might be a problem
17:00at this point uh yeah did he just try again yeah no dice they usually do i think he just pointed to
17:10his uh mechanics let him know he doesn't have any tear offs at this point and now the rain's stopping
17:16that's only going to make the mud stickier right yeah that's only going to make it worse for him because
17:19now when he gets hit with it it's going to be that sticky mud it's gonna be tough jt yeah just wondering
17:24what the plan is going to be here you saw him run out of tear offs and then he's just wiping
17:28the goggles which it can work but it's not really a strategy right so we've seen this we saw chase
17:34sexton loses goggles the very first race of the year and how that went so jet now has a decision to
17:39make for the rest of this race yeah i mean once you you can only get away with that one or two times
17:44and especially when it stops raining you'll have one wipe and that mud's going to smear across and
17:48then it's going to harden up because of the wind and all that and then it's not going to come off so
17:53eventually he's going to have to make a decision and the decision he's got to make might cost him
17:58overall because at this pace if he if he rides like this i think he'll eventually catch up to
18:02eric flessinger but if he pulls in i think he'll lose too much time with as much time to go so very
18:08interesting decision he's going to have to make if he ends up pulling this um goggles off and you can
18:12already start to see him backing off of justin cooper maybe vision problems or maybe trying to save the
18:18vision by not being so close to him and passing when you have an opportunity when you know it's an
18:22opportunity to pass riders will run 21 sometimes 28 tear-offs they come in uh packs of seven they
18:32say i don't know if uh what they were doing when you were racing um when you put the 28 on there
18:37it's pretty hard to see when the race begins right yeah it's that thick no it starts to get thick i mean
18:43you're putting laminate over his deck uh jet duck in his head if i'm just cooper i wouldn't be surprised
18:49start racing let him know give him a little bit of roost no goggles out there and that's attacked
18:54it as well but oh it didn't work yeah easy pass easy pass he was caught out but justin cooper as
19:01he pulls another tear off you got to get back in front of him if you can well that was the best case
19:07scenario for lawrence around cooper and way wide of him so no roost so now jet lawrence up to fourth
19:14yeah i doubt at this point aaron's right in front of him so even all that we're watching he was able
19:21to close this uh close that time and he saw him take a look over i don't think he's gonna be pulling
19:25in the pits at this moment uh katie yeah first and foremost christian dujarb who's uh holding his
19:30pit board his mechanic was just over at their truck pulling out some extra goggles kind of put them back
19:37it's now back over at the pit board so i think that they're trying to figure out what to do with
19:40jet regarding the goggles as well but they do have a second pair sitting out in the truck meanwhile
19:46justin cooper's pit board was saying justin kip's pit board was saying that uh focus is number seven
19:51right ahead of you so he has his eyes set on aaron plessinger well he did by the time he came back
19:56over the hill though jet was between them here the last three lap times and yeah about two seconds
20:03three seconds a lot quicker is jet lawrence and aaron plessinger last three times around yeah well i don't
20:08know if i'm looking maybe it's just uh our shot but it looks like um um aaron plessinger i don't
20:15know if he has no goggles on um so that's going to help jet off air yeah aaron threw his goggles off
20:20as well so that's what he was uh you know closing in so again if i'm jet lawrence you know the only
20:27way i'm pulling in if i start losing time and i think the honda would make that decision if somehow
20:31he can't get around air because he doesn't have any goggles then he'll pull him in but right now
20:35aaron doesn't have anything so just stay on this stay on this road and it's going to put you in the
20:40overall position at this moment if you can get around to number seven here that's what it would
20:46take a one three he could make this pass got some room around the outside leg off for plessinger
20:58can't get it done oh a rider crashes right in front of him that bails plessinger out for the
21:04moment oh but then he hit that pothole there it is james yeah there it was i mean you would think
21:10that rotter i mean i think that's all set up there not having any goggles probably had his eyes closed
21:14and he hit that pothole but that changes the overall position and if i'm jet lawrence definitely not
21:19pulling in at this moment no katie yeah over here with uh ktm and of course right now the second pair of
21:26goggles for ap are in the hands of the team they said that if he needed a change of goggles at the
21:31beginning of the race prior to the race starting they said let me know a lap before and jay burgess
21:36his mechanic was just over here nodding saying we think he might be coming in and katie looks like
21:41they're waving off the rest of the mechanics to get some room this could be for safety as much as it
21:46is for result right now but jet lawrence that pass it's going to give him the overall again yep overall
21:53and at the ktm i do believe aaron will pull in because he's going backwards and there's no fight
21:57he won't be able to fight and if anybody should be you know worried about that it is the ktm they
22:03just had their that's right their champion and chase sexton go out with those goggles so
22:09well done carlos with the goggle swap
22:13that's lightning quick that was lightning quick they did even a wipe
22:16wipe it up so they're like go go go put him on let me go so and that's justin cooper right in front
22:23of him right here with no goggles as well so this could pay off
22:30oh couldn't make the quick pass though yeah but he's he's in a good spot now he has goggles
22:35justin doesn't have it so you know justin's playing with uh just a moment a matter of time
22:41before aaron gets done if he doesn't make any mistakes so tomac still leads the moto right there
22:48but he's looking at a 5-1 and now we go back to that final lap of moto one cooper plessinger tomac
22:57were all battling had eli got there had he got the third he'd be sitting in position with the overall
23:04instead it's going to be a 5-1 instead of a 3-1
23:09yeah tough tough it just seems like no matter what if eli is able to hold on to this
23:15it's like yeah you won a race but you you still didn't win it he's going to look back at all these
23:19like man i i had him especially being as fast as he was being on justin cooper as early as he was he
23:26should have been able to get around it but nonetheless that's why we go racing these guys are good if you
23:30don't have it all together you're going to get past justin cooper fighting hard even without the
23:35goggles making it difficult on plessinger here somebody's not happy some revving going on for sure
23:46oh look at this oh yeah good thing he has the goggles for that that would have been a definitely
23:53pulling into pins yeah i remember back in the day i used to get so frustrated like aaron makes a mistake
23:58right there i used to do this i'm sorry all the lap routers i used to take them out because it was so
24:03bad oh they're going to call it red flag that would have to indicate worse weather is in the offer
24:13and if it ends like this it will be another jet lawrence win
24:19making the past what two laps ago yeah yeah that was everything tomac's going to win the moto second one this
24:27year and somehow the overall the red flag works out in jet lawrence favor again
24:39and there was no podium uh i think he just found that out yeah no he he did i mean whatever
24:48and obviously they're going to call him with seven minutes to go
24:51imagine that means the weather's going to get worse could be a safety situation
24:59lightning within a certain distance from the track and that will do it
25:05and those are the rules if lightning is spotted within eight miles of the track
25:09it's called it's done lawrence made that pass two laps ago and that one three score
25:15is going to be one point better than his brother hunter who ends up two two
25:22father's day present right there baby
25:25either way they go one two hunter that close to his first ever overall
25:29and he keeps rolling for jet
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