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00:00E aí você vê, como JT mencionou, Deegan e Meal lindem ao lado de um outro.
00:08Isso é isso, o rosto de trato de dia.
00:11Maybe o ano de ano.
00:12Prefes são up.
00:14Gates down.
00:18Um real start out of the box for Deegan.
00:21O que é um grande start, man.
00:22É um grande feeling.
00:23Get a little, like, whip over.
00:24Just letting Tom Meal know.
00:26Just close him off.
00:27E, man, Deegan's out front again.
00:28Let's see what it is.
00:29But Tom Diao, top five start.
00:31But he's also going backwards as well.
00:33But Joe Shimoda looks like he's up in that third place.
00:35Actually swole.
00:37Good to see him up there in that top three.
00:39Wow.
00:40Much better for Shimoda.
00:41From down to the first turn in Moto one.
00:43Third place start here in Moto two.
00:46And he's already making moves.
00:48Yeah, Joe.
00:49Riding really good.
00:50He's been riding good all year long.
00:52So he knows it.
00:53Look, man, I'm always strong at the end of the motors.
00:56But as quickly as I do that, Levi Kitchen makes an inside move on him.
00:59Nice move by Levi.
01:00Try to get around him.
01:01He knows how good Joe is.
01:02And Tom Bial is the one guy that needs to start making some moves.
01:06Because we're already starting to see that number one get away.
01:08Yeah, that was surprising.
01:09Bial.
01:10A couple of those first couple of turns didn't work to his advantage.
01:14There he is, battling with Shimoda.
01:16And Kinchin, he might be the runner to watch now.
01:19He is hauling the bale.
01:20Yeah, Levi said he needed to make, get around those guys a little bit early.
01:24He kind of made it hard for himself.
01:25See if he can get up the inside.
01:27Woo!
01:28Yeah, Jaleed leaned on him.
01:29Being too worried about him.
01:30I think that's what you've got to know which rider you're riding again.
01:32So, love it.
01:34These guys are really aggressive and early in this moto.
01:37They like to smooth some of these tracks out.
01:39So, we've got to make it down before he starts brand down.
01:42A little mistake by Swole.
01:44Can he hold it?
01:45Kinchin going to power around the outside!
01:48There you go.
01:49Throw a spatula at him.
01:50Let him know.
01:51So, yeah.
01:52Kinchin's sinking.
01:53Throwing it all at him right now.
01:54And set him up on the inside of the next corner.
01:56All right.
01:57Always impressed with the aggressiveness early of Shimoda.
01:59But it's actually Kinchin who maybe wants to run with Deegs.
02:02Yeah, Levi actually made a few passes that first lap.
02:05And look, this is probably the first time he's seen Hayden Deegan around
02:08since the Riders meeting.
02:09So, good to see him back up there.
02:11And Levi had a good pace to go in that first moto.
02:13And the one thing you have to do with Hayden,
02:15as we heard in the 450 class with Eli,
02:17look, you've got to be able to see these lines.
02:19And now they'll get a chance to see maybe where Hayden is really quickly.
02:23Where Hayden's been fast all day long.
02:25We'll see.
02:26Small right here in this group of riders that you knew would be quick.
02:30Kinchin, Shimoda, and Vial.
02:31He's in the middle of that fight on the triumph.
02:33Then Hamaker in the Kawasaki 6th.
02:36DeFrancisco.
02:38Smith, Moseman, basketball top 10.
02:39Look at those results.
02:40Moto 1 for the triumph squad in their second year at this game.
02:445th and 7th with Harrapin Swole.
02:47Yeah.
02:48And then it was 14th and 19th there for Smith and Fortner.
02:51Go ahead.
02:52Yeah, and I would say, like, Jalik Swole, to his, you know, his credit,
02:57you know, the one place that he might struggle with is in the beginning part of the race
03:00that he's been injured all year long.
03:02So it's not, it's not surprising that maybe some of these guys get around him
03:05because this is his third moto back or fourth moto back after coming off that Achilles injury.
03:09So might struggle a little bit in the beginning part and then settle in.
03:12But that seventh place, that first moto was really good.
03:15Let's see what he can do the second one.
03:17Shimoda on the Honda HRC progressive machine working on Swole, returning from an Achilles injury.
03:25And that's honestly pretty early for that.
03:27It was November where he was injured.
03:30Back to the racetrack.
03:32The last event at High Point.
03:37And Swole told me that was a little early, but he knew any kind of fitness he could build
03:41before Southwood would probably be to his advantage.
03:43So that's why he raced High Point.
03:45Figured it would still be tough today, but he has been tough in his own right
03:50and not relenting to the 30.
03:52Yeah, I mean, I'm really impressed by Jalik ever since he's been on this triumph
03:56for the last couple of years.
03:57Like, I mean, he's obviously gotten better and better.
04:00But this year, to see how he came back in, excuse me, High Point, really impressed there.
04:06And today just equally as impressed to be able to get that second, seventh place, that first moto.
04:11But he's got his hands full with the number three.
04:13But you can tell Joe is trying to move forward and the pass might be done right here.
04:18Shimoda on the outside.
04:20Long way around.
04:22Those lines that JT have been talking about all day long, that inside versus outside.
04:26It worked on the outside.
04:27Yeah, it worked.
04:28I mean, it is one of those things.
04:29Once you go out there, Joe had to commit.
04:31That bike was jumping all over the place, but he knew he had to go.
04:35And we talked about the last two years.
04:37The second moto has been Joe time.
04:38So, for whatever reason, maybe it is that Joe time.
04:42He's only seven seconds back.
04:44But in Southwick, that's actually not too far back.
04:47Shout out to Levi Kitchen, keeping Hayden within three seconds.
04:52And you know, Kitchen does not have a great record here at Southwick.
04:56Fourth overall is his best ever at this track going back to 2022.
05:01Will?
05:02He didn't, but I don't think that's what's playing into today.
05:07I got to have a good sit down with Levi earlier.
05:09And we talked about confidence a lot.
05:11And he said, look, he's just waiting.
05:12He's building.
05:13And he's just waiting for that kind of breakthrough ride.
05:16And then he sort of corrects himself and said, waiting is the wrong word.
05:19He's like, because I'm going after it.
05:21He's like, but I know that that confidence boost is what I need.
05:24And he talked about starts, obviously initiating that.
05:27He didn't actually go on the first turn in a great position.
05:29But what he did do, which he said he wanted to do, was attack early.
05:33And he said, I know if I feel that, I'll be getting back to that race pace.
05:37I'll be able to keep that going throughout the moto.
05:40And James, he's tackling two different things right now when it comes to confidence.
05:44He's getting back into racing after a very serious injury, a back injury,
05:48at Daytona Supercross this year that took him out for the rest of the Supercross season.
05:52But also the mental side of that too.
05:54He said, I've got to get over that as well.
05:56So it's like physically getting back into race pace and mentally just getting past all of that
06:00and getting back into his spot too.
06:02And it's great to see him make the gains that he is today.
06:05Yeah, no, I agree.
06:07And those two, they come hand in hand.
06:10You know, the more confidence that you get, the back just seems better.
06:13But you go back to last year, Levi was really one of those guys that was giving Hayden all he wanted.
06:18Those opening few motos.
06:20So he knows how to do this.
06:21As we saw Tom Vial finally make his way around Jalik Swole.
06:25Jalik made a mistake over there.
06:27But, yeah, I think Levi's riding really good for him to be this close.
06:31It is that confidence.
06:32And I feel like when a guy doesn't get a jump, when they make those moves early in the moto,
06:36that's all confidence because, you know, again, you just got to be able to risk it
06:40and feel comfortable taking that risk.
06:41And obviously Levi did.
06:43And it's showing out.
06:44He's in that second place.
06:45But Tom Vial is probably going to be the one who got a little disappointed on those opening laps
06:49because the way he wrote that first moto, you can't be spotting Hayden Deegan 10 seconds
06:54and then thinking that you're going to close that gap up.
06:57And now Vial is going to try to go back after Shimoda JT.
07:01Luigi, you and I got to speak with nine-time MXGP champion Tony Cairo,
07:06and he said one of the toughest things for MXGP riders coming over to America
07:10is the early laps, the sprint speed, where riders in Europe, they like to settle in.
07:15They kind of build up like a diesel engine, and they really get going late in the moto.
07:19Where American style, they sprint early.
07:21They have so much speed at the beginning.
07:23And I think that's maybe what Tom Vial is suffering with a little bit is he's getting going late.
07:28We saw how much speed he had late in the moto.
07:30The problem is a guy like Deegan already has an 11-second lead by the time he gets warmed up.
07:35JT, we did see more of that from Vial, I feel like, in that first moto.
07:39And you had a discussion there with the guys in the booth talking about, you know,
07:42what did they work on here in this off-weekend?
07:45And Carlos Rivera, the crew chief, that was one of the things that he said he wanted Tom to focus in on
07:51was that first lap to fifth lap.
07:53He said when we look at the lap times, that sprint speed, that up-front stuff isn't there.
07:58He says they're late in the moto.
08:00That's not a problem.
08:01But we need it to be there up-front.
08:03And I think we saw some of that.
08:05Obviously, like you said, we didn't really see it here in the second moto as much,
08:08but it is definitely on their radar to work on.
08:10Yeah, and that's not an easy thing that changed, RJ.
08:14Well, I was going to say, easy to say, hard to do, right?
08:17Yeah, I mean, because it is.
08:19I mean, it really comes down to, you know, especially if you've got the pace, you know,
08:23maybe that Hayden does, or at least the pace to run up front.
08:26It's one of those things that you've got to start from getting up in breath.
08:30It's like everything that you have to do before you get on the track, and once you get on the track,
08:35has to be really, everything has to be short.
08:37And for me, I would always go out there, and I wouldn't do any warm-up laps.
08:40I would just go straight out there, check the track out, look at it, and visually just go out there and attack it.
08:45And I felt like that helped me.
08:46So Tom Vial, he is working on that.
08:48But that is something to be able to be able to overcome in a race.
08:52It's going to be difficult.
08:53It's going to take time more than a week.
08:57Well, Vial has got work to do now at that 11-second gap to Deegan.
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09:25Has Deegan answered the bell?
09:27I think so.
09:28Suddenly the gap is seven and a half.
09:30Yeah, where he's answering is where you just saw right there.
09:33I mean, we just talked about.
09:34I'm sure we get a shot at other guys in that same section.
09:37Oh!
09:38Yep.
09:39Joe's coming.
09:40But the gap where Hayden jumps out just seems like he had so much more momentum than those
09:46guys in that same thing.
09:47And Levi didn't even fight Shimoda there.
09:51Yeah, I mean, I think it was really more Joe had a good pace.
09:54Levi lost a toe with Hayden, so now he's starting to run backwards.
09:58And, you know, sometimes it's a risk getting up there.
10:01You want to get up there and you want to run with Hayden or whoever it is.
10:04And if you can't hold that gap and you're especially like Levi, who feels like I want to win these races.
10:09You saw what happened in Eli in that 450 class, man.
10:12It's almost more demoralizing to be up there and watch the guy pull away from you.
10:16Then you're just starting fifth and he was just gone in the beginning.
10:19And I'm sure it's tough for Levi, but Joe has a good pace going on at the moment.
10:25Well, you see the tails of the laptops here.
10:27Kitchener 2-12 at one point.
10:28He's keeping Deegan in sight and then a 2-18 last time around.
10:31So we'll see if he can rebuild.
10:33Was that a bad lap or is it just trending the wrong way all the way to the end?
10:36We'll find out soon.
10:37Shibota not going to ask questions to try to get away.
10:42Yeah, no, the one thing with Levi not saying that he's here.
10:46The one fear is a rider.
10:48Oh, wow.
10:49Did Joe hold on to that.
10:51That's just Southwick.
10:52He won't even remember what happened.
10:54Like, what were you talking about?
10:56But that was mentioned.
10:57The one fear that you have as a rider is that you get out front and you try to run that pace
11:02and then you blow up, you know, and then you look up, you got 20 minutes left and you're like,
11:06man, I don't even know how I'm going to finish this race.
11:08So there's always a risk.
11:09And Levi's just got to refocus, settle down, let everything slow back down and then, you know, try to finish this ride out.
11:17Well, that's the opposite side of what we're saying with Vial.
11:20He had the sprint laps kitchen, but now Vial has caught him.
11:24Now you say blow up.
11:25Is that arm pump?
11:26Is that heart rate too high?
11:27Are you just out of energy completely?
11:29Mental?
11:30I mean, it could be all above.
11:32Okay.
11:33It depends.
11:34I mean, arm pump.
11:35You got arm pump.
11:36It don't matter how good a shape he is.
11:37You can't hold on to it.
11:38And if you're out of shape, it doesn't matter how your arms are pumped.
11:40So, you know, really just comes down to which one of these riders.
11:44And again, you can look at Levi.
11:45See, his mechanic is like asking what's going on.
11:49So, there's your answer right now.
11:51We all don't know.
11:52But, you know, I know Levi, you got to give a guy out there credit.
11:55He went out there and he's trying to compete.
11:57And, you know, maybe things are just starting to happen fast.
12:00And here at Southwood, as Tom Vial goes around the outside, definitely frustrating for him.
12:06But at least he went out there and he went out there to fight.
12:08He did.
12:09And now back to fourth.
12:11Only about four seconds.
12:13So, it's all a mistake by kitchen.
12:16And that has come unraveled.
12:17They're going to be double question marks on the next time.
12:20Yeah.
12:21And I know that.
12:22That little slide out right there.
12:23It's just as bad as having to pick the motorcycle up.
12:25And as I like to say, sometimes you just go to start to fight and you realize it got big.
12:30Well, sometimes you just got to get knocked out.
12:32And so, you know, Levi is going to figure it out, JT.
12:35You know, it's deceptively humid down here, guys.
12:38And we've had a threat of rain all weekend.
12:40And the skies finally cleared and the sun came out.
12:42Well, that humidity stuck around.
12:44And, okay, it's maybe only 80 degrees.
12:46But you can really feel the thickness in the air right now.
12:49And whether it was AP and 450 Moto2 or Levi Kitchen here, I think it's taking a toll on these guys.
12:55You can see kitchen laboring.
12:57And to me, it just likes, like, the prototypical overheating.
13:00Yeah.
13:01Yeah.
13:02No, I agree with you on that, JT.
13:03You can tell, like, things are really starting to happen.
13:06I believe this is more body and that mental fatigue.
13:10Probably even more than, like, physical and all that.
13:13It's a combination of all things.
13:14But you can tell by Levi, the way he's riding, he's sitting down a little bit more.
13:18But you can recover from this.
13:20He's just got to just slow things down.
13:22Maybe take a couple laps because you still got a long, long race.
13:25You're in fourth place.
13:27Just recover, man.
13:29Well, the rider to watch, that could be the next one to catch him.
13:36Swole is behind him in fifth.
13:38But Michael Moseman is back.
13:40And he is charging in sixth.
13:42And a few spots behind that, you've got Hamaker seventh, Jordan Smith eighth.
13:47And in this battle, Roderdy Francisco and Garrett Marchbanks.
13:50Roderdy down to the first turn of the first moto.
13:53And there's a move from Marchbanks.
13:55Yeah, another strong round by Garrett.
13:58I've seen him coming through the pack a lot this year.
14:01Just starts have been kind of costing him.
14:02But he's been riding really good.
14:04And, yeah, going back to Levi, the unfortunate part,
14:07once you get down into, you know, your teammate's handmaker,
14:11then it seems like from there to almost Julian 14th,
14:15you're going to have guys that continue to come at you over and over.
14:19That's how deep this 250 field is.
14:21So they'll be coming.
14:23You've got to have something to fight with.
14:24Oh, yeah, you hear that from these riders all the time.
14:26It is no less intense back in 12th than it is in 1st and 2nd
14:30as Marchbanks makes a move.
14:31And Marchbanks has been podium level speed all year.
14:34And he is ninth today.
14:36DeFrancisco 10th.
14:37Now, his teammate of the Rockstar Gas Gas, Casey Cochran,
14:40had crashed earlier today.
14:42And it looked like maybe a dislocated shoulder they were trying to get back in.
14:47So a get well soon.
14:48Him is really showing some speed early this summer.
14:52Here you see the Alpine Stars Medics trying to help him get that back in.
14:56Yeah, that's a bummer for Casey.
14:58He's been around really good all year long.
15:01So hopefully they get back.
15:03But, yeah, I want to say something.
15:05We were talking about this section after the mechanics here where I was mentioning
15:08Jett was jumping out and so is Hayden Deegan.
15:11And we just saw, like, a shot of Marshbanks.
15:14And if we have him the next lap or another rider,
15:17you can just see the difference between the momentum that by not jumping out,
15:21how much time did he lose in that whole section?
15:24I bet he probably loses two seconds in that one area right there from not jumping out.
15:29And, again, it's a blind jump.
15:30And if you haven't seen it, you really wouldn't know.
15:32But just those little things, they add up.
15:35And especially here at Southwick, not only you're losing time,
15:37but it's a lot of energy to build that 250, especially on the 250 bike,
15:42really costing these guys.
15:43Well, I mentioned Michael Moseman on the chart.
15:45Second half of the moto could be his halfway through.
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15:52Moseman has been strong here.
15:54He is closing on Swole about a second faster than him the last time.
15:58And nearly five seconds quicker than Kitchen.
16:03Moseman making a bid for it.
16:05Yeah, it's interesting to see what, to know what actually happened that first moto,
16:09because usually if a guy drops off in, you know, that first moto,
16:13the way he did to be able to get past by those guys those last two laps,
16:16he wouldn't come out this second moto and be fired, you know, like he is right now.
16:20So maybe it was a tip over or something that must have caught him,
16:23because he definitely looks like a rider who got a bad start but is in shape
16:27moving his way forward and he looked like that the whole moto,
16:30except for the last two laps when we was looking somewhere else.
16:34Yeah, he looks great on the motorcycle right now.
16:36Most of it as he has swole in his sights.
16:39That's for fifth for now, but they're circulating faster than Kitchen.
16:43You just saw up ahead of the bottom of the screen.
16:46Something has gone wrong with Kitchen, so they're in the hunt for the fourth place spot actually.
16:53Yeah, but they, Levi was, those guys were a lot faster, five seconds right now.
16:58Levi brought it back down to 220 and Michael was still two seconds faster than him,
17:03but Levi went almost four seconds faster this last lap.
17:06So that's what I'm saying, that whole recovery part.
17:09And he's still only about five seconds behind Tom Bial,
17:12as quickly as things look like they were coming to unravel for Levi.
17:16He hasn't lost that much time.
17:18And now they're going to battle each other, Swole and Moseman.
17:23This is going to be digging deep for Swole, just coming back from that big injury
17:27and so much time where you cannot train at all with the Achilles.
17:30And it is late in the day and this track is rough.
17:33You watch D get dominant in the bottom box and Moseman looking to make the move.
17:37Let's find out what happened to Moseman as he makes this pass.
17:40What did happen to Moto1, Will?
17:42Did you get info on that?
17:43I did.
17:44I just asked and apparently the fight got hot and started to lose power.
17:48So to you, what you guys were saying, it wasn't him.
17:51So that's why we're seeing a strong showing here in Moto2.
17:55That's a bummer because that podium has been close from a couple of times this year
18:00and might get away because of that.
18:02Southwick tough on the bikes, right?
18:04Yeah, Southwick really tough.
18:06And like I said, the way he was riding to build a whole Levi off on that whole Moto
18:10and then the drop almost 10 seconds, you know, those couple laps didn't seem that
18:14and the way he's fighting.
18:15So bummer, but you never know.
18:17He's moving up and the way this field is, there's a lot of ups and downs
18:21the way these guys finish in the Moto.
18:23He might not have a chance.
18:25He's got the gap between he and Kitchen down to three seconds.
18:28Moseman told this story many times again.
18:30Coming back for the broken neck and near retirement.
18:33Really strong here in the sand.
18:35And can he track down Kitchen as Deacon's lead is 7.7 over Shimoda.
18:41Vial is third.
18:43There's Kitchen up the road.
18:45A rough road.
18:48See if Moseman can get there.
18:50Yeah, Michael was about a second faster than Levi at that point.
18:55And yeah, you know, you're going up back up to the lead with Hayden Deacon.
18:59Yeah, it's 7 seconds.
19:01Joe's been able to kind of close that gap.
19:03He actually got it down.
19:04Now it jumps back up to nine.
19:05I wonder if that was a mistake.
19:06But since Joe's been a second gap hasn't gotten any bigger.
19:10In fact, it was closing down for a while until I just mentioned it.
19:14But it's been the story kind of Joe when he's been able to be up front and he's on that podium.
19:20And he's the only one that I would say that had the speed of Hayden Deacon all year.
19:24to when he's into the race.
19:27He's just as fast.
19:29That's why he's actually second in the championship.
19:33Whoa.
19:35Whoa, a couple of woes there.
19:37Some of it good, actually.
19:39Yeah, I mean, that's just that's just fun.
19:42But the only reason he's able to do that is because he has a lead like that.
19:46And that's an experiment that he was like, all right, well, because nobody's pressure me.
19:49I could slow down and maybe if I can hop this and get this clean, then it's way faster.
19:53If not, I just almost fall and I just want to be that again.
19:58Hop in the bumps and almost losing the front.
20:00Then blowing out the berm.
20:02But actually made it look cool somehow.
20:04Big lead there.
20:06We talked about it in Moto 1.
20:09He chasing a little bit of the ghost of the 18 right now.
20:12I mean, all the viewers at home, you tell me.
20:15I mean, we just saw what Jet does and we know Hayden's hopping.
20:19He was hopping over the bumps and doing all that stuff.
20:22Jet was really the one that's recently we seen do that.
20:25And now you're starting to see Hayden do that as well.
20:28So whether he's chasing him or not, he's definitely paying attention on how to get,
20:32you know, go around this racetrack fast.
20:34But I just love this next section he does.
20:36He's so good at this.
20:38Oh, you want this big jump here?
20:40So we asked Hayden yesterday about, because he hits this jump coming up, about that.
20:45Is he thinking 250 class or is he already getting ahead and thinking 450s?
20:50Put him on the spot yesterday.
20:52Definitely on my goals set pretty high.
20:54And right now where I'm at the 250 class, I don't feel like there's someone that I still have to beat.
21:01I feel like I kind of place that I'm the guy these last two years.
21:04And so now it's like, what's next?
21:06And I feel like that's the 450 class.
21:07So my goals are high.
21:09Just got to work towards it though.
21:11You're seeing him do that in real time.
21:1510-second lead over Shimoda.
21:17And you knew Moseman was going to get to Kitchen.
21:20So it's a rematch of Moda 1, but in reverse order.
21:22Now can Moseman pass Kitchen?
21:24Kitchen was trying to get Moseman a little over an hour ago.
21:28Yeah, but I mean, you look at Levi's body position compared to where it was about four laps ago.
21:33It's night and day difference.
21:34Yeah.
21:35That's where you got to give Levi credit, because it can really unravel really quick.
21:40So for him, knowing that position, I can't fight with Joe or even Tom at this point.
21:46I got to be able to recover because it's a long moto.
21:49So shout out to him for being able to do that and at least put up a fight.
21:52And he's still running really good.
21:53He's in fourth place.
21:54Michael's been running really good all day long.
21:56So I wouldn't be too bummed if he gets around.
21:59Trying to outside.
22:02Yeah, now Kitchen's fighting for sure.
22:04But is it enough?
22:05Couldn't stay on that left side.
22:07And Moseman's got it.
22:08Look at this.
22:09Kitchen gets him back.
22:11Wheel to wheel.
22:12Yeah, man.
22:13I love that because that's the one thing as a rider you're doing.
22:18Michael probably thought already.
22:19I got him.
22:20You know, fish on the hook.
22:21Got him.
22:22And Levi makes that pass back.
22:23It's so frustrating for all these guys.
22:26And a lot rider now.
22:27Yeah.
22:28Get out of my way, son.
22:29Yeah.
22:30Moseman's got to be super frustrated then.
22:32Yeah.
22:33But again, these two were doing this the first motor.
22:35So maybe Levi's doing a little bit of payback to him.
22:38Because Michael, he was hounding Michael the whole first motor.
22:41He couldn't get around him.
22:42That's right.
22:43I mean, just look at the difference when Shimoda got to him.
22:47He went right around.
22:48VL right around.
22:49But no question about it.
22:50Kitchen is back to fighting.
22:51So what is that?
22:53What is that?
22:54You take off.
22:55Oh, Mare.
22:56He's had a rough one today in the sand.
22:57He has gone down.
22:58He is in 15th place.
23:01So, Kitchen, can you relax two laps, three laps, and get a little something back in the system?
23:06Get the heart rate back down?
23:08Yeah.
23:09No, you absolutely can.
23:10Because, I mean, truthfully, this is what we train for.
23:12These guys train for during the week.
23:13That's why they do those interval trainings.
23:15They're able to get the heart rate up to the 180s and then drop it down.
23:18You know?
23:19That's why you do that, so your body can learn to recover in these situations.
23:25And so that's what you're watching with Levi.
23:27It's basically what he does during the week, those interval trainings.
23:29So his body, you shut it down.
23:31When things are starting to happen, there's no sense of even keeping it up at that heart rate.
23:35Shut it down, recover, and you're having to fight.
23:38Because four laps ago, five laps ago, Michael would have just rode around him, and that would have been into that.
23:43But that's why these guys train.
23:46Most minutes caught him again.
23:48Now, it won't affect the overall podium.
23:50It's looking like it's going to be Deegan VL Kitchen in order, even if this pass is made.
23:56But these are just racers just fighting for every position.
23:58Yeah.
23:59No, this is pride on the line.
24:01And, you know, about Michael, I'm definitely getting frustrated at this point.
24:04And, you know, I was thinking when we showed the pitcher, Julian, he's probably like,
24:08Man, I don't want this sandbox anymore.
24:10I'm over it.
24:11No.
24:12Absolutely.
24:13Yeah.
24:14Some lessons are going to have to be learned there.
24:16Not his best condition for sure.
24:18Oh, my gosh.
24:19That track looks rough.
24:20Yeah.
24:21And if you're Levi, this is what you want.
24:23You know, Michael thought he had the pass.
24:25And then you get around him with a nice pass, I would say.
24:28Nice cut on the inside.
24:30Now he's starting to make mistakes.
24:32These bumps seem like they got ultra big over these last two laps.
24:35And you want Michael to be like, you know what?
24:37Now I'm just, I'm happy with a fifth place after that first moto.
24:39So I don't want the bike to overheat.
24:43Never doubt you can let Freep in.
24:45Because, yeah, he's got a little gap over him right now.
24:47And if you look right in front of Levi, Tom Vial is only a couple seconds right in front of Levi.
24:52So if he catches Vial, Vial is going to say, how?
24:56I saw what you looked like 15 minutes ago.
24:59There's no way you're going to catch me.
25:01Yeah, I mean, again, shout out to Levi to be able to recover like that.
25:06I mean, all these guys can do it at a certain point.
25:08But you've got to have that mental strength to be able to do it, JT.
25:11Yeah, and I was wondering a little bit, and I didn't want to doubt him.
25:14But Tom Vial put in such a charge in moto one.
25:17And, James, you've talked about, you know, saving energy for moto two.
25:21If you can rest the second half of the first moto, it's so valuable
25:24because you just saved those energy stores for when you need it in moto two.
25:28And I just wonder if Tom Vial is struggling to carry this intensity
25:31after putting in such a heroic effort for 35 minutes in moto one.
25:35Yeah, I would say, JT, you know, I agree with you.
25:39The way Tom looked at whole moto, like, he definitely put that effort in.
25:44But I don't think he's tired.
25:46You know, he didn't bring anything.
25:47And I'm not saying that you're saying that.
25:49I think what if he's down on the energy, you would see it in those opening laps.
25:53He didn't have that same intensity as you just said.
25:55And because of that, he can't see anybody.
25:58You know, Joe Shimoda's, you know, 25 seconds in front of him,
26:01or however long the map's not that great, 20 seconds in front of him.
26:04So he doesn't have that rapid chase.
26:06So I think he's more caught into maybe the beginning part
26:08and all that work that he did that first moto.
26:11He didn't have the fresh legs to jump out and hang with Joe Shimoda
26:14and run that pace that Hayden had.
26:16But now he's caught in the spot.
26:18He's almost starting to race behind him rather than racing for him
26:21because there's nobody in front of him.
26:22So maybe that's what it is rather than, you know,
26:24he put so much effort in that first moto.
26:26He doesn't have anything in the tank because, to me, he still looks okay.
26:30The shots that we got.
26:31He's not like he's hanging on.
26:32I just don't think he has anything to push forward to, JT.
26:35But great point.
26:37Well, they can erase the question mark of the pit board
26:40because he's pulled back away from Moseman
26:42and, yes, has Vial in his sights.
26:45Now I'll give you some stats that are crazy here.
26:47Deacon looking to go back to back to Southwick
26:49for the first time in 11 years.
26:5211 years in a row we had had different winners for this 250 class.
26:56Go back to Tyler Rattray, the South African who owned this track
27:00two years in a row.
27:03But that was over a decade.
27:04Someone's gone back to back.
27:05Deacon is going to knock that off if he can hold on.
27:08But the journey of Levi Kitchen is going to keep this interesting to the end.
27:14You know, that question mark that his mechanic put on the pit board
27:17might have been the thing that woke Levi up.
27:19Okay.
27:20Because usually, you know, mechanics, they're probably like,
27:22man, fight, hang in there, just keep grinding.
27:25Well, the mechanic puts question mark on there like, that's your guy.
27:29And he's like, dude, I don't know what's going on.
27:31I don't even know what to write on this thing.
27:32And it seems like ever since Levi saw that question mark,
27:35he's really answered it.
27:36And, you know, if he was tired, I think his mechanic would be putting
27:39more motivation on there to keep him going.
27:41He probably was wondering herself.
27:42You seem to always see teammates on this monster pro circuit Kawasaki team battling.
27:49Right now it is Hamaker and March Banks.
27:52That is for 7th and 8th behind Smole.
27:55And it's Jordan Smith and Harrah.
27:57And they're right there with them.
28:00Yeah, you can see some of these shadows that are starting to creep in.
28:03The track just makes another obstacle that makes this track really difficult.
28:08And, you know, the hard part is if, you know, and I love about this 250 class,
28:12you look at these guys and you look at Levi and outside of the top two,
28:17they look like they're riding exactly the same, you know,
28:20but that just shows you where to start is and that opening lap position,
28:23especially here.
28:24You know, you can ride just as good as the guys up and running third place,
28:28but you're back in, you know, 7th and 8th battling just deep.
28:32Oh yeah, that's what's on the line right now.
28:35Teammate pride and Jordan Smith railing on the number 19.
28:41That's the triumph.
28:42See that hive is the yellow helmet and he's got his teammate Harrah point with him.
28:47So two triumphs to Kawasaki's in formation.
28:50Yeah, Jordan might have an opportunity to sneak up on Seth at the moment
28:55because Seth might have been thinking that it's still like kill behind him
28:59and you start to learn your guys tendencies, especially with a guy behind him.
29:02Jordan might have a surprise attack as his lap rider doesn't really know where he wants to go.
29:07Maybe whole set up and looks like might get a bogo special off the racetrack.
29:11Oh, Harold, he took advantage. He made the move on Smith.
29:15Yeah, I wouldn't say that was suggested, Mark. He just ran out of real estate.
29:19Now look at him. It's around him. So he just got passed by his teammate,
29:24made two passes and ended up making up the position. So Southwick, baby.
29:28Oh, we love the bogo special up here. So two passes made by Harrah.
29:33So that's going to put him in the overall eighth at the moment.
29:36He had a good run going for most of the first moto.
29:40And he's not done.
29:43Oh, no, he's already in front of him.
29:45Oh, this is back to Smith. Yeah, this is Smith.
29:47Yeah, a lot of bikes that are covered in sand and they're the same bikes.
29:50Jordan Smith powering down.
29:56And it's just going to run him out of real estate. No.
29:59Hamaker fights back.
30:00Oh, man, I could tell you, like, you question a lot of friendships after that move
30:04because you know, and you George Smith, you're like, look, man, I know you're starting to labor.
30:08We just got passed by my teammate.
30:10I'm going to have to run you off the racetrack on that one because you're supposed to just give me that position.
30:14But he's got their all fighter, you know, Seth, he ain't giving it up easy.
30:20Deegan there in the bottom box.
30:22Gap is eight seconds over Shimoda as we continue to watch.
30:26Jordan Smith and Hamaker battle.
30:28Harrah has gotten away.
30:30And then March Banks is up ahead.
30:33And it's one of the great things, really, that maybe you don't get to see on the show every week.
30:38I mean, there are battles everywhere.
30:40You talk to these Progeteer riders who are back in 28th and 30th, the battle for the top 10 further up.
30:46What we have going right now is just inside the top 10.
30:49Well, I believe the reason we created the battle box is because it's 250 class because there is battles everywhere.
30:55So nonetheless, it's cool to get these guys out here shouting.
30:59And honestly, the way they're riding, they deserve to shine.
31:04Oh, yeah, they are giving you everything they have.
31:08And George Smith's actually been pretty darn quick outdoors.
31:11But for whatever reason, he's a great starter at Supercross.
31:14You never see the good starts outdoors.
31:16But boy, can he come from behind, and he might have a pass made right here.
31:20Yeah, I mean, Seth couldn't do anything about it.
31:22There's parts of this racetrack that opens up to a four-lane highway, and that was it.
31:27And you can't control the whole thing.
31:29And you see Jordan knew, once he got beside him, he stayed close to him.
31:32That mechanics there, he had it.
31:34Otherwise, he got to bust out the 7-iron on him, give him the business.
31:37But see if he can get away.
31:39Otherwise, Seth would fight back.
31:42It's a four-lane, but this ain't no highway, so it's a sign.
31:45Yeah, you're right about that.
31:46Got some potholes in there, for sure.
31:48I wouldn't disrespect Southwick like that.
31:50I apologize.
31:51Well, shout-out to all the legends of this track who helped work on it.
31:55The Johnson family, Keith and his dad, Rick, who run the track.
31:58And then, of course, you've got John Dowd and Doug Henry, former winners here, champions.
32:04They helped work throughout the weekend, got to see Doug this morning.
32:08So they want it to be rough, because that's the legacy of this place.
32:11And only the strong can survive.
32:13And there have been very few doubts of the strength of Hayden Deegan.
32:19There's the mechanic, Brent Duffy.
32:23Seems like it's been an easy day for him.
32:26That beautiful breath.
32:28Jump over that.
32:29So smooth.
32:30Wow.
32:31Now that looks fun.
32:32Yeah, it looks fun, but that's skills.
32:35And that's where Hayden got to give him credit for learning how to ride this racetrack,
32:39find a nice inside line right there.
32:41One corner, JT.
32:42Yeah, I'm just finding some irony here.
32:45You know, I think that both Hayden and Jett Lawrence put in their most dominant days of the season.
32:50And you wonder if Hayden is responding a little bit to Jett like you kind of hypothesized there, James.
32:55But, I mean, he's really been the class all day today.
32:59Two seconds faster in qualifying.
33:01Both hole shots are really, I mean, let's be honest, he's been uncontested this whole day.
33:05So, really, this is a world-class just performance of Hayden Deegan.
33:10Yeah, no, it is world-class.
33:12And, man, this is a great shot from our drone pilot, Chris Budd.
33:17Because you're really getting the opportunity to see what I've been talking about all day,
33:22how when you're out front and what Hayden is doing and what Jett was able to do,
33:26and really smooth this whole racetrack out.
33:28I mean, our drone almost ran in the back of Hayden because of his lines going to the inside here,
33:33really far inside.
33:34Really?
33:35Noticing that he's making his track smooth.
33:38You know, he's going smooth.
33:40But the only way you can do that, you've got to be out front to be able to choose your own lines.
33:44And it's a weird situation to be in because the farther out front he is,
33:49the smoother this racetrack becomes because he'll actually start going slower,
33:52which will ultimately end up going faster.
33:54I know that makes no sense at all, but by his line selection, I mean,
33:58how can anybody ever come up and catch him?
34:00Because, one, he's saving energy, and he's finding new lines around this racetrack.
34:04It's just really cool to see.
34:05As you say, when do you say Southwick, second moto, hot in the day?
34:10Man, that looks fun.
34:11You're right.
34:12Yeah.
34:13It's fun.
34:14We could go back.
34:15We were watching George Smith and Seth.
34:17We really wasn't saying that.
34:18No, I look proud for them.
34:19Yeah, and it's really just came down to being able to have the vision to be able to see that,
34:24and, man, it's really cool.
34:26It's really one of his great strengths, the alternate lines, man.
34:29I would say he can run second and third best line as well as everyone runs the main one.
34:33I'm talking to his dad, Brian, about that after High Point.
34:36And, I mean, Brian could have taken the credit, said I taught him that, but he's like, I don't know.
34:41I think some of it is just innate riders that are able to look around, see things that other guys don't see.
34:47Some of it you can teach, but some of it you can't.
34:50Yeah, but I also think this is Hayden studying, you know?
34:53Like, he's got to be a student in the game to notice this because, yeah, he didn't always ride like this,
34:59and this comes from studying and working on how to get better.
35:04I mean, the kid loves to drive fast cars and hang out in danger zone, but this stuff right here,
35:09this is a veteran move, like, to be able to do that because, again, you're saving your body.
35:14You're finding smooth lines, but you're also saving your motorcycle.
35:17And the only way you can do that is by knowing and studying Jet Lawrence, studying, you know, the student of the game.
35:22And Hayden obviously is that because, I mean, this is not normally what you see in a guy in a G50 class power.
35:29He's not just beating these guys with speed. He's beating them by line selection.
35:33And what do I say? Who does that sound like?
35:36You know, so Jet Lawrence absolutely say it every week about him.
35:41And, again, that's no disrespect to this group or the group in the 450s.
35:45Certainly Eli Tomac, Hunter Lawrence is close.
35:48Get Chase Sexton back hopefully next weekend at Redbud.
35:52But just another chapter in the – ooh, it's brewing.
35:57But Deegan winning most weeks in the 250s.
35:59Jet has won every week in the 450s.
36:01What could the future hold for those two?
36:03But right now, focus on the time being.
36:06Deegan working on another win.
36:07Yeah, well, and as you mentioned, like, there's no disrespect to Chase Sexton and Eli Tomac
36:13because those guys have been in the same position.
36:15I think what Hayden's been able to do is he's got the luxury of being out front.
36:19You know, so he can work on these skills out front.
36:22Because if you're chasing somebody, you cannot route these lines because you're always pushing it.
36:27Watching something special.
36:29This will be the third perfect day of the year for him.
36:32He was fastest qualifier.
36:34Actually, fastest in both sessions today.
36:37Then winning both motos.
36:38Did it at high point.
36:40And is going to do it for the second race in a row here at Southwick.
36:44Hayden Deegan building a legacy of its own in the 250 class.
36:51Deegan 1-1 at Southwick 2025.
36:59Joe Shimoda, second best in the championship, second best in the second moto.
37:05And for the third year in a row, a rough first moto in the sand is going to hurt him in the overall.
37:12Probably won't even be on the podium today.
37:14But he ran well in that second moto.
37:168.8 seconds, the final margin.
37:18Yeah, looking at a lap time.
37:20Looks like we lost Jalik out there.
37:22He was running fifth.
37:23Oh, went to 10th.
37:25Yeah, now he's in 10th.
37:27Yeah.
37:28Yeah.
37:29Yeah.
37:30Well, third place.
37:31Yeah.
37:32And through all this, I think he's going to end up second overall.
37:34Yeah.
37:35Free three.
37:36Levi's right behind him, too.
37:38And Vial has been on the podium every time.
37:42He's raced at Southwick and a nice recovery for Kitchen.
37:45He couldn't get Vial back, but he kept him honest right to the end.
37:49And for that, he will hold on to third overall.
37:53So the podium bonus money for the teams coming their way.
37:56They're big efforts.
38:00Say how hot it was out there.
38:02Because he was on fire.
38:05You got to use ice to put him out.
38:07Yeah.
38:08Be right.
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