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00:00himself yeah they don't want to race but now this is it it's locked in 30 second board from
00:07five racing is up got the pointers on deegan and shimota who is second of the first moto
00:12we're waiting for one of the kawasaki riders or all of them to get a good start march banks
00:17another great run for a third of the first moto what can he do reps are up
00:22gates down someone got stuck in the gate
00:26is it a kawasaki it's a kawasaki there you go
00:33seth hamaker well he's been the best starter of that group has the monster pro circuit kawasaki
00:39in the lead it's michael harrop and shimota second and third yeah we heard joe that first moto i
00:44said we just got to run it in harder without crashing well joe got a good start he definitely
00:48ran it in hey deegan thought got to that first corner quicker but joe ran it in kawasaki was
00:54listening mr wagon here how we figured it starts out one of them got it and uh true adams is seventh
01:00so you'll see another kawasaki toward the front but right now it's seth hamaker tape it all taped up
01:06knee taped up shoulder bunch of crashes last week leads the way for shimota and harrop running well
01:12again yeah another rider who's been getting michael harrop yeah man all year long continue to get
01:19better and last weekend he was really fighting for up there at one point we thought maybe he had a
01:23chance to get in the lead
01:24siderdy francisco on the gas gas battling it out harrop and luxe turner on the aeo ktm
01:31is behind them no it's actually one of the kawasaki's adams who made a move on turner
01:36adams on the run in green yeah let's see what drew can do with a good start as he goes around the
01:42outside wow rider d got stuck in that rut literally hey we've been waiting to see what
01:51your adams can do this was the hot shot amateur dominated the monster energy national at loretta
01:57lynn's last summer was going to make his pro debut here in pro motocross they actually bumped him up
02:02the supercross he got hurt and again the starts have definitely held him back will what do you think
02:08it here at the hammock or out front i'm wondering if what we talked about earlier and the stuff that
02:13pro circuit kawasaki have been working on there with the bike has translated into these good starts
02:18for drew adams and for seth hammock as he gets passed there by joe shimoda he does but go ahead
02:24yeah james i kind of wanted you to weigh in on this so specifically talking to mitch payton team
02:29owner at pro circuit kawasaki he said it was clutch stuff they've been working on garrett marchbank
02:33said he had gone through about eight different clutches and they were trying to figure out a better feel
02:37for the guys out the gate this is obviously the newer version of the bike they said everywhere
02:41else on the track they've been getting great results but those starts were holding them back
02:45so if you can just kind of explain what that means to a rider to have the right feel for the clutch out
02:49of the gate yeah i mean that and working on the clutches for them to initially get that jump because
02:54no matter how fast your motorcycle is if you don't get the first three or four feet out of the gate
02:59it's not going to matter so i think those guys understand that they've got to get the jump
03:03and to me this second moto i don't think has anything to do with the clutch because they
03:08obviously struggled that first moto i think the gate flinch a lot of guys are going and looks like
03:12so far uh seth handmaker was the one guy who didn't get caught off guard but i like what mitch is doing
03:18they know they have the power they got to be able to get it get that jump otherwise they get closed off
03:23and it's just a waste of time at that point they're fighting so shimoda able to wrestle the lead
03:28away and deegan is back in six so shimoda looking good right now jt he sure is we can i love the way
03:34he attacked you heard him on the podium he said i need to just attack more you see him not waste time
03:40with seth handmaker he can't be patient here because we see him look back that is so critical
03:44he knows where seth handmaker is who where he doesn't know is hayden deegan and that's all he's
03:49worried about is putting in as fast as laps as possible right now so when hayden deegan does get
03:54clear he's simply too far back to put in any ton of charge at joe shimoda well jt there you can see
03:59deegan in that bottom box he was sixth he went back to 76 again but uh shimoda looking back that's
04:05right into the wheelhouse of what you've been talking about james when a guy wins a lot
04:09you're thinking about him no matter what yeah and 100 you you want to know where he where he's at
04:14because joe knows the likelihood like you look if he looks back and he sees hayden where he is
04:19then joe's going to try to continue to push that pace but he knows hayden's been a little bit quicker
04:24than him he probably will catch him but if he'd have looked back and he didn't see hayden then i
04:28think joe would have really took the chance to maybe maybe take some chances to get a big enough
04:33gap and maybe hopefully hayden by the time he got the second he was gone at this point you're not far
04:39enough to the ahead to believe hayden's not going to be able to catch you so joe just wants to know
04:43where hayden deegan is as we all do and there he is he is there with drew adams the rookie is riding
04:50well who's in fifth on the 98 there's deegan ahead of them de francisco could be a deegan
04:56de francisco rematch that came together in midair in moto one and then harrop third hamager second
05:05yeah i believe these opening laps joe's got to do whatever it takes to me if i'm joe shimoto
05:12knowing how this track has been playing out how hard it is to make up that time and and if you
05:16don't have that rider chase it's really hard to make up that time i'm going wide open i'm i got
05:20to try to get away from hayden deegan because we know hayden's in shape and hayden don't want to
05:25lose to anybody and you probably understand he he probably understands that three-peat as well i'm
05:29sure he got the the uh the notifications that he can do something special see if he can get it done
05:35will well the pit board of joe shimoda there ben griffinson mechanic is holding out says sprint
05:42d's so to your point there james he is on his radar no matter how many positions back
05:48that's pretty simple sometimes but shimoda better in the second motos like he is right now his average
05:55finish this year moto one four point six moto two two point nine and shimoda has always said
06:00later in the day the rough for the track the better he does as deegan tries to find a line
06:05around drew adams no dice yeah but unlike some of these other tracks this track is rough but it's
06:11not going to be that rough to where joe can have a huge advantage over everybody else where it almost
06:17evened out you know some tracks you go to if it's a little bit smoother and hayden's got that speed
06:21having a rough track that second moto would tame that well this this track isn't like that and hayden
06:27has the speed he's going to continue to have the speed by the way the flow is and it's just going
06:32to be important for joe to hopefully get away and make tom hayden and decide whether he keeps that
06:36points league going or he takes a chance to go out there because we know hayden deegan loves to win
06:40some races he sees joe he's going to try to go out there but if he doesn't then i think he'll take
06:45that second place yeah you go to southwick which might be the roughest track that's where shimoda has
06:49really shined in those second motos through the years but they're all close right now hayden went off the
06:55track right here shot off to the left side just jumped back on didn't lose a ton of time maybe about
07:04five bike lengths or so compared to where he was yeah that's things like that those are where i believe
07:10hayden will just focus in on a championship so if i'm joe shimoda if hayden doesn't see me
07:15then those type of mistakes he'll just be worried about maximizing the points and at the none at the
07:21least he'll come out top with you as far as in the points but you're going to see him come out of this
07:24corner i don't know if he spins out yeah well he tries to get on the gas so he can try to triple the
07:29thing and he just leans back that bike hooks up and then he just takes a little break on the side of the
07:33track no harm no foul could have been a lot worse there used to be hay bales there and he would have hit
07:38one of those and it went down and a little break takes a handoff stands up uh i think deegan
07:44knows how to play that they want to see when you're off the side of the track an indication
07:48that you're trying to use caution
07:49back now trying to challenge adams it's good for drew adams
07:59he's uh best moto he had a fifth in colorado earlier this year so this will be a tie for his
08:05career best as it sits right now yeah another rider looking for confidence young rider just like rider d
08:12right in front of him so good to see him in every lap no matter what you got to expect hayden's
08:18probably going to get around about into this moto but just drew being up front seeing that pace and
08:23then of course being a whole hate digging off at any point will give him confidence to continue to
08:28build forth for the next couple weeks rider at a chattanooga tennessee
08:33as for deegan remember he did have that leg injury last week definitely held it back still
08:41managed to get the overall win we asked him yesterday what the status of that is this time
08:47yeah that first week after red but i didn't do anything it was just uh uh training wise um did a lot
08:52of therapy on it ice baths all the whole run you know so um this this upcoming week i was able to get
08:57on the bike i did uh a couple 20s you know just get it moving and uh did some starts so uh a little more
09:04prep and a little more getting the leg moving so hopefully it pays off
09:07and we'll see how that's affecting him here as he attacks adams but adam's riding well he has
09:13caught de francisco and then harap right in front of them a four rider battle yeah and march banks is
09:19in the back he's on the move also yeah garrett passing more people yeah started 16th again
09:27oh deegan takes the line away from adam oh that was beautiful that was beautiful that's a better
09:32mood right there set that corner up they actually set that up during the warp section
09:38oh that was almost over the bars yeah and there's a lot of ruts in this track starting to drive as
09:45you can start to see and now you can see garrett coming up as well we know he knows how to pass people
09:52so the overall is on the line here i mean deegan needs to beat shimota to get the overall win and that's
09:58a long way up the road right now it's 12 seconds at the moment shimota has the overall lead looking
10:03at 2-1 scorers yeah joe if he continues this pace it's going to be tough for hayden to catch him we
10:09know how hard it is to make up a lot of time um for him but by the time hayden gets around these guys
10:15if it takes a couple more laps joe can get about a 15 second lead and i think hayden's going to have
10:19to just take what he has today will you just never count him out for it there james i was talking to
10:26his dad brian deegan before the racing got started today and i said what do you think is his biggest
10:32asset let's take out you know racing technique and he said his grit and i said what's the biggest thing
10:37that you have taught him and he said to never give up to never give up just always know the sacrifices
10:44that we have made to get to this point he said that something that he still didn't have ever since
10:49he was a kid he's like i'm gonna have to remind him of it right now but that's how he goes through
10:53life remember how much work it took to get here and do not give up so oh once we got a battle here
11:01will brewing with march banks looking to get adams and it was kenny hold them off
11:08yeah it almost looked like drew was going to let him by but garrett wasn't close enough but
11:15garrett can get on if he get close to his teammates scrub this he'd be on the inside
11:19nice pass by him you can see that one coming and he's closing in on hayden got a really good pace
11:26see hayden deegan right in front of him jt yeah well osabi if you've heard this before but
11:30if march banks did not get the start he wanted but he has systematically moved forward listen he was
11:35behind kitchen three laps ago and has absolutely left kitchen behind i would not be shocked here
11:41at all if he goes past deegan the next couple laps guys well honestly jt it's a battle that we've been
11:46waiting for i mean march bank's been riding well all summer he's third in the championship even had
11:50a good run with a lot of podiums toward the end of supercross but we've not actually seen him battle
11:56deegan because he's never up front it's a rare moment to see the 36 and the one in the same piece
12:02of real estate let's see how it goes yeah that is a rare moment and garrett's been riding really
12:09good all day he was the fastest qualifier so clearly he has has the speed you would think
12:15if they're struggling with starts this is horsepower hill that you know the bike's slow and like i said
12:20it it's not it's where the power is and then working on the clutches but i'm with jt here payton
12:25doesn't really wake up oh gee money's gonna get around him yeah he is right there i talked to
12:32march banks this morning and he said he always hated this track but now he lives out in california
12:36he's been a club of x rider in south carolina for years being on the west coast seems to be a lot
12:42more comfortable on this dirt today and he is giving deegan all he can handle
12:48gary should have the inside you're going to push him out oh hayden closes the door
12:52run over a little suggestive marker right there with no harm no foul but still
12:56garrick's made a lot of time up on on hayden i don't know if hayden realized that he was coming
13:01that quickly and de francisco right ahead of them as they drop into the valley
13:11okay so this is that thing march banks catches them doesn't make the pass
13:15does deegan respond we've seen it a few times today yeah but hayden's in a different spot i mean normally
13:20when that happens he's out front okay you're fighting for a lead hayden most likely he's not
13:25going to kiss joe the only reason we even give him a chance because of what hayden does and what
13:30he's done in his career about coming to the pack but yeah and the same thing with garrett he hasn't
13:35had much experience rod with hayden so i don't think you'd be you know worried about the past every
13:40time i get to him i can't get around him i think garrett feels like he can he's caught him he's been
13:43rotten good all day and he wants to get back on the podium get him another interview
13:47rider out of utah i still don't know if he has a deal for next year yet it was a one-year deal
13:54but monster pro circuit kawasaki the way he's going gotta bring him back but i don't know if
13:59anything's been signed yet deegan meanwhile has ramped it up and he is caught now de francisco
14:07yeah the best thing for him is to get caught up behind um uh deegan gets caught up behind him
14:12and rider d yeah rider d but we'll see will yeah i was just thinking about the difference in
14:18garrett marchbank this year and he told me a few rounds back really attributes that a lot
14:23to working with brock tickle brock tickle a long time test rider over at monster energy kawasaki and
14:29the two of them sort of came together when garrett was sort of asking for help and just kind of
14:33leaning on him and brock said look i'm here at the track anyway day after day let's work together and
14:38see how this goes and that two gelled um garrett said that you know just everything from him makes
14:44sense in his head all the pieces sort of stuck together and he said it's made all the difference
14:48so far this game no doubt he's been riding well but deegan picking up the game getting away from
14:54march banks will and now going after deep francisco up horsepower hill deep francisco fourth that tie his
15:01career best moto which took place at this track let's see what he does he's going to try to square his
15:06corner up and get on the inside but it looks like rider d he knows that routine
15:15like i said a little rematch of moto one where they came together battling for
15:18the lead and harrop another good run and actually if the race ends like this hamaker's on the overall
15:24podium behind shimote and deegan long way to go deegan long way to go around the outside and march
15:31banks is right back in this i love that had their feet off trying to gas it you know he's the one
15:36to try to stay in front of hayden because you know for him hayden's always going to come in a bump
15:41rotter d i'm telling hey stay away from me stay away from me not again march banks is back in this james
15:47yeah he's getting held up hayden that is getting held up behind rotter d
15:51the electric uh garrett man he's got to make that pass give him a lot of confidence and might be
15:57coming up halfway through this moto reminder that monster energy is available at fred meyer
16:05march banks can he make a move on deegan
16:10oh deegan was looking for an inside
16:12he's got de francisco rotter d why why you go outside like that i mean you should have closed
16:20that that door down maybe there was a bigger rut there but almost felt like hayden maybe scared
16:25him i thought hayden was going to be up the far inside now if i'm garrett march banks i got to get
16:29rotter d because he's focused in on deegan and he does he almost ran in the back of hayden whoo march
16:36banks hustling through to try to make this pass seal the deal and he does if anybody knows how to pass it
16:41is garrett does a lot of that still really impressive and and and even then ahead of him
16:47harrop running third place this moto another great round by him a fly racing uh unveiled their 2026 gear
16:57this weekend they'll have a ride here tomorrow oh deegan almost throws it down give me an update on their
17:02riders it is de francisco now sixth schwartz after that great first moto is 11th parker ross is in 17th
17:09deegan under fire from march bank still they have cleared de francisco and adams yeah it looked like
17:17hayden was going to throw it down but no he wanted to go in the outside so it was really important for him
17:22to get back to that outside so he slung back across
17:26slung across the track but garrett's got to make this pass otherwise he'll be knocked off the podium if
17:32he doesn't get it so really important pass for him to continue yeah it's going to be between the
17:38two kawasaki teammates will it be hammaker or march banks on the podium they are currently tied overall
17:45but hammaker has the tiebreaker at the moment
17:49yeah they're starting to close in on third place right in front of them so garrett's got
17:53someone to do what they can get around hayden or to number 107 harrop right there in front of deegan
18:04march bank just needs a pass it could be on deegan it could be on harrop he just needs one more
18:08position to push hammaker off the podium heck of a ride for hammaker though the pennsylvania native
18:15i mean this dude is beat up knocked the wind out of himself he told me so bad on that uphill jump last
18:22week that he started to pass out he could not get his breath so the medics thought he had maybe hit
18:27his head and he's like no that's how bad i knocked the wind out of myself so they let him race moto too
18:32he was riding pretty well then he twisted his knee so he's got that all taped up with doc g
18:37shoulders already been taped and here he is running second to the moto and third overall
18:42harrop now under pressure yeah all my moto fans or anybody in general we've all had the wind knocked
18:47out of it and sometimes they're a lot worse i remember a couple times that i've just given up on life
18:52i'm like well this is it this this is not coming back just take me take me and then it finally
18:57comes back so i i i feel for you uh seth don't now know that feeling deegan attacking harrop on that
19:04triumph the danish rider you see the list oh harrop throws it away that's actually going to put march
19:11banks where he needs to be yeah bomber easy mistake this track's really starting to dry out and he was
19:17riding really good but maybe a little bit of pressure from hayden deegan maybe pushing that front
19:21tire called some mistake for michael so march banks third overall now that'd be the first career
19:29pro moto cross podium for him but i don't think he's thinking about that i think he wants to pass deegan
19:35yeah garrett's got his switches lines i was watching him earlier in practice and he's running the same
19:41lines as he was in practice and they they work but to me that outside going up horsepower hill is a
19:46little bit slower and a couple other places he's been running outside he's got to switch that up
19:52i believe if he does he'll be able to close the gap even more on hayden deegan even more than he has so
19:57to found you as a rider when things are working for your fastest qualifier you're closing in on
20:02guys it's hard to switch those lines but you can tell he's losing those he's losing a lot
20:05and i need to correct myself march banks has a podium in the 450 class back in his days with
20:12the club mx team this will be his first 250 pro motocross podium if he hangs on to it but
20:18still it'd be such a boost if he could get deegan he was close
20:25de francisco still digging back there at fifth and it's adams harrop after the crash forkner riding well
20:30again he's eight bowling and kitchen keeps us back at 10 not where he wants to be at the home race
20:38yeah kitchen must have been closed on weekends
20:42at least here yeah at least here and no home cooking at washugal for the chef
20:49yeah if you're not feeling the flow it's it's a tough race track it's it's a unique one we talk
20:55about southwick and some of these other ones you got to know how to ride it we're here at wash you
20:58you got to know how to ride it or either be comfortable in this flow because you see the
21:02shadows one guy that's comfortable is the guy up front joe shimoto with a 13 second lead
21:09joe time oh joe's looking for two out of the last three overalls and you go back to last week
21:17he could have should have would have he might have been the best rider there that week but deegan was
21:21able to outfox him in the first moto then the brakes went out rear brake in the second moto but he might
21:27have won that yeah i talked to a couple of the honda guys and they felt like they let they let joe
21:33down yeah i feel like he would have had that moto win and the way you look in this second moto he
21:38probably would have so he looks good jt he sure does and i've had a chance to spend a lot of time with
21:43honda hrc over the last couple of days and we asked them about joe shimoto because sometimes he
21:48gets into this zone he's pulling away from the field putting in a 13 second gap right now and he will
21:54tell you that he kind of rides all the time the same all the time i'm like no no there's a different
21:58mode for joe and they said you're absolutely right we even have a name for it when he gets a little
22:02spicy just like this it's wasabi joe this is wasabi joe wasabi yeah whatever it is joe is definitely on fire
22:11right now yeah and i would almost say he looks the same to me but clearly there's always there's always
22:18different levels to it and i think joe's riding style makes it look like he's riding the same but
22:23the guys got it figured out and talking to some of the guys at honda big changes because coming into
22:29this this motocross season you know we always felt like joe can win races but i've been impressed with
22:34his speed and how consistent he has been um all year long and if it wasn't for a few starts i mean the
22:41guy's been right there and clearly when he does get the start he can run like this and it's been a lot
22:45better for these guys so going into the third year looking really good hopefully he can just
22:49continue building and a lot of that was made some bike changes and joe's more comfortable what he's
22:54looking for and it's showing bottom box for showing the battle for eighth and that is critical because
23:00it's austin fortner on the triumph he would be fifth overall if this happened his last fit of top
23:06five overall was buds creek 2023 listen to the results for fork over the last couple weeks 22nd 16th 20th
23:14eighth eighth fifth something is happening something is coming back together suddenly for fortner
23:23yeah that's barely in the points a couple weeks ago yeah and and again austin's goal is
23:30it's just to make these races you know get a full season clearly to triumph this whole team has
23:36continued to get better but man we talk about heroes man austin i don't know him that well
23:44but just been impressed for everything he continues to fight back as he goes past his teammate yeah
23:48haram who crashed not back to the same speed he had earlier so that's going to help forkner even more
23:54solidify that top five overall and oh no haram's not done he realized who it was it was his teammate
24:01he always say yeah you got to get on it you know one guy we're missing on the teammates jordan smith
24:06oh yeah jordan had a great one in moto one 16th right now in moto two hey super motocross playoffs
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24:28on friday nights at smx that's for haram trying to recover from the crash jt well he's circulating
24:36here after the crash and i was kind of hoping for a levi kitchen haram battle today we got a little bit
24:40of that in moto one because i wanted them to tell them that levi kitchen lives just over the hill
24:46because i'm just imagining haram going to all these tracks week after week a brand new track one of
24:50these weekends he's going to say is there anybody on any of these tracks that doesn't live on the
24:54property i had to deal with jeremy martin now i have to be able to leave my kitchen who's next yeah
24:59jeremy you ruined it for everybody because now you've got a home jeremy did it jeremy did it you live
25:05here and you're supposed to get a w but oh tough conditions we're going to be asking who is the fmic
25:13who's the fastest man in crawfordsville that's the next town we're going to i don't know if they have
25:17anyone entering the race super local to the track in indiana next time out haram probably happy to
25:23hear that news yeah you're going to see these guys starting to buy trailer homes they can move it
25:28mark it right there i live everywhere every race i live here uh this is haram he's been so good though
25:35and it's reflected in the points he's actually fifth in the standings in what is just a summer in
25:40the united states he'll go back to mxgp was supposed to race the 450 for triumph in europe
25:47this year but the bike wasn't ready so they said we'll honor your deal you could be a test rider
25:52and then someone came up with the idea of why don't you just go to america you can ride a 250 there
25:56because in europe they have a rule in mxgp once you turn 23 you're not allowed to race a 250 anymore
26:02so that's why he was a man without a spot and boys it worked out well and i got to imagine the data
26:08they're getting with having four really strong riders they must be learning a ton this summer yeah
26:14absolutely and if he goes back to europe i mean he'll become a better rider just because
26:18not because we're fast or anything but just how we go about racing i think uh they get more time
26:25over in europe so he'll probably be a little bit quicker earlier in the races just a little bit more
26:29fiery because of our schedule so nonetheless whatever they're doing over there has continued
26:34to work and it's starting to see not just one rider not two all of them oh yeah been really impressive
26:40a little shout out to styles robertson who's out with a wrist injury but i think he's been doing
26:46some riding helping the team test uh not quite ready to return to racing yet because that wrist
26:51is a problem but good to see styles at the last couple of races hanging out helping the team in any
26:56way he can oh looks like it's settled in now james hammaker second i don't know if deegan's gonna make a run
27:04at him deegans only have one other moto this year outside the top two and that was that rough first
27:10moto at redbud yeah well hayden's coming i don't think he's gonna have a moto outside the top two
27:16because he's starting to catch i mean he ran at 221 last lap and and uh seth was in the 225 so
27:23mathematics and i'm not that great at it but i believe he's catching them pretty close
27:29look at the smx points if they run that's combining supercross and motocross together deegan
27:33shimodo one two no surprise it honestly probably shouldn't be a surprise that march banks is 30 points
27:38but most people probably aren't surprised at that but he's third in pro motocross points again he had
27:43a much more solid ending the supercross with a couple podiums and people probably remember yeah i
27:50mean it it is a surprising because it always seems like we're talking about him in seventh and eighth
27:55yeah and he just continues to to come up as we start to show hayden deegan and joe shimodo winning
28:00races we kind of forget about garrett making these passes look at this deegan's right there looking for a
28:06pass of his own yeah maybe some of those uh injuries over the last few weeks are starting to uh get on
28:12set because he doesn't he doesn't like the uh router that we saw in those opening laps and on a tough
28:17racetrack being dry just impressed that he's even out here i was gonna say we have a two-week break
28:24the dude had a rough one at the last one at millville he could have just said i'll just use the two-week
28:29break nope he came out here and raced and he's racing really well uh seth is always those type of guys
28:35i mean this his body looks like he's built right some people are just built right when
28:39they hit the ground the ground's like oh man here he comes again i don't know if he quite feels that
28:45way maybe millville's mount martin can tell that story because it it did get quite the hit last week
28:51but he got up and he raced that second moto and now he's hanging on with deegan looking to make a pass
28:57yeah hayden's gonna make short work of him
29:01yeah i think garrett marchbank's not too far behind him as well so seth might need a there you go
29:09horsepower hill still really impressive top three at the moment he's got to have to pick up the pace to
29:16hold his teammate off but still a top five after what we saw last weekend with him being on the ground
29:21really good we'll get the top going with danger boy because he will ride a 450 for a few days
29:28during this break talk to his mechanic brent duffy deegan raced a road a stock 450 a couple of years
29:36ago just for fun this will be the first time he's ever ridden on one of the team's 450 race bikes
29:41and the near theory was well at least he'll get people talking we're talking about right it worked
29:47i was like i mean duff knows the game he's working for the deegans they know the game
29:53they get some headlines you know that's probably not gonna be secret i'm sure we'll see some video
29:58yeah let's see some video i mean at this point i don't i don't see any benefit for doing it besides
30:04us talking about it and you know unless they're thinking about if he clenches early would he move
30:10up to the 450 class i actually asked duff that and his eyes started to light up i was like you know he
30:17could clinch early he's almost got a two race lead in the standings and he started to get pumped over
30:22that prospect well i'm sure we all are you know even this duff can uh pump but i i don't see that
30:29happening i mean the way especially with chase sexton winning like he did be one thing there's really no
30:35benefit for him to do that and in my honest opinion because he's not going to just jump on the 450 and
30:41all of a sudden be competing against likes of jett lawrence and chase sexton eventually he will and get
30:46him off season yeah you know he'll get there but he's not going to just take two weeks and just
30:50jump on a 450 especially if he hasn't written it and go whole different motorcycle whole different
30:55ball game and you know the boys in a 450 class they're like oh yeah come on up come on up oh yeah
31:02they waiting for him oh he's got to be ready to go by that time he might get mad i'm going to say
31:08this he might be in the danger zone yeah when he jumps in against those boys if he does it for a race
31:13and remember he will have to go back to the 250 for smx you're not going to leave that kind of
31:17cash on the table yeah that's why i'm saying it i don't know the benefit for doing it but
31:22i do believe he's going to be a a problem for all those guys in the future
31:28fortner here on the 83 continuing to charge battling adams right now
31:34good for both these guys adams the young guy fortner's been around for a while but adams
31:41needs a little boost to confidence work there certainly could use it these are good finishes
31:45for them yeah and the rider d's right in front of him as austin does a little scrub
31:50should have drew up the inside here but drew's not letting it go whoa close you want some of this action
31:59no not today we see how that works out if anybody don't want any of that action it's going to be
32:04the guy right in front of a rider d he already had it so really impressed by austin today just
32:09been continually get better throughout the season and the way this season's been going it's almost
32:14a reflection of how today's been going bad start just continue to fight fight next thing you know
32:20he's up in the top five or at least fighting for it and maybe get another overall first overall in the
32:25top five as he goes around rotter d here wow fortner two passes here if he can make this stick yeah two
32:32passes in about a half a lap good good rod into the moto shows that he's working hard fitness is getting
32:40there i mean it was trying in supercross we had some races where he was barely getting in through
32:46the last chance qualifier to get to the main and for the standards that he has set got about a dozen
32:51i think career 250 supercross wins started the year off last year with a win uh it was definitely
32:57not instantly back to the old level but persistence paying off yeah and just let's back up you know
33:04three four years ago when you're talking about you know the future of sport yeah it was this guy i mean
33:10i believe he had more um i wouldn't say hype than hayden deegan but more expectations coming in
33:17than hayden deegan we knew hayden would eventually be good but austin we knew he was good and amateur
33:21and then he came out that his rookie season winning those races before he got hurt so yeah it shows you
33:27how good austin forkner is but man some of the the injuries that he's had takes a lot for him to come
33:34back that's why i'm so impressed with him and and i love what i'm seeing jt i 100 agree with you james
33:39and let's not forget who he was significantly better than in that season when he hurt his knee the first
33:45time in nashville it would be the likes of chase sexton and justin cooper he was clearly better
33:51than those two before the first injury happened so it just shows you what potential is there now he's
33:55had a rough road since then but that's where he probably sees himself on some levels hey i was a lot
34:01better than those guys not that long ago so it's been a long road but it's nice to see some light at
34:06the end of the tunnel here for fortner yeah absolutely and as many uh injuries that he's had
34:12in the back of your mind you remember those days like man i was i was beating those guys but man
34:19it takes a lot for a guy to come back here and fight that's why again i love austin fortner what
34:24he's been doing and i wish him the best seems like he's in a perfect scenario right now we're looking
34:29at march spanks he's in a good scenario he's catching hamaker down the stretch yeah seth has
34:35picked up the page which is good for him and the way hayden went around and you would almost looked like he
34:40was a wounded duck but he picked it up going second faster than his teammate maybe garrett's going to
34:47just get that podium get that interview he wants except get him another podium for two laps to go
34:54lap and a half yeah g money garrett marchbanks riding well all year will finally be rewarded with an
35:01overall podium if he can hold on to the end doesn't need to make the pass on his teammate for it white flag
35:06now out joe shimota working on two out of three and as they say in the song two out of three ain't
35:12bad oh but it could have been three in a row it could have been the uh moto gods rewarded everyone
35:19with that amazing second moto from jeremy martin last weekend winning his walk-off race
35:25but that cost shimota the overall but wherever the stats say whether it's two or three no doubt this
35:31guy's riding really well nah he is and man some of the races that joe's won over his career and even
35:39this year have been some dominant races i go back to last time joe won the moto i don't think they've
35:44been close they've been like this you know when this guy's on the forum i mean he's got 10 15 20 seconds
35:51so they've really pulled away he really pulls away i wonder then when that rear brake went out
35:56he told honda like hey i would have won that race so i want my bonus check look you know we can work
36:02on that i'll take half of it you know it's funny i have heard some people talk about the riding style
36:07of joey he uses the rear brake a lot to his advantage uh but honda even admitted that lars lindstrom
36:14the team manager said that's on us he uses the rear brake a lot we've got to come up with a way
36:18to allow him to do that you got those huge hills there at millville that doesn't help but uh
36:25uh they obviously rectified it today yeah and hey i got one other thing joe's going to be the
36:32winner at the honda truck today the only winner rare moment put the big trophy in front of jet
36:38and hunter this time yeah rough day for the 450 boys i don't know what's going on with those guys
36:43struggling struggling lost three motos this year i don't know what's up with jeff but at least joe can
36:47pick the spirits up over there joe this is your team but you know losing that rear brake he would have
36:52been in a lot more trouble here if you lost it yep last weekend worked out nonetheless joe's been
36:58riding good all year long nice to be paid off okay explain that because everyone's going to say mount
37:02martin's crazy without a rear brake but it's just that well the conditions a little bit softer
37:07there but notice like here a lot slower at this race track there's a lot more stopping goes
37:13compared to where it was at millville so you had that long downhill and that he was losing a lot of
37:18time but otherwise track yeah the rest of track was pretty open well it's open for business right
37:24now and joe shimota heading on through he's going to go 2-1 and the rider out of suzuka japan
37:34joe shimota wins wash your goal with tom joe wasabi yeah put a little heat on it today
37:42a guitar solo they are really working on the celebrations at the finish these days i need to
37:48step my game up man they're coming out with new new moves over to honda yeah and there's deacon going
37:54to take second in the moto and second overall and seth hamaker a lot of tape a lot of grit will be third
38:03in the moto with the shoulder and knee bothering him but garrett marchbanks fourth of the moto will go
38:09three four for a third overall how about it man just goes about his business man just goes by his
38:18business said he needs to go faster without crashing and exactly what he did you might have the keys to
38:25the moto already for the next weekend huh joe that's he gives them to me all the time ride the same all
38:32the time too uh and you gotta wonder man he wins anaheim one had his fingers broken that was an
38:39incident that was not his fault actually hit a pit board which is crazy i've never heard of that
38:45happening have you no not um yeah not like that not a purpose i'm sorry not an accident yeah yeah not
38:52dad getting mad after a moto yeah i mean i've had some people slung at me yeah yeah yeah um but he never got it back
39:00in supercross and he said they changed the bike a lot to compensate for riding with the broken fingers
39:04he never got back to that level makes you wonder what might have been there too well he's drinking weird
39:12that worked
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