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00:00Segundo board, up for the first time this weekend.
00:02MX2 qualifying, 20 minutos plus 2 laps.
00:04Here we are, Lomelwood.
00:06Kaida Wolf, down the inside gate, hoping to get a good jump.
00:09Move across to his right, just to scupper the chances.
00:14And if he gets a good jump, Kaida Wolf, that's exactly what he's going to try and do.
00:18But again, the 22 who held him up in the qualifying race a week ago, David Braceras,
00:25also does a good job of keeping him there.
00:27But it's Koonen who leads the way.
00:28Adamo second, Braceras third with Beniston with a good start, fourth, and DeWolf over
00:34on this right-hand side.
00:36Fared, but look at Beniston, one side of the track to the other, a little bit loose there
00:39for the Frenchman.
00:40One of the triumphs in there as well, McClellan in six, Langefelder, Dunsen, Elzinger, and Lata.
00:45So the three main riders in the championship chase are exactly where we needed to be in
00:50the top ten.
00:51Yeah, and Sasha's shot out of a cannon there.
00:54You know, he's got so much intensity.
00:56He seems like all the time, but especially on this opening lap.
00:59And yeah, true to form, this is what he needed to do if he wants any shot.
01:02I would say, though, that this is a pretty good spot for you.
01:04If you look at Kai's jump, which was pretty poor, for him to come out inside the top five,
01:08it's pretty strong here.
01:09And this racetrack here is one of those where you kind of have to ride it.
01:12Yeah, we're in a race.
01:13We're in a qualified race.
01:14But you've also got, if you race it and race it too hard, it bites you in the back side.
01:18If you ride it with respect, then you have that flow.
01:22It makes the job a little bit easier, but easier said than done to ride like that in
01:26a race situation.
01:27Yeah, and I think this MX2 class is an interesting setup.
01:29If you look at the MXGP class, there are several riders that are true sand gurus.
01:34Like, they are the best in the world at riding sand.
01:37When I look at MX2, it doesn't really feel the same as that.
01:40It really feels like it's Kai and then everyone else as far as sand prowess.
01:43So I think he has a bigger advantage than maybe anyone else in the field in either class this
01:47weekend.
01:48The 19 of Sacha Kunin trying to make an early break for it here as Adamo in second.
01:54DeWolf now up into third.
01:55He's found his way past Thibaut Beniston.
01:58Moves into that third place on this opening lap.
02:00He also knows, DeWolf, no time to panic on this opening lap because he will believe
02:06he's, like Jeffrey was in MX2, the best sand rider in the world.
02:10Has all the credentials, all the skills, everything else to go with it that he can
02:13whittle down a gap no matter how big, you know, at ease.
02:17But again, he's got to stay out of trouble on this opening lap and just kind of read
02:24the track, feel the track.
02:25Slighting lap is one thing, but when you're in a race situation like this, being roosted
02:28and having to move left and right of the rider, they're maybe not the same lines that you
02:32did take on that sighting lap.
02:34Yeah, and I think he would be extremely comfortable in this situation.
02:38End of lap one as we're going across.
02:40You can see Sacha up the track a little bit, but as you mentioned, you'll see a big mistake
02:45from him there.
02:45On this track, you can make up time much more quickly than I would dare say any other track
02:50on the planet.
02:50So it gives him opportunity regardless of where he is on the racetrack to catch up.
02:54Yeah, we talked about it on the studio show earlier today, didn't we, and another mistake
02:57there.
02:58So one thing that Kai DeWolf does need to do, though, if he's going to start getting serious
03:02about this championship, remember, 59 points down with six rounds to go, he needs to start
03:07doing what he did in Finland.
03:08Go Mr. Perfect and take the full 60 points, 10 from the qualifying race and the 225s from
03:14race day on Sunday if he is to have a very, very realistic chance of doing that.
03:18Yeah, I cannot picture a scenario where he is your champion without a 55-point weekend
03:23here and at Arnhem.
03:25I just cannot fathom away, barring injury, that that gets done.
03:29Andrea Adamo, sand not normally his forte, but as we've seen, he battles when he needs
03:37to.
03:38Finland was a big result for him getting on the podium.
03:40Yeah, I would say this season has been the most impressive yet for Adamo.
03:47Yes, he was world champion a couple of years ago, but it just didn't feel like he had dominating
03:51weekends that year.
03:52He just did the right thing, avoided the critical mistake.
03:55This year, I've seen rides from him where I felt like he was the best rider in the race.
03:59So champion or not, I think he's taken a really big step forward in 2025.
04:03Yeah.
04:03Of course, he's got his place down the road here where he moved everything from Italy to
04:07Belgium to train with Joel Smits and the rest of the team there, of course.
04:10So doing miles and miles and miles through the winter, grueling.
04:15Nobody likes to do it, but you have to do it because you know there's going to be a Grand
04:18Prix here.
04:19And if you get this Grand Prix right, it sets you up for Arnhem, sets you up for Latvia,
04:23other sand races on the calendar.
04:25And he's doing a good job of keeping DeWolf at bay.
04:28And the message from the mechanic down there is calm and keep your flow, basically, because
04:32you know that you can lose your head when you don't need to.
04:35Make the mistake, you can go from third to 13 in the blink of an eye.
04:38Yeah.
04:39And to your point about riding here, I would say, and I would ask you, has there been any
04:43champion in the past decade or two outside of Tim Geiser that hasn't either posted up
04:49here or at Raiola throughout the winter to hone their sand skills and create some sort
04:54of, you know, if they had a vulnerability, try to shore that up and try not to lose so many
04:59points at these races.
04:59No, and this is one thing that a lot of people say.
05:02We talk about how this weekend will favor the sand flies, you know, those with the good
05:07technique.
05:08Everybody can ride sand now because a lot of people know how important this racetrack is.
05:13It's just that.
05:14Some people ride it a lot better than others, are more comfortable in these kind of conditions
05:19and others, whether you're riding Lommel or Gravebroich down the road or just over the
05:23border somewhere else in Holland or, you know, like you said, camping out at Rio Lasado
05:27in Sardinia.
05:29These guys are learning how to adjust to these kind of conditions.
05:33But Kai DeWolf, I'm surprised that he's still there after two and a half laps, still there
05:38behind the Italian, Andrea Adamo.
05:40So it goes to show what Adamo, what a good job he's doing in this polyrace.
05:43Yeah, Andrea is protecting inside really well, and every time Kai's gotten to him, he'll
05:47make a small mistake, which is kind of setting him back.
05:50But again, 15 minutes plus.
05:53What you are watching, though, is also Sasha putting in the best lap times of the race.
05:57So what could happen to Kai here is he could get into second, look up and see no one.
06:01Clear racetrack, but way too far back.
06:03So I think as much as I said he's comfortable in the first lap, the urgency needs to come up
06:08a little bit.
06:08If you're unfamiliar with the qualifying process, of course, in these qualifying races on Saturday,
06:13it's the grid position that, the position where you finish determines the grid position for
06:18the races on Sunday, but there are also World Championship points on offer.
06:22Ten for the win, down in single points to ten place where you get one point.
06:26And so in terms of Kai DeWolf, who needs to make up points on Adamo, who's second to him
06:31in the, ahead of him in the championship by 12 points, and Simon Langerfelder is only a
06:36couple of positions behind him in the race.
06:37It's 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
06:39Adamo looking at nine points here.
06:41There's going to be a gain of one point by Adamo over DeWolf, so that's going to go
06:45out to 13 if things stay as they are.
06:47But both riders will gain on Simon Langerfelder, who's looking at five points for his sixth place
06:52in the race at the moment.
06:53So, again, when you're thinking of the World Championship, and especially for Kai DeWolf,
06:59the defending champion, looks to get a good run on the Italian here.
07:02Can he launch his way up?
07:03I think he'll just find his way through now, but it took him three laps in order to do that.
07:08He's now got a clear track ahead of him.
07:11It'd be interesting to see how he responds, and can he do anything about Sasha Coonan?
07:15Because Sasha Coonan, 2.06 last time around, DeWolf, 2.08.
07:21Two seconds a lap.
07:22It'd be interesting to see if he can pull that back and maybe even challenge.
07:25Does he have to?
07:26No.
07:26Would he need to?
07:27In terms of his own psyche ahead of tomorrow?
07:29Probably.
07:30Yeah, and it's not a lot of fun when you get into this position for Kai,
07:33and you look up the racetrack, and you can't even see Sasha.
07:36He knows he's out there.
07:37He's going to get a message from the pit board.
07:38He'll be able to look around a little bit across the racetrack,
07:40but I think he was hoping by the time he got on the second that he would be directly in his line of sight.
07:45So we saw Sasha make a pretty big mistake there just now,
07:49so I think that gap is going to come down quite a bit, but still some work to do.
07:53Here's Adamo.
07:54And Camden McClellan and Thiebaud Menestant.
08:01So McClellan finding his way past the Frenchman on the number nine.
08:04He moves up into fourth place.
08:09Been a big mistake from Sasha Coonan.
08:11All of a sudden the gap's going to come down.
08:123.4 seconds.
08:14So Sasha Coonan in sector two.
08:17So over on the far side of the circuit, did he run off track?
08:20Because it doesn't look like he's being down, but...
08:24Sasha Coonan in the trees.
08:26Oh, yeah, just there, look, coming out of turn seven.
08:28On the face of that jump.
08:30Obviously caught a big hole or something like that that's unseated him.
08:33That is going to be a gift for DeWolf because two things now.
08:36He's going to A, have sight, and you've got Coonan who needs to try and breathe and regroup.
08:41Yeah, and the race completely changes now.
08:43You can hear the crowd.
08:44And all that adds to a little bit more pressure.
08:47And for what was a nine-second lead for Sasha, now he's got a dogfight to the end.
08:52And for Kai, this was a godsend.
08:54You know, he can settle down now because before I think he was going to have to go into full sprint mode.
08:58Now he can settle in and try to set out after Sasha with plenty of time to work with.
09:02But putting himself under unnecessary pressure.
09:05But how much of that is a case of, you know, trying to win this race big rather than just trying to win the race, you know.
09:10Because he set fastest lap after fastest lap on the first two laps.
09:13And then all of a sudden, you go and throw away a ten-second advantage.
09:16You pick yourself up with a three-second advantage.
09:18Lose a couple more because you've got to try and regroup and breathe.
09:21But to someone like Kaido Wolf, who's now just stalking his prey, that's a perfect opportunity for him just to go and do what he expects himself to do and go away with a potential race win.
09:34Honestly, I don't know that Sasha has any other gear.
09:38But as fast as he could possibly go at all times.
09:40So watching him practice throughout the week, I think it's always the same.
09:44Seymour Lengenfelder, Danny Insider, Thibaut Beniston.
09:46The Frenchman struggling this weekend.
09:47The German there, the championship leader, just picking his way through.
09:50Now finds himself in that fifth place.
09:53A confident ride, this from Lengenfelder.
09:56Not flustered by what's going on around him.
09:58Yeah, last weekend was a big moment for Simon in this championship because it took some of the pressure off of this weekend.
10:05It'll take a little bit of the pressure off when we go to Arnhem where he doesn't feel like he has to go out and land every single time.
10:10Of course, he wants to minimize the damage.
10:12If he can steal some points back, all the better.
10:14But, you know, going in, he knows Adamo's not going to be on his best footing this weekend.
10:19He'll be fine.
10:20Kai was the problem.
10:22And going back to 59 points, we didn't check, changed the game a little bit.
10:25It's been a good response to this since Sachikuna picked himself up because he went down to about sort of 1.8 seconds.
10:32Now down to 2.2.
10:33Yes, he's having to fight the bike because he's shorter frame, not as advantageous as Kai DeWolf.
10:39But just in that last section alone, you see how Kai DeWolf is able to whittle that gap back down to less than a second.
10:44So a lot going on here between the two riding styles, the way they attack the racetrack.
10:48Like you said, Sachikuna only knows one gear.
10:51It's either on or off.
10:52Yeah.
10:52Full gas or nothing.
10:53Right.
10:54I don't think it matters if he has a 30-second lead or a 3-second lead.
10:57He attacks the same way.
10:58And it can be your best friend as far as, like, pushing.
11:01But it can also work against you if you don't understand the dynamic and, hey, when to push, when to knock.
11:06So, yeah, I think it's just you kind of live by the sword, die by the sword for Kuna.
11:10And Adamo only, like, still within touching distance, 3.8 seconds off the lead.
11:14Only a couple seconds of drift to DeWolf.
11:17And Adamo getting, sorry, Langenfelder moving past Callum.
11:23If Simon could get up there and pass Adama, that would be a big move.
11:26I don't expect him to get up there and pass DeWolf.
11:29But if he could add a point to the lead over Andrea, that's a big moment.
11:34Yeah, Cameron McKellen getting past there by Langenfelder.
11:36So, again, you've got this interesting battle here where Sacha Kunin is not in the championship fight, but Kai DeWolf is.
11:42Watch this here.
11:43Langenfelder getting the better of Camden McClellan.
11:49Good pass, that.
11:50Yep.
11:52Excited one.
11:54Yeah, you know, it's interesting, though, what Langenfelder's changed this year, training in Germany.
11:57He's not in the sands of Llamo every single day.
12:00So I kind of wondered how that would play out.
12:02Oh, big jump there.
12:03Oh, skies it.
12:04Look at that.
12:04Camden knew that it was there.
12:06And then closed immediately to stop the attack coming in the next turn.
12:09Yeah, that was well executed by Simon there.
12:11But I just wondered how would this weekend look with him not doing the traditional route of spending every day here.
12:17But so far, it looks like he's pretty comfortable.
12:19Yeah.
12:19These two aren't breaking away from Adamo.
12:22That's only going to boost the confidence of the number 80 Italian because he's just sitting there in third place.
12:27He's got Langenfelder closing in about 1.7.
12:29You know what?
12:30This will be interesting, won't it?
12:31If Langenfelder as Kooner off the side of the track.
12:35That's a tough one because he had to go all the way around the outside.
12:38Yeah, it's going to re-emerge in third place, isn't it, I think, because, oh, second.
12:41There you go.
12:42So, uh, your race leader then jumps off the side of the track.
12:45Hatton's an easy pass to Kynowulf.
12:49And Sasha Kooner now in second.
12:52Yeah, just watching.
12:52It's so interesting to watch Sasha practice this weekend and then watch his brother, Lucas, side by side.
12:58You know, the same DNA.
13:00You'd think they'd go about things the same way.
13:02and they could not be any more different as we're going to see Sasha's big mistake here.
13:05Oh, how did he save that?
13:09Tell you what, he's got good upper body strength there, hasn't he?
13:12Re-emerges back here in second, but he was off the bike.
13:15It was a double knack-knack.
13:16I have no idea how he saved that.
13:20A double knack-knack, a drag back.
13:21He had to drag himself back on the bike, literally.
13:23Yeah, he probably needs a change of shorts as well.
13:26But, yeah, I mean, this is what we've seen from him always.
13:29He's always on the edge.
13:30He's always pushing.
13:31There's never a question of effort and kind of what I was talking about, the difference.
13:36His brother was calm, really, you know, methodical, kind of working out the track.
13:40Really no urgency in his riding.
13:42And then Sasha was just full noise, all gas, no brakes, every single lap, every time he was out there.
13:48I don't know which is better.
13:49You know, it's obviously just the way they want to go about things.
13:52But you could not be any more different in the opposite ends of the spectrum.
13:56And obviously, when you look at Kyda Wolf, he's just put himself in these positions.
14:00He made that pass early to get into third, then second, obviously.
14:03And then he's taken over the lead, all at the expense of two mistakes.
14:06One there in that corner in the background from Koonan when he had a ten-second lead, down to three.
14:10And then again, Koonan jumping off the side of the track.
14:13And DeWolf is probably going to say at the end of the race, you know what, it doesn't matter whether you win by a second or by a week.
14:19I'm here to, you know, just win the race with as little effort as possible, you know, to go big tomorrow probably.
14:26Langerfelder under pressure again from Camden McClellan.
14:29These two continue their fight over fourth place.
14:31McClellan looking like he's coming good on this Monster Energy Drive in the second half of this race.
14:36Five and a half minutes-ish to go, plus two laps.
14:39Chasing the high line around there, though, maybe a bit too high.
14:42Right, so DeWolf leads, Koonan second, just under two seconds that gap.
14:53And then Adamo's third, Langerfelder fourth, McClellan there, number eight.
14:56He's in fifth place.
14:57He won Thibaut Beniston sixth.
14:58Lalland just putting his best lap in last time around.
15:01He's in seventh, ahead of Rachelis, Rosaris and Volk.
15:03Good effort from Rosaris, workshop just the other side of those trees there.
15:06So he's probably done more laps than he wants to around here, but Jackie Martins won't have it any other way
15:12as the front end looked like it took there on McClellan's triumph.
15:16Saved it, though.
15:20Yeah, I feel like it's virtually impossible to not have several moments, several every lap.
15:25You know, you've got to push.
15:28You're also trying not to crash.
15:29You see Simon starting to add some pressure there.
15:31But the track, the way it is, we've had a lot of rain over the last couple of days.
15:34It is treacherous, and I don't think you can really trust the racetrack at any moment.
15:40Yeah, it's weird because this racetrack is deep anyway, but, like, whether you water it or whether it rains,
15:46oh, Rachelis smoking like a chimney here.
15:49Looks like he's got some damage from the radiator hose.
15:53He'll know that as well, so he'll be mindful of a little bit of heat around the leg there,
15:56and he'll look down and hopefully see sense.
15:58But Rachelis currently in eighth place may not make the race end.
16:02But, yeah, the rain, I prefer it when it rains because the whole track then gets watered
16:07rather than just, you know, one person with a hose just flood in one corner over one straight or whatever.
16:13It's more consistent.
16:14But water makes this place even more heavy, and that's even more energy sapping and grueling,
16:21not just on the rider but on the motorcycle.
16:24And I'll tell you what, it'll be well to finish this because, obviously, this is a cape pick.
16:28You don't want to be all the way up on the right-hand side, but either way,
16:30it's going to give the mechanics a bit of a headache tonight.
16:32Yeah, I was trying to explain to one of my co-workers that doesn't race,
16:37it's C. McClellan, Megan, this pass made, what it's like to race here.
16:40And you think about if you're just riding a motorcycle down freeway or highway, right,
16:45you don't really have to hold on to the bar so much, just light inputs here and there.
16:48A track like this, if you let the handlebars go at any time, anywhere, at any point, all day long,
16:54you're going to do a front flip.
16:55The front tire's going to dig in, it's going to tuck, and you're going to go right over the handlebars,
16:58which adds so much more effort to the race.
17:01Well, as these two continue to fight over that fourth place, let's take another look at the start.
17:07DeWolf over on the right-hand side, you've got Braceres there just closing him off.
17:10Lata is there as well, tucked on the inside, number 18, but it was Sacha Kunin who came away with a hole shot.
17:15Adamo was there in second.
17:17Braceres there third, but he just ran wide.
17:19That opened the door for the nine of Thibaut Menestan.
17:23Oh, you're going to hear there's been a roar over on the far side of the circuit
17:26while we're playing this replay.
17:28Not sure what's happened there, but it's Kunin again off the side of the track,
17:34being down on that left side.
17:35Is that the wall jump towards the pit lane?
17:37It is, look.
17:41This is it.
17:45Oh, folds the front and goes down hard.
17:47Yeah, he got lucky clearing the top of that wall.
17:50Back end looked like it chewed him up as well, the rear wheel, briefly.
17:53So, Kunin, then out a second.
17:58Again, race the track, ride the track.
18:00Race it at your peril and your own risk, if you like,
18:02because when you start just to ride over yourself,
18:05I'm not saying that he did, he just got unlucky with a connection on the bump,
18:08but he looks like the one that's fighting the most,
18:11the most angry and the most energy on the bike, if you know what I mean.
18:14Well, I hate to say this because he's incredibly proficient, you know,
18:19but it doesn't look like this race track comes easily for him.
18:22He's able to go fast, and that felt inevitable for a race list there.
18:27It doesn't seem like it comes easy for him.
18:29Like, you can watch truly talented sand riders,
18:32and they're kind of working with the track,
18:33so you can make another mistake.
18:34Like, he's able to go fast,
18:36but it looks like he has to fight his way around it.
18:39It just doesn't seem to come easy,
18:41and even being Belgian, you would think it would come a lot easier.
18:43It just doesn't for him,
18:44and we'll watch his brother here in a little while.
18:46It just seems like it comes more naturally to Lucas than Sasha.
18:50You can't knock his effort, though, can you?
18:51No.
18:51He wears his heart on his sleeve,
18:52puts absolutely, like I say, all or nothing,
18:55but he's frustrated at the minute because he's had a couple of moments.
18:58One that he saved, the second one didn't save,
19:01and it's cost him a few positions from second down to sixth.
19:05All that's done is promoted.
19:06Adamo to second, McClellan to third, Langerfelder to fourth,
19:09which is where he was anyway,
19:11but McClellan now moving into that third place,
19:14and with, you know, Kuna going out of second.
19:17So, yeah, it's going to be an okay result
19:20for Langerfelder, your championship leader.
19:22I have a feeling what we saw today,
19:24we'll see a lot of tomorrow.
19:25I think Kyle go inside gate again
19:26because it adds a little bit of an insurance policy.
19:28If he doesn't get a good jump, he can sneak around the inside,
19:30and I think you'll see him methodically move forward again tomorrow
19:34because, like, I can't imagine his starts
19:36are going to magically improve from what we've seen into tomorrow.
19:40I think he's been very conservative, Kyle Dwarf.
19:43I think he's saving his best until tomorrow.
19:44That's how it looks at the moment.
19:46That's what I hope, anyway, in that respect.
19:48Just get through today.
19:50You know, go and win the race if you can.
19:51Great.
19:52But, you know, surprise everybody tomorrow with pace.
19:55He really hasn't had to do anything, you know,
19:58as far as, like, special.
19:59Like, of course, he is a special rider.
20:00That's where he's a world champion.
20:01But he hasn't had to put in any outsized effort,
20:05make any sort of dramatic passes.
20:06He took his time with Andrea.
20:09I think he knew that Sasha's mistake was maybe coming,
20:12maybe not two crashes, but mistakes were there.
20:15Yeah, more like the first one, you know,
20:17where he went off track that allowed him to go through, you know.
20:19And he's just been here and done this before.
20:22I think he understands at this track in particular
20:24that he is in charge of the race.
20:27But look at the leverage that he has, you know,
20:28sort of the ankle to the knee, knee to the backside,
20:31and how high he can be above the back of the motorcycle,
20:34how he can work that machine, you know, more methodically
20:37compared to just this little, you know, pocket,
20:41this ball of explosive energy that is Sasha Koonan.
20:44And that is the difference, a short rider and a tall rider,
20:46much more elegant in the sand from someone like Kai DeWolf.
20:49If you watch where they're up, you know,
20:51Kai's upper body and head pretty much stay constant.
20:53He's always in the same position
20:55because the bike isn't pushing him out of position.
20:57Where Sasha, there's so much movement
21:00because the bike is continually hitting him in the rear
21:03and pushing him forward, pushing him out of position.
21:05Yeah, like all moving parts.
21:06Yeah, and that changes everything on the geometry
21:08and how much pressure is on the front
21:10and how the bike responds, kind of a chain reaction.
21:14McClellan put his best lap in a lap ago, 207.7.
21:17He's still three and a half seconds off of Adamo.
21:22Down his way past Langenfelder here
21:24when we were watching other stuff.
21:26Down inside through turn seven.
21:29Good drive and then jumping along,
21:30just getting some distance.
21:31That momentum is important as well.
21:33Getting the other side of braking bumps,
21:35landing bumps, if you like.
21:36Yeah, Berm kind of gave way for Simon
21:38on the outside there as well.
21:41You know, they changed this track a bit.
21:43You know, we've gone different directions to and fro,
21:45but actually some of the obstacles have changed too.
21:49Just, you know, watching it over the years,
21:51it's not always the same racetrack as yesterday.
21:53Yeah, I think they made the change
21:55for the first time since 2023 this year
21:57where that infield section,
21:59we'll talk about that in a moment,
22:00but two to go for Kaida Wolf.
22:02So, kind of, when you work your way back round
22:05towards that pond in the middle there,
22:08you go through the waves.
22:10So, where Sacha Kunin went off,
22:12go right through those waves,
22:13that left used to continue through 180
22:15down towards the pond,
22:17and then it worked its way differently
22:19around the pond on the way back
22:20before you got to pit lane.
22:21Now, it's kind of like a end of the waves 90 left,
22:25so they're using the middle there differently
22:26just to the right of the start line area,
22:28and then it's like a more flowy part of that racetrack,
22:32but that one, you know, that right-hand turn,
22:35that long sweeping turn
22:36before you get to the wall jump by pit lane
22:38just seems to go on forever,
22:39and there's no rest there either
22:40because you're going through the turn,
22:42it's getting deeper,
22:43more and more bumps,
22:44bigger, longer,
22:46more frustrating
22:46because you want to go fast,
22:47but you push too hard,
22:48you're going to ride yourself out of the line
22:50into the next line,
22:51then you've got to correct,
22:52and it's just a whole world of pain
22:54just on its own one part of the racetrack.
22:56It seems like they've slowed it down
22:57a little bit, too.
22:58That back straightaway was so incredibly fast,
23:01especially going the other direction,
23:02and some of that is how heavy the dirt is.
23:04Like, it's going to be slower
23:05just because of how heavy it is,
23:07but I think it's a slower llama
23:09than I've seen that in some years anyway.
23:11Those waves on the run-up
23:12towards the Monster Energy jump there,
23:14that was flat this morning.
23:16So they've come out of that left,
23:17and they've now got four or five waves
23:18on the run-up.
23:19So this is where the track has changed.
23:21We continue to go left
23:22around the back of Acherbis here,
23:23down towards the crowd,
23:25but now you go straight, right, left,
23:29and then rejoin further around the corner.
23:31Adamo and McClellan
23:32fighting over second place here.
23:34Is there a way through for the South African?
23:36He's had two fourth-place finishes so far
23:38that have been his best
23:39in the quali race since round three
23:41in Saint-Jean-d'Angeli
23:43and round five at Trentino.
23:46He's had a couple of rounds
23:47in and around top ten or beyond,
23:49so he'll look to rectify that this weekend.
23:51We know, again,
23:51he's a better sand rider
23:52than a hard-pack rider.
23:54Rides very well on the hard-pack,
23:55but these conditions
23:56probably made for him
23:59to try and get a podium again this weekend,
24:00but he also knows
24:02the confidence is going to be high
24:03if he finds his way past Adamo,
24:05but these two fighting over second,
24:08Kai DeWolf cruising on his own.
24:10Doesn't look like he's fighting at all
24:11with one lap to go.
24:12Yeah, and he knows
24:14to save some energy here.
24:15You don't really see him
24:15taking any unnecessary risks
24:18or really pushing,
24:20and it's crazy to think
24:22that they have to kind of save energy,
24:23and I don't know
24:23that it's a necessarily have to.
24:25You just want to if you can type thing.
24:27You'd rather have it in reserve than not.
24:29You don't want to spend everything today.
24:31Well, you just don't know
24:31what can happen tomorrow.
24:32Kai goes down in the first corner.
24:33You want to have that energy in store.
24:37Sasha Kunin out of six.
24:38Pushing too hard.
24:43Final corner.
24:44I would argue
24:45that the first crash
24:47led to the other two.
24:49Just folds the front.
24:51Just a loss of concentration there
24:53more than anything else.
24:54That first crash
24:55changed the entire race for him.
24:56You know, if he doesn't crash the first time,
24:58even if Kai catches him,
25:00he's fine.
25:00The first one caused
25:02so, like, a panic.
25:03It just changes
25:04your entire mental state,
25:06how you're attacking the racetrack.
25:07You go into this panic mode
25:08of trying to make up
25:10for lost time,
25:11and that starts to snowball
25:12in the wrong direction.
25:13Adamo,
25:13if he can bring it home in second,
25:14that's going to be as good a,
25:16you know,
25:16feel like a win to him,
25:17especially around here.
25:20I had his good times around here,
25:21that's for sure.
25:22when Iago hits,
25:24lapped him in,
25:25I think it was race two one year.
25:29That was the year
25:29he won the championship.
25:33Akamda McClelland
25:34going to continue to push on.
25:36That just looks horrible,
25:37doesn't it?
25:37Yeah.
25:38Well, I remember,
25:39I remember Blake Baggett
25:40being the national champion
25:41in America
25:42and coming here
25:42and getting lapped
25:43at Motocross Nations.
25:44That's just what,
25:45that's what Lomo can do to you.
25:46Yeah.
25:47Quick pull of the tear off there.
25:48Back marker where he doesn't need him.
25:51At number 80.
25:52So,
25:52Ollie Colmer
25:52did ride Arnhem last year
25:56as an MX2 wild card,
25:57but fancied his chances here
25:59this weekend,
25:59but he's just trying to hold
26:00a race line there.
26:01And,
26:02Koonan down again.
26:04I'll tell you what,
26:05he's going to have a good old word
26:06with himself.
26:06It's in the end.
26:08Yeah,
26:09that's after Liquid Molly
26:09going left,
26:10before you go left,
26:11right,
26:12where he went off the track.
26:14Anyway,
26:14Kyder Wolff
26:14has kept himself
26:15cool,
26:16calm,
26:16under pressure.
26:19Six-second lead,
26:20just doing everything right.
26:22And Kyder Wolff
26:23wins the qualifying race
26:25here in Lommel.
26:28His third
26:28quali win
26:29of the season.
26:32Adamo hangs on for second,
26:34McClellan third.
26:36And for Camden McClellan,
26:39his best
26:40qualifying position
26:41of the season.
26:43After finishing
26:44twice fourth,
26:45and Andrea Adamo,
26:47likewise for him,
26:48second on his worst surface,
26:51the deep,
26:51deep sand of Lommel.
26:53A lot of positives
26:54for those top three
26:55to take away.
26:55Kyder Wolff,
26:56knowing that he's probably
26:57got the measure of everybody
26:58here this weekend
26:59and doesn't have to do a lot
27:00to sort of make it happen,
27:01just stay out of trouble.
27:02Adamo,
27:03great shot in the arm for him.
27:05Camden McClellan will believe
27:06that he can win,
27:07certainly finish on the podium
27:08here this weekend.
27:10Your early race winner,
27:11Sascha Kunin,
27:12made it harder
27:13than it needed to be.
27:14He fell from six,
27:16picked himself up in six
27:17a lap ago,
27:17but then when he fell again,
27:20he crossed the line
27:20in seventh place.
27:22So,
27:23four crashes in seventh.
27:25Honestly,
27:25it could be so much worse.
27:27He's not going to be happy
27:28with himself,
27:28but I'm very surprised
27:31he was still seventh.
27:31not ideal.
27:35Lotta Van Drunen there
27:36wildcarding this weekend.
27:3726th place for her.
27:41The WMX
27:41World Championship leader
27:43on the right-hand side.
27:47But it's Kyder Wolff
27:48from Adamo,
27:48McClellan,
27:49Langenfelder,
27:49Beniston,
27:50Vellant up to six
27:51on the final lap
27:51at the expense
27:52of Sascha Kunin.
27:53Elzinger across the line
27:54in eighth,
27:54Braceres nine
27:55against Wolvoort,
27:56ten.
27:57We've got Volk,
27:57Fredzo,
27:58Breutman,
27:58Mesters,
27:59Mata,
28:00Smolders,
28:00Skogberg,
28:01Liam Owens,
28:02Emile Debert
28:03and Mikulis
28:05of Latvia
28:06in the number 220.
28:07Martin Mikulis.
28:08Just looking at
28:09the lap times there,
28:10Sascha's best lap
28:11was five full seconds
28:12better than Bohan.
28:14It's incredible.
28:14Crazy.
28:15Anyway,
28:15let's go down to Lisa.
28:16She is with our
28:17qualifying race winner,
28:19Kyder Wolff.
28:20Three pole positions
28:21now for the season.
28:24Kyder Wolff,
28:25great job out there.
28:26You're right where
28:26you need it to be
28:27when Sascha made
28:28right where you need it
28:29to be when Sascha
28:29made his mistake.
28:30But how were you
28:31feeling?
28:31Because you did
28:32make it look easy
28:33again.
28:34Yeah,
28:34I was struggling
28:34actually a little bit
28:35so yeah,
28:37they can expect
28:37more from me.
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