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00:00The Netherlands riders, but this is a track very different than Redbud in the rain and the soft.
00:05This is a hard-packed racetrack, and it's only going to get harder from here.
00:08Eli Totemac ironed up the start straight, thinking, well, it's going to go one of two ways.
00:11It's either going to go TU, or it's going to come off a treat.
00:16So he's going to hope to sweep across.
00:18But when you look now, he's going to be having riders to his inside, like Finland, Honduras, Ukraine, Austria.
00:23There's going to be guys there that aren't going to get the drop as the fly race in 15-second board goes up.
00:27It's going to allow him to maybe just sweep across.
00:30But Ruben Fernandez is not going to make it easy for him, that's for sure.
00:34Right, 20 minutes plus two here in the first qualifying race of the weekend.
00:38Not a good jump for Eli Totemac, but up the inside, Jet Lawrence and Klen Koltenov as they rip around that first turn.
00:45Oh, Kenny Roxton off the back of the bike.
00:47Was it Kenny? No, it's not. He's there in third.
00:50Yeah, I see Jet get the jump. I was worried about that.
00:52Fernandez immediately moved over on Totemac, making his life much more difficult.
00:55And Roxton trying to force his way to the lead, but Jet Lawrence just stood his ground, stood firm.
01:01Hard and slick and stony under the trees.
01:04Yeah, it's getting really slippery, and Jet has really shown a propensity to remain super patient in the early laps.
01:10The exact opposite is typically true for Roxton, so I would expect Roxton to attack Jet early.
01:15This corner, more off-cambered going into that right-hander than it looks on TV.
01:18Look how slick it is coming out of here as it starts to dry out, but Jet Lawrence double, double on the run-up to what used to be Godzilla.
01:25Which is now just a triple step into a 180 cutback at Gifting, trying to go after Fevra here.
01:33And Koldenhoff in that third place behind Jorgen Matthias Talvikou.
01:36Flying start for the rider from Finland.
01:38So Talvikou on the 55.
01:48Estonia, sorry.
01:50Stepping up into 13.
01:53Talvikou, Fevra at the 7 of Koldenhoff.
01:55Geiser just a couple of positions further back behind the blue and gold of Isaac Gifting.
02:00So, frantic action here for the Grand Prix regulars.
02:04But it's Lawrence who leads the way from Roxton by just over a second.
02:09All right, you see, Fernandez is up to ninth.
02:10That's really where Tomac would have liked to have been, coming around in the top ten on that first lap.
02:14I knew it was going to be a battle for position right out of the gate there.
02:17He's in 21st, so a lot of work to be done here.
02:20But the good news is, it's a 20-minute plus two-lap race, 25 minutes.
02:23And obviously, not everybody is world-class in this field.
02:26Yes, they're a good 9 or 10 quality riders in MXGP as Geiser slips up the inside of Roman Fevra at the end of that opening lap
02:34and moves up immediately into fourth place.
02:37So, Geiser not hanging around either.
02:42But Eli Tomac with a lot of work today to do, as you say, now in 19th place.
02:45How about this ride from Talvikou?
02:47He has raced here before in the 250 class or MX2 for our European friends.
02:52But nothing like this, not a performance where he's running inside the top five at any point.
02:56So, he was showing up for his team right now.
02:59On the drone here, Kenny Rockson dogging Jet Lorrex at the moment as they head uphill.
03:04So, the Australian leading the German.
03:07Just gives you an indication as to how close those trees feel in real time
03:11as they sweep through this part of the racetrack through seven, drop it into eight.
03:15Again, a little bit off-camber as they tip in there.
03:17Then you've got these hard and predictable ruts and the shadowing of the trees as well.
03:22You don't really see a clean line at that part of the racetrack, Jason.
03:25It's really difficult back there.
03:26Now, I've done several reports during our pro motocross races from that exact section
03:30because it is so difficult to see.
03:32You added rocks, bumps, ruts.
03:34It's almost more of feeling your way around the track than it is seeing it.
03:38The top two pulling away.
03:39They've got here, turn 12, at the top of the hill, turn 11.
03:41That's Geiser, Talvikou.
03:43Geiser now up in the third place.
03:47Good right start, this, for Kenny Rockson.
03:53Keeping Jet Lawrence in his line of sight.
03:55Yeah, and Kenny is so good early laps.
03:58He's so explosive.
04:00And I think most of these riders have understood, to really race Kenny,
04:03you have to withstand the barrage in the early laps.
04:06If you can do that, you get a few laps in, Kenny calms down a little bit and settles in.
04:10And I think that Jet has really kind of taken that to heart here.
04:12Great part of the racetrack here.
04:14Jet is tripling through the turn into those and tripling out at the end of that sand section.
04:21Didn't quite get that there.
04:22Maybe we can follow Jet Lawrence through there next time around just to give us an indication at home
04:26of exactly how he's getting through there.
04:29Doubling over the finish line.
04:31Not too many riders taking the opportunity on that this weekend so far.
04:35Yeah, it's a hard landing.
04:36We've seen riders, and honestly, they're more doing it today than typically at a pro motocross race.
04:41So the dirt is a little harder right now than we've seen at pro motocross races.
04:46I would say that's also because it's 2.30 in the afternoon versus, you know, an earlier morning type race.
04:52So we'll see if that continues.
04:54But it is a hard landing.
04:55And you wonder if they can continue to do that as they get tired.
04:58Roman Fevra up to 4th, Fernandes up to 5th, gifting down to 6th, Koldenov 7th, Talvico is down to 8th place.
05:04So Fevra, Fernandes.
05:07So Fernandes from Spain, obviously occupying the captain's role.
05:13No Jorge Prado this weekend, of course.
05:15But still a solid team that Spain can put out with Ruben Fernandes there, Guilherme Ferez, and Francesco from the EMX2 category.
05:31Garcia, of course.
05:32There's the 61 of gifting.
05:34He's in 6th place at the moment.
05:37That's an awkward section coming out of that corner, isn't it?
05:39Because it looks like you can double in or go out and single and double.
05:44Almost through the barrier there.
05:45It's really ruddy on the takeoff on the inside.
05:47So it is much quicker.
05:48But just it's so deteriorated on the inside that you really can't drive through it.
05:53Fevra, thinking about booking up his ideas.
05:56Because as he launches up over the top of the hill, he's almost lost him.
06:00Guys are ahead of him.
06:01But we know that this is just about qualifying today.
06:03Two good scores.
06:04And for the scoring system, all weekend long, whether it's a qualifying race or the main race on Sunday,
06:10it's one point for the win, two for second, three for third.
06:13And that would be the same in the MX2 qualifying race, in the open race.
06:16And obviously the lowest score, the best score to go through automatically is going to be two points.
06:22So let's say Lawrence leading the way.
06:24If they go and get another one in any of the next two races, that's the absolute lowest score.
06:30Well, they will qualify on pole position for the race on Sunday.
06:35Yeah, and again, I kind of let off before the race on the top of the show, speaking about this.
06:40This start, it's not as critically important.
06:42You look at races like Red Bud, Bud's Creek, other MXGP rounds that have hosted Motocross of Nations.
06:47The inside dominates the starting position.
06:50This one's not so much.
06:51You want to kind of be more in the middle.
06:52So it's good news for Team USA.
06:54If they could qualify somewhere in the top seven or eight, I don't see a big advantage versus being, say, third versus sixth.
07:01It won't really matter.
07:02It won't really matter.
07:32It won't really matter.
19:32of course we've talked so much about ken rocks and the number 16 maintaining that second place
19:36position i think this team is counted out a lot but i do think that they legitimately have
19:43so that's got a little bit of help there yeah and that's you know late race pace you can make
19:47up several seconds in one lap but i'll tell you what if if kunan can get up front early
19:53tomorrow i don't know if he can beat yet that's the question we've been
19:56how to manage a race there's no question about it and when you put that experience
20:05to good use of dmx three laps ago and jet lawrence's lap on lap three was a 159.8 so uh in that respect
20:14when you uh think about uh kunan's pace versus jet lawrence's pace maybe there is another couple of
20:21seconds there of course everybody comes in here thinking yeah we can beat him and whatever else
20:24but the sort of it's like instagram versus reality isn't it you know yeah i i don't say this about
20:31many riders but i think we're watching one of the best that's ever done it and that that is
20:36for me high praise uh and he's 22 years old yeah we're we're nowhere near i think peak jet maybe a
20:43year or two out his brain and his the physical aspects of jet are going to kind of convul converge
20:50here at some point and i don't know that there will be anybody that beats that guy as long as he
20:54still like it still looks like 15 year old jet as well you know in his face and his facial expressions
20:58you know sort of skinny face and uh and whatever else and acts and goofs around like a kid as well
21:03right once he once he gains the kinds of mental maturity that his older brother has and whether
21:09that's 23 24 25 at some point i think you're going to see a level unlock that we haven't seen for
21:14maybe ever maturity hunter lawrence he was talking about cherry power mary lou yesterday
21:23if you've not seen it paddock chat with uh lisa leland and team australia nice little comedy moment
21:30that's uh kenny roxson in second but uh lucas kunan probably the ride of the race for me yeah going down
21:37on the first time yeah i would say he and fernandez really kind of overcame for you know fernandez gate
21:44pick out there with tomac he got the job done as far as executing on the start and his pace was
21:49phenomenal kunan overcoming a crash and putting in some of the best lap times of the race both of them
21:54will sleep easier tonight knowing that if they just execute on the things that they had troubles with
21:58today that they're going to be in the fight is it gifting sure he'll be uh fairly pleased with where he
22:04is in that seventh position uh glenn colden offers uh wow i saw him dropping down the leaderboard and
22:09there he is trackside dealing with a medic and uh looking like he's grimacing as well so is that gonna
22:15be the uh the end really for the netherlands yes you can qualify with two riders but you still need
22:21five scores out of six which means you need all three guys healthy on sunday so glenn colden off then
22:27out of what seventh eighth place with about three laps to go let's just hope that's a uh i don't think
22:33i can continue this race but i'll be fine tomorrow because again they'll use the top two today won't
22:37really affect a whole lot assuming that kai and calvin blander can put in solid results this afternoon but
22:44doesn't look great on the on the surfaces we saw a kawasaki rider there pushing pushing their
22:48motorcycle alongside the track i'm not sure who that was well in the process of elimination we've
22:54got roman fever on a kawasaki and then there's a couple down there jockin polly of argentina and the
23:00uh puerto rican of sebastian velez cardona so it could have been one of the other two i would
23:07imagine since uh fevere is still showing on the intermediate sectors
23:13but kenny roxon a wily old character man of a lot of experience with these races try to give jet
23:19lawrence a bit of a run at the start of the race but you know what he's been in that position before
23:23where you can try and match him jet finds another gear you go with him jet finds another gear and you
23:29just kind of go you know what we can keep doing this all day so let's save some of those gear shifts
23:33for tomorrow yeah but i i truly think that kenny won't worry about jet so much he'll be very pleased
23:38to beat the likes of fevere geyser lucas kunin like he thrives on that remember german as we all know he
23:46would have been a you know multi-time i believe it makes a big big crash there that was uh not sure
23:52who that was but that was a big crash just in front of tim geyser there but for i think for ken
23:57roxon he thrives on beating the mxgp elites because those were the would be the rivals for him had he
24:04chosen to stay in europe coming up on where that yeah that's eli tomac he's now got himself up into
24:09night place so uh wade medical flags and uh different flag rules as well for uh uh 31 uh
24:17magnus smith of denmark so the kale racing team rider normally and uh yeah you come out of that
24:23turn you just it's not even like a drop off it's a gradual drop so i wonder if you just
24:27caught an edge or something like that yeah lost traction caught a rear wheel yeah
24:31lose traction high side there pretty easily and remember that's those are the sections you really can't
24:35see a lot and speaking to riders that you know race this race in the pro motocross series that you
24:40don't see the bump and it catches you out so you almost have to ride as if the lights are completely
24:45off because you're not really sure what you're going to hit final turn then for jet lawrence
24:49little double over the big double likes the candles a little bit of a fist bump and uh celebratory
24:56one-hander there as jet lawrence wins the qualifying race in mxgp here the first race of the day
25:02that iron man motocross the nations looks pretty in control every step of the way as well jason thomas
25:09because no no you know no one really challenged him apart from kenny rox in the beginning but
25:14roxson coming home in second february third fernandez fourth geisha fifth kunan
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