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00:00This one is another five minute plus one lap race for the 250 riders.
00:05Gate's about to drop now. Somebody tried to go over on the far side there.
00:09Another not great start for the 11 of Calvin Fenvier.
00:14But trying to sneak up the inside through that first turn.
00:20Well, tell you what, Jake Cannon with number three didn't get the whole shot, I don't think.
00:24But who's that just ahead of him?
00:30Difficult to tell. Yeah, yeah, we've got Skycam going on here.
00:33Over the line.
00:34Oh, Pietra, a rider we don't normally see up front. Jake Cannon second, Bourdon third.
00:38Clout, Julian Lebeau, Hugo Mansato, and then Kalena Humphrey on the start.
00:43But a good start this time around for Jules Pietra.
00:47Everybody safely around. Where are our, well, Saad Soleimani, who was up there and running up at the sharp end in race one to come home in fourth.
00:55Bourdon your winner, Clout second, Fenvier third. Bourdon is third in this one at the moment.
01:00Clout fourth.
01:01But the second now, Bourdon on the move.
01:03Yeah, Bourdon on the 9.45.
01:05Just like he was in race one, but this time before the, uh, second lap.
01:10Oh, Clout.
01:11Heat there.
01:12You know what, Clout is, uh, gunning for Bourdon here.
01:17Clout there in third, Bourdon in second.
01:19They put on a fantastic show in race one, the riders in second and third.
01:23And there you go.
01:24That move down the inside.
01:25Bourdon takes over the lead.
01:27Clout moves into second.
01:28Jules Pietra taking the challenge to Clout and parks him.
01:33How much will that hurt him later on in the race?
01:35Yeah, that was impressive for sure.
01:37Right?
01:38I mean, if I, but I got, it's not used to running up front.
01:40Clout's whoop skills are going to come through here, I think, shortly.
01:42But yeah, good job from Pietra.
01:44Well, I heard Clout there going inside.
01:46Already had no run on the 250 entering the whoops there.
01:49But he's probably so frustrated right now to still be behind because he can see Bourdon putting time on him.
01:54Yeah, Pietra, fifth in race one, looks across.
01:57He was expecting the payback there and just checked up just enough to allow Clout to go through.
02:02Clout with clear track, crucially.
02:04Yeah, I think the first one, Clout really, maybe if you wanted to push the issue,
02:08could have really slammed Bourdon there late in the race, but chose to lay up.
02:12There's a lot of racing to go.
02:13But I mean, you can't let the guy get too many points ahead.
02:16These two have been the clear class of the field.
02:18And actually, Luke Clout looking dangerous at the moment.
02:20He's gaining on Bourdon despite losing a couple of bike lengths, getting caught behind Jules Pietra.
02:25He's definitely got the bit between his teeth this time, guys.
02:28What do you reckon, JT?
02:29I think it's easier to be the kind of the predator than the prey, right?
02:33It's just basically the role reversal here.
02:35You see Clout make a mistake there.
02:37I like some of Clout's lines, but at the same time I talked about, you see he loses time.
02:41He's trying to race the racetrack like a 450, I think, in certain areas.
02:44He's trying to cut the corners short, draw really tight corners.
02:47I don't know that that necessarily works on the 250 on this track.
02:50But also, what you said, it's better to be the chaser than the leader.
02:53And that's what Bourdon did in the first race.
02:55And he was able to see the lines that Clout had.
02:57Now, role reversal, as you say, Clout able to see what he wasn't able to see in the first race
03:02because he didn't have time.
03:03He had, what, a lap to respond when he got passed for the lead?
03:06Yeah.
03:07I love that, right?
03:08I like Clout.
03:09He's been racing all over the place.
03:10OzX stuff, obviously.
03:11He was in Germany at Stuttgart last weekend.
03:13Now he's here in Paris going to OzX next weekend.
03:16Sounds like JT.
03:17Yeah, he's a modern JT for sure.
03:19Got money, he'll race.
03:20Here he comes getting up close right now.
03:22New nickname, Jason.
03:23Side by side as they hit the Milwaukee hole shot line.
03:27Clout looking for that move down the inside.
03:29Same spot as he was done on two in the first one.
03:33So Clout now leads with, what, three and a half minutes.
03:36Sorry, a minute and a half to go, plus a lap.
03:38It's role reversal.
03:40Yeah, I found it, JT, out of the sand, the 450s in the main.
03:44They were cutting it double in, which I was like, wait.
03:47Did you see Mookie go four there?
03:49Four single?
03:50Right after that section?
03:51No, I missed that.
03:52Yeah, two, three, four, one.
03:54That's the only person I've seen do it.
03:56Yeah, they were really cutting that corner close.
03:57Trying to get a little, you know, trying to...
03:59Yeah, right there.
04:00And a lot of that, I think, for Clout is muscle memory.
04:03He's been racing a 450 for a long time.
04:05For him to immediately switch back all your, you know,
04:08and a lot of this is instinctual.
04:09They're in the heat of the moment.
04:10If he had time to really think out, okay, I need to go to the outside,
04:13to the Monte 250, you could just kind of see those
04:15nuances in his technique.
04:17Yeah, a nice battle going on a little bit further down here.
04:19We've got Jake Cannon in fifth and Calvin Fonvier in sixth.
04:22But then this group here, Hugo Manzato, Julian LeBeau,
04:24Adrian Bonifacio, giving the fans what they want.
04:28Most of them French, apart from Bonifacio,
04:31the Italian on the Husqvarna.
04:33But just taking a look out of the window here.
04:36And Clout, he's got 1.6 seconds with 30 seconds plus a lap
04:41as he enters the sand section just below our commentary position.
04:44The 27 here of Manzato, under pressure from Bonifacio,
04:48who moves up into seventh.
04:51But can he get that momentum through the whoops?
04:53No, he can't.
04:54And Manzato, well, tell you what, he was trying to take the other dude wide,
04:58and the 22 of Mikhail Lamar almost caught them both napping.
05:03Good job for Kalana Humphrey here on the start, running fourth.
05:06Really good job by him.
05:07He's a rider that has a lot of fun out there.
05:10Travels around, tries to make some money wherever he can,
05:12racing, whatever he can.
05:13Yeah, six in the race one.
05:14Yeah, very good job for that.
05:15JT, great point about the Predator and the Prey,
05:17because we saw the first one what happened, right?
05:20I almost wonder if the next race here, Bourdain's going to be like,
05:23well, I liked it better when I was Predator,
05:25and Cloud's going to be like,
05:26I liked it better when I was Predator,
05:28and we'll see what happens, right?
05:29Because they are really evenly matched.
05:31There's only one Predator, and he's in the SX-1 canopy.
05:35Right, it's 27.
05:36Well, you see, Bourdain's closed the gap back down.
05:38I just wonder if he may be able to set up a similar type pass
05:42right at the very end.
05:43He's tried to close back up to the rear end of Cloud here.
05:45Yeah, Fallon VA has just moved past Cannon there just a moment ago
05:48to move into fourth.
05:49And, yeah, Kalana Humphrey, the Brit on the start,
05:52machine in red.
05:54Lead rider in shot.
05:57Not a rider that, you know, most riders wouldn't be too familiar.
06:01Great to have a Brit behind the gate as well, though,
06:03riding that start.
06:04I didn't know he was a Brit until right now, Paul.
06:07As this battle's going on, we have a winner who was Luke Quelt,
06:11but watch this battle across the finish line here for fifth and sixth.
06:16Well, I tell you what.
06:17Fonvier up the inside, takes another position.
06:19Clout wins.
06:20Board on second.
06:21Pietra third.
06:22Fonvier to fourth in the final corner.
06:24Kalana Humphrey fifth and Jake Cannon sixth.
06:27And, yeah, Clout taking the checkers there to take the second race win.
06:33So it's all squared, one point each for the wins, two for seconds for Clout.
06:38So they've obviously gone one, two, two, one.
06:40So three points on the board for those two.
06:42We'll start working out some overalls for the tonight fixture ahead of race three a little bit later on.
06:48But sure.
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