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00:00Five minutes plus the lap this first race.
00:03Gate goes, Clout on the number 4, 250, but it's Borrome who leads the way on the 172
00:09over the Milwaukee Hullshot.
00:13Borrome leads the way, Clout there in second on that Kawasaki in orange, third.
00:19Alongside, I think just moving into third, is the 7.44 of Saad Sulamani on the TM.
00:25And then we've got Bourdon trying to nip up the inside into that third place
00:29and spooks him.
00:30Oh, Clout very close as he came in to land there.
00:33But Bourdon does move into that third place.
00:35Great move.
00:36Yeah, it was.
00:37And Clout did a fantastic job of sneaking up the inside as he tries to make another move
00:40on Borrome there.
00:41He did not have to jump, but he's a wily veteran.
00:44He knew if he just stuck to the inside he'd be okay.
00:47Ooh, Borrome comes away.
00:48Oh, how did Clout miss Borrome there?
00:53One side of the track to the other, Borrome goes from the lead.
00:56Clout takes over.
00:58And onto that step on, step off.
01:02This is the section we were talking about.
01:03If you can quad into there, but they are jumping long into the berm, the 450 guys.
01:08Yeah, a lot of mistakes.
01:09You just wonder if it's, you know, the jumps are all have been reshaped.
01:12Is there just an inconsistency there?
01:13Because that's been multiple big mistakes by Wood Clout.
01:17It's usually a fairly mistake free.
01:18And then Borrome has already had a big crash today.
01:20But I think just some of the newness of the track catches them out.
01:25Look at Jake Cannon on the Kawasaki getting past there with the yellow helmet on the foot.
01:31Racing Kawasaki fell there in the time practice session earlier.
01:34His hand came off the bar and he went down.
01:36But his teammate this weekend, who's been riding in Australia as well.
01:42And then obviously riding here.
01:44Who's that that's gone down?
01:45The 27 of Hugo Manzato on the Hasmada, the Frenchman.
01:48That's the sand we were talking about.
01:50Unpredictable.
01:51A thin layer of sand on top of a clay base.
01:54Especially the line really hasn't been worked in yet.
01:57So the front tire is going to be pushing all the way through that section.
02:00Well, this was a battle that we said would be tight between Clout and Bordon.
02:04Clout got the better start.
02:05Bordon had to fight through a couple of riders.
02:07He's got himself into second.
02:08And the Honda rider looking ready to pounce on the Australian.
02:12Who, when I spoke to him today, he was glad to be back on a 250.
02:16It's been a couple of years, two or three years or so that he was last on a 250.
02:19And on the media day, on Friday, you could see that he'd been a little bit rusty in terms of that 250 action.
02:25Because he was wanting the power to come out to get him to drive over the wounds.
02:28It wasn't happening.
02:29So he's really having to ride his way back into a little bit of memory muscle on this machine to get familiarity.
02:34Yeah, some of his line choices, you can tell that he's thinking like a 450 rider.
02:38He's kind of cutting a lot of the corners short, drawing really tight apexes.
02:41And that's leaving him short on some of the bigger jumps.
02:44See how quickly the track is drying out as well.
02:47Just started to slick up as they came in at the end of the landing there.
02:50Over the finish line, triple into this right-hander.
02:52Who is quickest through the woods?
02:54Bordeaux in second.
02:55Oh, Clout.
02:56Clout has the advantage that time around.
02:58Able to hop out over the last three.
03:00Nothing in it between them, though.
03:04Doesn't matter about the lap times.
03:06These two are locked together a bite length apart.
03:08There's that triple.
03:10Triple.
03:11Would you say that's a quad or a triple at the end there?
03:13I would say quad.
03:14That's a highly debated topic.
03:15You're walking into dangerous waters there with that question.
03:17But I would say quad.
03:20Anyway, onto this rhythm again.
03:22Is there going to be a move?
03:23Not quite.
03:24Close enough.
03:25And Clout was middle of the line there, middle of the track.
03:28So it went nice and defensive, but not so much that he was going to be compromised on the exit.
03:34Good responses, actually.
03:36What have we got left?
03:37A minute and a half plus a lap.
03:39Almost folded the front in that right-hander.
03:42Yeah, for Perdon here, he needs to be thinking about where can he make a pass?
03:47We talked about this section that they're entering right now.
03:49That could possibly be one, but first things first, he needs to close the gap.
03:53The French-based Moroccan Saad Soleimani on the TM here.
03:587-4-4.
03:59He is ahead of Calvin Fonvier, the red plate holder, the championship leader in Essex 2.
04:06Remember, he's got a one-point lead over Michael Hicks, who's not here this weekend,
04:11but that doesn't matter.
04:12Ponvier's still got to go out and score points because we don't know how the average point
04:16score from Hicks will kind of come into play after the final round a week from now.
04:20So he's got to go out and execute no matter what.
04:24Bourdon gaining momentum again, Jason.
04:26Closing it down.
04:27He has to get to his rear wheel if he hopes to make a pass.
04:30I'm still not exactly sure where the move will come from if he's able to pull it off.
04:34I think Rhythm going into turn two on the opposite side of the arena into that left.
04:41If he could get close enough to him entering the whoops and just go up the inside and meet
04:44him at the apex of that corner, that's another spot, but it seems like it's going to have
04:48to be a little bit aggressive.
04:49End of this next straight if he's close enough.
04:51There we go.
04:52He's perfectly on off.
04:53He's got good drive through here.
04:54He's going to jump long to the inside.
04:56And there is the move up the inside.
04:58Very cool.
04:59You could see it was coming.
05:00That was really the first major place that it was going to go down.
05:04Clout now, though, looking to go around the outside, tries to respond immediately.
05:09Can't find a way back through at the moment.
05:10But then he responds with a similar move, but doesn't get the momentum through the whoops.
05:16Is that all she wrote?
05:19Did the one that Bord go out there or was there time?
05:23Still on the clock as they hit, as we were watching that move into that final turn.
05:28But Bordon lost out on the Prince of Paris, tied on points for Tom Vial a year ago.
05:34He's shown his hand here so far in his first race.
05:38Yeah, that was perfectly executed.
05:40Clout's not tripling on to that tabletop.
05:42And you don't think it loses much time.
05:44It's just enough to allow Bordon to get to the inside.
05:47So a couple of corners to go then.
05:50I imagine the flag is about to go out.
05:53The checkers goes out for Bordon, who wins race one.
05:57Clout second, 1.3 behind.
06:00Still a good effort from the Aussie.
06:02Back on a 2.50.
06:03Not easy after riding the last two or three years on a 4.50.
06:06But this one's going to be fun and games for the next five races over the course of the weekend, JT.
06:11Yeah, they seem like the class of the field.
06:13But if we get more racing like that throughout the weekend, I think everybody will get it.
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