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00:00...quickly in this 9 minute plus 1 lap race, SX2, the final race of the weekend here,
00:05the 42nd edition of Supercross de Paris, about to get underway, gate struck now,
00:09and they charge down into that first turn, and it's Calvin Fonvier holding a nice tight line there,
00:14Julian Lebeau running too wide on the exit, he's got Clout there between him,
00:18as the number 4 on that green Karasaki emerges in third, and he comes up short,
00:23headbutts the handlebar, nice cut back through there though, to get back into that third place,
00:27a frantic first couple of corners there for Luke Clout, JT.
00:29That was a great move, but that was also super risky, cutting down that aggressively on the first lap,
00:35but he pulled it off, I just don't know how he could anticipate there was no one there.
00:39And Julian Lebeau does hang on, it looked like he drifted too wide and Fonvier was going to get up the inside of him,
00:44but it's Julian Lebeau who leads away from Calvin Fonvier, Luke Clout, Saad Soleimani, where is Bourdon?
00:49Well he's in 9th place at the moment, we've seen from his consistency and his good rides through the field,
00:54that it doesn't take him long to pick himself up towards the front end, and obviously he's got a race that's almost twice as long as it has been,
01:03going from 5 minutes to 8 minutes, or 9 minutes sorry, and from that side he knows he's got time in his pocket,
01:10doesn't need to risk anything too hard whilst he chases down that first Prince of Paris title.
01:16Yeah, I was thinking Bourdon's weakness is outside of the first two of his starts, he hasn't been able to get the starts,
01:21even that first one wasn't great, and then he doesn't get a start again, but luckily he's got it safe,
01:26he's got more time like you said, so he's really good in the whoops, so I look for Bourdon to move up into it, probably second.
01:32Yeah, and Calvin Fonvier probably looking at the overall best Frenchman riding the SX2 Tour tonight,
01:37as well as trying to maintain his lead in that French Supercross Championship, of course we won't get those standings,
01:41and their final round is a week from now, but Clout up to second, as Fonvier messes up the rhythm,
01:46down the back straight, just in front of where we were, so Clout now up in his second position,
01:52probably being the fastest rider all day, and all of yesterday as well, but just unfortunate with that first turn, hiccup.
01:59Really haven't seen Lebeau up front, near the front, all weekend, kind of, I mean, better late than never,
02:05I guess on performance, but see how he can handle the pressure from Clout, and I would say not very well,
02:10because he's already passed them.
02:11Yeah.
02:12Good for triumph, though, to have a bike run lead a lap or so in Paris.
02:15Yeah, and also, like, a rider you don't normally see at the front, but certainly in this event,
02:20so just to get that lap or so, just leading the way, trying to rough up a couple of riders behind him,
02:24but making Calvin Fonvier go the long way around, making sure that he's not going to try and find a way through as well,
02:30but I'm sure he's enjoying that moment being up front, but you see now he's already starting to flag a little bit,
02:36just the technique and maybe the overall riding.
02:40Really helping out Clout right here as well.
02:42And Bourdain.
02:43Yeah, well, Bourdain is there in, what, sixth position, just finding his way past Pietra.
02:49Pietra may get his elbows out.
02:51Oh, it's Sard Suleimani, in fact, on the 744.
02:56So he's found his way by.
02:58So where did Pietra go?
03:00Oh, Bourdain, sorry, Lebeau has an issue coming out of that turn.
03:06Wasn't able to get over the triple.
03:10Is he still in the race?
03:11Yes, he is, so it must have been, oh, look at that.
03:14Bourdain into the side of Suleimani.
03:16Suleimani hanging on, though, coming out of the turn after the whoops.
03:19Bourdain doesn't need to get kind of too much close contact with these guys here around him.
03:26He's going to risk everything.
03:27A little bit nervous, right, if you're Bourdain right now, but you don't quite know what these guys are going to do.
03:31He's a better rider than them, and if they case something or come up squirrely, there goes his Prince title.
03:36But yeah, he's making short work of that, and right into third place where, yeah, he's been first or second most of the time.
03:44So Clout leads away, Bombier second.
03:47And as we look at the overall classification on our screen, Clout, is he going to be fifth overall?
03:55No, he was one back, right, of Pompier, so he'll be second overall.
04:01So I think they've just re-corrected that there.
04:03So Clout leads away, Bombier second, Bourdain, Suleimani, Manzato, Jean-Pietro has dropped to six.
04:08Cannon is seventh, Mikael Lamar eighth, Julian Lebeau now down in ninth.
04:11Andrea Bonifacio is in tenth place.
04:14But number four, Luke Clout, first visitor to Paris.
04:19Obviously, he was in Germany a week ago in Stuttgart.
04:21Overjumps there again, just as he did on the first lap.
04:25This time, it wasn't as costly.
04:27But he's got a nice, comfortable advantage.
04:29Almost three seconds over number 11, Calvin Bonifacio, who's under attack here from the 945, Anthony Bourdain.
04:35It's been a solid performance from Bonifacio, hasn't it, this weekend?
04:38Yeah, I think so.
04:39He's a veteran of these tours, right?
04:41He's always here.
04:42He's always a solid rider.
04:43Like I mentioned yesterday, we're getting some turnover in this SX2 tour, and I can see
04:47Bombier, you know, a six, seven-place guy a couple years ago is starting to be now a factor
04:51in this.
04:52So I'm not sure exactly how old he is, but he's definitely riding better than he has been.
04:55They were saying 25-ish, something like that.
04:57Mid-20s probably, yeah, I would imagine.
04:59Because, yeah, 2015 or 16, when we had that race in the stadium at Belton's Arena a few
05:05years ago, when we first used the Mesh and the team.
05:08race kind of thing, the SMX Cup.
05:09He was on a 125 Yamaha there as, you know, part of the Blue Crew Masterclass thing and
05:17all the rest of it.
05:18But he would have been sort of 15, 16, 17 latest there.
05:22So, you know, he's getting on a bit.
05:25Bless him.
05:26Also, never let it be known that the riders aren't listening.
05:28I had some words about Luke Cloud's gear yesterday, and I ran into him today.
05:34And, yeah, made a couple of comments about me talking about his gear.
05:39As Bordon goes by Calvin Fonvier.
05:41So what did he say exactly?
05:42He said, how do you like my gear?
05:44And I said, no, I didn't actually.
05:46I said, you know, what was up with that?
05:49And he said, she picked it.
05:50Pointed to his girlfriend, I assume.
05:52And now she was giving me evil eyes.
05:54And I'm like, oh, good.
05:55I said, well, you rode great, man.
05:56He said, thank you.
05:57Thank you.
05:58And he goes, I'm not in it today.
05:59And I'm like, okay.
06:00So we're settled.
06:01And that was it.
06:01So you say, if you didn't need to dig yourself a hole, you didn't need a groundwork sponsorship.
06:05Didn't know which way it was going to go for a minute there.
06:07But we're all good.
06:09He took it in good humor.
06:10I'll tell you what.
06:11Nice event to throw his, this is under the bus, though.
06:13She picked it.
06:15Right.
06:16And as you guys know, like once you're in trouble with the rider's wife or girlfriend, it's over there.
06:22Yeah, yeah.
06:22Scorched earth.
06:23Yeah.
06:23Yeah.
06:23Heads, eye, wind, tails, you lose, right?
06:25Right.
06:26Luke Clapp continues to lead the way.
06:28There is the 27 of Hugo Manzato.
06:30He is in fifth place.
06:31Jack Cannon behind him in sixth on the number three.
06:33Bud Racing, Kawasaki.
06:34Lamarck, Pietro, Bonifacio, and Osterman.
06:36And they ran out of the top ten as Cannon down the back straight looking to pick up Manzato.
06:43These two have been at it all weekend long.
06:45It's been right around the same pace for a while.
06:46Obviously, we saw Hugo running up front.
06:48I think one of the mains left yesterday.
06:49But for the most part, it's been these two guys, fifth and fourth, fifth and sixth, whatever it is, all weekend long.
06:55They're probably sick of each other.
06:57Probably.
06:59And he's also got a long flight home tomorrow back to Australia as well, so some 24 hours or so.
07:04But enjoy any time here in Paris, no doubt.
07:07But two minutes plus of that to go in this final SX2 race of the weekend.
07:11Final one of the day right here in the Paris La Défons Arena.
07:15Through the whoops and you can see Cannon not efficient through there.
07:18Manzato getting ready to tee him up.
07:19There was about just enough room there for Jack Cannon just to sort of pull his leg in to avoid being hit there maybe in that left-hand turn at the end of the whoops.
07:32Mordon sitting pretty at the moment though.
07:34He's been absolutely sort of inch-perfect pretty much in terms of his consistency.
07:41He's been able to battle where maybe last year Tom Vial maybe had the edge on him going into the final race that's denied him.
07:49They finished tight on points last year, remember Tom Vial and Bordon.
07:51So to come into this one with a little bit of breathing room, to be ahead of your closest rivals, you know, it's going to be almost like a victory kind of couple of laps now for the Frenchman on the Honda.
08:03Yeah, it's got to feel really good, right?
08:04Being French and winning this thing in front of your hometown fans just like Barbara Muskan has, Tom Vial, like you mentioned.
08:11Yeah, it's got to be just an amazing feeling to do that.
08:15Like JT winning like a local Ocala, Florida race back in the day.
08:20Yeah, exactly, just like that with Prince of Paris.
08:22How many of those did you win?
08:23Local races in Ocala, Florida.
08:25I would be Prince of Paris hundreds of times.
08:28There you go.
08:29Well, this was Bordon just cutting back to the inside of Calvin Fonvier to get himself into second position.
08:35That was at the end of the whoops, back down the start straight.
08:38And that's the thing, you know, when you get those bowl turns, it opens up so many different scenarios.
08:41You can go too wide and obviously you leave yourself open.
08:44The further inside you go to go defensive, the further to the outside.
08:47And you get that cutback like that textbook from Anthony Bordon.
08:51Yeah, really nice pass right there, right?
08:52Exactly how you draw it up and exactly how you want to make it happen.
08:55And then you go deep inside going down the neck straightaway.
08:57So good job for Bordon.
08:58I don't think anything's going to happen here.
08:59But he's closed down the lead on Clout.
09:01I was just about to say, yeah, Clout is right there.
09:04And obviously Bordon, what was his lap time last time?
09:07And what was Clout's lap time last time around?
09:0947.8.
09:1046.8.
09:11So a fourth second, maybe.
09:12So Clout, again, you know, we talk about when you have that moment that pretty much seals the deal in terms of you're not going to win.
09:20White flag goes out.
09:21One more lap to go.
09:22Maybe just detuning him a little bit coming into this last race because he's gone from potentially winning to then having no chance at all unless something happened to Bordon behind him and others in between.
09:32Punching?
09:33Punching?
09:33Yeah, Deegs.
09:34Deegs move here.
09:36Potentially.
09:37Yeah.
09:38Oh, boy.
09:38You never know.
09:41You never know.
09:42I think he's come up short there, though.
09:44What?
09:46Well, if he is punching, he's not making it look that obvious.
09:49No.
09:49No, not exactly.
09:50We've seen better punching than Luke Clout here.
09:53But now it looks like he's going to take the win.
09:55So that'll be, you know, four wins out of six for him and a second.
10:00And then, of course, the disaster last race.
10:02So two corners to go.
10:03One now, just the other side of this triple.
10:05Luke Clout is going to win the final race, but it's going to be Anthony Bordon who is going to be crowned the Prince of Paris for the first time and joins a long and an illustrious group of French riders who have taken the title as Prince of Paris.
10:21Of course, you look back to the first sort of French winner, Michael Pichon back in 1993, that it was Bursi 11.
10:30And then you've got David Villeman, got a couple as well on Yamahas in 96 and 97.
10:35And Roderick Tan, I saw him today, this morning, and he was also a winner.
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