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00:00Aqui no A1, vamos fazer isso.
00:04Oh, Kitchin não conseguiu um bom start.
00:07Chance Hymes tem.
00:08Há um fronteiro, ele drifte um pouco mais.
00:11E perdeu quatro posições, só assim.
00:14Sim, foi um bom recupero de Levi.
00:16Ele foi bem bem do que o starto, mas conseguiu o caminho do que o fork.
00:20Agora ele está indo para o terceiro, então bom recupero de ele.
00:25Sim, sim, ele foi bem bem, mas muitos dos jogadores
00:28foram feitos para o fora, e é o que permitiu o 47 para o fora.
00:34Olha isso, é um...
00:37Olha isso, é um grande batalão.
00:39Max Anstey comes up on Hunter e Hunter e Hunter returns para favor.
00:43Switches back pretty swiftly.
00:45Aqui vem Kitchin on the 47, olha para o lado.
00:48E agora, talvez, Levi vai ter um para o outro.
00:51Você vê como o que foi?
00:52Levi did um bom trabalho em slowing deca, mas Max está embaixo de Hunter.
00:56Vamos ver se o Levi pode ir ao topo e escolher esses guys up.
01:01Love the different lines that Kitsch has taken right now.
01:05Not following, right behind Max, searching on the track.
01:10He looked very comfortable earlier today in qualifying practice, hence the number one position.
01:17Let's take you back and show you what happened to the Pro Circuit Kawasaki rider, Levi Kitsch.
01:22Yeah, if you watch, watch his front end pop up right there.
01:24As the front end started to pop up, he had to double clutch it, pull the clutch in.
01:28And as soon as you do that, James, you know you just lose all of that track position.
01:32But he sneaks back up in the inside and a lot of those guys got jammed up.
01:36Yeah, Chance actually got there first, but Levi did a good job.
01:39Once you don't get that jump, you start going to that second position like you're almost defensive and trying to get around it.
01:46Max is still working on Hunter. Hunter's doing a great job at holding him off.
01:49Well, James, he did a great job at the start. Did you see him? He was very poised.
01:52As Anstey goes into the lead, Yoda was just calm, stayed on that inside line, let everybody else drift off.
01:58Anstey has a look. He knew that Hunter was coming, but he's able to hold him off for the time being.
02:03Yeah. James, you talk about business decision.
02:07That was definitely why Hunter let him off the hook right there.
02:09But overall, Max has got the pace. Let's see how aggressive Levi is.
02:14He's been the fastest guy all day long.
02:16He seemed really relaxed to his opening couple laps, but we'll see what happens here.
02:20Start trying to press it.
02:23Well, let's hear the thoughts of this man who leads this race going up against his teammate Hayden Deegan for the title.
02:32He's got the number one plate and got to go and perform.
02:35I mean, that's why we ride on this team and what we show up to do.
02:38I'm here to do my job and perform the best way that I can.
02:41But as far as pressure goes, I think there's, you know, if you've got the number one plate, I think there's a bit more on you than that.
02:48Again, I talked about it already before the gate dropped.
02:52I love the age comparison and how he's a bit older than these guys.
02:57It plays into his hand and a little more calm, probably doesn't let the nerves bother him.
03:02And again, go about how well he was riding last year.
03:05And look at, he's able to get some clean air and he's just pulling away.
03:10That's something to say because the 47 was moving earlier today.
03:14Tell you who else is moving.
03:15Look at the Honda of Chance Hymus.
03:16He tried to put on a big move on Michael Moseman.
03:19Moseman's held him off for the time being.
03:22Yeah, that's a great racing right here.
03:23I like how these lines switch up outside, put these guys on there.
03:26But, yeah, Levi's starting to see Max slip off.
03:29He's getting the pressure from, you know, Max's teammate along with Chance Hymus coming up.
03:35So it was time to make the move.
03:36It'll be interesting right here, James, to see what Kitchens is going to be able to do now that he is in second place.
03:44See if he can close that gap, Will.
03:46Oh!
03:47Down goes Michael Moseman.
03:50I don't know if he came up short or a loss in front end.
03:54I was just about to mention after Will goes in there how slippery his track is.
03:58We saw a lot of guys crash earlier today in that 90-degree left-hand corner.
04:04It was dry and slick.
04:07Guy's washing the front right here.
04:09Goes up the inside.
04:10He's going to probably come up short.
04:12And that's right.
04:13Actually, the wheel goes to the left and cuts right back to the right.
04:17Yeah, the mistake was made on the triple three.
04:20He overjumped it.
04:23Here comes Chance Hymus.
04:25It's his time now to work on Hunter Yoder.
04:27Props to Hunter Yoder.
04:29He's riding extremely well.
04:31Running the pace of these frontrunners on that new team this year.
04:35If you believe he's pretty repeating, he finished third here last year in the opening heat of the year.
04:43So we'll see if he can repeat that.
04:44Chance Hymus got away to a really good start but then drifted wide at the first turn, if you remember.
04:49So he's been playing catch-up right since the opening corner.
04:52Yeah, it almost looks like these guys want to make the pass.
04:55But how slippery to track and with all that loose stuff, you're going to end up making contact with these guys.
04:59So it feels like maybe they're throwing off a little bit more than they were earlier.
05:03It was really dry.
05:04But now it's loose.
05:06And so it's making it really challenging for these guys to make these passes.
05:08And it's almost like unpredictable.
05:10When the track is unpredictable like this, it gives you false senses of security and you don't know what it's like.
05:16Like earlier today when it was super dry and the track was, oh, nice pass right up the inside.
05:23Blocks Hunter Yoder.
05:24Now you've just got to make sure he guards, takes the inside on this 180 before the whoops.
05:30Nice.
05:31That worked out well for Chance Hymus.
05:33Meanwhile, fellow Honda rider on the Western Honda, Hunter Schlosser holds on to the ninth and final transfer position.
05:40Dylan Schwartz doing well.
05:42Josh Faurice, Long and Rodbell also in the top nine.
05:45Yeah, but you can look what happened with Chance.
05:48You know, those couple laps it took him to get around Hunter.
05:50You know, he's got four seconds to Levi.
05:53Levi's still almost three seconds behind Max, so really difficult to pass.
05:57And when you don't, you lose a lot of time on there.
06:00All right, we go back to Levi Kitchen.
06:02He sits just under three seconds well behind race leader Max Ansi.
06:06And as you guys have been saying in the booth there, Lee, kind of where we expected him to be.
06:10But honestly, there's reason to think that this is going to be a better version of Levi and Kitchen here in 2026.
06:16And so says the team that's behind him.
06:19They said he's strong.
06:20He's been building a really good base that just makes him more solid on the motorcycle.
06:24They said mentally it's a good place.
06:26His dad told me, yeah, I concur.
06:28The best version of Levi that I have ever seen.
06:31And so reasonably that this is a strong start to the system that he can carry.
06:34Yeah, I agree with that 100%.
06:36And the way he was looking at practice, a lot of body movement.
06:39Levi's one of those guys that likes to move around the bike a lot.
06:42So when you see his bike hanging, his body hanging off, he's really comfortable.
06:45That's how he looked at earlier today.
06:47Right now he looks a little bit more timid, but I think that's more on a racetrack.
06:50Meanwhile, we take you here to Hunter Schlosser and Parker Ross, because this is for nine.
06:59And Parker has it at the moment.
07:02Yeah, Hunter squared up that corner and trying to go down the inside of those whoops.
07:06And right now with all the loose stuff on the track, it's going to be difficult on these 250s
07:10because they don't have enough horsepower.
07:11The bike wants to spin, the tire gets deeper in that whoops, and you can saw him as time he was losing.
07:15Part of a very strong Toyota Redlands Bar-X Yamaha team for this 2026 Monster Energy SMX World Championship season.
07:27Max Anstey comfortably out in front and on his way home.
07:32And remember, he won his opening race last year as well in the East Division Championship.
07:39So a couple of Monster Energy star Yamahas getting this new season, Ricky, off to the best possible start.
07:45I mean, I like what I'm seeing.
07:47James and I were talking earlier today about who we thought would be favorites,
07:51and we both picked this guy right here.
07:54What a start.
07:55And there it is.
07:55Max Anstey wins.
07:57Heat two of 250 West here in A1 over Levi Kitchen.
08:01Comfortably so.
08:02It's a bit of a bigger gap back to Chance Hymas.
08:05But that was a nice comeback from that first turner where he swept wide.
08:11So Deegan, he...
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