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00:00The racers already back of the line Ken Roxxon has won race won exactly 50% of the time in Triple Crown history
00:07the race one winner goes on to win the overall so
00:11Anyone's guess 50 50 for Roxxon if that first race is going to lead to the overall
00:17Well stats say they do
00:1950% 50% of the time it works out 50% of the time it's right 100%
00:23But I think too when you're betting with a guy like Kenny
00:26Yeah, I think you're it's probably more than 50. Yeah. Yep
00:31Eli Tomek had the bad start in the first race came from ninth to third sexton second Cooper Webb came in right behind them
00:40ETS I decided to go on that outside again
00:43Yeah, started there in race one, but it wasn't a good stuff
00:46It wasn't didn't really get a good get to see him very well on that sorry
00:50But this is a great view right here watch watch three there it comes
00:56Oh
00:58Not a good one for Eli this time Prado leads it in Prado and Anderson
01:04Jorge Prado whole shot here comes Hunter Lawrence and that's the gamble you take if you're on the outside
01:09That was a perfect view of what can happen
01:12Oh, he's buried Tomek back there, but his Red Bull KTM teammates out front
01:16Lawrence locks down second then it's Anderson Webb and finally a decent start for Justin Cooper
01:21And
01:27Lawrence all over Prado wants to make the move
01:33And he's got to because Lawrence crashed into race one only seven needs to make up ground
01:39Tell you who this benefits right now is from an overall standpoint and that's the 26
01:44If the race ended, I believe he would be the the race winner wild overall
01:51Yeah, roxon is seven yeah and sexton is 17
01:56Eli is eight wow got coop in there as well
01:59So this could be good for coop is
02:02Remember we talked about the opening show what the difference was from when I came into the fourth round
02:0830 24 30 points down
02:10Yeah, this is where I was saying you could use this to his advantage because there's so many guys from a points perspective
02:16That can get in between him and Eli this is exactly what I was saying
02:21Yeah, it is all sorts of big stuff now
02:24Anderson it's all over Lawrence whoa and then Anderson almost endos
02:30So it looked like hunter is looking to make moves on Prado, but now he's clinging to the number two spot
02:34Must have made it mistakes he gets back away from his old rival anderson
02:45What happened to sexton early to be back there in 13th that is a killer in this type of race?
02:49Yeah, well, he was 17th on the first lap
02:55And there he is buried he's battling with verandas right now who also did not get a good getaway
03:00Oh, the trolley designs red bull ducati
03:03Yeah, this is where the triple crown like it really brings out the best in these riders
03:09For several reasons one that puts them in a position where they have to execute every race pretty much
03:15And if they don't they're going to be in the situation that chase is in right now
03:19Chase has to be really careful when he's coming up through the pack right here
03:22You can see guys are starting to turn down a little bit early
03:25They're not folding the turns quite as much. He's going to have to anticipate what that rider is doing
03:30And again, these races are so condensed and shorter
03:33They can ride with that intensity. Oh great pass
03:37Intensity from web making that move on anderson right web suddenly starting to stir here in the overall right up the inside
03:45makes the move
03:47And you see points as they run this is combining the results from as it stands right now and race one
03:52To be prado winning the race. Oh, anderson coming back on web who's currently tied with roxan first second overall
04:03So much racing left though
04:06There's kenny
04:09They're about five six seven bike links
04:12behind anderson pressuring justa cooper
04:16attacks against roxan
04:18Costly mistake from ken isn't able to triple out the corner that jt was talking about on the tracker point
04:25That is a key section. I thought it was only going to be for the 250s
04:29But I was wrong also playing a huge role for the 450
04:34And tomac has had the fastest lap on the track the last two laps now justin cooper a move
04:40On anderson and tomac's looking to follow tomac is on fire
04:42I thought anderson tomac was trying to get a two for one special but watch eli tomac up the inside listen to this crowd
04:54One pass for tomac
04:56Cooper tries to fight back and here comes roxan again
05:00Great racing in this triple crowd
05:03And the triple again tomac gets a pass on anderson roxan follows him through
05:08Oh
05:11Anderson takes kenny up to the tough blocks ebay and then oh no tomac has gone down
05:20He andos looks like he's at least okay. Oh, that was a brutal crash
05:27Jumping onto that tabletop. Oh wow
05:31Incredible how quickly this can change he had had three consecutive laps that's the fastest man on track and now
05:38Sexton has even gone by despite the bad start wow
05:43Rarely do you see this replay everything is cool he comes over all is good
05:52Oh that it's almost like he hit neutrals right
05:57No, I didn't hit this spike is running that is
06:01Bizarre hard to tell from that angle exactly what happened. I mean he got over that
06:06That single just fine
06:09So this is cooper who's got around anderson and now roxan and anderson waves him by
06:16I guess he's not mean to do that oh you didn't mean to do that
06:20So he knows kenny's faster wants to give his teammate an opportunity. I mean kenny's in the running for the overall
06:26So every position is going to be huge
06:29Meanwhile prado has a 1.8 second lead hunter lawrence and cooper webb not able to catch him and prado
06:39Would be the overall winner right now, but he'd be tied with rocks another tiebreaker is the better finish in the last race
06:47Right now that's race, right, but it would be race three
06:49But the good news for roxan is he's got positions to gain here prado cannot go any further forward
06:55And he's closing on justin cooper
07:00What a wild one this is is tomac yes tomac is back up and running but he is in 18th place
07:06I did not see that coming. No, he liked tomac rarely
07:10someone with his experience and so accomplished does does that happen and you just wonder if
07:18something went wrong with the motorcycle or
07:21Because again everything looked perfect as far as execution on that rhythm section
07:27But i'm just glad to see him get back on that bike that bike came back yeah landed on him
07:33And again these rhythm lanes are really fast so you know what happens with when you have speed involved the impact
07:39At a higher rate is there any scarier feeling no there's nothing not not at all when you're in the air like that
07:45And you know no yeah yeah 100 percent oh yeah good to see eli's relatively okay
07:50But it's very costly in the results, but that's the triple crown there's a whole nother shot
07:56In race three to try to climb back up the order
08:00Can roxan make a move on cooper who's riding well?
08:03This is going to be a huge gift for guys like cooper webb hunter lawrence
08:08Ken roxan and chase sexton as far as the championship goes and eli going down
08:18This is it is a great time to be a part of smx world championship
08:24With the depth of the field and just not knowing weed you were talking about it not knowing who ever is going to win the race
08:30Oh, there's no way yeah, how could you know before these gates drive it it just it's just so close
08:35And that's why it's so special yeah, and you've seen it in the racing how many times the rider caught someone
08:40Okay, you think he's the one with the momentum as sexton has made it all the way up to anderson
08:45And the same thing here hunter lawrence has closed for a second time now on prado and this is for the lead yeah prado getting a little dicey in the whoops
08:54still some racing left and
08:56Looks like the 90 up there you get the triple oh prado cut him off
09:03Wow i'm gonna say that prado's yeah tough to pass yes
09:08He's tough to pass hunter just saw that firsthand as bottom box sexton is trying to get anderson had a better look at the uh
09:14Tabletop there jt looks like it was ruddy maybe it caught uh eli's feet feet there
09:20Yeah, this track is really getting tricky, but i'm going to tell you what these guys keep making mistakes at the front
09:24That number one there on the blue that blue bike is going to be in this fight very very quickly
09:31And this is exactly what cooper webb needs he had it has had an atrocious three rounds so far
09:36He has got to find a way to get past these guys and claim his first overall win of the season well jt
09:41I go back to that triple crown we had several years ago at detroit
09:46When cooper webb i believe he won that race and i feel like that gave it the momentum up
09:51The triple out of the corner this time hunter able to finish the pass
09:57And the crowd responds to that and webb's going right with him
10:04And that triple out of the turn has turned very difficult
10:07100 percent i think a lot of it too is because because of the ruts they're not getting good drives out of their will
10:15Mickey i'm just looking at hunter lawrence up front he's obviously looking comfortable and able to push through
10:19And i'm thinking back to what you were telling us during the week
10:23And how you hope that hunter can get to the point where they're not testing with the bike anymore
10:27And he's just able to run his laps well i can tell you that that happened this week
10:31He went back to florida which was planned and they said for the first time
10:34They felt like they had a base that they could sit there and trust and hunter was able to get over those laps
10:39So what maybe maybe that's going to help him tonight the team did tell me that it had definitely worked out as far as this kind of works go
10:46They wanted to push further through the rhythms they said they felt he accomplished that this morning
10:51In qualifying so all moving in the right direction well well that's right and that's a great report will so
10:57Like we were talking and we talked about on the post-race show last week when you got a guy that's
11:02Basically he's evaluating the motorcycle and racing at the same time so he's not a hundred percent focused on just racing
11:10Because again he's feeling the bike and where it needs to be better now that he has a setup that he's comfortable with
11:16And can just focus on his riding he's going to be a little bit better and that's sometimes all you need to be
11:22At this level and that's a reflection of how well he's doing right now i get it that eli is down and sexton goes down
11:29Sexton yes he was behind malcolm stewart now he's lost at least a spot to christian craig
11:35oh no we got action all over the place here's the sexton mistake
11:40Watch the front yeah he pushes the front he initiates the turn leans the bike over hate to say it
11:47Yeah, but pushes the front asks too much
11:50Out of that front tire and the crowd response that was webb making the move on trotto exactly the way webb does it
11:56Just hanging in there. So now you go back
12:00Finishing my point on hunter lawrence
12:03Now he can work on just being fast early on here's the pass
12:07See webb on trotto
12:09Boom right up the inside uses him up. Ooh prada wasn't anticipating that feet come off the foot pegs
12:16And he makes the move now this guy can just focus on
12:20Being fast at the beginning of the race you know he's got the he's got what it takes at the end and
12:25This is a great bounce back
12:28moto for
12:30Hunter lawrence
12:32There's roxon working on justin cooper who has been stingy with it roxon got to him a long time ago
12:38But this is what we expect out of justin cooper we haven't seen it because of the bad
12:41But he can go and he was number one seed going to the smx playoffs last year this guy
12:47He ain't no slouch and he's been better than what his what his box scores show on paper
12:54Time running out. They just missed the white flag. It'll be one to go the next time around
12:59And he rocks into the woods
13:03And this pass could be everything for the overall at the end of the night
13:08man could you imagine if somehow webs able to pull off this win oh and what that would do
13:15for his confidence oh kenny
13:17Almost goes off the track. He runs out of room coming out of that right hander
13:22Isn't able to triple
13:25And that's a big relief well the pressure off of jay coop a hundred percent
13:30And time running out
13:32White flag now in the air hunter lawrence what a bounce back a crash and seventh in race one
13:37And he is right back in this thing if it ended now it would be web over roxon and lawrence
13:44But there's a third race to go and they're all close. This is absolutely wild we watching this race
13:51And championship contenders. I mean it is like musical chairs here
13:58It is and if you're one of these championship guys trying to manage
14:02Okay, which guy that you're going to have to deal with at some capacity each weekend
14:07I think changes right again relax because they have strategies i'm sure on you know
14:13They know their strengths and we some weaknesses
14:16What a ride so hunter lawrence avenges the mistake in race one he comes back and wins race two
14:24Gets himself right back in position. It's a while when you see valcom stewart
14:28He's one of the ones that got ahead of sexton when he fell there's roxon. He got close to justin cooper
14:35But not enough it's going to be lawrence webb prado top three
14:39then cooper and roxon stewart a great ride
14:43Anderson seventh craig eight sexton nine ferrandus tenth and tomac
14:4813th that ties a career low for tomac in an individual triple crown race
14:55But he did make some moves so it appears he's okay. I i can't believe he came back up that far honestly
15:01I can't believe his bike wasn't more tweaked than it was he's very fortunate he was able to do that and he's he's all right
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