00:00Veteran Josh Greco, one of the great characters in the paddock.
00:03Just look at the picture right there. That pretty much sums it up.
00:06Mustache is serious. Unbelievable.
00:09He's been at this for a while.
00:10Yes. Yep. 33 years old.
00:13If he makes the main, he will double his money and make it $2,000.
00:17Always a fun guy to talk to.
00:19Oh yeah, he's a good guy for sure.
00:21Okay, so $450, same thing. Four riders make it in.
00:24You got Jason Anderson on the line there.
00:26I'm not sure if Christian Craig made it back or not.
00:29Remember, they got tangled in that first turn crash.
00:31I don't see Craig.
00:33Now you got Anderson over here on the outside.
00:36Keep your eye on him. Prado's not there.
00:39But again, Jason Anderson, watch.
00:42He might sweep to the outside is what I'm anticipating here.
00:46Now he's going to have to really execute this gate drop to be able to do that.
00:50All right, $450, last chance qualifier.
00:58Anderson got the jump a little too far outside.
01:00Josh Cartwright is going to lead them in to the first rhythm.
01:07And Morantz, who just missed in the heat, is second.
01:12How about Cartwright?
01:13If he's able to make it through.
01:15Oh, I don't see Anderson.
01:16No, and you hear the crowd response.
01:18No, Anderson did sneak up on the inside.
01:20But man, about eighth place or so.
01:24Cartwright battling Morantz.
01:26This would be two in a row for Cartwright.
01:28Talk about it, too.
01:29We mentioned it last week.
01:31He's got a daytime job out here.
01:33Went to college, racing while he was in college.
01:36Got his full degree.
01:38Now he lives a normal life, racing on the weekend.
01:41Man, you got to respect that out here battling with the best guys in the world.
01:45No doubt about it.
01:46Okay, here's Anderson.
01:46Watch 21.
01:47Yeah, we heard the crowd react.
01:50Oh, boy.
01:52Short.
01:53Great save, Jason.
01:54Man, that could have been so gnarly.
01:57And you saw Bobby Piazza rolling up on him.
01:59Yeah, I saw Piazza like, oh, no.
02:00Good heads up from Piazza there.
02:03Way to look ahead.
02:05Noren and Tristan Lane battling third and fourth.
02:07They battled for the last transfer a week ago in Glendale.
02:11A rematch right now.
02:12Although they're both in qualifying position.
02:14But for how long?
02:15Because Anderson on the charge.
02:17Battling with Meshi on the 4-11.
02:21Quick pass for Anderson.
02:23You know, Anderson had a tough day in qualifying practice as well.
02:26And I don't know.
02:27It just, like when I was watching him, he had a crash kind of like by the whoop section there.
02:33And he just looked like he was off a little bit.
02:35I'm sure something's going on there.
02:37But definitely this isn't what we normally see from Jason Anderson.
02:43Looks like Hayden Deegan getting ready for the 250 main.
02:45Anderson trying to go outside of Lane.
02:47You don't do that.
02:48That's final transfer spot.
02:51Oh, the lane.
02:52A mistake in the sand.
02:53And Anderson is by.
02:55More 250 riders.
02:56Cameron McAdoo getting ready.
02:57So now Anderson is in a transfer spot.
03:03And again.
03:05I'm trying to think of the last time I saw Jason Anderson in the last chance qualifier.
03:10And my mind escapes me on that.
03:13As four LCQ wins.
03:15But last time was Nashville 2023.
03:17We're going three years ago.
03:19So good call there, RC.
03:21It's been a while.
03:21Here's Norin on the Gizmo Yamaha.
03:24Battling Cartwright.
03:25Oh, man, Cartwright has got some serious pressure.
03:28Look at Norin.
03:29Oh, look at Anderson.
03:31Flying through the whoops.
03:33No surprise.
03:34This is where he fell in practice earlier today.
03:37Right here around this section.
03:39So Morant's out front.
03:41Has three career LCQ wins.
03:43Working on a fourth.
03:44Anderson working on the pass here on Cartwright.
03:51Sometimes it ain't pretty on tracks like this.
03:53No, it's not.
03:54And these last chance qualifiers are just so nerve-wracking.
03:59Anything can happen.
04:01And, you know, like Jason Anderson riding with these guys, it's different.
04:07They race completely different, JT.
04:10Yeah, they do, Ricky.
04:11And just thinking about Jason Anderson in Seattle, as you see Norin make a move and go down there,
04:16that's going to make life a lot easier for Cartwright.
04:18But, Jason Anderson, remember this race was the last race he participated on in the Monster
04:23New Supercross series a year ago.
04:25He stepped away with health issues.
04:27It has not been a lot better today.
04:29He has had a rough day, as Ricky alluded to.
04:31He might go for this win here, but he's probably wondering what in the world is going on with
04:36Seattle a year later.
04:37Yeah, it's much harder, I believe, JT, to anticipate what these guys are doing
04:42and what lines they're going to take compared to riders like Ken Rockson, Eli Toback, Hunter Lawrence.
04:48Great pass by Jason Anderson right up the inside.
04:52Moran's not really defending that position, but he's doing what he needs to do.
04:58Let's get this thing into the big show.
04:59Well, the beneficiary is Tristan Lane, who inherits fourth.
05:04I wonder, did Norin not realize that he was in fourth?
05:07He didn't need to be that aggressive to make the pass for third, but he went for it here.
05:12You see him in the red gear here.
05:15Yeah, I don't think that I'm going to give Norin the benefit of the doubt,
05:19just because he's been in this series for so long.
05:22I don't think he was anticipating for Cartwright to go so far to the inside,
05:26and by that time it was too late, and he saw in the replay he just kind of checked up,
05:31just a hair, and that's when he realized, like, uh-oh, I wasn't anticipating that.
05:37That's Anderson's team there.
05:39Look at the crew. We see you guys down there.
05:41We'll see you, Dave.
05:44That's good.
05:44That's Dave Dye right there.
05:46Yep.
05:47Dave Dye around a long time.
05:48Chad Reed's old mechanic.
05:50Yep.
05:50So Anderson, the clock just missed, but four seconds away from expiring,
05:56so he has to do a whole other lap before the white flag.
06:02And not the way they drew it off to have to go to the LCQ and struggle with the bad
06:06start.
06:07I think about how brutal this track was last year in the main events,
06:11and I think it's going to be a carbon copy here tonight.
06:14I mean, this track was just basically fully prepped before the 250 last chance,
06:19and it is absolutely destroyed within eight to ten minutes of racing.
06:26Right.
06:26So even 250 main.
06:27Right.
06:27It's going to be brutal.
06:29Oh, yeah.
06:29In the 450s.
06:31Moran's holding on to second there in the Champion Tool Storage Machine.
06:36Runs his own operation.
06:37Does Moran's.
06:38Yeah, I mean, look at this guy.
06:39He's one of the top guys in the world.
06:41Yeah.
06:41Top five guys in the world, and you can see how difficult it is.
06:44Now the white flag out for the rider out of New Mexico.
06:49Just cruising.
06:51And a little less drama than maybe you could expect.
06:53You know what I will say, and I mentioned it, you know,
06:56quite a bit in the last chance qualifiers,
06:58but a guy like this for Jason Anderson,
07:00I feel like he can take some information on the track,
07:04just a little information, and pay it forward in the main event.
07:08So this is where it could work out for a guy like this.
07:11Now, does he want to be in this race?
07:12Of course not.
07:14But I think he could use it to his benefit,
07:17maybe on bike setup or how the track is developing.
07:20Maybe it's developing a little bit different than it did in the heat races,
07:23which he didn't really get to ride the heat race.
07:27Probably closer, you think, to main event level?
07:30I don't know.
07:31Those heat races were pretty bad, too.
07:32Yeah, they were pretty bad.
07:35All right, Twisted T, Suzuki to 21.
07:37Jason Anderson wins.
07:41The last chance qualifier, Moran's,
07:45is going to take second lane, and the 7-11 is third.
07:49And Cartwright, led early, holds on for fourth.
07:51That's two main events in a row for Cartwright,
07:53who had not made one in a couple of years until last week.
07:58Got it rolling now.
08:01And Anderson, the 2018 Supercross champ,
08:04going to be in the main tonight.
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