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00:00for p2 450s here in st. Louis the drone shot from above Hunter Lawrence with the
00:08hole shot love that drone shot from behind you can see everything developing
00:14right there great start for Hunter Lawrence and Ken Rockson Justin Hill is
00:20up there Justin leaps his way into second oh Kenny makes a massive mistake
00:25in that rhythm lane just look at the gap that Hunter Lawrence is able to
00:29pull on these guys you talk about taking what happened last week to Hunter
00:37Lawrence and putting it away for another weekend boom this is what you have to do
00:41this is how you respond and again I talked about it at the top of the show
00:46look at that speed from rocks and he had speed in the woods all day today qualifying
00:52practice great to see Kenny just absolutely peaking right now if you if
00:58you didn't hear will say it earlier Rockson's fastest qualifier that's the
01:02first time that's happened in over a year good to see Joe Shimoda up not great to
01:08see him on crunches but at least he's vertical see Joey Sabaci over there too
01:12oh rocks into the lead this guy has got it going on right now he's absolutely
01:20flowing and that wind came at a perfect time I'll tell you what man if Ken was
01:26able to come back win this championship it's the only championship other than
01:31the SMX world championship that has eluded him through his career and man this
01:36would just be icing on the cake for him I was talking to his team manager via text
01:42today Larry Brooks and Larry said Kenny is as happy with the fight now JT and he's
01:49as happy with these starts and he's been in a long time well it often looks awfully
01:54like that he is just on rails right now and you know when I watch these guys you
01:59know yes they're battling for position and gate picking all these things in the
02:02heat race but there's a lot of messages being sent because for hunter he wants to
02:06get back out there when the heat race and say yeah I crashed so what but it's
02:10business as usual but for Kenny he wants to kind of change the narrative and say
02:14it doesn't matter what you did last week crash or not I'm the fastest guy in the
02:18series now you guys ever all better be on watch for the points from here on out so
02:23it's the subliminal stuff that goes on between the minds of these racers that I
02:27find so fascinating well I mean again JT you and I talked about it off air it's
02:33just how important it is at this time of the year and to keep it going and again
02:37like I talked about at the top of the show I mean yeah Hunter was bummed but at
02:42the same time he's so happy with where his riding is that you know he feels
02:46confident that he can get back in the groove and he's gotten a good start here
02:50now this is the guy that it just doesn't seem like he's been the same and he's
02:54got to find that mojo and that beast mode and activate that thing before Ken
03:00Rockson can continue to put in the rides like he did last year and Hunter Lawrence get
03:05back to the form that he was before last week Will speaking to Eli yesterday Ricky he did say well
03:12go back a couple of weeks he said Birmingham I just physically wasn't feeling very well he
03:16was under the weather there and then he said last week he just described it as being off he
03:20also said that himself and the team went to California and tested for a couple of days
03:26last week speaking to crew chiefs and team managers they said that they found some stuff in
03:31the suspension that they wanted him to try and that this was simply about as they as the series
03:35here sort of continues he's just adjusting for that dirt well update during the day update during
03:42the day today is timeout moves all attempts on Justin Hill again there through the works update
03:47during the day they said they're not exactly where they were they just had to continue to tweak it
03:51and that's been the story today for a lot of riders because this dirt Ricky has caught them out it's
03:56been a lot
03:57softer than anybody predicted well and I think that you know he's been able to put this bike in a
04:02lot of
04:02different track conditions sand hard pack gravel and it's worked pretty well but definitely it seems
04:11like things are a lot different JT than it was the first six rounds and this is a time where
04:16you really
04:17need to be shining yeah and there was a lot of talk this week everybody's just wondering what's up with
04:22Eli Tomac and you know to his credit he says hey I'm not injured but the bigger point is that
04:29the way
04:29he's riding it doesn't matter if he's injured it doesn't matter if they're chasing something on the
04:33motorcycle it's too punitive in the championship to simply perform to this level if he wants to win
04:39and just look at this heat race we're still a minute left and he's 10 seconds down that is continuing
04:45the
04:46trend that we've seen over the last few races that simply will not be enough to get this job done
04:51well JT and to add on to what you're saying when I'm watching Eli you know I talked about it
04:56last
04:56week in Detroit where I just it looked like his bike wasn't flowing in the corners he was struggling
05:01and then I just don't like the attack position I don't see it it doesn't look like he's chasing
05:07down the rhythm yeah it just looks like everything is like he's second guessing everything and that he's
05:13not trusting it like he was early in the season look at this guy Malcolm Stewart sits third at the
05:19moment that's where he finished in last week's main event for his first podium on the season and
05:23Malcolm just has this really awesome run of momentum at the moment as he's ahead of Jorge Prado
05:29Malcolm's finished 10th 7th 5th and 3rd in the last four races that is awesome momentum he said
05:37I'm feeling good again now it's a little bit strange to be doing it alone because his training
05:42partners RJ Hampshire and Aaron Plessinger aren't around yeah so he said that's we have a lot of fun
05:47together and he said having to do it by myself isn't great but getting on the podium sure felt
05:53good well absolutely it's getting better every single weekend get healthy like you just talked
05:57about but also I go back to like practicing by yourself it's great having practice partners
06:02but sometimes when you're by yourself yeah maybe it can be boring but you can just focus on what
06:07you're doing and rather than racing your your practice mates so I think it's twofold there
06:13shout out to RJ Hampshire and Aaron Plessinger hurry back fellas heal up and boys come on back
06:20final lap for Ken Roxton with a whopping five second lead
06:27great run through the whoops he was fast in qualifying practice again
06:30when I was down on the track watching it and man this guy is grooving right now
06:36I feel like he's got to have some confidence when he showed talked about that win and his first
06:41win back from that massive injury uh in 2020 gotta feel good coming back well what it was what it
06:47was
06:48it was answering the critics of everybody saying oh second half of the season he always fades he's
06:52never around can't keep it together he's like yeah you want me to show you here it is oh we're
06:58and
06:58we're in the show me state brother he's showing it yeah Ben Roxton had to fight to get into the
07:03lead
07:04and then as gapped Hunter Lawrence successfully as he works his way through some traffic by the way
07:11Mitchell Harrison is in that final transfer position as Roxton wins the heat here in St. Louis
07:18great right through it's good scrap between Vince Friese and Mitchell Harrison oh Friese he
07:24messed that rhythm lane up it's gonna be fireworks I could guarantee you in that corner if you had he
07:30not
07:31messed up but Harrison's gonna get it this is towards the end of the lap you got this big double
07:36here
07:37and then make a right-hander and there's the finish
07:42so Jordan Smith Mitchell Harrison eighth and ninth to go through to the 450 main event
07:48but the race was won by this guy here who's got a trend going right now of being number one
07:55last week qualifying and the heat
07:57you
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