00:00after 12 rounds we couldn't ask for it to be any better yeah we could and all these guys want
00:05to
00:05win for different reasons you know they're going out to the same goal but you know i think it's
00:09very important for all of them this guy on this on the screen he's got their red play but he
00:14needs
00:14to get back to where he believes and um you know so far he's been looking great all day long
00:19he's
00:19gonna have his hands full today well defending monster energy supercross champ cooper webb i
00:25mean listen i go back he was in ken roxon's spot two weeks ago like right now so you think
00:31he could
00:32get two in a row the guy is capable of it uh his championship hopes could look a lot different
00:37still mathematically in this game and man what a way it would be for him to come out here and
00:42possibly get a win got to get back on the podium he hasn't been hasn't been on the podium the
00:46last
00:47three races uh cooper webb so he needs to chase sexton had that really hard impact last weekend
00:54in st louis and could not finish the race had a little fall earlier today as well he was able
01:00to
01:00bounce back up but he was frustrated and mad at himself it was an unforced error so we'll see if
01:06he
01:06can get the day off to the right start here 450 heat one in nashville let's go
01:13great start justin cooper look at that the 32 out in front we got two riders down at the back
01:20hunter lawrence slots in the second yeah justin cooper's always been a great starter so has hunter
01:25lawrence but as it today goes on you're going to watch these guys um that first corner get really
01:30slippery wow did you see justin cooper jumping through the whoops haven't seen many people do
01:35that all day long and he just comes out firing the first lap of the heat race that is going
01:41to be a
01:42really good line later on main event time as those woods become more challenging cupped out dry and
01:49slick i feel like justin's been brought really good all year but ever since that he got that win over
01:54eli and that triple crown i believe it was at indy been a different rider um so far it really
02:00feels
02:00like he can win these things and and you think about it you talk about the smx playoffs okay justin
02:06cooper
02:06he came into the playoffs last year as the number one seed and throughout his career he continues to
02:12get better as the series goes on so no surprise bottom box the fourth monster energy kawasaki
02:20of chase sexton he didn't fall he just got a shocker of a start and is having to work his
02:25way through this field yeah it's been a struggle so far this year for number four kawasaki monster
02:32kawasaki chase sexton we know how fast he's always been his whole career but i think he's really
02:37fighting the the inner demons right now you know just the mental battles it's a different spot than
02:42he's been in in his career and it's going to take a lot to get out of it this bad
02:46start today is not
02:46a good one either i want to give a shout out to his teammate who just got overtaken by cooper
02:51webb that
02:51was a terrific start by garrett marchbanks and he was running third until webb snatched that away from him
02:57now he's going to try and hang on the fourth spot here ahead of joey cevacci
03:05first full-time year on a 450 for march banks and with each and every round that goes by rc
03:11he's
03:11looking more and more comfortable well he is and he's been able to put repetitive laps in throughout
03:16the year working closely with that race team at the monster energy kawasaki factory racing team and
03:22it's great to see his progression you can see the confidence building each and every week
03:30this is the fight for getting into ninth place shane mattelrath on the 12 on the inside line
03:36vince frieze ahead of the four of chase sexton so they're scrapping it out and chase has got
03:42to get by at least one of these guys to transfer straight through to the main event and james when
03:46i watch the number four of chase sexton right here just seems like that urgency isn't there at the
03:52moment i know it's you know the it's congested right now it's early in this heat but definitely
03:57doesn't look like he's taking chances no you're 100 right and yeah i was going to say that as well
04:02you can tell by he's just standing up in the corners and like you said there's a lot of traffic
04:06in front
04:06of him but chase can make some of these passes if he wanted to you can just tell he's not
04:10something's
04:11going on i don't think we'll have a problem with getting qualified but the number four doesn't look
04:16normal to me cole thompson's doing a nice job just behind dylan ferrandes and they're ahead of these
04:23guys here that's vince frieze on the 719 as he goes through the sand there's cole thompson on the 66
04:31but he's in an immediate transfer position always a bonus for these guys when you don't have to go
04:36through to the last chance qualifier this would be huge no mistake out there should have mackerelrath
04:46there we go so chase sexton gets shane mackerelrath so now finally moves up into the top nine
04:55oh big jump there from thompson and he goes over the back of the berm yeah yeah saw a couple
05:02guys
05:02do that earlier just they try to get on this that rhythm if they get it off that 90 cup
05:07that 90
05:08degrees corner comes out so quickly and it being slippery with these rocks just have a hard time
05:12getting it stopped meanwhile let's go back up front and something has clicked late in this supercross
05:19season for justin cooper because last week jt on the podium he's just kind of found a new rhythm
05:28and he's headed towards his fourth career heat win if he can keep it here
05:36yeah he looks pretty good jt yeah just watching jay cooper you're so right there lee and i'll tell
05:42you what's really important about this particular heat race justin cooper wants to jump the loop that
05:47is his preferred method through them but typically he needs to wait until later in the program that main
05:52event for it to be effective for it to be this dynamic this early bodes really well because
05:58typically the whoops are going to deteriorate and blitzing will become slower to be effective
06:04here if he gets a start in the main event guys this may be the chance for him to get
06:08that win
06:18guys hunter lawrence in second right now in this situation we saw on that awesome graphic the bike
06:23graphic that we showed that kind of dip that we saw at a hunter that was at the detroit ground
06:27after a huge
06:28crash at the end of the whoops that lost him a lot of points well leading into the next round
06:33that
06:33was last weekend in st louis we did find out after the fact that he had a sore wrist from
06:39that he
06:39told me that he was kind of trying to ride through it the lead the week leading up to it
06:43but he did
06:44finish third on the podium and said afterwards no it was a problem so i checked in today see how
06:47that
06:48was he didn't ride barely at all this week he said it's time to rest he was getting therapy from
06:52doc g his physiotherapist there and said this week honestly he's barely even noticing it i did see it
06:57taped up and a big improvement for hunter lawrence you can see some urgency right there with hunter
07:01lawrence but i want to every point out this is a type of track and james was talking about it
07:06a few laps ago talked about how slick those 90 degree corners is this is a track that's going to
07:12be
07:12difficult to make up time why because of those slick conditions it's very marbly and slick and when you
07:18apply that pressure you're going to break that back end loose you're going to start to spin and
07:22you're not going to get the the forward motion that you need to possibly make up time so when you
07:28make a pass it's going to have to be planned out it has going to have to be done with
07:33precision
07:36in the closing laps of this first 450 heat does justin cooper get back-to-back heat wins
07:44in successive weeks we'll see big launch into the sand section right it down they'll see the white
07:52flag next time by signifying one lap to go watching this track here james it's looking like it's going
07:58to be fairly difficult to pass on with these 90s and like we talked about like and how you mentioned
08:04how slick it is as well yeah no i agree and i think what you're gonna have to do you
08:08just got to be
08:08patient get up on that guy and when you get close to him kind of make an aggressive pass like
08:13what we saw
08:14set fair but aggressive and try to hold these guys off because even with the wolf section i don't
08:19think blixen is really going to help these guys enough um to tonight and and again like you talked
08:24about be right on that rider in front of you when when it's time you make the move what you
08:29can't do
08:29is make a failed attempt because when you do that you lose so much more time this has been a
08:36terrific
08:37ride to start this nashville weekend for justin cooper aboard the monster energy star yamaha there's been
08:46a rapid increase in the confidence level the comfort level and look at this for conviction
08:52heat wins second in a row in two weeks for justin cooper that first career main event win maybe getting
09:01closer than we think i was just thinking while you said that we might see something special here tonight in
09:06main event today hunter lawrence continues his amazing consistency and then cooper webb but
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