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00:00to the first turn slightly off camber as you get there as well falling away from inside to outside
00:07two slovenians inside the two gates hurlings was around about center of the gate when he
00:11made his foxhole shot in race one can he do something similar there he is to the right of
00:15the box sweeps in again he's got oliver up the inside vial running riders wide including his
00:22teammate but it's adamo i think who grabbed that foxhole shot and it's the italian who leads here
00:30geyser gets a better start stays out of trouble he's second by the time we reach turn four
00:37vial in third place on the number 16 fourth is lucas kunan he too gets a good start
00:41hurlings recovers well i thought he was going to go elbow to elbow with the belgian and he goes around
00:48him kunan wasn't expecting that the bullet knew he had to fire early that's exactly what he's done
00:55he's going to lean on his teammate here if he can tell you what he was brave to cut back
01:00there but
01:01kunan was right there ready to launch him into next week if he got the opportunity
01:07hurlings oh hurlings almost into third and out of third as quick as that kunan will take that gift
01:13threat both hands slick comes up short quite a while he used every ounce of upper body strength
01:24still in the race oh kunan has his moment as well crazy scenes on this opening lap
01:36just catches that horrible hole there not quite a superman air but i tell you what the plums will need
01:42the service in the morning
01:50vial hanging on to third watching all the chaos going on around in between his teammate lucas kunan
01:56kunan taking the breather at the moment just hanging back there in that fifth place
02:02there's a domo who continues to lead geyser second vial on the number 16 how much longer can
02:08he stay ahead of his teammate surely he knows he's there at the moment well i'll tell you what he
02:12tried to run into the outside hurlings was already committed makes the move gets pushed out to the
02:17outside as quick as he thought he'd made that move tom vial not making it easy for the number 84
02:22as they
02:24fight over that third place working their way towards the end of this first official lap there's kunan in blue
02:39got the two honda hrc petronus riders going at it tearing strips off of each other on this opening lap
02:49oh jumping long and deep into that turn jeffrey hurlings
02:57vial being very wide being very stubborn oh came up short again
03:05and untidy at the end of the waves vial looks across this time sees his teammate there knew he
03:11was on a hiding to nothing said you know what okay you take it you need it more than me
03:17pal
03:23geyser homing in on adamo
03:27the shot of adrenaline leading your home grand prix that's what adamo's riding on at the moment
03:38kunan seems to have recovered got himself back together recomposed himself after his moment
03:44from a lap ago looks to go after vial then he'll try and set his sights on hurlings
03:51a little earlier than he could in race one
03:58no reply from geyser at the moment as he continues to pursue the italian andrea
04:05adamo in this amphitheater that is a wall of noise at the moment for the number 80
04:12up onto the plateau right kunan on fial gets around the outside closes him down
04:20yeah looked like it was a little bit off balance there kunan now up in the fourth
04:31adamo set the fastest lap last time around on that opening lap 151 826
04:35will that improve this time around it does falls adamo's way then as quick as it's been set geyser
04:42sets it as well 151 178 these two about two seconds clear of hurlings at the moment there he is
04:49in the
04:49background still pretty greasy through this part of the racetrack as they change direction through
04:56those last three waves
05:00talked about it all weekend needs so much faith and confidence in your
05:04tires adamo from one side of the track to the other almost tagged another front wheel of geyser
05:24this track hasn't been kind to geyser's wheels this weekend as it looked tax the rear wheel of adamo
05:30who went from one side of the track to the other as he kind of lost a little bit of
05:32control there
05:34lucky to stay up but that definitely brought hurlings into play a concerned michele lavetti looking on
05:41there from pit lane
05:45can't afford to leave the door open here hurlings will pounce just was a bike leg shy
05:50of making something happen there whether it was a pass or something that turned into scrap metal
05:55between the two japanese machines
06:01also knows not to rush it this early on in the race
06:05he'll be waiting for a pit board to say who is behind him what the distance is
06:10he's probably taking a sneaky look at some point
06:13i mean knows it might be lucas kuner but he can't be sure
06:19now he does
06:25nash so cool just has one name geyser's mechanic putting out the board to his rider 243
06:43this wave section definitely being tricky for the riders hasn't it over the course of the weekend
06:48i think when they built them it was looking like you could wheelie double double double all your way
06:53around the tighter you got to the inside at the exit but they're rolling more towards the back end
07:01and that's then causing other problems in terms of where the grip may be where you're turning where
07:06you get on the gas where you're fighting the front and the back end so much going on in that
07:11wave
07:11section
07:17great atmosphere though as adamo continues to lead
07:26hadn't led a race in mxgp this year so far
07:30so far is what led three of them all of them coming at home here geyser goes defensive
07:40probably knew that hurlings would have launched an attack if close enough this time around
07:48geyser almost folding the front there hurlings not close enough to pounce or capitalize
07:57every rider here in this top three just pushing the envelope keeping a gap over lucas coonan to the tune
08:05of
08:05about two seconds it was a moment ago coonan may be closing in slightly though we'll do another check as
08:13as they hit the line this time around race one was an 18 lapper the finish was as close as
08:21these three
08:22riders are here watch this here geyser just comes in oh it just folds the front over the top hurlings
08:28had
08:28to react as well any other rider would have probably cleaned out cleaned geyser out
08:34to the outside hurlings being very respectful in that moment
08:45back up into turn 12 hurlings looking for a way through
08:50geyser once bitten twice shy knows he can't make the pass at the top of the hill oh i tell
08:56you what
08:56tucks it right into the side of adamo
09:00it's going to have to re-emerge here this side of the advertising
09:09geyser firm but fair he'd set that up hadn't he and that before
09:14adamo tagged his wheel when he got out of control coming out of turn 12 13. geyser was to the
09:19left
09:19thinking he's staying out of trouble so geyser says okay i'll line you up here gets into the inside of
09:25him
09:25here adamo up on the thing he has to come back around and on the same side of the track
09:32there
09:32not sure if he did or not though but that's what it means to massimo castelli over there on the
09:37left
09:37hand side and you can see how far back adamo is now he's not even in the same shot so
09:45maybe even
09:46tipped over as he tried to get back on track geyser leads though on lap five
10:07how much time did it cost andrea adamo well there's guys and there's herlings there's kunan
10:12there's adamo sorry there's kunan where is adamo he's about two seconds further back two and a half
10:19seconds further back two five time world champs heading uphill
10:36the last time we saw this was a while ago these two fighting over race wins
10:43when geyser won race one in
10:47trentino it's hurlings who finished second that's round five
10:56hurlings looks like he's found his way around this track big panic rev there tries to spook geyser
11:03who takes a look over the shoulder thinks okay this rider behind me means business
11:16chasing the dirt around the outside both in a hurry
11:27downhill for the final time on this lap lap six geyser cleaner through there this time around
11:35a real test this for the championship leader lucas kunan
11:41hurlings now looking back to see how much room he has to work with if he's to plan an attack
11:45on the
11:45243 ahead of him
11:54not an easy corner that to execute so geyser just stumble on the way out
12:01six laps complete geyser continues to lead from hurlings from kunan
12:16where's renault he's in sixth place at the moment behind vial five seconds adrift
12:21i see the back end light up on geyser's machine there just at that final wave
12:26panzer another great weekend for him race two seventh place at the moment
12:35kunan nice out of that turn doubling up onto some of those holes hurlings right of the box
12:40he tries to sweep across as he did in race one this time though tom vial was ready for it
12:45so too was
12:45adamo damo snuck up the inside he backs the foxhole shot hurling's got four swipe there's all kinds of
12:51things going on behind them where's february merge out of all this because february in eighth place at
12:56the moment he tried to take the safety room
13:00renault didn't get a bad start there look but he's obviously been shuffled back
13:04a few positions or just been not able to advance any further
13:07but still there in sixth place
13:13every lap that adamo leads he will believe that he can win this race right hurlings is now
13:24just lose a little bit of gap here
13:33that's right it's not a diamond lead i knew that geyser continues to lead
13:39hurlings just dropping off ever so slight that kept about 1.4 seconds
13:45good looking interesting now closer than he was a lap ago maybe they were 2.9 apart at the top
13:52of the hill
13:54as we reach the finish line at the end of lap seven
13:59that gap 2.5 between the first three riders
14:05geyser has the biggest gap 1.3 hurlings 1.1 clear of kunan
14:18adamo now 4.3 seconds further back
14:22oh kunan fancies his chances got into the rear wheel there it looked like
14:32hurlings didn't even flinch did he if that was the case in that left hander a moment ago
14:38it's just cost him a little bit of time
14:47like kunan back to the drawing board figuring out okay what do i do about
14:51jeffy hurlings this time dealt with him a couple of times
14:57now i've got to figure him out again here on these hard slick conditions
15:03but with 15 minutes plus two laps to go geyser hurlings kunan continue to lead
15:09the top three here in race two
15:19adamo back there in the background on the number 80 he's got vial for close company
15:24maxima closing in on slightly in that sixth place podium right now would be hurlings
15:30the 25 22 giving him 47 points kunan will be second with three uh two third place finishes
15:3640 points maxima don't be on the podium third overall 37 he has a 22 and a 15 he's got
15:43five
15:43points in hand over andrea adamo and tom vial who are tied so could be a first
15:52podium since round three for maxima renault in switzerland where he was second overall he's
15:56signed up third as it stands at the moment
16:08plenty of time left to run though look 14 minutes
16:13plus those two laps
16:24right here's vial closing in on adamo this is for fourth place
16:32it's the corner where geyser muscled his way down the inside of the italian
16:40tom vial not close enough to launch a similar attack
16:45so
16:45still no change bottom corner of your screen between the top three as we follow this battle
16:48here for fourth place geyser hurlings kunan losing a bit of ground that time around though
16:54look at hurlings chasing his way around here
17:05the main battle there look bottom right corner for the race lead
17:1613 minutes plus two laps to go mxgp race to geyser continues to lead the way hurlings all over the
17:22back of him here in second getting closer and closer wheel is onto there beautifully lucas kunan
17:28has just lost a little bit of impetus here lost a bit of ground he'll be hoping that geyser holds
17:34hurlings up to enable the belgian to get himself back on terms with the two riders ahead of him
17:39nine laps complete hurlings sets the fastest lap of the race on that number 84
17:43on the hrc patronus machine that time around he was a 150.245 hurt geyser was a 150.9
17:53150.7 for kunan 2.1 in it between the top three as they hit the line at the end
17:59of lap nine
18:01but look at the urgency of hurlings now chasing a bit more dirt he may find his way through here
18:09geyser reads it well and hurlings tries to do a geyser on geyser
18:17geyser couldn't make it happen if you're with us a couple of laps ago you'll know what i mean
18:22geyser pulled that move on the darmo the darmo was up the bank lost the lead
18:29another nervous look over the shoulder from the 243
18:32oh look at the front and the back end working over time into that bottom corner both machines
18:38more notably the honda i think then looked like he had a two-wheel drift
18:45geyser going defensive hurlings going to the outside looking for a little bit of slingshot
18:49watch this here hurlings oh that front and the back
18:57didn't go so deep in that back to the outside though did he
19:02lucas kunan just sitting there watching and waiting at the moment is there going to be a
19:07an injection of pace from him as this clock ticks down
19:1310 minutes below 10 minutes maybe is he sitting there thinking you know what i have the speed i
19:18have the pace to take the win but just can't find the opportunity to make the pass well as we've
19:25seen
19:25you've got to be forceful just depends whether you want to take that risk or not as a championship leader
19:33came into this weekend 62 points clear did lucas kunan over jeffrey hurlings it was 58 after race one
19:40when hurlings was victorious and kunan only came home third so the bullet gained five points
19:46it's going to gain another two gap is going to come down to 56 if it stays like this
19:55kunan requiring tim guy said to do him a favor there by not allowing the bullet through
20:01otherwise he's going to have to take the matter into his own hands find his way past the 84 by
20:06himself
20:09looks like he's reverting to plan b at the moment getting a bit closer oh hurlings jabs the front
20:15back end comes around of him lucky escape there for the number 84
20:25watch this back end just came around and then the the front dove the back end too high in the
20:31berm
20:31has it caught a kicker on the way in
20:35just pitched offline slightly right he's now gone defensive here traffic on the horizon a little bit
20:42of chatter there at the rear end down the next straight for the bullet
20:47right back marker falls right where he didn't need to
20:57like it was on a sunday jolly world of his own folded the front all by himself
21:05don't even know if he realized geister and found his way past did he at that point because he didn't
21:08look right round to see if anybody else was there
21:18so geister has started to break free hurlings now with his hands full of the young belgian lucas kunan
21:27a proper pressure cooker race this one isn't it guys are needing his first win since trentino race
21:37to his second win on a yamaha hurlings needs to win to put distance or to gain ground
21:45on the rider who seems to be streaking away with his championship before this weekend lucas kunan
21:51he's bridged the gap by a few points at the moment
21:56would like to take a few more here in this race if he can
22:00could maximize that by coming away with another race win but it all depends on this rider right here
22:05tim geister at the moment it's being quite stubborn and stingy with giving up a position
22:13that is the race lead at the moment i tell you what this is the battle for second then isn't
22:17it
22:28here
22:28hurlings had his opportunities squandered each and everyone there were moments as well where he could
22:34been more forceful but was maybe just a bit too gentlemanly one of those at the bottom of the
22:38hill here when Geiser came in just the berm decided to explode the front almost took the front
22:48then there was that one over at turn 14 that long left where Geiser found his way past Adamo
22:55Hurlings maybe could have been a bit more forceful there but chose not to be
22:59and after one or two little mistakes now by himself finds himself on the ropes once again
23:03by Lucas Kunen and Geiser just starting to creep away
23:102.6 it was at the top of the hill by the time we get down to the bottom and
23:14through the finish line
23:16and at the end of 12 laps it's hovering still around about two seconds Leopold and Bjornsson there
23:25staying out of the way
23:36are there going to be a couple more rolls of the dice meanwhile a bit further back
23:40Maxime Renault in six Panzer in the fluorescent in yellow he's in seventh Roma Fever in eighth place
23:48fantastic ride this from Jan Panzer the Slovenian sandwiched between two world champions Maxime
23:54Renault an MX2 world champion and Roma Fever a two-time MXGP world champion the defending champion as well
24:00of course the Kawasaki racing team MXGP
24:05Jan Panzer loving these hard slick conditions
24:11which is probably why we're seeing him up the sharp end this weekend second in the qualifying race
24:19eighth in race one
24:21eighth in race one
24:21Fevre finds his way past him though and puts him into eighth place in race two
24:34he's not going to let it lie though is he coming back for more
24:41so five and a half minutes still to run Geiser Hurlings Kunin separated by 5.5 seconds now with
24:48Geiser 3.3 clear of the bullet Hurlings 2.1 ahead of Lucas Kunin Adamo on his own in fourth
24:55place nine
24:56five seconds further back then we've got Vial then we've got Renault Fevre and Panzer Fevre just
25:02finding his way past the Slovenian but the two French is doing battle here as they fight over sixth
25:2213 laps
25:2313 laps complete
25:26Geiser sees his lead to shrink again to less than three seconds it's now 2.7
25:34it was just over three wasn't it one of the intermediate sectors but
25:392.7 the gap 2.5 now as it corrects itself 2.5 then we've got 2.4 further back
25:47Lucas Kunin
25:49keeping an eye on this battle here though Maxime Renault 959 Monster Energy Yamaha
25:55that corner is very tricky because it's steeper on the exit there than you think
26:00a little bit off camera as well then you've got those horrible holes it's slick and rocky and
26:03unpredictable
26:06Fevre likes this inside line it's where he made his move on Panzer a lap ago
26:15but not close enough to find his way past Renault on the same part of the racetrack
26:28he's in 10th at the moment the number 10 who finished fourth in race one on the red bull ducati
26:44Renault defensive
26:48chooses that long deep rut on the exit
26:53the exit of turn one as well of course brings us up here onto the plateau
27:07Laos
27:08a bit naughty there could have backed off Laos Fevre through
27:15Tim Geiser here just showing you some super slow-mo eyes on the prize
27:25it's a shame that he had that problem in race one because this kind of
27:29pace these kind of conditions tim geyser relishing the situation right now
27:44two and a half minutes plus two laps remain in the second mxgp race here the mxgp have
27:49italy at the miraval circuit in montevacchi things look like they may have just stabilized
27:55ever so slightly now because tim geyser three and a half seconds clear at this point on
27:59the racetrack of that man right there jeffrey hurlings who is eyeing up the overall grand
28:05prix victory of his first since france round six it is fourth of the season chasing the
28:16under their legs were off a moment ago but nothing that sasha coonan wouldn't be able
28:21to handle so now there is no threat from behind from lucas coonan because coonan now another
28:31three and a half seconds further back looks like jeffrey hurlings just weathering this storm
28:37here it was a barn fight of action wasn't it going on earlier on geyser hurlings coonan
28:42very very close three seconds apart one point two and a half seconds a point another time
28:47in the race and you just didn't know which way it was going to go whether hurlings was
28:51going to make a move on geyser coonan on hurlings whether coonan was going to find his way past
28:57both riders challenged for the race lead but really this last lap or so things just settling
29:03down in favor of geyser at the moment he's the rider not taking any chances though 151
29:10one hurlings has backed up the pace to a 52 coonan to a 53
29:16so that tells you all you need to know with just under a minute plus two laps to go hurlings
29:21looking at the grand prix victory yellow's here for vial so vial then out of that fifth
29:38place renault up to fifth that'll strengthen his podium he'll come away from here third
29:43overall he was already on the podium anyway but it's going to be helped so slightly by his
29:51fellow countrymen but renault now under pressure from fevra looking to go outside here
29:58being stubborn as well trying everything he can to stay ahead makes a couple of mistakes he'll
30:03cut back here to the inside well the last time we saw that between these two it didn't end well
30:07for rover fevra in germany in that right hander
30:11red mist coming down he needs the pit board rapido to say just hold you are on the podium max
30:19look the nervous look he knew he'd got himself into trouble cut back to the inside
30:23fevra controlled it
30:26fevra knap in the fifth
30:42the leader's already over the line tim guy says taking the two lap board ah tell you what
30:48one side of the track to the other
30:49back marker almost running into the path there of
30:53robin fevra as he ran to his bike pick himself up get himself into the race
30:59valeri the italian
31:05but two to go watch this here in a battle with bjordson oh i tell you what one side of
31:13the track to
31:13the other fevra goes okay i'll go between the rider and bike almost collected the bike
31:18or the rider on the way through there alessandro valeri obviously never used the green cross code when
31:24he was a kid look left look right before he crossed the road and all the rest of it almost
31:29straight
31:29into oncoming traffic last time you saw that was ricky carmichael wasn't it in the whoops
31:35crashed out picked himself up ran forks in the side of the head put him down again
31:39i think we saw too much of him after that did we that night
31:46KO'd anyway renault under pressure from the two five three of jan panzer these two are going to be
31:54fighting over sixth place renault's third overall at the moment with 37 adama with 32 points
32:01there's jonas there knocking on the door as well in eighth
32:07pats are looking at eighth overall the slovenian got an eighth in latvia as well so all of a sudden
32:14a bit of consistency for the two five three tim jp two five three rider
32:24geyser has weathered the storm here hasn't he
32:32dealt with the threat that was hurlings and kunan goes into the final lap with about a six second
32:38advantage over the bullet
32:49knows he can afford to back things off ever so slightly now on this final lap knowing that there
32:55is no threat from behind
33:06but it's going to be jeffrey hurlings who comes away with the grand prix victory
33:10with his consistency a win in race one the second in race two
33:24wasn't easy had to work every step of the way for it didn't he
33:38but all of a sudden he's put himself in that position
33:44where he can win a race for the second time this year been a rocky road to get here as
33:50well hasn't
33:50it france he had that first turn crash germany first lap crash battered and bruised over the
33:56last couple of rounds riding through the pain barrier needed that weekend off a week ago after
34:02that via unfortunate in race one here
34:08with that wheel issue after the start colliding with another rider
34:14but tim geyser
34:19will round out the final turn
34:23he will cruise towards a checkered flag
34:27tim geyser wins race two
34:33not able to do anything about the overall grand prix victory that will belong to jeffrey hurlings
34:58win number 116 win number 116 in the books
35:0548 different track locations now
35:1024 different countries of course because he has won in italy no fewer than 20 times now
35:17adding montevacchi to that list that includes trentino
35:21maggiore mantava rio lasano fermo faenza imola now here in montevacchi
35:38so race two done and dusted hurlings kunan maxima no will be on the podium
35:43but until now
35:43of course
35:43for
35:44like
35:45uh
35:452007
35:45hello
35:46expedition
35:46Amen.
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