Sacha Coenen dominates the sand! Round 6 of the 2026 AMA Pro Motocross Championship kicked off with an absolute thriller at The Wick 338, and 250 Moto 1 lived up to every bit of the Southwick hype!
From the moment the gate dropped, the brutal, deep sand tracks tested the riders to their absolute limits. But it was Sacha Coenen on the #109 KTM who put on a masterclass performance. After showcasing his blazing speed earlier in qualifying, Coenen grabbed a great start, found the perfect lines, and managed a relentless pace to take a spectacular victory in Moto 1! He withstood intense pressure from the championship contenders behind him to cross the checkered flag first in one of the most physically demanding races of the summer.
Check out the full race highlights, key passes, and the official top 10 results from 250 Moto 1 right here!
Do you think Sacha Coenen can repeat this performance in Moto 2 and take the overall win? Drop your thoughts below! 👇
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From the moment the gate dropped, the brutal, deep sand tracks tested the riders to their absolute limits. But it was Sacha Coenen on the #109 KTM who put on a masterclass performance. After showcasing his blazing speed earlier in qualifying, Coenen grabbed a great start, found the perfect lines, and managed a relentless pace to take a spectacular victory in Moto 1! He withstood intense pressure from the championship contenders behind him to cross the checkered flag first in one of the most physically demanding races of the summer.
Check out the full race highlights, key passes, and the official top 10 results from 250 Moto 1 right here!
Do you think Sacha Coenen can repeat this performance in Moto 2 and take the overall win? Drop your thoughts below! 👇
Subscribe to Global Racing for full coverage, daily highlights, qualifying updates, and race results throughout the 2026 Pro Motocross season!
#globalracing #southwickmx #250mx #sachacoenen #109 #moto1 #promotocross2026 #amapromotocross #ktm #dirtbike #racinghighlights #thewick338 #motocross
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00:00that championship, but they were pretty quick this morning as well.
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00:11Remember that right-handed first corner, guys, will not be able to hit their brakes, so you
00:15see a lot of pileup, but hopefully everybody can get through it.
00:18Cannon was the fastest in the opening qualifying session, the B Group, this morning.
00:23Clearly comfortable on sand, but again, they have never raced in the United States.
00:38Here we go, Southwood for the one.
00:44Davies and Kooning, great launches, Kooning comes in hot.
00:48Can he hold on to it?
00:49Davies gets it.
00:51Boy, did he come in hot.
00:52I actually thought Lucas, guys, Sasha got a great jump, but look at this battle.
00:56You can tell who wants to be out front.
00:57It is Sasha jumping ahead of Cole Davies.
01:00He almost goes down right there.
01:02This kid's here.
01:03He's gone down, nearly gone down a couple of times, but oh, and just held on to it.
01:09Hey, it's a wild ride with Sasha.
01:10The speed is there.
01:12Yes, he will fall a time or two throughout most race weekends when he's back at MXGP,
01:16but he held on to it this time, and he has the lead.
01:19Yeah, Cole's probably looking out like, man, that boy, that boy, crazy out there.
01:22He's going for it, but that's what he does, and this kid is so good in the opening laps.
01:27He takes those chances, but here today, you can already start to see that gap,
01:31and I believe once he gets that gap, you might see what he did in Thunder Valley.
01:35Be able to calm down.
01:36He's going to be hard to beat.
01:37He won the second moto.
01:38Yeah, there in Thunder Valley.
01:40Almost tucked it again, JT.
01:42I hope he signed the waiver because this is a Sasha Coonan experience.
01:46It's high risk, high reward.
01:48When it works, he wins.
01:49When it doesn't, he finds himself on the ground.
01:52So far, we've got a little bit of both.
01:54Yeah, those are crashes where he just didn't fall.
01:56Somehow with those saves, Davies hitching a ride in second.
02:01Fans loving it.
02:03Yeah, I mean, how can you not?
02:04He's coming over here, and I think the thing for Sasha is he hasn't raced these guys a lot.
02:09You know, only once really, so he doesn't know the speed compared to where his series.
02:13Maybe he won't be so, you know, wide open, I would say, out here because he knows these guys.
02:19Right now, he's just running away, trying to go, and he's going to look back,
02:22almost have a two-second lead on this opening lap.
02:26It's going to be Haidus up to fourth behind DeFrancisco.
02:30Then Cochran and Kitchen coming through next.
02:34One lap in the books.
02:35Sasha Coonan leads.
02:36Let's go to Katie.
02:37One of the things that's really cool about Southwick is the mechanics area here behind me,
02:41and you're going to see these bikes coming by at around 40 to 50 miles per hour.
02:45On those 450s, it's like between 60 and 70.
02:48Now, Cole Davies made some changes here on his bike in qualifying between the two sessions.
02:54Check out this seat, of course.
02:55Wow, best seat in the house, guys.
02:57I'm telling you what, this is awesome.
02:58But as these guys are going by, Cole Davies did make a change there in qualifying to make that bike
03:03a little bit more comfortable,
03:04and he was stoked that he put together that fast lap in that second qualifying where many people weren't able
03:09to do that.
03:10I'm just going to live this up right here, guys.
03:12I'm going to get back to racing.
03:12This is awesome.
03:13It's not often on a hot and humid day we're jealous of not being outside, Katie,
03:17but you do have the best spot in the house at Southwick as Coonan gets away from Davies.
03:22Now, Davies has never ridden this track either.
03:25Almost all these tracks are new to him.
03:26I talked to Cole's mechanic earlier, and he said, yeah, MX Bikes, the computer sim game,
03:31apparently doesn't get it done because his first practice session wasn't so good.
03:35Davies was the fastest in the second session.
03:38But we're going to show you the gap here.
03:41There's Coonan, there's Davies.
03:42Yeah, well, I think Cole's in a tough spot, really,
03:45because right now he's doing exactly what he needs to do with Joe Shimoda being out, Levi Mahana.
03:49He's got this championship to worry about as he takes a look back.
03:53Sasha's not in it, but at the same time, you want to go after that one of 109 up front,
03:57JT.
03:58Yeah, and realistically, I think you kind of have to just keep your head about you, right?
04:02Whatever Sasha Coonan does for this championship is completely irrelevant.
04:05He already kind of caught a break with his Shimoda injury.
04:09The championship's looking up.
04:10He's got a little bit of a gap to GiFrancisco.
04:12So if you can just take the pride out of it and not think so much about Coonan,
04:16this is exactly what he needs to be doing.
04:19Yeah, I agree with that.
04:21And I think at the same time, this track's a lot different than it was earlier.
04:25So they're going to have to adjust and be in your first time.
04:28Maybe it's just new to Cole all in general.
04:30Nonetheless, he looks good.
04:32So with Shimoda out with the collarbone injury, the point leader,
04:36one of the other title contenders that's going to have a focus on him now is Levi Kitchen.
04:40But what happened?
04:41He lost him behind the tree.
04:42Yeah, it looks like he goes down.
04:44Yeah, you can see him on the inside of the racetrack.
04:46So, yeah, maybe what we saw in Sasha almost do the same thing.
04:50The first couple laps, Levi gets bit by it.
04:53Not the way you want to start the race.
04:55And that's going to put Kitchen back tonight behind Garcia, the visitor from Spain.
05:00Kitchen able to make the move on him.
05:03And he's right behind Beaumere, who's fourth in point.
05:06So they got work to do.
05:07Yeah, but that was a good move by Levi to be able to.
05:09Normally when a guy goes down, it takes him a couple laps or a full lap to get the rhythm
05:14back.
05:14Levi already made that pass.
05:16And I just showed you how important he understands how important this race is to get up there with Cole
05:20Davies,
05:21the guy he needs to chase down for his points at the moment.
05:24Good move by Levi.
05:25Let's see if he can continue to move on.
05:30There's Beaumere.
05:32Battling it out with Kitchen.
05:34Beaumere, the Orange 13, the Red Bull KTM.
05:37Had speed last week.
05:38Happy with the way he rode.
05:39But it doesn't show in the results.
05:41Got stuck on the track on lap one of the first moto.
05:45And then two crashes in the second moto.
05:47Look at this, Garcia.
05:49He's got a line looking to pass Kitchen back.
05:51Yeah, that was all caused because of Levi made a mistake in the corner four.
05:55This is actually the second time in the last couple of corners that I've seen him outside the berm.
06:00And come on, Levi, chase that dirt, baby.
06:02That's not what I mean.
06:03That's not my keys.
06:05He's chasing it in the wrong way.
06:07JT, what are you seeing from the young number 290 here?
06:10Well, he's your current DMX championship points leader for the 250 class.
06:15And that's a European motocross championship.
06:17It's basically the feeder series for the MX2 class in which Sasha Kunin is your current points leader.
06:23Now, this kid is on the rise.
06:25It sounds like he's going to be going to the factory level of the MX2 class, probably with Kawasaki.
06:29This is a great showing for him in his first competition in America.
06:34Yeah, no doubt there are a lot of fans out here saying, who is 290?
06:38This is the Bud Racing Kawasaki team.
06:40They are a French-based team.
06:43And Garcia and Tannen, the two riders, said, this is a gift to us.
06:48They rewarded us for the good riding.
06:49They're 1-2 in that European championship.
06:52So, they gave him a gift and a weekend off to bring some bikes and get ready for Southwick, and
06:56he's riding well.
06:57Yeah, great opportunity for these guys.
06:59And, you know, you've got to believe that's going to help him moving forward, just in his belief,
07:03to be able to come over here first time and be running up here with another guy.
07:07I think in the top of our screen, we might have seen Levi get close to, or maybe going around,
07:12Julian.
07:15So, he might still be behind him, but Levi's moving forward, if you're watching Garcia here.
07:21And then shout-out to Bumford, just ahead of that group.
07:23He has been rock-solid this year, and he is in sixth on the number 71, the AEO Power Sports
07:28KTM.
07:29Here's Garcia.
07:30He's going to have Thrasher coming through next.
07:32I thought so, too.
07:34I thought Kitchin had made the move on Beaumare.
07:36Beaumare in the 13th, still ahead.
07:38Yeah, the one thing with this, especially early in this race, these lines are still developing.
07:42And so, it's not rough enough to where he can take the outside lines and it'll be a lot faster.
07:48But still like what I see with Levi, he's making opportunities, trying to make that opportunity eventually to come out.
07:55And Bumford leading this group.
07:57He has been great this season, as mentioned.
07:59As for Bill Maher, I told you the story from last week.
08:01Let him describe it.
08:05Yeah, just bad starts last week.
08:06And then I went down on lap one.
08:07It was 40th.
08:09Came back to 15th.
08:10Riding was phenomenal.
08:12Just can't put myself in that position.
08:13And again, moto two.
08:15Started in the back.
08:16Had a big crash on lap three.
08:18Took the rear brake rotor in between my fingers.
08:21Destroyed my finger.
08:21Burnt everything.
08:22And came back from last to 18th with basically one hand.
08:28So, yeah, my riding's great.
08:31Doesn't show last weekend.
08:32But we can take a lot of positives from it.
08:34And, yeah, I'm ready to go.
08:36In talking to him today, he said that he's feeling good.
08:39The hand's wrapped up.
08:40But, guys, one of the things I think is really fascinating about Juju and different than a lot of these
08:44other guys, right, are his jet skiing championship days.
08:46And I was talking to him about the relatability between sand and water.
08:50And he says this is one of those tracks and this style of racing is something he is comfortable on.
08:55Riding jet skis growing up.
08:56The way water moves is similar to how sand moves.
08:59And you have to always adapt.
09:01So he does have that in his back pocket.
09:02And he's kind of excited to be out running in the sand.
09:05Oh, getting in the deep end now, though, is Kitchin.
09:08He was right there on the outside.
09:10Katie, can he make the pass?
09:12He does.
09:14Great move.
09:14This is what I thought I saw the lap before.
09:16But, yeah, Levi's doing a great job.
09:19You can see his number plate's already covered.
09:21Not only you have to deal with just the bumps and ruts, you have to deal with being able to
09:25breathe.
09:25That sand gets into you.
09:26It sticks in your mouth.
09:27So a lot of action, but great pass by him.
09:30Let's see if he can continue moving up.
09:31He's got Carson right in front of him.
09:36And how about Bumpy?
09:38That is not the full factory bug.
09:39AEO KTM does get some support.
09:43KTM, what they call their factory services.
09:45But it's not quite the same level as what Bomer or Coonan have.
09:49But he has been running inside the top ten, honestly, more often than not this summer.
09:53Yeah, I feel like we've talked about Carson quite a bit.
09:56This summer.
09:57Good to see him up here.
09:59And only the more of these opportunities, the better he'll get and get more support for him and his team.
10:06Kitchen trying to make a move here.
10:08JT might have it.
10:09And he does.
10:10Yeah, and it's reassuring to see Kitchen moving forward.
10:13But if you think about big picture for Levi Kitchen in this championship,
10:17I'm not sure how much more of help he could possibly ask for.
10:22His teammate, Seth Handmaker, goes out with injury at high point.
10:24Joe Shimoda goes out with injury.
10:26He's up against a rookie who has never raced these particular racetracks before.
10:31And for Kitchen, it's really his time.
10:34A lot of people thought this would be the year that he had to break out, had to go in,
10:38because the riders who had stopped him from winning championships in the past
10:41have exited the series, namely Hayden Deegan.
10:44So for Levi Kitchen, it's starting to feel like now or never.
10:49Critical juncture here then for the 47 out of Washington State just further up the track.
10:55You see Davies.
10:56Then it's Ryder DeFrancisco.
10:58That's Dwight, number 34, working on maybe back-to-back podiums.
11:02Got one last week, running third in this moto right now.
11:06And then Chance Hymas, season best for him, is a fifth in a moto.
11:09He is running fourth.
11:11Yeah, but that fifth place was last weekend.
11:13So you've got to start thinking this is what we expected with Chance.
11:17And really for all these guys, it really just comes down to it's just that belief,
11:20being able to run that pace.
11:21And Chance won races in dominant fashion.
11:24But this year started off a little rough.
11:26Last weekend, started to see a little bit of Chance Hymas.
11:28And now he's battling up here for a podium.
11:31Chance there on the red Honda with the blue gear.
11:33And I talked to Chance.
11:35He had a shoulder injury dating back to Supercross that he originally didn't think would be that bad.
11:40So I didn't even realize how big a topic that would be.
11:42But he said, might have had it in a sling too long.
11:45Got frozen shoulder.
11:47And he honestly said when he got back on the bike,
11:49it's the first time he's ever struggled with the,
11:51I'm a little worried about getting hurt.
11:52He's had three different ACL surgeries, but the knees have not bothered him.
11:56So he's working on it mentally, he admits right now, as well as physically.
12:00Yeah, and that's tough as a rider.
12:02And especially when they come back to back like Chance.
12:05Every time he gets going, he has these fallbacks, so setbacks.
12:09So for him, you've got to expect maybe the mental side of things
12:12and try not to get hurt with a new injury with his shoulder is a lot different.
12:15But he's got a great team with Jet Lawrence, Hunter Lawrence, HRC.
12:20I think they'll figure it out.
12:21And, you know, I'd like to see Chance in that top five.
12:24You're seeing improvements for sure from the 29.
12:26Then you get the gaps back there to Kitchen and Beaumere.
12:32I got Cochran listed as fifth right now.
12:35So that's a good run for him, backing up where he was top five last time out
12:39at Red Boat as well.
12:41So those Rockstar Husqvarna's are rallying.
12:44That's what Beaumere, you heard of the soundbite and mentioning he took a brake rotor to the hand.
12:48He said he crashed.
12:49He thought he was going to get tagged by the bike.
12:51He put his hands up to protect himself, and the brake rotor went right in between.
12:55If I have this right, I think between his ring and middle fingers, and his whole hand was gashed.
13:00Didn't feel the pain during a 30-minute moto.
13:02Blocked it out.
13:03Said as soon as he got back to the truck and the race was over, he was screaming with how
13:07bad that hurt.
13:08But adrenaline, it'll get you through a moto.
13:10It gets you through a lot of things.
13:11Eventually, when that wears off, reality sinks in.
13:14But, yeah, you've got to believe that it's probably still bothering him now, you know, thinking about it.
13:19So I think Julian was riding a little bit better before those crashes.
13:22I'm sure something's not right, but still doing a good job inside that top ten as we're watching now.
13:28Nate Thrasher, another guy that you kind of expect towards the front.
13:31He's had a tough season so far.
13:34Yeah, got in the top ten last time out at Red Boat after missing some time early in the year.
13:40Oh, Davies from second has fallen down, and he's in a bad spot.
13:44Now, Cole, what an opportunity.
13:47I think Kitchin went by.
13:49Yeah, Levi just went around it.
13:50He can't get the bike started.
13:51Oh, that's not good.
13:53What is happening to the would-be points leader of this series?
13:57But he lost a lot of time.
13:59He's right back to where Thrasher and Minear are for tenth, and Thrasher gives no quarter.
14:04Yeah, Nate, he tried his best not to hit him.
14:07There was nothing he could do.
14:08Now he's got Caden Minear trying to go up the inside, and this is not what you want if you're
14:12Cole Davies.
14:13He's in a perfect spot with Levi being farther back, him out there.
14:18Here it is.
14:19He's out there.
14:20The start straight, the sweeper corner up here.
14:24Everything looks good.
14:25You start to see that front end watching there.
14:27Everything looks all right.
14:27Yep, there it is, and easy to happen.
14:31This track has a really hard base, so you probably didn't see, but his front end probably started watching,
14:36and then you get up in that beach, that sand, and instantly stop.
14:40Not a big fall, but Kostin went for 37, Cole Davies.
14:44Well, here's how Kostin would be.
14:46You freeze the field in this position right now.
14:49Kitchen would be the series championship leader.
14:51Look at the graphic.
14:52Left side of the screen.
14:53Kitchen would have a three-point lead on Davies, though, and then Shimoda drifting back
14:57because he's not competing today with the collarbone injury.
15:00So critical mistake.
15:02That's a lot of momentum for the 37 that he just threw away.
15:06Yeah, and we've seen this a couple times earlier in the season where Cole went down early in the races
15:11and seemed like he had plenty of time to get back, but then things just kept, you know, transpiring,
15:16whether it was a bike issue or him.
15:17So for him, I think it's really important to march your way back up front.
15:21Even if you can't get back on the podium and get near Levi, you need to be in that top
15:25five
15:25and not have what happened early in the year.
15:29Mumford right ahead of this group right here on the orange, KTM, and then Garcia.
15:34Garcia, so opportunity here for Davies to make some passes, but not going to be easy.
15:41It looks like he had something hanging down on the right side of his bike.
15:44His bike, I can't tell if that's a shadow or something.
15:49JT.
15:50Just watching Cole Davies here as he's trying to hold off.
15:53Looks like Muneer, who's been riding really well all day,
15:56you can see him just losing the low side there so often,
16:00and that is just such a nuance of Southwick because, yes, it is sand,
16:04but that hard base that James has been talking about, the front end wants to push high
16:08because all your balance, you want to be on the outside, lean into the sand,
16:12but when you get to that hard base, it steps out to the low side.
16:14It's a really difficult thing to contend with because it seems like you can't really do anything right.
16:19So you saw Sasha Kuhnab battling it on the opening lap, losing the low side over and over,
16:24but it is just very uniquely Southwick, and I think for both of those two,
16:27this is their first time here, so they're learning that on the fly.
16:31JT, one of the things that Cole Davies' pit board is saying is focus forward
16:35as he's trying to get around those guys.
16:37But going up from the top, we have Sasha's pit board saying shift exclamation point.
16:41You have Ryder DeFrancisco.
16:43He's saying do you.
16:44Chances pit board says keep slow.
16:47And Levi Kitchens, yes, sir, with an exclamation point.
16:51Well, that's, yes, absolutely what Kitchens' crew needed.
16:54A little break here to get back in this championship, get some momentum back.
16:59Mathematically, he was in it, but the last two races have not been good.
17:02Davies making moves, though.
17:04He's got Minear, got Thrasher, going after Mumford.
17:07Yeah, that's the hard part for Cole because he's trying to get his bearings back,
17:10you know, just finding his rhythm again, and then he's got his teammates behind him.
17:14And then, you know, he's got to deal with it.
17:16But it looks like Julian had actually caught up to Casey for fifth place,
17:20so a good pass by Juju here.
17:23See if he can move four.
17:24Levi's actually pulled away from all these guys.
17:28And Davies has made the move on Mumford.
17:30So a little bit of an assist because of the crash from Davies,
17:34but this is what both Beaumare and Kitchens needed.
17:36They're fourth and fifth, but they're ahead of Davies,
17:38who had moved ahead of them in the standings.
17:41DeFrancisco now second, Hymas third.
17:44And by the way, the largest moto win this year by distance is actually last week.
17:51Shimoda won it by 11 seconds.
17:54Sascha Kunin has a 19-second lead right now.
17:56He might as well not be here.
17:58He's not even in this race.
18:00He's gone.
18:01This kid is gone, people.
18:04It's 20 seconds and just past the halfway mark.
18:08An unbelievable ride for the young Belgian native.
18:11Here he is.
18:12Now, I feel like yesterday in Crested,
18:14they were really kind of downplaying the specialness of riding on sand,
18:18but they've shown with the riding they do have something special.
18:21We're halfway through this.
18:23It's a reminder.
18:24Pick up Monster Energy right now.
18:27Now, they grew up in Belgium, which is primarily sand.
18:30They moved to France to learn more hard-packed dirt.
18:33And like I said yesterday, they weren't really leaning in on the sand thing,
18:36but the riding shows otherwise.
18:38Look at this.
18:39Chance Hymas.
18:40What a shot in the arm this could be for him.
18:42He's in a podium spot, and he wants more.
18:51You're back up here.
18:53He'll figure it out.
18:54And, yeah, he doesn't, Rider D doesn't watch out.
18:57The number 29 is going to try to get him, but for sure, look behind him.
19:01You see that Pro Circuit Kawasaki 47 Levi Kitchen.
19:05And going back to him earlier, you could just tell by his riding style,
19:09he was way more aggressive this race, even though he went down compared to the
19:13last couple weekends, and, you know, you wonder what that is.
19:15I'm not sure, but nonetheless, Levi looks like the guy that we saw
19:19in his first four motos has that speed.
19:22These guys are on borrowed time.
19:25Yeah, he's caught them in a hurry.
19:28Laps clicking off here.
19:32And we'll listen to Kitchen on the charge.
19:41It's where he's made some moves, James.
19:43Yeah, what he's doing, he's going wide, and sometimes you can't pass,
19:47but you just carry that momentum, and right now he has a chance.
19:49Thank you, behind him.
19:50You can see that distance, that chance he's lost to Rider D.
19:53That's because the 47s have got him, and the good thing is with Levi,
19:58he went down, so now he knows where to pass lines or passing opportunities.
20:02I don't know if he can continue that because both these guys here are probably
20:06happy to part as he moves up, which is second place.
20:10Bottom box is Davies going after Garcia for seven.
20:16That was close with Cole.
20:17He jumped a little long.
20:18That bike got buried.
20:19This is in that same section that he went down until he's sitting down in him,
20:23and he's got his teammate right behind him.
20:26Kate Veneer following him up.
20:28Yeah, Veneer almost getting back to him.
20:30Oh, look at Hymas.
20:32Going to run the outside.
20:35And switches to the inside on defense, Sisko.
20:38Yeah, a chance of trying to square him up.
20:39What he wanted to do is get back to the outside so he can start playing that game.
20:44Ones, this is how you can pass here at Southwick.
20:46You just got to be on the little inside, outside, just have that guy starting to think,
20:50and eventually it will work out for you, JT.
20:53Yeah, you know, he's basically going everywhere that Rider D is not,
20:56and he's doing two things.
20:57Just like you said, James, he's trying to confuse Rider D about where he's going to be,
21:01and he's also trying to stay out of that roost.
21:03It's already hard enough to breathe when your heart rate is at 185, 190,
21:07but you get sprayed in the face by a bunch of sand and have to start swallowing that sand,
21:10and it's like that much more tough.
21:12So you can just see him avoiding that at all costs.
21:16And JT, we know that Jantimus, he grew up in Idaho,
21:19and of course, like, it's so important where these guys grew up.
21:22They can always adjust to tracks, but he had natural sand tracks where he was.
21:27And so coming here today, it was one of those things where he was positive,
21:31he was excited about it, especially after the momentum.
21:33Stu, my question for you is how critical do you see it
21:37when these guys are literally burst into something like a sand track,
21:41but they really show it when they're racing?
21:43Yeah, I mean, I think the thing is, I mean, all these guys,
21:46if you can ride sand, you can ride anywhere.
21:47I think it just comes down to is that momentum,
21:51because if you didn't have the momentum, the sand wouldn't really matter.
21:53If we were watching Cole Davies, like, he tried to get up inside of Garcia.
21:57But I think any time you just feel good, it's natural.
21:59It's just something less that you have to worry about,
22:02and being able to ride the sand, you're not worried about it.
22:05Thought Davies had that move there, James, but Garcia holds an FA,
22:08and as you mentioned, Meneer is not letting his buddy go here.
22:13Yeah, I think what Cole was doing,
22:15he realized he wouldn't be able to pass him in that section,
22:17so like JT said, don't get roosted with all this sand.
22:21Now it's another opportunity.
22:22Let's see if Cole can get through this section better.
22:24Now you see him on the outside.
22:26What he's going to do, try to square him up on the inside.
22:28There's that pass right there, so Garcia.
22:31Oh!
22:32Garcia went for it.
22:34Couldn't quite make it back, but aggressive.
22:36Let it be known, son.
22:37He's here to let it be known.
22:38He's here to fight, but yeah, that was aggressive,
22:41and he's here to race.
22:48Been a couple of riders down here on this track.
22:50We got a couple of replays we can show you here.
22:52Davies certainly not alone with hitting the beach.
22:57Oh, that is Deacon Denno on the triumph down hard.
23:02Oh, what a save, buddy.
23:04Yeah, that's Joe Tate.
23:04That's one of the locals,
23:05and then this is Jake Cannon,
23:07the young Australian we were talking about
23:08at the top of the show, down hard.
23:11Wow, yeah.
23:12Both those guys probably had the same thing happen.
23:14They start getting a little out of control,
23:16and then that front end hooks up.
23:17You just saw Cole Davies have the same thing
23:20as he hits the pothole right there.
23:23This track is difficult,
23:23and I believe a lot of it's coming down.
23:25It's a lot harder than maybe some of the years past,
23:28so these guys got to that base really hard,
23:31and then once they get in that berm,
23:33man, that bike just wants to stop them.
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24:04Well, now I can't even tell who's who.
24:06We got lap traffic,
24:07we got Hymas in the blue gear,
24:08and the green motorcycle is Kitchen,
24:11and they got to move.
24:13Oh, they got one right here.
24:14This is a great opportunity,
24:15so Levi's going to try to do what Cole Davies did,
24:17but he's got this lap rider.
24:19Oh!
24:21Well, Davies,
24:22oh, sorry,
24:22Kitchen almost got knocked down,
24:24then the other guy goes down.
24:25He's trying to get around Fortin.
24:28That was too close for comfort.
24:29Yeah, that was really close for those guys.
24:32The guy's like,
24:32okay, I'll move over for one.
24:34You got another guy,
24:35I'll move over for him,
24:35and then you have the ball,
24:36but great save by Levi there.
24:39You notice Roder D,
24:40he decided to just go up far inside.
24:42He's like,
24:42man, too many people.
24:43I'm just blocking inside,
24:45and holds him up.
24:46That was close.
24:49Let's go.
24:50Oh, Levi,
24:50oh, you saw it coming.
24:52Yeah,
24:52almost had to move.
24:53Yeah,
24:53it looked like he had to run,
24:54but that corner starts fade back to the inside,
24:56and he did a good job by backing off.
24:58Nice.
24:59There's Cannon back in the mechanics area.
25:00There's the pass by Kitchen.
25:02You said it borrowed time.
25:04He's mowing him down.
25:05Yeah,
25:05now if I'm Levi,
25:06I'm going to try to get Roder D,
25:08because he might still think
25:08his chance behind him,
25:10so he knows he has to pace,
25:13and this is what we saw from Levi
25:14early in the year.
25:15It seemed like at times
25:16he would have the speed,
25:17and then he would just sit there,
25:18and then all of a sudden
25:19he would decide to just go fast
25:20and get it to his teammate,
25:22and this is that guy
25:23that we know,
25:24okay,
25:24I believe I have the speed.
25:26I can work these guys,
25:27and it's working out well for Levi,
25:29especially after a crash.
25:30Very impressive ride.
25:32Yeah,
25:33he might be able to get
25:33to best of the rest.
25:35No one's catching Sasha Kunin,
25:36who has a 28.7-second lead.
25:43And we have not seen one like this.
25:45Let's see here.
25:47Joe Shimoda won by
25:48over 30 seconds at Unadilla
25:51last year,
25:52but like we said,
25:53nothing this year
25:53has come close.
25:55Now,
25:55Ryder needs under fire,
25:56but man,
25:57what do we say about confidence?
25:58He gets on that podium last week,
26:00and look how much better
26:01he is even this time.
26:02Yeah,
26:02and it doesn't look
26:03like any difference.
26:04It just looks like
26:05he's belonging.
26:06He feels like he belongs here.
26:08Now,
26:08Levi's just on a different pace
26:09right now.
26:10He's got some good speeds.
26:11Wow.
26:13Tried the outside
26:14to inside.
26:14Fight forward,
26:15says the mechanic.
26:16For DeFrancisco,
26:18not going to be easy.
26:19Another run from Kitchen.
26:20Yeah,
26:21that was a great move
26:22by Levi.
26:23You know,
26:23Ryder D was just trying
26:24to protect,
26:24not thinking that
26:25Levi had that pace,
26:27but yeah,
26:28he almost goes down
26:29right there,
26:29but as a Ryder,
26:31it's a good flow,
26:32and I think this is huge.
26:33I don't think,
26:34I know this is huge
26:35for Levi at the moment
26:37because he went down,
26:38you remember earlier
26:39in this race,
26:39and for him to get back,
26:41especially after the last
26:41couple weekends
26:42have been so-so
26:43to his standards,
26:44great sign for Mitch
26:45Payton,
26:46especially they kind of
26:48need it at the moment
26:48right now.
26:49Good to see this.
26:50It was definitely
26:51slipping away.
26:52No podiums
26:53in the last couple
26:54of the motos
26:54for the 47,
26:56and he was really
26:57probably the fastest
26:57rider in the championship
26:59the first few rounds.
27:00He might be back to that,
27:01and I use the word
27:03in this championship
27:03because no one
27:04is challenging
27:05Sasha Kunin today,
27:06but he's not part
27:07of the series full-time.
27:09Davies making moves.
27:10This is the battle
27:11for sixth.
27:11Got the lap rider
27:12there in orange.
27:14Then it's Cochran,
27:16Davies on the inside.
27:17Got it.
27:18Yeah, you can kind
27:18of see that one.
27:19Cole just knew
27:20he needed to get
27:20to the inside,
27:21as it looks like.
27:24Casey's got a problem
27:25with his motorcycles
27:26right now.
27:28And we told the story
27:29of Casey Cochran
27:30last week.
27:31He is a free agent.
27:33Yeah, do you see
27:34some puffs of steam
27:35or smoke?
27:35Uh-oh,
27:36getting worse
27:37on the 59.
27:38Yeah, we don't know.
27:40I mean, this could be
27:41a lot of times
27:42in the sand.
27:43You heard,
27:43if we listen
27:44to some of these bikes,
27:45these guys don't want
27:45to let off the gas,
27:47and so what they do,
27:47they'll pull in the clutch,
27:48and all that does,
27:49it just heats
27:50the motorcycle up,
27:51and these things get hot.
27:52You start to see them smoke,
27:53and maybe with Casey,
27:56that might be one
27:56of the issues.
27:57You heard it
27:57with a couple
27:59of these guys out here.
28:01We'll see if he can bring
28:02that bike
28:03to the finish line.
28:04Like we said,
28:05building momentum
28:05had a top-five moto
28:06at high point,
28:07had a top-five overall
28:08with both motos
28:09inside the top-five
28:10last week
28:11for Cochran,
28:12who is on the rebuild
28:14after a lot of injuries,
28:16will not be back.
28:17That team,
28:18Rockstar Husk Marta,
28:19is going away.
28:21So he's trying
28:22to build resume bullets
28:23right now
28:24and doing a pretty
28:25good job of it.
28:27But you want
28:27to talk resume bullet.
28:29This guy's got
28:30some buzz
28:30if the Coonans
28:32come here next year
28:32full-time.
28:34And this is just
28:35a preview
28:35of what he's capable of.
28:36Jason,
28:38this boy is
28:39putting it to them
28:41at the moment.
28:44When you look
28:44at lap times,
28:46his fastest lap time
28:47was a 202.4.
28:48The next one
28:50was a 205.1.
28:52What?
28:52Yes.
28:53So,
28:54he's this 30 seconds.
28:56He's cruising,
28:57still going faster
28:58in these guys.
28:59And I'm glad
29:01what you said earlier
29:02about Levi.
29:02He looks like
29:03he's fastest one
29:04in this championship.
29:05Yeah.
29:06Right here,
29:07I haven't seen
29:07a route like this
29:09in probably years
29:10be this dominant.
29:12He set the bar
29:13pretty high.
29:13His brother will be
29:14up in the 450 moto
29:15next.
29:16That's going to be
29:16some stiff competition
29:18dealing with the
29:19Lawrence's
29:19and Prado
29:19and Deegan
29:20and the rest.
29:21Sasha showing
29:22what these twins
29:22are capable of.
29:24Now,
29:24this battle right now
29:26for fourth,
29:27Hymas and Bomer.
29:28Bomer digging
29:28looking for points.
29:30Little update
29:31on Cochran's bike.
29:32Team actually told Katie
29:33it's a shock going away,
29:35not an engine.
29:36So,
29:36that means he might
29:37get to the finish line,
29:38but it is going to be
29:39a rough ride
29:40if that rear end
29:41is going to be
29:41kicking all over the place.
29:42Well,
29:42you see how much
29:43the bike is moving.
29:44So,
29:44the same thing
29:44goes for a shock.
29:46It gets really hot
29:47and when it does,
29:48those things don't like
29:49to work underneath
29:49that heat
29:50and you start to see it.
29:51So,
29:51hopefully,
29:52for Casey,
29:52he can make this moto.
29:53He'll probably be
29:54a little uncomfortable
29:56eventually,
29:56but he should be alright.
30:00Man,
30:00Bomer,
30:01this guy has shown
30:02some drive this year
30:04coming back
30:04from a devastating
30:05back injury.
30:07We've said it over
30:07and over,
30:08just being back
30:08at all.
30:09Impressive.
30:10But he has been
30:11top five,
30:12podium,
30:13almost had a moto win
30:14at high point.
30:15He's been good
30:15this year,
30:15Katie.
30:16Has been good,
30:17but it's interesting.
30:18The team was telling me
30:19that one of the things
30:20that he has been
30:21dealing with is
30:21early in the season,
30:22he had no expectations.
30:24Now,
30:25four rounds in,
30:26now he's been doing well.
30:27He wants to perform,
30:28but is he mentally
30:30overdoing it for himself?
30:31And that's the big kicker.
30:32They need to make sure
30:33that he's having fun,
30:34keep it light,
30:35keep it simple
30:35for Julian Wilmer.
30:38Hard to keep it light
30:39through that section.
30:40He had that thing
30:42sideways a couple of times,
30:43but you talk about
30:44that a lot,
30:45James,
30:45pressure
30:46and how that impacts
30:47these guys.
30:48You start getting close
30:49to the points lead
30:49as he was.
30:51Does that change things?
30:52Yeah,
30:52it absolutely does,
30:54but I think Julian,
30:54because of his injury,
30:56he's got a different
30:56perspective on life.
30:58I think what happened
30:58last weekend
30:59was just bad luck.
31:00Wow.
31:00That's a good perspective
31:01to have as he moves past.
31:03Yeah,
31:03you can see Chance,
31:04he's starting to,
31:05which is expected,
31:06maybe his shoulder
31:07is starting to bother him,
31:08but yeah,
31:09I think Julian has
31:10a better perspective
31:11to where it might not
31:12get to him
31:13as it would
31:13in the years past,
31:14but just looking at him
31:16being able to get
31:16around Chance,
31:18he's just got better
31:19launch right now.
31:19What you notice with Julian,
31:20you see him riding down
31:22these insides
31:22like on some of these corners.
31:24What he's doing
31:25is missing all these bumps,
31:26so yeah,
31:27he's almost sliding
31:28into the burns,
31:29but what he's doing
31:30is saving a lot of energy
31:31when he was behind Chance.
31:32You can just see him
31:33make a lot of time up there,
31:34so far Julian's got the pace here.
31:39So bottom box battle
31:41is Garcia
31:42and Moseman,
31:43Garcia's ninth,
31:44Moseman behind him in 10th,
31:46Garcia on the lime green,
31:47Kawasaki there.
31:49Moseman looking to make a move,
31:51what a ride for Garcia,
31:52the young Spaniard,
31:53again leading the EMX 250,
31:57essentially the bridge
31:58between amateur and pro
31:59Joe over there at MXGP
32:00and he's showing
32:02he can mix it up
32:02with the pros over here
32:03for sure.
32:04Davies has climbed to sixth.
32:07The moto ends like this,
32:08Kitchum would be
32:08the championship leader
32:09by one point over Davies
32:12and about 30 over Bomer.
32:15Shimoda would be ranked third,
32:17but again,
32:17Shimoda not racing today.
32:18There's the current point
32:19standing to the lower left.
32:21What a bummer for Joe.
32:23What a bummer.
32:24Yeah,
32:24when we heard about that,
32:25I mean,
32:27honestly,
32:27just Joe's one of the fan favorites,
32:29if not the fan him
32:30and Aaron Flessinger
32:31just got it figured out.
32:32So when I heard that,
32:33I was just really bummed,
32:35you know,
32:35not only for this championship,
32:36but just Joe,
32:37you know,
32:38such a good guy
32:38and really to be fine
32:40in his form
32:41after that gnarly injury
32:42he had earlier this season.
32:44It will soon,
32:45Joe.
32:47Moseman still working
32:47on Garcia.
32:52Try middle line here.
32:54Two to go.
32:55Time has expired.
32:56I think everybody,
32:57spoiler alert,
32:58already knows
32:58who's headed
32:59to the checkered flag
32:59and that is Sasha Kunin
33:01who has absolutely
33:02destroyed the field
33:03in this moto.
33:05And,
33:06oh,
33:06they're not done.
33:07They've got Cochran inside.
33:08Remember,
33:08Cochran probably fighting
33:09that motorcycle
33:10a little bit.
33:11His shock's going out.
33:13Not a good track for that.
33:15Yeah,
33:15working,
33:16but he's got,
33:18well,
33:18it's about one and a half.
33:19The Saks is already
33:20on the outside of the racetrack.
33:23Oh,
33:24Garcia.
33:25That was a close call
33:27and Moseman says,
33:28thank you.
33:28I'll go right by.
33:29Yeah,
33:30I think Garcia just had
33:31so much momentum
33:32going down there.
33:33He didn't expect
33:33Casey to be maybe
33:35not moving as fast.
33:36So,
33:37got to get a kid credit,
33:38man.
33:38He's fighting at the end
33:39and he clearly ain't afraid
33:40to send it in there.
33:42Send it a message.
33:43Yeah,
33:44a couple of times
33:44we've seen that.
33:45Moseman working on Cochran.
33:47Bottom box is the leader,
33:49Sasha Coonan,
33:49who is gone.
33:52Biggest moto win
33:53by far this year
33:54if he holds onto it
33:55like this.
33:57Kitchen second,
33:58DeFrancisco
33:59looking for his third,
34:01third place moto this year.
34:04I believe he's
34:06got about four seconds
34:07over Julian.
34:12Yeah,
34:12Michael,
34:13he's got to get around Casey
34:15as he goes down right there.
34:17And got to give Casey,
34:18that crash was caused
34:19by Casey,
34:20still fighting
34:21and standing in the lines
34:22because,
34:22you know,
34:23Michael knew
34:23he probably was a little
34:24wounded duck situation.
34:25I can get around him,
34:27but I got to go around
34:28the outside
34:28and he ends up going down.
34:29So good fight by Casey.
34:31Hopefully Michael can get up
34:32and finish his moto.
34:33So how about this?
34:35Racing last weekend
34:36in South Africa,
34:38the long plane flight.
34:40Then they went to
34:40Alden Baker's,
34:41Baker's Factory
34:42Training Complex
34:43in Florida.
34:44They're learning
34:45all the ropes
34:45of U.S. racing.
34:48I don't think
34:49the riding and speed
34:50is really that much
34:51of a surprise
34:51if you follow these guys.
34:52What does surprise me
34:53is how quickly
34:54the fans took them
34:55to Colorado.
34:56You heard the cheers
34:57on the first lap.
34:59They got a buzz
35:00about them,
35:00something special
35:01and the fans
35:01seem to respond to it.
35:02Yeah,
35:03well,
35:03our fans are smart.
35:04They understand
35:05good body
35:05and when they see it
35:06and I think
35:07a lot of it
35:08is just,
35:09you've got to respect
35:10what they're doing
35:11and the fact
35:12that they want
35:12to come and race
35:13in front of us,
35:14you know,
35:15our fans,
35:15when they're winning
35:16a championship,
35:17there's basically
35:18a lot on the lines
35:19for those guys,
35:20especially Sasha
35:21possibly winning
35:22his first ever title,
35:23but they want
35:24to be here.
35:24And so the fans
35:26understand that
35:26and they got to
35:27appreciate it
35:28along with the talent
35:29and I will say this,
35:31they're great young men.
35:33I had a chance
35:33to talk to them
35:34only a couple times,
35:35the second time
35:36meeting them
35:36and I'm more impressed
35:38about who they are
35:39as people
35:40just as much
35:41as I'm impressed
35:42on the motorcycle.
35:43And I'm going to tell you,
35:45they're here.
35:46These kids are going
35:46to be a problem
35:47in the years to come.
35:51No problems
35:52in this moto
35:52for the 109
35:53whole shot.
35:54Well,
35:54I shouldn't say
35:54no problems.
35:55First lap,
35:55he had about five saves.
35:57But once he got
35:58that dial,
35:58oh, look at that,
35:59saluting the fans.
36:01How good does this feel
36:02to actually back-to-back
36:04moto wins
36:04in this series
36:05for him?
36:07Listen to that.
36:10Stop,
36:10Shakunen,
36:11bombs the field.
36:13And there's
36:14his brother Lucas
36:14happy about it.
36:18That's,
36:18that's cool.
36:19That's really cool.
36:20Shout out to all
36:21the fans here
36:21at Southwick.
36:22Cheers.
36:23These guys off.
36:25What a great race.
36:25And Levi Kitchen,
36:26great ride by him
36:28getting up here.
36:30This,
36:30this moto could have
36:31went opposite way
36:32for him,
36:32but he got up,
36:33he fought.
36:34Great signs by 47
36:36and good signs
36:37for pro circuit.
36:38They had a tough day.
36:39Tough couple weeks
36:39where the Blues and Seth
36:40get well soon.
36:42Good ride, Levi.
36:45Sometimes you need
36:45little luck
36:46to get things
36:46back on your side
36:47and Davies crashed.
36:50I mean,
36:50Kitchen went down
36:51early himself.
36:51It looked like
36:52it was going to be
36:52another one of those days,
36:53but he has recovered
36:54big time
36:54and made up points.
36:58There's dad.
36:59Wrath there
37:00with Sasha.
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