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00:00He's got to be just having a great night.
00:03We got one to go.
00:04It's going to be fun.
00:06The fans have had a great night.
00:07They're about to get treated to the final race.
00:1012 laps, 25 points on the board.
00:13Look, there's Hill way inside.
00:15You see Webb about three, four gates out from him.
00:19Mitchell Harrison's right next to Webb.
00:21Craig and Anderson's way out there.
00:25Wilson must be just inside the doghouse.
00:36I can't wait.
00:37I can't wait.
00:38This is going to be good.
00:39It's all led to the night.
00:40It's time to go.
00:45Here we go.
00:46Final race of the night, SX1, race number three.
00:49Let's bring you up to speed.
00:51Cooper Webb is sitting in position to win the Calgary GP.
00:55But you got Dean Wilson.
00:57You got Justin Hill, who have been great tonight
00:59at different times, sitting mathematically in position
01:02to win the overall if they win the race
01:04and beat Webb straight up.
01:06This is going to be a battle.
01:08This is going to be a fight.
01:09We've been entertained all night long.
01:10But this is the big one.
01:12The refs will rise.
01:13The gate will drop.
01:15Let's go, race it.
01:18And from the outside, that is another one of those Starks.
01:21Is that Justin Hill on the inside?
01:25Wow.
01:26Cooper Webb with the hole shot.
01:28You got Dean Wilson sitting in third.
01:32Game time, Cooper Webb.
01:33Wow.
01:34When it matters most, the guy sticks the hole shot against the Starks.
01:39He stops the streak.
01:40But we got Dean Wilson sitting in second.
01:43Oh, the battle is on where?
01:45Christian Craig has just made the pass as well.
01:46Where is Hill?
01:47Hill is way buried back.
01:49He's in 12th right now.
01:50He's got a long ways to go.
01:52Can Dean Wilson run down Christian Craig?
01:55Look at Wilson.
01:56Triple, triple, triple.
01:57You don't see that.
01:58These whoops must be so gnarly for Wilson, of all people,
02:02to triple through him.
02:03And Jason Anderson has finally got a decent start.
02:06He sits in 7-6 now as he makes the pass
02:09plus Mitchell Harrison.
02:10That's the best start of the night for him.
02:12Good bounce back by Christian Craig as well.
02:14Big crash in race number two.
02:15He's up front now.
02:17Justin Hill has made his way up to nine,
02:19so he is charging through the pack.
02:23But Cooper Webb, slouch.
02:25Slouch out the game.
02:26Are you surprised?
02:27I mean, it's Cooper Webb we're talking about.
02:30He's best when he needs to be.
02:32Can he run off from Dean Wilson?
02:33He's doing it right now.
02:3625 points available.
02:38Oh, Anderson, three up onto that tabletop.
02:39He's making moves early.
02:41More points in race number three.
02:43Webb's opened up 2.7 already in this race.
02:48And Anderson just needs momentum at this point.
02:50He needs to leave Canada with some kind of positivity,
02:54some kind of momentum going his way.
02:56Remember, he is the defending champ.
02:58He's never defended a Premier Championship,
03:00and you know that he wants to do that.
03:03Justin Hill has made some moves, too.
03:04He's right back there, two spots behind Anderson.
03:07As we follow him through the pack, Jason Anderson up the fifth.
03:10His best ride of the night.
03:12Sitting in front of him is Vince Freese.
03:16And then you got Craig third, Wilson second, and Webb now 3.0.
03:23Up front, checking out, pulling away.
03:26Here comes Hill on the inside.
03:28Makes the move.
03:29And you know he's going to push this entire race.
03:31How far can he get?
03:33How many points can he salvage?
03:35You got Webb sitting at 44.
03:37Then you got Wilson, Freese, and Hill running 2, 3, 4 in the overall standings.
03:42Vince Freese in a podium position right now.
03:50Nice four.
03:50Here comes Hill on the outside, ripping through those whoops.
03:55Anderson up the inside.
03:57Yep, there it is.
03:58Nice pass.
03:59Clean.
04:00Clean pass up the inside.
04:02Justin Hill is right there already.
04:04We're four laps in this race, and Justin Hill has entered the chat.
04:09You're looking at the team battle.
04:11Rick Ware has had a great night tonight.
04:14Quad Lock Honda team is sitting pretty in this one, running 2, 3 in the SX1 final race.
04:19Here comes Justin Hill up the inside.
04:21Will he make the pass?
04:23And he does.
04:24Let's go to Kristen B.
04:25Cooper Webb leading a very lonely race as he enters the whoops section.
04:29And, guys, what I'm noticing about this whoops section, I mean, it is cupping out.
04:34There are ruts everywhere.
04:35Obviously, jumpers at this point.
04:37But even leading into the whoops, the ruts are so deep.
04:40I'm guessing at least a foot to two feet deep down here.
04:43So this is going to become a game of preservation.
04:47Wow.
04:47Justin Hill, Jason Anderson battling.
04:50Kristen's right.
04:51It's going to be survival from here on out.
04:52It's wild to see all the top five guys, including Christian Craig, jumping the whoops.
04:58That tells you how big they were to begin with.
04:59That's the only way it's possible.
05:02But the battle rages for fourth right now between Justin Hill, who's trying to make the move on Anderson, and
05:06he sits back.
05:08And we are only five laps into this 12-lap main event here.
05:15Justin Hill, he seems like he's able to put that KTM wherever he wants right now.
05:20He checked up just enough to not hit the back tire of Jason Anderson.
05:24Best ride for him all night long.
05:26Here's the battle for second.
05:28Remember, Wilson and Craig, they got into it a little bit earlier in the night.
05:31Nice.
05:31Not over the line, but definitely physical.
05:36Hill up the inside.
05:37Does he have the room?
05:39Oh, could have had it.
05:40Didn't have it.
05:41Still battling.
05:43Anderson waves him by.
05:45Don't see that very often.
05:49Hill with a big whip there.
05:51Gets into fourth.
05:52Anderson has not been racing for the better part of this year, and maybe he's just trying to get through
05:58this first round.
05:59But, yeah, you never really see him waving a rider pass like that.
06:04Live GP standings.
06:05We've got Cooper Webb, Dean Wilson, Justin Hill, and, yeah, Vince Freeze now off that podium position.
06:11I thought I saw that on the ground.
06:12I was like, Vince Freeze is going to be in for a podium right now.
06:16So, here's the battle that may transpire.
06:19Wilson and Craig sitting second and third, but you see right there, Justin Hill at the back end of this.
06:25He's got a ways to go, but he's going to push all the way.
06:28Let's go back to Chris and Beat with more on Jason Anderson.
06:30Yeah, before the start of qualifying, I checked in with Jason, and, Jace, you were there as well.
06:35He explained to us that he had only been back on the bike really training for the last three weeks.
06:40He said he feels like his fitness is just off this weekend.
06:45And something interesting about Jason Anderson is he's always struggled with elevation.
06:50You can remember times that he's raced in Lakewood, Colorado, Denver Supercross Grounds.
06:54He's at Salt Lake City.
06:55He's always had just a little bit of an issue when we do race at elevation.
07:00I didn't even think about it until you said that right now, Kristen,
07:03but that could be what is happening with Jason Anderson.
07:06You never, ever see a guy like him wave someone by.
07:11Looking back right there up the triple two.
07:13I'm watching this gap to see what happens with Hill.
07:17Wow, these are on the edge of the track, and Hill is not gaining any time.
07:22It stayed about the same that lap.
07:25And these are three of the best whoop riders in the world right now.
07:28Deed Wilson, Christian Craig, and Justin Hill.
07:31Uh-oh.
07:31Someone's gone down.
07:35Trying to pick up who that is that's actually gone down.
07:38Looks like the Red Cross flag is out.
07:42We'll see what happens here as the flags wave.
07:46That looks like a KTM.
07:50Yeah, that's Gregory Aranda on that 595, the Brazilian KTM team.
07:56That's terrible to see that.
07:59Never want to see a Red Cross flag.
08:02That tells us when race has been stopped.
08:05I think it's just because these tough walks are blowing across the track.
08:08And the race has stopped.
08:12We have a crazy storm.
08:15Not storm, but crazy wind that has just rolled through this stadium right now.
08:20This is wild.
08:21We've had wild racing.
08:23Now we've got wild weather here in Calgary.
08:29Let's hope Gregory Aranda is all right.
08:34It's chaos, right?
08:35Yeah, this is wild.
08:37Can't see this on screen, but we are holding on to the canopy as the wind blows through.
08:45That picked up fast.
08:46I almost got my Dorothy on.
08:48I was almost out of Kansas just then.
08:52Love to get a replay.
08:53Might not be able to get a replay of Gregory Aranda.
08:57I think they're calling it completely.
08:58They might be calling it.
08:59Cooper Webb is doing a victory lap right now.
09:03There's another wind gust coming out.
09:05So Cooper Webb is on the triple.
09:08He's on the up ramp of the triple saluting the fans.
09:11Events staff is trying to keep everything on the ground.
09:18See that right there?
09:19Oh, look at the block.
09:20Watch out, Coop.
09:21Watch out.
09:22Crazy.
09:23So we had a crazy night of racing, and now we have had a wild finish to this race.
09:28There's Gregory Aranda.
09:30Okay, so Aranda is all good.
09:33The crash has caused that.
09:36And Cooper Webb is just victory laughing right now.
09:40It'd be funny if they walked up and told him go back to the gate.
09:43He's celebrated already.
09:45Oh, my gosh.
09:47This is mental.
09:48This is pretty wild.
09:50This is pretty wild.
09:50For all of you at home on your couch right now, salutes you.
09:56Normally we have the best seat in the house, but this must love this has been wild.
10:01What a welcome to the series for Cooper Webb and Rick Ware Racing.
10:08You know, we promised everybody a wild third race, and it wasn't happening.
10:12So the storm came in.
10:13We've lost the podium.
10:15Whoa, shit.
10:17I think we finished 70%.
10:20I'm just telling you.
10:22Wild entertainment.
10:24I think I'm politics with the main button.
10:25So how about that race?
10:28This is crazy, dude.
10:32Well, with all of the chaos and with all of the things.
10:36Let's go to Kristen B.
10:38Guys, at this point, I don't know what to say.
10:40I've been roosted today.
10:41I've been rained on.
10:42And I just spoke with Lily Dassey's team principal, and she said, I've never seen anything like this.
10:49And this girl travels and goes to races more than anybody else I know.
10:52But, guys, as we recover from this dust storm, the rider's still down here celebrating.
10:56Cooper Webb took off his helmet, put his goggles on in the middle of this dust storm.
11:01And just a really interesting night, to say the least.
11:08Okay.
11:08Well, while we have the time, let's go ahead and walk around.
11:11We'll save interviews for later, I suppose.
11:14But while we are burning some time, let's see who we can talk to.
11:17Dean Wilson.
11:19We're over here, guys, in the middle of a dust storm.
11:21Dean, this is not your podium interview.
11:23I don't think.
11:25But we're just going to hang out and talk for a little bit.
11:26What was it like making your return to the World Supercross Championship?
11:29Oh, it was awesome.
11:30Had so much fun.
11:31Had a blast.
11:32You know, especially being in Calgary.
11:34It was so much fun.
11:36And, you know.
11:37One of your hometowns.
11:38Yes, exactly.
11:38And, honestly, like, the crowd was unbelievable tonight.
11:42Like, they were so into the racing.
11:43And that's all you can ask for.
11:45And, uh...
11:45You have a little dirt in your teeth.
11:47Oh, yeah.
11:47Honestly, the race was so bad.
11:49I felt it at one point tonight, too.
11:51Bob.
11:52I'm stoked.
11:53P2.
11:53Happy.
11:54Absolutely.
11:55Let's, uh...
11:55Let's make our way around.
11:56Rick.
11:57Rick Ware.
11:58You have...
11:58Rick, we have been a part of some pretty crazy experiences together.
12:02Whether it be American Flat Track, NASCAR.
12:05You and I have kind of seen it all.
12:06But have you seen anything like this before?
12:07This is really wild.
12:10You know, there was a call for rain a day or so ago.
12:12And it didn't come.
12:13It was great.
12:13So, I guess they brought the wind in.
12:16But it took all the, you know, all the banners and moved all the tough blocks over.
12:21So, really, they really didn't have much of a choice.
12:23Everything was moved.
12:24I think FIM is making a decision currently as to whether or not we picked the race up where it
12:29left off.
12:30Or if we continue.
12:30What would you like to see happen?
12:31And now the rain is coming down.
12:33Yeah, well, I don't want to restart in the rain.
12:36I don't think that will be good for anybody.
12:38But, you know, I'm willing to do whatever.
12:40Obviously, I think we may have been first and third.
12:45I'm not sure about Justin Hill.
12:47But I think we may have got third.
12:48So, it was a good night for us and our sponsors and Rocket Doctor and Super.com.
12:52So, it's just these guys did a great job.
12:55And, yeah, I hear the rain is coming now.
12:57So, you're about ready to roll.
12:58Really, really pleasant evening.
12:59I think I've experienced everything tonight.
13:01But we're going to go ahead and toss it back to Daniel and Jace.
13:03I think the set has been restored to its previous glamour.
13:07We're holding it down.
13:09This is chaos.
13:10But I love it.
13:13Hey, this is a World Supercross Championship.
13:15We're going all over the world.
13:16Round one.
13:17A lot of fun.
13:18I almost ended up in the stadium just then trying to hold on to that quick shade.
13:23But, look, we said that this was going to be a wild finish to the night.
13:26And I think we were right.
13:28We didn't predict that.
13:29But we got a wild finish.
13:31Well, yeah.
13:32A lot of fun, though, tonight.
13:33Again, we're going to try to be serious here for a second.
13:37Good racing by the guys who won the race.
13:39Good racing by Brian Su and Mitchell Harrison.
13:42There were so many guys.
13:43Look at this.
13:45The blocks.
13:45This is what ended the race.
13:47The tough blocks, man.
13:49And those are big ones.
13:50Yeah, yeah.
13:51Yeah, so you obviously can't have that.
13:54Now, I love these tough blocks.
13:56They're the safest versions of tough blocks that we have in the sport.
13:59But, look, the wind had other plans.
14:02No, that was a lot of fun, though.
14:04Great environment tonight as well.
14:05Great race.
14:06And there's some storylines leaving here that we're going to have to dive into.
14:09Again, Anderson, rough night.
14:10Got it together there late in that race a little bit.
14:13Justin Hill was fast.
14:15Had a tough race there in the final.
14:16A bad start.
14:17But Cooper Webb was clutch, man.
14:18He did Webb-like things.
14:20I was just about to say, Cooper Webb did Cooper Webb things.
14:24And Dean Wilson said it.
14:26But this crowd was amazing here in Calgary.
14:29Here's the overall.
14:30It's Webb, Wilson, and Hill.
14:31One, two, three.
14:32Preece and Craig ran out the top five.
14:34Harrison, great night of racing.
14:37Zaragoza, Anderson, Tixier, and Politelli ran out the top ten.
14:41Still pretty tight up there at the front, though.
14:43Good ride by Dean Wilson.
14:44Justin Hill, though, he's going to be bummed at that last race.
14:47He's got the speed.
14:48He's got the fight to win this thing.
14:49Just didn't get the starts when he needed them.
14:52Let's go to Kristen B, who is.