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00:00Racing 15-second board up then for the final time this weekend, the MXGP of the Netherlands, MXGP Race 2,
00:05those two put on a show in race 1, they got out the start together as well, and it wasn't
00:09until lap 14 of 19 that Herlings was able to find his way past Kai de Wolff, will we have
00:14a similar story, will there be more fireworks in this one, a slow reaction there from de Wolff, Herlings lightning
00:19out of the start, can he control the inside, he can, but once again it's his teammate Vial, he runs
00:24wide, Herlings over the line, Herlings leads at home in Holland from the first lap, de Wolff recovers well,
00:30he's there in fourth position, but it's Koldenov there, riding his home Grand Prix for the final time, he's to
00:35the outside, Vial in second, and the orange there, the 74 of de Wolff, he cannot afford to let Herlings
00:42go, at least Herlings gets through here cleaner than he did a lap ago, and it was de Wolff who
00:48just had that slight bobble as he tries to find his way past Tim Geisser, Geisser there in that fifth
00:52place, Fernandes 6, Adamo Bonacorsi, and Fevre keeps it on two wheels this time around through turn one, he's in
00:59ninth, ahead of Ben
00:59Watson, who was sixth in race one, down the back straight, de Wolff finds his way past Vial, moves into
01:06second, we do get the start that we wanted, and Chase Sexton, if you're a betting man right now, do
01:12you bet on Jeffrey, or do you bet on Kai de Wolff after what you saw in race one?
01:15I'm probably going to go with Jeffrey, just his experience, I think Kai for, I would say 20 minutes has
01:22the same speed, if not better, but I think just Jeffrey later in the races is kind of hard to
01:28beat, I could be wrong, I'd like to see a good race, obviously you saw the first moto, Jeffrey got
01:33the better of him, but Kai has a very good technique and style, and he's very precise on the track
01:38as well, Jeffrey's very good, but Kai maybe
01:41even more precise, is that because he's a little bit taller, he can use his length and his range, that
01:46little bit more?
01:47Yeah, watching him, I was actually watching this section, the whole first race, Kai's legs are so long, it's crazy,
01:53obviously Jeffrey's a taller guy, bigger guy, he can muscle the bike around, but Kai's legs, he has so much
01:58leverage over the back of the bike,
02:00and he's impressive to watch, and I honestly think Kai maybe let up a little bit in the first moto,
02:05because I think he would have been closer to Jeffrey when he stalled it, but again, we're going to see
02:10another good battle here in the second moto.
02:12Even on that jump into the chicane, back onto the start straight there, Jeffrey Hurling's jump, landed on the downside,
02:17and he dragged that back brake just that little bit more, just to soak up that braking bump, even things
02:21like that, the way they think in these kind of conditions, those two in particular, Hurling's and DeWolf.
02:25Yeah, when they ride, I mean, I went to Lombo on Thursday and got to see it for the first
02:30time ever, when you grow up riding that stuff and stuff like this, it's a bit of a different animal,
02:36especially from what we're used to in the U.S., but these guys, all of them ride sand, but especially
02:40the two out front, you can tell that these are sand specialists, and the stuff that they do, I've been
02:45really trying to pay attention to, and it's very small things that make a big difference around the whole racetrack,
02:51and even yesterday I was watching where Jeffrey actually stalled his bike, oh!
02:53Oh, DeWolf tried to have a sneaky look, I wasn't sure if he was going to make a lunge there
02:58or not, but all of a sudden he turned right, last minute, and decided to try and cut the line
03:02off there from Hurling's, if he didn't know there was an attack coming, well now he does, and it's probably
03:06going to be imminent.
03:07I think, uh, just watch this in again here, look how he just turns, picks up the front wheel through
03:11that hole, and there was no real line there, but he, you know what, he was gentle in the end
03:15with that attempt on the 84.
03:16I think Kai's going to want to get around him as soon as possible, and try and just get some
03:21clean air, I think that's the biggest thing in the first race, is Jeffrey didn't have clean air, and it's
03:25a little bit harder obviously when you're riding sand, you don't want to get roosted, you, it's not good for
03:29the motorcycle overheating,
03:30so I think Kai's going to want to try and get around him as soon as possible, and I think
03:35you save energy that way, and also save the bike a bit.
03:38Obviously quite a quick section of the racetrack here if you get that double out through that rhythm section, but
03:43these two here, you were talking about it a moment ago in terms of what you've seen, how they ride
03:47the sand different, a lap ago, this is where Jeffrey kind of scrubbed up that braking bump there,
03:52but the way they just dance around, double and triple, sort of braking bumps, accelerating bumps through the turns, how
03:57they just have that flow, sort of like they just dance around differently, don't they?
04:01Yeah, it's pretty apparent when you're watching it in person, and I was actually standing on the jump that Jeffrey
04:08stalled the bike on yesterday, and just the way he rides,
04:11the track is one big puzzle when it comes to a sand track like this, the jumping around, you see
04:15Kai doing the same thing, it's, like I said, very impressive to watch,
04:20but even in person, I watch plenty of these races on TV, and it's nothing like on TV, so it's
04:25really special to watch, and I was talking to Jeffrey yesterday about it,
04:29and he's like, yeah, it's probably more similar to your supercross track than it is outdoors, because we don't have
04:34big bumps like this,
04:36and not as rough, so he's right, I mean, it's like a big rhythm section for him, watching him go
04:41around this track, same for Kai.
04:42And actually, when you watch on TV, it looks impressive anyway, when you see the two best sand riders in
04:47the world, because let's face it,
04:48they probably are, because of what you just said, they grow up in this kind of stuff, you know, the
04:52Dutch live on this kind of condition,
04:54the way they ride, the way they dance, the way they do the things they do, but are you, when
04:59you're live trackside, has their speed,
05:02it's like Bobble there from DeWolf, has their speed impressed you as well, actually being live trackside, doing stuff like
05:07that at the speed and doing what they do?
05:10I would say, honestly, more than the speed, because everyone, not everyone, but a lot of people can go fast
05:14for one lap,
05:15the thing that impresses me most is how precise they are lap after lap, hitting the same line,
05:20and that's what, if you look at the lap times, Kai has the fastest lap right now, but they do
05:25the same lap over and over and over,
05:27and I think that's the biggest thing.
05:29Yeah.
05:30A bit of a moment there for Kai, just at the end of that rhythm section, didn't get the height,
05:34almost like he scrubbed on takeoff,
05:36and then was able to ride his way out of it, here's Bonacorsi, Bonacorsi in 10th place at the moment
05:40on the Red Bull Ducati,
05:42and he was one of the riders that went down in the first turn with Romain Febvre, Isaac Gifting, and
05:46his teammate,
05:47Calvin Vallarnon, who's 12th in the race at the moment, but as it stands right now, we've got two laps
05:52complete,
05:52we're at the end of lap three, Hurlings here continues to lead, he's got about a second and a half
05:56or so over Kai DeWolf,
05:58it's another Dutch 1-2, and the outcome of this Grand Prix decides on whether DeWolf finds his way past
06:04Hurlings or not,
06:05because obviously as it stands now, Hurlings 1-1, DeWolf 2-2, if that's, if you put the flag out
06:10now, that's how it finishes,
06:11of course, DeWolf would love to get a Grand Prix victory, he was MX2 winner here last year,
06:16he would love to add an MXGP winner, especially with the way that Jeffrey Hurlings is riding at the moment,
06:22and the way that those two were able to pull clear, this is a story of their
06:28their race so far, this was race one, down the inside, this was Hurlings on the opening lap,
06:33when he thought he'd found his way past Tom Vial into the lead, Vial then pulled clear,
06:39that was DeWolf going back up the inside of him, they had several moments like this,
06:45they didn't know where to look, we didn't know where to look, this was the pass that eventually clinched it
06:49with about five, six laps to go, and it was Jeffrey Hurlings who managed to make that pass stick
06:57until this moment here, he built up around about six or seven seconds I think at that point,
07:01this cost him a handful of seconds, they couldn't believe it as well,
07:05and nor could we, he eventually picked himself up, rejoined the race, went on to win the race,
07:09so Jeffrey Hurlings comes into race two, knowing that another good result will get him on the top step.
07:24So that was their first race, and they are separated by about 2.6 seconds now,
07:29because last time around, end of lap three, Jeffrey Hurlings put the fastest lap of the race in,
07:33a 1.44.578 compared to a 1.44.6 of DeWolf, and he's just starting to eke out just
07:39in the sections here
07:40over the course of this last lap here, lap four, what were the sectors, 29.6,
07:48Kai gained half a second, then lost three tenths, and then lost another three tenths,
07:52and then as we hit the line, loses another tenth, so Hurlings now 2.7 seconds clear.
07:57Chase Sexton still with me here in the broadcast, MXGP race two,
08:00and Jeffrey Hurlings just starting to pick up the pace here on that Honda HRC Patronus machine.
08:06I mean, that is a high-speed straight down the back there.
08:08Those jumps, those bumps are a lot bigger than they look on TV.
08:11The way they're hitting everything there is just mesmerizing anyway,
08:15but as you say, the precision, the control, and the speed and precision and control in all of that
08:19for which they just attack it with such confidence is pretty mind-blowing, actually.
08:24Seems like they've done it a time or two before, I would say.
08:26But I think the intensity looks a little bit higher this moto than the last moto,
08:30but I think, obviously, Jeffrey doesn't want to lose to Kai,
08:33and Kai doesn't want to lose to Jeffrey as they're both their home GP.
08:37So you're going to see them both give their best effort here.
08:40And now looking at Feb had a, I think, fall in the first turn last moto?
08:44Yeah, it was turn, yeah.
08:45And he was way back.
08:45I think he actually got lapped by Jeffrey and Kai,
08:48so this is a good rebound for him.
08:50Obviously not what he wants.
08:51He's a good sand rider as well.
08:52So, yeah, better second moto for him.
08:55Yeah, well, Kai, sorry, Roman de Mosteik finished in eighth, another Dutch rider.
08:59He was the only guy inside the top ten that finished on the same lap as Jeffrey DeWolf,
09:04Geisse, Vial, Adamo, Watson, and Koldenhoff.
09:07Kevin Haugmo, ninth, feb for tenth.
09:08They all got lapped with about two laps to go,
09:10which just shows the intensity of what happened in race one.
09:13The fastest lap in race one was by Kai DeWolf at 1.45, 5.22.
09:17Herlings already eclipsed that 1.44.5 in this second race.
09:21So it looks like the Acherbis fastest lap will go in this second race.
09:25Not sure if it will be Herlings or DeWolf.
09:27But Andrea Adamo here, Red Bull KTM, he's in seventh with Feb for behind him.
09:32And he was steady in the first race,
09:34eventually came home in the third of the qualifying race,
09:37fifth in race one.
09:39And he'll be hoping for another solid end to this race here
09:43as Ruben Fernandez is closing in on Glenn Koldenhoff.
09:47These two fighting over fifth.
09:55Five laps complete.
09:56Glenn Koldenhoff over the line now on the GCR machine
09:59in his one-off appearance at his final Grand Prix.
10:02A rider who is on his, what, 253rd Grand Prix start this weekend.
10:08That's an impressive career.
10:09Twice he's finished third in the World Championship.
10:10He's had six Grand Prix victories and a whole bunch of other stuff.
10:14A handful of medals in the motocrosser nations, including a win.
10:17And obviously he wants to go out on a good one here,
10:19wanting to enjoy this home experience.
10:21He's going to be fifth overall at the moment in this Grand Prix,
10:25which is pretty good considering he's now racing in Brazil.
10:27But if Fernandez finds his way past,
10:29that will bump him down probably to sixth.
10:32But, yeah, impressive for Glenn Koldenhoff.
10:35Your mate, Tom Biel here, Honda HRC Petronas,
10:37in third, just like he was in race one with Tim Geiser behind him
10:41on the Monster Energy Yamaha chase.
10:42And, yeah, it's been a very busy weekend for these two.
10:46They found themselves locked together on more than one occasion.
10:49Yeah, I think this is the race within a race here.
10:52They both want to finish, obviously, third,
10:54because the first two guys are way out in front.
10:57So I think these guys are treating this as a win.
11:00And for Tom, I know this is a much better ride than yesterday.
11:04He had a rough go at it.
11:06And he said this morning right away when he went out for the warm-up,
11:09he felt way better.
11:10So it's cool to see.
11:11And, yeah, the first moto, they were locked in a heated battle.
11:14I think until maybe five laps to go, Tim finally got Tom.
11:17And I think this time Tom's going to maybe put up a little bit of a better fight
11:20and try and get on the podium.
11:21And I think for Tom, he knows where this is going to be
11:25probably the best he's going to do today.
11:27Obviously, the two Dutch riders are way out in front.
11:30So good ride for him.
11:31And he looks better and better in the sand every time I see him on the 450.
11:34And he had a good sort of sand riding sort of Grand Prix prowess
11:39when he was riding in MX2.
11:41Obviously, with him being in the States for the past three years or so
11:44and then not having this kind of playground to sort of enjoy,
11:48it takes a while just to get that kind of muscle memory back, doesn't it,
11:52in terms of how you find the confidence to attack the kind of stuff
11:55that we see here.
11:57to have the confidence to jump two or three braking bumps
11:59to the other side of these jumps here just to make life easy for yourself.
12:03But he's doing a great job here of keeping Geiser behind him
12:05in that fourth place.
12:06That gap was 1.7.
12:08It's now hovering around.
12:10Yeah, 3.1.
12:11So Geiser just losing contact with the Frenchman here.
12:14And, yeah, good to see Vial eyeing up a podium if he stays there at the moment.
12:20In fact, the podium is going to be between Vial and Geiser,
12:23and they both know that as well.
12:25Yeah, they're both racing for obviously that final spot on the podium.
12:29Obviously, there's nothing goes wrong between Jeffrey and Kai.
12:32And, yeah, I told Tom yesterday, I said he was obviously struggling.
12:36I said, maybe you spent a little bit too much time in the States.
12:39You need to come back here a little earlier.
12:41But, no, just joking.
12:43We don't have, like I said, very many sand tracks.
12:45And riding this is a different art.
12:46And looking at even Adamo yesterday, he was riding really well behind Jeffrey.
12:50I think he ended up second, or no, third in the qualifying race.
12:53So, yeah, another good ride for him.
12:57It's not easy out there, I can tell you that.
12:59So I get these guys props.
13:01Yeah, well, a couple of weeks ago when we were in Lomo,
13:03temperatures were around 30-ish, 32 degrees.
13:06Fortunately, we're hovering around about 20-ish degrees today.
13:09Despite that, you're still dressed in shorts and T-shirt, which is good to see.
13:12You can take the American out of America,
13:14but you can't take the American out of the American, if you know what I mean.
13:18Here's a replay of the start.
13:19Jeffrey Hurling snuck up the inside.
13:20He was in gate one.
13:21Tom Vial was there again.
13:23You know what?
13:23The Honda HRC Petronas have got their starts on point this season, haven't they?
13:27Even Jeffrey's getting good starts.
13:29And Tom was never a bad starter anyway.
13:31But just to see what they do getting out of those gates this year has been phenomenal.
13:36Yeah, I don't look so much at Tom when it comes to the starts
13:38because Tom is going to get a good start on any bike he's on.
13:41It's more Jeffrey.
13:43Jeffrey getting good starts.
13:44Obviously, he's not a horrible starter,
13:45but it starts have been maybe his Achilles heel in the past years,
13:48and he's getting a hole shot.
13:50And that wasn't very common when it came to the KTM.
13:54So they got something right on those bikes.
13:56I know Tom, obviously, a great starter.
13:58Ruben's up front a lot.
13:59So they definitely are doing their homework,
14:02and obviously, they're winning a lot of races.
14:04So you can really tell.
14:05Yeah, well, Jeffrey now with six fox hole shots this season alone.
14:09And in terms of his own sort of black plate since 2016,
14:12as we look at Jeffrey Hurlings here, five and a half seconds clear of Kaida Wolf.
14:16Hurlings does have 37.
14:18His last one was only just down the road, Longwall Race 1 earlier this year.
14:22So, but there was a period when he got a hole shot last year.
14:27It was almost like two or three years since his last one.
14:30So you're right.
14:31It has been his Achilles heel.
14:34But he's making up for that in 2026.
14:37What have you made of Roman Fevre's performance here this weekend?
14:40Just from my side, he's just never really sort of looked on point,
14:43you know, just a little bit off the pace.
14:46Maybe that's just trying to find something, you know,
14:49that he's looking for, searching something here and there.
14:52But, you know, because we know he can race in sand.
14:55We know he's won in the sand in the past as well.
14:57But just seems a little bit off, you know,
14:59and even if it's half a second off, those half a seconds over 20 laps
15:02adds up to a good 10 seconds.
15:04But he's just a little bit more off the pace this weekend.
15:06I had the privilege of going to their race shop in Longwall before the race.
15:10And they were, they knew they had their work cut out for them.
15:13Obviously, racing Jeffrey and Kai, it's not an easy task.
15:16But I think they'd hoped it would have gone better than what it's going.
15:19I don't, he doesn't look quite comfortable.
15:22His speed's just been a bit off.
15:24He's obviously really good in the sand.
15:25We saw Lommel, he was battling Kai before going down.
15:29So, yeah, I don't know.
15:31I think it's just, you have those weekends when it's been off.
15:33The whole team, I think even Jonas hasn't had a great weekend.
15:37So sometimes it just isn't your weekend.
15:39And you've got to take it on the chin and move forward.
15:43Well, Roman Febvre carving his way forward,
15:45despite maybe not having 100% comfortability with that motorcycle this weekend.
15:50Maybe just lacking himself in terms of trusting himself as well.
15:53But obviously, he's found his way past Adamo here.
15:56That was for seventh.
15:56Adamo tried to come back at him.
15:58This was the pass again.
15:59Adamo knew that he was there.
16:01Febvre stayed a little bit lower.
16:02Landed nice and straight.
16:03Commanded that inside line.
16:05Adamo let him have it in the end.
16:06But that was Febvre moving up into seventh.
16:10Just as he passed the pit board to say, believe.
16:14But it's Hurlings who continues to lead the way.
16:16Six seconds clear of DeWolf.
16:17Vial, 22 seconds off the lead, but 15 behind DeWolf.
16:21Geis was fourth.
16:22Koltunov five.
16:23Fernandez six.
16:23Febvre, Adamo.
16:24Ben Watson.
16:25Ben Watson looking at seventh overall this weekend.
16:28If he stays where he is in the Roman and Mostak, we'll be looking at tenth.
16:30But it's been a fascinating Grand Prix.
16:33These two still believe that either one of them can win it.
16:36Only six seconds between Hurlings and DeWolf.
16:38Only takes another mistake at the end of the race like we saw in race one.
16:41And that changes everything in the outcome of this Grand Prix.
16:55Kaida-Wolf has battled every step of the way here.
16:57And you know what?
16:58But it's kind of weird because in the U.S., Chase Sexton, you've got your Deegan fans.
17:03You've got your Tomac fans.
17:04You know, you've got your Lawrence fans and et cetera, et cetera.
17:07And obviously you've got your fans.
17:08But I'm talking this year specifically in terms of how the racing has been going outdoors.
17:12And then you come to Holland.
17:13You think they're all behind Hurlings and DeWolf.
17:15But because of where they come from and maybe different, you know, football teams,
17:19bizarrely, that they support and things like that, there is a split.
17:22There's a divide, you know, of the fans and who they want to win more than the other one,
17:26even though they're both Dutch.
17:26It's absolutely insane bonkers.
17:30Did you sense that when you were walking around yesterday, you know, the way the fans are here?
17:34You've experienced it at the Nations, of course.
17:37And obviously you've experienced it at Redbird at the Nations, of course.
17:40But, you know, seeing the fans and the way that, I guess, the European fans go about watching their racing
17:46and how they get behind their national riders,
17:49is that something that's kind of caught your eye or fascinated you?
17:51Yeah, it's pretty cool.
17:53I think even yesterday with Glenn up there, I think he got, what, fourth in the qualifying race?
18:00You could tell the fans when the Dutch rider came around, the crowd started to cheer.
18:05Jeffrey was so far out front that you noticed it more with Glenn and Kai coming through the pack.
18:10So it was cool.
18:12Even on the starting line today with all the orange smoke in the air, you don't really have that in
18:15the U.S.
18:16And obviously the U.S., we always race in the same country.
18:20So they're predominantly U.S. fans.
18:23So it's cool to come to different countries and they have their own riders.
18:26And it's just something different.
18:28I really enjoyed being here this weekend.
18:29Cool.
18:30Well, look, we've just under 12 minutes plus two laps to go here.
18:34MXGP race two.
18:35Jeffrey Hurlings now less than five seconds clear of Kyla Wolf.
18:38Fial still there in third.
18:39Geiser closing back in on him again after a little bit of a break.
18:43One and a half seconds between them with Koldenov now 13 seconds behind.
18:47But this is going to be one battle now for third.
18:54Ten laps complete and the battle for third is on between Tom Vial and Tim Geiser.
18:58Geiser here in blue.
19:00Vial just a couple of riders around the corner on the number 16 on the Honda.
19:04There he is at the end of the straight.
19:05This is also the battle for third overall in the podium between these two.
19:10Ruben Fernandes is out of sixth position as well.
19:14And Ruben Fernandes was looking.
19:19Did he ever...
19:20Where was he in race one?
19:21He was sixth in race one.
19:23Yeah, he didn't.
19:23Yeah, he DNF'd in race one.
19:25It was the qualifying race where he was sixth.
19:27And so Fernandes out on the far side of the track.
19:30And he's going to drop down from sixth place.
19:33So that's an easy couple of points for Roman Fevre.
19:40So he's going to pick himself up, remount.
19:43But Ruben Fernandes will only lose a couple of positions.
19:46Rejoins just behind Andrea Adamo.
19:48Just ahead of Romana Mostai.
19:50But Tim Geiser.
19:51Geiser, a five-time world champ.
19:53Chase Sexton had a great start to the year in terms of those first images that came out of him
19:58on the Yamaha.
19:59Of course, you know what it's like to change brands, change teams and all the rest of it.
20:03Jeffrey's had to go through the same as well.
20:04Jeffrey Hurlings has dealt with it slightly better than Tim Geiser.
20:07But how has that been for you to experience the change of teams as well?
20:12You know, it's not easy, is it?
20:14Yeah, it's not an easy task.
20:15I think for Tim, he was on a Honda for, I think, 12 years.
20:19So going to a different bike is going to be a little bit more difficult for him just because he's
20:23been on the same bike for so long.
20:25And I think he will get the hang of it.
20:27I think last weekend he had a fall on the first moto.
20:29But this weekend, I think he's – people wouldn't call him a sand rider.
20:34But I would say he's riding pretty well.
20:35And I think if he got third, obviously Tom's going to fight him for it.
20:39But I think if he got third, he'd consider that a win.
20:41So I think it's going to start to get a bit better for him.
20:44And, yeah, we'll see.
20:46It's definitely a different bike, new team, new personnel.
20:49It's not easy.
20:50So I expect him to be better the rest of this year and then coming into next year as well.
20:55And, yeah, he got his victory in the Netherlands.
20:56That was back in 2021 on his Honda, Atos, of course.
21:00But this is five years down the line.
21:03And he's eyeing up a podium if he can find his way past Vial.
21:06Vial making it very difficult for him.
21:09But, yeah, neither of these two riders can make a mistake in the closing stages.
21:13We've still got ten minutes plus two laps to go here at the moment between hurlings on that Honda HRC
21:17Patronus machine.
21:19Have you had a chance to walk around the paddock and talk to different, you know, riders and things like
21:25that?
21:25What did you see there?
21:27I thought maybe I saw something.
21:29Oh, guys are back on Tom.
21:31Here we go.
21:32This is going to be a long battle to the finish line for Tom.
21:35I know he wants to get third.
21:37And he looks like he's riding really well.
21:39Looking at their lap times, they're obviously a bit off the leaders, but not – I would say they were
21:43closer than the first moto.
21:44So for Tom, I think, obviously, his goal is to get third.
21:47And then the same for Tim.
21:48So we'll see.
21:49This is, like I said, a battle for – not a win, but for these guys it might be what
21:54they consider a win today.
21:55Well, yeah, absolutely.
21:57And I tell you what, Geiser almost landed on the rear end there of Tom Vial, who didn't get that
22:01good drive through that rhythm section at the end.
22:03He's going to run the Slovenian to the outside, who cuts back to the inside.
22:06And in the end, blink of an eye, Geiser charges through for third in the race and third overall in
22:11the classification for now with eight minutes to go.
22:14Same spot as first moto.
22:16So Tom, I think, defended it a bit better.
22:19I think Geiser went around the outside first moto, and he cut back this time.
22:23Still got him.
22:24So, yeah, Geiser in the third, looking for a 3-3.
22:27We'll see if Tom can get back.
22:31Well, let's go down to pit lane.
22:32Now that Tim Geiser has moved into third, Lisa is with Monster Energy Yamaha, quite possibly with Michele Levetti.
22:40So if we can, let's go down there now.
22:42But as we watch this battle, we'll stay with this battle.
22:44It looks like Tom Vial may still have something up the sleeve for the rider who just passed him for
22:49that third place and third overall in the Grand Prix.
22:51Let's go down to Lisa, though, in pit lane.
22:56Yeah, I'm just with Michele Levetti.
22:58Michele, Tim Geiser in the battle for third in the race, third on the podium.
23:02So far, so good.
23:03But it looks like Vial has got something else up the sleeve.
23:06Yeah, actually, at the moment, it's quite OK.
23:09Just passed Tom for the third place.
23:11And this is the goal for today.
23:13And to be honest, this is the best result for today.
23:18because the Geoffrey and Kai, they are super fast.
23:22So I hope we can manage to finish the race like this.
23:26And so I hope I keep going like this because he's riding really well.
23:31And there's six minutes to go.
23:33So finger cross.
23:35Thanks, Michele.
23:36Best of luck to the team.
23:39Yeah, Tim Geiser, he was hounding Tom Vial there just for a while.
23:43He's managed to find his way past.
23:45There's Watson just ahead of him.
23:48Watson has crashed and he's down to 21st at the moment.
23:51So he was eyeing up sort of fifth or sixth overall in the Grand Prix, wasn't he?
23:54which would have been fantastic for the Dirt Store Triumph rider,
23:57especially after that sixth in race one,
24:00which equaled his best ever finish in MXGP from a few years ago
24:05when he moved up from MX2 to MXGP with Yamaha.
24:09But with six minutes plus two laps to go here,
24:12Tim Geiser now in that third place.
24:18But the gap coming down between first and second.
24:21Hurlings, 1.8 seconds clear of DeWolf.
24:25DeWolf putting in a charge here.
24:26Is he right at the end of the race?
24:27We'll soon find out because we need to head to that battle.
24:30In fact, it's gone back out of 2.3.
24:32So maybe there was a slight mistake
24:34and then it's kind of come back in Hurlings' favour.
24:37This battle here between Iago Keertz, second rider in shot,
24:40and the 1.32 of Andrea Bonacorsi.
24:43These two fighting over 12th at the moment.
24:45The Red Bull Ducati there, the lead rider,
24:47and the MRT Racing Team Beta of Iago Keertz.
24:50Of course, what, three, four times second
24:53in the MX2 World Championship.
24:55Looking to get good drive here to Belgian,
24:57and he's brave to jump through there,
24:59not knowing if Bonacorsi was going to cut across.
25:01But Iago Keertz, up to 12th.
25:03Nice move there, Chase Sexton.
25:05Yeah, those waves,
25:06they have been the deciding factor, I think, all weekend.
25:10The ones also after the finish line,
25:11and then those ones,
25:13that turning double is a big gain if you can get it,
25:16and you saw Iago get that clean and made the pass.
25:18So, good on him.
25:20That is a very technical section,
25:21and it looks like Jeffrey may be turning it up a little bit.
25:24Kai is pretty close.
25:26If he can get to the back of Jeffrey,
25:28let him know he's for real in this moto,
25:30I think this could be a good race to the end.
25:32And I'm sure that the team behind Kaida Wolf there
25:36at Nastana Spana have said to him,
25:38just keep him on the ropes,
25:39keep applying the pressure,
25:41because there are a million things
25:42that can sort of potentially work your way
25:45that could be a slight mistake,
25:46although he's normally bulletproof
25:48in terms of doesn't often let people come by without a fight,
25:51and he does put up a fantastic fight,
25:53does Jeffrey Hurlings.
25:54But at the same time,
25:55could be a technical,
25:56could be a little tip over,
25:58something like that.
25:58A slight technical with a stone in the back brake pedal
26:01that we saw in race one.
26:02He wasn't close enough in race one
26:03to make that difference.
26:05And the team have probably said to him,
26:07if you are there, if there is a problem,
26:09you need to be there to capitalize.
26:10That would make sense, wouldn't it?
26:11Yeah, for sure.
26:12I think, like I said,
26:13I think maybe he got let the first race go a little bit,
26:16because I think he thought Jeffrey
26:17was just going to ride it in,
26:18and then he obviously either got sand
26:19or a stone in the chain.
26:21And I think this moto,
26:22he looks like he's aggressive and wants to win.
26:25And I was maybe not questioning his fitness,
26:27but yesterday he put a big effort
26:29to get to second from last, basically.
26:31And then first moto was battling Jeffrey,
26:34and I was a little bit,
26:35not, like I said, nervous,
26:36but see what he has in the tank for second moto.
26:38And he's shown me that he's got plenty.
26:40And I'm excited to see this as a fan.
26:43Obviously, it's the best guys.
26:45Absolutely.
26:46Well, look, down through the main infield section,
26:48fans either side of the racetrack here.
26:49The two Dutch riders once again
26:51lighting up this Arnhem circuit.
26:54DeWolf almost off the back of the motorcycle
26:56at the end of that wave section.
26:58but he's got Hurlings right there
27:00where he needs him
27:01as we prepare
27:02for the last few laps of this race.
27:04I mean, there's, what,
27:05three, four laps to go here, potentially.
27:07And Hurlings is not breaking free,
27:09and it's DeWolf who's closing.
27:11He's going to use this outside line here
27:12to try and get a slingshot.
27:15And this gap down to 1.1 seconds a moment ago
27:18as they emerge back onto the start straight.
27:21Hurlings knows that DeWolf is there.
27:22Hurlings commented on the speed of DeWolf
27:24in that first race
27:25and said he was tough to break down and pass.
27:28And he's going to try and have his go again,
27:30this time to try and go for the race win if he can.
27:33Six tenths of a second in it.
27:35A slight bobble through here.
27:37Fans on their feet.
27:39And Hurlings doing a fantastic job of hanging on,
27:42but DeWolf, you've got to say,
27:44he's bridged, what, two, three seconds,
27:45and he's been chipping away,
27:46and he's found his way back
27:48onto the rear wheel of the bullet.
27:49Fans on their feet.
27:50They don't want to take a seat,
27:51nor do we.
27:52Chase Hexton and I
27:53are just on the edge of our seats here
27:55waiting to see the outcome of this one
27:56in MXGP race two.
27:58Hurlings trying to extend that lead.
27:59We'll get another split here.
28:01It was six tenths.
28:01It goes out to just 1.4,
28:03but that's nothing in the greatest scheme of things
28:05with the condition of this racetrack here
28:07being so challenging and so brutal,
28:10even at these speeds
28:11for these two riders
28:12who were born in the sand.
28:14So with two minutes to go,
28:16DeWolf is right there,
28:17but he's just not close enough
28:19to make that move stick.
28:20He needs to be a lot closer.
28:22He needs mistakes like that from Hurlings
28:24if he's going to make a difference,
28:25and it has made a slight difference
28:27because the gap has come back down
28:28as we hit the end of sector two,
28:30albeit just to eight tenths of a second.
28:35but backmarkers are also going to play their part
28:37in the outcome of this race.
28:39For now, Hurlings holds on.
28:40DeWolf there in second.
28:41We are once again in
28:43for a super grand finale here in Harnham.
28:55DeWolf not giving up the fight.
28:57Chase Sexton.
28:58Are you surprised at the comeback here
29:00from Kai DeWolf?
29:01I know he said he may have been
29:01reserving something in the tank
29:03at the end of that first race,
29:04but he's going all in
29:06on the table this time around.
29:07This is what everyone wanted to see,
29:09especially, obviously, the fans,
29:11but everyone in the paddock,
29:12they know that these guys
29:13are sand specialists,
29:14and I think they all were
29:15ready to see this battle,
29:16and Kai has given it to them.
29:18I think maybe Jeffrey
29:19even caught off guard a little bit.
29:21I think he maybe thought
29:21he could ride it in
29:22and keep the gap at the same length,
29:25but Kai said no way.
29:26I think maybe he was reserving energy
29:28at the beginning of the race,
29:30because I think it got
29:30almost six seconds or so,
29:32and he's brought it back in.
29:34He looks aggressive
29:34and feisty, ready to win,
29:36so it's fun to see,
29:38and he's a very colorful rider.
29:41He launches stuff wild on the bike,
29:44but he's also very technical,
29:45which is kind of hard
29:46to have those combinations,
29:48and a bit of a mistake there.
29:50Managed to save,
29:51got over the tabletop,
29:52so yeah, he's riding good,
29:54and I think Jeffrey
29:55is obviously managing the gap now
29:56and realizes there's a fight
29:57to try and win this race,
29:59so we'll see.
30:00A fight to the finish
30:01that he doesn't want,
30:01which is exactly what
30:02Lucas Kunin gave him
30:0312 months ago around the circuit.
30:05He caught him right on the line,
30:06but it was Hurlings
30:07who did win race two
30:08and win the Grand Prix.
30:09Finds himself
30:10in a similar predicament here
30:11for the overall classification,
30:14but it's Kaida Wolf
30:16who is all over the back of him.
30:18Either way,
30:19whatever happens here,
30:20we're going to get
30:20a National Anthem
30:21of the Netherlands.
30:22Geiser has an issue here,
30:25and he's been down.
30:27The Tech Airvest has deployed,
30:30so where was that?
30:30He's out of third place.
30:32Looks like bars are bent too,
30:33so maybe a big one.
30:35Oh, and another one there
30:36just exits the final turn,
30:38so he re-emerges here
30:39in seven position
30:41because Adamo's gone by.
30:42So too, Vial.
30:44Vial's going to be back
30:44on the podium,
30:4538 points as a result
30:46of that mistake.
30:49Hopefully we've got that,
30:50but maybe we do,
30:51maybe we don't.
30:51But the gap between these two,
30:54Hurlings and DeWolf,
30:55around about a second and a half
30:56at the last split,
30:57but is there one last push?
30:59We have two laps to go
31:00when they hit the line
31:01this time around
31:02at the end of lap 17.
31:05Race one was a 19 lap,
31:06and we're going to get
31:07the same here in race two.
31:09Hurlings just seemed
31:10a little bit cautious
31:11when he came in to land
31:12on that finish line jump there.
31:15hopefully he doesn't have
31:17any issues.
31:17We're going to soon find out.
31:25Kai DeWolf is so strong
31:26down this back section
31:27of the racetrack.
31:28There must be four
31:29or five holes that he's clearing,
31:30and I guess that's the kind
31:31of experience that
31:33you need to build,
31:35Chase Sexton.
31:35That's probably,
31:36you know,
31:36when you talk about
31:37riding sand tracks
31:37and not having circuits
31:38like this,
31:40you don't sort of
31:42learn that or understand it
31:43unless you see it
31:44the way that these guys
31:45see it.
31:45And I guess in many ways
31:48you can't wait to get
31:49to a sand track
31:49just like this
31:50and put all this
31:50into practice.
31:51Yeah, I might have to come
31:52to Lamo and ride
31:53for a few months,
31:54but no,
31:54I think the difference
31:56we're seeing is
31:57Jeffrey's very good
31:58in these kind of sections
31:59where it's technical
32:00and slower,
32:01and Kai is very good
32:02where it's fast
32:03and more open.
32:04He's willing to hang
32:06it out there.
32:06I think it's also
32:07a little bit
32:07with the bike setups
32:08a little bit different.
32:10But yeah,
32:11in these fast sections,
32:12Kai is willing
32:13to hang it out
32:13and maybe a little bit
32:14more wild.
32:16And then in the slow section,
32:17Jeffrey's very,
32:19like you see there,
32:19a little bit of sideways.
32:20So Jeffrey's very good.
32:22When it comes to these little...
32:23Oh, he throws it away!
32:25Backhand comes around on him.
32:26He was just pushing too hard,
32:28but one little edge
32:29on the rear wheel.
32:31He's going to pick himself up.
32:32He's got, what,
32:3252 seconds on Vial.
32:34So he should pick himself up.
32:35We have been denied
32:36that grandstand,
32:38sort of grand finale,
32:39if you like.
32:40He's gone down.
32:41He'll probably be slightly winded
32:42or whatever,
32:43but you know what?
32:4411 out of 10 for effort,
32:45Kai de Waulf.
32:46Take a bow, son,
32:47because what you've done
32:48this weekend
32:48with a tweaked thumb
32:49that you picked up
32:50just before Sweden
32:52has been nothing short
32:53of sensational.
32:54And Jeffrey Hurlings,
32:55you've been made to work
32:56every step of the way.
32:57You've pushed Kai de Waulf
32:58to be his very best self
32:59as well this weekend
33:01and both riders
33:02have put in
33:02an absolute heroic shift
33:05here this weekend
33:06and Jeffrey Hurlings,
33:08the run to the finish line
33:09that he didn't want
33:10is now going to be
33:11the run to the finish line
33:13that he does want
33:13because he's able
33:14to control this here.
33:15This was the first moment here.
33:16It was probably slightly off line
33:17more so than he wanted to be
33:19and then watch this.
33:20Just catches one
33:21or two little holes.
33:22He was under the trees.
33:23Probably didn't see
33:24something there.
33:25Face plants the ground.
33:26We see it better
33:26from this angle.
33:29Just there.
33:30Swaps around
33:30and when you're going
33:31at that speed
33:32with these guys,
33:33that was only going
33:34to end one way.
33:35Unfortunate,
33:36but that's racing sometimes.
33:38Chase Sexton,
33:39fantastic effort
33:39from Kai de Waulf
33:40all weekend long.
33:41He was letting it hang out.
33:42That's all you can ask.
33:43Hats off to both of them.
33:45Kai wanted that win bad.
33:46I knew it was going
33:47to be a battle.
33:48I didn't know
33:48if he was going to get back
33:49to him after the beginning,
33:50but yeah,
33:50I think he got a little
33:52off balance coming
33:53out of those rollers
33:53and then was a little
33:54offline coming into that turn.
33:56Probably didn't hit
33:57that bump all race.
33:58Didn't expect it
33:59and got a bit of a kick,
34:01but he's a lot younger
34:03than Jeffrey
34:03and I think he wanted
34:04to take him down.
34:06Obviously,
34:06both their home GPs
34:07so you can't say
34:08it's more of Jeffrey's
34:09home race,
34:10but they both wanted
34:11to win in front
34:11of their home fans
34:12and I respect it.
34:13That was fun.
34:14Fun getting to see
34:15that battle.
34:17And obviously a bit younger,
34:18probably bounces
34:18a little bit better
34:19than Jeffrey
34:19as well these days.
34:20But Jeffrey Hurling's
34:22on the back wheel.
34:23He's on his final lap.
34:27And as he drops downhill
34:28onto the start straight
34:29for the final time,
34:30it's cruise mode
34:32for the bullet.
34:33He will head
34:34towards the checkered flag.
34:35And when you look
34:36at his outstanding achievements,
34:39he already came in
34:39with 85 double race
34:41Grand Prix victories.
34:42It's going to be 86.
34:44He's going to take
34:45his 61st MXGP Grand Prix victory.
34:48That equals what he did
34:50in MX2 all those years ago.
34:52It's going to be
34:52Grand Prix victory
34:53number 122.
34:55He got his 230th race win
34:57in race one.
34:58He wins at home
34:59for a 17th time
35:00in the Netherlands.
35:02Jeffrey Hurling's
35:02victorious here
35:03in Arnhem.
35:05What a great,
35:06what a weekend.
35:07What a race.
35:08Chase Sexton,
35:09a quick summary
35:10if you don't mind.
35:12There's not much to say
35:13when it comes to
35:13Jeffrey riding sand.
35:14Even Kai.
35:16Very, very few mistakes
35:18coming out of both of them.
35:19Obviously Kai
35:20putting his hand up there.
35:21Let him know
35:22he gave his best effort.
35:23And yeah,
35:24home race very special
35:25for both of them.
35:26It's cool to see.
35:27But yeah,
35:28I don't know.
35:28I don't really know what to say.
35:29Watching Jeffrey
35:30and them ride the sand.
35:32Very special to watch.
35:33And yeah,
35:34Jeffrey again
35:35was so technical
35:36in those small
35:37slow sections
35:38and Kai was
35:38willing to hang it out
35:40as we saw.
35:40And I think
35:41Tom is going to get third
35:43which again
35:43is a win for him.
35:45So Jeffrey Hurling
35:46takes his third victory
35:47around this Arnhem circuit.
35:4917th on home soil.
35:51He goes 1-1.
35:52Kai DeWolf
35:52goes 2-2.
35:53Tom Vial
35:54crossed the line here.
35:55He will go 4-3
35:55for third overall
35:57for Honda HRC Petronas.
35:59Two riders
35:59on the top step
36:00for the red side
36:01of Japan.
36:02But Jeffrey Hurling
36:05victorious in race 2
36:06from DeWolf,
36:07Vial,
36:07Koldenov and Fevre
36:08but it finishes here.
36:09Hurling's DeWolf,
36:10Vial
36:10on the podium
36:11here in Holland.
36:12and estão at 역.
36:13I want to beat
36:14and here in the
36:15greater here...
36:16atückit!
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