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00:00racetrack and we're ready to go second 250 moto ktm keys to the moto well it's championship day
00:05hayden you wrap this thing up now go have fun kid go have fun you wanted to beat him by 30 seconds
00:11but here's your chance but you got to get off this gate and i'm sure he's gonna pick that inside
00:16again let's go revs are up gates down oh this time he got pinched off big time digging it's nearly
00:26last kitchen i think gonna lead them in another rider goes down levi kitchen motosport.com whole
00:32shock yeah it looks like the same thing happened to hayden that it did that first moto with chase
00:36so we're gonna find out uh where we where we at but good to see levi kitchen back up front which
00:42he's been out first few weeks and it looks like jaleek swole jaleek swole out to get third last
00:48weekend nice to see him up front chance hyman's trying to make a pass to get around julian but
00:53levi kitchen out front where he's been at lately yeah he has gotten lots of good starts and won the
00:58last race a week ago at unidillo boom era the rookie yeah that's back-to-back good starts for
01:04him and that makes a huge difference on this track deegan sheesh i don't even think he might uh top
01:1115 15th for deegan so doors open here for kitchen to make a run not just for the moto win but that
01:18would be uh maybe an overall win as well yeah and i wondered it was good to science to see levi have
01:23so much energy at the end of that race but with him being sick you got to wonder could he even last
01:27that long because in the middle part of that moto he struggled so second moto here on a hot day
01:32might be tough for him but you know he's going to give it all yeah kitchen did say he's been under
01:36the weather didn't really ride this week so where's the endurance for the 47 swole on the triumph
01:42second time is fourth dax benek finally getting off the gate the rookie is fifth masterful smith
01:49parker ross just jumping into the pro ranks last week and the slr honda is eighth hempshire and
01:57brown top ten yeah i'm looking at chance in 30 he's looking awfully aggressive or excuse me
02:02chance in second wow look aggressive like he did last weekend that first moto good to see that ac
02:10guys watching the start you had hayden on the inside gate chance uh just just to the outside
02:16of him and i think i think my guy has had had enough of getting roasted on the instagram you
02:22know he came straight over and chopped him off and yeah he's uh taking full advantage of that
02:26right now okay yeah we've had a war of words off the track and on social media between hymas and
02:32deegan carrying it onto the track perhaps there is the 48 gets aggressive off the line and he's
02:38aggressive after the start around swollen on a track down kitchen yeah i mean this is two weeks
02:44in a row um in motos that you see how aggressive chance is and confidence he knows he has space
02:50and he knows like all right i did it last weekend i'm able to get around these guys i got around so
02:55he looks pretty good and he's trying to run down levi and now you can see hayden deegan
03:02what is he running 11th yeah 11th so he's made a few passes now this is where look how everything
03:08is going to bottle up for him he's going to lose a lot of time right here he's got a funnel back
03:12in lines gonna be hard from the past guys in front of him he can only go as fast as the guys
03:17in front of him so that's tough well there's no pressure on deegan because he wrapped up the title
03:23in moto one so he'd love to win the race for sure that pays well race wins always feel good but he
03:30doesn't have to push it but we'll see how he plays it he has his teammate romano on the 511 right
03:37ahead of him that's 10th place yeah this is that area where hayden really can't do anything go
03:42outside inside unless uh nick makes a mistake it's going to be hard for him to get around
03:47see if nick close them off
03:51goes around the outside oh two three corners it is taken still can't quite get it the alva 16
03:58right in front of them yep there you go deegan did everything he could still couldn't make the
04:03yeah and that's the point of first lap position so and that's his teammate so tough tough position
04:08for hayden bn but good thing is tom bial's right in front of him the bad thing is
04:12tom bial's right in front of him and rj's behind him so uh good to see rj back up up here
04:19but it just tough it showed you how tough that track is to pass on that section
04:23now we're finally into a spot where you can make some moves yeah like you don't have to
04:27rely on the guy to make a mistake to get around them too much but you can just see the opportunity
04:31uh hayden tried everything and how much time he's lost because he couldn't get around in those
04:37sections so now it is hymas we're up front challenging kitchen for the lead and for hymas
04:43this already could be the one that got away he was second on the last lap of the first moto and
04:48then crashed and finished eighth so he's not really in contention to win the overall today
04:55he's going to go for the moto win though yeah i mean at this point in a championship chance
04:59was in second a couple weeks ago overall in the points but he's lost some points the last few
05:04motos i think what he's doing is the right thing he needs to build that confidence and speed and
05:08you can see what's happening now in the earlier parts of the race compared to earlier parts of
05:13the year he's a lot more aggressive he's able to close in on these guys as he's closing in on levi
05:18and if he can wrap this thing up win one of these races you're going to see things click for this
05:24kid it's already clicking in speed yeah there's no doubt as he has caught kitchen and they built
05:30up about three seconds to see swole coming through in third where can the 48 make a move he's got to
05:36probably wait till we get to that other sector yeah i mean you can see levi's doing a good job
05:40as long as he goes on the inside not makes any mistakes chance can't really do anything but now
05:45it opens up now chance might not be able to pass him in this spot but he can stay close to him and
05:50might have the opportunity once you get back to henry hill where the track opens up and you can
05:54charge harder in that section so chance done a great job he just stayed close he'd get out of
05:59this corner he might have an opportunity to pass right up here oh here we go the battle is on
06:06kitchen and hybus levi's gonna go down the middle to the inside now chance should be
06:13on the inside if he can get next to him but levi beats him out of the corner nice riding by him
06:17oh another section with a down and then back up right here here we go chance to square it up so
06:26you have more momentum than him oh hook it back out of the start now these rollers let's see if
06:32the 48 can make it happen no no i mean it's it's tough because the way this track is with those
06:39rollers you're always pushing out so it's going to be hard to get on the inside of a guy um unless
06:45you got to be worried about hitting him so levi it's not like he's holding him up levi's just
06:49going in the right places and has a good pace so he knows he needs to keep chance behind him
06:55otherwise that you know 48 might run off from him wait with this pace and now back into the
07:02area where say it's pretty tough yeah big moves yeah now chance to be stuck behind him as he makes
07:07a small mistake you know i'm looking at hey deegan he's still stuck behind his teammate in 10th place
07:11so it just shows you how difficult this track is to pass a couple hours ago he had 10 seconds
07:18already on lead on these guys so showed you what the start does hyman's going to work on kitchen
07:24again we've primarily seen in this 250 class it's deep this year but it's kind of that cream
07:31rises to the top thing primarily seen vl kitchen hymas obviously deegan a couple other guys have
07:38poked in there for sure swole had the podium last week tie masterful got a win earlier in the year
07:43joe shimoda was looking good until an injury but we've seen a lot of battles between the 47 and 48
07:48this year send it down to jt you know a popular bench racing topic is should riders be more
07:55forthcoming if they're dealing with an injury they're dealing with an ailment and i'll tell
07:58you one of the only times i think it really matters a situation like this where chance hymas is sitting
08:03behind levi kitchen and he's gonna know that levi's feeling under the weather he saw how he
08:08responded in that first moto he heard his comments or his team would have relayed that to him so
08:12that's going to give him extra confidence right he's going to know that levi's going to fade later
08:16in this moto and it's going to put into chance's head i should pass him i should be able to get
08:20this win so sometimes you know winning is in the margin and these riders are so fickle with with
08:26their confidence if you're ever wondering why riders don't share more information this might
08:30be a reason why you're just kind of leaning into you're a little bit under the weather well yeah
08:35to that point jt we'll see is hymas going to wait and put on another attack because kitchen
08:40starting to pull away here at butts creek
08:58well i did not expect this once hymas got to the rear wheel of kitchen i didn't expect to
09:02see kitchen put nearly two and a half seconds in him but he's rallied right now yeah i was thinking
09:09like uh you know as quickly as you said chance lost that time but it reminded me of the first
09:14moto to 450 how chase was able to close in but once he got close it's just easy to make a mistake
09:19because you want to get around the guy but hey deegan's still stuff behind his teammate in 10th
09:23place and just losing time and he's going everywhere you can see his uh next it's in ninth
09:31and eighth places in front of him going away so hayden has more pace but can't really get around
09:36him it's our thor running order with these teammates both wearing the thor gear romano
09:41and deegan battling jordan smith right ahead of them and defton benek right behind them send it
09:46down to adam seems rulo well i've had the distinct pleasure of wrapping up a title in the first moto
09:53like like hayden deegan has done uh today and i was kind of just like him going into the second
09:58moto mindset wise so i'm like man i'm gonna go out there i'm gonna do my do my normal thing i
10:02want to go out there and win and dominate and once i got out on the track i was like nah i don't think
10:08i want to i don't think i want to risk that much so uh maybe the race just hasn't gone um as great
10:14as he's wanted it to and he's kind of just backing it down and going with it well he's gonna have to
10:18right now because james you had eyebrows up watching deegan try to make moves on romano and then
10:24couldn't do that triple he lost some time yeah i think hayden's honestly i think hayden's riding
10:29like he did the first moto literally like aggressive he's going for it doesn't look like
10:34you know there's any hesitation from him but it's the first lap position off the start this track
10:39we've been talking about all day you've got to be up front it is hard to pass and now you're
10:44hayden's figuring that out he's riding just as good if you put him up front i think he would
10:48ride off or ride with levi like he did that first moto but it's hard to pass you get frustrated and
10:55then you start making mistake mistakes when you get caught in behind but it was the first
10:59lap position that cost this moto so far so watching hayden deegan here tale of two starts great one
11:13in moto one dominant moto win bad one here in moto two he is stuck behind his teammate nick romano
11:21and we saw him take five six swings at it through these next couple turns a lap ago and none of them
11:26worked still trying got the other teammate jordan smith right in front of them deegan is trying
11:33everything and i saw nick take a look back so he knows his hayden hayden's been revving it up
11:38you got to wonder uh does nick the championship's over so now he's going to race him if hayden still
11:44was trying to get these points for the championship might have let him go through but right now it's
11:48like the first race of the year and i'm sure that's frustrating for hayden because he knows
11:52he can be a lot further ahead than where he's at right now but nick's riding good and it's helping
11:57rj hempshire stick with them right behind in his return to racing after a broken wrist look at
12:02tegan just trying and trying and trying yeah he should have the pass here nick's gonna be on the
12:06outside deegan should be able to close that gap off see if he can get this triple still no no can't
12:13do the triple romano does and also hempshire did three-way battle oh that's tough you know
12:20hayden's frustrated now and you know rj knows the only reason he's still close to him because hayden
12:26stuck behind him so even though rj's closing he has the same problem trying to get around these guys
12:32oh hayden almost lost that front end there
12:38and as a rider do you know look i've only got these couple of turns where passing is really
12:42available like this deegan like oh yeah hayden knows i mean but it's i mean still at the same
12:47time just because you know something doesn't mean you're you're okay with it it's frustrating i think
12:52hayden has to be careful of not getting too frustrated and do something and going down
12:58oh he's trying everything through these rollers he doubled on the inside it still wasn't enough
13:03big scrub for the 38th can that do it no yeah and you wonder why hayden didn't you know run it in
13:10because it's that ain't that lean angle and if hayden lost the front end going off the that face
13:15of that jump it would be over so he can only push so hard nick's like i said doing a good job starting
13:20to frustrate him maybe something like hayden might tip over but man he's gonna mess around let rj
13:27get around him oh look at rj on the inside oh yeah he's trying
13:37and deacon's gonna be the outside for this corner can you make a power run
13:44nope
13:47oh here it is ah this is a good battle with rj in it as well adam
13:52i'm looking at the lap times guys in one through ten one through ten is doing the same exact time
13:59so we may look at hayden back here in tens and be like he's having a bad moto i mean all these
14:03guys are ripping right now yeah it's that track position and look at that rj hemshire past deacon
14:09when deacon made a mistake now he and ramada are stuck on the outside together
14:14to the triple we go uh hayden's not gonna go to triple rj does i thought hayden was gonna get a
14:18bogo special here but yeah it was tough and as i was mentioning earlier hayden's riding just like
14:24he did the first motor he's riding really good if you put him up front but track position now rj
14:30this is incredible i gotta give a shout out to nick i mean for somebody fighting
14:34hard i haven't seen guys fight hayden this much all year and ramado still holds deacon off but
14:41hempshire is through now nick's got to be careful here because now hayden might he might be really
14:48angry at this point yeah teammate might be losing friendship right here again title is wrapped up
14:54for deacon so i guess gloves are off all the way around now we haven't seen anything that's
15:00dirty or anything like that but look at the distance hamshire is opening up now
15:04and another shot at it from deacon yeah here we go
15:10and romano has not had a finish in the top 10 in a moto all year so he was fighting for it
15:15it will now push him to 11 deacon makes the pass and finally we can catch our breath and give you
15:21the motosport.com whole shot replay hayden deacon's on the far inside doesn't get the best job
15:29yeah and chance cuts over a little bit i don't know if he was
15:32intentionally cutting over or or whatnot but yeah hayden didn't get the jump chance was elisa
15:38beside him that's his real estate as well clean start but levi kitchen out front here we go
15:46um yeah it kind of looks like chance wanted to cut over but he didn't get it wasn't far enough
15:52ahead but the one good thing is just what we saw like chase sexton because you're so far behind
15:58and being on the inside is pretty safe there you can sneak around the inside um and pass a lot of
16:03people but levi kitchen way to answer the bell well so far we're into the halfway mark of the
16:09moto so still 14 minutes and two laps to go can he maintain this and the good news for kitchen
16:19the riders that beat him in moto one deacon and vial we mentioned how far back deacon is 10th
16:25vial is only fifth so kitchen i don't even know if he'll need to beat him is to necessarily win
16:31the overall again let's send it back down to adam yeah watching levi right now there's been
16:38plenty of times and i'm sure jt and james you could say the same thing plenty of times where
16:44i come into the day sick and when i go out there my goal is purely efficiency and some days it
16:50works out to where that efficiency turns into good speed and i think that's what we're seeing
16:54right now from levi well we're gonna see if it's efficient enough to save enough energy to get to
17:02the end because it looks like ibis is ready to challenge for the lead for a second time
17:14kitchen gonna have to dig deep now hymas putting in another flurry yeah and you if you watch levi
17:20he's sitting down in certain spots so when you're talking about if he's sick he's trying to be
17:24efficient around here he's doing a good job at um when he has an opportunity to rest sit down and
17:30try to save some of that energy right before the finish line through those rollers he was sitting
17:34down and not because he's like tired but it's because he's trying to save energy so he has it
17:38to fight this um fight chance hamlin's off super moto cross playoffs are going to be here before
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17:57qr code on the screen and sign up yeah it's starting to tighten between hymas and kitchen
18:03swole is all alone in third it's high master pool it's been a while since ty has made it through a
18:09first lap on two wheels he did this time he's running fourth and now vl starting to battle
18:15yeah and ty's been around really good the last few weekends um i've been watching him come up
18:19to the pack at least his lap times he's been coming up so we just saw that battle between
18:23hayden deegan rj and his teammate and that was for you know ninth tenth eleventh so that's how
18:30good these guys are riding even if you're in 12 spots those are the kind of battles that's going
18:34on and if ty looks back he sees that 16 16 might be on the inside right here wow yeah
18:42no ty fights back yeah it's him tom got on the outside then he got in that loose stuff and
18:47these 250s once you get that momentum loss it robs you but it looks like he's going to get on
18:52the outside of ty and they're going to be side by side to the finish line and i think vl is going
18:58to hold it that inside line looks good doesn't always work and it did not for master pool
19:04yep and that's when your parents used to tell you all the kids out there don't look back well
19:08ty looked back made that mistake and that caused all this so it's a trickle effect
19:13but he's still doing a good job and yep tom vio has been riding good all day long so it's no shame
19:18to get passed by him and he's trying to move his way up the front to leak swoles a couple seconds
19:22in front of him so tom's not out of his race yet and neither is hymas he's back to the rear wheel
19:31of kitchen the battle for the moto win yeah and what jt was mentioning sometimes riders
19:40don't want to talk to uh you know talk about sicknesses and stuff if your chance hymas and
19:46you know that levi's sick what you do know is like once he starts sitting down making some
19:51mistakes because you know he's sick you know that's the reason why so sometimes not saying
19:56hey i'm sick or something like that that's why riders don't do that because it could work in
20:00chance's favor now if you start seeing levi make a few mistakes because he knows that reason
20:09so levi kitchen continues the lead at buds creek chance hymas was closing
20:13and once again it stretched back out there's a lap rider and then the 48 honda yeah chance
20:20got caught up behind those lap riders levi got through them and that's that gap you see right now
20:27we have several things to watch at once first kitchen trying to win the moto if he does that
20:32that should assure the overall and that's significant that'd be three out of the last
20:36four and this mechanic says you have more levi might say how do you know i'm sick man
20:43well i know when you're sick i know reading that pit board i'm putting my mind where levi
20:47seeing eight laps it doesn't do it for me man exactly oh no they don't have more yeah eight
20:52laps are you kidding me no so you can add those maps up in your head but not just the moto win
21:00that would assure it the real question is if he does get passed by hymas how far up would be y'all
21:06or deegan have to go to take the overall away from him so there's a lot it's going to transpire
21:12in these final nine minutes and two laps he wins the moto he's going to have it but can he do that
21:21in three out of four overalls would be something that's for sure send it back to jt yeah i think
21:26there's a misconception sometimes you watch both of these guys where one guy's tired one guy's not
21:32and hymas sitting back they're going i'm not tired at all i feel great i know kitchen's tired
21:36it's not really that it's more shades of gray where if hymas is hot and tired he's going to
21:41look up and see kitchen knowing that he's a little bit sick and go well he has to be more hot
21:45and he has to be more tired than i am because he's not at a hundred percent that's where the
21:49difference comes in so as this race goes on surely that's in hymas's head the battle here is for
21:55kitchen to put all of that out of his mind and i agree with you james seeing eight laps that didn't
22:00do him any good and eight laps is an eternity in a pro motocross race yeah eight laps you're 100
22:06right and what's going to happen chance has got to know how to use that against levi in a sense
22:12where he's got okay all right the guy's starting to feel it you got to know when to attack a guy
22:16when you see the i would say the wounded duck you got to attack him because what's going to happen
22:20is levi holds on another two three laps then he'll be able to find the energy because now that eight
22:26laps is only like three or four and he's like man i'm close for an overall i keep this thing going
22:31so right now the opportunity for chance to get him is now before he lets uh levi gets that
22:36confidence and going as oh tom v hall and jaleek's wall going at it and that bottom box for third
22:43yeah tom is not at this race either he's been closing in even though he's been stuck behind
22:48these guys he's still closing in and if levi and chance starts battling it might slow it down just
22:54enough tom might be able to get in if he can get around jaleek but jaleek's doing a great job
22:59third place last weekend running third this moto the competencies tom gets up the inside nope
23:06i said that inside always looks good but it very rarely pans out in that left-hander
23:10so vl has to go into wait mode find another spot on swole and hymas once again caught kitchen
23:20and once again kitchen stretches it a bit yeah it seems pretty easy for a chance to catch him
23:25he has more pace but where he catches the map or make a mistake but you got to give props to levi i
23:31mean at the moment he might actually just be i wouldn't say allowing chance to uh catch him but
23:36he there's a pass from vl he went on that right side and then closes it off yeah now he's on the
23:42same straightaway as these guys on some of the longer ones so tom's coming and he knows that
23:48levi's probably sick and just his chance so these guys battle get caught behind some lappers
23:53and number 16 might be coming up for an overall win too send it back to j2 more on swole's teammate
23:59well jaleek swole's on a roll but unfortunately for joey savage he wasn't able to back up that
24:04great first moto just saw him pulling into the mechanics area had a word with him and headed
24:08back to the pit so it looks like more troubles for the second triumph rider and it has been
24:12that type of season for savage every time it looks like he's turning the corner and about
24:16to build some momentum then something goes wrong and we go back to hymas here continuing the charge
24:22after kitchen but you're right they better get going is vl he could start closing up in a hurry
24:29now that he's got clear race track yeah and as i was mentioning i think levi's just kind of allowing
24:34you know he knows chance is gonna probably stay there for the race so just rest up and when he
24:39gets close then you try to push it so learn how to use that energy and try to save it so you can
24:45have some fight for the end because just going all out it's probably not going to work well but that
24:49was a nice nice move for chance all right it's gonna be a battle to the end here at least for
24:56the moto win kitchen and hymas late 250 classic butts creek
25:10and there's hymas gonna fit in i'm gonna say what is this the fifth or sixth charge for the lead
25:17yeah i mean it's it's going and now he's starting to fall in that zone as i mentioned with levi
25:22there's gonna be a point where he's gonna be like i can ride three laps and chance is gonna have a
25:26hard time getting them so they got to keep pushing it now they kind of stabilize that gap over third
25:31place with tom biel um but and again you got to give levi a lot of price of fighting this thing off
25:37adam yeah what levi has done we've seen chance make a charge to get to his back tire a few times
25:44now and just like you said james to your point levi as soon as he hears it gets close he's putting
25:50in a little spurt and sometimes like if your chance putting in all that work to get up close
25:55to him and then having them sprint away from you that can be uh demoralizing so i i really think
26:00what you said james that's it looks to be levi's strategy yeah and it gets as you mentioned it
26:05gets frustrating for chance because he's like i'm catching him i know he probably doesn't feel well
26:10but i can't get to him and you start making mistakes we saw what hayden was stuck behind
26:15his teammate i was starting to frustrate him and adam to your point with hayden um i think now he's
26:21going to that championship mode but jt what do you see down there well the most important thing
26:26for chance timers right now he's done most of the work he's back to the rear and he has to have a
26:30plan we saw how difficult it was for hayden deegan to pass his teammate nick romano when he gets to
26:37he can't wait around just like if if he waits too long that's going to give levi kitchen confidence
26:41so it's almost like he has to sprint up to the back of him plan the move and make the move
26:46decisively and go if he sits on his rear wheel there will be no passing and it's interesting i
26:54go back we talk about deegan who's just stuck in 10th he hasn't moved up from there i go back to
27:00way back aaron plessinger wrapped up the title in the first moto in this class in 2018 and the
27:05second moto was bad he finished 10th we had that year's 250 champ in the booth with us sack osborne
27:10he was out injured that year and he's like second moto after you win the title that's like an
27:14emotional drain bowl has been drained it's hard to get up for that and maybe that's what's happened
27:20with deegan here especially once he got the bad start last time in the first lap these guys have
27:25everything to play for and that is a moto win maybe even an overall for kitchen yeah i mean i i agree
27:32i think the difference between hayden when hayden won that title like it didn't look like everything
27:37he was like relieved he was more upset that he fell and he wanted 30 seconds so coming into this
27:43moto i think he really wanted to like beat these guys down and what's gonna happen he got caught
27:48behind his teammate he was fighting now you go into that championship well i've already won this
27:53thing but he didn't show up this moto with no energy he showed up he got a bad start and then
27:58he showed it's he's finding out how difficult it is getting a bad start on this racetrack and
28:04these guys got here are are letting them pay for it do you think any part of deegan though once he
28:09realized look man i'm i it's i'm intent that i'm losing time at that point does the wind come out
28:15of the sails a little bit a hundred percent yeah yeah a hundred percent yeah my point right now
28:19he's in championship mode yeah like i'm i'm over it he went to the gate he went to the gate yeah
28:23and he was riding like he wanted to win but he just couldn't get around those guys and now he's
28:27in championship mode yeah now planning the party battle continues here super motocross
28:34from buds creek levi kitchen on the 47 out of washington leads he's led the whole way
28:42battling with some lap traffic that's the rider on the orange ktm but the rider he has to deal
28:46with is chance hannes second at the white gear on the red holiday right there
28:53and finally able to get that lap traffic change yeah the racetrack's starting to get tough but
29:00got about three laps left and tom vio was closing in looks like he made a mistake so that's going
29:06to help chance hymas out now he doesn't have to worry about the 16 pressure him too much
29:11getting around they were able to pull away but chance is going to have to make the pass i would
29:16say within the next lap or so not sooner because as i mentioned levi's going to come around get
29:21that two lap board and he's going to make it work he's going to find any kind of energy that
29:27he has in that body as he's starting to pull away here he's going to make it happen because it's
29:32only two laps left and as you said it'd be what three overalls and four races yeah yeah and two
29:38in a row uh this is like maybe the eighth time now that hymas got to him and then kitchen pulls
29:46back away it's what the riders refer to as the yo-yo battle stretches out tightens up
29:51stretches out tightens up right now advantage kitchen yeah and i think because of levi and the
29:56way he's riding being very economical and just being patient since he's out front that obviously
30:02helps him but i think that's why chance is able to catch him just like we saw in that 450 chase
30:07was able to catch hunter but because of way hunter rod and levi's riding levi's not making mistakes
30:13and chance is by trying to um catch him so i think chance makes the mistakes get stuck in these
30:18corners or behind a lap rider and he loses a lot of time here so because levi's riding sick
30:23is making him not make mistakes around his track because he's very economical
30:29yeah and to be fair he has an illness when you say he's riding sick i mean maybe even the kids
30:33refer to it he's riding sick in both ways i mean he's leading the moto he is i mean pretty sick
30:37he's sick with it while being sick there is vial we wanted to show you this gap yeah he had taken
30:43it a little bit closer than this and then lost a little bit of ground so it's 6.3 vial
30:50even if he gets to hymus that would not be enough to pull off the overall he has to get to kitchen
30:56and incredibly vial is yet to win an overall this year that seems hard to believe he's been fast
31:00he's won motos kitchen pouring it on he just got that two to go sign yeah yeah and he yeah i think
31:10chance is starting to feel it because he just ran a 207 so either that was a mistake that was made
31:15in the last you know quarter lap or he's kind of thrown in a towel and that's what i felt like
31:21what's going to happen if he wasn't able to get around levi it was going to be hard levi was going
31:25to pick it up and keep that pace and chance was going to get frustrated for not being able to get
31:29it but great move just what levi did the first motor he was going backwards and the kid fought
31:35ended up in third place and that's why you never quit no matter how bad things are going and you
31:39might have an opportunity to win another overall he can hold it off for two more laps
31:44showing some heart here the rider out of washougall washington
31:54supermoto cross playoffs two full days of smx fun you want to be there when history gets made
32:01and conquered fort worth and las vegas that's the cool thing we got activities on
32:06friday and saturday the two-day format at those playoff races supermotocross.com for
32:12more info on the playoffs what are you seeing from the leaders here james uh yeah levi got
32:18really close to that lapper he was trying to get to the inside and beat that lapper because he knew
32:22he was going to lose time but lapper didn't see him levi goes over that that berm wouldn't say
32:28he almost went down but if chance was close he would got past there because that was a mistake
32:32and now closing on the white flag is levi kitchen well shoot if they just didn't have a race
32:38in his hometown at washougall we'd be talking about a heck of a win streak for kitchen
32:43wins in minnesota bad race at his home track wins in new york and looking for a win here in maryland
32:50yeah absolutely we just say he got shut down by the fire marshal so that race didn't count
32:55the kitchen yeah it was too hot but just like hunter lawrence in the 450 class they made a
33:00change to the bike remember levi was talking at millville that they made some changes he got more
33:04comfortable and ever since then he's won three out of four races so you got to believe that he feels
33:11a lot better coming to the races because there is a change like how he sat down going off that jump
33:17so great to him and mitch payton but this is a rider that we expected to see and have been
33:22seen the last few weeks yeah it drifted off he was battling deegan at the opening round
33:28deacon went one one he went to two and then it was starting to turn into thirds and then fifth
33:34six and he has really rebounded in the second half of the year adam yeah guys what we were talking
33:40about earlier with levi and him going out there riding efficiently right it's very it's very easy
33:46to have that plan and you know be sick go out there okay i'm gonna you know save some energy
33:50but it's a whole different story when you get out front the excitement of leading a race
33:55and what i've seen with levi super impressive just a lot of mental discipline to kind of stay
34:00in his zone and wow he's really been on a roll no doubt about it and that's it hymas is 5.8
34:08seconds back adam and vl is actually not too far off of hymas so this should be it deagan he's going
34:14to take the 10th master pull has drifted back to ninth shout out to hampshire that is a solid run
34:20there at eight for a guy who's only been on the bike about five days coming off a wrist injury
34:25good day for him yeah and i think he just got up looks like he's in eighth place now so yeah
34:29uh you know made his way up around tie and it's good to see rj having that energy at the end
34:35fighting yeah and just building momentum and fitness saddle time for the playoffs this guy
34:43getting hot at the right time for an smx playoff run it's going to be three overall wins in the
34:50last four races for levi kitchen who had never won a pro moto cross overall before he got that
34:57one in minnesota a month ago he looks over and sees no one hymas is out of the picture
35:06well sick in any way you want to call it he was ill and as the kids would say he was so sick
35:12on the track levi kitchen wins buds creek three out of the last four run to the checker
35:20hymas holding off vl second and third he's going to put vl second overall and here it is
35:27hayden deegan this should be third overall on the day that doesn't mean that much the real story
35:34is that he already had clenched in moto one 250 national motocross title that is your champion
35:40right there baby congratulations kid this is all for you well deserved i'm sure hayden's probably
35:47gonna be disappointed that with the moto because he always wants to win but man this kid has showed
35:53up this year he was the favorite in this class he has delivered he's gotten better and is only
35:57continuing getting better so hayden deegan 2024 250 motocross champion here he is the true phenom
36:06has been winning at every level every step and hayden deegan is the 250 national motocross champion
36:16and there's a lot of fans of deegan everywhere we go
36:19i'm sure a lot of people happy to say they got to witness this in person
36:25and for some riders it's a crowning achievement i gotta imagine hayden just
36:30looks at this as another rung of the ladder
36:36that's awesome
36:41wanted to hold that championship so bad i just didn't want to crash he brings it home
36:45still will be on the overall podium today