'24 Budds Creek 250 Moto 2
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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
00:06hayden 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 last
00:27kitchen i think gonna lead them in another rider goes down levi kitchen
00:31moto sport.com whole shot yeah it looks like the same thing happened to hayden that it did that
00:35first moto with chase so we're gonna find out uh where we where we at but good to see levi kitchen
00:41back up front which he's been out first few weeks and it looks like jaleek swole jaleek swole
00:46after getting third last weekend nice to see him up front chance hyman's trying to make a pass
00:52to get around julian but levi kitchen out front where he's been at lately yeah he has gotten lots
00:57good starts and won the last race a week ago at unidillo boom era the rookie yeah that's
01:02back-to-back good starts for him and that makes a huge difference on this track deegan
01:08sheesh i don't even think he might uh top 15 15th for deegan so doors open here for kitchen to make
01:15a run not just for the moto win but that would be uh maybe an overall win as well yeah and i
01:20wondered it was good to science to see levi have so much energy at the end of that race but with
01:25him being sick you got to wonder could he even last that long because in the middle part of that
01:29moto he struggled so second moto here on a hot day might be tough for him but you know he's going to
01:33give it all yeah kitchen did say he's been under the weather didn't really ride this week so where
01:38is the endurance for the 47 swole on the triumph second hyman's fourth dax benek finally getting
01:46off the gate the rookie is fifth masterful smith parker ross just jumping into the pro ranks last
01:53week and the slr honda is eighth hempshire and brown top ten yeah i'm looking at chance in 30
01:59he's looking awfully aggressive excuse me uh chance in second wow look aggressive like he did last
02:05weekend that first moto good to see that ac guys watching the start you had hayden on the inside
02:14chance uh just just to the outside of him and i think i think my guy has had had enough of getting
02:21roasted on the instagram you know he came straight over and chopped him off and yeah he's uh taking
02:26full advantage of that right now okay yeah we've had a war of words off the track and on social
02:31media between hymas and deegan carrying it onto the track perhaps there is the 48 gets aggressive
02:36off the line and he's aggressive after the start around swollen trying to track down kitchen yeah
02:43i mean this is two weeks in a row um in motos that you see how aggressive chance is and confidence
02:49he knows he has space and he knows like all right i did it last weekend i'm able to get around these
02:53guys i got around so he looks pretty good and he's trying to run down levi and now you can see
02:59hayden deegan what did he run in 11th yeah 11 so he's made a few passes now this is where look
03:07how everything is going to bottle up for him he's going to lose a lot of time right here he's got a
03:11funnel back in lines gonna be hard for in the past guys in front of him he can only go as fast
03:16as the guys in front of him so that's tough well there's no pressure on deegan because he wrapped
03:23up the title in moto one so he'd love to win the race for sure that pays well race wins always feel
03:30good but he doesn't have to push it but we'll see how he plays it he has his teammate romano on the
03:36511 right ahead of him that's 10th place yeah this is that area where hayden really can't do
03:41anything go outside 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
03:51around the outside oh two three corners it is taken still can't quite get it the owl the 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 bad thing is tom bial's right in
04:12front of him and rj is behind him so uh good to see rj back up up here but it just tough it showed
04:21you how tough that track is to pass on that section now we're finally into a spot where you
04:25can make some moves yeah like you don't have to rely on the guy to make a mistake to get around
04:29them too much but you can just see the opportunity uh hayden tried everything and how much time he's
04:34lost because he couldn't get around in that section so now it is hymas we're out front
04:40challenging kitchen for the lead and for hymas this already could be the one that got away he
04:45was second on the last lap of the first moto and then crashed and finished eighth so he's not really
04:52in contention to win the overall today he's gonna go for the moto win though yeah i mean at this
04:58point in the championship chance was in second a couple weeks ago overall in the points but he's
05:03lost some points the last few motos i think what he's doing is the right thing he needs to build
05:07that confidence and speed and you can see what's happening now in the earlier parts of the race
05:12compared to earlier parts of the year he's a lot more aggressive he's able to close in on these
05:16guys as he's closing in on levi and if he can wrap this thing up win one of these races you're
05:22gonna see things click for this kid it's already clicking in speed yeah there's no doubt as he has
05:28caught kitchen and they built up about three seconds to see swole coming through in third
05:34where can the 48 make a move he's got to probably wait till we get to that other sector yeah i mean
05:39you can see levi's doing a good job as long as he goes on the inside not makes any mistakes chance
05:43can't really do anything but now it opens up now chance might not be able to pass him in this spot
05:48but he can stay close to him and might have the opportunity once you get back to hendry hill
05:53where the track opens up and you can charge harder in that section so chance done a great
05:57job he just stayed close he can get out of this corner he might have an opportunity to pass right
06:02up here oh here we go the battle is on kitchen and hybus levi's gonna go down the middle to the
06:11inside now chance should be on the inside if he can get next to him but
06:15levi beat somebody to corner nice riding by him
06:20another section with a down and then back up right here here we go chance got squared 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 the guy
06:45unless you got to be worried about hitting him so levi it's not like he's holding him up levi's
06:49just going in the right places and has a good pace so he knows he needs to keep chance behind
06:54him otherwise that you know 48 might run off from him wait with this pace and now back into the area
07:02where say it's pretty tough yeah big moves yeah now chance to be stuck behind him as he makes a
07:07small mistake and i'm looking at hey deegan he's still stuck behind his teammate in 10th place so
07:12just shows you how difficult this track is to pass a couple hours ago he had 10 seconds already
07:19on lead on these guys so shows you what a start does i'm it's going to work on kitchen again
07:27we've primarily seen in this 250 class it's deep this year but it's kind of that cream rises to
07:32the top thing primarily seen vl kitchen hymas obviously deegan a couple other guys have poked
07:39in there for sure swole had the podium last week tie master pool got a win earlier in the year joe
07:44shimoda was looking good until an injury but we've seen a lot of battles between the 47 and 48 this
07:49year send it down to jt you know a popular bench racing topic is should riders be more forthcoming
07:55if they're dealing with an injury they're dealing with an ailment and i'll tell you one of the only
07:59times i think it really matters a situation like this where chan time is sitting behind levi kitchen
08:04and he's gonna know that levi's feeling under the weather he saw how he responded in that first
08:09moto he heard his comments or his team would have relayed that to him so that's going to give him
08:13extra confidence right he's going to know that levi is going to fade later in this moto and it's
08:17going to put into chance's head i should pass him i should be able to get this win so sometimes you
08:22know winning is in the margin and these riders are so fickle with with their confidence if you're
08:27ever wondering why riders don't share more information this might be a reason why you're
08:31just kind of leaning into you're a little bit under the weather well yeah and to that point jt
08:36we'll see is hyman's going to wait and put on another attack because kitchen starting to pull
08:40away here at bud's creek
08:58well i did not expect this once hyman's 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 stuck 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 place is in front of him pulling 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 beddick right behind them
09:46send it down to adams team cerullo well i've had the distinct pleasure of wrapping up a title in
09:52the first moto like like hayden deegan has done uh today and i was kind of just like him going
09:57into the second moto mindset wise so i'm like man i'm gonna go out there i'm gonna do my do my
10:02normal thing i want to go out there and win and dominate and once i got out on the track i was
10:06like nah i don't think i want to i don't think i want to risk that much so uh maybe the race just
10:12hasn't gone um as great as he's wanted it to and he's kind of just backing it down and going with
10:17it well he's gonna have to right now because james you had eyebrows up watching deegan try
10:22to make moves on romano and then couldn't do that triple he lost some time yeah i think hayden's
10:28honestly i think hayden's riding like he did the first moto literally like aggressive he's going
10:33forward it doesn't look like you know there's any hesitation from him but it's the first lap
10:38position off the start this track we've been talking about all day you gotta be up front it
10:42is hard to pass and now you're hayden's figuring that out he's riding just as good if you put him
10:47up front i think he would ride off or ride with levi like he did that first moto but it's hard to
10:53pass you get frustrated and then you start making mistake mistakes when you get caught in behind
10:58but it was the first lap position that cost this moto so far
11:09so watching hayden deegan here tale of two starts great one in moto one dominant moto win bad one
11:16here in moto two he is stuck behind his teammate nick romano and we saw him take five six swings at
11:23it through these next couple turns a lap ago and none of them worked still trying got the other
11:29teammate jordan smith right in front of them deegan is trying everything and i saw nick take
11:35a look back so he knows his hayden hayden's been revving it up and you got to wonder uh does nick
11:41the championship's over so now he's going to race him if hayden still was trying to get these points
11:45for the championship he might have let him go through but right now it's like the first race
11:49of the year and i'm sure that's frustrating for hayden because he knows he can be a lot
11:53farther ahead than where he's at right now but nick's riding good and it's helping rj hempshire
11:58stick with them right behind in his return to racing after a broken wrist look at deegan just
12:03trying and trying and trying yeah he should have the pass here nick's going to be on the outside
12:07deegan should be able to close that gap off see if he can get this triple still no no can't do the
12:13triple romano does and also hempshire did three-way battle oh that's tough you know hayden's
12:21frustrated 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
12:33oh hey 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 nicks 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
13:26let rj get around him oh look at rj on the inside oh yeah he's trying
13:31and deacon's gonna be the outside for this corner can you make a power run
13:44nope
13:47oh here it is oh this is a good battle with rj in it as well adam i'm looking at the lap times
13:54guys and one through ten one through ten is doing the same exact time so we may look at hayden back
14:00here in tins and be like he's having a bad moto i mean all these guys are ripping right now yeah
14:05it's that track position and look at that rj hemshire past deacon when deacon made a mistake
14:11now he and ramada are stuck on the outside together to the triple we go uh hayden's not
14:16gonna go to triple rj does i thought hayden was gonna get a bogo special here but yeah it was
14:21tough and as i was mentioned earlier hayden's riding just like he did the first motor he's
14:25riding really good if you put him up front but track position now rj this is incredible i gotta
14:32give a shout out to nick i mean for somebody fighting hard i haven't seen guys fight hayden
14:37this much all year and ramada still holds deacon off but hempshire is through now nick's got to be
14:44careful here because now hayden might he might be really angry at this point yeah teammate might be
14:50losing friendship right here again title is wrapped up for deacon so i guess gloves are off
14:57all the way around now we haven't seen anything that's dirty or anything like that but look at
15:01the distance hempshire is opening up now and 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 it will
15:16now push him to 11 deacon makes the pass and finally we can catch our breath and give you
15:21the moto sport.com whole shot replay hayden deacon's on the far end side 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 at least
15:38a facade 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 x and because you're so far behind and
15:58being on the inside it's 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 as 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 that i'm sure jt and james you can 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 hybus is ready to challenge for the lead for a second time
17:14kitchen gonna have to dig deep now hymus 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
17:39to fight this um fight chance hamlin's off super motocross 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 hymus and kitchen
18:03swole is all alone in third tie master pool it's been a while since ty has made it through a first
18:09lap on two wheels he did this time he's running fourth and now vl starting to battle yeah and
18:15ty's been riding really good the last few weekends i've been watching him come up to the pack at
18:20least his lap times he's been coming up so we just saw that battle between hayden deegan rj
18:25and his teammate and that was for you know 9 10 11 so that's how good these guys are riding even
18:31if you're in 12 spots those are the kind of battles that's going on if ty looks back he
18:36sees that 16 16 might be on the inside right here wow yeah no ty fights back yeah get some tom got
18:45on the outside then he got in that loose stuff and those 250s once you get that momentum loss
18:50it robs you but it looks like he's going to get on the outside of ty
18:54and they're going to be side by side to the finish line and i think vl is going to hold it
18:59that inside line looks good doesn't always work and it did not for master pool yeah and that's
19:05when your parents used to tell you all the kids out there don't look back well ty looked back
19:09made that mistake and that caused all this so it's a trickle effect but he's still doing a good job and
19:15yep tom vio has been riding good all day long so it's no shame to get passed by him and he's
19:19trying to move his way up the front jaleek swoles a couple seconds in front of him so
19:23tom's not out of his race yet and neither is hymas he's back to the rear wheel of kitchen
19:34the battle for the moto win yeah and was jt was mentioning sometimes riders don't want to talk to
19:42you know talk about sicknesses and stuff if your chance hymas and you know that levi's
19:47sick what you do know is like once he starts sitting down making some mistakes because you
19:52know he's sick you know that's the reason why so sometimes not saying hey i'm sick or something
19:57like that that's why riders don't do that because it could work in chance's favor now
20:02if 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 yeah so you can add those maps up in your head but not just the
21:00moto win that would assure it the real question is if he does get passed by hymas how far up
21:06would be y'all or deegan have to go to take the overall away from him so there's a lot
21:10he's gonna transpire in his final nine minutes and two laps he wins the moto he's gonna have it
21:18but can he do that and three out of four overalls would be something that's for sure send it back
21:25to jt yeah i think there's a misconception sometimes you watch both of these guys where
21:30one guy's tired one guy's not and hymas sitting back there going i'm not tired at all i feel
21:34great i know kitchen's tired it's not really that it's more shades of gray where if hymas is hot
21:39and tired he's gonna look up and see kitchen knowing that he's a little bit sick and go well
21:44he has to be more hot and he has to be more tired than i am because he's not at a hundred percent
21:49that's where the difference comes in so as this race goes on surely that's in hymas's head the
21:54battle here is for kitchen to put all of that out of his mind and i agree with you james seeing eight
21:59laps that didn't do him any good and eight laps is an eternity in a pro motocross race yeah eight
22:05laps you're a hundred percent right and what's gonna happen chance has got to know how to use
22:10that against levi in a sense where he's got okay all right the guy's starting to feel it you got
22:15to know when to attack a guy when you see the i would say the wounded duck you got to attack him
22:19because what's gonna happen is levi holds on another two three laps then he'll be able to
22:24find the energy because now that eight laps is only like three or four and he's like man i'm
22:29close for an overall i keep this thing going so right now the opportunity for chance to get him
22:34is now before he lets levi gets that confidence and going as oh tom v hall and jaleek's wall going
22:40at it and that bottom box for third yeah tom v is not out of this race either he's been closing in
22:47even though he's been stuck behind these guys he's still closing in and if levi and chance starts
22:52battling it might slow it down just enough tom might be able to get in if he can get around jaleek
22:57but jaleek's doing a great job third place last weekend running third this moto
23:02that confidence is tom get something inside nope
23:06like i 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 to find another spot on swole and hymus 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 him out or make a mistake but you got to give props to levi
23:31i mean at the moment he might actually just be i wouldn't say allowing chance to uh catch him but
23:36he there's a passive bl he went on that right side and then closes it off yeah now he's on the same
23:43straightaway as these guys on some of the longer ones so tom's coming and he knows that levi's
23:48probably 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 jt more on swole's teammate
23:59well joey swole's on a roll but unfortunately for joey sabachi wasn't able to back up that great
24:04first moto just saw him pulling into the mechanics area had a word with him and headed back to the
24:08pit so it looks like more troubles for the second triumph rider and it's been that type of season
24:13for sabachi every time it looks like he's turning the corner and about to build some momentum then
24:17something goes wrong and we go back to hymus here continuing the charge after kitchen but you're
24:24right they better get going is the owl he could start closing up in a hurry now that he's got
24:29clear race track yeah and as i was mentioning i think levi's just kind of allowing um you know
24:34he knows chance is gonna probably stay there for the race so just rest up and when he gets close
24:39then you try to push it so learn how to use that energy and try to save it so you can have some
24:45fight for the end because just going all out it's probably not gonna work well but that was a nice
24:50nice move for chance all right gonna be a battle to the end here at least for the moto win
24:58kitchen and hymus late 250 class of butts creek
25:10and there's hymus gonna put 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
25:21with levi there's gonna be a point where he's gonna be like i can ride three laps
25:25and chance is gonna have a hard time getting them so they got to keep pushing it now they
25:29kind of stabilize that gap over third place with tom vial um but i mean again you got to
25:34give levi a lot of pride so fighting this thing off adam yeah what levi has done we've seen chance
25:42make a charge to get to his back tire a few times now and just like you said james to your point
25:47levi as soon as he hears it gets close he's putting in a little spurt and sometimes like
25:52if your chance putting in all that work to get up close to him and then having them sprint away
25:56from you that can be uh demoralizing so i really think what you said james that's it looks to be
26:02levi's strategy yeah and it gets as you mentioned it gets frustrating for chance because he's like
26:08i'm catching him i know he probably doesn't feel well but i can't get to him and you start
26:12making mistakes we saw what hayden was stuck behind his teammate i was starting to frustrate
26:17him and adam to your point with hayden um i think now he's going to that championship mode but jt
26:23what do you see down there well the most important thing for chance timers right now he's done most
26:28of the work he's back to the rear and he has to have a plan we saw how difficult it was for hayden
26:33to pass his teammate nick romano when he gets to he can't wait around just like if he waits too long
26:40that's going to give levi kitchen confidence so it's almost like he has to sprint up to the back
26:43of him plan the move and make the move decisively and go if he sits on his rear wheel there will be
26:49no passing and it's interesting i go back we talk about deegan who's just stuck in 10th he hasn't
26:58moved up from there i go back to way back aaron plessiger wrapped up the title in the first moto
27:03in this class of 2018 and the second moto was bad he finished 10th we had that year's 250 champ in
27:09the booth with us zach osborne he was out injured that year and he's like second moto after you win
27:13the title that's like an emotional drain bolt has been drained it's hard to get up for that
27:18and maybe that's what's happened with deegan here especially once he got the bad start
27:22last time in the first lap these guys have everything to play for and that is a moto win
27:28maybe even an overall for kitchen yeah i mean i i agree i i think the difference between hayden
27:34when hayden won that title like it didn't look like everything he was like relieved he was more
27:39upset that he fell and he wanted 30 seconds so coming into this moto i think he really wanted
27:44to like beat these guys down and what's gonna happen he got caught behind his teammate he was
27:50fighting now you go into that championship well i've already won this thing but he didn't show
27:54up this moto with no energy he showed up he got a bad start and then he showed it he's finding out
28:00how difficult it is getting a bad start on this racetrack and these guys got here are are letting
28:06them pay for it do you think any part of deegan though once he realized look man i'm it's i'm
28:11intent that i'm losing time at that point does the wind come out of the sails a little bit 100
28:17yeah yeah 100 yeah my point right now he's in championship mode yeah like i'm i'm over he went
28:21to the gate he went to the gate yeah and he was riding like he wanted to win but he just couldn't
28:25get around those guys and now he's in championship mode yeah now planning the party battle continues
28:33here super motocross from butts creek levi kitchen on the 47 out of washington leads he's led the
28:40whole way battling with some lap traffic that's the rider on the orange ktm but the rider he has
28:46to deal with is chance hamas second got the white gear on the red honda right there
28:56and finally able to get that last traffic change yeah the racetrack's starting to get tough but
29:00got about three laps left and tom viao was closing in looks like he made a mistake so
29:05that's going to help chance hymas out now he doesn't have to worry about the 16 pressure him
29:10too much getting around they were able to pull away but chance is going to have to make the
29:15pass i would say within the next lap or so not sooner because as i mentioned levi's going to
29:21come around get that two lap board and he's going to make it work he's going to find any kind of
29:26energy that he has in that body as he's starting to pull away here he's going to make it happen
29:31because it's only two laps left and as you said if he what three overalls in four races yeah
29:37yeah and two in a row uh this is like maybe the eighth time now that hymas got to him
29:45and then kitchen pulls back away it's what the riders refer to as the yo-yo battle
29:50stretches out tightens up stretches out tightens up right now advantage kitchen yeah and i think
29:55because of levi and the way he's riding be very economical and just being patient since he's out
30:01front that obviously helps him but i think that's why chance is able to catch him just like we saw
30:06in that 450 chase was able to catch hunter but because of way hunter rod and levi's riding
30:11levi's not making mistakes and chance is by trying to um catch him so i think chance makes the
30:17mistakes get stuck in these corners or behind a lap rider and he loses a lot of time here so
30:22because levi's riding sick is making him not make mistakes around his track because he's very
30:26economical yeah and to be fair he has an illness when you say he's riding sick i mean maybe even
30:32the kids refer to it he's riding sick in both ways i mean he's leading the moto he is i mean
30:37pretty sick he's sick with it while being sick there is vial we wanted to show you this gap
30:42yeah he had taken it a little bit closer than this and then lost a little bit of ground so
30:47it's 6.3 vial even if he gets to hymas that would not be enough to pull off the overall he has to
30:55get to kitchen and incredibly vial is yet to win an overall this year that seems hard to believe
31:00he's been fast he's won motos kitchen pouring it on he just got that two to go sign yeah yeah and
31:08he yeah i think chance is starting to feel it because he just ran a 207 so either that was a
31:14mistake that was made in the last you know quarter lap or he's kind of thrown in a towel and that's
31:20what i felt like what's going to happen if he wasn't able to get around levi it was going to
31:24be hard levi was going to pick it up and keep that pace and chance was going to get frustrated
31:28from not being able to get it but great move just what levi did the first motor he was going
31:33backwards and the kid fought ended up in third place and that's why you never quit no matter
31:38how bad things are going and you might have an opportunity to win another overall he can
31:42hold it off for two more laps showing some heart here the rider out of washuga washington
31:47super motocross 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 friday
32:07and saturday the two-day format at those playoff races supermotocross.com for more info on the
32:12playoffs what are you seeing from the leaders here james uh but yeah levi got really close to
32:18that lapper he was trying to get to the inside and beat that lapper because he knew he was going
32:22to lose time but lapper didn't see him levi goes over that that berm wouldn't say he almost went
32:28down but if chance was close he would got past there because that was a mistake and now closing
32:34on the white flag is levi kitchen well shoot if they just didn't have a race in his hometown at
32:40washugal we'd be talking about a heck of a win streak for kitchen wins in minnesota bad race at
32:46his home track wins in new york and looking for a win here in maryland yeah absolutely we'll just
32:52say he got shut down by the fire marshal so that race didn't count at the kitchen yeah it was too
32:57hot but just like hunter lawrence in the 450 class they made a change to the bike remember levi was
33:02talking at millville that they made some changes he got more comfortable and ever since then he's
33:07won three out of four races so you got to believe that he feels a lot better coming to the races
33:12because there is a change like how he sat down going off that jump um so great to him and mitch
33:19payton but this is a rider that we expected to see and have been seeing the last few weeks
33:25yeah he drifted off he was battling deegan at the opening round deegan went 1-1 he went 2-2
33:31and then it was uh started to turn into thirds and then fifth sixth and he has really rebounded
33:36in the second half of the year adam yeah guys what we were talking about earlier with levi and him
33:42going out there riding efficiently right it's very it's very easy to have that plan and you
33:47know be sick go out there okay i'm gonna you know save some energy but it's a whole different story
33:52when you get out front the excitement of leading a race and what i've seen with levi super impressive
33:58just a lot of mental discipline to kind of stay in his zone and uh wow he's really been on a roll
34:05no doubt about it and that's it hymas is 5.8 seconds back adam and vl is actually not too
34:10far off of hymas so this should be it deegan he's going to take the 10th master pool has drifted
34:17back to ninth shout out to hampshire that is a solid run there at eight for a guy who's only
34:22been on the bike about five days coming off a wrist injury good day for him yeah and i think
34:26he just got up looks like he's in eighth place now so yeah uh you know made his way up around tie and
34:33it's good to see rj having that energy at the end fighting
34:37yeah and just building momentum and fitness saddle time for the playoffs this guy getting hot
34:45at the right time for an smx playoff run it's going to be three overall wins in the last four
34:50races for levi kitchen who had never won a pro moto cross overall before he got that one in
34:57minnesota 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 hymas
35:21holding off vl second and third it's going to put vl second overall and here it is hayden deegan
35:29this should be third overall on the day that doesn't mean that much the real story is that
35:35he already had clenched in moto one 250 national motocross title that is your champion right there
35:41babe congratulations kid this is all for you well deserved i'm sure hayden's probably gonna
35:47be 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
36:11champion and there's a lot of fans of deegan everywhere we go i'm sure a lot of people happy
36:21to say they got to witness this in person and for some riders it's a chronic achievement
36:28i gotta imagine hayden just looks at this as another rung in the ladder
36:32i just wanted to hold the championship so bad i just didn't want to crash he brings it home
36:45still will be on the overall podium today