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00:00It away like that. I like his starting spot super cross back in the steel city for the first time in over 40 years
00:07Main event four fifties. Here we go
00:12Sexton on the inside of Cooper Webb. Can he sneak up the inside? He cannot
00:17Webb gets the hole shot ahead of Plessinger and chase Sexton. There you go
00:22Championship contenders Webb could sense that the floor was on the inside of him. He outbraked the four and the battle is on
00:30Oh
00:32Whip
00:34Yeah, when I don't think that corner up and that that caught Sexton unawares he had to react quickly
00:43We saw chase Sexton drop back in that heat race kind of out of nowhere
00:48I certainly wasn't expecting that now he's gonna have to hang on with coop look at he's blitzing coop is jumping
00:55He's got his teammate behind him. Keep in mind speaking of teammates look at Justin Cooper
00:59This is the section where he was excellent during the heat slingshots off that burn
01:04Does he get placing up AP is wide awake and he knew that that was possibly coming AP says no way
01:11You got me in the heat race. You're not gonna get me there just yet. Oh
01:15Oh Roxanne Roxanne from nowhere surprise his way into four
01:20Don't discount Kenny
01:25No, Kenny's on the move right now. This dude is absolutely rolling
01:29I mean we talked about it. He has incredible intensity early on in these races. He's very good at making explosive passes
01:37Teammates together
01:41Here comes Roxanne through the whoops. He's got blessing out in his sights. Yeah, Kenny had to check up right there. He wasn't able to check up
01:51He went he had to check up that he couldn't triple onto that tabletop
01:54Can he can he duck up now? He can't change lines there on blessing up Cooper's not done with look at him in your screen Justin Cooper?
02:03Meanwhile webb has a nice lead over sexton. Can he do anything about that? Here's your race leader
02:10The top two in the title of the top two in the race
02:14The JT we talked about it you've talked about it
02:17If Cooper webb was able to get a win or at minimum finish and put it in front of chase here this weekend
02:25It would change what the next two weeks look like it would for sure take the pressure off
02:30Well, the math would change with you're so right there and it would change everything about the series
02:36It would change what chase sex would have to pull off
02:38He would need so much help and Cooper webb would be able to relax a little bit and let the races unfold
02:44There's a lot of racing left. You have to think sex is gonna make a run here
02:47But yes, this race is so pivotal with three to go talk about making a run JT. It's roxon. Who's making a run?
02:54Kenny gets by blessing up
02:58Continuing to show this early race speed
03:01Now can he make up the distance to sexton he's about two plus seconds behind I
03:08Can tell you the 32 of justin cooper he's right there as well if he was able to get by
03:13Aaron blessing or early on that second lap. I think he's all over chase sexton
03:21Oh get kenny an incredible run through the whoops. It's Cooper
03:25Justin cooper up the inside of blessing up
03:31Got it done
03:34So now it's web sexton rocks and justin cooper aaron blessing a dylan frandeson six and then malcolm stewart
03:43This track is right so well tonight. I was not expecting this again mother nature has put it on for us here tonight
03:51The fans have so much energy epic crowd here
03:57And this track is racing well multi-groove
04:01Two lines through the whoops the split lane
04:04rhythm sections
04:06This is what supercross is all about oh nice pass by the 17 of savachi justin hill and joey savachi justin gets him back
04:14Returns the favor now savachi goes to the inside
04:19Talking about the fight for ninth here
04:21Meanwhile, we're talking about the fight for the lead and potentially the championship
04:26Chase sexton has caught cooper webb. Yeah, he's got a line in him. You wonder if
04:33The four of sexton is going to do anything
04:35Is he going to try to rough up coop or does he make a a fair pass with no contact?
04:42And save it for a later day if needed
04:46And coop and and jt. I think coop's up against the ropes right now
04:51It's this section right here ricky. This is where sexton has been reeling him back in a coop got a good run through there
04:56Now the question is going to be that's where sex is making the time
04:59Can cooper anticipate where chase is going to want to blitz and sit in that line and block
05:05That might be the reason that he can hold or not hold chase sexton back there
05:09Yeah, but if you watch the ruts too and that split lane when they go to the outside
05:13The four of chase sexton's bike is a little more compliant
05:16It flexes a little more it's a little bit softer smoother ride and he makes time in that corner as well
05:23Coop can probably sense that
05:26Until you don't know the strategy
05:28Also, these guys are aces at what they do is is the four holding back maybe trying to pressure
05:35Coop into a mistake highly unlikely that would happen
05:38But you just never know if there's any games or strategy being played here fight for third in the bottom box cooper on roxson
05:46Yeah
05:48That blitzing
05:51Is definitely faster
05:53And if anything is going to drive justin cooper to a podium
05:58He's like I cannot finish fourth for a fifth time this year. It's been driving him crazy
06:06Well, he's made up time on the 94 of ken roxson
06:09So that's working for him and I think as this race goes on jumping the whoops could be a little more consistent
06:15Overall of 25 26 laps, so you got to keep that in mind as well
06:26Cooper webb has responded just got a little more ground over sexton. Let's see what sexton can do
06:32Yeah, those whoops
06:36Begin to change and blitzing isn't for sure faster that's going to help cooper
06:43It's going to put chase in a tough situation, but man these guys there's so much racing left. We're not even close to halfway
06:49We got lappers inside justin cooper on ken roxson
06:59He's been working on him for several laps now that patience has paid off
07:03So justin is up into the top three
07:06Well, justin cooper was the second fastest guy on the track. He ran a 48 six
07:13So it's going to be interesting now to see what he's got if he's got clean air
07:17And what he can do probably takes a look over to his left hand side of his shoulder see where the two front runners are and here they are
07:25Right on cue taking alternate lines that wasn't super clean there from sexton did he lose a little ground
07:30Not not so much
07:34That's what I like about the split lane is it gives an option for guys to move around a little bit try something different
07:40Yeah, now we're starting to get into some lappers here
07:43And this is going to be tough for guys like cooper webb
07:45I feel like it's always harder for the guys in the lead to get by the lappers
07:52That's jeremy hand that they're going by at the moment webb gets by sexton gets by no worries
08:00So
08:05Webb has been kept off the top step of the podium
08:08On the last three races you see the Seattle sorry dip you see the four starting to jump through there jump through the whoops
08:19So he'll lose a little bit of his advantage that he had on the two of cooper webb by blitzing them
08:25Segment three in those s-turns left side of your screen
08:35Coop definitely the faster there faster man there
08:38Oh
08:44This is something else it sure is
08:49This is just perfect this is like going to script to keep this championship alive now
08:56Oh
08:57Sexton off track
08:59He got out of his rhythm
09:01Held it together but did run off track
09:04Well, that was a nice that that was a nice save
09:08Jt to for for chase not to go down because that plywood is slick
09:14Well, and I was going to mention a lot before that was music to cooper webb's ears for chase to resort to jumping
09:20Because he's getting out of what he does
09:22Well blitzing was the reason he walked away and he's rutherford and for him to resort to jumping gets him out of his strength
09:29And you see he's not as comfortable
09:31He doesn't really like jumping the whoops and he makes a mistake in the second attempt through there
09:35Hey, jt when you're watching chase sexton right here. Do you feel like he's not?
09:40Kind of pushing quite as much like maybe he's having
09:44Maybe he's just riding a little bit more calm
09:47Yeah, and he looks really smooth
09:49Like I love that you mentioned his exit on the corners
09:52He's getting so much traction coming out of a lot of these corners and it doesn't look like he has to ride
09:57Nearly as hard as cooper webb does to get the same lap time in
10:02All right, let's have a look at what happened to chase sexton. Yeah, it's called but a good save. That's right
10:06So he reverts to jumping and he slows up quite a bit there and he just crosswalks
10:12And comes up short and the bike kicks sideways and he jumps off. Here's a better look
10:17So right there he was leaning a little bit to the right didn't get the drive
10:20Looks like the rear end or the rear tire spins a little too much. Maybe he was in the wrong gear easy to do
10:27All right, so we're just over the halfway mark and sexton's got more than a two second deficit
10:33To make up quick reminded you can stock up on monster energy drinks now
10:37They're available at giant eagle. It is on for the final nine and a half minutes plus a lap
10:43And this is you know, we talk about not making enemies
10:47Throughout the year and having friends on the track and this is when it comes into play in times like this when you're lapping guys as they lap
10:55up further
10:58Up the field it makes a huge difference because guys can hog up the main line if they don't like you
11:04Or if you've roughed them up in the past and if you haven't
11:07They can kind of pay it back to you and move out of the main line
11:11Awesome performance from the 14 the phoenix honda of dylan ferrandes
11:16Season best fifth in seattle and east rutherford
11:20Rutherford and he sits in fifth right now ahead of aaron plessinger has a quick look behind
11:24Meanwhile chase sexton is eating into cooper webb's lead
11:29Ferrandes and plessinger still going at it ap's not done with he gets that position back from a moment
11:36Just a moment because ferrandes blows through the whoops and gets that fifth spot back
11:41Yeah, ferrandes is rolling, but yeah chase sexton is for sure eating into the lead
11:46He was the fastest guy on the track. He ran a 48 three to cooper webb's 48 seven. There's the gap. He's back
11:54He's back and can see that monster energy star yamaha a little closer
11:58Love the composure of the number four not going into panic mode after a slip through the whoops slowly starts to eat back into the
12:07The lead of cooper webb
12:17Well
12:19Guys watching chase sexton hunt down cooper webb right now. It feels like the more unusual scenario. I've got some interesting statistics here for you
12:27Sexton has won over 50% of his races by five seconds or more webb has won over 90% of his races by under five seconds
12:37And I just to show you how he wins a lot of those have been late race passes to to the front
12:43So to see this situation that we're in now
12:45It's a little different for us. Yeah chase is the fastest guy
12:50As far as overall speed
12:53You take out that jump
12:56Off-track excursion
13:00Jumping through the whoops again there you go
13:03That was a lot smoother than what it was before for chase sexton
13:06Well, you think of the improvements that chase sexton has made throughout the year and you know
13:11We were tough on him a lot of people were tough on him at the beginning of this
13:15championship and
13:16Making unforced errors and that hasn't been the story the last three to four races
13:23You don't talk about improvements
13:26He has made massive ones. Oh cooper gets hung up right there in that rhythm lane isn't able to do the sequence that he was
13:32Been doing all race long they go by justin hill
13:37Meanwhile, let's pay credit to some riders a little further back malcolm stewart in six dylan ferrandus dropped a couple back to seventh
13:43Then the teammates from the quad lock honda cevachi and macklerath and then dean wilson headed for consecutive top tens
13:50Aboard the honda hrc machine
13:536 16 to play plus a lap
13:56What do you think at home who's gonna win it is it web or sexton man sexton comes out of that tight right hander really fast
14:04super aggressive hard on the throttle
14:06Great look at the rhythm lanes how ready they are
14:11The precision that these riders have
14:14Jt
14:15Watch this section right here ricky. I think this might be an opportunity watch how slow this corner is for cooper webb there
14:21If sexton can get close enough
14:23I think he can simply jump to the inside and be sitting there when cooper webb rolls through that apex
14:28I don't know if chase sexton knows that yet, but we've seen moves made there
14:32He might be just waiting and take one shot out of late in the race hundred percent
14:36I saw some guys doing that in the last chance qualifier and I I think it was faster
14:40Honestly to jump up on that plateau and just hug the inside here
14:44Watch sexton coming out of this corner right here
14:47They're as close as they've been
14:51In this 450 main here in pittsburgh
14:55There's nothing you can do right now if you're cooper webb you just have to ride in your zone you can't ride
15:01Harder than what you can handle because if you do that's when mistakes start to happen
15:06The risk of going down is just too much if chase is going to get by you he's going to get by you and then you have to react from there
15:12So you just stay in your comfort zone right on that line or that edge
15:18And see where it takes you if chase sexton can do this it would be the third
15:24consecutive race that sexton wins and webb finishes second and the championship
15:31Point scenario would be just six webb's lead would be cut to six
15:37But that's a maybe that's a possibility. It's not how it is at the moment
15:41Well, it's good if i'm cooper webb
15:43I for sure don't want to leave it to where I get to salt lake city and I have to beat
15:49Chase sexton on speed there is nothing
15:52More comfortable confident and comfortable than going into a race in my opinion
15:56And knowing that you have the speed advantage chase sexton really hitting that corner that jt was talking about
16:04phenomenally four minutes to go plus a lap
16:08Here we are sitting waiting cooper webb has been in control from the beginning will it stay that way
16:15A lot like last week and up look at chase goes back to jumping earlier than blitzing
16:23That was a half half through the warps that time
16:26A mixed strategy
16:29Look at these lappers getting out of the way and a lot of these guys they know what's on the line
16:33They don't want to be the reason that they uh jeopardize is one of these guys's championship hopes
16:39Great guy great way to get out of the way let these guys battle it out that was mitchell oldenberg in straitless colors
16:45Aboard his liquid molly beta machine
16:48That's right feel that ktm is turning really good
16:52And that tight apex corner
16:55Tom br won for the first time in 250 east kenny's red bull ktm teammate in the 450s win for the third week in a row
17:03three minutes plus a lap
17:05Back to jumping through the whoops oh hang on to it chase sexton oh wilson got in the way there
17:13There's nothing that he could do but that was a gift for the four or to the two of cooper webb
17:21We're winding down here. It's uh
17:24It's go time
17:26Webb has been resilient
17:29And unflappable up front there's been a couple of
17:33shaky moments for sexton but he keeps
17:35Getting back within striking distance of webb that was a good line that webb took he was able to take that further inside line
17:42Coming out of that tight corner that chase sexton was doing chase sexton was killing him in that corner right there
17:50Oh, you hear cooper's revving his bike the rpm up trying to get a give a heads up to the lappers to get out of the way
17:57lead expands to more than two seconds
18:03with two minutes plus a lap to go where's sexton what can he do over these closing minutes and closing laps and he's gonna have to turn it loose diff
18:11There's the gap
18:17Now coop did get some help from the lappers
18:20So these next two laps are gonna be super important for chase sexton if he's evil able to reel him in
18:26I think he can make a late race pass
18:29Really good corner right there
18:32Going inside getting good drive exiting the corner putting the power to the ground
18:36These lappers are gonna it's gonna be crucial for sex and to get by and I think they'll give way you got
18:43Chisholm there
18:44There's the gap. Oh goes back to jumping in gets out of
18:50Got a little loose
18:51But look how much time he makes up in these corners right here the bike working really well. He's closed the gap in
18:57They're gonna have about four more laps to go
19:04One lapper up ahead in sight that'd be freddie norin
19:13Sexton gaining some serious ground look at that inside right there that he does gain so much speed
19:20The expansion and contraction of this lead from out the two and a half seconds down to one and a half seconds three to go
19:32This is gonna get exciting right here
19:36Chase executes the whoops perfectly
19:41Coops got coops got to get a little bit quicker in these corners right here
19:45bottom box ken roxson under threat from malcolm stewart for fifth
19:53Top box battle for the league battle for the championship and this could be a championship defining night in pittsburgh for cooper where it's gonna be one lap to go
20:02Look at the time clock five seconds. They're going to pass the finish line with zero time on the clock. The white flag is gonna come out
20:10Cooper webb has been in control all race long and he's just gonna stay there for one more lap got dominated last week
20:23By chase sexton he's gonna have to go for it right here
20:28Grease these corner sections chase is still close anything can happen
20:32To be able to bounce back after getting just absolutely dominated by
20:40To come back and win the way he did sexton was in the perfect spot to retaliate and couldn't answer the bell
20:47And cooper acknowledged that last week a 16 second loss to sexton and he's rebounded
20:55Emphatically here in pittsburgh he has answered the call and answered the challenge
21:01In the most dominant fashion. It's a flag to flag victory for cooper webb in pittsburgh
21:10To take control of this championship cooper into third
21:15And for monster energy star yamaha it's gonna be a 1-3 result and justin cooper gets his second podium of the year and he's gonna leapfrog
21:30malcolm stewart moves into fourth in the championship oh and maybe not it might be tied
21:38That fight continues yeah, that's how come that was a hard-fought fifth, but how