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A pulp MX Network production. A cerebral and experienced look into the racing action from the week that was. This is Industry Seating with Jason Thomas. Presented by GUTS Racing Pro, Glow Wash Works, Connection, Fast Foundry, TL Speed Shop, Grandstone Boots and Fly Racing. Welcome to the Industry Seating podcast. My name is Jason Thomason. It's February 2nd and we have gone through four rounds of the 2025 Super Motocross season. I guess Monster Energy Supercross, I don't know, there's such a debate about how to state these things. It's still monster new Supercross, but it is a part of the Super Motocross World Championship. In any case, we are through Glendale which is round four, first Triple Crown of the year. Pretty interesting night. I thought the racing was really good. The track was really sketchy. It was one of the most difficult racetracks that I've seen. I don't know, I was trying to remember a track where I was like, okay, this is brutally difficult and gonna be really hard to just put laps together and I would have to go back and look. But it's been a while. I do know that it has been a minute since I've walked out on a track and said, yeah, these jumps are positioned in a way that riders can't just race each other and they can't just push the limit at all times. They really have to respect the racetrack. It's been, it's been a while and you saw big crashes, you saw injuries. Not all because of that, but some certainly in the futures and 250 class because the track was so tough. And it really tests these guys, it tests their patience, it tests their technical skill and we don't always get that. We get a lot of racetracks where the guys jump all the jumps on the first lap and then it's just how fast can you go and how important is the start and all those other aspects outweigh everything else. Well, not so much this weekend. 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So you outsource all that stuff, you sign up with TL Speed Shop, contract it out, and they have everything. They have a chase truck, they have your race truck. They, you get to pre run everything. They have all. They know all these courses like the back of their hand because they've been doing it for decades. It's just a really cool experience and opportunity that you will not find elsewhere. Grandstone boots always have me looking good. And fly racing we are. We're a little over a week from. From we launched that Ellie White Lancer stuff. That was really cool. And we'll have some more stuff for you to check out at Daytona, but go to flyracing.com Cooper Webb got his first podium of the season wearing fly racing. His first podium podium ever wearing fly racing. So that was really cool. Okay, 250s, let's do this. And Jordan Smith, he got the job done. And this was huge for Triumph. Yes, it's a big deal for Jordan. And yes, he put himself back into the championship fight with that win. But when you look on a historic scale and what does this mean? Big picture for the sport. Triumph has arrived. And I'M not going to say they have the best bike on the track. I don't believe that's true, that they have the best race bike out there. But they are competitive with these other teams and other motorcycles. And I've been saying it from day one when kind of Swole was doing better than I expected. I am so impressed with the effort that they have been able to put forth right away. It is so difficult to just, I guess just displace all of the years. You think about these other OEMs, Cali, Honda, they've been at this for 20 years. Literally 20 years of building 250Fs and improving and innovating and getting the bike better and taking steps forward. The chassis and the engine. And the Triumph comes in in 18 months and is already a real player. And I know that they've been working behind the scenes to get here, but I just expected it to take longer than this because look how hard it's been for these other OEMs to build power. You know, Star, the Yamaha guys really took it to another level when they changed. You know, they have that reverse engine and nobody's really been able to touch that. And I will give credit to Mitch Payton and Kawasaki. And also it looks like KTM has really taken a step this year. And last year Tom Vial really talked about the bike has improved quite a bit. So they're all making steps but Triumph hasn't had the time to really work towards it. They've had to. The ask from them was to immediately be competitive and normally that's an ask. It's, it's like a bridge too far. And Triumph has been up to the task and good for them. I have nothing but good things to say. I give them a lot of credit for being this competitive this early and it makes you start to wonder what's, what are they capable of on the east coast? Can Forkner, Forkner be in the fight right away? Like that's going to be, it's going to be a fun thing to watch. So good for Jordan. If you don't know much about Jordan Smith, he's a very likable guy. He's probably never going to give you a reason to dislike him. He's not controversial, he's really nice. I mean the only thing you know, if you're talking about racing wise, the only thing you could ever say really about him is that he maybe crashes too much and he takes too many risks, but he's going for it. And if you're, if you're looking for, like, on a personal level, he does all the right things, says all the right things. He's. He, you know, it's not going to take people out or talk trash on the podium. That's just not who he is. He doesn't do that type of stuff. So on a personal level, I, you know, I like. I smile when Jordan does really well because he's the kind of guy that makes it easy to cheer for. That's as easy as it gets. Next up, Julian Bomer. And. And he really blew an opportunity here. When you look at what was possible for this night, and I talk. I started off the evening talking about when you're in an advantageous situation, you have to make the most of it. And he did. He really did the opposite of that. He got two hole shots in the first two races and crashed on his own both times. And you simply cannot do that. And I know he knows that. I'm not telling him any. You know, it's not any wisdom that I'm sharing. I'm just pointing out the obvious. And when you look back over the course of a championship and you wonder how people won or didn't win a championship, sometimes it's right in front of you. And if he does not go on to win this championship, you might be able to look at Glendale and say, hey, it was really set up for you. You had the red plate. You got both hole shots. You could have won the overall. You were riding incredibly well. It was all set up for you to continue this momentum and extend your points lead on a night where Deegan wasn't riding very well and you didn't do it. So nothing is lost here. You know, there's a lot of racing that still has to be done, but I really felt like Bo Merrill left a lot on the table in Glendale, and I'm sure he's kicking himself. He has to be. If he's not, I. Maybe it's not going to do any good to do it now, but if you can't identify opportunities when they're right in front of you, I don't. I don't. I don't know how you're ever going to like. That was a pretty glaring one that he just missed out on. Hayden Deegan, you could say the same thing, but I don't even know if he didn't take advantage of the opportunity. He just wasn't riding that well. Seriously, he. He really didn't ride that well. If you look at who Hayden Deegan has become, he was pro motocross champion he's won two SMX world championships. If he wants to be quote unquote, that guy where he's up there, he's talking trash. He thinks he's the best guy in the 250 class, bar none. And, and I, I'm not going to push back. I've probably said the same thing. I'm sure I've said the same thing. But I will tell you, if you're gonna make that claim, you can't be messing around with rookies and middling with other guys and not be able to pass, not be able to move forward. You can't do that stuff. Or else all of the trash you talk, all of the claims that you make, I make, they all don't hold water. It's that simple. And I know he'll, you know, I, I think when we go pro motocross racing, he's going to re establish himself as the best rider again. He, he is I think still that guy but in supercross he's not showing us that. You know, last last week in a two was a big one and then when you look at the Bomer opened the door, he didn't walk through it. And I, I truly think Cole Davies was a real eye opener because when he looks up and that's his teammate and he knows he can beat him, he practices with him all the time. He's got to be able to go get him. He has to be able to go up and pass him and make the most of it, gain those points and he simply couldn't do it. And if you're going to take shots at people, you're going to talk trash. You have to be dominant and back it up. And he wasn't, he was not dominant. He didn't win the race. He didn't make the most of an open door similar to Bomare. But Bomar is not talking trash, you know, so there's a little bit of a difference there. But I just thought it was a very underwhelming night for Hayden and yeah, these guys are presenting opportunities to each other. They've let Jordan Smith back into this thing as well. Just that simple. Cole Davies, last Note on the 250s. He has been so damn impressive. I love the way he looks on the motorcycle. I was talking about it the last few weeks about he looks like he's riding the motorcycle where before I truly felt like he was being ridden by the motorcycle and he was kind of just hanging on and that doesn't mean he wasn't going fast or riding fairly well. But there's a very distinguishable difference to me between last year and this year. When I just watch him, he doesn't look like the same person. If, you know, if you didn't tell me that was him, I would say that I would tell you straight up. That's not him. That is not the same rider. That's not the same human. But we know, of course it is. His style is great, his technique is almost perfect. And you can tell he's coming into his own on a personal level because look at his personality on the podium. He is coming out of a shell and you can see it on and off the bike. And it's. It's refreshing to watch. The kid really has something. And I'm not telling you he's going to be champ. I'm not telling you he's even going to win a race this year. He almost did last night. But I'm just telling you, if you're looking for something in a rider, you're looking, you know, does he have quote, unquote it? I would say he has demonstrated that without the shadow of a doubt, this kid has it. And he is going to go far, especially in the 250 class. Because when you start talking about the 450 class, it's a different conversation. The guys are so good and it doesn't always equate. It doesn't. You know, I think he's going to be a factory 450guy one day, but saying he's going to go win a 450 championship or win races in 450 class, that. That's such a big bridge to cross. I'm not going to assume anything there, but he is going to be one of the two bitty elite, if you're not already saying he is. Now, I've seen enough. I've seen enough from him through four races to be very confident of where this is going. Where this trend leads to is a lot of checkered flags. And seeing them first, that's. Excuse me, that's about as. It's about as straightforward as I can put it. Let's jump to the 450s and we do the power rankings. And, man, I'm gonna take flack from this. Maybe some of you, actually, I won't. But I didn't put Jed in this week. I took him out because I believe that if you're not racing, you're not in the power rankings. And I know there was a report last night that he might not be hurt, he might not have serious damage. They need to look at the mri. But I'm just telling you from experience, when you have that much pain initially and not only can you not join the race, you don't even try to rejoin the race. And that, to me, that's always been my delineation factor is, is every rider, when you're in a race and you're in a championship fight, and even for me, like I was just battling for 10th or whatever, when you, when your first reaction is not the race, you're don't, you're not thinking about the championship, you're not thinking about how I'll ride through the pain. I'll do anything. I got to get back out there. He didn't even, he did not try. He rode off the track and never attempted to go back out onto the track. That is almost a involuntary response where something is very wrong. Your body is telling you that it is severely injured and it changes your mind and your thinking process to where you go from race mode to self preservation mode. And it's a very distinguishable change that I trust. Now if you tell me that it's partially torn or he has some sort of meniscus injury and maybe he could race sometime, he's going to try in Tampa, I won't argue that. I'm not saying that's out of the question. I'm just telling you that I've seen this a million times. I felt it several times. I'm not going to say a million. I felt it several times. And when you hurt yourself and you're like, I got to fight through it, you keep trying. But when you immediately pull off the track and you put no thought into going back out onto it and rejoining the race, that is a very clear sign that something is very wrong. And Jet was in a ton of pain when he came off. When he went into the, the Alpine Stars medic rig, he was in a tremendous amount of pain. And you know, I've heard and seen other people saying, well, he, he limped out of the truck and he was kind of walking. Well, guess what I did when I tore my ACL twice. I wimped around and walked to the truck and left on crutches and was kind of half walking the next day. I walked through the airport the next morning. That doesn't mean anything. That, that is not a surefire sign that he's okay. I, I just, speaking from personal experience, don't trust that as he's, he might be okay. He's going to get an MRI and they're going to Tell him exactly what went on. He'll probably get it tomorrow and we'll know by midweek at the latest. So I hope he's okay. Of course, if you've. If anything, I take a lot of flack for how much praise I give Jet Lawrence. I'm just telling you that is. That didn't look good. If you're. If you want my opinion, which I'm clearly not a doctor and I didn't even stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night. But I have been around a lot of knee injuries. I've suffered my own. I have. I'm not going to say I know it when I see it because that's not fair. But I, I didn't like how that looked. How about that? Is that okay? I didn't like how that looked. I didn't like any aspect of it. And I think it's a really bad setup moving forward for Jet. So I took him out this week because I don't think you're going to see him racing anytime soon. And I hope I'm very wrong in that assessment. I do. There's no upside for me in that. I am a huge Jet Lawrence fan. He brings a lot to the sport. He's one of the best riders I've ever seen in my life. But I'm just telling you what I think and I think that he suffered a big knee injury. So that's just kind of where I come down on it. And we'll see, we'll see what, what this week brings. You know, I'm not. If I'm wrong, no one will be outside of his team or his family will be happier about that than, than I will be. I have an honorable mention that we're going to start with and that is Justin Hill. He is so impressive on a dirt bike. And the funniest part of Justin Hill is that I think trying to understand or predict when he's going to be good and when he's going to be average or when he's going to be bad. It's not, it's not possible. I don't think there's any way to do that. I think enriching uranium would be easier than predicting what Justin Hill is going to do on a week to week basis. I don't know. I could not tell you. I won't even try to guess. I'm just going to react to it. And this weekend he was fantastic. Battling Tomac and battling Rocks and battling all these guys. Just so damn good. Good for him. He's a really likable guy. He's a very unique personality and maybe that's part of why his results are so unpredictable, is that his riding mimics his personality. But there it's definitely a wild ride when it comes to Justin Hill. Number 10 is Aaron Plessinger and he finally didn't have a disastrous night and I think at a one he got ninth or whatever. But it's been a terrible, terrible season so far and he went 10, 7, 9 at Glendale and that's not going to wow anybody. It's not like nobody's going like, oh, AP's back, they're not. But it's been an unmitigated disaster up until this point. So he'll take it, move on and just try to build from literally anything other than a horrible experience. That's really it. Like it didn't go terribly well. We'll just build from that. I think that's how he has to look at Glendale. Malcolm Stewart. 7, 11, 11. Not, not great, not terrible. You know, like the first one was pretty good. I don't think it's anything where he's going to be excited about, but he did mention on Friday that he is still trying to get back to where he was before that A1 crash. So I'm just going to take it and move on. Similar to AP average. Okay. Not terrible, just like and shrug shoulder shrug type night and you keep it moving. Jay Coop is number eight and I never saw Justin Cooper in the race. Never, not one time did I see Justin Cooper in the race at all. And I know he's out there. It's just me not looking back in those positions. My focus is on the front guys. But the same theme that I've been telling you about, Justin Cooper rings true every single time. If he doesn't start up front, it's not going to be a good thing for him. He has spent his entire career getting good starts. He knows how to execute from the front, he knows how to sprint, he knows how to ride defensively. He does not. I don't say he doesn't know how, but it, his forte is not coming from the back and charging forward making passes. That's just not what he does. That is what Eli Tomac does and those, those skills are developed because of the underlying trend. Eli Tomac is not typically a whole shot artist so he had to develop this hard charging, creative passing style. It's exactly the opposite for Justin Cooper. He has spent a career getting good starts and learning how to race from the front and getting away early and Preventing people from getting around him and doing all those things. So those trends that you build over career continue to show up for the rest of your career. That's just how this works. Justin Barcia is number seven and he had a good race in the final one, battling with Roxanne there. But honestly, the rest of it was not good. He qualified 18th. That's nowhere near where he wants to be. I think that's pretty obvious. And the other two races weren't, weren't anything to write home about like he was, he was wildly average in the other two. I think he went 12, 12, 6. So the other two were kind of just reinforcing that. He didn't have a lot of pace in Glendale. And in that final when he kind of figured it out, I think the start helped and he probably just was like, I got to do something here. But I just wonder if how slippery it was. There was virtually no traction at all. And you had to, you had to carry a lot of corner speed. You couldn't get really aggressive with the throttle, which is what he likes to do. That's where he shines. It's high revving, high charging type stuff. And this track didn't, it didn't reward that. It was the opposite of that. So I think he struggled with that dynamic all day and all night because for him to qualify 18th is pretty telling. But if you just want to kind of look at and say, well, this wasn't my track and move on, I think he's been much better than last year. And that last one is a nice, you know, a sixth in the last one is a nice way to say, well, at least I showed something. And if I can build from this and go to Tampa, where the dirt's going to be more conducive to what I want to do. Hunter Horns is. He is sixth and I think it's coming around. You know, five, nine, four is not, you know, anything that somebody's going to write home about. He's not going to get any headlines, anything like that. But he's getting better. And if you look at the main event at a one that was not good, he looked uncompetitive with the guys that he should be racing with. He just could not get the motorcycle to do what he wanted. And he went backwards. Like the whole main event, he went backwards. Now he's not doing that anymore and that's a positive. Can he run with, you know, Jet before he hurt himself tomac sec? No, he can't yet. He's getting pushed backwards still, but he's finding a landing zone where he can stay. And that's. That's really the difference. If you look at a one, he just got pushed back and pushed back and pushed back, and really the only thing keeping him from going further back was the checkered flag. It was like a mercy killing that Jet wasn't closer to him, or else he would have went back to 12. At Glendale, he gets pushed back, but he finds a spot where, okay, I'm comfortable here. And it's much more competitive than where it was. You know, if it's 5, 7, it was fourth in the last one. He's able to beg. Okay, I can't run with the leaders, but this is. This pace on this track is manageable for me, and it's a respectable result. That's the difference. That's where I'm seeing improvement from Hunter. And I think they're getting the bike better. I think he is a rider that if the bike's not right, he's not going to. He's not going to override it. He's not going to take chances and put himself in a precarious spot if everything's not right. He needs all the ducks to be in a row, and he needs to feel confident in what's happening for him to be his best self. And I think they are getting there. I think they're taking steps with the motorcycle to get there. Jason Anderson is still fifth. He's got two podiums and two in four rounds, so that's enough for me. But it was a quiet night. I. I thought he had a chance to come in here and be on the podium. I really did. And he didn't really do anything close to that. 1168 is not special on a track in a situation where I thought he could be special. Low traction environment, difficult. Whoops. Those are things that Jason Anderson does well, and he just didn't have it. He did not have whatever he's had at those two podium rounds. And I don't know what to point to. I didn't really see anything that he was doing wrong, but he didn't have that, that. That kind of intensity. And I don't know. I would be interested to hear his comments after the race because I. There was nothing I could pinpoint. He just looked like he was a touch off the top guys. So maybe there was an underlying issue. Maybe he was sick again, maybe the bike wasn't right. I don't know. But it just wasn't how he would. Yeah, it certainly wasn't what he wanted. I can promise you that. And I'm sure he was a little bummed leaving the Phoenix area. Cooper Webb is number four. And this was an impressive performance by Cooper Webb because we talked about it on the show. His average finish at Glendale over his career is a seventh, and that's. That's not going to get it done. And he heard about that a lot this week. He heard about it from me. He heard about it from literally everywhere because that's a. That's not a good stat. And when you're on the back foot after a two and you want the points to kind of wean your way as you head east, you certainly don't want to put in another seventh. And he. He did the job. He got second overall, and he left Glendale with a lot of momentum, a lot of optimism going east. And I got to talk to him on the podium and off, and he's feeling good about himself. He knows he's still not 100%. He knows that that was a track where nobody expected really anything, and he went out and got a second overall. His. You could argue his biggest competitor, Jet, is kind of behind the eight ball. We don't know if he's going to race at all or not. And he's moving forward in the points. Like, there's a lot to like about Glendale for Cooper Webb. That. That was a really strong performance. I think he was really tired of hearing everybody run their mouth, including me, about Glendale. That was. That was about, as you know, he didn't win, but that was a big, big night as far as trend goes. And points go for Cooper Webb, Number three, Ken Rockson, and gave up the red plate, but that was a really strong night. He had speed. He won that second race. You know that the final race wasn't his best work. You know, he only got up to fifth, but he got another podium. He's still in the championship fight. I think he's taking things as they come. I liked what I saw from Kenny, you know. You know, the question for me as it was going into Glendale is what does this look like at round 10, round 12, round 15? That's what I'm worried about. I'm not. I have no questions about what Kenny can do right now. He looks great. There's nothing to really question it at all. Everything's in place. Starts are good, Pace is good, fitness is good, confidence is good. Bike looks good. I have no questions. We just have to see what that looks like, and he knows it. That's not breaking news, and I Asked Clinton Fowler to do some research for me of what does that look like on a number basis? We know what it looks like visually, but what is. What do the stats say? And it's a, basically a two position difference in your average finish. And that doesn't sound like a lot, but you need. And that's the second half of the series. But you think about you're giving up four points every single round in the second half of the series versus what you were getting in the first half. That's a lot. And just do, just do the numbers. If it's 10 through 17, let's say it's seven rounds, an average of four points lost every weekend. You're 28 points worse than you were in the first half. That's, that's not sustainable for a championship. Bar none in the story that the math will tell you exactly what's happening now. We watch it and we see it. But it hits a little bit different when the math is telling you that he's 28 points worse in the second half than he is the first. So that's probably going to be something I talk about quite a bit coming up. And I'm not trying to take shots at Kenny. That's not it at all. Kenny's awesome. I'm just trying to quantify what the challenge is and if he overcomes it just like Cooper Webb did this weekend, so be it. Have at it. I love it. I'm here for it. But that is the ask in front of him. And I think the important thing to note here on trends, it's not like they magically appeared. Trends and stats are the result of repeated result. You know, the. That situation happening repeatedly. Like they are what you build them to be. They're not, you know, we're not taking numbers and, and steering them how we want them. It's not like financial engineering, which happens in, in corporate America. We're not manipulating numbers at all. I'm not trying to tell you what I want you to see. I'm just telling you what it is. And I don't. I like Glendale results for Web. I love that he got second. I don't. I wasn't trying to steer the narrative a certain way. That's just what it was. He has not been great at Glendale. Ken Rockson is the same thing. He has not been great in the second half of calendar years. You could even say the second half of Supercross, it's two positions worse. We know it gets worse as the calendar year goes on. And there are reasons for It. His body starts to feel fatigue. He had 25 surgeries, which his immune system was severely affected. So it's very difficult for him to maintain his peak performance week after week after week. And travel starts to wear on him. That trend and that occurrence is simply because we've seen it time after time. There is no manipulation. And I. I don't want people to think I'm trying to steer a narrative by moving numbers around. I'm not. It's just. That's just what it tells you. So we'll see. That's. That's just what it's going to be. And if you've heard Kenny recently, he's talked about I used to be a title contender. He knows. He knows how difficult it is for him to stay that good. So let's see if this is the magical year where he can overcome that. I don't. I don't think it will be just scientifically, but it would be a hell of a story. I can tell you that. It would be a lot of fun to have Ken rocks and battling for this championship going down the stretch. That. That's a fact. Number two, Chase Sexton. And I think that Sexton could make a very strong case for being number one. And I'm not going to argue it. If you are yelling at your phone right now or yelling at me about Sexton, should be one. It's okay. I'm not mad at you for it. I would say, yeah, I get it. I just think that right now Tomac has a little bit more in the tank than Sexton does. And. And that's okay if you don't agree. I could be wrong, but the last one, Tomac beat him. And when you look at Sexton's night, he went three, three, two. It wasn't like a slam dunk overall win. And he does have the red plate. Congrats. You know, he was your 2023 champ. He was a 2024 pro motocross champ. All those are true. No argument. I'm. I'm fine. This is not a. He's 2, and I won't hear otherwise. I just think when it all comes down to it, that he's two. And you could, you could even argue that I'm a little sentimental with Tomac being his final season, that I want him to be one. That's okay, too. I'm cool with all that. So I gave it away. Eli Tomac is number one, and I think he showed in that final race when all things are equal, when he gets up front, he has the stuff to win. Like, he has the most top end speed. And I think he's been showing that to us for most of 20, 24. The question is, can he get the starts to be consistent enough to take the points lead and win this championship down the stretch? I don't know. I don't know. And it's on his mind. It's the first thing he said is the starts have to be better. And he's right, they do. You cannot start last in these races and expect to be relevant on at the 20 minute mark. This field is too deep for him to do that. And I wrote in my notes, can he get the starts? That's the two million dollar question. And it, you know, I said two million because that's probably what this championship means financially. Maybe it's even more than that. So I don't really think it's all about the money for Eli. He has a lot of money, but could you imagine what it would mean to him to win this monster Supercross championship in his final season? That's incredible. And if Jet can't race, the job just got a little bit easier. Jet wasn't the only guy he's gonna have to beat. He's not even the points leader. But you all understand the challenge that Jet presented. And if that's not there anymore, and if it's not even there for pro motocross, oh man, like the door isn't wide open, but it cracked open a little bit more for Eli Tomac. So I think all these guys, Tomac, Sexton, Webb, whoever you fancy, Roxann, whoever you think is going to be in this championship fight, they're all looking at this Jet injury and being like, oh, man, it just. And I, I know people are gonna be like, it's not just about Jet. I, I know. But go back and watch all of the preseason video stuff, all of them, to a man, go watch the preseason show that was on NBC. All of them said when asked, what's it going to take to win 25 title, they all said, I have to beat Jet. So that's not me saying that, that's them saying that. And when you take that guy out, the number one guy that comes into their mind and immediately when you take him out, it, if he is out, we don't know if he is out. Then everybody's looking at this championship going, it's on now. Like, I can go win this thing. So that's just where I come down on it. And I already know people are going to be whining about me, my take on Jet, I don't really care. I talk to these guys a lot off screen, off camera. And they all know that Jed is a problem. He is a problem. And if he's. Even if he's racing and he's not 100%, the job gets a little bit easier. 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