Bench Racing | Arlington Supercross Night Show

Get with it Mace! 🤦‍♂️

They had to have walked up with different shoes and had those dropped off in bags to put on on the spot 🤣🤣

They just showed in the 250sx highlights that the light was on when Brown and Bennick jumped

Red light was definitely blinking when Brown jumped.

Yeah, that’s some bullshit. Announcers said it’s a points penalty and not a position penalty 

He lost position for doing the right thing, they should loose position for doing the wrong thing.

I’m picturing the crew carrying them out in their chairs to preserve those pristine shoes.

Wow shocker another AMA screwup/clusterfuck to tarnish a great opening 250E round....

I think the penalty is minus 2 positions worth of points and an additional 2 points? They changed it from a position penalty after some drama some years back involving I think Dungey. 

I think the position penalty makes much more sense, points penalty is ridiculous as there are specific scenarios where it would be advantageous to eat the penalty and jump anyway.

So, Jo has the red plate but finishes second. Brown keeps first place but loses 5 pts. It sucks but I understand why they don’t change positions. We need to know who won the race. 

So technically, Brown would still “win” the races but not have the points that go with it.

Where this is really effed up is Supercross is now allowing betting. So if I had money on Shimoda and he technically finished second, I’m out money. For that reason alone, they need to reinstate the position penalty. I mean… they’re always advertising NXT bets on the broadcast and pull this shit?

Yeah it will be exciting but he’s not going to have that level of impact. 

Yeah, Hunter took it up to another level, but I'm not counting Kenny or Cooper out. Kenny starts so well and Cooper is such a dog it's unlikely he'll be dropped. Sexton, yeah, not this year. 

I absolutely hate gambling and the expansion of it into more and more things, but my biggest gripe with it in SMX is there is no rule that athletes need to disclose injuries like there is in other sports that allow gambling. 

So basically, the industry insiders have a huge advantage where money can be made. I don't know if there’s a law against such what you could call "insider gambling" like there is insider trading but there should be in my opinion.

On a whole I think the sport is way too unprofessional for its size. I feel like even our Australian series is better run and organised with rule enforcement (not talking about gambling specifically here just to be clear) and it would be lucky to have maybe one twentieth the viewership that SMX does.

If you ask me there’s just way too much nepotism in the sport that puts some real buffoons in positions of power that they have no business being in.

All fair points and couldn’t agree more with the injury aspect. Also why the Prado situation caught so much shit last weekend. I don’t bet. Guys will hop on here and say betting is for idiots and it’s their own fault. Sure, that’s true. But to your point, the sport is now in this world like it or not. There needs to be more transparency about it rather than catching a main gate drop to cash a check and just hitting the tunnel after the first turn. 

After seeing the affects of gambling and integrity, I think there’s a reason it’s been illegal. I think our sport is immune for the most part but still better without it. 

ML mentioned a red cross on the finish jump during the 450 main, anyone else see that?

Yea, eli,Webb and roczen jumped it

450 race results and updated series points are posted on supercrosslive.com. 

250 race results still listed as provisional, and series points aren't posted yet. 

Fastest laps of the races 

250 heat 1 

49.350 = Cole Davies 
49.459 = Cade Dudney
49.490 = Jalek Swoll
49.802 = Nate Trasher 
50.202 = Devin Simonson 
50.223 = Drew Adams
50.371 = Cullin Park
51.420 = Luke Neese
51.452 = Henry Miller
51.770 = Izaih Clark 

250 heat 2 

49.829 = Seth Hammaker
50.238 = Coty Schock 
50.287 = Jo Shimoda 
50.695 = Pierce Brown
50.828 = Daxton Bennick 
51.092 = Derek Kelley
51.128 = Hardy Munoz 
51.355 = Luke Clout
51.915 = Kyle Peters
52.009 = Gavin Towers 

450 heat 1 

48.439 = Malcolm Stewart 
49.008 = Jason Anderson 
49.076 = Dylan Ferrandis
49.404 = Ken Roczen 
49.762 = Justin Cooper 
49.840 = Christian Craig 
49.909 = Shane Mcelrath 
50.128 = Jordon Smith
51.052 = Fredrik Noren
52.391 = Vince Friese 

450 heat 2 

48.784 = Hunter Lawrence 
48.937 = Eli Tomac 
49.176 = Joey Savatgy 
49.289 = Aaron Plessinger 
49.388 = Cooper Webb
49.765 = Chase Sexton 
50.420 = Garrett Marchbanks 
50.688 = Colt Nichols 
50.740 = Justin Hill
50.831 = Mitchell Harrison 

250 final 

49.543 = Seth Hammaker 
49.561 = Cole Davies
49.571 = Jo Shimoda 
49.920 = Daxton Bennick 
50.095 = Pierce Brown 
50.128 = Coty Schock 
50.177 = Drew Adams
50.318 = Cade Dudney
50.941 = Nate Trasher 
51.075 = Derek Kelley 

450 final 

48.564 = Hunter Lawrence 
48.627 = Eli Tomac 
48.665 = Cooper Webb
48.789 = Ken Roczen 
48.920 = Justin Cooper
49.171 = Joey Savatgy 
49.275 = Malcolm Stewart 
49.496 = Aaron Plessinger 
49.593 = Chase Sexton 
49.778 = Dylan Ferrandis

Just heard that too, they've published the 450 results so I have to assume they're gonna stand but that's total bullshit if guys jumped on it and don't get penalised while Hunter didn't jump it.

On Supercrosslive.com: 

Joey Savatgy 9th in 450 points with 80.

Joseph Savatgy 21st in 450 points with 14.

It's been a rough weekend for AMA/Feld.

Average lap times 

250 final 

50.876 = Pierce Brown 
50.924 = Cole Davies
51.028 = Daxton Bennick
51.093 = Jo Shimoda 
51.186 = Seth Hammaker 
52.044 = Coty Schock 
52.144 = Drew Adams 
52.671 = Nate Trasher 
52.950 = Cade Dudney
53.035 = Cullin Park 

450 final 

49.988 = Hunter Lawrence 
50.012 = Eli Tomac 
50.345 = Cooper Webb
50.507 = Ken Roczen 
50.530 = Justin Cooper
50.855 = Chase Sexton 
51.196 = Joey Savatgy 
51.526 = Aaron Plessinger 
51.903 = Christian Craig 
52.319 = Dylan Ferrandis
 

450 SX stats 

Wins 

3 = Eli Tomac 
1 = Chase Sexton 
1 = Cooper Webb
1 = Ken Roczen 
1 = Hunter Lawrence 

Podiums 

5 = Hunter Lawrence 
5 = Eli Tomac 
4 = Ken Roczen 
4 = Cooper Webb 
1 = Jorge Prado 
1 = Chase Sexton 
1 = Justin Cooper 

Laps lead 

61 = Ken Roczen 
55 = Eli Tomac 
25 = Hunter Lawrence 
15 = Chase Sexton 
13 = Cooper Webb 
11 = Jorge Prado 
9 = Jason Anderson 

Holeshot 

2 = Jorge Prado 
2 = Cooper Webb 
1 = Hunter Lawrence 
1 = Jason Anderson 
1 = Ken Roczen 
1 = Eli Tomac 
1 = Vince Friese 

Fastest lap of the race 

3 = Eli Tomac 
2 = Chase Sexton 
2 = Ken Roczen 
1 = Cooper Webb
1 = Hunter Lawrence 

Heat wins 

4 = Ken Roczen 
3 = Jorge Prado 
2 = Eli Tomac 
2 = Hunter Lawrence 
1 = Chase Sexton 

Laps lead during the heats 

34 = Ken Roczen 
30 = Jorge Prado 
16 = Hunter Lawrence 
12 = Eli Tomac 
5 = Cooper Webb 
3 = Chase Sexton 

Fastest in practice 

3 = Eli Tomac 
2 = Chase Sexton 
2 = Jorge Prado

250 SX East stats 

Wins 

1 = Pierce Brown 

Podiums 

1 = Pierce Brown 
1 = Jo Shimoda 
1 = Daxton Bennick 

Laps lead

15 = Pierce Brown
5 = Jo Shimoda 

Holeshot 

1 = Jo Shimoda 

Fastest lap of the race 

1 = Seth Hammaker 

Heat wins 

1 = Cole Davies 
1 = Seth Hammaker 

Laps lead during the heats 

9 = Cole Davies
9 = Seth Hammaker 

Fastest in practice 

1 = Pierce Brown
 

Yea I was initially for legalizing sports betting in my state, but now after seeing what its done I wish we could get it back on the ballot and yank that shit. Its an absolute cancer to society. They were 100% right banning that shit and making you have to fly all the way to vegas to do it. 

Now that the moneys here theres no taking it away, nobody ever gives up free revenue streams. There were a couple ppl mad about legalized pot but its has 1/1,000,000,000th the effect on society as this shit has. Fuck I 100% believe legalized hard drugs or at least prescription for addicts would have a VASTLY worse impact than this shit has. It would actually most likely have a positive impact getting dealers and their networks off the streets and sick people on prescriptions and health care. Legalized betting suuuuuuuuuuucks, there is literally no upside other than a couple rich ass ppl getting even richer and then buying our politics and fucking us even more and infecting everything. Get this shit tf out of here. 

Anderson went down early in the race when dicing with Hunter, what happened, did they clash?

Fire Wil

Here is a personal take I want to share after Arlington :

I'm not talking about speed, but technique and manipulation of the bike. Cole Davies is the most gifted 250 sx rider I ever saw, without any hesitation. 

Imagine the other riders trying to survive those whoops and he just blows past them wide open on the throttle stop. If he gets a start, he will be hard to stop.