{"id":662425,"date":"2026-05-10T19:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T19:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/662425\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T19:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T19:53:10","slug":"thomas-without-jorge-prado-entering-the-picture-i-think-this-might-have-gone-differently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/662425\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas: “Without [Jorge] Prado entering the picture, I think this might have gone differently”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It isn\u2019t often we see Eli Tomac<\/a> go down like he did in his heat race. What happened there?
This was purely a racing incident between Tomac and Freddie Noren<\/a>. Those jumps on the first rhythm had them out of sequence. When Tomac rolled the first jump and Freddie doubled, they were on a collision course if aligned on direction. Tomac was going upward as Freddie was going down and they tagged wheels. That shot Tomac\u2019s bike away from him unexpectedly and the worst part is that he landed on top of his own motorcycle. Had he landed on the ground, he would have likely been fine. That footpeg did damage, though, and sidelined him right when he had gotten back to 100 percent.<\/p>\n

After the start stretch there was a section that Haiden Deegan<\/a> started doubling the gap and landing one jump deep into the next set of jumps. We didn\u2019t see him doing that all day during qualifying, yet he was still able to pull it out. What\u2019s the thought process there? Why wouldn\u2019t he have done it earlier?
Some of the 250\u2019s had tried this with varying levels of success earlier in the day while a few 450\u2019s were executing it well. With better track conditions in the evening, that gave the 250\u2019s a little more momentum and traction to go for it. The track was much harder and less conducive to this type of line in qualifying practice.<\/p>\n

Speaking of Deegan, he and Cole Davies<\/a> had quite the dustup in the 250SX main event. Do you think Davies\u2019 hard pass on Deegan, in which he nearly knocked him down, stemmed from any resentment from past incidents between the two?
I\u2019m sure there was a little extra on it. Deegs talks a lot so most of the field wouldn\u2019t shy away from a shot at it. I give Deegs credit though, because he can take it when given. He doesn\u2019t freak out, he almost embraces it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It isn\u2019t often we see Eli Tomac go down like he did in his heat race. What happened…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,319904,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-662425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-ken-roczen-wins-sx-titlesalt-lake-city-supercross-racer-x-motocross-magazine-supercross-dirt-bike-mx-racerx-illustrated-dirtbike-motorcycle-racing-freestyle-video-news","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}