St Louis 2025 SMX Post-Race Interviews
The Steve Matthes Show on RacerX
Steve Matthes
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🗓️ 14 September 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right, Jordan Smith, St. Louis, SMX. Here we go. One good one, one not so good one, I believe, if I remember right. |
| 0:08.4 | Yeah, it's, man. |
| 0:09.6 | Which is kind of like, what? Yeah, yeah, I saw. Yeah, it's been a rough few weeks for me, like, just kind of finishing outdoors and didn't have very good races. And then last week was terrible, was hoping to get some redemption in the second |
| 0:20.9 | moto and didn't get it. So, yeah, tonight was not a great night, like, riding-wise. I got a lot of arm pump in the first motor, and that's the first time I've had arm-pump in a long time. So, yeah, we've been trying to make some bike changes, and, you know, it feels better and it doesn't feel better and it's like it's just hard to set up a bike for these tracks as well |
| 0:40.0 | like I don't know it's like feels better and it doesn't feel better and it's like it's just |
| 0:38.2 | hard to set up a bike for these tracks as well like i don't think it's uh necessarily you know it's |
| 0:43.0 | i think everyone's probably struggling with the same stuff you know it's just um struggling like |
| 0:47.6 | it's really affecting affecting me a little bit so a lot different from last week's setup? |
| 1:28.9 | Different, but not a lot different. Yeah, not like chassis-wise different. Just kind of a different shock setting for the most part. But it's like, you know, it's just tough. Like, I mean, we have this track at home, but it's a lot different, you know, and it's like, what do you set it up for? What do you not? You know? so it's tough, but it's just been trying to get back to, like, where I feel solid out there. And I just haven't had that, like, comfortability to, like, be able to push a little harder, you know? Like, I'm just kind of stuck where I'm at. And, like, I don't have the speed to, like, get an okay start and move forward. I'm just kind of like staying where I'm at whenever I get like if I come out fifth I kind of get around fifth or sixth and if I come out 12 |
| 1:34.4 | maybe I'll pass one or two guys you know it's like not been like a very encouraging speed wise so |
| 1:40.4 | I thought when I came in I thought this track looked cool and different and neat and I'm like stoked and then I didn't race that well and it didn't turn out that good but what do you think? |
| 1:49.2 | I mean it was a lot of fun it was like yeah I thought it was really fun other than the sand section I'm like P last every time in the sand section like for 11 years straight pretty much so but it was a fun track to ride but yeah i mean racing wise it's |
| 2:02.9 | like i mean how many the thing is is how many passes in a regular supercross do you see over |
| 2:10.1 | the finish line section or or supercross triple like barely ever right so um you know they try to |
| 2:15.3 | make the split lanes but then they're so even that it doesn't really make a difference. And then, yeah, I mean, it's hard to get these tracks. Without a whoop section and without maybe one or two more rhythms, it's really tough to get these tracks where you can pass. I mean, it's just kind of the nature of the beast whenever you get to these SMX rounds. I agree. It doesn't make for great racing. It is cool that are trying something different, but we're sitting there going like, |
| 2:36.5 | okay, man, like, when are we going to get some great racing? Yeah, for sure. It's, uh, yeah, I mean, if we get, like, I don't know, it's always, too, everyone's just so good. Like, everyone's getting so good. everyone knows like someone does one thing and then everyone does it you know like it's not like |
| 2:52.2 | you have guys doing something way different, you know, and like, you do have, I mean, look at Jet, like, dude, he went from last to what, he go fourth in the first motor, almost second. That's unbelievable. Like, to see him do that against those guys, he's just honestly unbelievable to see him ride that good |
| 3:07.8 | and that much faster than everyone. So it's doable, but for a couple guys, you know, that's about it. |
| 3:14.8 | So I don't know how to make the racing more exciting without it being like a death cross, you know, |
| 3:19.2 | but even last week it was death cross and I wouldn't say it was really any more exciting. |
| 3:22.5 | So I think it's hard without a |
| 3:25.5 | whoop section because the whoop section not only separates speedwise, but is like a |
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