Jo Shimoda was on the PulpMX show on Monday night and described his plan to deal with a Deegan t-bone, and it makes sense!
The 2025 250 SMX champ said: “I passed him the second moto because he looked like he was letting me go and I threw down like two sprint laps. I pulled away just a tiny bit, but I couldn’t really keep up with that pace the whole time and he caught me again. Then, I had another plan, I was sure that he was gonna do a t-bone or something crazy, right?
“So every time like I can hear him behind me I pulled my clutch in and used my brake to just like lock in, ready to get hit! The thing I was trying to avoid was like high-speed hits, right? Like I tried to just come to a complete stop. Either we both gonna go down or I just go down and get up and go. The thing with takeouts is if I get stuck in a tough block, that was the worst case scenario So for me, I just slow everything down.”
And as you can see below, his plan worked perfectly, both went down, Jo got up and went!
Get the full interview below:
