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Marc Marquez Masterclass, Sachsenring Survivors and Brno Awaits: MotoGP Pit Talk · Pit Talk

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  Speaker 1: The King of the Ring returned and was crowned once again,
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  Speaker 1: and going into round eleven of the twenty twenty five
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  Speaker 1: MotoGP World Championship, it wasn't a case of I wonder
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  Speaker 1: if Mark's gonna win. It was more I wonder if
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  Speaker 1: Mark's gonna win by X amount of seconds? And that's
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  Speaker 1: exactly what we saw this weekend. Pitt Talk is brought
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  Speaker 1: to you by the team at Shannon's Insurance. I'm your host,
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  Speaker 1: Rinita Vanmullen. Joining me is the Mark Marquees of motor
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  Speaker 1: GP Stats, mister Matt Clayton. Matt, We've been catching up
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  Speaker 1: off air on everything that's happened over the weekend, but
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  Speaker 1: Saxon Ring it delivered. It showed us the good, the bad.
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  Speaker 2: And the ugly.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, certainly the last part with so few riders finishing
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  Speaker 3: the race will definitely get into that. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: it was weird, Like I wrote this in the lead
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  Speaker 3: up to the Saxon Ring, like the fact that Marquez
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  Speaker 3: is leading the championship on the best bike in the series.
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  Speaker 3: That's probably not a surprise, But the weirdest bit before
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  Speaker 3: Saxon Ring was that he kept winning at these tracks
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  Speaker 3: where he hadn't won for so long, Like you're thinking
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  Speaker 3: Katar and Magello and Ascent and the tracks where he's
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  Speaker 3: normally really good, like Kota and like Harrath, he actually
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  Speaker 3: hadn't won though the few races this year he hadn't won,
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  Speaker 3: so it kind of felt this was something had to
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  Speaker 3: give weekend, like are we going to get normal service
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  Speaker 3: resumed with Mark winning at the Saxon Ring because he's
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  Speaker 3: done that forever, or is this going to be one
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  Speaker 3: of those weird blips in this season. But it's good that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, if you want some predictability in your life,
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  Speaker 3: then Mark Marquez and the Saxon Ring is about the
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  Speaker 3: closest things you can get to a sure thing. But
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  Speaker 3: either about you, there's something super cool about watching a
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  Speaker 3: driver or a rider or anyone in a particular sport
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  Speaker 3: when they're in their absolute sweet spot and you know
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  Speaker 3: that it's them against themselves somewhere where they're super dominant.
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  Speaker 3: He was absolutely awesome on the weekend, and I'm sure
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  Speaker 3: we'll get into it, but the sprint race for me,
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  Speaker 3: the fact that he actually had to fight for it,
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  Speaker 3: that was the most fun part of the weekend for me.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that was what I was just thinking then, as
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  Speaker 1: you know, you're saying, you know the sweet spot and
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  Speaker 1: what you see, But then I'm going yeah. But in
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  Speaker 1: the sprint, he ran wide at term one, got a
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  Speaker 1: hairpis art round white, and then he had to fight
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  Speaker 1: for it, and it's like, okay, cool, here we go.
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  Speaker 1: Now we've got a race on our hands. It's not
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  Speaker 1: Mark Marquez riding off into the sunset.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 3: And the best part about it, too, was because you
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  Speaker 3: could see there was almost like these two competing voices
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  Speaker 3: on each shoulder. It's like, chill out, you've got the
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  Speaker 3: championship lead. It's fine, like whatever you can get in
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  Speaker 3: this race. The points in the sprint are so marginal
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  Speaker 3: between first and second and third and whatever anyway, so
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  Speaker 3: there was the sensible all right, I'll just roll home
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  Speaker 3: and I'll probably finish on the podium and it's fine,
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  Speaker 3: and I'll protect my championship lead. But then there's the
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  Speaker 3: instinctive racer in Mark where he hates to be beaten
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  Speaker 3: at anytime, and he certainly doesn't like being beaten at
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  Speaker 3: circuits where he's the man. And you could see that
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  Speaker 3: there was this like sort of inner dialogue going on.
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  Speaker 3: It's like do I push? Do I push? And there
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  Speaker 3: was one lap about I think it was about four
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  Speaker 3: laps from the end where I think he took six
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  Speaker 3: tenths out of a second out of Betzachi once he
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  Speaker 3: got up to pee two, and I reckon that was
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  Speaker 3: the moment he would have looked at the pit board
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  Speaker 3: and gone, Okay, that's it. I'm going for this. I'm
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  Speaker 3: just going for this because I can't help myself. And
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  Speaker 3: with the lead that he's got in the championship, he
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  Speaker 3: did not need three extra points. He needed three extra
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  Speaker 3: points like a hole in the head. But he's just like, no,
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to go for this, went for it, wanted
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  Speaker 3: on the last lap, and then almost apologized for not
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  Speaker 3: being able to turn his instincts off. I thought it
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  Speaker 3: was just really funny, like it shows you how hardwired
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  Speaker 3: he is to win even when he doesn't have to.
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  Speaker 3: I thought that was pretty interesting for a moment there.
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  Speaker 2: Though.
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  Speaker 1: I'm watching bet Zechi and like you said, you're seeing
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  Speaker 1: mark this gap maintaining.
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  Speaker 2: I'm thinking, oh, got this.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we might have a prillier step and what that
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  Speaker 1: could do once again for Betzechi and the whole Joe
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  Speaker 1: Martin drama which we'll get into.
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  Speaker 2: It a little bit. But then yeah, like you said, all.
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  Speaker 1: Of a sudden, it's like like that switch and Mark goes, no,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, I'm just going to go and do this.
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  Speaker 1: Why not?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and then almost apologizing for it afterwards. It's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I know, I said, I should be thinking about the championship,
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  Speaker 3: but my instincts took over and I'm sorry, but here's
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  Speaker 3: another win. But you do wonder too, like the psychology
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  Speaker 3: of him in that circuit. Had it it been anywhere else,
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  Speaker 3: he might have just gone, maybe I'll just take the
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  Speaker 3: second place and live for another day. But it's like, no, no,
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  Speaker 3: this is my track and you're not beating me here,
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  Speaker 3: so I am going to go for it. It was just
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  Speaker 3: funny watching him sort of wrestle with doing the sensible
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  Speaker 3: thing and doing the thing that he has made a
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  Speaker 3: habit of doing it the saxid ring, and it's nice
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  Speaker 3: to see that the instinct won out over being sensible.
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  Speaker 3: It's be honest, I.
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  Speaker 1: Think as well, you just said that like it is
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  Speaker 1: his track, but it's he needed to claim it on
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  Speaker 1: aored you Caddy. I think there's also that mental aspect
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  Speaker 1: of well, as well, of I need to be the
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  Speaker 1: king of the ring now on a ju Canti and
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  Speaker 1: not just back in the day on the Repsole. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And also you forget that it was twenty twenty one
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  Speaker 3: that he last won there, so I think it was
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  Speaker 3: between shoulder surgery two and three or three and four,
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  Speaker 3: I can't remember which, and it was that really unlikely
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  Speaker 3: win on the Honda. But you remember a couple of
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  Speaker 3: years ago when he was there on the Honda and
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  Speaker 3: it just about broke him. Like I think he had
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  Speaker 3: six crashes over the course of the race the weekend
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  Speaker 3: before he pulled out, and that was the ultimate case
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  Speaker 3: of him just raging against the dying of the light.
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  Speaker 3: It's like, I know this bike isn't going to be
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  Speaker 3: able to allow me to win this Grand Prix, and
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  Speaker 3: I'm probably going to hurt myself, but I'm not going
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  Speaker 3: to keep I'm not going to stop trying. He just
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  Speaker 3: kept coming off and coming off and coming off. What
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  Speaker 3: amazed me that day is there was a point where
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  Speaker 3: he just threw his hands up and said, look, I
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  Speaker 3: cannot break myself anymore. I have to get off this thing.
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  Speaker 3: That was the moment where you figured that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: or he really is going to leave Rebsolond and not
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  Speaker 3: knowing where he was going to go. But I think
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  Speaker 3: it puts a lot of those wins from that era
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  Speaker 3: at the Saxon Ring into perspective because very rarely did
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  Speaker 3: he turn up there with the best bike. It was
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  Speaker 3: just that he was the person that made the difference
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  Speaker 3: in you know, the other hand, riders weren't really doing anything.
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  Speaker 3: Now that he is on the best bike and in
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  Speaker 3: this amazing form that he is in, I mean to
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  Speaker 3: expect a different championship outcome when you put the best
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  Speaker 3: rider on the best bike is sort of wishful thinking, really.
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  Speaker 3: But we're halfway through this season. He has an eighty
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  Speaker 3: three point lead, and you could argue that he's probably
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  Speaker 3: thrown away about twenty five or thirty points through dumb
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  Speaker 3: things like crashing at Kota and her wrath when he
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  Speaker 3: came off earlier on. I mean, it's a case of
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  Speaker 3: when is he going to win this championship? Not if
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  Speaker 3: he's going to win this World championship, but I think
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  Speaker 3: the way that he's doing it and it's made us
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  Speaker 3: reassess a lot of what the other writers have been
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  Speaker 3: doing for the past couple of years. Because if anyone
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  Speaker 3: thought that the injuries and the surgeries in the time
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  Speaker 3: between the last championship had sort of, you know, quietened
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  Speaker 3: his star a little bit, I think we've got the
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  Speaker 3: answer now. I know he's thirty two, he's one of
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  Speaker 3: the older guys in it now, but the ferocity of
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  Speaker 3: the competitive spirits still there. And when you think about
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  Speaker 3: what he's gone through between then and now, I'll be
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  Speaker 3: super interested to see how he processes is the World
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  Speaker 3: Championship when it comes to him this year, because I
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  Speaker 3: suspect he's going to be really really focused until he
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  Speaker 3: gets it, and then I also suspect he's going to
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  Speaker 3: be incredibly emotional once it comes out, because you will
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  Speaker 3: always think back to probably your worst moments when you
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  Speaker 3: get back to the top of the mountain. Again, it's
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  Speaker 3: been so long since he's been there. It'll be a
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  Speaker 3: really interesting insight once he lets his guard down. When
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  Speaker 3: this happens, and the way it's going, I mean, it
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  Speaker 3: could all be quite frankly, it could almost be decided
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  Speaker 3: before they get to Australia towards the end of the
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  Speaker 3: year if he keeps this, Because right now you have
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  Speaker 3: to think to yourself, if he's not going to win
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  Speaker 3: a race in who he is.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean potentially Alex Marquez, potentially. But even this weekend,
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  Speaker 1: which we'll get into, in the main race, he was
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  Speaker 1: handed second place. It was like he was there fighting
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  Speaker 1: for it, right. Yeah, you had to be on your
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  Speaker 1: bike to actually cross the line at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the day. But yeah, Alex is second in the championship.
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  Speaker 1: But he's how many points behind Mark?
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  Speaker 2: Did you say?
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  Speaker 3: Eighty three?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Eighty three. That's more than two it's more than two
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  Speaker 3: perfect Grand Prix weekends, which, by the way, if we're
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  Speaker 3: still counting at home here, that's four weekends in a
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  Speaker 3: row where Mark scored the maximum thirty seven points. So
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  Speaker 3: it's he's not leaving too many points on the table
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  Speaker 3: right now. The craziest stat of all of them this
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  Speaker 3: year is when you look at the sprints. He's in
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  Speaker 3: eleven sprints. He's had ten wins in one second place,
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  Speaker 3: so he's three points away from a perfect score in
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  Speaker 3: the sprints. That's bad, isn't it.
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  Speaker 1: That's wild wild The thing that this is his first
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  Speaker 1: year on the factory Jucati team, right and all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden, it's breaking all these records all this is change,
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  Speaker 1: but also the downside is we're seeing Peco Banyaya so
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  Speaker 1: far behind and just struggling. Is like, yeah, it's exciting
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  Speaker 1: to see Mark Marquez because we were always wondering what
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  Speaker 1: could he do on the best bike. But then I
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  Speaker 1: think I've mentioned this on the pod before, as I
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  Speaker 1: remember Peco Bannaya saying previously, Oh, I want to win
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  Speaker 1: a championship when Mark Marquez is on the best bike
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  Speaker 1: as well and.
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  Speaker 2: I'm fighting against him.
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  Speaker 1: We're seeing that now and we're not seeing Peco performing
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  Speaker 1: at his best.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I reckon that's one of the probably the biggest
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  Speaker 3: disappointments of the year. I was super excited to see
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  Speaker 3: what a fight between those two was going to look like.
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  Speaker 3: And I mean, at the end of the day, hand
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  Speaker 3: on heart, we all know who the better rider is
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  Speaker 3: of the two. But I thought what was going to
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  Speaker 3: be interesting was that Pecko's been there in that team,
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  Speaker 3: and he's so embedded in that team, and that team's
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  Speaker 3: been around him, and he's won. You know, the last
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  Speaker 3: four years, he's won two World championships and finished a
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  Speaker 3: very close second a couple of times. He's been the
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  Speaker 3: guy for the last four years. And I thought, Wow,
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  Speaker 3: this is going to be so interesting someone of Mark's
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  Speaker 3: talent and ambition trying to do this in Peco's team.
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  Speaker 3: That was the way that I saw. I thought, that's
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  Speaker 3: going to make a really interesting championship fight. And we've
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  Speaker 3: talked on the pod before that Peco when he's in
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  Speaker 3: his sweet spot and he's confident with the machinery and
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  Speaker 3: things are just in the just so for Peco, he's amazing.
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  Speaker 3: He hasn't got into that groove at all this year,
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  Speaker 3: and every week he must look up and there's marketing
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  Speaker 3: another trophy, and the margins a bit bigger, and the
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  Speaker 3: margins a bit bigger, and the margins a bit bigger. Psychologically,
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  Speaker 3: this has got to be pretty deflating for Banyai, and
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  Speaker 3: it's got to the point that the rest of this season,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, look, he may win a race or two.
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  Speaker 3: We don't know how it's going to go towards the
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  Speaker 3: end of the season. But the second half of twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty five to me, is almost like the world's longest
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  Speaker 3: extended preseason for twenty twenty six, because when everything is
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  Speaker 3: reset to zero and he now knows what he's up
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  Speaker 3: against and he knows the machinery he's got on his disposal.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot riding on next year for Peco in
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  Speaker 3: terms of how we're going to see him when his
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  Speaker 3: career is over, because we may very well look back
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  Speaker 3: at this, and so we'll look there was this five
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  Speaker 3: year period where Mark Marquez was either broken or not
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  Speaker 3: on the grid at all. He emerged as the guy
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  Speaker 3: during that time, but then when the guy came back,
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  Speaker 3: when the guy in hooks came back, then it sort
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  Speaker 3: of made us reassess a little bit about where we
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  Speaker 3: see Pecko. So I think next year we'll get a
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  Speaker 3: better indication because I think Pecko's very aware of now
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  Speaker 3: what he's up against. You'd imagine that next year will
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  Speaker 3: be pretty similar to this because we've got some stability
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  Speaker 3: in the rules as everyone sort of gets ready for
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty seven. But I never in a million years
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  Speaker 3: expected the gap between them to be this big. I
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  Speaker 3: thought that it was a fight that Mark would win,
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  Speaker 3: but not like this.
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  Speaker 1: No, I'm just looking at the results from Saturday. And
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  Speaker 1: if you haven't seen Saturday Spring, it was trenchial rain
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  Speaker 1: and now we gorote a Sunday which was completely different. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: cold temperatures, but it was a dry track. Now, looking
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  Speaker 1: at the results from Saturday, Pekobanyaya twelfth place plus twenty
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  Speaker 1: point three three nine seconds. Right, then we go to
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  Speaker 1: Sunday's result. Okay, majority of these guys.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't finish the race.
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  Speaker 1: Pekkobaanyaya, let's say he was also handed third place, because
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  Speaker 1: yeah he was.
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  Speaker 2: But even the.
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  Speaker 1: Gap back from Mark to Peko there is plus seven seconds.
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  Speaker 2: So this is showing you what his season is like.
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  Speaker 2: He's he's just he's not there.
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  Speaker 3: No, that sprint on Saturday, Yes, it was raining, and
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  Speaker 3: he's not like he's a bad wet weather rye. You
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  Speaker 3: think towards the end of last year in Thailand when
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  Speaker 3: there was a lot of championship pressure, he rode really
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  Speaker 3: well in the rain there. But that was it was
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  Speaker 3: borderline embarrassing that sprint. It was that bad. He was
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  Speaker 3: that far off the pace. He was nowhere in qualifying.
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  Speaker 3: That gap that you mentioned there, that's in the fifteen
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  Speaker 3: lap race. He's a second and a half slower a
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  Speaker 3: lap than the guy who won the race on the
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  Speaker 3: same bike, and that's that's quite humbling for a guy
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  Speaker 3: of Pecko's pedigree. Yes, he was better in the Grand Prix.
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  Speaker 3: He did a lot of his good work in the
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  Speaker 3: Grand Prix early, like he had a really good first
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  Speaker 3: couple of laps from quite low on the greed, he
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  Speaker 3: got himself into position to be able to capitalize on
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  Speaker 3: other people's mistakes. That's the best you can probably say
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  Speaker 3: about his race. And yeah, he got another third place,
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  Speaker 3: and he seems to be getting lots of third places
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  Speaker 3: this year because that's where he is. So it was
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  Speaker 3: a decent save in terms of points, but there was
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  Speaker 3: never one point over the weekend where you felt he
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  Speaker 3: was remotely close to being on Alex Marquees's level, let
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  Speaker 3: alone Mark Marquez's level. And this is kind of where
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  Speaker 3: Peco's been this year. But that sprint on Saturday, I
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  Speaker 3: struggle to think of a worse race or sprint that
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  Speaker 3: he's had since he's been a top line Ticcattie rider.
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  Speaker 3: That was absolutely dreadful.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you did a stat for Fox sports dot Com
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  Speaker 1: to a Ford slash Motorsport and we turned it into
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  Speaker 1: a social media post as well. And we're talking about
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  Speaker 1: since since the last time Fabero Cordorraro one in Germany,
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  Speaker 1: which is twenty twenty two, Ji Catti's had fifty one
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  Speaker 1: podiums and when you said the sat through, Vanyaya has
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  Speaker 1: done twenty four of those on his own.
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  Speaker 2: The rest of Mark, Yeah, he's.
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  Speaker 3: Won nearly half of Decady's races since twenty twenty two.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard to believe when you look at those numbers
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  Speaker 1: and then you see what the season's been like this year, Like, really,
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  Speaker 1: is this the same packer Banyaia?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think it puts a few things into perspective.
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  Speaker 3: It looks at you know, it puts Spannya's last few
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  Speaker 3: years into perspective. The one for me that I'm not
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  Speaker 3: sure if you realize this. So Mark markuez onon his
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  Speaker 3: tenth sprint for the season on Saturday. You know, that's
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  Speaker 3: the most wins by any one rider in a season
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  Speaker 3: in sprints since sprints came in three years ago. Oh hey,
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  Speaker 3: Martin won nine sprints in twenty twenty three. Mark's already
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  Speaker 3: beaten that with half the season to go. So this
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  Speaker 3: is what we're dealing with here, Like, it's an absurd
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  Speaker 3: stat to think, because you remember when the sprints came in,
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  Speaker 3: we were all like, oh, this is all Hey Martin territory.
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  Speaker 3: He's going to eat these things up. He's going to
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  Speaker 3: be amazing in them, and predictably he was from day one,
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  Speaker 3: but with no Martine on the grid, and we'll get
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  Speaker 3: back to his return at some point in the rest
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  Speaker 3: of this podcast. You're looking at these saturdays now and
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  Speaker 3: Mark's just winning these things for fun, and it's so
• 13:56
  Speaker 3: demoralizing for Banyar at the moment because the only race
• 13:59
  Speaker 3: is one this year was when Mark crashed when he
• 14:02
  Speaker 3: was well ahead of him at Koser, and he inherited
• 14:04
  Speaker 3: that win. So given that we do have such a
• 14:06
  Speaker 3: decade dominated championship, I don't think it's a great surprise
• 14:09
  Speaker 3: that Mark's doing what he's doing. I think the two
• 14:12
  Speaker 3: surprises of the season one positive, one negative is how
• 14:16
  Speaker 3: consistently good Alex Marquez has been even when he's been
• 14:19
  Speaker 3: injured like last weekend, and the fact that Banyaya is
• 14:22
  Speaker 3: even struggling to keep him in sight or beat him
• 14:26
  Speaker 3: most of the time, let alone his own teammate. That
• 14:28
  Speaker 3: is not a conversation that you and I were expecting
• 14:30
  Speaker 3: to have at the start of this year.
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: Well, Alex Markez, like you said, came into this weekend
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: injured after that collision he had.
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: With Pedro Acosta at athen and is his left hand
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: that he injured.
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: Ryan, He's on a left hand corner track, so straightaway
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: is already a negative there. Looking at the results from
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: the sprint, he was p eight, so it was what
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: we said, total wet race, twelve seconds behind Mark, but
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: then inherited that second place. I think in the long
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: term he's probably going to look out, look back at
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: this weekend and go, are, Okay, cool, I was injured,
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: but I'm got second place kind of handed to me.
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, put that in my back pocket.
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: That's going to help me maintain second in the championship.
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but he's just.
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: That diesel train, Like we said, that diesel truck is
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: just chugging along.
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, keeps on keeping on. I think the key thing
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: for him over the course of the weekend is that
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: I always think it's funny when you think that bikes
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: and riders have body language that you can actually see
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: through the TV. His biggest success of the entire weekend,
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: like you mentioned, left handed track, when you were leading
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: on a left handed that had surgery. It wasn't the
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: biggest operation of the world for a motor GP rider,
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: But if any wanted to go to a track, any
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: track other than the Saxon Ring would have quite frankly,
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: a bit easier for him given that he had left
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: hand surgery. His biggest thing for the whole weekend was
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: just don't crash. Don't crash, don't crash, because if you
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: crash at the Saxon Ring, there's a fair chance that
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: you're going to injure or your left hand in one
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: of those accidents, given the way you come off there.
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: When you look at how many guys did come off
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: over the course of the weekend and how sketchy the
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: weather was and how diffy the track was on Sunday,
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: the biggest victory for him that he was able to
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: score a second place in the Grand Prix and only
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: lose five points to his brother in the championship standings.
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: But he didn't hurt himself, and that's the biggest thing
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: for him going forward, because we know we've got Czech
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: Republic this weekend and then a four week break. If
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: he can get out the other end of this weekend
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: with no accidents or no accidents that are going to
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: aggravate the injury that he's already got, that's almost a
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: bigger win than any points he can get quite frankly,
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: because he was one of the few guys I would
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: have to go back and look at everyone on the
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: list here, but it felt like everyone else crashed at
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: least once over the course of the weekend, given how
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: sketchy things were, and he was able to be fast
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: but also with a margin where he didn't hurt himself.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about those crashes. But before we even
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: get into that, let's go Tech three were already out
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: this weekend with an a of as Shanini who was
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: diagnosed with appendicitis the poor thing going in, so he
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: was absent from the weekend. Then we had that crash
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: from Maverick Finnalez where he dislocated his shoulder I believe,
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: and then he went put back in but somehow managed
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: to do some damage or what not to the collar bone.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: So then the whole tech to our team was out
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: for the weekend. Then we saw in Saturday's sprint that scary,
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: totally scary crash from Frankie Morbidelli where his whole leather
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: suit like you could see the airbag popped open, the
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: zip come down, he was just tumbling through the gravel trap.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: He was then out for the weekend.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: So then if we go into Sunday's list, Oh, we
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: also had some Katchenra who was out from a pre
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: injury as well, so some and an AA not absent
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: this weekend. Then we have Maverick injured. We had Morbidelli
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: didn't race, which I think is a good thing because
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: the way that he tumbled, and we know what he
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: had earlier last.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: Year when he had that injury to the brain. Like,
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: I think that's a safe thing.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: Then you look at Sunday's Grand Prix. There's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: eight riders crashed. One of those riders crashed twice, and
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: that was when Iagura and Yuan Meir collided. They crashed
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: out on that same corner. Lorenzo Sabadori is coming through
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: right as the marshals were taking everything away.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: Now we know most.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Of these crashes happened at turn one, But is that
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: just because turn one is the first right hand corner.
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: It's a few things. It's a trickier corner than it
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: looks on the TV because of how steep it is.
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: So the straight there, yes it's straight, but it's also
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: massively undulating. They climb out of the final corner raise
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: over the platter, it flattens out, you climb again and
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: drop down into turn one. The biggest factor on Sunday
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: with all these crashes because five of those eight guys
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: you mentioned crashed at turn one. Five of the eight
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: DNFs were at turn one. There was no tire grip
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: on this track because it poured with rain all Saturday
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: during the spring, and then it really poured with rain
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: Saturday night and into Sunday morning, so the track was
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: super green. It was like it was the start of
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: the weekend. The weird thing there was that some people
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: on the ground were telling me that the wind had
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: flipped around on Sunday, so it was a tail wind
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: into turn one. So you're pushing the riders into turn
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: one downhill. There's no grip because the track is as
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: green as it is. And what was interesting was that
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: you notice that all the crashes in turn one they
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: were in the second half of the race where people
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: had worn tires right. So you got to about lap
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: fifteen eighteen, everything's fine, and then Jane Antonio goes down,
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: and then a couple of laps later, Bazeki goes down,
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: and then a guru goes down and takes Juan Miir
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: with him, and then Savadori goes down. They all happened
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: in about a five lap span, but after about two
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: thirds of the race were done. So you've got a
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: combination of worn tires, green track, tail wind, and you know,
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: people trying to change ginger maps with Jack Miller was
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: talking about this. It was a real survival race towards
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: the end there. And interestingly, Pecovannaya said afterwards, he said
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: he had a couple of moments in tern one where
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: he pretty much lost the front and managed to recover them,
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: and he said, all right, for the rest of the
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: for the last eight laps of this race, I'm not
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: pushing at all into turn one. I'm almost going to
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: roll into turn one and then I'm going to push
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: everywhere else to try and make up for her, because
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: the risk reward ratio just tipped over the edge at
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: turn one. But it was this weird circumstance of just
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: literally no grip. It was like Friday FP one. There
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: was no grip down at all because it had all
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: been washed away with the rain and that tail wind.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: It changed everyone's breaking markers because you're coming up out
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: of the bubble and you're getting shoved along by this
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: wind and then by the time you're too deep into
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: the corner on a green track and down you go.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: That's pretty much what happened ten riders ten riders to
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: finish a race.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: When was the last time that that happened? In Rotor GP?
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: Matt, See, this is where I'm watching the race, and
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: I'm going, m Philip Island. I was sinking the day
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: that Casey Stone And won the championship, and I'm thinking,
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: I reckon it's that day. So I went back and
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: out of look and yeah, twenty eleven Australia ten Riders
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: finished that race. And that was another weird race where
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: very few people started. Oh hai Lorenz, I'd hurt himself
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: in the warm up. He'd taken off the tip of
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: one of his fingers. He was pretty much Casey's only
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: championship contender. How was that that? Yeah? And so Casey
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: just basically had to stay upright to win the championship
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: on home soil that day. And because Casey and Philip pilot,
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: he went won the race like he always did. But
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: it was one of those races that we only had
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: an eighteen to start with. Because of all of the
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: various things that you talked about in the lead in
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: and then when they just start going down like like skittles,
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: towards the end, you look at someone like Alex Rinns
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: took six points away from the weekend for Yamaha, which
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: you know, you look at it on paper in the future,
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: you're going, oh, that was all right. Alex Rins had
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: a top ten finish, Alex Rinns was last, and Alex
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: Rinns was last by a long, long way, which is
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: another topic we probably need to get into at some point.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: But if you stayed on your bike and you kept circulating,
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: no matter how slow, you were going to bank decent
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: points because it was just an absolute race of attrition.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: And I think the disappointing thing for a couple of
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: these riders was there there were guys who crashed out
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: of really promising positions, and I thought to jan Antonio,
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: had he sort of sealed the deal with that second place?
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: He was really impressive of the entire weekend. He was
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: really good through Friday practice. He was one of the
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: guys who looked like he could actually over one lap.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: Take it to Marquez didn't qualify well because he tends
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: to not qualify well. But he raced well all weekend
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: and he sort of emerged out of that big battle
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: pack in the early part of Sunday's race, and that
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: he had Perzeki's measure and he had Banyaya's measure and
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: a Costa was up there for a bit. Digita looked really,
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: really good. He was the first of these guys to
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: go down at turn one, and I think it sort
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: of caught him by surprise, and then everyone else started
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: going down, almost in sympathy afterwards. But look, he was
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: to get to catch Marquez because no one was going
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: to But that was a ride that felt like it
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: probably deserved a podium in a decent result. And we've
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: talked about this for a couple of podcasts. Now I
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: do think he's going to come forward a fora a
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: bit in the second half of the year because the
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: speeds there, in the bikes there, He's getting more and
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: more confident. Just a shame that didn't work out for
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: him on Sunday.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: I heard him say post race though, that he was
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: happy that he crashed out of the podium position because
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: it showed that he was fighting for it rather than
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: being fifteenth, seventeenth and crashing out further down the field.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: I feel like you can kind of look at that
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: two ways, as in.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Why are you happy that you crashed out of like
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: why would you?
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: Why are you not wanting it more?
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: But I think from his point of view, it's like,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: my speed was there, you know, it was Mark, it
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: was me, and then it wasn't Aprillia.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: You know, where's Peco?
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Where's Alex there?
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Further back?
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Okay, then the mistake happened, but it changes in the variables, right, Yeah.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: I reckon that he feels that that speed is repeatable.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: I think that's probably why he was quite optimistic. I
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: don't think this is just some outlier one off at
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: this particular circuit. He'll be quick at Bruno, He'll be
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: quick in most places because I think he's you remember,
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: he came into this preseason super injury compromised after the
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: dumb thing that he did so pag what he decided
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: to do really at the end of the first day
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: of the Test and came off and broke the same
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: colo mode he'd broken last year. But I think he
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: realizes that the speed is repeatable, So yeah, you'd be
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: annoyed in the moment that you chucked a podium away.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: But I suspect that we're going to We know that
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: decade's so good, and I suspect we're going to see
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: him on podiums plural in the very short term.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Another writer who I hope the speed is repeatable for
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: is Marco bet Zeki because I missed all the Joge
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Martin drama that's been going on off track. It's been
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: so refreshing to see Marco abt Zeki fighting the front,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: fighting for those podium places, and just to have an
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: aprillia there another manufacturer up close to the front. It's
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: a shame that there's the track house guys aren't following
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: suit and it's just been Marco at the moment. But
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: I mean another sprint prodeum for him.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: I'm sure he's over the moon with that.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I reckon that was an important one too, because
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: you know, we know he'd wanted Silverstone, and Silverston has
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: always been a good track for a Prillier. He was
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: very good at acid and that's always been a good
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: track for him. So it's almost like we needed a
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: bigger sample size of all right, you know you've bett
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: a good track for Aprilia. You've betted a good track
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: for yourself. Can you do it somewhere else? I think
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: this is super interesting for two reasons. A what you
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: just said about the fact that it's another manufacturer in
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: the mix. It looks like that's something that's going to
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: translate to multiple circuits now. But doesn't it get you thinking,
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: like hmm. Once Jorge Martin gets fully fit and he
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: gets up to speed with what Napullia can do, won't
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: that be interesting towards the end of the year, Because
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: if that's a bike that can achieve podiums, a fully
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: fit Jollgey Martine is absolute top shelf. We saw that
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: last year, we saw it the year before. On balance,
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: he's probably going to achieve more when he's completely being
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: Joge Martine than Marco Berseki's going to. So that's interesting
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: for me because right now that's clearly the second best
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: bike in motor GP. You add a world champion on
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: there that will have some level of motivation. We don't
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: know how much we're about to find out, but you
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: add Martine on that bike and he gets a sniff
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: of being competitive and having good results there, he could
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: be a bit of a random wild card for the
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: end of this season. Martine once he gets confident and
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: gets his full fitness and race fitness back, because he's
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: not scared of anybody. We saw it last year. He'll
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: go will to will with Banyai, He'll go will to
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: will with Mark. We've never really seen like a really
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: full on, motivated fit Martin up against Marquez in the
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: mood that Marquez is in at the moment. So when
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: we know that it's not going to be the championship
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: or anything super meaningful because the way the season's panned out,
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: but we might get some pretty explosive races towards the
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: end of the year, I reckon.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: So Martin's coming back this weekend for Bruno, it's the
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: first time Reto GP have been to the Czech Republic
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: since twenty twenty. The track's been resurfaced, so it's going
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: to be really interesting, I think as well, because we've got.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: The veterans like Mark.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: The last time Juan mir was that he was on
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: a Suzuki, right, So there's all these changes. But johe Martin,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: I think everyone's going to be looking at him this weekend.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Do you think I'm probably already jumping the gun with this.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: But do you think Martin's going to come back and
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: be strong instantly or do you think he's gonna He's
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: going to take his time this time because of everything
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: that's been happening.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I reckon. There's elements of both here because of
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: the way the calendar falls, Like we've got a full
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: week break after Bruno. The absolute last thing Jorge Martine
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: needs to do it Bruno is hurt himself. He needs
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: a full race weekend where he can do a full
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: sprint distance and he can do a full Grand Prix
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: distance and he can get used to fighting with people again.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: The points are immaterial because who cares how many points
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: he gets this year? Really, and it certainly doesn't matter
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: this much for the time being. The biggest thing he
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: can do this weekend is shake the rust off because
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: there's going to be some race rust. He has not
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: raced a motor GP like properly. You know, he hasn't
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: completed a full race since last November, let's be honest,
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: So shake the rust off, get used to the way
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: the team works operationally. What's his motivation, Like, how does
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: he feel physically, because we know that he's only been
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: pas medically to ride in the last couple of weeks,
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: so he's clearly going to be underdone. The one thing
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: he cannot do this weekend is hurt himself. So I
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: think what you'll see is, because we've got this month
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: after Bruno, he won't be cautious or circumtant. He'll still ride,
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: but he's not going to be pushing at ten tenths.
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: He might be at like eight and a half tenths
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: or something, because it's like, you've got a championship to
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: think about. Get through that, have another month of training,
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: getting your fitness up a lot more, riding some superbike somewhere,
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: doing what you need to do, and then you know
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: how this second half of the season goes like it
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: feels like it just comes and goes in a flash
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: because there's so many double headers and it comes super
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: super fast. What he does in those last ten races
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: will be more representative of who he is. I think
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: this weekend the main goal is to get back deal
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: with a bunch of annoying journos in the press conference.
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: Like me, he'll be asking him a thousand questions about
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: things he doesn't want to talk about. Get some points
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: and then go on his holidays for four weeks and
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: do some training and then come back for Austria and
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: be ready to go.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: It is definitely going to be full on and I
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: fully jumped the gun there talking about Bruno when we
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: still have.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: Heaps to catch up on from this weekend.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: But I want to talk about Luca Marini because for me,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: just a phenomenal ride. You think it's his first Grand
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: Prix back after that nasty accident. He had well training
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: first to zook. You know, he was in a hospital
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: bed in Japan for so long and then he's come
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: back and you could see that camera after Sunday's Grand Prix.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: You could see him just wincing in pain and the
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: fact that okay, he's not fully one hundred percent, but
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: you had to be on your bike at the end
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: of the day. You just had to ride the track
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: as you could cross that finish line. And he didn't
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: finish last.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: He was six.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: He was okay, twenty four seconds behind Marquez, but he
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: was six. He wasn't down with Alex Renz who was
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: forty seconds behind.
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: Well, and for him to come back this is we
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: know that it's not the highest speed track on the calendar,
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: Saxon Ring, but it's so random in that the configuration
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: of it, and you're hanging off the left side of
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: the bike the entire time. He was actually getting sore
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: on the right side of his body because he was
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: sitting in a different position to try and compensate for
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: the fact that his body's not really in any sort
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: of condition to do thirty laps around a track like that.
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: It's amazing what adrenaline does. And you give a guy
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: a chair as to you know, if you were telling
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: him that he was going to finish sixth and he
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: was going to do thirty laps and how sorry it
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: was going to be. If you told him before the race,
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: he'd say, no, thanks, I don't really fancy that. But
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: there's nothing like the smell of competition and getting back
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: into it so hugely commendable for him to be able
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: to clearly push through the pain barrier and come back.
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: It sounded like he probably came back a little bit
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: earlier than most people were expecting. But again, it's one
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: of those things like if he gets to through these
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: two rounds, doesn't hurt himself, can reset over the summer break,
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: but given what he's gone through in the last couple
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: of months. That was a really really brave effort by
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: Let's not forget he's a writer who's out of contract
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: at the end of this year, and I reckon if
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: he had the comfort of a contract for next year,
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: I don't reckon. That's a race that you do. Maybe
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: you might sit out for another round or two. It's like,
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: you know what, I'll come back after the break. I'll
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: be good. He needs to get back and show what
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: it is that he can do, be it for Honda
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: or for someone else who would like to employ him.
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: And coming back and doing that when you're so clearly
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: injury compromised, like big tick from me. It was a
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: really really impressive effort.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Have you heard is Luca going to compete in the
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: Suzuka eight Hour? Have you heard any updates on that?
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: My understanding is that he will. I think when you've
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: got a chance to ride for a Japanese manufacturer at Suzuka,
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: that's not something you take lightly. So he'll clearly still
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: be there. I mean, look, it's the funny thing. It's
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: an the eight Hours. It is a true endurance test, obviously,
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: but it's a very different style of riding and you're
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: sharing the bike with two other riders, But to ride
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: for a Honda team at Honda owns Suzuka at such
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: a prestigious event, like you would not miss that for
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: the world. I mean, we obviously know Jack Miller's doing it,
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: but my understanding is that he's going to be there
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: because you don't put all that effort in to go
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: along and go through all of the training and how
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: particular it is to race it that particular track. But
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: my understanding is that it will be Zako and Marini
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: and Miller that will all beyond the grid start of August,
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: and you.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Guys can catch the Suzuka eight Hour on both Fox
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Sports and ko all the race.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: The whole eight hours is going to be broadcasted live.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: So I mean, if you want to sit on the
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: sofa for eight hours and watch some rotorbikes go around Telly,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: by all means do it. Otherwise you can catch it
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: up when suits you. But you mentioned Jack Miller there.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: Let's talk about Jack because you wrote a really interesting piece.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: Now we know that Jack's up a contract at the
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: end of this year, we know Top Racks sign with
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Prama High. Everything like that there's your shot. Take it
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: if you're playing along. But let's look at Jack's results
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: from the weekends, because you told me a P five
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: from Jack that was the best sprint result he has
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: since last year?
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: Did you say Austria last year? So it was his
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: best sprint that he's had in the last twenty So
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: that's going back to Austria in August last year. So
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: he'd only scored one point in the sprints the entire year,
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: which is at Silverstone before last Saturday. And the really
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: key point here is that we know we're coming to
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: this crunch time here where Yamaha have said we want
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: to make a decision on who's going to be top
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: rax teammate by the summer break. Now, the summer break
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: starts on Monday, basically, so one day after the Czech
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: Republic Grand Prix. Jack picked a really really good time
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: to have his best weekend of the season and scored
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: thirteen points over the weekend. That's his strongest single weekend
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: of the season. Finished eighth in the Grand Prix. Obviously
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: stayed on which many people didn't, which was super important.
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: But it was more the fact that you look at
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: the two people that are potentially in the frame to
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: deny him that place. At Pramat Gamaha, he was ahead
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: of Miguel Olivera in every single on track session for
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: the entire weekend. Jack made Q two. Olivera did not.
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: He was well behind Jack in the sprint and then
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: he crashed out super early in the Grand Prix. So
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: Jack had that covered for the entirety of the weekend.
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: The other name that had been floated around, which I
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: mentioned in the piece you just referenced there was There's
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: been a lot of buzz about Diogo Marrera coming up
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: through Moto two for a lot of obvious reasons. He's
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: clearly really talented, he's clearly really fast. He has an
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: association with Yamaha Brazil from a lot he trains on
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: Yamaha bikes, and he's back home in Brazil, and of
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: course we have a Brazilian Grand Prix next year, so
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: you know there's a lot of boxes being ticked for
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: a young, up and coming rider. And when Yamaha started
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: this second team, it's a bit like we see it
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: in Formula One with Red Bull and whatever. The second
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: team racing balls this year is being called. The second
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: team is almost like a proving Ground training school to
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: bring young guys in to potentially elevate them to the
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: main team, and because Pramak Yamaha was new this year,
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: they went with a couple of thirty year olds because
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: they are available and they needed data and they needed information.
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: The long term future of that team for me is
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: to bring younger riders through to see if they've got
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: what it takes to step up to the main Yamaha team.
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: So you're not going to have a pair of thirty
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: year olds in there for the long long term, short
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: term this is what plays to Jack's favor, but also
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: short term. Marera did I don't know how you feel
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: about this. That Moto iiO race on Sunday at Saxon Ring,
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: he showed you why he's probably going to be in
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: Motor GP. He also showed you why he's probably not
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: going to be in Motor GP yet because he was
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: twenty fifth on the grid where he screwed up qualifying
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: in the rain, and he was awesome in that Grand Prix.
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: It was like watching twenty twelve Via and Mark Marquez
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: in Moto two is just carving through guys and all
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: of a sudden you look up and you go, oh
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: my god, he's fourth and there's still plenty of laps
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: to go in the race. And then he came off
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: second best in a bit of a skirmish with Jake
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: Dixon for third, and then went off onto the grass
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: and pulled straight back onto the circuit, not really looking
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: at where he was going or what was coming up
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: behind him, and David Altso ran absolutely full speed, never
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: checked up straight into the back of him. I'm far
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: too old and cynic all these days to get too
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: excited about crashes all things like that, but that literally
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: got me out of my seat with my hand over
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: my mouth, going, oh my god, that's like an aeroplane
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: accident because you don't see crashes like that. They are
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: so lucky, the pair of them that they didn't sustain
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: major injuries. And Marrera has been hit with a pit
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: lane start for this week's Moto two race at the
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: Czech Republic, and I reckon that's pretty lenient, quite frankly,
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: because he did an absolutely crazy thing that endangered himself
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: and another rider, and I wouldn't have minded them parking
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: him for a race and said sorry, you're not racing
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: at Bruno next weekend. That's just absolutely crazy. So I
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: think in one Moto two race we saw the speed
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: and the decisiveness and the ability that the guy's got
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: which makes him look like a murder GP rider in
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: the future. We also saw a completely stupid crash where
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: it probably shows you that that future might be twenty
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: twenty seven or twenty eight or whatever that's going to be,
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: which in a very long winded way, which if you've
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: read my story, it was very long winded. Everything aligned
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: this weekend to me, I reckon that Jack Miller has
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: one hand and four fingers on a murder GP contract
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: with promat Gamahah next year, and it would not surprise
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: me if at all, if that gets announced at Bruno
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: this weekend.
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: I think, Yeah, you pretty much hit the nail on
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: the head.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: I completely agree with everything you just said that the
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: Diego Morera thing. Let's move on to Moto two because
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: we've pretty much wrapped up GP there. But let's talk
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: about Moto two and then let's come back to Diego Mora.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: But Jake Dixon was on pole jumped the start. Oh
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: and then once you saw it and he knew straight away, right,
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: you could just see him shaking his head. Then he
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: had that small collision with Jake into turn one, so
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: then Sena got that double long lap penalty. Then as
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: the race progress, let's then go obviously that incident with
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: Marrera happened.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: I think I agree with you.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: I think Marrera, you can just tell he's still a teenager,
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: you're a young adult. Like he needs to get that
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: experience because he's only been in the World Championship, the
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: Moto GP World Championship for a few years now, right,
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: so he's come up from Junior GP. I think that
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: he needs to still get a bit more of that
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: thorough experience before you do go.
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: Into Moto GP.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: I don't think we're ever going to see another Jack
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: Miller go from Moroto three straight up to Moto GP,
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: because I think you have to do you have to
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: do your exams, you have to past the test and
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: then you'll go up right.
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: But for me, in Moto.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: Two, the fact that Aaron Connett still finished in the
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: top ten and you see him in pain, I mean
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: Saxon Ring and the crashes and the fact of like
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: the red flag and everything, and you could hear Barry
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: Belts and Jake Dixon being like wipe all out the
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: red flag. You know, I will saving my tires until
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: the end. But when you saw that camera on Aaron Connett,
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: in him wincing in pain or you could feel it.
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: I could feel it through the TV map.
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that was a monster, monster crash. I was pretty
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: surprised he even race, quite frankly, but we know he's
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: pretty tough and he's certainly not one who's going to
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: be backwards in a battle. That was hugely impressive. I mean,
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: the red flag. No one likes to see a race
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: stop with a red flag, let's be perfectly honest. But
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: we know that there's world TV time schedules to keep
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: and that sort of thing, and you know, by the
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: time they would have cleaned everything up and re started
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: the race for what two laps at the end, it
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: was probably not going to be worth it for everyone involved.
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: So that was a shame tactically for some of these
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: guys that were saving tires, but probably the correct decision.
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: But I must admit there was a part of me
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: when I mean the sometimes with these jump starts they
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: look a little bit marginal. That was so not marginal
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: by ages on Sunday, unfortunately, and as soon as that happened.
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: There was a part of me that literally pushed the
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: chair out from the desk and just put their head
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: down and went, well that's the end of that then,
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: And I mean it's the way it worked out. He
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: managed to get back through and at least score some points,
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: but you could just see on the rundown to term
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: one he was absolutely filthy with himself because I think
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: he knew he had the pace to probably finish on
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: the podium. So that's definitely one that got away for him.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so soon I finished eleventh, and I'm just looking
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: at the results. Seven writers crashed out of Moto two,
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: so we had eight and a Moto GP and obviously
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: X four that didn't start, and then we had seven
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: writers crash out of Moto two. Then let's go to
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: Moto three, our favorite, where it's the fifteen or so
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: writers in one group going into turn one together a
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: lap after lap. Munios finished first ahead of Gears and Rueida.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: Now Matt for me, Ruaida, he is missed a consistency
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: this year. It's not always about winning the race, it's
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: about banking those points. It's like the it's the Peko
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: Bagnyaya version of when Peco was trying to get the
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: championship right.
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he's read the book on how you build
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: a championship. And I use the word build because it's
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: not about getting like one or two headline results and
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: then being nowhere. He's always there and thereabouts. He'll win
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: races when he can, but he'll bank good points when
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: he won't, and that's how you build a championship over
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: twenty two rounds. I'm frankly not surprised at all to
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: see him move his way towards the front of the
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: group and be there when it matters towards the end
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: of the race. But I guess the fun thing for
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: us was that, you know that front group of about
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: eight or nine that broke away at the end. It
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: was nice to see both see both ossies in that
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: shot and you look at them going, Okay, they're in
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: with a chancey, they're right in the train. And to
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: see both Joe Kelso and Jacob Rolston particularly have strong
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: results was nice because that was a no holds barred race.
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: There's Moto three years in most places, but at the
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: Saxid Ring, My.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: God, yeah no, like you said, so, Jacob Wilstone was
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: pa across the line, Joe Kelso six and our key
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: we across the Pond Cormack Buchanan.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: He was a top ten his.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: Best results so far in the World Championship. So yeah,
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: it was nice to see the guys from down Under
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: and obviously New Zealand representing us and being closer to
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: the front. And I think for Jacob just to touch
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: on that this is the confidence he needs. We knew
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: in I think it was Migello where he was strong
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: there and then he had that technical issue and wasn't
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: able to finish the race. You could see that really
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: got to him and I think he needs this boost
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: of this top ten. While okay on paper it's only
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: a PA, I think for him it's that set because
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: he is going into the second part of the year.
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: He doesn't have a contract for next year, he is
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: with Red Bull, Katim Tech three, the pressure everything starting
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: the season a few races late, everything's adding up. I
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: think he needed that PA to boost him for the
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: rest of the season.
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: And it's a nice base, like it's a platform which
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: you can build, like this is all you want to
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: sort of wrap up this first half of the season.
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: A couple of decent results. I mean, he gained ten
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: places in the race from where he started, which is
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: pretty impressive in itself, but just moving steadily forward and
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: we know there's a good rider in there. Like you said,
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: there's been so many things that have tripped him up
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: this year that's been difficult. It feels like he's been
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: sort of swimming upstream for the whole year to try
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: and get back to where he wanted to be at
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: the start of it. So if this is the first
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: building plot for that, then that's terrific. But yeah, I
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: just enjoyed seeing both OSSI's in the front group.
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: So as we mentioned a little bit earlier when I
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: was really excited to talk about Juai mantine A Moto
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: GP heads Sabruno next weekend of the first time since
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty, I was looking back at some old footage
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: for a sports socials earlier today, and like I said,
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: Juan Miir was on the Yamaha and even like the
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: previous races where Lorenzo and Rossi and whatnot, like Bruno's
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: a pretty iconic track that's been on the Moto GP calendar,
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: says Shane that it hasn't been on for a few
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: years now coming back there. It's resurfaced now and this
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: is where I'm starting to think, Okay, how's he going
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: to play out this weekend? Matt, and I want to
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: get your opinion on this because we've got so many
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: rookies in the Moto GP paddock now Moto GP grit
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: who've never ridden there. Yeah, absolutely, or on a METOGP bike.
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: But then you've got Mark Marquez, Alex Runs, juanmir All,
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: these guys who've ridden there on past GP bikes, but
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: the track's been resurfaced. How do you think that's going
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: to play out and we're going to see the veterans
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: exceeding quite early on in the or do you think
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  Speaker 1: it's just going to be an even playing field.
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: The one name that you didn't mention there and he
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: never gets to run on this podcast because you've been
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: kind of invisible all year. The last rider to win
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: when we went there for MotoGP was Brad Binder on
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: a case And you forget that was such a strange
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: season twenty twenty because it was round three, but it
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: was about August because we went race the first six
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: months of the year, there was no one there. It
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: was a really really strange one. It's the last time
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: we went to Bruneau. It's obviously it's usually such a
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: vibrant race. It's such a massive crowd that turns up there,
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: so to see them racing around that awesome, big open
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: circuit with no one there was really weird. Yeah, been
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: to the most recent winner there, bizarrely, not someone we've
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: talked about very much on the pod this year. But
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: getting back to what you just said, then, I think
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: guys who've got motor GP reps around there are going
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: to start with a significant advantage because we're not going
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: back to the same Bruno because if you know, after
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: the teams had tested there the other week, they reckon
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: that the lap times might be about two seconds faster.
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: And that's not a slow track to start with. It's
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: a proper iconic motor GP track. I'm super glad we've
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: found a way to get back there because you know
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: those big, wide open tracks with massive crowds, and the
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: thing I love about Bruno it's so wide as a track,
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: so it's not just one line into corners. You'll see
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: guys fan out into the breaking zones and it's a
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: track where you can pass and repass. It's a track
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: that invites fights. It's one of the great things about
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: that particular layout, So it's one of the best layouts
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: on the calendar. It's going to be a top five
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: layout on the calendar. It's really good that they found
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: a way to find the money to get the thing
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: resurfaced and get it back on the calendar. I'm just
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: really looking forward to see bikes on that circle again
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: because it's one of the best ones and it always
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: throws up good races. But going back to what you
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: were saying, I think experience counts. I think guys who've
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: been there before on motor GP Machinery are going to
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: start with a pretty significant advantage.
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: Well, Bruno is up this weekend, like we just said,
• 45:39
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• 45:53
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• 45:54
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• 46:15
  Speaker 1: But from Matt Clayton and myself, Rinita.
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: Vermullen, that's all for now, and we're going to be
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: back real soon with more motor GP. Pittalk Well