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MotoGP Round 4: Chaos, Momentum & Storylines in S6 Ep 28 · B 4EVA Kool "Race A Motorcycle" Podcast

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  You're listening to the Beep Forever Cool podcast.
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  My name is Rex 45. Man, what a race weekend.
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  It's all I got to say. It's one of the best I've seen
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  all year. We had a little bit of
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  everything and what could have been should have been penalties,
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  not penalties. Who can get away with what.
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  Let's get the guys in first up, but not last.
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  TJ man, welcome to the show. How you do?
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  How you doing tonight man? I'm doing great.
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  How you doing over there? I'm good man.
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  You sound. You sound like you're trying to
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  try out for one of the Godfather five to six part man.
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  What's good man? How you doing?
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  No much, you know, just can't complain.
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  It was a really good race weekend, so can't wait to chop
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  it up about it. So yeah, it's just getting ready
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  for, you know, to talk about racing.
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  It's kind of tough. You know, your Celtics look like
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  they're the favorite of coming out of the East, so I know you
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  must be all into that as well. You know, I don't want to talk
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  about it every time because it sounded like a broken record,
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  but you know, the Celtics are looking really good.
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  I don't want to, I don't want to jinx anything.
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  But yeah, we, we, we're definitely going to be moving on
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  to the next round, so. All right, no doubt, no doubt,
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  no doubt. That's what's up.
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  Speaking of the next round, let's move on down the line.
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  Aris, man, welcome to the show, man.
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  How you doing tonight? Yeah, what's good, man?
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  Just trying to find some parking for the night and relax.
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  That's about it. But it was a good weekend.
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  I had to chop it up with your boys and talk about some
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  craziness that happened over the weekend.
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  No doubt, no doubt, man, that's the best part of a night when
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  you about to pull in and park for the night, man, I know that
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  for sure. No lie.
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  Long days, man. Yeah, yeah.
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  I mean, it's a little bit different.
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  Your truck is a lot bigger than the truck I'm pulling.
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  But park and push your push your feet up, put the brakes on and
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  know you ain't moving for a little bit.
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  Exactly. You know how it is.
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  It's just another day. All right, no doubt we're going
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  to chop it up, man. For sure.
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  We're going to keep it moving. Lewis, man.
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  Welcome to the show, man. How you doing tonight, man?
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  Yeah, well, you're on mute, Lewis.
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  I I think you, you know what? I'm saying I was on the phone
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  before, I didn't want to get the conversation picked up on, but
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  I'm doing good, man. Long weekend, long week.
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  Another long week coming up. Another long weekend, another
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  long week. Next week.
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  It just feels like one constant day rolling into an X at this
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  point, man. It's going to be a last four
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  weeks have been tough and like they think the next 5-6 weeks
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  are just going to be running running the gamut there.
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  Yeah, now I feel you there, man. I, you know, I at the beginning
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  of the season, you know, we were talking, you know what's going
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  to happen and all that. Now, like just part way through
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  it, it's the same thing, man. My, the last 4-5 weeks has been
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  ridiculous. Next weekend it, it just goes.
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  I'm not complaining, but you know, it is.
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  It's like it's nice to pull the truck up and park for the night,
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  get that appreciation because you know what you wake, you know
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  what you got going in front of you.
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  Yeah, this past weekend went by super fast.
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  I had like a, you know, one of those.
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  It's always those last minute waiting for something to arrive
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  from UPS. As soon as it arrives, get in
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  the truck and take a drive to where you have to go do the
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  event. You know, meet the right people,
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  shake the right hands, kiss the right babies, and then pack
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  everything up. Come home, get through the work
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  week and then just kind of keep rolling from one day to the
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  next. Man, it's it's a non-stop roller
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  coaster ride. You know, my, my suitcase stays
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  out. I don't even I don't even put it
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  away. It's just it's crazy.
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  I ain't complaining, man. We, you know, we got a lot to
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  complain about. I don't have a lot to complain
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  about, but we got a lot to talk about on the chill.
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  OK, A lot has has happened and I I don't even know we'll go
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  around a horn and just get an overview guys, What you thoughts
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  and and and I think the first thing I want to touch on is, you
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  know, in the Sprint we don't get to some point, but in the
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  Sprint, should that have been a penalty for Mark when he crashed
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  and then crossed the race line to to to exchange bikes to get
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  into the paddock? But let's go around a horn guys.
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  Let's talk about the weekend. You start with TJ, What you
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  thought, man, You know, watching it, the Sprint, it was a month
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  off. Can't believe it's kind of
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  weird, man. It's weird, you know, having 33
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  rounds and then that that long break.
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  I mean, it wasn't planned, but it happened.
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  So it's nice to have Moto GP back for sure.
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  Yeah, this weekend round was it was, it was really good.
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  You know, didn't expect like the rain to happen.
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  But as a fan, you know, I'd love to see, you know, the flag to
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  flag, the option to jump to another bike.
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  It just makes things exciting and test all the riders limits
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  both sides on dry and wet. So it's just, you know, the
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  first practice that they went out was dry and then, you know,
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  they had the qualifying wet conditions.
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  So made things a little interesting.
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  The Sprint was very crazy, you know, like I think a lot of
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  riders are trying to pull Brad Bender from a couple years ago,
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  but you know, that it, it just didn't happen that way.
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  I think half of the field crashed.
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  And as far as the Mark Marquez, I feel like this guy makes makes
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  makes rules. So he's the guy that set trends
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  to to make a rule. So as long as his bikers
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  running, I thought it was OK, but technically he did pass the
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  pit in. So I don't know.
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  It's it's, it's iffy, but what he did was pretty amazing.
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  We're going, we're going to dive into it more.
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  So don't don't you worry, save save your thoughts there for
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  that, because you know, I we'll, we'll keep it basic 1st and and
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  and get crazy. Reese, man, you know, you're,
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  you're you're muted, but we'll give you some time to get that
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  mute off you. You heard TJ some of the
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  weekend. You know, what are your
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  thoughts, man, about the weekend and, and, and just the craziness
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  of of the riders, the just the rain, you know, even even Moto
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  2, because Moto 2 was all all the classes was Wilding out.
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  I mean, I think you I think you have to if you didn't watch all
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  the classes you really missed out on.
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  You know, you just had the main course.
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  You got to, you got to, you got to have the early warm, as they
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  say in a dance hall. No, I, I actually got a chance
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  to see all of it, man. And it was that was one of the
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  craziest races I've ever seen in before, you know, from Moto 2 to
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  Moto 3 to to even GP. That was just one of the
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  craziest events from the crashes to the people going down, even
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  to to piggyback off of what TJ said, I mean, I would have
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  thought that he would have got the penalty, but apparently he
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  didn't, you know, because if you paid attention, you know, top
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  rack out the penalty for crashing in.
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  And you know, with Jorge Martin got his penalty.
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  So they was handing out the penalties and you know, he never
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  got it. So I don't know if it was
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  because of his hometown or who he is.
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  It's almost, you know, I was saying to a couple people, it's
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  almost like the the Jordan effect, you know what I mean?
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  Like Jordan never got the calls, you know, and here we are with
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  Marquez, he doesn't get the calls.
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  So I mean, I don't know. Yeah, I know.
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  Race Direction was like Oprah. Everyone's getting a penalty.
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  Right. Everybody got a penalty.
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  But then again, is it in the rule books?
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  Because he did cross into pit lane, but it's a you crossed the
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  grass and you went across the track.
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  Yeah, we're going, we're going to dive.
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  We're going to dive into after, after Lewis gets to get his
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  talk. You know, it's what they teach
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  us when you get to the track for your very first time.
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  I mean, if you just, if you just go on that.
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  You know what I'm saying? What's what's going on, Lewis
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  man? What do you think of the weekend
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  Man? I saw nothing wrong.
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  It was a great weekend. I saw no infractions.
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  I don't know what anybody's talking about.
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  I know what this Everybody woke up this weekend looking for
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  infractions. I saw great racing.
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  I saw a lot of fun. I saw some crazy stuff and it
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  made for an exciting show. From Moto 2 to Moto 3 to Moto
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  GP, all the races were exciting. I mean, even the practices were
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  a little bit insane, but the show was great.
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  It was entertaining. It was probably one of the more
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  entertaining weekends. Any time you throw rain into the
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  mix, you're always going to get that wild card effect where that
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  person that's usually finishing in 88th place has the
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  opportunity to finish in the top six or seven and they start
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  doing crazy things because they're getting so close to the
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  podium. So I I enjoyed it.
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  I enjoyed Saturday, I enjoyed Sunday.
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  I honestly, I think the the right rider won on Saturday,
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  right rider won on Sunday. In all the classes I didn't see.
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  Yeah, I didn't see any penalties, bro.
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  And I'm not blind. I just, we'll go into more
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  detail, but I think that a lot of people that are complaining
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  about penalties and this and that don't realize that Mark
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  Marquez reads the rule book constantly and is always finding
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  ways to piss Simon Krafer off. Come.
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  On Did you get Roofie this weekend, man?
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  No, no, no, 100% sober. But I honestly think that Mark
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  Marquez wakes up every morning looking at the rule book, trying
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  to find some way that Gray zone where he's like, I'll make Simon
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  Craifar's life for miserable for fucking me with that penalty at
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  the beginning of the year all. Right.
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  So you got, you got that Reese got the Jordan rule where it's
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  just, you know, and I forget what TJ said, he may have said
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  he might have said something similar.
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  But when we go to our first track day, when we go to race,
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  if we get an accident, right, and if we can get back up and
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  we're safe, get off the track, wait for someone to tell us what
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  to do. And yes, there was.
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  Wait a second. Wait.
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  Wait before you do that. Last time last last week when we
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  waited for a track Marshall to tell us what to do, we ended up
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  getting a not actively competing and got fucked.
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  Right, right, right. Again, the rules don't get
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  applied evenly. Well, this one should have been
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  because he's also passed the pen entry, right?
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  I'm just saying, but I'm just, I'm just I'm.
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  Just we're not reading the rules.
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  I'm I'm going based on what they teach us when we go to pretty
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  much every club racing. Track day.
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  Track day companies don't use the Dorner rule book.
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  What is that? There's no Marshall to tell you
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  don't move. You can do what you want to do.
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  No, no, the rule book did say as long as it's a certain length,
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  pit in. Lane is a certain length so he
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  did pit in. He did not.
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  So the rules are very weird in this one particular area because
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  there's courtesy rules. So obviously at the last moment
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  you're not going to cut across the track to pit in.
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  Like the courtesy rule throughout racing and everywhere
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  else is. Do you know you're going to pit
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  in, you're going to put a hand up or foot out, you're going to
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  get off the racing line and you're going to merge into the
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  pit out lane. That line that's painted there
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  is for reference. That's not a line on the highway
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  that you're not supposed to cross.
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  You can't. Cross that lane, as long as when
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  you get into the pit lane area, you reduce your speed to the 60
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  kilometers an hour. So Mark Marquez wasn't doing
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  more than 60 kilometers an hour when he crossed into pit out.
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  So technically so. So so so so.
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  Let me. Ask you this guy.
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  So next time I changed my mind, I, I should just, you know, pull
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  off to the right, wait for traffic to go and then shoot
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  across the the hot track and go to pit lane.
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  Did you crash? Only if I crashed, that's the.
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  Only if you crash. Only if you crash, and only if
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  you're actually in a race that's making me money.
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  If you crash in a track that you do that, you're going to catch a
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  hot ass whooping in the paddock. I don't think the rule book says
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  only if you crash you could do that.
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  Let's go. Let's go rule by rule, because
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  there's really 4 rules in play here.
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  The first rule is the legal pit entry.
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  How do you legally enter the pit?
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  The only rule for entry in the pit is you can't exceed 60
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  kilometers an hour. Got you.
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  It doesn't say you can't. Let's say I'm going through the
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  pit loop and I lose a little bit of traction and I end up in the
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  grass and I came back into the pit loop.
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  I don't get penalized as long as I don't exceed 60 miles an hour.
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  So if he crosses across the grass to get into the pit in
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  loop, he really didn't. There's no rule that says you
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  can't do that. Suspect.
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  It's suspect. I'm not saying it's not suspect.
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  This is this is the greatest, this is the deepest grade that
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  you can get grade. So like if you're on one side,
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  you can, you can have a good argument.
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  You're on the other side, you can have a good argument.
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  The next rule is, did he do? Was he acting in a dangerous
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  way? Yes.
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  No, because he looked to make sure there was no one coming
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  when he cut across the track. So as long as you look and you
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  make an act like if he just jumped back on a track without
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  looking, that's dangerous. He waited till the pack went by,
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  he saw an opening, and he went across the track.
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  Technically again, Gray area, mad Gray.
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  This is this is that sweater Gray that your girl steals from
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  you every winter. That's that Gray.
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  That Gray hoodie that gets stolen every winter.
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  That's the color we're talking about.
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  Your sweater anymore so it's not even.
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  Not your sweater anymore. Next rule.
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  Did he get any substantial advantage?
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  Yes. How did he get a substantial
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  advantage? He didn't gain any places if.
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  He if he didn't crash, he would have, he would have been around
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  another lap and all those riders that pitted the right way, he
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  would have, he would have missed out on.
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  But here's the thing, he didn't crash after the actual pit
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  entrance. He crashed before the pit
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  entrance. He didn't go backwards and go
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  forwards. He kind of started the bike and
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  went across the track. It was kind of like a he kind of
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  went back. It was kind of like A18/90.
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  Kind of like a less than sign kind.
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  Of he had actually made the corner and passed pit entrance
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  and then gone back and gone into pit entrance.
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  Now it would be an an advantage because you need to complete
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  that lap. You didn't need to, all right,
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  all. Right, so I and the.
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  Last part is interpretation of the rules by the track Stewart
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  and the last thing Simon Crafer wants is the ire.
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  So. So of the entire Spanish country
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  inharez. I know that.
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  Fucking Marcus. Sorry, touch on the Jordan rule
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  because I guess that's the, that's.
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  The Jordan rule. That's the Jordan rule.
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  I mean, you know, you couldn't. Jordan can touch you, but you
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  couldn't touch him. And you know, he could do
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  certain things and you couldn't do it because like Lewis said,
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  he was the one making you, making you money.
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  He was the one selling tickets you know of.
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  His bike not shutting off him like keeping control and I'm
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  able to because like if his bike turned off and he had to like
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  jump start it, I've probably been a different outcome, but.
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  Well, because if your bike shuts off, you need, yeah, your bike
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  shuts off. You got to go behind the wall,
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  right? Right.
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  Yeah, there's not a do not shut off switch that they've all put
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  in since, because since this rule's been in play, there's.
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  No, there's no tip over sensors anymore on any bikes.
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  Saying nobody could turn off anymore.
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  Any of the classes all stay running now.
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  I don't know, just look, like Marcus says.
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  I'm just in the right place at the right time.
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  I'm telling you, it's, it's sometimes he's on the good side
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  of things. Sometimes he's on bad side of
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  things. If you're a Marques fan, you
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  look at this as a positive. You're not a Marques fan.
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  You look at this as a negative. With that said, the same thing
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  that he did at CODA, he, he interprets the rules in a way
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  where he finds the Gray zones and he takes advantage of the
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  Gray zones. He did it at CODA last year.
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  And what did Dorna do? Dorna actually had to implement
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  a new rule to make that Gray zone black and white.
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  And I'm sure after this event, I mean apparently I think already
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  filed the protest. Where they want to define the
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  rules more black and white on what is entering the pit.
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  Where is it that you're actually entering the pit?
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  And if you cross across a solid line or do this and that,
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  technically it's an infraction and you should get either a time
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  penalty or a grid penalty the next race.
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  Yeah, no, I mean, I think, I think, you know, Aprilia has the
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  right to do that because, you know, I think who knows?
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  But from what I can tell, it seems like Aprilia's been
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  playing fair and square and they had a black eye all most of last
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  year until Bizecki started doing well.
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  And they're like this, you know, the, the, the Cinderella right
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  story in a sense. And now you're trying to really
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  squash that story because of your own, you know, doing, for
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  lack of a better word, Ducati. And I got two of them.
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  But you know, I've been complaining about things since
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  last year. Let's let's let's talk about the
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  beginning of the of the, of the race.
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  Let's talk because qualifying and just Friday between the
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  weather, I mean, this is the second round where weather has
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  been huge. Even the weather was in in in
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  Austin a little bit, but definitely in Brazil.
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  And and now we saw saw that, you know, it's good to see Zarko up
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  there qualifying the way he did and fought the way he fought.
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  But let's talk about qualifying, what you guys see and you know,
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  is it just luck that happened or some of these riders just know
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  how to handle changes better? We start with TJ.
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  Well, as far as qualifying or. Qualifying, man.
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  You know what? I'm saying I mean 2.
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  You. Know Friday in general, I guess
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  the Friday. I mean, Friday in general was a
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  was a was a was was, you know, the first practice.
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  Everyone filled it out like the VR 46 guys were looking good,
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  Digi and and Mobideli. But yeah, go lead them into Q1.
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  I mean, it's good to see Zarko come out of Q1 and actually do
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  what he did the weekend. I feel like he was able to hold
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  his own in both conditions. I mean, even Brad Bende, he had
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  a solid weekend. We don't hear his name a lot,
• 22:28
  but I think he was close to top ten each race.
• 22:31
  Believe you know. What?
• 22:33
  I think you're right. I'm going to check.
• 22:35
  I think you're right. Like I think he.
• 22:37
  Yeah, I think you're right there.
• 22:39
  Go ahead. I mean, the Yamahas is still
• 22:42
  struggling, but I mean, going into Q2, I mean, to see, you
• 22:49
  know, Mark, obviously you want to see him win.
• 22:53
  So he, he did what he had to do and it was good to see Digi back
• 22:57
  on his feet. You know, haven't heard his name
• 22:59
  in a in a couple races. So you know, he's been doing a
• 23:03
  lot better, but VR46 and obviously a Prairie has been up
• 23:07
  there and then and Zarko definitely did his thing this
• 23:11
  weekend because I haven't heard his name also.
• 23:13
  So it was good to see a little shake up.
• 23:16
  But the weather conditions definitely put the limits to a
• 23:19
  lot of riders to see what they can do and the Ducatis look good
• 23:24
  in the rain. So but in the dry they still
• 23:28
  struggling. Yeah, they, they, they struggled
• 23:32
  a bit for some for some strange reason.
• 23:35
  Mary, any thoughts on the weekend?
• 23:37
  Was you surprised at, at, at who you were surprised at the
• 23:40
  weekend? Because we will, you know,
• 23:42
  Friday practice and, and Q1 and Q2 because, you know, we talked
• 23:47
  before the weekend and, and now, you know, I, I didn't expect
• 23:51
  Alex Marquez to do what he did, but you know, he found a way on
• 23:55
  Sunday. But what are you, what are your
• 23:56
  thoughts about Friday practice and and Q1 and Q2?
• 23:59
  I mean, I was definitely surprised by Alex.
• 24:01
  Alex was surprising because if you heard in a press conference,
• 24:04
  he didn't think he was going to go back-to-back.
• 24:06
  He was like, there's no way he can do repeat what he did last
• 24:09
  year at her as when he won and now he won again.
• 24:14
  So he didn't think he can do that.
• 24:16
  And you know, coming in to Jerez, he wasn't that he he was
• 24:22
  really nowhere to be found. So him saying that he stopped
• 24:27
  looking at the negatives of the 26 GP and started looking at the
• 24:31
  positives changed his whole mindset.
• 24:33
  It actually helped him out and turned his whole game changing
• 24:36
  around. You know, I was surprised by
• 24:39
  him. I was definitely surprised by Al
• 24:42
  Gora. He actually stepped up and was
• 24:44
  surprisingly fast this weekend. The I was definitely surprised
• 24:50
  at Johann Zarko. There was a couple people I was
• 24:53
  surprised with that actually started pushing along and
• 24:57
  started coming along very fast, so it was actually a surprise.
• 25:02
  Yeah, I, I, I, I agree with you there.
• 25:04
  And I agree. I had, I had them.
• 25:06
  I mean, I know the weather and the, and the changes on Saturday
• 25:09
  conditions definitely kind of screwed some guys who were
• 25:12
  favored. But you know what they say brave
• 25:17
  or something favors the brave or something.
• 25:19
  Lewis, man, what are your thoughts, man?
• 25:22
  Practice and Q1Q2. I mean, for practice, the first
• 25:27
  two practices, I think it, you know, the, the format now is
• 25:32
  really making every single session so important.
• 25:35
  You know, you can't go out in FP1 and FP2 and screw around
• 25:39
  because if you get, if you, if you end up in queue, if you end
• 25:44
  up having to go through Q1 to Q2 because your FP1 and your FP 2
• 25:50
  times kind of relegate you there.
• 25:52
  And then you get some weather conditions to mix in.
• 25:55
  You can miss out on a lot. You can end up really far back
• 25:58
  in the grid and you could have a really bad start or you could
• 26:01
  have a bad grid position, or there's so many things that can
• 26:04
  happen now. And this new format is really
• 26:07
  making Free Practice 1 and Free Practice 2 so important.
• 26:12
  And I don't know if it's for the for the betterment or the
• 26:15
  detriment of the riders because now they can't really play
• 26:18
  around too much for the entire session with settings and so
• 26:22
  forth, because they do have to put in some hot laps to be able
• 26:26
  to get a good time. So, you know, I like the format
• 26:30
  of having Q1 and Q2 because I used to hate having this
• 26:33
  qualifying session where you had 10 rolling roadblocks and 10
• 26:36
  dudes that were like clearly going significantly faster.
• 26:39
  And they have to work their way around this slower traffic and
• 26:42
  it impedes them into bad position sometimes.
• 26:45
  But I also look a little bit at the negative or where if
• 26:48
  somebody has a bad FP1, let's say I go out, I have a
• 26:51
  mechanical FP, one is shot, I have no time, and then I go in
• 26:55
  FP2 and the best I can do is so much because I lost all of FP1.
• 27:00
  Now I'm relegated to having to go through both qualifying
• 27:03
  sessions to try to get up there in the grid.
• 27:05
  And then the, God forbid, you know, there's a rain or
• 27:08
  something during qualifying. Now you know, again, I'm being
• 27:12
  put in even a more difficult position.
• 27:14
  So come to race day, I'm starting from a grid position
• 27:16
  that really I shouldn't be starting from, but I am.
• 27:19
  Right, right. Because.
• 27:19
  Yeah, because on Friday we had Alex Marquez, top of the food
• 27:23
  chain, Diggy Abez, Mark Marquez, Aye, Gura or Gura Bagnaya, Raul,
• 27:32
  You know, there was some, there was some really good top guys
• 27:34
  and then, you know, weather came into play on.
• 27:36
  Saturday and just throws a grenade in there and everybody,
• 27:39
  you know, everybody's all over the place.
• 27:41
  I still, you know, I still think the guys that are really good at
• 27:45
  mixed conditions riding in the dry, riding in the wet, they're
• 27:48
  always going to find their way in the pack to get to the front.
• 27:51
  So that's why anytime you see like rain or mixed conditions,
• 27:54
  it's usually the the usual suspects you you'll see a Mark
• 27:57
  Marquez upfront, you'll see a Johann Zarko upfront, you'll see
• 28:00
  a Bender. You see all these guys that are
• 28:02
  a little bit more proficient in mixed conditions and rain, but
• 28:08
  then if you put it dry, some of those guys are all the way at
• 28:10
  the bottom. Right.
• 28:11
  But in this instance, we didn't see that.
• 28:13
  I was just, you took the words out of my mouth.
• 28:15
  I was going to ask which really, which one of these wet weather
• 28:18
  specialist was the most disappointing because we got
• 28:20
  Marquez, we got Johan, but no one else.
• 28:23
  There's no the Bender wasn't there, Miller wasn't there.
• 28:27
  I know Top Rock is new to Moto GP, but he's still nice in the
• 28:32
  wet. Are you surprised that these
• 28:35
  guys weren't the ones that were rising to the top?
• 28:38
  Like, you know, because you know, you look at Martina, Alex
• 28:41
  and some of these other guys that got got out the queue too.
• 28:47
  It was surprising to not see some of the usual suspects in
• 28:49
  the mixed conditions doing a little bit better.
• 28:52
  I mean, we still had Zarco. We have Marquez, but outside and
• 28:55
  Bender. You know, Bender's always been
• 28:56
  known for being a wet rather specialist and he was up there
• 28:59
  in the Sprint during the rain. Right, right.
• 29:02
  During the race but not in queue.
• 29:03
  Not in queue. Yeah.
• 29:04
  Yeah. But you know, again, the, the,
• 29:07
  the wet weather specialists always find that way and if they
• 29:10
  have the right timing and they're, you know, if it's full
• 29:12
  wet, they're going to get that extra advantage.
• 29:15
  But that's, that's what I enjoy about these mixed condition
• 29:18
  weekends sometimes. Like, I don't want the whole
• 29:20
  weekend to be a washout, but if it rains on Saturday and it's
• 29:22
  dry on Sunday, I kind of like it because you get a Little Mix of
• 29:25
  everything. So, OK, all right, guys, you you
• 29:27
  heard Lewis's take guys on on, you know, the wet weather guys.
• 29:31
  Let's talk about race. Let's print race.
• 29:35
  I mean, with four laps to go and I'm sitting here thinking like,
• 29:41
  all right, they're going to red flag this thing.
• 29:43
  They know where they're going to all of a sudden call flag to
• 29:46
  flag with four laps to go. But they did and I didn't think
• 29:50
  it was going to rain as much as it did, but it did.
• 29:53
  So we'll start with TJ, man. What are your thoughts about
• 29:55
  that? You know, the Sprint race
• 29:57
  overall, because it was crazy in the big end.
• 29:59
  It like, you know, tell me what your thoughts, man, because it
• 30:01
  was the whole thing was wild. Yeah, I might have to go back in
• 30:04
  the Rolodex and I don't know when the last time I seen a flag
• 30:08
  to flag in the Sprint race. I know sprints is kind of new to
• 30:11
  Moto GP, but man, like you said, with four laps to go, it was
• 30:18
  just started drizzling in certain parts of the tracks.
• 30:20
  So you think they've like whoever's in front will have
• 30:24
  time to get around or you know, 'cause it's just 4 laps to go
• 30:27
  that that wasn't the case. People falling left and right.
• 30:30
  And not only that, like I was listening to the intro before
• 30:34
  when I went on the grid, but I missed the part that the rain
• 30:37
  was coming. So I don't know if they
• 30:39
  mentioned that what, 11 laps I think it was.
• 30:43
  They didn't know like that. That is very tricky, you know,
• 30:47
  to try to pull up that wet weather specialist that you have
• 30:50
  in you to to make it fair game because like, you know, full GP
• 30:54
  race, you have time to manage. But before last to go the
• 30:59
  strategies that these teams got to pull out was pretty crazy.
• 31:03
  And I mean, I don't think it was a strategy with Mark Marquez.
• 31:06
  That was just a fortunate situation, but at least Pekko
• 31:10
  got a, you know, dub out of it as well.
• 31:13
  But yeah, it was, it was, it was crazy with four laps to go, how
• 31:15
  they had to switch bikes in. I'm glad they didn't call it
• 31:18
  because, you know, it makes a lot.
• 31:19
  It's really interesting. Yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm glad they
• 31:23
  didn't call it either because we would have missed out on on the
• 31:26
  craziness that happened. Reese, man, what are what are
• 31:28
  your thoughts? You saw it.
• 31:30
  I'm I'm pretty sure you've had a similar situation in Motor
• 31:32
  America. I mean, we haven't had that kind
• 31:35
  of craziness. I mean, normally we get 2/3 and
• 31:37
  they calling it. So we we don't unfortunately
• 31:40
  have a backup bike for, you know, wet weather.
• 31:44
  You know, we have to switch the whole bike to wet set up.
• 31:48
  But I mean, I know they did call it because I think it was like
• 31:53
  right when they were getting ready to the green flag, they
• 31:57
  actually switched to the pit and you can see the crew guys
• 32:00
  bringing the rain bike out and getting it set up and having it
• 32:03
  ready for a flag to flag and just in case it is a flag to
• 32:05
  flag. So I mean, I'm glad they didn't
• 32:10
  call it. It made for one hell of a show.
• 32:13
  So but I mean, 4 laps to go, it was kind of crazy.
• 32:18
  I mean, like you said, it was just did not see some of the
• 32:22
  specialist guys up there, the wet weather specialist.
• 32:24
  You know, I thought Jack would have been up there.
• 32:26
  I thought top rack would have been up there.
• 32:28
  Been there. You know, I'm glad to see Zarko
• 32:32
  and everybody, but I would have loved to see those guys take
• 32:35
  advantage. But it was, it was one of those
• 32:40
  conditions where in the beginning it was wet, but it
• 32:46
  wasn't wet enough for the rain tires because they would have
• 32:49
  got chewed up so bad and they didn't know if it was going to
• 32:51
  rain as heavy. And then it started raining
• 32:54
  really heavy. So it was just a weird
• 32:56
  situation. So if I think if it would have
• 32:58
  started raining real heavy, I think we just saw a different
• 33:00
  kind of outcome with, you know, those guys.
• 33:04
  Right, right, Lewis, man. I mean, Bizecki out Martine out
• 33:09
  Top Rock, Alex Marquez, your boy Mayor Salvador, who was taken
• 33:16
  out by Top Rock, which was I saw that.
• 33:18
  I'm like, bro, you're not stopping that bike.
• 33:24
  What are your thoughts man on the spin race?
• 33:27
  I mean, the Sprint was pretty wild right from the beginning,
• 33:31
  right from Alex Marquez taking his tear off off and getting it
• 33:35
  stuck on her Bazecki's tire. Like it?
• 33:38
  Go ahead. It seems to happen at least once
• 33:40
  a year. Where, you know, they changed
• 33:43
  the rule where you can't take the tear off on once you're in
• 33:47
  the the grid position. And you know, so if you look
• 33:51
  where Alex took it off, he took it off just as he's coming
• 33:53
  around the last corner. So technically he's not in the
• 33:55
  grid position and he just kind of flicks it.
• 33:58
  And for some reason tear offs have this incredible
• 34:01
  gravitational pull to the rear tire of motorcycles because they
• 34:05
  always end up under the rear tires of motorcycles.
• 34:09
  I don't know what the hell it is.
• 34:11
  I don't know if it's the aerodynamics package or what it
• 34:14
  is, but man, as soon as that thing got loose from the upper
• 34:17
  fairing winglet, it literally went straight to the rear tire.
• 34:22
  And so Bazecki's race was going to be shot right from that point
• 34:27
  forward. And when as soon as he started
• 34:28
  to push, it was just a matter of time that he was going to go
• 34:31
  down with the conditions getting worse and mixed conditions and
• 34:34
  everything else. Johan Meer, I mean, I think now
• 34:38
  he is well on his way to establishing a new record for
• 34:42
  total amounts of crashes over like a 24 month period.
• 34:45
  I think he's well into his dude. He's got to be in the 30s of
• 34:52
  crashes in total, maybe even in the 40s, which is insane.
• 34:57
  Alec Marquez, he's usually a little bit better in the rain.
• 35:00
  So I was kind of surprised that he went down.
• 35:02
  But again, I I wasn't really surprised because you could tell
• 35:04
  he's really pushing the issue instead of kind of like letting
• 35:08
  the race come to him. And yeah, the the top rack
• 35:11
  Salvadori crash that that was in the race is the second the
• 35:15
  handlebar touched the ground that was in the race, so.
• 35:18
  Yeah, yeah, I, yeah, I, I thought Alex, he went down
• 35:23
  before going to change tires, right.
• 35:26
  Yeah, yeah. He went down on lap eight.
• 35:27
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 35:28
  He went down before the tire change.
• 35:31
  Thing he stayed a little bit too long.
• 35:33
  Yeah, yeah, he, he pushed it a little bit like he thought I
• 35:36
  was. I could get one more lap out of
• 35:38
  this, maybe get a little bit more room to breathe so I can
• 35:42
  fit. And he got all the room he
• 35:44
  wanted because after that he went to the garage and had a
• 35:47
  sandwich because he wasn't going back in the track.
• 35:49
  Yeah. And, you know, I think, you
• 35:50
  know, Fermin Aldeghir, another guy that waited too long,
• 35:55
  probably Bastionini, some of these guys that wait a little
• 35:58
  bit too long to get out there. But we talked about a little bit
• 36:02
  with Mark. You know, Mark was on point with
• 36:04
  that one, right? And, you know, I mean back now,
• 36:06
  you mean coming from 18th to finish second.
• 36:10
  He led for a couple of laps. There's only a few of us still
• 36:13
  kind of looked up and go. I remember them days.
• 36:18
  I think that might have been only you.
• 36:22
  I don't think from I don't think so.
• 36:24
  But then Mark, Pastor and I remember.
• 36:26
  And then we all said, oh, I remember those days.
• 36:28
  Those days. Those are the more recent days.
• 36:33
  He and Mobindeli got up on the podium.
• 36:35
  Yeah, yeah. What did you guys think of
• 36:38
  Mobindeli? Well, let's talk about the
• 36:39
  Ducati's in the Sprint. What do you think of Mobindeli's
• 36:42
  acceptance speech? And, and, and, and I'm saying
• 36:45
  this trophy goes out to the people that feel like, you know,
• 36:50
  they don't, they don't have a chance.
• 36:54
  He knows it's his last one, but he put it, he put it in a well
• 36:58
  said version. It's just more of to always go
• 37:02
  out there and compete no matter what you do because you never
• 37:05
  know. But in his sake, you know, like
• 37:09
  that's the only way he's going to win.
• 37:10
  But right, there may be something going on there with
• 37:14
  him we don't know about. But anything else you want to
• 37:17
  talk about the Sprint before we talk about the main rest, TJ?
• 37:21
  I mean, it was it was definitely going to be an icon race.
• 37:26
  So we're going to be watching that for years and it's a nice
• 37:29
  short race, but definitely going to have to watch that again
• 37:32
  before the week's over. No, I feel, I feel really good
• 37:36
  for Bender because that's the highest he's gotten in a long
• 37:40
  time. I'll be in the top KTM.
• 37:42
  They got to feel good under those circumstances.
• 37:45
  Yeah. Reese, what are your thoughts on
• 37:47
  over Delhi's talk? And as they say, you know, you
• 37:51
  know when people say you know, well, so and so didn't crash,
• 37:54
  this person would have won, but you got you got to finish,
• 37:56
  right. You got to finish.
• 38:00
  But with his speech, I think it was more of like, I don't know
• 38:04
  what to say. And this is for everyone already
• 38:07
  counting me out. And I already know I'm done
• 38:09
  because he already knows he's done.
• 38:10
  He knows he's not being resigned.
• 38:12
  He knows his days are at, you know, 26 is his last year here
• 38:16
  in the chief here. And he knows he should have been
• 38:18
  gone a long time ago, but for nobody believing in him.
• 38:22
  So he just tried to make the speech work.
• 38:25
  And I'm like, yeah, it's not really working for me, buddy.
• 38:29
  Yeah, I, I, I will go ahead. No, no, no, it was, I'm just
• 38:33
  saying I don't, but you know, for, you know, him winning.
• 38:36
  I mean, it was that was literally the luck of the Irish.
• 38:40
  Yeah. I mean, you know, we could say
• 38:41
  that for a few of them for sure, but you got to you got to be in
• 38:46
  the right place as the right at at the right time.
• 38:48
  You think he'll go to World Super Bike?
• 38:51
  I mean, I believe he will. I mean that's the next stop for
• 38:54
  him. I think, you know, maybe he can
• 38:57
  re energize his career a little bit and do a little bit better
• 39:00
  over there than he does, maybe be better on a production bike
• 39:03
  versus a prototype, you know, right.
• 39:05
  Right, right, right. I hear.
• 39:07
  I hear you there, man. I hear you there, Lewis, man.
• 39:11
  What are your thoughts, man? On on the Sprint, Moby Deli, you
• 39:15
  know. Hey, he might have been.
• 39:19
  I've been rooting for morbidity a long time.
• 39:21
  I had to get off the train because he just kept letting me
• 39:24
  down too much. But I still root for the guy.
• 39:26
  Like I don't wish him any kind of.
• 39:28
  I think with his limited English, this is kind of a way
• 39:33
  of him saying thank you to all my haters, you know, like in his
• 39:39
  own way of saying it, this was really, this goes out to all my
• 39:42
  haters that keep because he was like, you know, for the people
• 39:45
  that keep getting pushed down, he's really talking about
• 39:47
  himself. People keep, you know, kind of
• 39:49
  pushing him down, saying he doesn't belong in the paddock
• 39:51
  this and that. So it's good to see him on the
• 39:55
  podium. It's good to see him
• 39:56
  competitive. Obviously it was in the rain.
• 39:58
  So there's like a little bit of a, you know, I'm not going to
• 40:00
  say a little asterisk, but there's a little half asterisk
• 40:02
  next to it. I would like to see him on the
• 40:05
  podium one or two more times before the end of this year
• 40:07
  because he is one of those guys that's on a chopping block.
• 40:11
  And as sad as it's going to be for him to leave the paddock, I
• 40:14
  think there's another Brazilian there and there's other people
• 40:19
  coming up. So it's not, you know, it's,
• 40:21
  it's almost like, hey, we met our Brazilian quota, it's time
• 40:24
  for you to go. I, I, I, I kind of feel like
• 40:26
  that, you know what I mean? It just, you know, I kind of
• 40:29
  feel like that. But yeah, it is.
• 40:33
  I think he has a point. MOBA Deli has a point when it
• 40:36
  comes to when he was on the factory seat and got injured,
• 40:39
  when he got the VR46 and and started getting those silly
• 40:44
  penalties. I mean, that's all his own
• 40:45
  doing. No way around that part of it.
• 40:49
  And I think a lot of us kind of just kind of say, all right,
• 40:52
  bro, we can't keep singing your song when you keep shooting
• 40:55
  yourself in the foot. I mean, I still think he's one
• 40:59
  of the top 20 fastest guys in the world.
• 41:02
  Oh, for sure. For sure you know like that you
• 41:04
  know this guy can show up pretty much anywhere and if he's on a
• 41:07
  competitive bike, he's probably going to clean up the field
• 41:11
  well. Do I want him to go to world
• 41:12
  super bike? To be honest with you, man, I, I
• 41:14
  would really, there's no incentive for him and there's no
• 41:18
  monetary reason to do it. But it would be great if
• 41:21
  somebody in Moto America, in the paddock that has a competitive
• 41:25
  bike hired him to be in Moto America, to be very honest with
• 41:29
  you. Yeah, no, he's not going to do.
• 41:31
  That, no. But you know what, I think if
• 41:33
  his choices are going back to the CCIV or the Italian
• 41:37
  championship or the Spanish championship, because he did
• 41:40
  come from the Italian championship, yeah.
• 41:41
  He'd probably take Bulliger's feet.
• 41:44
  Or if Bulaga even gets a ride in Moto GP, because I mean, right
• 41:50
  now that's, that's an ongoing fight trying to get Bulaga into
• 41:54
  a seat because this team doesn't want him.
• 41:56
  That team doesn't want him unless they get concessions from
• 41:58
  Ducati. And this, you know, there's a
• 42:00
  lot of moving pieces on trying to get Bulaga into Moto GP.
• 42:04
  OK, OK. But if he if he does get the
• 42:07
  Buluga ride, I think he'll do not as good as Buluga initially,
• 42:11
  but I think he can get up to a Buluga status.
• 42:13
  I think he's that kind of a talent.
• 42:14
  I would say he'd probably be the best Moto GP rider in a long
• 42:18
  time in world Super bike to come in if he if he goes there right,
• 42:23
  Because all those other guys were I, I always compare it to
• 42:27
  Moto 2 because you know, you, you always remember when you
• 42:29
  were kicking somebody's ass and he was doing that all day long
• 42:34
  to everybody. But again, man, if somebody in
• 42:37
  the Motor America paddock has a competitive bike and since
• 42:39
  squeezed together a couple 100 grand to pay him to come out
• 42:42
  here and race, if there's an opportunity for him to make more
• 42:46
  money via bonuses, contingencies and everything else, I honestly
• 42:51
  think if he doesn't get a World super bike ride, that's that
• 42:54
  would be an opportunity. I mean, imagine if he started,
• 42:56
  you know, giving sticky notes to a guy we know that worked for a
• 42:59
  Motor America team that he can just kind of leave every once in
• 43:02
  a while he goes to the track and we might be able to make that
• 43:05
  what happened if we only knew a guy like that.
• 43:07
  We knew a guy. I don't know who y'all talking
• 43:10
  about. I ain't got no guys for y'all.
• 43:13
  I don't think our bill can fit the budget on Crash.
• 43:17
  This penalty is not crashes but. This penalty is not crashes.
• 43:21
  Is is is, you know, how many guys can he punt into the third
• 43:27
  row before mode America starts getting black flagging him?
• 43:32
  I don't think we can front that bill.
• 43:35
  No, I don't I don't know about that.
• 43:36
  We'll see. We wish him well.
• 43:38
  I definitely wish him well and and it's tough when a new one is
• 43:42
  is leaving the, you know, the the top level of any sport.
• 43:47
  But let's talk about the main race guys.
• 43:49
  We saw the silliness, the I, you know, I, I set up earlier all,
• 43:53
  all day for our, our little game we have going on here and stuff
• 43:59
  like that. So after seeing Saturday, I was
• 44:02
  just kind of like a man. I don't, I don't know.
• 44:04
  But they, they definitely look good on Sunday.
• 44:07
  It seemed like to a degree between Ducati and Aprilia, the
• 44:11
  rioters made a difference to where we had the 1234, maybe
• 44:16
  even 5. And we had that many, not that
• 44:18
  many changes, but the two changes in manufacturers.
• 44:20
  We start with TJ Mann. What what what you think on on
• 44:23
  Sunday GP race? No, it was it was definitely an
• 44:28
  exciting start. It's like to see Marco down so
• 44:31
  early, trying to keep up. His brother definitely had a
• 44:35
  faster pace. And I mean, yeah, he just wanted
• 44:38
  to win. But the prey is definitely
• 44:41
  looking good. It was good to see.
• 44:43
  Like, you know, I gore come from the little far back, you know,
• 44:47
  make his way past a couple of riders.
• 44:49
  I mean, like we were talking about Zarko was holding his own,
• 44:52
  but you know, as the race gone on, he kind of slipped back a
• 44:55
  little bit. So, you know, like Martine, Igor
• 44:59
  and Raul, they all, you know, seeing they go past them.
• 45:03
  But yeah, the the Prairie is doing really good.
• 45:06
  The battle is pretty tough between Ducati and the Prairie
• 45:09
  right now, but the Prairie got their their the one step up on
• 45:13
  them and all their riders are doing really well right now.
• 45:17
  So right, right. It it it sounds like it's safe
• 45:21
  to say Alex Marquez is faster than Digia on the Ducati and the
• 45:27
  Zeki's faster than Martine on the on the Aprilia.
• 45:33
  Yeah, I would say, I would say that for sure.
• 45:35
  I mean, you know, you can say certain races someone can be
• 45:38
  faster, but I would say overall I think that Zeki has that biked
• 45:44
  out and Martine's still learning.
• 45:46
  I mean, I think Bazecki's just kind of, you know, obviously
• 45:51
  this rain race, you know, is, is different aspect, but his
• 45:55
  sprints haven't been that great, you know, so, but I think
• 45:59
  overall I think Bazecki's faster and definitely Alex.
• 46:04
  Alex hasn't really shown himself this much this year, but
• 46:08
  hopefully this is a little start.
• 46:11
  We'll see about next round because I know Zarko going in
• 46:14
  the Honda. I know what happened last year
• 46:16
  of mine so we'll see if this helps.
• 46:19
  Zarko where he finished but the Ducati's and pretty is looking
• 46:24
  good right now. Yeah, that's what's up, man.
• 46:28
  I I think that, you know, it, it was pretty interesting to see
• 46:32
  Reese, man. I mean, I've been saying this
• 46:34
  forever. The younger brothers should be
• 46:36
  smashing the older brother in competition because that's how
• 46:39
  it should be. And I saw it this Sunday and I'm
• 46:41
  like, this has to go on for the rest of the season.
• 46:44
  He just going to Alex's finally, I'm stepping out of the shadow
• 46:48
  like Michael Jackson. Was it the pressure of Alex
• 46:52
  Marquez that caused Marc Marquez to crash?
• 46:54
  I can't even believe we'll be saying these things.
• 46:56
  Pressure, but something made them crash.
• 47:01
  I mean, you could say that, but I mean, if you look at the
• 47:03
  replay, look at his front tires and he and I don't even know
• 47:06
  what the heck, the front end just washed away.
• 47:09
  I mean, it's nice to see the younger brother, you know, smash
• 47:12
  the older brother and actually, you know, he's been fast.
• 47:15
  The younger brother was fast all weekend.
• 47:17
  So it was actually nice to see that.
• 47:21
  You know, it goes the same thing with my younger brother.
• 47:23
  You know, I like to see him destroy me in certain things,
• 47:27
  you know, but I don't I don't think it was a pressure with
• 47:31
  Mark. I mean, I think Mark thrives on
• 47:34
  that kind of pressure. You know, I don't even think
• 47:36
  that that actually gets to him at this point.
• 47:39
  You know, at this point, it's like what do you got to prove
• 47:41
  where you know he's he's in accomplish almost everything.
• 47:45
  You know, he's tied with Rossi. You know, he's tied one of the
• 47:48
  greats. He is one of the greats.
• 47:50
  You know, the comeback off of the injury can't go to another
• 47:53
  team and win the championship. I mean, that was a big stab
• 47:57
  right there. So what else do you have to
• 47:59
  accomplish? OK.
• 48:00
  So it's more just kind of like last year in the sense of just
• 48:03
  working out the gremlins in the beginning of the season.
• 48:07
  I think that's what it is. Sorted out because it's as he
• 48:10
  said, it was a mistake on his part because he did something
• 48:13
  different that time around. I think it was.
• 48:16
  I think it was just a dumb mistake.
• 48:20
  Front end washed out and that was it.
• 48:23
  That was the end of that race. No doubt, no doubt.
• 48:28
  Louis, what are your thoughts, man?
• 48:30
  Mark, Alex, Marquette. Back, back.
• 48:32
  I mean, I heard we we all heard him shouting.
• 48:35
  Alex, Alex, Alex. It's.
• 48:39
  It's the home round, half a second man.
• 48:41
  You know I always tell you and you're in your home round, you
• 48:44
  always find that little bit extra speed.
• 48:45
  Where is that speed the last 3-4 rounds?
• 48:49
  In this case though, I mean, there's a lot of Spaniards, man.
• 48:51
  He was only fast one. He he was, but he, you know, he
• 48:55
  was significantly faster. So you know, maybe he had a
• 49:00
  three quarter or one second home track advantage.
• 49:03
  Either way, like he did his job. He went out there, he did what
• 49:06
  he had to do. Now let's see if he can go back
• 49:08
  to being the Alex Marquez of last year that does doesn't have
• 49:12
  A1 flash weekend, but has this consistent pace where he's
• 49:15
  constantly in the top three, the top 4, you know, every weekend,
• 49:19
  week out, even throughout all the sessions, FP1FP2 qualifying.
• 49:24
  If he can kind of get back to that consistency level, like
• 49:27
  that's where we want to see him because last year that's where
• 49:32
  he was for 80% of the season. It's just after the summer break
• 49:36
  last year that he kind of really fell apart and started having a
• 49:39
  lot of problems. And you know, hopefully he got
• 49:43
  everything together. He's starting to figure out how
• 49:45
  to ride the bike with the, you know, accenting and using the
• 49:49
  positives and kind of understanding the negatives and
• 49:52
  getting the most out of the positives and minimizing the
• 49:56
  negatives. If he can do that, I think he's
• 49:58
  got a great opportunity. You know, he's one of those
• 50:00
  guys. He's one of those guys that we
• 50:02
  expect to be up there after last year.
• 50:03
  I don't expect this guy to finish outside of the top five
• 50:07
  at the end of the year. I agree.
• 50:09
  So, you know, now's the time for me or maybe sometimes you need
• 50:13
  some of these guys need to that European reset.
• 50:15
  They go to Europe, all of a sudden they're back at tracks.
• 50:18
  They like they're back at tracks.
• 50:19
  They know they're able to use some data that they've used in
• 50:22
  the past. They understand how these tracks
• 50:23
  layout. You know, at Aragon, he's
• 50:26
  usually very, very fast as well as well as a couple of other
• 50:29
  tracks in Europe. So let's see how everything goes
• 50:32
  throughout the European rounds. And once we leave the European
• 50:35
  rounds, that's when I think we get a little bit more clarity
• 50:39
  into what the season actually looks like.
• 50:41
  You know, you start this season not on Europe, you start the
• 50:46
  season in South America. You come to the US, you're
• 50:48
  traveling across the globe. You know, different time area,
• 50:52
  different time changes. You don't have your home fans,
• 50:55
  you don't have your family. Let's see what happens now that
• 50:58
  they're in Europe, now that everybody's on level footing and
• 51:02
  let's, you know, almost like a reset to the year.
• 51:04
  The first three races of the year were kind of like a warm up
• 51:08
  and now it's like the season's actually starting.
• 51:10
  All right. I don't like how that sound for
• 51:12
  the people who, but I'll, I'll let that slide.
• 51:16
  Let's talk about Ducati a little bit.
• 51:20
  We got Grassini 2026, we got VR462026 out shining the factory
• 51:27
  guys. What's up with that?
• 51:29
  We heard about the beef beginning, you know, between
• 51:32
  Gracie VR46 as far as who should be get and what.
• 51:36
  I mean, you know, they seem to have a leg to stand up to say,
• 51:40
  hey, maybe we should get 4 bikes next year because you know,
• 51:43
  we're beating you guys. Well, your thoughts on on that
• 51:46
  TJ? Is it too soon to even make
• 51:48
  noise? But like we got satellite guys,
• 51:51
  satellite teams, privateer teams, that's outshining the the
• 51:56
  factory teams. Yeah.
• 51:59
  I mean, I don't know how unusual this is.
• 52:01
  Usually the factory is always the one setting the example, but
• 52:05
  I think it's too early to panic. It's good to see that the
• 52:09
  satellite teams are doing well, but obviously the factory wants
• 52:12
  to, you know, be on top. I just think they're trying to
• 52:16
  figure something out. I think they're I think they're
• 52:20
  almost panicking because they could just see how strong a
• 52:23
  Pereira is. So, but I don't think it's AII
• 52:29
  think if if another couple of races go by and the satellite
• 52:32
  teams definitely, you know, hand it to the factories, then I
• 52:36
  think they don't have to worry. I don't think they have.
• 52:40
  To pay with you right. All right, Reese, man, listen to
• 52:42
  me. We're used to tasting that
• 52:43
  Prosecco, man. Now all of a sudden you're
• 52:45
  watching, you know, the the people that get parts after you
• 52:49
  just starting to drink the Prosecco.
• 52:51
  Got to kind of sting a little bit.
• 52:54
  You you agree with TJ as far as no need to worry they'll Ducati
• 52:58
  will figure it out or this is just kind of where we're at
• 53:01
  where tech, tech and and crews are able to compete with the
• 53:06
  factory guys. Oh yeah, I mean, it's definitely
• 53:09
  an inside rival. I mean, between the Satellite
• 53:12
  and the Factory boys, there's definitely a little bit of a
• 53:14
  rival because it happens even in our series.
• 53:18
  You definitely want to outshine them and beat them.
• 53:21
  So it definitely stings when you see them up there and none of
• 53:25
  your guys are there. So yeah, that definitely hurts.
• 53:28
  But as far as hitting the panic button, no, still too, way too
• 53:32
  early. You still got what I think 16.
• 53:35
  Some of it's still too many races left to be hitting the
• 53:38
  panic button just yet. And I think that when I just
• 53:42
  checked today with Mark is sitting 44 points out from
• 53:45
  first. So, I mean, you still got plenty
• 53:49
  of time, huh? You got plenty of time.
• 53:52
  Yeah, you got plenty of time. I mean, you still got Sprint
• 53:55
  races between Sprint and, you know, Sunday's race, you know,
• 53:59
  you still got plenty of time and it's only going to take just
• 54:03
  that one DNF to put you back up top.
• 54:06
  Yep, No, I I hear that. I hear that, Lewis, man.
• 54:10
  What are your thoughts, man? That all of a sudden parts start
• 54:12
  showing up late at Gracina NBA 40.
• 54:14
  You told me it's going to be here yesterday.
• 54:19
  I would not be surprised if chains start breaking all of a
• 54:22
  sudden. No man, it's still.
• 54:27
  It's still. We're we're 4 rounds into a 20
• 54:30
  round season. It's still too early to hit the
• 54:33
  emergency panic button. I mean, yeah, you want to see
• 54:35
  some results sooner than later, but it's still a little too
• 54:38
  early to hit the the panic button.
• 54:40
  We don't know what's going to happen as the season goes out.
• 54:43
  We don't know what, you know, God forbid injuries are going to
• 54:46
  pop up, what other technical issues are going to happen?
• 54:49
  I mean, there's still a lot of season to go.
• 54:51
  I still have the top seven guys in my list are still the top
• 54:56
  seven guys that I think are going to be there at the end of
• 54:58
  the season. You know that I don't think the
• 55:00
  names are going to be different. Maybe this the order will be
• 55:02
  different than I expected, but I think the top seven guys are
• 55:06
  going to be the top seven guys. I, you know, it's what the
• 55:12
  interesting part about this year is going to be is a lot of the
• 55:16
  teams are almost nobody has really released where they're
• 55:19
  going yet. A lot of guys have signed
• 55:21
  contracts and outside of one or two things that have leaked
• 55:23
  because riders are really pissed that they didn't get a ride.
• 55:27
  So you can. Stay right on air.
• 55:29
  They drop names like Dime dropping Yo don't come Yo.
• 55:34
  I'm telling you right now, do not rob a bank with Alex Renz.
• 55:38
  He is a dime dropper. They just say, but go ahead.
• 55:44
  They don't even have to say who did it.
• 55:46
  He'd be like, look, here's their phone number and address.
• 55:48
  You can go get them right now. I got him on camera.
• 55:52
  I took a picture of something. But you know, I think there's
• 55:58
  going to be once that next shoe drops, and I think it's going to
• 56:02
  drop once Dorna and the teams and Liberty finish their
• 56:07
  contracts, once their contracts as an organizational level are
• 56:10
  done, then you're going to see the team contracts.
• 56:13
  And once you see the team contracts, you might actually
• 56:16
  start to see some guys drop. Because if you're not going to
• 56:19
  be here next year, you ain't going to get the newest part.
• 56:21
  It's going to be like, hey, give Bazecki that really shiny new
• 56:25
  part and give that worn out shitty part to good old Jorge
• 56:29
  Martin. Because.
• 56:31
  He ain't going to be on his bike next year.
• 56:33
  Which is which which is, you know, it's it's it's the name of
• 56:36
  the game. So I mean I there's nothing that
• 56:38
  we can do about that part of it. What did you guys think?
• 56:42
  I mean, again, you know Didya and well, Didya is doing
• 56:46
  phenomenal, right? Because that's somebody who I
• 56:48
  didn't think we would be saying his name.
• 56:50
  We said he was struggling last year along with Morbidelli and
• 56:54
  we said it was one of those riders that may have to kind of
• 56:56
  save himself, but it looks like he might have a job next year
• 57:00
  the way he's been riding this season so far.
• 57:01
  So I was expecting Martine to be a bigger stand out, which he is.
• 57:05
  He's standing out, but Digit is doing it quietly and and, and
• 57:09
  doing it in a way where he's the top Ducati.
• 57:12
  So Martine can't even say that on Aprilia.
• 57:14
  What are your thoughts on what Digit is doing TJ?
• 57:19
  He's doing really well. I mean, what was it Turmos when
• 57:24
  he was fighting with Mark going back and forth?
• 57:28
  So he's been front running probably half of this season,
• 57:33
  but I think he's been doing really well.
• 57:36
  And I I agree with you, he's been very quiet about it, but
• 57:41
  hopefully we we keep seeing his name and him being the least top
• 57:45
  five because he definitely from his path.
• 57:49
  I think he definitely deserves it and I just, I just think he's
• 57:54
  going really well as far as starting the season.
• 57:57
  Yeah, no doubt, no doubt. Needs to be on the podium.
• 58:01
  Yeah, I agree. I agree.
• 58:02
  I mean, I, I if, if, if any guy in Ducati, I want to see when
• 58:05
  it's him because he has, I mean, he he didn't have the same
• 58:08
  luxury as a lot of these other guys coming into Moto GP and he
• 58:11
  had to earn his spot. It continue to earn it.
• 58:13
  I'm not to say they all don't, but some of these guys, you
• 58:16
  know, get enough credits that they can burn.
• 58:19
  They can burn a little bit of credit before they lose this
• 58:21
  spot. Well, the bird.
• 58:24
  What are your thoughts on Aprilia Reeves?
• 58:27
  I mean, Fernandez is, I mean, and we we all kind of know that
• 58:30
  Iagura looks to be leaving. So I mean, it looks like
• 58:35
  Fernandez is trying to be, you know, the number 3.
• 58:37
  Aprilia, what are your thoughts on what Fernandez and Agura is
• 58:41
  doing and and even Martine? Who the hell would have saw
• 58:46
  Fernandez coming that strong? Right.
• 58:49
  Like I've never in my life would have saw him.
• 58:52
  I thought he was a back marker but.
• 58:57
  Yeah. Yeah, but I mean, he's pulled
• 59:00
  out strong. I mean, he's trying to prove a
• 59:02
  point. Al Gora is still proving a
• 59:04
  point. I mean, he he passed Fernandez.
• 59:07
  He he he went up there and he was on a move on a charge.
• 59:13
  So I didn't see him leaving. I didn't think he would have.
• 59:18
  I thought he would have stayed, right?
• 59:20
  But apparently he wants to leave.
• 59:23
  I mean, as Lewis would tell you. I mean, it's something about
• 59:28
  that factory money and just sitting in that factory seat and
• 59:33
  getting every bit of little perk that everybody wants.
• 59:37
  Right, there's. Something about it.
• 59:39
  Must be man, because I mean, look, well, you know, Honda
• 59:43
  wanted him initially. He said, Nah, man, I don't want
• 59:46
  that ride went to Aprilia. Like he, he would have had a
• 59:50
  home at Aprilia for a long time and maybe even had a shot at a
• 59:53
  factory seat at Aprilia. I mean, I guess if Bagnaya is
• 59:56
  signing four year deals and and so is Bazecki, then I mean I
• 1:00:02
  guess you ain't got no choice but to go to to to Yamaha.
• 1:00:06
  I mean, you're right. I mean with those guys signing
• 1:00:09
  the factory deals already or you know, Bazecki signing a factory
• 1:00:13
  deal and so far as Bagnaya just hasn't been announced, you know,
• 1:00:18
  that could have set them off and said, you know, listen, I want a
• 1:00:20
  factory seat. They're going to offer me a
• 1:00:22
  factory seat. I'm out of here, you know, and
• 1:00:25
  you know, a lot of guys are saying about, you know, why
• 1:00:28
  Yamaha and like, but you know, again, as I said it before,
• 1:00:31
  we're going into a whole new era and no one knows what the heck
• 1:00:34
  anybody's going to do. So it's kind of everybody
• 1:00:36
  starting out on a blank canvas. Right, right.
• 1:00:39
  So, you know, you look at Lewis over here shaking his head, but
• 1:00:42
  it's about as blank as his head, you know?
• 1:00:47
  What are what are your thoughts Lewis, on that man?
• 1:00:50
  Should he have stayed? Should he have gone?
• 1:00:52
  I guess we'll be able to answer it at the end of next season.
• 1:00:56
  But I mean the the he's riding like he deserve a factory seat,
• 1:01:01
  it's fair to say. Yeah, he is, But you know,
• 1:01:04
  there's only so many factory seats.
• 1:01:06
  So if you get an opportunity for a factory seat, even if it's not
• 1:01:10
  on the best bike, sometimes you got to take and gamble on
• 1:01:15
  yourself and hope that your talent can at least make you the
• 1:01:19
  best at the worst bike. You know, look at Quadraro.
• 1:01:24
  Everybody wants Quadraro even though he's on the worst bike
• 1:01:27
  because they still know he's the best guy on the worst bike.
• 1:01:30
  If you put him on a good bike, he's going to be a significantly
• 1:01:33
  better. So if if you know where you're
• 1:01:36
  at now, you have 0 opportunity to get a factory ride for
• 1:01:40
  possibly 2-3 or four years, you already got to start thinking
• 1:01:45
  about your future. Man, do I really want to stay on
• 1:01:47
  this satellite bike, even though it's a competitive bike for
• 1:01:51
  another two years, making 30% of what I'd make if I went to a
• 1:01:55
  factory team today. Right, right.
• 1:01:58
  So it's not a popcorn. Yeah, man.
• 1:02:01
  A little bit. He might be the first Japanese
• 1:02:03
  rider on a Yamaha factory seat in a long time.
• 1:02:07
  Let's just say Yamaha bike in a long time.
• 1:02:09
  I don't even remember when there was the last time.
• 1:02:11
  Damn, when was the last time there was a Yamaha Moto GPI?
• 1:02:17
  Think little Redmond, somebody on a Cowie when Cowie was still
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  in GP before, before what's his, what's his name that used to run
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  America. Hopkins left and went to Yamaha
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  who was on it before him. I think it was a, a Japanese
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  writer that was on it. But no, there was a Yamaha.
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  There was a guy, I think there was a guy on on, on on Yamaha
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  too, but he might not have been on the factory seat unless it
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  was on the Camel. But someone in the Yamaha was
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  Camel. They had the, the camel paint.
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  So it might, it was a, it was a minute ago.
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  So that that'd be pretty impressive for next season.
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  Let's talk like before we get out of here.
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  It looks like the last one or full time rider, not the last
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  full time rider was Noriyukiabe. Yeah, 2004, man.
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  Yeah, it's a great first year for the thousands.
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  What was that, 2002? I, I, I forget something.
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  This is something it was a long time we got, it was a long time
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  ago. It was a 2A, was still in TJ.
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  Was still in TJ was still in diapers.
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  And we did. We did rewatch our history over
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  it was I think it was 2203. No, because Hayden came in in O
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  4, right? Yeah, yeah.
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  Yeah. So I think it was already just a
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  thousands then. Yeah, so.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think it was.
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  I think it was O2. I think, I think, I think it
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  would be good for Yamaha to have a Japanese rider and, and, and
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  to be honest with you, I mean, Agura is a quality rider.
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  I think, I think he's a guy that you can keep on your team for a
• 1:04:02
  very long time. You can grow a team around him.
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  And if he's on the right bike, I mean, who knows, man, He might
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  be the first Japanese Moto GP champion in a long time.
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  If Yamaha can actually put a package together, that's going
• 1:04:15
  to be competitive. It's it's it's also fair to say
• 1:04:19
  he's one of the most consistent guys, but since Pedro Acosta in
• 1:04:23
  a long time has come up the ranks from Moto 3 to Moto 2 to.
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  GPI don't know if anybody else saw it, but this was horrible to
• 1:04:31
  get where Juan Mirror had a double lap penalty.
• 1:04:35
  Yeah, that's at least 5 to 8 seconds.
• 1:04:38
  Yeah, where you still caught up to the Yamaha guys and passed
• 1:04:45
  them and was catching Quadraro. I was like, yeah, this is bad.
• 1:04:51
  I don't know exactly what Quadraro had said, but I know he
• 1:04:54
  said something where he wasn't too happy.
• 1:04:57
  When I. Think, he said.
• 1:05:01
  I don't know the exact quote but I know he made a quote where he
• 1:05:05
  was like. Fuck this.
• 1:05:10
  Fucking bullshit. It's no.
• 1:05:17
  Fun hanging out at the back. So I mean, you're going to look
• 1:05:21
  at it all Yamaha guys, it was all three were the last guys
• 1:05:26
  besides caught the rail up in a little bit like couple more
• 1:05:29
  space up, but all three of them were the last three guys.
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  That's horrible. Are they just trying to get just
• 1:05:36
  as much practice time as possible so they can work on the
• 1:05:38
  8:50 just tanking it? I'm, well, I'm just, I'm that's
• 1:05:41
  what I'm wondering. I mean, isn't there like, isn't
• 1:05:44
  there a rule if you were that bad?
• 1:05:46
  It's almost like in the NFL when you throw the last couple of
• 1:05:49
  games to get the first round pick, if they do bad enough, do
• 1:05:52
  they get more concessions from Dorna next year to maybe do more
• 1:05:56
  testing or something? Because, I mean, that's what
• 1:05:59
  it's looking like right now, man.
• 1:06:01
  They're like, they're just tanking.
• 1:06:02
  They're like it's a tank job. Did they?
• 1:06:05
  Ever use the same engine? Just throw.
• 1:06:07
  Just throw the engine they got into the new bike because it
• 1:06:09
  seemed like the 856 is down. Well, I mean, you know, listen,
• 1:06:15
  let's let's, let's, let's, let's.
• 1:06:16
  This is a show. We should at least somewhat be
• 1:06:19
  analytical. When KTM came out, KTM, they
• 1:06:22
  were pretty bad too when they first came to Moto GP.
• 1:06:24
  Took them a while to sort it out.
• 1:06:27
  I mean, this is Yamaha's first year on the V4.
• 1:06:29
  Let's, let's, let's, let's make fun of them after year 3.
• 1:06:33
  They've been in Moto GP GP forever and they they won the
• 1:06:39
  shit box forever. They were a very very
• 1:06:42
  competitive bike. Them and Honda have the same
• 1:06:44
  curve. They were super competitive
• 1:06:45
  until they weren't competitive and now the neither one is
• 1:06:47
  competitive and Honda is actually becoming competitive.
• 1:06:51
  But Yamaha is still way behind the curve man.
• 1:06:54
  Like way like. They shouldn't be that far
• 1:06:56
  behind the curve is my feeling. OK.
• 1:06:59
  Right. But it's everybody's turn.
• 1:07:00
  Everybody has their shit box, as Lewis will say, time in a shit
• 1:07:04
  box and then the next, you know, couple years they'll end up
• 1:07:09
  coming up and then taking over. So it's everybody's turn to have
• 1:07:13
  a shit box because they Ducati wasn't doing nothing for a
• 1:07:17
  while. And then they all of a sudden,
• 1:07:20
  soon Gigi appears. Here they come.
• 1:07:22
  Right, all right, all right. Well, I I so go ahead.
• 1:07:28
  Aprilia was a shit box when it first came out.
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  That's what I'm saying. So we so it's like, you know,
• 1:07:35
  the, you know, changes, you know, Yamaha has been around
• 1:07:39
  forever. So you know, the, the, the, the
• 1:07:41
  fleet is the fleet line is harder to turn around when
• 1:07:45
  you're that big, it's hard to be that nimble and stuff like that.
• 1:07:48
  So should we at least give them, you know, the grace of at least
• 1:07:51
  a year or they should sort it out a lot quicker like Honda?
• 1:07:57
  I mean, they've had quite a few years now where they've been
• 1:08:01
  significantly far back and not coming forward.
• 1:08:04
  When you bring facts like that, Lewis, you.
• 1:08:05
  Know, I think, I think the problem is sometimes the factory
• 1:08:09
  teams, these factory teams take too long to move pieces around.
• 1:08:17
  You know, they keep the team managers a little too long.
• 1:08:20
  They keep the lead engineers a little too long.
• 1:08:23
  They keep certain pieces a little too long.
• 1:08:26
  And, and, and one of the things you have to learn is sometimes
• 1:08:30
  you got to, you know, you got to change the pieces up, You know,
• 1:08:33
  you got to change the general manager, you got to change the
• 1:08:35
  head coach, you got to change the offensive coordinator.
• 1:08:39
  If if you're year after year you're seeing a slow decline,
• 1:08:43
  somebody above the racing manager at Yamaha should have
• 1:08:46
  told Lynn Jarvis, hey, it's time Lynn, it's time for you to go.
• 1:08:50
  Right, right. So you're saying they're no
• 1:08:51
  longer the Spurs or the Steelers?
• 1:08:56
  Right now they're the the New York Jets.
• 1:09:00
  I mean, man, that's bad. But no, no, no, they're I, I'll
• 1:09:05
  give you a better example. They're the Cowboys.
• 1:09:08
  They're the Jerry Jones that refuses to realize that he sucks
• 1:09:11
  at being a general manager and keeps getting shitty ass players
• 1:09:15
  and then keeps wondering why he doesn't win a championship.
• 1:09:17
  That's that's where they are. All right.
• 1:09:21
  Hey, Louis, you just threw us down the box.
• 1:09:23
  Lynn Jarvis is the Jerry Jones of Yamaha.
• 1:09:27
  He left. He left, though he.
• 1:09:29
  Left too late? Listen if Jerry has still there,
• 1:09:34
  so at least he left before Jerry.
• 1:09:35
  At least he left before the entire team just collapsed.
• 1:09:39
  Hey, hey, listen. That Yamaha will be much better
• 1:09:42
  than where they are right now. Like especially how many races
• 1:09:44
  we're in. They're still all at the bottom,
• 1:09:47
  pretty much. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:09:48
  Hey, all I can say is on this side we doing very well.
• 1:09:51
  That's all I can say on this side of the the box.
• 1:09:55
  Yeah, but you're, you're in super bike.
• 1:10:00
  Outside of Ducati, nobody's putting money into super bikes.
• 1:10:03
  So even if you roll out a 20 year old R1, it's still because
• 1:10:08
  ain't nobody. Else.
• 1:10:10
  Cutting the edge that much sharper.
• 1:10:12
  BMW and BMW and Ducati are the only two companies are actively
• 1:10:16
  putting a lot of money into developing a liter bike for the
• 1:10:20
  street. Yamaha and Suzuki and Honda and
• 1:10:24
  Kawasaki keep rolling out their tired ass packages year after
• 1:10:27
  year with bold new graphics and it's the same.
• 1:10:30
  Shit I bought. 10 years ago. Hey man, just.
• 1:10:34
  Happens to be that you guys keep improving the ship box just
• 1:10:38
  enough to stay competitive with these newer bikes.
• 1:10:42
  It's all we got to do, man. My man Vin Diesel said it best.
• 1:10:50
  Don't matter if you win by inch or a mile, winning's winning
• 1:10:54
  shit. Well, on that nose, guys, let's
• 1:10:59
  get out of here. William Israel, 45 is to be
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• 1:11:05
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