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Le Mans = Chaos! MotoGP Pit Talk · Pit Talk

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  Speaker 1: A Frenchman has won the French Grand Prix for the
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  Speaker 1: first time and can you believe it's seventy one years,
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  Speaker 1: the last time being nineteen fifty four. But the headlines
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  Speaker 1: don't stop there. We had crashes, long lap penalties, last
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  Speaker 1: minute bike swaps. It was absolute mayhem, to put it
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  Speaker 1: kindly or politely in Lamon, and it all unfolded in
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  Speaker 1: front of a record breaking crowd of three hundred and
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  Speaker 1: eleven thousand screaming fans. The rain may have fallen, but
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  Speaker 1: this French Grand Prix was anything but predictable. It defied expectations,
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  Speaker 1: shattered records and delivered a storyline no one could have
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  Speaker 1: written better. This was a Moto GP race for the ages.
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  Speaker 1: But guys, welcome back to Pit Talk podcast, brought to
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  Speaker 1: you by Shannons. I'm your host Rinita vmullin, and joining
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  Speaker 1: me as always is Fox Motorsport editor Matt Clayton. Matt,
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  Speaker 1: no funny intros this time, because the race gave us
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  Speaker 1: everything and more. My first question to you, have you
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  Speaker 1: caught your breath after that absolutely chaotic race.
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  Speaker 2: If this podcast was an emoji, it would literally just
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  Speaker 2: be the shoulder shrug, hands up emoji, like what an
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  Speaker 2: earth did we just watch on Sunday night here in Australia.
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  Speaker 2: And we're going to delve into a million things in
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  Speaker 2: this podcast today, but I've got to say, when a
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  Speaker 2: nea Pastinini has had twice the number of long lap
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  Speaker 2: penalties as I've had hours of sleep in the past
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  Speaker 2: forty eight hours, probably not a great equation, and you
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't whatevery grand prix to be like this, but my goodness,
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  Speaker 2: there was that much going on. And the thing we
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  Speaker 2: just laughed about it before we hit record here. When
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  Speaker 2: you're in the media space doing one of these races,
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  Speaker 2: you receive a notification for every time there's a race
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  Speaker 2: direction message, someone into the pits, someone crashes, there's a
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  Speaker 2: long lap penalty, what have you. The previous race in
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  Speaker 2: Spain had ten of those. Last night's race had one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and sixty individual directions from race direction during the race,
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  Speaker 2: because every two seconds there was something completely nutty happening.
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  Speaker 2: And if we scratched five percent of the next however
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  Speaker 2: long we're going to be on this podcast, will be
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  Speaker 2: doing well. Because I don't even know where we start
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  Speaker 2: with this.
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  Speaker 1: I'm thinking let's start back Saturday before the sprint. Let's
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  Speaker 1: go to qualifying. Because Fabio Correro managed to pull out
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  Speaker 1: a lap once again from I do not know where
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  Speaker 1: on his Yamaha. It seems like Fabio, being in front
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  Speaker 1: of his home crowd, has just got this extra bruster
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  Speaker 1: confidence from that podium that he had last weekend or
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  Speaker 1: last race back in her eth. So starting off that
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  Speaker 1: you thought Mark Marquez He's going to be on fire,
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  Speaker 1: like Chris spoke about in the last part when we
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  Speaker 1: had him. Then all of a sudden, Fabio is like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: here we go. Fabio seems to have found something and
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  Speaker 1: Pacubannay is still just struggling all weekend or Friday and
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  Speaker 1: early Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny, like I'm getting sort of twenty nineteen
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  Speaker 2: Fabio vibes again when he first came into Moto GP
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  Speaker 2: and you're like, who is this guy? Why is he
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  Speaker 2: so fast over one lap? And it was never sustainable.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, obviously it became sustainable because he became a
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  Speaker 2: world champion and a front runner, but it's kind of
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  Speaker 2: it's like, you know, a retro feel of Moto GP.
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  Speaker 2: It's like going back to the good old day's like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: it's so nice to see Fabio up the front because
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  Speaker 2: there's a certain energy I think with his personality and
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  Speaker 2: the way he rides, and the fact that it's someone
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  Speaker 2: getting in there and sort of bloodying the nose of
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  Speaker 2: the decaddies because we know the Dcaddies are the superior
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  Speaker 2: bike and we saw it in the sprees. He did
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  Speaker 2: everyth he think that he could, but three better bikes
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  Speaker 2: passed him to get on the podium in the sprint,
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  Speaker 2: but over one lap at the moment, and he's not
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  Speaker 2: able to do it every lap, But when the clock's
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  Speaker 2: ticking down in Q two, he just finds something and
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  Speaker 2: there's you. You mentioned the home crowd. I mean, it
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  Speaker 2: makes no sense that a home crowd can give you
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  Speaker 2: a tenth of a second here or a tenth of
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  Speaker 2: a second there. But they willed him to that pole position.
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  Speaker 2: You could feel that as you were watching it. And
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  Speaker 2: the response I mean, that crowd there as the best
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  Speaker 2: of times is fantastic. But the response and seeing a
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  Speaker 2: guy who's an underdog in this situation putting that thing
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  Speaker 2: on pole against the might of all these decadies was
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  Speaker 2: fantastic TV. And yeah, the sprint was interesting on the Saturday,
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  Speaker 2: but it wetted our appetite for the Sunday because we
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  Speaker 2: talked about this on the preview pod last week. The
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  Speaker 2: thing with Lamont, it's going to rain at some point,
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  Speaker 2: you just don't know when. And the fact that we
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  Speaker 2: got through Friday and Saturday and the weather was fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: I'm thinking to myself, oh boy, we know what's coming
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  Speaker 2: on Sunday. And yeah, I think it was going to
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  Speaker 2: be an interesting race regardless. But add a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of water and equals chaos at Lamon and this Onmu
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  Speaker 2: was no exception.
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  Speaker 1: Lamont's equals chaos. I think that's going to be the
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  Speaker 1: title for this pod because it's the easiest way to
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  Speaker 1: describe it. I think looking at the results from the sprint,
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  Speaker 1: we know Mark Marquez became the first writer to win
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  Speaker 1: six consecutive sprints. So he's now known as a mister Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: and he's very adamant that he does not want to
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  Speaker 1: be known as mister Saturday. He wants to be known
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  Speaker 1: as mister Sunday. But Furman Aldiger, the rookie for Grissini,
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  Speaker 1: Now he got on the podium in Saturday Sprint, and
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  Speaker 1: we'll talk about Sunday as well. But I think I
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  Speaker 1: spoke about it in our last pod. I really feel
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  Speaker 1: Furman was going to get on the podium. He was due.
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  Speaker 1: We could see that momentum building up. And for a
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  Speaker 1: rookie round six and he's already on the podium. That's
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  Speaker 1: got to be phenomenal for him and Grassini and you Caddy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think the thing with him now is
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  Speaker 2: that it's not a surprise when you see him up
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  Speaker 2: there like a few rounds ago, like, okay, this is
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  Speaker 2: a bit of an outlier, but this you go back
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  Speaker 2: to probably a couple of rounds. I mean you're in
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  Speaker 2: Katar for a round four. That was the first time
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  Speaker 2: he looked super legit up inside the top six and
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  Speaker 2: moving forward before it was like there's five decadies going well,
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  Speaker 2: oh and Aldegaerez at the bottom end of Q two
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  Speaker 2: or he's out in Q one. He's got up to
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  Speaker 2: speed really quickly. And look, we know the GP twenty
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  Speaker 2: four is perhaps the best Monor GP bike there's ever been.
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  Speaker 2: It's clearly a great bike. But I've been impressed that
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  Speaker 2: he's not done the stupid, dumb twenty year old rookie
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  Speaker 2: things at all. Twenty year old rookies do because they're
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  Speaker 2: so inexperienced. He's still very young in his World Championship career.
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  Speaker 2: He's not like someone like a guru who's got a
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  Speaker 2: few more years behind him. I'm just super impressed at
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  Speaker 2: how fast he's got up to speed. And look, he's
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  Speaker 2: going to be a problem for the rest of the
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  Speaker 2: year for these guys. There's not a week link in
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  Speaker 2: that Ducatti stable. Now he was potentially it, but six
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  Speaker 2: rounds in and he looks completely legit. And yeah, a
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  Speaker 2: good Saturday. And then as you said, Sunday got better
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  Speaker 2: as well.
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  Speaker 1: Sunday got better. So now we've pushed Friday, we pushed
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  Speaker 1: Saturday out of the way. That's pretty much in a nutshell.
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  Speaker 1: Let's move on to Sunday. Because if you don't know,
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  Speaker 1: if you've been living under a rock for these past
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  Speaker 1: twenty four hours, well turn on your Fox Sports and
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  Speaker 1: turn on your KO. Because Johan Zaco won the French
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  Speaker 1: Grand Prix at Lamon nineteen seconds ahead of Mark Marquees.
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  Speaker 1: Can you believe that I'm gonna be jo and Zarco
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  Speaker 1: won the French Grand Prix in Lamon ahead of Mark
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  Speaker 1: Marquez by nineteen bloody seconds.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, extraordinary, Yeah, and it was one of those things
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  Speaker 2: that you know, we talked about that record crowd in
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  Speaker 2: the opener, and obviously you know Fabio's on pole, they've
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  Speaker 2: got huge amount of support for him. But there's something
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  Speaker 2: about Zacho because he's a little bit older and he's
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  Speaker 2: a bit old school like, he's a bit of a
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know what he's like. You've dealt with
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  Speaker 2: him from media capacity. He's an unusual cat, and I
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  Speaker 2: mean that in the nicest possible way, in that he
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  Speaker 2: there's always a story with him. I heard the other
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  Speaker 2: day someone was saying that if you are driving through
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  Speaker 2: the area of France where he lives and you want
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  Speaker 2: to do an interview, he'll let you come and do
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  Speaker 2: the interview at his house and he'll pay for your
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  Speaker 2: petrol if you drive there and do the interview with him,
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  Speaker 2: because you've come to see him. And it's one thing
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  Speaker 2: he does. He always gives you money for petrol because
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  Speaker 2: it's like, well, you've come to see me, so that's cool.
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  Speaker 2: And that's like the most Johan Zako thing of all time.
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  Speaker 2: That's the sort of the way he rolls. My favorite
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  Speaker 2: Johan Zako story. I'm going to slightly digress here, please
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  Speaker 2: tell me you've heard the story of Jack Miller's wedding.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I heard that. Zako was there and took his
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  Speaker 1: guitar and serenaded them.
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  Speaker 2: So he was a guest at the wedding and he
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  Speaker 2: sprung this on Jack in the day's leading up. He said, Oh, look,
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  Speaker 2: I've actually written you a song, and if it's okay,
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  Speaker 2: i'd i to perform the song for you and Ruby
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  Speaker 2: at your wedding. And I've bought my guitar with me
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  Speaker 2: to Australia. It was the week before the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: two GP at Philip Island, and so Jack's like okay,
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  Speaker 2: like thinking this could go anywhere. And Johann gets up
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  Speaker 2: and sits on a stool and light sort of takes
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  Speaker 2: their black tie off the little tucks and here's a
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  Speaker 2: little something I just made for you guys, and gets
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  Speaker 2: out of the guitar and plays this song. And no
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  Speaker 2: one knew this thing was coming, and everyone was completely astonished.
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  Speaker 2: And if anyone else would want this all over social
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  Speaker 2: media and carrying on about it, and he's just like
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  Speaker 2: just doing a nice thing for a friend, and that's
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  Speaker 2: just the He's just a different cap. Johann and I'm
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  Speaker 2: so pleased that. I mean, when he won an Australia
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  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty three, it was one of those is
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  Speaker 2: this guy ever going to win a Grand Prix? He
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  Speaker 2: won it an incredible style, a pass of the lead
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  Speaker 2: on the last lap. Finally he was a Grand Prix winner.
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  Speaker 2: I was a little concerned because it had been about
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  Speaker 2: five or six years since he'd done a backflip off
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  Speaker 2: the fence, and when you get into your mid thirties,
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  Speaker 2: those backflips don't come quite as easily as they used to.
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  Speaker 2: But as a fairy tale story, in you thirty four
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  Speaker 2: years old, you're the oldest rider on the grid, you're
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  Speaker 2: towards the tail end of your career. To win at
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  Speaker 2: home in front of the biggest crowded motor GP history,
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  Speaker 2: and not just win any old race, win a race
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  Speaker 2: like that, win a race for a Honda. After Ducati
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  Speaker 2: had one twenty two consecutive Grand Prix to equal the
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  Speaker 2: record set by Honda in nineteen ninety seven and ninety eight,
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  Speaker 2: to sort of defend Honda's honor. If you like on
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  Speaker 2: home territory and it's raining and it's crazy, and it's
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  Speaker 2: the sort of race that Odiohank Psycho could win, but
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  Speaker 2: from the entertainment value alone and watching that crowd embrace
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  Speaker 2: one of their own, it was full goosebumps. TVA. It
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  Speaker 2: was absolutely fantastic to see. And there's not going to
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  Speaker 2: be too many people that There'll be some disappointed people
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  Speaker 2: that they didn't win, don't get me wrong, but there's
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  Speaker 2: not going to be too many people that would begrudge
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  Speaker 2: him the success because he's a popular guy. He goes
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  Speaker 2: about it the right way and yeah, good stories follow
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  Speaker 2: this guy around and it was really nice to see.
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  Speaker 1: I was when you talked about the backflip just then.
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  Speaker 1: I was thinking I was on the service at Philipiland
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  Speaker 1: when he did the backflip when he won that race.
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  Speaker 1: Goosebump's there. But last night, sitting in my living room
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  Speaker 1: when we're here in Australia and I'm watching him do
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  Speaker 1: that backflip. You hear Matt Berts talking about how visibly
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  Speaker 1: emotional Yoann was. I was getting visibly emotional because you
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  Speaker 1: just know that this guy is putting in the work.
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  Speaker 1: You can see what he's doing for Honda, you can
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  Speaker 1: see the journeys that he's had. Yeah, he's probably not
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  Speaker 1: going to be a world champion during his Moto GP career,
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  Speaker 1: but this race for him, I think, in my opinion,
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  Speaker 1: is as important as winning a Moto GP world championship.
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  Speaker 2: No, I completely agree. And there's something about him too
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  Speaker 2: in the you know, I'm not saying that a lot
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  Speaker 2: of riders are the same based on where they're from
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  Speaker 2: in the world, or the way they speak or the
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  Speaker 2: way they go about it, but he is a proper
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  Speaker 2: one of one for mine. Like he's a bit of
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  Speaker 2: an old soul and a bit of a throwback in
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  Speaker 2: a lot of ways. He's probably racing in the wrong
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  Speaker 2: era to a lot of degrees, but he is a
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  Speaker 2: complete one of one. He is a unique guy with
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  Speaker 2: the way he goes about it. And you know, one
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  Speaker 2: of my favorite saying I always say on this podcast
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  Speaker 2: is styles make fights. Like I said old boxing term,
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  Speaker 2: like when you have different ways of going about trying
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  Speaker 2: to achieve the same goal, that's what makes sport interesting.
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  Speaker 2: And seeing the way he went about it and have
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  Speaker 2: this success, which he'd have to do something pretty remarkable
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  Speaker 2: for the rest of his career to top that, but
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  Speaker 2: what a memory. But then even the way he was
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  Speaker 2: processing it afterwards, he was saying I was expecting the
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  Speaker 2: tears to come, but they didn't, and like you know,
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  Speaker 2: one of those things. He is very, very conscious of
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  Speaker 2: the way he feels about these things, and I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: he'll get to like Monday or Tuesday this week and
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  Speaker 2: then he'll sort of look at himself in the mirror
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  Speaker 2: be like, jeez, I won the French Grand Prix, and
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  Speaker 2: this huge smile will come on his face. Like you
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  Speaker 2: could see last night, just the emotions and the rollercoaster
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  Speaker 2: that he was going on. He was still trying to
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  Speaker 2: process at all because it was a lot and I
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  Speaker 2: don't think in his wildest dreams he would have thought,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I'm going to win my home Grand Prix.
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  Speaker 2: I think he qualified eleventh, but the seas parted because
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  Speaker 2: of the way this race was run at the beginning
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  Speaker 2: and the tire choices or not the various people made,
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  Speaker 2: which is a I don't know what's on your run sheet,
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  Speaker 2: your run sheet that's in your head for today, but
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  Speaker 2: I reckon that's probably where you're going next.
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  Speaker 1: That was what I was going to talk about. So
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  Speaker 1: let's take it back to the grid. Now. We could
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  Speaker 1: see that there was like some spots of rain forming
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  Speaker 1: I've heard Jack Appleyard on the telecast saying, yeah, look
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  Speaker 1: that's starting to rain a bit heavier like, but it's
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  Speaker 1: not full rain. The riders then went out, but then
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  Speaker 1: we I was thinking back to Cooder, Covi, Mark Marquez
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  Speaker 1: with all that drama on the start, right, so we
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  Speaker 1: know what the rules were, and Mike Web the thing
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  Speaker 1: came up on the screen. I hope you saw that
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  Speaker 1: as well. Matt Web. It was like, if the riders
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  Speaker 1: come in and they changed their bikes, they have to
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  Speaker 1: do a double long lap penalty. Well, it's clear that
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  Speaker 1: the riders went out on slicks, came back, decided to
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  Speaker 1: change the wets, and then half the grid I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to say, yeah, half the grid came back in and
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  Speaker 1: then decided to go back out on slicks. But the
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  Speaker 1: riders who stayed on the wets was Ossie, Jack Miller,
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  Speaker 1: Joan Zako, Girl Oliver I believe, and a few of
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  Speaker 1: the other's Loranzo Savadori, maybe Takanakagami because at one point
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  Speaker 1: it looking like Lorenzo Savadori it was going to be
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  Speaker 1: on the podium during this phrase, so you think, you
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  Speaker 1: know he's a villain. Writer for Jojey Martine at the moment,
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  Speaker 1: so there's all this happening. Fabia Couadoroni really crashed on
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  Speaker 1: the warm up lap. This is all before lights.
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  Speaker 2: Out, no I know, and this is the thing. So
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  Speaker 2: there were two distinct parts to this. The first formation lap,
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  Speaker 2: everyone was on slicks and they all straight lined the
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  Speaker 2: chicane at turned three because no one could turn because
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  Speaker 2: it was raining so hard. Fabio Quadra almost dropped it
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  Speaker 2: on the way to the chicine. It was so treacherous
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  Speaker 2: from pol so they all came back into the pits,
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  Speaker 2: which means aborted start everyone else. They all go back
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  Speaker 2: out for a second formation lap out of the pits
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  Speaker 2: on wet weather bikes. For some reason, on that lap
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  Speaker 2: there's thirteen of them that decided, oh, it's actually not
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  Speaker 2: raining hard enough, I want to go back to the
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  Speaker 2: slick bike, which is that's what necessitates the double long
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  Speaker 2: lap penalty for all of these guys. You mentioned the
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  Speaker 2: guys that stayed on the grid with the highs that
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  Speaker 2: they were on. There were eight of them out there
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  Speaker 2: on drives and Savadori had rolled the dice on slicks
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  Speaker 2: and was going to stay on the grid, so he
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  Speaker 2: didn't have to do the double long lap. But what
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  Speaker 2: was interesting you saw that shot of when they went
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  Speaker 2: out on the warm up lap there were only nine
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  Speaker 2: bikes on the grid and there were thirteen of them
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  Speaker 2: at pit Laid exit. I was getting ripped memories of
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  Speaker 2: that crazy year at the sacks of ring where they
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  Speaker 2: started the race from there, which is clearly unsafe and
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  Speaker 2: a bit nuts. Everyone lines up in their original grid positions,
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  Speaker 2: but then at some point you have to serve that
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  Speaker 2: double long lap. The really interesting one for me, and
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  Speaker 2: because it's items six hundred on the list of things
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  Speaker 2: to talk about today. The guy that was highest on
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  Speaker 2: the grid that started the race on wets and wasn't
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  Speaker 2: going to have to take a long lap penalty was
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  Speaker 2: Pekobannaia in sixth place, and so afterwards he was saying,
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  Speaker 2: my aim was just to go out there and circulate
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  Speaker 2: and don't be on the wrong tire, and circulate and
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  Speaker 2: circulate and circulate, because this is one of those days
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  Speaker 2: where the weather's going to change eleven times. You just
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: need to be there and you need to be on
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: the track. And that plan went completely down the toilet
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: at turn three on lap one when his old teammate
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: and Aa Bashtianidi decided to play some ten ben bowling
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: at the chicane at turn three, took Banyaira out, Banyaia
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: slides across the track, Juan mir crashes to avoid Banyaia
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: and then Mia when you look at the replay, almost
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: takes Zarko out and Zako has to run through the
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: gravel trap. So this incredible Zarko win was centimeters away
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: from not happening on the first three corners because he
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: almost got skittled by Juan minat Chuaim has broken his
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: hand apparently, so he just cannot take a trick, and
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: so you've got Banyaia with a broken bike limping back
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: to the pits, his chance on these where the tires
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: is gone. Zako seventeenth after lap one and was very
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: lucky to still be in the race. I think he
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: was thirty seconds behind the race leader after one lap
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: and then well twenty five more laps after that. Things
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: took multiple twists and turns. But I think for the
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: Australian listeners here of those eight guys that started on
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: wets and I went very deep into this this morning
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: for a story on Fox sports dot Com that au
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: I mind the data, and I just wanted to know
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: what position Jack Miller was in in this race. He
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: was one of the eight guys to start on wet tires,
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: and because Jack has this reputation of being this guy
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: who reads the conditions probably better than anybody else. There
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: were several other writers Zarko included. He said, I was
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: comfortable being on the wets because Jack was. Marco Bezzeki said,
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: I've not ridden the aprillia in the wet. I don't
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: really know what's going on with this. I wasn't particularly confident.
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: I wanted to see what Jack was doing, and did
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: what he was doing. So there were eight of them
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: down the grid that had decided to go out on
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: the wets. Vannai is one of those eight. He's basically
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: out on one lab. And of those eight guys, yes,
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: it was slick tire weather for the first few laps,
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: but of the eight of them that started on wet tires,
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: Jack was comfortably the leader of that eight. And so
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: then when the rain really started coming down, we saw
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: Fabio Coutarero crash, We saw Brad bindakrash at the last
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: cornerhich is the key part here as the race went
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: from being a slick tire race to being a wet
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: tie race. As it was transitioning through there, Jack Miller
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: was fantastically placed. On about lap five, he had a
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: ten second lead over Johannzako, who was the next best
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: rider on the wet weather tires. And if it had
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: kept raining the way it was going, all Jack needed
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: to do was stay sunny side up and you were
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: going to have one of those races where everybody else
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: would have had to have pitted. And given the weather
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: stayed pretty stable for the rest of the race, he
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: was in absolute position a to win that Grand Prix.
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: But the key line there he needed to stay sunny
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: sided up. And end of lap six last corner, Kwatrara
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: had gone down, Bindra had gone down, some of the
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: others had gone down on that corner and it bit
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: Jack as well. And at the very least, I think
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: it's a podium and it very probably was a Grand
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: Prix win. And he high sighted with absolutely no warning,
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: he said afterwards. They looked at the data and he
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: wasn't quicker through there than any other lap point where
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: there was too much standing water. The grip was changing
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: centimeter by centimeter and he just pushed that minute bit
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: too far and down he went. But man, talk about
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: one that got away, because that's one that he needed.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: And he's so good in these sorts of conditions. We've
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: seen that in the past, and that was one. He
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: is going to be kicking himself because the guy that
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: he was comfortably ahead of that was watching what he
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: was doing, that was mimicking his tire strategy. He's the
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: guy that's won the race and he being you and Zacho.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: When I saw Jack's Instagram post, I think he is
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: very much looking at the glass half full with that.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: I think that's what he needs to do. And you
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: could see that he's talking about, you know, how they're improving,
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: how he's feeling better. We know that these mistakes happen,
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: and sometimes they do happen for Jack. They're silly mistakes,
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: but in this instance, this is lemon in the way
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: like you just said, pekobad Nyaya got involved, Fabiocordorara. All
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: these writers are crashing out. What I think for Jack though,
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: is okay, he does colp some slack on socials, but
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: what I'm seeing is people are still respecting him. If
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: if these writers are looking at him, going, well, this
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: is Jack Miller's territory in this weather, let's follow him.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: It's like what everyone did at Coder with Mark. This
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: is Mark seratory, We're going to copy him. This is
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: Jack Miller showing us Jack Miller and why he deserves
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: to be a Moto GP.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, you look at the development work behind the scenes,
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: the fact that Yamaha is up in Q two. But
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: one of the things about where he crashed, I'm going
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: to give you a little French high school French lesson here, Renetta.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: While you're here. You so the last corner with no
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: credit to Michael Lamonato at all, my fellow co host
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: on the F one Show, who thinks that all quarter
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: should be named after numbers. I'm a sucker for Carter names.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: I love them. The last corner at Lamont is called
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: Record DeMont, which means connection. The reason that's important is
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: that the last corner is where the Bagatti circuit that
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: the motor GP bikes race around joins onto the circuit Lasath,
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: which is where they race the twenty four hours sports
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: car race. That last corner is where the circuit LASA
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: joins the Picicati Circuit. So there's two different types of
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: Ashfeldt on that corner at Recordermont, and so when you
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: can see that corner when it's semi wet, it's like
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: it's got a sheen on it. It's a totally different
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: surface at that corner. Fabio Coaateurero was saying after his
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: crash that he felt that it was excessively bumpy there.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: But it's more slick than bumpy, I would say, and
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: it's a bit of a change of surface. Jack basically
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: had a high side with the bike completely upright and
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: went completely over. You saw Brad Bnder's accident and even
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: Coaateurero's accident there there was no warning. They were just
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: on the floor. And that turning point at Recorder Mot,
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: the connection where it joins the circuit LASA, that's where
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: the change of surface is. So you add a heap
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: of water onto there. And obviously there'd been no wet
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: running all weekend and you know, we know that circuit
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: gets used for sports car racing. It's probably the most
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: unique corner on the circuit because it's the one that
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: joins the twenty four hour track and it caught them
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: out and there were a couple other guys that went
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: down there too, so it was a confluence of yeah,
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: it's raining a bit more, but it was super treacherous
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: through there. And Zako said afterwards because obviously he had
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: seen what had happened to Jack, because Jack was in
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: front of him, you could see how easily he was
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: being super easy and cautious at that particular corner, because
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: that was the one that was like riding the tightrope.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: In those weather conditions. You could take more risks on
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: other quarners, but that one he was just rolling through
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: there and taking no risks at all because three guys
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: ahead of him had gone down and they'd shown him
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: what not to do. So yeah, at about eleven pm
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: on a Sunday night, the old high school French came
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: in handy because I was thinking about that, and I thought, so,
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: this is why your name corners, Michael laminat as, Oh,
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: we don't name them after numbers, so we need to
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: find out these six so I win that particular battle.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: That's not for debate, but I just thought it was
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: interesting that, Yeah, there is a change of surface at
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: that corner, and it caught a few of them out,
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: and unfortunately for Rossie fans Jack was one of the
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: biggest casualties.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: That actually makes a lot of sense now you say that,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: and as to why it does catch a lot of
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: the riders out there, Matt, I want to ask you
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: for me. If I was to go back to lapse two,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: lap three, looking at that gap that Fabio Corderao had
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: and then even him when he took the first long
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: lap penalty. Out of all those riders, I'm thinking Fabio's
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: got a good chance here at getting on the podium
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: at his home Grand Prix with if the weather had stayed.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Looking back at Friday, do you think tire degregation would
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: have come into play with the Yamahas or do you
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: think that it was because of the longer distance?
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: YEA, interesting because so the sprint was though using a
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: softer compound in the sprint, it was obviously way hotter atout,
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: pushing way harder because it's half the distance and we
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: saw the back half of the sprint. Fabio had nothing
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: left to fight with. He'd gone out too hard, too soon.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: And how much of that is just the adrenaline of
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: home crowd and wondering how fai he could push as
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: softer tire and that sort of thing. No one was racing.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: That tire hadn't been dry on the Sunday anyway, so
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: I think he was less likely to come into as
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: big of a problem as he did in sprint, but
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: he's probably still more likely to come into more problems
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: and say they docaddies at this particular track. So look,
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: I don't think he wins the race. I could have
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: absolutely seen him finishing behind the two Marquez brothers, probably
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: probably third, which you know he would have absolutely signed
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: up for given the way things have been going. He
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: obviously had that great race at Herrez to get on
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: the podium there, but I thought third fourth Aldegaer was
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: sort of the outlier there. But I also wonder about
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: Aldegare's tire management over a full Grand Prix distance over
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: a sprint not so much of an issue. That's one
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: of those tires of the black art of murder GP.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: You need to have the experience to know how to
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: manage them, and he has an entire catalog of what
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: five races a murder GP experience, so he's still agreed
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: in that regard. But I think he's probably finishing on
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: the podium in a normal race using air quotes, but yeah,
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: this was not a normal race.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: So anything far from a normal race. I was just
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: looking on the foxmitter Sport Twitter and lapse seven looks
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: about when Alex and Mark came back into what their
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: bikes over. How's that for timing, Because by the time
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: they get back out, they're only like fifth or sixth
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: or seventh, right, so they've dropped down from leading the race.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Then rookie Aldiger stayed out there on his slicks and
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: doing his long laps and trying to live as long
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: as he can out there. But it's looking like the
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Marcus brothers, and you can see Alex is just following
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Mark with everything that he's doing. Right, He's like, yeah,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to let him get away this time.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: It's so funny. The two of them are like circling
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: each other. And it's funny anyway as his hack pic,
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: but it's even funnier because they're related. Because if anyone
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: knows what the other one's thinking, it to be those two.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: So neither of them is going to give an inch.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: And they are racist. It's not that they're ignoring the
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: other twenty guys, but they've absolutely got eyes locked on
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: each other. And yeah, because Mark had won the sprint
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: on the Saturday, hed taken the lead of the World
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: Championship again, and those two were determined if they were
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: both going out, they were going out together. They were
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: going to do the same thing. But I think what's
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: super interesting, and I've just got this up on the
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: screen next to me, is that, obviously, Alex Marquez's season
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: has been built on being incredibly consistent and not making mistakes,
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: and on Sunday in the Grand Prix, finally he made
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: a mistake. He made two of them because he crashed
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: once at turn three and then again at turn eleven.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: That was just a really strange, wet weather bike. I
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: don't even think you know how that thing dropped him
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: on the ground. But what's so interesting is that we've
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: talked a lot this year about Mark throwing points away,
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: crash from the lead at Cota, crashed from what were
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: probably going to be a podium at her Wrath, before
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: he launched that ridiculous comeback. This might be the race
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: that we look back at at the end of the
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: year and go, okay, this is where he took a
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: lead and was never headed again after that. Because he's
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: now got a twenty two point championship lead. It's the
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: biggest championship lead he's had all season. What was really
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: key about this and I'm going to write about this
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: later in the week when my fingers work again. I'm
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: not sure when that's going to be. But the other
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: five guys in the standings behind Mark coming into the
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: weekend combined scored fewer points the marketed for the entire
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: weekend at La mal to a point where Peca Bannay
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: has had his first zero point weekend since the sprint
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: era began. So he didn't score a single point in
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: the sprints. He crashed in scoring the Grand Prix because
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: he finished sixteenth, he was the last classified finisher. So
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: if you look at the other guys on that list,
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: I'm just doing a quick bit of mats in my
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: head here, seventeen eight. So the other five guys on
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: the list scored twenty seven points between them, So that's
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Alex Marquez, Baannai, Morbidelli, the jan Antonio and Couacharero scored
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: twenty seven points between them for the weekend, and Mark
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: scored thirty two by himself. So that's why Mark's got
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: this twenty two point championship lead. Now that's decisive for
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: me because it feels like he's made his mistakes. He'll
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: make more mistakes, but Alex has almost had to be
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: perfect to stay with him, and to expect perfection out
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: of a guy for twenty two rounds is not realistic.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: And these are the sorts of races that trip you up.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: So I don't know about you. But how interesting was
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: Mark after the race where he had said, if I
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: hadn't crashed at her Wrath last time out, eighty percent
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: chance I crashed today because I probably go for too much.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: And in the fact that he admitted it, he said,
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: I know myself and I know that I would have
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: probably overreached and gold for it. And he said it
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: with a smile on his face, which you can do
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: when you've had such a decisive championship weekend like that.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: But it's interesting that even two weeks later he was thinking,
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: don't do what you did at Herath, don't do what
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: you did at he Wrath, just telling himself, settle for second,
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: take the points, and it's funny to think that it's
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: a race. He was beaten by twenty seconds by jo Hanzako,
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: Yet those twenty points that he picked up on Sunday.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: They could prove to be pretty significant as we move
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: forward now because he's now got this buffer. The pace
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: suggests he should have a buffer, but now he's got
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: the points to prove it.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: I think what you were just saying then about Mark's mentality,
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: I was watching the race thinking the same thing, because
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: for him, this is my thoughts on him, is if
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: he knows someone's in a head and he's comfortable, and
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: we know Mark can ride to pretty much any condition,
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: he's going to chase that person. But I think this
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: year so far we're in round six, but I think
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: he's learned a lot of valuable life lessons when it
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: comes to racing and pushing himself that far forward to
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: make those silly mistakes, and I don't think he wanted
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: to make those silly mistakes. I'm curious to see if
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: on his lap board, his pit board there was anything
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: about Banyaya out or anything silly like that, you know,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: to not egg him on, is what I'm trying to say,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: as I'm wondering how much that was there.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: But he's also learned the hard way that these are
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: the days when you bank the points that are there.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: These are the days that you win world championships. They're
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: not the days you get the headlines for, and the
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: highlights for, and the big bucks for. These are the
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: days that you win world championships where your bain rivals
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: have dropped the ball, or they've had a technical difficulty,
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: or something's gone wrong. You take the best of what
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: is available to you, and you do not let that go,
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: because all these points count for what they count for.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: And he said after he came back out after he'd
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: made his last bike swap, Zacho was about eight seconds
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: up the road, and he said, I was taking like
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: point three here, point five there. But the amount of
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: risk I was going to have to take to be
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: able to overcome a gap like that. Now, in the dry,
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: he would have won one hundred percent, gone for it,
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: there's no doubt. But there was too much peril in
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: the if you're trying to turn that point three point
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: five into point seven point eight. Yeah, there were a
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: number of laps to go. He had the laps left
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: to catch him, but the amount of risk he was
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: going to have to take to do it. There comes
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: a risk reward ratio there, and do you take a
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: stab at trying to overcome a deficit that's too much
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: for the sake of five war points, or do you
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: bank the twenty points and get out of there with
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: a significant lead, and you know, the ball's absolutely back
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: in his court. Because the only reason that Alex Marquez
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: as good as he has been was in the Championship
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: League going into Lemon was because market allowed it to
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: happen by making mistakes. And so these are the days
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: you bank the points and you move on and you
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: lift to five another day.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: I want to talk about Miguel Lavera really quickly because
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: when they were bringing up the tire choices on the
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: side of the screen, correct if I'm wrong, but did
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: majority of the guys on wets have the soft rare
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: great and Miguel was on the medium rare? So is
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: that why he dropped back so quickly? Just couldn't maintain
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: the heat in the time.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: I think it was a bit of that. I mean,
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: I think he's nowhere near fully fit. It's the first
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: time he's been back since Argentina. He's had that shoulder
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: ligament issue, so he was nowhere near sort of Miguel
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: or are apace. All weekend he is down the back,
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: and that was one of those ones that perhaps the
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: soft was on a bit more of a knife edge,
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: or you had to push it a lot harder to
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: keep it in the temperature window. So perhaps he offered
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: for opted for a bit of safety there. I mean,
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: he's not going into that race thinking that he's going
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: to be fighting for You know, if he made the
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: top ten, he would have been ecstatic. And here we are,
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: what you know, eight laps from the end of his
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: second because everyone else has made mistakes and they've done
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: bike swaps, and he's up there going for a great result.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: And he slid down to seventh, though some faster guys
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: came past, but he was still on for a great result.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: You'll never guess what corner he crashed at though, the
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: last corner. So both Pramat Gamahas were in the skin
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: at the final court. Another guy to go down on
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: that changing surface that we talked about. But man, if
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: you're Pramak, you must be looking at that saying we
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: could have had a win in a top five. You know,
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: things are gone well and at worst we might have
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: had a podium and another top ten. And you leave
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: there with nothing and it's not because you know, they
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: actually made the correct call. They had both their riders
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: on the right tires at the right time. They were
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: really happy with their strategy. Some days these things, you
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: can make every right decision and it still doesn't come
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: up for you, and Oliver was part of that. And
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: a really difficult weekend for them. But as you mentioned before,
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: Yamaha's been good. They're coming. It's pretty clear that they're
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: making a lot of progress. But I just didn't get
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: the results that they probably should have.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: That high side when I saw that for mcguil, felt
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: that in my bones that one.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: Well, when you know guys come off a dislicated shoulder
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: as well, you're just thinking where you're going to land,
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: because when you're in the air like that, that's just
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: a total lottery. So yeah, I did WinCE a little
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: bit as he was in the air. I grew yeah
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: looking at.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: The results, So yes, Johann Zark was a first ahead
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: of Mirk Marquez and Ferman Aldiger did the double back
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: to back podiums for the rookie like we said, But
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: then I was quite shocked at this's Pedro Acosta fourth,
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: Maverick Vinalez fifth. So now Vignalez is still kind of
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: leading the way, but Pedro Ocosta's gone. Move over, Vannialez.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: I'm the main dog here at KTM, and I'm going
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: to take home the first KTM physician for me. Looking
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: at that, I think that's the confidence that boost that
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: he needs. Because we've said it so many times. You
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: can just tell that a Costa is not happy. I
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: remember everything.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: Definitely needed it. It was a result that he's been
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: being for for a while. It was a good result
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: on a difficult day where a lot of things could
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: have gone wrong. We know he was coming in off
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: arm pump surgery after the previous race at Heretz. So
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: to score your best Grand Prix result of the season again,
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: when you're nowhere, you're fully right. And I mean, let's
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: face it, since Katar Vignalez has been clearly the best
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: of the KTM riders, we're now talking about super consistent
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: Maverick Vinales just top five every weekend. I mean, I'm
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: still waiting for the bubble to burst on that one.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: But that three straight weekends that he's put this together now,
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: so I think once it's nice and nice and second
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: is a coincidence and the third weekend I guess it's
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: a trend now, so this is just what Maverick is.
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: But good weekend for a cost of for sure. But yeah,
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: a few extenuating circumstances, but I think you'll be pleased
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: to get out of there with some good points and
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: not hurt himself because you know, those extra two weeks
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: between now and Silver Study's gonna heal quite a lot.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: I think, you know, even just talking about this race
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: and then when Chris was on and talking about his race. Okay,
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: so it's about luck, but it's also about the skill
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: and just staying on the bike right. So clearly, you know,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: circumstances come into play with your results or when you
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: go in to swap your bikes or whatnot, but you
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: also have to stay on the bike to finish the
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: race well.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: And what was interesting, like listening to Zarko afterwards, he
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: was saying where it was so hard is that he
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: was in the lead on lap eight. There's eighteen laps
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: to go. He knows he's got a significant advantage. And
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: it's on days like that where you lose your focus
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: by one percent and you go slot off light, or
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: you touch a white line or you clip a curb
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: and you saw during the race Luccio Chechanel I was
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: over the pit walls like just chill out, like calm down.
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: And I think Zarko was of a mind that I
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: feel like I'm under control here. If I am going
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: to start deliberately slowing down because I've got a buffer,
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: that's where I'm going to get out of the zone
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: and I'm going to make a mistake. So I think
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: he was being super cautious at the last corner, like
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: I mentioned, but for him, because he had no one
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: behind him, there wasn't anyone pushing him. This is a
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: victory that had to come to him. He wasn't going
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: out to get it. And that's where it's so different
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: from that Australia twenty twenty three win because I think
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: he was fourth going into the last lap of that
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: race and then made that really ballsy pass of Juge
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: Martin to take the lead. Martin was like the carrot
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: that day. He was pursuing that to get to the victory.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: Didn't have time to really think about strategy catch the
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: guy in front yesterday. The only thing he had was time.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: They would have been the longest eighteen laps of his
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: life with that crowd, and he could hear the noise
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: and see the French flags flying and every lap is
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: it raining a bit more? Is it raining a bit less?
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: You can almost have two much time to think, so
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: mentally for him to hold his nerve, there's a lot
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: of pressure, like it's yeah, of course, it's pressure when
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: you've got someone on your back wheel. It's also a
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: lot of pressure when you've got too much time to
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: think writing one of these things. And let's face that,
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: not many races play out like Lamon did on Sunday,
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: so it's an unusual situation for these guys. They're not
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: accustomed to this, and it's when you've got time to
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: think that it's almost more dangerous than when you squabbly
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: get a pack of three or four other guys.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: He said that in the park for my interview, or
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: maybe it was even in that the little room that
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: they go into before the podium that he goes. Those
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: last three laps took so long, and it's already a
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: long lap time here in Lamn. You can just imagine
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: if he thought about something else for a split second
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: in those conditions, like you said, you run over a
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: white line, hit the ripple strip, there goes your chance
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: at winning. But for him to go those last three
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: laps were so long and they going bloody fast around
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: that track.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I just had to find the quote so I've
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: used at the sport. I couldn't remember exactly what it was,
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: but he said sometimes you need to go and catch
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: a victory. Today I had to wait for it, and
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: I love that. It's the most Arco quote of all time.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: But you can see exactly what he was saying because
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: at Philip Island a couple of years ago, it's like
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: you've got to go and get this thing and take
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: it off somebody else whereas on Sunday La morn like
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: it was his to lose, and sometimes that's that's even
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: worse than having somebody to go chase.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: I'm just looking at the results from from the race
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: and so the crashed riders. Should we go through those?
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: So not finish, not finished first lap Juan Mia unfortunately,
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: like you said, possible broken hand. We obviously do not
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: want that. We want him to be racing, but that's
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: just unfortunately a typical juanmir To situation to be in.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: Moving on, then we had Fabrio Cordero, Jack Miller, Brad Binda,
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: Miguel Olivera, Alex Marquez, they are all the not classified.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: Then you go to sixteenth place, Peco Banyaya. Now we
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: mentioned him obviously crashing. How was it when he came
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: back into the pits to try and swap his bike
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: and the mechanics, they're like, mate, you've got no bike
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: to swap to. What are you going to do? You
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: have to just try and finish. And it's a shame
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: that he's only finished sixty one place earlier. But the
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: gap obviously is I'm just trying to see if I
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: can find that here. It's not saying they're Morbidelli Bazeki.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: Then it starts to go through. But if you look
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: at your top ten, both track House riders managed to
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: go into that top ten this weekend, and I think
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: for those guys, they're a new team and MERITOGP in
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: this situation. Probably a lot of the mechanics, like the
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: decisions that they're having to make, the pressure that they're
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: under with bringing the riders in, what tied to choose,
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera. Raoul you said off air, but
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: seventh place, okay, he was seventy seconds behind you on Zaco.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: He's still finished in that top ten.
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: And it's just the thing. You look at that list
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: of guys that you reeled off that didn't finish the race,
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: and then some guys that did like best, the best
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: you knowed. He had four long lap penalties and crash twice.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: I mean that's like a half a season for most people,
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: and so it was three points, and he still got
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: three points. And there's all this nonsense going on elsewhere,
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: but this was a day where if you are on
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: a not so great bike or you're having a difficult season,
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: you look through these results. Takannakagami, as a wild card
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: for Honda, finished sixth. It's the best result he's had
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: since twenty twenty one. He was another guy on the
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: wet weather tires and he just circulated and circulated and circulated,
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: and he finished a minute behind Zako, and he banked
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: a massive amount of points. You mentioned the track house guys.
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: Lorenzo Savadora career best result finished nights on Juge Martin's bike,
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: because obviously juj is still out injured, so this was
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: another day where guys down the back had a chance
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: to make their mark best result of the season for Fernandez,
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: as you mentioned, this was a day that was all
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: about keeping your head and staying in the game. And
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: what was interesting for me is that you've got all
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: these really experienced guys who've won Grand Prix who were
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: just Binder had multiple crashes before he finished Bashtyin and
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: he went down a couple of times. More Bdelli went
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: down a couple of times. And then you've got fermin
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: Aldegerre and he sticks Grand Prix that was didn't put
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: a foot roll of finished third. And then you've got
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: Takannaka Army who hasn't raced since the end of last year,
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: and of all the races to make a wild card.
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: In my goodness, he would have slept well last night
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: and here he is scoring his best result for five years.
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: So it was we'll look at this top ten at
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: the end of the season and then we'll go, oh
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: my god, that happened. It's going to be one of
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: those races because everywhere you looked it was complete mayhem.
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: But it was fantastic TV. It was very very difficult.
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to lie for me to get my
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: head around and try and like, how do I encapsulate
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: what happened in a story here. I could have written
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: a story for each of the twenty two of them,
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: because it was that much going on. But these are
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: the nights when you love this gig because you love
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: being able to absorb all this and then try to
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: make sense of it. But this is going to be
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: a Grand Prix that I know. We've got another race
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: in two weeks time, but I think we'll be talking
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: about it pretty much every day between now and then.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: Oh and this is going to be Grand Prix that
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: six in Zarco's mind forever. He is never going to
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: forget that feeling of winning in front of his home crowd.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: So that what do you mind to wrap some Moto
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: GP as best as we can match? You have any
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: more fun facts for our friends here who are curious
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: about Mojipi, Because you are the statman, the scatman, the statman, I'll.
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: Be anything at this point. If it involved coffee, I'm
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: probably up for it. But there was the thing that
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: was amazing for me is that you know the thoughts
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: of Ducatti not winning a Grand Prix based on what
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: we've seen in the past twelve months. At the moment,
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: it's like, well, if there's sixty caddies, they're probably finishing.
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: Five of them are probably finishing in the top six.
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: The fact that you had Honda, who previously held this
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: record of twenty two straight wins, being the manufacturer to
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: beat Dicadi. You wouldn't have thought it was going to
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: be a Honda that was going to win this streak.
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: But there's so much going on in this race. It
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: was Zarko's one hundred and fiftieth start, it was a
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: landmark start for him. You mentioned before, you know, first
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: Frenchman to win a Grand Prix at home since nineteen
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: fifty four. There's just so much going on. And then
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: I think the key one you mentioned that weekend crowd
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: three hundred and eleven thousand or something over the course.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: So the weekend eleven thousand.
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: That's absolutely awesome. And there was an one thing that
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: Motor GP's doing a fantastic job off at the moment
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: is the who was flying the drone around the start
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: finish straight at these circuit hat tip to you, sir
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: or Abdam, whoever you are, because in encapsulating what that
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: crowd was like last night and that drone's just hovering
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: over the top of the start finished straight before the race,
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: and it was you could not see a spare place
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: seat up against a fence where there could be another person.
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: That thing was just absolutely rammed with people. And full
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: credit to the promoters and everyone that turned up there.
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: And if you bought a ticket for the French Grand Prix,
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: I think you'd be looking to get your next year's
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: ticket pretty quick, smart, because that was a pretty awesome
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: sporting theater.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: Guys, if you've watched the French Grand Prix once, go
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: back and watch it again. I did it just before
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: we came on here to chat at Motor GP, purely
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: just to try and dissect and see what I missed
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: last night, because at one point you're watching one thing,
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: you're seeing the replay in the corner of the screen
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: where someone else's you're hearing about writers coming in, who's
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: getting extra long lap penalties like Bashiani. That first third,
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: even halfway through that race, it was insane and I
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: think one of the best motor GIP races. It kept
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: me on the edge of the seat the whole entire
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: time so well.
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: And yeah, and there's also that point where I don't
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: know whether you do this as well, I've got the life.
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: I've got sort of mission control happening here with all
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: the screens and what have you. The life timing is
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: always slightly ahead of the TV pictures, so if you
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: don't want to spoil, don't look at your lifetiming and
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: then look at the TV pictures go oh, no, someone's
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: tumbling down the order, which is what I did when
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: Jack went out. Unfortunately, I saw his name tumbling down
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: the sheet and went, oh, no, don't tell me he's
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: gone off. That thing was It was like a like
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: a slot machine in a casino last night. There were
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: just naves going up and down, and it was all
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: over the place. You know, someone's in for a long
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: lap penalty, someone's doing a bike swap. There were several
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: points in that race where I thought, how many long
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: laps has this guy done? Has this guy pitted? What
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: tires is he on? It was complete chaos trying to
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: keep up with it. That was the first sort of
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: eight to ten laps, and then the last fifteen laps
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: was is Zarko going to hold his nerve here? Because
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: that was the story. It was not particularly close in
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: terms of will to will, but jeez, it was tense
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: because a he's not a guy who wins gron Prix
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: very often, but b because it was home and history
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: and how emotional it was going to be, so it
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: was super tense to watch. But yeah, if we're going
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: to do this every second or third race, it's going
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: to take years off my life. But I think I'll
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: enjoy it, so signed me up.
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: That's one was just thinking. I'm like, you know, we've
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: spoke about this race, has been forty five minutes or so,
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: There's still so much that we could talk. But I go,
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: you just got to watch it. You just got to
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: watch it and then possibly watch it again, maybe a
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: third time, just to try and dissect everything. As a
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: fan though, watching the international broadcast with Matt Burton Lewis Studby,
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: I loved when they had Bradley Smith on this weekend.
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: For me, sitting there reminded me of Simon Crafer. But Bradley,
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: you know, he did fairly well in mitogp won races
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: in the law classes. Now he's doing very very well
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: on that Holly Davids and Baggers Championship. But hearing him,
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: hearing him talk about what's happening on track for me
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: was really really good at a clear, clearer understanding. But
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: one thing I loved was when they were getting ready,
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: I think for the when they finally decided to start
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: the race. After the red flag, Radley Smith goes, I'm
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: nervous and I'm not even racing out there, so could
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: you imagine just the feeling of what is going to
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: happen at the start? And then Joan Zarco wins well.
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: And he's been in races like that too, where you
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: have to make all these decisions on the fly and
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: they can make or break your race, you know, quarter
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: by corner, lap by lap, So he was nervous for
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: everybody else, but probably quite relieved that he got to
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: sit and talk about it rather than actually have to
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: execute it. And that's these riders make, you know, pretty
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: frustrated spectators a lot of the time, as you know,
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: having a brother as one. But I'm sure Chris was
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: watching that race last night sort of with his rider's
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: eye on, but thinking, thank goodness, I'm not out they're
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: having to do this, because that was a stressful night
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: for everyone watching Littlelone participating.
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: Then there's rewind the clock Moto two dry race. Sena
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: agis struggled. He struggled all weekend and he had not
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: the best qualifying I think he was fourteenth, and I
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: think he ended similar position off memory fourteenth. Senna's having
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: a really interesting season. He's having very high highs, but
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: then he's having these I want to say low lows.
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: You know, it is still only his second year, but
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: it was a dry tracker track that he'srased at before
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: considering his teammate Manu Gonzales Pol won the race. You know,
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: he's consistently well. I'm wondering if it's just this missing
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: piece And it's so easy for me to say, sitting
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: here on my sofa, you know, talking about that, but
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: what is that missing piece for Senna to progressively be
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: closer to the front. So he is fighting with the
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: likes of Manu and Jake Dixon and those guys who
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: were fighting for the championship.
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think to be honest, it's kind of normal
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: of a young writer who's in a fairly early stage
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: of his World championship journey in that you can see
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: the talent when he gets on the podium, which he's
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: done several times now. So the good weekends are very
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: very good, but there's a spikiness to the result curve.
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: At the moment, it's not you'd like to have less
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: spikes and more of a flat line on that curve,
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: But I think that's something that will come with age
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: and experience and having to go through weekends like that.
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: There's some weekends where you know, you look at Murdo
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: GP how many times last year was pecab Annoor absolutely
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: nowhere on a Friday and you're like, oh, he's in trouble.
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: But he had the experience and the confidence and the
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: know how and the data bank to call upon where
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: he could engineer himself out of a difficult position. And
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: this is so by the time you get to Sunday,
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: he's ready to go. Sen is so young and so
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: early in his World Championship journey that the talent's there
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: and the speeds there, but you can't fast track that
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: experience card, right, So that's something that he will get
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: over time. So maybe this is his destiny this year.
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: The bike is good, there'll be weekends where he's clearly
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: very good, and there'll be other weekends where he's a
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: bit anonymous, and that will probably flatten out over time.
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: So I guess we've enjoyed some the highs. This weekend
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: was probably one that you just sort of shrug your
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: shoulders and move on, learn from it and try and
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: you know, get better the next time this presents itself.
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: But I also don't think we're going to start seeing
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: him fighting for fourteenth most weeks. I think we'll see
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: him back up the front before too long, and.
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: That's what we want as Ossie fans. But I tell you,
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: Moto three, if I was on the edge of my seat,
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: my poor neighbors were just probably going, what is she watching?
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: Because them going, God, Joe, come.
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: On, Joe, you can do this, Joe, hold on to it.
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: He was so close, I'm talking, so bloody bloody close
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: to getting that first ever Moto Iree victory. And we
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: were talking in our group chat afterwards, and you send
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: me a message going, we knew Munyo's was going to
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: do that. We knew he was going to try and
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: go for the win.
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: I mean obviously relegated that Munos was cross the line
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: and relegated down to third, which meant Kelso second, and
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: then Ruaida, who right place, right time, just sitting at
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: that bag, managed to take better the last corner as well.
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: That last corner that we've talked so much about.
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: Ye the Stephen Bradbury approach by Rueda, who just sit
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: there and let everyone else wipe each other out. But
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: it's funny. I was the opposite to you, and I
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: was really you know, I loved the way Joel raced
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: last night, and this is the sort of race we've
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: been wanting from him. Get to the front, boss the race,
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: take control, split the pack. There's only three of them
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: at the end the last five laps. I was a
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: bit different to you, and then I'm going, all right,
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: so when is Munyo's just going to ride into the
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: side of him? Because you know it's going to happen,
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: because that's the way he races. That's what his reputation is.
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: If it had been anyone else that was behind him,
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: I'd be like, all right, this will be curious. I
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: wonder how this is going to go. And the only
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: mystery in the last lap with Muna's was he going
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: to take Joel and himself out or just himself out
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: or just Joel out? Because you knew it was coming.
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: And if you're Ruaida, this is where he played that
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: super smart. This is why he's leading that Championship was like,
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: I could go and fight these guys to the win,
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: but I might not have to. I'll just sit here
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: at a respectable distance. I've got a championship lead here,
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: and if something goes on in front, which given the
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: nature of one of the two people in those two
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: at the front, there's a fair chance that's going to happen,
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: I'll just sit here and sail through. And I think
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: he led the entire race for one corner and that's
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: how you end up with twenty five World Championship points.
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: But I don't know what Joel was like behind the scenes,
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: but great a for diplomacy. I thought he handled that
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: incredibly well given the circumstances. But I think that's all
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: part of the evolution of Joel in that in the past,
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: if he was having a result like this, it'll be like, well,
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: how long is it going to be until I'm back
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: up there again? Because they weren't the norm for him.
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: This is just what he does now, and so this
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: is why he's going so well in the Championship. That
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: first wins coming, it's going to happen this year. There's
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: probably going to be a few of them. He just
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: had the great misfortune of having the one guy that
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: you do not want behind you in that situation on
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: the last lap. And I don't know, I don't like
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: races being decided by stuff on the last lap that
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: you wouldn't get away within the other laps. And the
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: fact that he had to drop one position. Okay, cool
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: still didn't win the race. I'm wondering what the penalty
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: is if Joel isn't skillful enough to stay on the
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: bike and he falls off, So does Munos get a
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: long lap for the next race? Like how we adjudicating this.
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: It was the fact that Joel actually managed to keep
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: going across the line in third place that meant the
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: penalty was probably less than it could have been because
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: that's not a racing move, Like I'm all for a
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: bit of hard racing, but the inevitability of him doing
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: something dumb like that in the last corner you could
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: see it coming five laps away.
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: I was so hoping though, when Munia's were await or
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: we're battling out, that they would just keep messing around
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: with each other and that would allow Joel to break away.
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: That's what I was screaming at the TV to happen.
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: But yeah, like you said in the group Chatty, it's
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: just with him with Munio's being there, we knew it
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: was going to happen. Like you said, Joel in Park
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: fir May afterwards. For me, same thing I thought. Okay, Joel,
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: two point five is here and he's here to stay.
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: We're seeing that with six rounds in and he's consistently
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: been up the front. But we've seen it before. Consistency
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: is what wins championships. Okay, we know he's fighting. I
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: think is he correct if for wrong? Is he third
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: in the championship at the third I believe yes, yeah,
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: Look there's still only two places ahead of him to
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: take that title and we're only six rounds in, and
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: like you said, that first win's going to come. We
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: know it, Joel. We believe in you that first win's
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: going to come. But then we go further down the
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: field and our other Aussie Jacob Rlstone, he had another
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: tough weekend P thirteen Cross the Line, Jacob. I know
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: he's coming back from that serious injury that he had
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: in the off season, but what's it going to take
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: for him to get closer to the front because okay, yeah,
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: his teammate was tenth, so three places ahead, but the
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: Red Bulls, like last year, these guys were closer to the.
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: Front, right, Yeah, definitely. I mean I still think there's
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: a degree of him being a bit undercooked. I mean,
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: when you come back from the accident that he'd had,
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: he missed all the preseason, he missed those first few rounds.
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: He's kind of at about round two mode right now,
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: not round six. So I think if we're still seeing
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: these results by mid season and a bit longer once
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: he's got his race fitness back and everything's back to normal,
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: and that's probably a little bit more concerning, But I
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: do think he is going to get better. There is
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: a degree of russ And the Moto three is just brutal, right,
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: Like it's so so cutthroat, and if you're that little
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: bit off in that pack with all these guys on
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: fairly equal bikes and they're all young and crazy and fearless,
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: like you're going to be taking advantage of if you're
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: not one hundred percent there. And I just think that's
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: where he's at at the moment. But yeah, I think
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: I'm sure he'll be just disappointed with that, But he's
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: kind of still playing himself back in a little bit.
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: I think, yeah, no, I get what you're saying. I
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: wish we were seeing more ossies closer to the run,
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: but he's so exciting having kelso they're flying the flag
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: for us at the moment. So that pretty much rounds
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: out Motor GP motor to a Moto three before they
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: head to Silverstone. But then let's go back to Moto
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: GP really quickly because Fabio Cordoraro has been handed a
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: penalty for Silverstone FP one where he has to sit
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: out the first ten minutes and pay a two thousand
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: euro fine for aggression. I'm going to say aggression towards
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: the marshals and not complying with them during his Moto
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: GP crash. Yeah, tell me the last time detention has
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: been handed to at GP rider.
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: When I read that as well, it's like you have
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: to sit in the naughty corner with your hands in
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: your head for ten minutes or something. It's a bizarre one, isn't.
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: It's like, we know you'd like to go ride your bike,
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: so we're taking all your toys away from you so
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: you can't. It's a bizarre punishment because two thousand euro
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: for a motor GP writer. That's kind of tip money.
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: That's not that exciting. But yeah, the fact that we're
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: not letting you ride your bike for ten minutes because
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: you've been misbehaving. But if anyone's seen the video, I
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: think there needed to be something because he was clearly
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: trying to drag a broken bike back onto the track
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: and keep riding it. The bike was gone at that point,
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: the race was over. He was not following the instructions
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: of the marshalls. There's a safety respect danger element to that, yes,
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: And I can understand that he was worked up and
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: he was at home and he was frustrated and all
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: of that. But I think once the red mist calms
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: down a little bit, I think you'll probably regret that one.
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: It's understandable in the moment, but it's probably one he
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: will live to regret. Yeah, strange punishment, not one that
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: I was not one that I'm particularly familiar with, I
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: must say, But it's kind of weird that you have
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: this five second moment of rage and then two weeks
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: later you have to go sit out and watch all
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: your colleagues right around for a bit. But of course,
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: the other penalty that came out after the race just
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: for anyone playing long lap penalty. Bingo here at home
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: and they have ash and he's got another long lap
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: penalty because he skittled Pecobanyaya, and he served two long
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: laps for changing his bike before the start of the race.
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: He did another two long laps for speeding in the
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: pit lane, so he'll be up to five thousand long
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: lap penalties or something by the time we get to Silverston,
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: so he'll almost do another full race distance just by
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: going through the long lap penalty loop. I think I.
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: Can't wait for Silverstone. It's going to be interesting, especially
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: after this weekend, just to see what happens and who
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: comes out on top. But we've only got two weeks
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: to wait for the next Moto GP. In the meantime,
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: F one is back on this weekend, Matt, you'll be
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: covering that one with our colleague Michael Lamonado, who you
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: gave a shout out to earlier in the pod. So
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: you guys can get prep for a another weekend of
• 55:00
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