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The PCR Sports Show - Friday 30th December 2022 - The Superbikes Special with Danny McFadden from Danny McFadden racing · The PCR Sports Show

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Welcome to PC Oscars, good evening and welcome to PCR
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Sports. The starter your sporting
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weekend with me to Pam and knowledge out.
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Having a great weekend of hope, you've had a great Christmas as
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well and always lose track of days and dates of this time of
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the you never know what what day is that gap between Christmas
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and New Year. Always feels like a Sunday, you
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just don't know what dates case but it's a Friday is 6 to 7 p.m.
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and it's PCR Sports and great show lined up.
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This evening for you, thanks for joining its we've got talk about
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Superbikes this evening, actually fast-paced show, got
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Danny McFadden on the show tonight from Danny McFadden
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racing. Local super bike rider.
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Who's had a fantastic debut? Season will be hearing more from
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him later but as always, let's start off with this week's
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headlines election. What's been happening?
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Yeah, plenty going on. Still with it being Christmas
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period. But yeah, it's been a decent
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Christmas for Peterborough. Phantoms ice hockey fans and it
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was on as even in the big Christmas double-header.
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In local between the local Rivals and National League
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title, chases Peterborough. Phantoms and MK lightning
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Phantoms are in league and cup action.
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Again this weekend at the bees on Saturday, at home to Bristol
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pit bulls on Sunday and there would be no easing up as leak.
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Points are also at stake going back to the MK competition and
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games both teams won away from home with Phantoms triumphing
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62. Sorry for to in MK on boxing day
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before lightning hit back with a 6-2 success at Planet Ice on Day
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in front of over 1,000 fans comfortably, the biggest
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attendance of the Season at the city, bring M KN.
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Ow top of the table by a point from both leads and Phantoms
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lead to three games in hand on the leaders and four games in a
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hand on Phantoms Peterborough, Sports and football.
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Peter Sports suffered, a damaging Derby Day.
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Defeat our hands of Kettering town in National League.
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North at the be Arena on Boxing Day, a first-half red card for
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former Kettering. Skipper Connor, Kennedy.
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A pivotal moment in a tight contest.
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Kennedy walked five minutes before the break after
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collecting a second yellow card. The bottom for Side, open the
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scoring from the spot through Sheffield United Loney Frank
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McGuire in the 61st minute after a file from Sports, Richard
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Jones. But Sports won a spot kick of
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their own in the final, 10 minutes.
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Following a foul on Jordan Nicholson, which I School
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Captain done. Lawler converted but Maguire's
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quality down the right-hand side proved Dude, side provided
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visiting Skipper Gary Storer with the chance to win the game.
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Six minutes from time which he took Sports have dropped to
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ninth in the table. Still nine points, clear of
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21st, place to Kettering with the team set to meet again on
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New Year's Day at a park, in a 3, p.m. kickoff Speedway.
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And it's Peter upon themes of delivered, the perfect Christmas
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present to their supporters as Benjamin, basso has agreed to
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return for the 2023 season and in a further, Major boost
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agreement has been reached with main team sponsors.
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Crandon Timber engineering to continue their much valued
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backing of the club. The Panthers have also placed
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2023 season tickets on sale which cover all 12 regular
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Premiership home fixtures at the east of England Arena, as well
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as one knockout Cup match season ticket applications can be made
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by emailing season tickets at Peterborough, hyphen
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Speedway.com. And we'll finish with a bit of
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women's American football and the next rookie Day is coming up
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for the Peterborough. Royals, it's a fantastic
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opportunity. Find out more about how you can
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get involved with the women's American football in
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Peterborough. It's a free session that will
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allow you to try different positions in a safe environment
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supported by the excellent coaching team.
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No experience is necessary. They welcomed all abilities to
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get involved and come down and try out Peterborough.
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Royals have just won the central East Division of the second year
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running. So you want, if you want Join an
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awesome team of women to go along.
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And the next day to look out for is the 7th of January, which is
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a week to week on Saturday and that's between 10 a.m. and 1
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p.m. at Peterborough. Lions Rugby Club and staying
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with the Lions Rugby Club and Peterborough.
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Our UFC, they will both return to action on the 7th of January
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after the Christmas break. And those are your sporting
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headlines this week to come back in English.
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Obviously not as much as normal they did.
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That is because obviously that they were in the post-christmas
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sort of Kind of dip, aren't we in terms of activity?
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So things will kick off again in January.
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But Posh much-needed win yesterday against them.
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Case been actually the forms that to say the least but a good
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performance in a good one yesterday.
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Yeah, a much-needed, three points performance wasn't the
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best but thats pasha's first victory, since October, the
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29th, when we beat Cambridge United at home, so long overdue
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and it's been a decent Christmas so far with a point at Charlton
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where we'll Blackmore made his debut for the club.
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I'm so full points for two games so far, and then we've got
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Wickham at home on New Year's Day.
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So a victory in that match would provide a decent return from
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three games. And yeah, seven points below
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three games would be very much welcomed and that then lead us
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into a two-week break actually because then Posh don't play
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again until the 16th of January which is Port Vale away as we've
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got no FA Cup game on the 7th of January.
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So yeah an opportunity for Posh to go into the New Year or on
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the back of a win and some decent film.
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And a good thing there is, despite the patchy formless a
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first win since the, since the end of October, but Pasha still
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in touch on that in that playoff zone, that's it.
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You know, there are teams that have maybe have games and but
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nonetheless, Pasha Steel in Touching distance and that's
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that's the main thing at this point in time.
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And then yeah, we're in touch and touching distance of the
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playoffs. I think the top three is
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probably out of our reach as the as the current form and table
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suggest we've got a lot of ground to make up on those top
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three to Vie for the Super automatic promotion places.
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So yeah. Hopefully the playoffs is our
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route back to the championship but it's one that we've got to
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work on. As you say, games in hand from
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other clubs and second half of the Season where we'll certainly
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to pick up points away from home.
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Because the first half of the season, are a waveform has been
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woeful to say the least and a quick mention you you made,
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therefore, will Blackmore, obviously, young lad, learning
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goal house that has been playing, yay, making his debut
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at Charlton, and nothing you could do about the show.
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Alton goal itself. But yeah, in the two games, he's
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played of a Charlton on boxing day and then MK at home at
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London Road last night. So yeah, it's acquit himself,
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very well done. Everything you've asked for him
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from somebody's making their debut for a young ladder to
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Football League level. So yeah, can't knock him.
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And no, doubt it will keep keep us busy Titian and keep the
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gloves for Wickham at home on New Year's Day.
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And the good thing is, he's actually a posh player on
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oversee. The because we brought in two
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goalkeepers on Loan in I'm a and Blackmore's obviously Comfort
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because I think he has come through the ranks and he ranks.
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Yeah, it's a posh player by right.
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Whereas hardly cut, right and licorice Bergstrom about them.
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Loni's from Hull and Chelsea respectively and how he's had
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his injury problems. Sadly in the first half of this
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season so he's not had the opportunity at all and Lucas is
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form has dipped recently and a little bit of illness has kept
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him out as well. So yeah Wheels come in and
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acquitted himself very well and will be looking to keep hold of
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the number one position for a few more games at least fingers
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crossed and he's had a good start to his Posh.
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Career switch is good, obviously transfer window will open soon.
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I think Grant McCann has sort of stated that the only positions
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he really wants to strengthen our fullback.
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Yeah that's what he's openly stated but you've got Jack
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Murray at leaving the club and I do feel that we need to
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strengthen that striking position.
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So yeah, as much as he said, he's looking to strengthen the
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full-back areas which, you know, is right to do so.
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In his own mind, I think, yeah, they'll be looking at
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centre-forward options as well, because we can't just go into
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the second half of the Season, just relying on a one main
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striker in Johnson, Clark Harris, especially with the
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youthfulness of Ricky, Jay Jones, call me Paco.
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And from Mason clerk, who haven't been able to contribute
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with goals in the first half of the season.
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And that's probably putting a little bit too much pressure on
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them as we as we fight for those play-off places, any links for
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any players and now I'm sure nothing substantial.
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I think substantial I'm sure they'll keep it hopefully behind
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closed doors and Posh fans will certainly know about it as soon
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as it hits the headlines. Yeah and the other thing I think
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McKenna said he's not a fan of loaning players.
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He wants to actually buy players.
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Yeah, that be interesting to see you from, you know, if they can
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work a deal at this stage of the Season, can imagine many clubs
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wanting to let Center forwards going in January.
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So it may well be alone and it could be a championship or a
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Premiership player who's looking to get League experience and one
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that hopefully push can give Jose.
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I mean obviously soon as we hear anything on the show, we'll have
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it for you. So thank you.
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R FM right over to our guest special guest this evening,
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Danny McFadden from Danny McFadden racing, who's a super
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bike rider? Hasn't been riding long, but
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I've got a wonderful Story to Tell in terms of how we got into
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sports and it's worth a listen. So Danny welcome to the show.
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Good evening. Thanks for having me on
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Pleasure, good to have you and good to see you.
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So I mean obviously you talked about Superbikes, we were just
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talking off air, actually, before before the show Started
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and you mentioned, obviously that it can appeal to a wide
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spectrum of people can in terms of certainly send over an age
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range and you know, so I'm getting to it in their teens and
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start writing, whereas others, you know, later in life for a
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reason, sort of, yeah, and wanted to try and do and I had
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the big 40 approaching and I wanted to actually try and see
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how I could get on, and yeah, sort of brookey.
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Lee year last year, first main year this year.
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Yeah, it's fantastic. So there's People from all ages
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and and yeah, all the way up people in their 60s, who are
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can't see, which way they went on track still anyting, sort of
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16, 17 year-olds doing the same thing, but it's very everybody's
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got their own battle going on on the grid.
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Everybody's there is a big family thing as well, so it's
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quite odd, sing. The Praises of anybody that
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would like to go along and watch or get involved or help out or
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just support any of the Riders. They're fantastic.
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It not a midlife crisis or anything.
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I'm gonna get onto motorbikes and have a bit It was something
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I've ever since I was a child and brother older, brother
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admire bikes and my stepdad motorbikes.
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And it was something, you know, I bribed a push button, making a
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noise pretending Elgin the bike and then life got in the way.
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So I did ride bikes on the road, did a few track days in my early
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20s and then our children and work and stuff got in the way
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and got back into it as needing a hobby because I didn't have an
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outlet. So that's why I'd be a good
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advocate for people trying to just if there's anything they've
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ever wanted to try. It's never Like so just try and
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actually go and adding a Competitive Edge to it.
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Is for me, I'm competing against myself and seeing what I can do
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and I find it bleeds out. It's gone out into the rest of
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my life. So maybe certain things in my
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life, I was letting carry on and but with when you start
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competitively, you actually start to look at things and
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think, well, how can I improve that?
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I'll make, I'm not enjoying this.
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Let's change and so yeah. 40 coming up was a thing from by
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means I'm not, I'm not the oldest, they're not the Youngest
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and it's really been, quite inclusive for my family as well.
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So my children will come along, they've all got into it.
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There's people, we've met some really good friends, made some
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friends and yeah and getting to come and do things like this,
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which I've never imagined or a little and I mean, just going
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back to us motor winding back a little bit.
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From you said you started over here at around the age of 40,
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but sounds like obviously you're into motorbikes from a younger
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age and and said, wasn't a case of you're sitting there at the
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age of 39 and a half and watching some TV and do a fancy
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better. No, it was a yes.
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Basically always been into bikes always sort of ridden them soon
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as I could on the road. Did the track day thing, which
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is fantastic and a good route in most of the bikes are far too
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fast. You can't enjoy them on the road
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to roads for nowadays, and I did detract days.
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And I just found that. Where could I take this?
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So when you're going to attract, that is not timed.
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Everybody's that there's different bikes different
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levels. So it was well, the next step is
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actually going to do my ACU license and From that point
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start to race and that was really just just the Catalyst
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for is is work Health. How can I improve myself and
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that was the next step and it's really easy to do and I'd say
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anybody that's sort of Maybe Might riding my bike on the road
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and feels it's getting a bit more dangerous or it's not quite
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you know you have the roads aren't in the condition.
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They want to be is just a really simple route in and it there's
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varying levels of talent throughout the Grid's as well.
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So there is a race for everybody.
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And it is really is quite an Environment to sort of test
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yourself and, and meet people. And most of these tracks in the
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UK were really lucky. We've got so many tracks, so we
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need to keep using them and getting people to come in, and
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it's particularly younger Generations.
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Are not so interested in cars or getting a little dry license or
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a motorbike. I do these sorts of things, so
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that would be quite good to try on it.
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Get on it, sell their phones. Don't they just want to say,
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thanks. I don't use.
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But yeah. So the 40 year old thing might
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have been on the radar for me when I thought let's Let's get,
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try something and I'm glad, I'm glad I have had an itch and you
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scratched it and, yeah, and it's your least you.
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You can look back in a few years time to say, yes, I've done this
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and I'm still having a go at it. Yeah, that's definitely.
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Definitely the way. And I think that could be good
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for all sports are not necessarily support.
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I'm doing anybody at sitting at home and thinking, I'd like to
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give that a go, there's Club as your shows shows, there's clubs
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for everything and there's a lot more going on locally for
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people. So just go and give it a go, it
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doesn't matter. If you're worried, you're not
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going to be good enough for people aren't going to be
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Receptive are generally Within These Sports everybody.
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So enthusiastic that they want you to become a part of it and
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it can be quite quickly. A good Network to sort of
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socialize and meet people and get active.
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Yeah, fantastic. So tell us about the season, you
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just had. So I'm alright, thinking the
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season you just had, was the debut season at that level, at
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that level. So, last year I did my ACU
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license, I had a bit of a shaky year, which did kind of test me
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to carry on. So, unfortunately, last track
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day, before my AC license, last year, I got caught up guys
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motorbike You up on the track. I crashed on that oil along with
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four of the people and broke my elbow literally four days before
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my ACU license. So I started the year injured
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with a damaged motorbike and all the sort of issues that brought
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finding it again. And so, last year, it was quite
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difficult we really tested me to keep going because it would've
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been a lot easier just to sort of give up and you know, stopped
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there. But I persevered through that
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and then this year I didn't come into it of any injuries.
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I was supported by Sycamore. And a bike.
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And it's just been a really fantastic year where I've
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thoroughly enjoyed it. And it's sort of if I'd given up
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last year, I've never ever experienced this year and this
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year is, I went straight to a slightly higher level going in
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thinking, I'd be at the back and perfectly happy that I would be
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at the back and I've sort of work myself, further forward,
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but it's very much been from a testing myself, and having fun
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side of it, and trying to take it too seriously and you buddy.
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I've had a very Whispering, respectable finish 22 Seasons
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while I'm yeah, I did a fortune. I did have an accident and I
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crashed out of the last round on the, on the qualifying and did a
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bit of damage to the biker, luckily I'm fine.
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Which is the main thing, but I lost a whole weekend's worth of
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points but which was a shame. But, you know, it happens.
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It's a risk of the sport and the main thing is, if you can walk
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away with it without any injuries.
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So luckily, this time I did whereas last year olds and so
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lucky. So, tell us about the Finish
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then so where are you? What, what level did you race?
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And where do you finish? Also, within the sea.
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So when you carry out your first, you start as a rookie and
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there's many different levels of motorcycles within that.
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So you've got six hundred thousands twins Two Strokes.
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I'm in the Thousand category, which is probably lose a biggest
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engine, most powerful one that people go to and then beyond
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your first year, you re so many races.
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You have to have your signatures to show that you've finished and
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competed at a level. So you start off with a bib and
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you start off gone in a rookie grid and then you can move up to
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Next Level would be Club. Up and a lot of people stay at
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Club level for you know indefinitely and that's quite a
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wide range of talent and races and I sort of bypass the club
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level and went up to the the highest one within the low limit
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Paddock purely because it was I didn't want the prep, the
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pressure. There's no pressure been at that
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level for me. I was going in there and I'll
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get into race with people that, you know, many of them use it as
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testing. So a lot of the guys are on the
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Telly, there people are wachtell, retired races, and
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things like that. So it's a bit like being able to
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join a Leg and suddenly, you've got to a Premiership plays Kit
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on the same track as yeah. So it's been fantastic and
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they're down to earth people, they're fantastic.
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So this year was about level and I'm back on that grid again next
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year, and they'll probably be some people leave some will
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come, so it's always a moving Target.
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So I'll go in with no expectations again except for if
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I can improve my times and my consistency and then the rest of
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it, I can't control it. So everyone against on the desk.
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But to put that into perspective, then what's the
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highest level of Racing available in the UK or in the
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new. Then where, where is, where is
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where is out yet? So the grid I would be on a
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thousand seek CC capacity. That would be the sort of top
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Elite in big at no-limits Club. There's a few racing clubs
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within the UK that have their own grids.
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That is diminishing. So we've lost another clubs
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Thunder Sports closed is one of them.
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So each year some of these clubs disappear and then and then
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we're effectively numbered a numbers game now.
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So fortunate is why we can get young people to come into it and
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start supporting We might see some more clubs, open up more,
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more options to Race, So within a No Limits Paddock, that'll be
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the top grid and then beyond that, you'll then stepping into
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the British Superbike, which is a televised which is like the
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Pinnacle and the British Superbike Paddock or the series
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is one of the best if not the best domestic Series in the
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world. So those people have talent, you
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can stick them on a grid in any of the world competitions.
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And I'd be up there but unfortunately there's not really
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enough money in the sport for a lot of these guys.
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Guys to make the jump from pretty much pain for they're
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racing to get in. You know getting that it's a
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managing football Jetties. It's just unfortunately there's
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a small amount that can make a living at it.
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Rest of these guys that you're watching on the Telly.
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Probably paying to be there or there, you know, come Monday
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morning they're getting up and going to work and and yeah
21:02
that's so that would be the bsv pad it would be the next week
21:05
will mention Speedway for example yeah it's been a ride as
21:08
for example you know yeah cheering they have bikes in
21:11
different countries, yet Poland and say yeah yeah yeah' electron
21:14
may have to fly to These different countries just to get
21:18
competitions to earn money on the point that they they yeah.
21:21
Yeah. And then others why know I've
21:23
had other jobs as well, certainly this time of year, if
21:25
they're not racing they need to be earning a living somehow
21:28
hours. They'll pick up a job somewhere.
21:29
Definitely while working on their bikes as well at the same
21:32
time. So yes, Yep.
21:34
This is it is the end speed was probably one of the last
21:36
bastions of people who can make a living purely because I've got
21:39
that option of being able to hop on the plane and go and, you
21:42
know, Poland for example, make the money there, but that might
21:45
be Changing with cost of flights and and things who knows.
21:48
But yeah with the regards to the sort of road racing that we do,
21:52
there's a separate side which is your actual road racing, which
21:55
is still an area that people can make money.
21:57
But as the dangerous Thailand man, here island road races and
22:00
things and then we're short circuiting closed-circuit
22:04
British Superbike is the paddock to be in.
22:07
I mean, it'd be nice one day to maybe try and make a couple
22:10
races in there. But I would be so far at the
22:12
back. Here, all the talent.
22:16
The talent is incredible. Yeah, he mentioned them on a man
22:20
there. Have you done?
22:21
The TT was never meant it. I know people that are doing it
22:25
and a lot of people try and sidestep.
22:26
Go from short circuit to the road racing.
22:28
Yeah. Yeah.
22:30
Hats off to her medicine creates a yeah.
22:32
The skill level involved in racing.
22:33
So when we do races, you might be racing for 20 minutes, 25
22:38
minutes and we need, you think the TT Riders are hour and a
22:41
half? Two hours flat out on on a
22:42
closed road? Yeah the concentration level.
22:45
To be able to do that is, yeah, you ever been tempted?
22:48
Or would you ever consider it? No, not personally.
22:51
No, but I appreciate the people that do that, and I think that
22:56
everybody's got their own reasons for doing those things
22:59
and that, but for me, is the risk because I've got children.
23:01
So I'll always have the dad with four kids head on, with regards
23:06
to some of the risks I take and there's and as dangerous as
23:09
mobile racing, is it, when you're on a closed track and
23:12
you've got Marshals and you've got safety barriers and Thanks
23:16
guys, who say, yeah, can be. Yeah, you know, but it still is
23:20
it is a dangerous sport. Absolutely.
23:23
Absolutely. Right.
23:23
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week. I've got Danny McFadden in the
25:54
studio. He's a super bike rider.
25:56
Part of Danny McFadden racing new to the sport and you just
26:01
been telling us about how you got involved with what he does.
26:03
And these first debut season, which has been a really, really
26:06
good season prior to the the break, we'll talk about road
26:11
racing and Danny mentioned that it's not something that he
26:14
perhaps would consider. But there are other forms of
26:18
racing within the, the Superbikes Arena.
26:20
And you mentioned what you mentioned off air one called
26:23
Durance and how does that work? Then he, yes.
26:26
And the endurance was a second to sort of the 3, Mark.
26:29
And at each of the events, they have over a three or five or an
26:33
8 Hour race and that test something different to that.
26:36
Sort of all outpaced going for sort of 15, 20 laps.
26:39
This is pacing yourself going out for an hour at a time, or
26:42
whether your petrol tank would allow and all of the sort of
26:47
strategies and when to pick, when not to pick, went to do
26:49
tire changes. So, we was in that with another
26:53
team. Remember David Williamson who
26:54
was, who was this year? We come third in the
26:56
championship and the end, which was just really good and brought
27:00
my riding on considerably because it was just so much more
27:02
seat time. But from a Spectators point of
27:05
view it's quite a good thing to come and watch because there's a
27:07
30-plus teams out there a lot going on and it brought all my
27:11
family into being you know, doing the pit board and doing
27:13
the tire changes and stuff like that.
27:15
So if you have a fantastic event I'd like to be part of again in
27:17
the future, sounds good, you mentioned their tank of fuel
27:21
only last about an hour, then I've a surprise attack.
27:23
I guess he could you guarding it crazy speeds higher.
27:26
Yeah. So sometimes it would be less of
27:27
45 minutes to an hour, could be dependent on the track and the
27:31
average speed of the track. The smaller bites would last a
27:33
lot longer but the Thousand CC here, that's we've got 16 later
27:36
tanks and it doesn't go that fun.
27:39
If we nice, if they did, more sort of speeds, do you travel?
27:42
Because I know obviously is easy to accept.
27:44
It is extremely fast, but you know what?
27:46
Sort of speed ranges you actually traveling at.
27:48
Well, the boy is so dependent on the, on the track, the bike.
27:51
So most of the bikes in the grid, I'm on.
27:53
Are probably 190 to 210 brake horsepower, probably 180 kilos.
27:58
And so, yeah, they don't mean they could do 200 miles an hour.
28:01
If you've got the straight cut straight yet, most of the
28:03
tracks, your easy getting 140. Plus yeah.
28:06
The power-to-weight ratio of the box is quite incredible.
28:09
So yeah the speeds are up there and it very in varying on the
28:13
track the average speed can be quite alike daunting and places
28:16
like that. It's here, that can be a fast
28:18
lap. Yeah.
28:19
Hence, the fuel and tires disappear quite quickly.
28:23
Don't think I've ever traveled in the corner fast, I don't
28:25
anymore. I'm not passing the
28:26
characterize. I'll get it all out on track and
28:28
I'll sort of Bob along the road at your very sensibly.
28:32
You ride a Yamaha at the moment. Yes.
28:33
Yeah. So one of the questions we've
28:36
had in from of our listeners, Chris sharp Avid Superbike found
28:39
himself is he says it, which circuits favor, the Yamahas
28:42
characteristics. Then the sort of General
28:45
conception is that the Yamaha is is a sort of fast-flowing tracks
28:49
so it does like the open tracks like Donington or things like
28:52
that. Where you were.
28:53
You're doing sort of high average speeds.
28:55
It probably suffers a little bit out of the slower corners, but
28:59
my level the bikes tend to. It's probably the ride that
29:02
makes a bit of the difference. But on the world stage is that
29:05
the Yamaha are is a very sort of fast flowy, track likes its own
29:08
lines. You do find some of the bikes
29:11
that have a lot more punch out. The corners, for example, you
29:15
can interfere with each other. So start part of the tricks
29:18
trying to make sure you line each other up at the right time
29:20
to get past it, if not, they can bulk.
29:22
Yeah. But yeah, I'm Hollow resistant,
29:24
really good. It's a good package around is
29:27
really get it's not a tiring bike to ride and that really
29:30
helped in the endurance. Where are your, not physically?
29:32
Fighting this thing all the time?
29:33
Which helps, which then leads us on to your sponsor then yes,
29:36
yes, they come off. Yeah, for being at allowing you
29:40
to do what you do. Yeah, great, local company.
29:42
So Sycamore of several dealerships within that, within
29:45
the town and area there. One of the newest, the word, the
29:47
newest Yamaha dealer at the time.
29:50
And yeah, thankfully, they came aboard and supplied me with You
29:53
know, package and sponsorship and have really supported me
29:56
just small things like, you know, they come and watch and be
29:59
part of it. And it's quite nice that they've
30:01
started their dealership and my racing at the same sort of time.
30:04
So, yeah, they've been a great help.
30:06
We're about to they base that I am so that nothing them, so
30:08
they're definitely. Yeah.
30:09
So they've actually Harley-Davidson garage site as
30:12
well. So it's quite day out to go down
30:14
there and see it but yeah, it's nice.
30:17
Nice dealership going and grateful for their support.
30:19
No doubt. Bearing in mind, the cost
30:20
element you talked about and yes.
30:22
Oh yeah. You know the types of Likes that
30:23
you need and the support that you need as well.
30:26
You're definitely the kind of core support will do need to
30:28
support and and yes it's like most Sports.
30:32
It's probably hard trying to find that support and we've
30:35
costs going up. And so just fuel going up double
30:37
in the last few years. Tires, go and everything goes
30:40
up. So any help we can get is
30:41
fantastic and they've been really good.
30:43
And, you know, it is, yeah, right, really good thing to help
30:47
me with and, and yeah, so there are guys that have no support
30:51
and say, give out some dresses and stuff to look at later on.
30:56
And I mean, just people supporting the race pages and
30:59
other Riders and just sort of looking and maybe clicking 11
31:02
and look at it will just help it.
31:03
Other Riders could maybe get some exposure as well and see if
31:07
they can get a few pennies in the pot to help help push them
31:09
forward a little bit. Yeah, sounds good.
31:11
So what do what do you think? And will provide free obviously,
31:14
the provide users with the actual rock bike that you ride.
31:16
But do they provide you a service around that like
31:18
mechanics to? Yeah, they're great.
31:19
Yes, non-right. Actually, Race Day.
31:21
Surprise days a week. We get Spares and parts package
31:24
on the bike. They pay towards some of the
31:27
fees and bits and pieces. We do quite a lot.
31:29
So my wife's very good at doing the social media side of things,
31:33
so it's quite reciprocal. So what we find is, we can help
31:35
push people towards a dealership that helps them with sales helps
31:39
with me with exposure, and it's worked quite nicely.
31:42
Yeah, it's been, is it keeps any kids carry busy who, that's what
31:48
you're talking about when you as well.
31:49
Just about that, that Network around you that allows you to
31:52
then Focus. Knowing that you've got one of
31:54
the best bikes that's comfortable for you that you
31:56
feel comfortable with more importantly but then you've got
31:58
that support network behind you that you can focus on.
32:01
Just deriding effectively you do it hurts.
32:03
I said only hats off to anybody who's doing it themselves.
32:06
There's a lot of hats to wear and it can detract from what
32:10
were your truck. You know, the riding itself is
32:11
quite straight. You know, you really want to
32:13
focus. So I'm very lucky.
32:14
I've got a good family around me and people want to help and that
32:18
does allow me to focus on the bit.
32:19
I need to focus on, but yeah, it is, it is a sort of a team.
32:23
Effort that goes behind it all for us.
32:25
Sounds good. What advice would you give to
32:27
anyone? Who wants to get involved in the
32:28
sport? And then they say, you got
32:29
involved around the age of 40, but people get in, get involved
32:33
ulong, lot, younger age, even older age.
32:35
So what advice would you give to anyone who thinks, you know, I
32:38
can buy fancy better that or at least want to have a look at it
32:40
or try out. Yeah, that's it.
32:42
Reach out to people like made it.
32:43
Anybody that racist motorbikes are.
32:46
As part of it will want to get more people involved, sober all
32:49
the same, you know, if you're not sure about it send us a
32:52
message. We can always see our tickets
32:54
come along and watch. These people, are they want to
32:56
get into the mechanical side. All of us would appreciate
33:00
someone coming and helping out. So it might be somebody
33:02
thinking, I'd like to get into being a racer mechanic, then
33:03
just contact some Riders and say, you know, do you want me to
33:06
come along and you could come and help out and pitch?
33:08
Change tires do Fuel and there's you know, there's all sorts of
33:12
roots in. I was talking about pit bikes
33:13
earlier, which is a fate, which is really coming on strong.
33:16
So go-kart tracks off the days usually, which is for a small
33:19
pit bikes Japanese, you know, Chinese little pit bikes.
33:22
That's a really cheap. To get into the sport, it's all
33:25
the same skill. Sets, you can practice on a
33:28
slower speeds have really good, fun, cheap fun, doing it, and
33:31
then maybe catch the eye of somebody or think I'm going to
33:33
progress and, and get some support and go up through the
33:36
ranks. And that's that's pretty much
33:37
what they do, abroad, Spain. And all these places that have
33:39
really good youth academies for stuff like that, we can get
33:42
people more people become interested, the more, the more
33:45
chance we have actually having a route for people to get get into
33:48
the sport. So if they want to get ahold of
33:50
Danny, how can I do that? Right, so I've got some so I've
33:53
got A few are so most of its. So I've got Instagrams at Danny
33:56
McFadden racing. Same for Facebook, Twitter's
34:00
Daniel P McFadden and Tick Tock is at Danny McFadden racing also
34:06
and then there's no limit to one part of the No Limits race club.
34:09
So they've got my limits racing, they run courses for people who
34:13
maybe have already got my bikes at the minute and think, you
34:15
know what, I wouldn't mind having a go at right erased.
34:18
You can go just to erase day, it's really easy.
34:20
It's all about making sure that you can Through it teaching, you
34:24
are able to save the elements and then and the are give it a
34:27
go and if anybody wants any advice and like say contact me
34:30
directly or No Limits page, just put some messages up and they'll
34:34
be dozens of people and it's helped you because we all want
34:36
people will want more details. I mean, which point or how do
34:40
you prove to sorry? Let me rephrase that.
34:43
Obviously, you're in partnership with Sycamore, you know, if
34:47
somebody just wants to start out, they can't walk into a
34:48
dealership and say, give me a bike and all the support.
34:50
But how do you establish that relationship?
34:52
And at which point, Point, would you be deemed good enough to be
34:56
able to Warrant that sort of level of sponsorship and
34:58
support? How does that?
34:59
How does that work? You know.
35:00
Is it, is it circumstantial? Did something to them?
35:04
Yeah, it's like most things, like some of it can be
35:06
circumstantial. There will be people who are far
35:08
more talented than me that don't get the opportunities and vice
35:11
versa. Some of it's putting yourself
35:13
out there and asking the question some of it is maybe
35:17
you'll fund at you. You can fund it yourself but
35:20
you'll get some help from guys. So there's local.
35:23
Please people who are into racing also run their own
35:28
businesses and will little small businesses may be helpful few
35:31
pounds here and there help you, maybe learn a bike, there's lots
35:34
of ways in but a lot of it is you kind of need to put a bit
35:37
into it so you probably need to get yourself out there and and
35:39
ask and sometimes I think it's better to ask and have somebody
35:44
say no then it is to not ask. Yeah, and you never know, there
35:47
might be a friend of a friend is always a route into something.
35:49
If you ask enough people then eventually you should hopefully
35:52
find something that will help. But like sometimes just speaking
35:55
to people who are already doing, it will give you advice and to
35:58
maybe how best to go forward. But yeah, that definitely there
36:04
is help out there at times are harder at the moments.
36:07
Maybe companies might not be so forthcoming as they were but
36:10
yeah, just get out and asking and hopefully your client could
36:14
you reproach an existing racing team.
36:15
So for example, Donnie McClurkin racing is it as a team you ride
36:18
for them. Nilesh shall I come along and
36:22
say, look, we fancy a bit? Super biking to me.
36:24
Join your team, could you as a team take on more than one
36:27
Rider. I obviously you're the only
36:29
Rider I guess in your team, but you have a group of riders that
36:31
for whatever right under the umbrella stand and fatten find
36:34
that, it really depends on the size of the search.
36:37
So I'm quite small at the moment, it's just me, there are
36:39
teams out there that take on and support Young Riders.
36:42
It really depends on your age and your circumstance.
36:44
And what level you're trying to come in at, so it does vary.
36:48
I'd say your best route would be really to if you're a young
36:52
Rider, I think try and get Tin with the there's lots of little
36:54
mini bikes. Here is like I said, pit bikes
36:56
here, is that are quite cheap to relatively for Motorsport, to
36:59
get into and they're usually have a route through.
37:02
So if you do, if you, if you are going to try and make a
37:05
professional route through, if you've obviously got the skill,
37:08
there's normally at that next level, there's people there that
37:10
have Team structures usually in the National BSB Paddock.
37:13
For example, they almost have like, a talent Roots, but, you
37:17
know, so they're watching at that level and go, okay?
37:18
Next year, will will fund you to go to this next level and you
37:21
kind of stepping stone up. People like myself with aged out
37:25
of that, I'm not going to get that sort of support.
37:27
So it's very much, never know, it's very much like the
37:30
companies and people sort of seeing seeing how they can help
37:33
out that's good that at least there's a pathway there and then
37:35
like say a potential sort of scholarship if you like
37:39
yesterday to allow Riders to do more and some of the bsp teams
37:43
in particular. They've sort of set these roots
37:45
up in the last couple of years, which are trying to feed get
37:48
people into it because it sort of noticing that maybe people
37:51
are moving away from that type of things.
37:53
So they are trying to actively bring in the next talent for our
37:56
listeners. What does BSB stand free
37:58
Superbike right? Okay good.
37:59
Yeah, just one your rice for. So that's the sort of mainly
38:01
only televised one, right? Okay, okay, so that's the
38:04
exposure that level effectively than ever the being on those
38:07
teams are sort of trying to bring on the young talent and
38:09
bring them up and push them and ideally trying to get him on the
38:12
world stage but that's a whole other conversation.
38:14
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From the very start, you missed a great one.
41:01
Got Danny McFadden on the show tonight from Danny McFadden
41:04
racing. A super bike rider.
41:05
Just been telling us his story about how he got involved in
41:08
sports and what it takes to to become a writer Daniel just
41:14
quickly. What I mean, obviously, If
41:16
you've done told us how you got in sport, what's happened so
41:18
far? Sort of talking about the
41:20
future, looking ahead. What's the sort of immediate
41:24
ambition, say, for next season. There's a season runs from March
41:27
to October in the superbike sport.
41:29
So what's your, what's your plans and Ambitions if I can
41:33
progress, time-wise? So, obviously it, my competitors
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can change. I don't know who's going to be
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on the grid, but if I can keep improving and getting faster
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that, but that's my goal for the year, basically have fun.
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Try and enjoy it as much as possible, and just keep
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improving and see where I can end up with regards to times.
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And then, yeah, see how many more years I can keep racing and
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as you said, oh, what would you eventually like to do some point
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future down the line? Once I'm not riding anymore?
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For example, I would like to look to try and have a right to
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try and support any up, come rider and go for that and just
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keeping the paddock because that's quite a big thing for us
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is I really enjoy the padding, the people there and once I'm
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not ride in it, if I can find a reason to still be there and
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it's helping on some new Talent. And that would be that be the
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old man go. Yeah you talked about the sport.
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Sadly numbers dwindling going in a junior level yet know the
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younger element and I suppose you could be their Mentor
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continue in that way as well. Be a nice thing to do.
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Yeah just try and keep try and keep the blood.
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You know people coming into the sport and keep keep the tracks
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used and keep them. Otherwise they disappear, they
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won't be coming back. Shavers met in the obviously.
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So you defective keep Danny McFadden racing going.
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Yeah, with different riders or rider riders.
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And obviously have that as the as the pathway for up-and-coming
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writers. Yeah, maybe I can be the got
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telomere faster used to be showing on story, make it sound
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all better than it was. Yeah, that would be nice to the
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bukit of that sort of input that be great.
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Absolutely brilliant. So once again just giving out
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your details, if anyone is interested in participating in
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sport like so you're not your perhaps not taking on a
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mentorship just now but anyone generally one is get involved in
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sport. How can they get in touch with
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you and And yeah, so find out more about it.
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So most of them, Danny McFadden racing so Instagram, Twitter,
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Tick-Tock Facebook send us a message and I'll help out as
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best I can. I'll say it's not just Roots as
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people who maybe want to become a martial.
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So there's volunteers, the Marshals are all volunteers.
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They can go and training courses and that's a really great
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without them, we won't be able to race and that's quite a
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family and people go and enjoy that.
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You can come and watch and spectate you can come and help
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in the garage. You can just try and be a part
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of it and actually get a feel for All right, you had to send a
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message to me and I say, look at No Limits, look at NN Sycamore,
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an example, I've been told they've got a special on so if
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anybody is looking for a new Yamaha thinking about it, if
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they say Sycamore at Danny McFadden Racing for January and
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February, they're going to do an extra 500 pound off any used or
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stock bike they've got and that sort of stuff is just to help.
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Keep me racing. That's it.
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What an offer. That's a hot off the presses
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rolling it came in while you're on the air.
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Yeah. Fantastic.
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So how many races are in a season?
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Then, how many times do you race in at about eight to nine
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rounds? I think its nine coming up and
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then in my not have three races over the weekend plus, this this
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year, I had the endurance as well.
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So I was doing a lot of racing this year.
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So this coming year it's looking like I'm just going to be doing
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the sprint races which will give me a maybe focus on the actual
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short, sprint races and do 3. Some of the grid are four races.
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It depends what class you're in. It does.
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Every little bit. So we do a few more laps and a
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little less race and the others, and then there's a test and
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qualify. And so it's quite a busy weekend
44:54
in terms of circuits then mentioned Donington as one.
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Yeah, so we do find wide across the country.
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We normally do Donington twice. So the national layout in the GP
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layout, which most people know this year, we did silverstern.
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We're not doing that next year, but we do crafts angle C, which
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is fantastic circuit open Park, which is brilliant.
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John, I think I'm testing you right now.
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Cadwell Park is fantastic. I've been bitten there a couple
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of times but as a Tracker love it.
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So we do most of the most of the sort of major tracks in the UK
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and yeah, they're all, they're all got their quirks and they're
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all, they're all fantastic. That must be dreaming itself,
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really come? You've no doubt seen sick bikes
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and I've watched it yet there and you're actually taking part
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on those circuits. It's been brilliant and, and
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prior to the race, and I hadn't written a lot of the track.
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So, track days and things. I'd only done two or three of
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the tracks. He's been a bit of learning
45:46
curve trying to learn them in a race environment.
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But the UK we're really lucky with the tracks we've got and
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they are a good day out even if you're not into it might not
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necessarily be the motorbike racing.
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They have car racing Lori racing.
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Classic racing that they are really spectacular places to go
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and spend the day and take the kids and walk around in a
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10-pound, a ticket or whatever it may be.
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They are worth just a trip to to go and say because it we are
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very lucky to have them. Any favorite venue that?
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You've got winning one that really enjoyed racing?
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Ha ha, you know, Tesco car park. Fantastic Cadwell.
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I mean Silverstone was quite a thing to go to but it's such a
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different type of track than a GP property P for the one tack
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is so wide and so different, whereas most the UK track.
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So I'll dare fields or, you know, they're all really heavy
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and narrow and quite naturally. So yeah, I like all of them but
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I'll still not flat there either.
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Is that compared to places like Oakland Park even done it and
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then Cadwell. Yeah.
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It's Why should wait to get? Yeah, once it's than yeah.
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Well Parks like a single Track Road and then you go to
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Silverstein and you've got to try and learn to use all of that
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train. Yeah.
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But yeah, they're uh, they've all got their pros and cons, but
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yeah, just just the fact we've got so many different ones is
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quite it's Challenge and it gives everyone a chance because
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you might be good at one track and one style of track and you
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go to the next one. And somebody that it wasn't as
47:10
good at the last round is really up there that round, and it
47:13
keeps it Championship quite interesting because he gets
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their chance to sort of move forward in the grid because that
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you must have certain favorable cracks we think.
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Yeah, I feel good today or this weekend because I know that I
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can perform well on track that tracks my style and the bike
47:27
suits it. Well, let's 100% and some days
47:29
because it's such a mind, get it sought to do you mind you can
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just have a weekend where your it whatever, reason, nothing's
47:36
clicking, and then so you can it really does affect is sort of
47:40
working through those days is the fact is like why today I am
47:43
I so much there's so much more hard work than it was.
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Last time I was here and that's the thing.
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It's very hard to recreate the same performance each time and
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that's where the real top level. They have to perform, you know,
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bit like football. You know.
47:56
They're expected to perform at that on that day the week at
47:59
that time and because it is so varied.
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It's it really is quite. It's quite difficult to get to
48:05
that level at my age. I think that's the Price Is,
48:09
Right? That this thing has been able to
48:10
switch on. Yeah.
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And after, you know, when you have to rather than some days
48:14
are going, you know what, it's just not working.
48:16
In terms of the different circuits they've talked about
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their own nuances and challenges and so I suppose different bikes
48:22
are stupid with different circuit.
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Yeah, doubt as well, get my perspective.
48:25
So and we've had an unquestioning from Chris again
48:27
here. He's just, but firstly,
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congratulations on your 10th position last season.
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How does the Yamaha R1 compete with the power of the v40?
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Predators, and Ducatis, they're all.
48:40
So, yeah. So they're all roughly around
48:41
the same sort of headline power. I've written a few of them.
48:44
They do have their perks. Some of the bikes, like the new
48:47
BMW, for example, my perception of that bite, and the Aprilia
48:51
really strong on Corner exit at slow Corners.
48:53
Whereas the Yamaha right there, it doesn't quite hook up.
48:56
The electronics aren't quite the same as some of the other bikes.
48:58
So when you go to track you can be behind somebody.
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And for example, one half of the track, you can see there by,
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it's got strengths that you're struggling.
49:06
Within the next half is they're struggling with yours.
49:08
So you do have to ride your bike strengthen and characteristics.
49:13
But generally we're all fairly evenly matched Matched.
49:16
Because they've all got more power than most of us can use
49:18
and it's the traction of the tie.
49:20
That's the sort of thing limiting factor and then the
49:22
talent of the rider, but certain tracks do seek certain bikes and
49:26
then like I said with regards to the rider as well.
49:29
You can go that one round two or three Riders, you can't keep
49:33
with them but the next round they can't keep with you.
49:36
And then that some most of that comes down to the fact is that
49:39
you maybe that strength of your track or the bike.
49:42
Yeah. Are you enjoying the Yamaha at
49:44
the moment? I love the absolutely love it.
49:45
Yeah. But if you were the bullets in
49:46
it is, it is as it is really use a friend by, it's lovely.
49:50
Yeah. So I'm hopefully, I can maintain
49:52
the keep on the Mr for a while. Yeah.
49:54
And how does a rider choose a bike?
49:59
Then obviously, because if somebody purchases by can be an
50:01
expensive mistake, if they, you know, few months down I think
50:03
that it's not a bike for me, obviously, because selling buy a
50:05
new one but nonetheless, there's that, that upheaval of doing
50:08
that, isn't it? Yeah, it really is.
50:09
And that's probably at the sort of upper end level.
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I can see where you can have may even form of 14.
50:15
Example driver can be very strong in one car.
50:18
Then they move to another team and they're not as strong and it
50:21
can be the same with bikes. So you do.
50:23
And unfortunately we don't all get to test these bikes before
50:25
we buy them. So you end up, can buy a bike
50:27
and go down a road and realize actually this is not for me and
50:31
then struggle with it for quite a while, so that can happen.
50:33
So unfortunately it's a bit of a Gamble and you get sometimes you
50:36
get lucky and you click with it straight away and I did with the
50:38
Mr. Perhaps you find it you know you went out to stick a more.
50:42
Obviously they invite you you had a conversation with him.
50:44
One out. Was that like Yeah, match made
50:46
in heaven. Effectively that point you
50:48
thought yet? This is the bike.
50:49
That's exactly, yeah. So it just the way it Rody.
50:51
Actually reminded me of. I had a dejar de Triumph 600 675
50:56
before and I jumped on the mo on it, and it basically felt like a
51:00
big version of that, which was probably my all-time favorite
51:02
favorite bike that I've had. And so then, yeah, I knew that
51:06
was the right decision to go on that.
51:09
Brilliant Danny. It's been an absolute pleasure
51:11
and thank you for coming on the show and Carrie.
51:14
He's just sitting behind your nose.
51:15
A massive support for you in and the team there.
51:17
So certainly want to hear back from you.
51:20
Good luck for the new season next, year and keep us updated.
51:23
Will give you a shout outs in the headlines obviously, and
51:26
obviously pop back and see us as well commit, if you get a chance
51:28
to meet some to see how you're getting on.
51:29
So but it's certainly, thank you very much and happy New Year to
51:33
you as well. See ya, thanks for all your
51:36
advice sir. Yeah choose depends.
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Yep. Great to hear from Fannie.
51:39
Then certainly adrenaline rush I think is what I'm thinking just
51:43
sitting here. Listening here to him there as
51:45
well but I'm off. I'm quite happy just to be on
51:46
the outside things, right? Exactly, right.
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We'll be back same time. Same place next week.
51:52
PCR Sports on pc. R, FM, 6.
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To 7 p.m. have a great week. What are we doing?
51:56
Sporting wise and obviously have a happy New Year and we'll see
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you in the new year. Take care.
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Bye bye.