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Vroom Vroom Wednesdays: MotoGP Hungary 2025 Round 14 Recap & look ahead at this weekend in S5 Ep 26 · B 4EVA Kool "Race A Motorcycle" Podcast

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  Listen to the be Forever Cool podcast.
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  My name is Rex 45 and it's the room room Wednesday show this
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  evening we got Tyson in the building also Sir John Hampton
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  in the building as well. You guys welcome to the show.
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  How you guys doing? We'll start with Tyson.
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  How's? It going everybody, I'm doing
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  great. Nice, nice.
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  That's what's up. How was your day?
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  How's your week? That was OK.
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  It was a nice long weekend. That was very fun.
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  My girlfriend was out of town so I was extremely lazy.
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  Hey, listen, that's that's the best thing to do over the Labor
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  Day weekend when you can, when you can lay around and do
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  nothing. So John, how about yourself,
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  man? How you doing today?
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  How was your week? I'm doing good.
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  I'm doing good. I can't complain about nothing.
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  Weekend was cool. Actually.
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  I got the race. We're at Rhode Atlanta this past
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  weekend, so you know, a lot of work to do to get back to where
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  I want to be, but it's also, it was exciting and good for the
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  weekend, so I won't complain. That's what's up, that's what's
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  up. Let's, I guess let's talk about
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  that a little bit before we jump into Moto GP.
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  You know, what was that like for you and like what do you think
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  you have to work on? I've only been at Rhoda Atlanta
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  once in the first huge fan of the of the of the track and the
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  layout. So I definitely like it, like
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  it. And and when was the last time
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  you raced before you this weekend?
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  So I actually gested around that Roebling thinking about 3 or 4
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  weeks ago out of Savannah, you know, and it went well out there
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  too. Definitely.
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  I had just did a track day there, so it was easy to go back
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  and race there and try to find a groove.
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  It's easy to, you know, face progression.
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  It's been a while since I Rd. Rd.
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  Atlanta. So it was still like that
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  shocking factor of like, oh, this is a little different here,
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  you know. So the weekend was overall, it
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  was this good weekend. You know, it's just kind of not
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  comparing it to where I was not consistently riding and racing
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  and expecting to be back at that point immediately.
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  You know, just or just giving myself the grace to don't like
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  remember, you know, a bro, like you're not even riding right
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  now. Like stop expecting to be quick
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  in 30 threes and you you're not even riding, you know.
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  So yeah, a little bit of grace, but solid weekend overall.
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  Right, right, Tyson, you know a little bit about that as well,
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  don't you? Yep, certainly do.
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  It's it's tough when you take time off, you know it, it really
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  like mentally you're always at the race track.
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  I'm always at the race track mentally.
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  So like, but physically, you know, it's a whole different
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  animal And, and I think that's one of the hardest things is
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  adjusting, adjusting your mind to saying, hey, you know, you've
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  taken time off, so don't beat yourself up.
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  Which for me, that's usually usually like the last thing I
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  think about. I can flip tables over
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  everything, all sort of stuff. And it's just like, Oh yeah,
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  that's right. So we know, we know about that
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  motorcycle racing, but let's talk about this previous
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  weekend, 2 weekends ago now coming up on two weeks ago, our
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  Moto GP was in volatile. First time in Hungary in a long
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  time, well over 29 years, I believe.
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  Let's just do a quick recap what you guys thought about the
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  Sprint race and and the main race and this kind of overall
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  how you thought the season has been, how you think the season's
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  been going so far. Start with Tyson, sorry.
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  Yeah, I, I quite frankly enjoyed the race.
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  I was kind of excited for it, seeing as that they haven't
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  ridden there in a while and no one really had experience.
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  So I was like, you know, this could be quite an entertaining
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  one. Just everybody all over the
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  place. I mean, you know, the only part
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  that wasn't sort of entertaining, I guess, was Mark
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  just being Mark and just effortlessly stomping on the
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  rest of the grid. Like, like, I feel bad kind of
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  for like the rest of the guys. Like, I mean, I know they're the
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  best in the world, but like at the same time it's like he's
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  like on the same bike as you guys.
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  But. I thought it was pretty good.
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  I mean, I know some people were quite concerned with like the
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  safety and stuff like that with the track, which I understand to
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  a degree, but if your concern is safety, you should get in a car
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  like you're riding bikes, like there's risk.
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  Come on man, there's no one in the in the riders meeting
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  talking about Loudon. I mean, it is a risk.
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  Yeah, Loudon's sketchy. Like that is a sketchy track, to
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  be fair. And I mean, we all would like it
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  to be safer and stuff like that, but they're at the top of their
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  game. It's a tier one track to a
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  degree, you know, like, it is what it is.
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  But yeah, that Mayo crash was actually was pretty sketch.
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  Like, yeah, it should probably work on that corner, but yeah, I
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  enjoyed it quite a bit. Yeah, no, there's there's no
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  perfect tracks and no, you know you, I think if you grew up on
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  that race track, you kind of you, you know what to do, what
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  not to do kind of thing. I think, you know, for me,
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  Loudon was my first track, so I didn't that's I thought every
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  track. So, you know, it's just like it
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  only gets better from here. So.
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  So I feel you. You know what I mean.
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  We'll talk about the track a little bit more.
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  But Sir John, I guess. Is it cool?
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  Just saying, Sir John. Yeah, Yeah.
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  Cool. What what what do you think of
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  of overall of, of the race, the Sprint and, and the main race?
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  And I, I haven't asked you guys. I guess we'll find out, you
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  know, who you guys are rooting for, if you guys are rooting for
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  anyone. But what do you think of it, of
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  the race races? No, I think the race was, it was
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  beautiful. One is interesting again because
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  they don't have the knowledge, you know, it's a new track to
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  everyone that was on grid. So that was pretty awesome to
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  see who can adapt, who that track favours their rider style,
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  who's going to, you know, to be able to adapt the quickest.
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  Of course, it favors a lot of marks Marquez's what he loves,
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  you know, his riding style, you know.
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  So it was it was kind of one of those like, OK, well, who's
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  going to go chase him, you know? So to see honestly, Bez Niseki
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  again out front, giving him a little bit of fire for the
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  little bit of time that he did that was a beautiful thing to
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  do. I feel like that's huge for him
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  as a rider and he's for the prayer team to see them out
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  front. Definitely with Jorge coming
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  back with the right that he even did that weekend.
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  That's just good news for them in the future if they can just
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  continue to piece it together. So.
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  Yeah, I, I, I agree. So let's talk a little bit,
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  let's talk a little bit about Honda.
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  What do you what do you guys think of what Honda finished?
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  They look really well. They also signed back Luca and
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  Mir. So you know what, what are your
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  thoughts on how Honda did Tyson? You own a Honda, right?
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  So I think. I do own a Honda.
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  You said, you know, so you're you're you're a Honda fan.
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  You like Honda like, I mean, I like Honda too.
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  I got to, you know, what are your thoughts on how, how, how
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  Honda did? I think they're doing great.
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  I mean, from where they were the last couple of years, I mean,
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  it's obviously a huge step in the right direction.
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  I mean, Luka Marini and 5th, was that in the main race?
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  I think was he 6th in the Sprint as well?
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  Something like that? Yeah, I think something like
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  that really well. What was he?
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  Mir was sixth. Good for Mir as well.
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  Marine was fourth in the Sprint, Even better.
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  I mean, you know, they're on the up and they're one of the
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  premier teams. You know, like it's sucks when
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  you see Yamaha or Honda, it's like seeing Ferrari at the
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  bottom of the of the table. Like, you know, everyone's heart
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  hurts a little bit when they see that.
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  So it's good to see them coming back up.
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  Hopefully they can get some, you know, more development in maybe
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  some different riders. We'll see.
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  But. Which brand did you just compare
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  Honda to? I mean, I wouldn't quite call
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  them Ferrari, but like they are like they're just one of those
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  sort of brands. I've always been there.
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  Like, they're huge, like Ducati is the Ferrari of bikes.
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  But like, at the end of the day, when it comes to performance and
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  like actual wins on the track, yeah, I'd say probably Honda's a
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  little bit closer than Ducati. Right, fair enough.
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  They have the same dominant step Ferrari did and stuff like that.
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  And and you know, yeah, that that's huge.
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  We'll talk a little bit more about that.
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  What are your thoughts, Sir John, about Honda?
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  How they doing? I know you have a Yamaha, so I
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  don't know how much of a Honda. I mean, I don't really have
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  issues at a Honda, so I don't mind giving them some praise,
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  like they stay behind me. We're good.
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  But no, I feel like 1 is great because you got Luca Marini,
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  which is honestly, he's a good writer.
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  And I questioned his desire to go to Honda knowing Honda was in
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  their rebuild, trying to figure out life space.
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  So it's good to see some hope this season, you know, to see a
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  couple rounds ago Zarco be able to put the Honda out front.
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  You know, they're saying they'll actually finish races like the
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  Honda's are finishing races. Like when they start finishing
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  races consistently, that to me is a good sign.
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  You know, then you can start climbing your way up the up the
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  ladders, running to placement where you finishing at and stuff
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  like that. So I think that was a good round
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  for them as well with their riders finishing as good as they
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  did. Yeah.
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  What were you guys thoughts on Zarko before we moved on?
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  I mean, it seems like his candle was the best at the French Open
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  and it's kind of just coming down, coming down.
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  Honda did sign them or LCR did sign off for two years.
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  So he will be on the the new bike, the new bikes for 27.
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  What are you guys thoughts on Zarko?
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  I mean, he definitely has had a great season, I guess in general
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  compared to previous seasons, but I mean, the bike's tough.
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  He did a great job with that win.
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  It's certainly petered off, but you know, he's still in a Honda,
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  I'd say. So do you, you know, do you, do
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  you agree with what he's saying, Sir John?
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  And also, do you think it's Sarco the the tracks that
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  they're going to now the bike or it's just, it's just sometimes
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  riders just do better. I like to quote Lewis, You know,
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  your home track gives you a, you know, a half a tenth or
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  something like that. Honestly, I feel like it's all
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  of that when you got the it's your home track.
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  So ideally that's the track that you're most comfortable at, but
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  also psychologically that's the track we have the most pressure
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  because it is your home track, you know, So like, it's good to
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  see him actually do great at that track.
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  As far as into everything else, I mean, it's I feel like, and
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  this isn't a not to Zarko, but it's typical Zarko riding.
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  You know, he's going to have flashes of speed.
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  He's going to get close to winning a race and or win a race
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  as reason like that's just what he does.
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  And he can ride anything you put them on.
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  But he's never, I won't say he's never.
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  He just hasn't shown that he's the consistent threat throughout
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  a season. But he will show you a flash of
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  like, damn, that kid can rock, you know, So I think it's
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  darker. And again, he's right now,
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  honestly, I think he's helping the data that Honda can get from
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  him riding. And in those flashes, it's
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  excellent for them to continue to build the bikes for the Luca
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  Marini and mirror, you know, take his data, use it for them.
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  Because obviously I feel like that's their stallions for Honda
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  right now by choice though. And and do you and do you guys
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  think that Honda made the the right decision and essentially I
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  mean they keeping all their riders well against Zarko got
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  two years, but Marini and and Mirror got a year.
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  Don't you guys come in, I think as Diego coming in for every
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  place in Tomcat LCR, do you think that's a good look for
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  Honda, what they're doing? Diego Moreira.
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  Yeah, yeah, he's he's, he's fine for for next year.
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  Oh, he did. I thought that was a rumor, but.
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  I mean, no, I got to guess you're right.
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  It might be a rumor, but I thought I I thought I saw have.
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  No idea if that's actually a rumor or not.
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  I I just thought I saw it come across my feet kind of deal.
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  But I mean, consistency is probably key for them,
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  especially in this stage in their development.
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  Like I wouldn't be tossing out all of your riders for new
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  riders at this point, like the bike was good.
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  They're at a similar situation or, you know, Ducati had a year
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  or two ago, Sure, you know, switch up the riders, bring
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  people in, keep one person. But this stage, they need
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  consistency to develop that data and make their bikes better.
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  Like you just adding more and more variables to the equation
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  isn't helping anybody or your bike.
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  But Diego Marrera seems to be, you know, a new, another prodigy
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  to a degree. So, like, it doesn't hurt like
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  him or some cat. Like, I don't think that's going
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  to hurt them in any way. It probably frankly will help
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  them, but. Right.
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  What are your thoughts, Sir John?
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  I found is a question mark for me right now and it's just like
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  they're doing good and they're doing a lot better.
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  I just want and hope that their team is putting forth the effort
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  to one, keep these riders safe because for a long time that
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  bike is really unrideable unless you were Marc Marquez.
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  And even when you were Marc Marquez, it will still try to
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  eat you alive, you know? So as long as they keep
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  themselves with the development and into developing A rideable
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  bike, I feel like they will be OK.
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  The riders, I mean, I feel like they're taking a gamble with the
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  hopes that the team will do the work and the effort to get a
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  solid contender of a bike. And then they can now showcase
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  their skills on that bike. And now they can maybe, you
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  know, pick up that fallen Angel of Honda and become like the
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  rider to start putting it on podiums and doing this stuff.
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  Now they got the media. We're not the media for that
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  point, you know, but they got the presence of like, hey, you
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  know, like the Marc Marquez and Honda Air is over.
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  Let's talk about the Luca Marini and the Juan Mir of Honda now
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  because we stuck with it through the trenches for us to get good
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  again. So it's a little shaky for me.
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  I think honestly, Honda's going to maybe do something and Honda
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  Yamaha in 2027 when they switch to the 88 fifties or 8 hundreds,
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  I think that's when they're going to to come back
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  competitive again. Also, you know, you just got to
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  make it through the rest of this season and next year.
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  Yeah, I agree. And and Tyson, you're right.
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  I think it's just hearsay right now.
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  I couldn't find anything confirming Diego moving yet, but
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  it looks like it it's it may happen, but it's not confirmed
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  yet. Let's talk about yeah, let's
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  let's talk about Yamaha. They didn't struggle as bad as I
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  I forget which where they were at.
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  I think I think Czech Republic or maybe Red Bull Ring, but they
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  still, you know, they were out of the top ten.
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  You got. What are you guys thoughts on
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  that and and on where Yamaha is right now?
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  I believe in Misano. They're going to be bringing the
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  V4 engine finally to to the race, so that should be a good
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  look for them. Miller got resigned and so you
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  know, and I'd be curious to hear if you thought they'd made the
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  right decision between Miller and Oliveira.
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  What were you guys thought somehow Honda did.
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  I'm sorry, Yamaha, do you? Want to go first?
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  Second. Yeah.
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  Yamaha. My heart, my baby, my baby.
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  I feel like you know, there something they're figuring out
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  something, you know, they they of course the start of the
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  season was wasn't the best at all, but they were able to piece
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  some rounds together, which is good news.
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  Obviously they're working behind the scenes, but I feel like you
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  have two world champions on on your bike, factory bike and
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  you're struggling to make this thing get in the top tennis
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  Diabolical to me. Definitely when for my personal
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  opinion, you have Fabio Quadrillo, which is one of the
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  best skilled riders to me on the grid right now.
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  For him to have to struggle so hard.
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  You guys got a lot of work to do and so I do hope that that V4
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  does something well. I know the regulations maybe
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  won't allow you know, Quattro Wrens to race the bike.
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  I wish put John Miller on it for all I care, but the test rider
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  on it I feel like is you get data, but you're not going to
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  feel the results. I feel like you know, So I just
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  wish that was slightly different.
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  I would love to see Jack Miller at least on it or to see what
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  it's actually capable of. I do feel like they did a great
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  decision with picking Jack Miller over Oliveira just
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  because Jack Miller, his persona as far as the garage atmosphere,
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  chemistry, he's easy to work with or he has a good
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  personality. He can ride and he can't give
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  you some flair on here. And then I think he just has
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  more spirit. Exactly.
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  And I just think he has the experience to tap into more than
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  Oliveira. So I feel like they made the
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  solid choice with that. I just want them to get back to
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  being the Yamaha that I want and the Yamaha that I know, you
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  know, like you got you got you got 2 again, two world champions
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  on on your bike. You know, like you should be in
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  the top ten. And for my personal opinion, you
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  have one of the best riders on the grid on your bike as well in
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  five BL Quadraro. And he can't do nothing with
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  that bike, not for a turnover race.
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  You know, he can barely make it a Sprint.
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  And to get that thing over 4th place, that's a problem to me.
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  Yeah, and, and he looks like he's he's, he's pushing beyond
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  the limits and he's starting to crash where in the previous
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  years he wasn't crashing. So he's definitely motivated
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  because you know, you wouldn't be, you wouldn't be crashing if
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  you weren't motivated. What are your thoughts Tyson on
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  on Yamaha? I mean, I, I agree with pretty
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  much everything Sir John said. I, I, I'm probably more
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  pessimistic about them then Sir John.
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  I think they're just throwing whatever they can at the wall
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  and hoping that it sticks. Like my concern, like compared
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  to Honda, Honda's kind of like generally in a similar sort of
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  middle, lower tier and they kind of have some good turnouts,
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  whereas they're all over the place.
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  They'll win a race and then they'll be dead last the next
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  race and then they'll, you know, be top ten and then they'll be
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  dead last again. And it's that's kind of a
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  concerning thing for me seeing is that like you want
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  consistency to a degree. And that's what I think the V4,
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  I think they're just throwing something at the wall at the V4
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  and hoping that it fixes problems and keeps Fabio.
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  I agree with you, Sir John. I think pure talent.
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  I'll probably exclude some of the younger guys just because we
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  haven't seen so much about them so far.
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  But like pure talent on the grid.
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  Fabio is probably the only person who could realistically
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  compete with Mark on an equal bike.
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  I would love to see that throw down both of them on competitive
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  bikes would be unreal. I think the only chance for that
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  is 2027, though. I it's not happening next year
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  unless Fabio moves to Ducati like or or Aprilia at this
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  point, this stage in the game. But yeah, he's he reminds me a
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  lot of 2020 to 2023 Mark Marquez, like just absolutely
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  riding the piss out of the bike and just doing whatever he can
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  to pick up some points. And if you know, sometimes.
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  And you get hurt for it or it doesn't work out.
• 20:13
  But yeah, I'm relatively concerned about that.
• 20:16
  I hope it works out. I genuinely do cuz like Honda, I
• 20:19
  consider them one of the premier sort of brands.
• 20:21
  It would be terrible to see them.
• 20:23
  It's terrible to see them at the bottom of the grid.
• 20:25
  I agree on that, but I have to say, I mean, vinyalas can cut,
• 20:29
  you know, he might be able to run with black as well, No?
• 20:31
  Oh my. God, vinyalas.
• 20:34
  But I mean no, no. Oh no.
• 20:37
  Oh no. Wow, we.
• 20:41
  Were talking about Zarko and I was like you mean vinyalas
• 20:44
  adjacent? Come on, Vinny, Alice is 1 on
• 20:48
  almost four different manufacturers.
• 20:50
  I mean, you know, I know. It's very good, very impressive.
• 20:54
  It's. Huge.
• 20:54
  And he already knew the Yamaha was messing up before.
• 21:02
  Right, right, he said. Red Bomb.
• 21:08
  I've never seen a 2 step in a premier racing grid.
• 21:12
  Oh man, so Cuatarara, No, no Bagnaya, no Bazecki, none of
• 21:17
  those other guys. I'm just, I'm leaving the young
• 21:19
  people out. So huh.
• 21:21
  I just don't think they're in the same ballpark.
• 21:24
  But you think Cuatarara is I? Do for sure.
• 21:27
  I mean, like, if you look at them like these other guys, like
• 21:30
  I think they're doing the best with their talent and the bike
• 21:32
  that they have. But like Fabio, you look at the
• 21:35
  rest of his team and they're not doing well and he's doing 10
• 21:38
  places above them almost every race.
• 21:40
  Like eventually, you know. I hear what you're saying.
• 21:48
  I mean Vinyallis is kind of like Miller.
• 21:50
  I think they helped. They both those guys helped KTM
• 21:52
  take a leap when they got the KTM.
• 21:56
  So you know, I think there's something there, but I like what
• 21:59
  you guys are saying Let's talk about Morbideli and the Jan
• 22:03
  Antonio Morbideli got one more year.
• 22:05
  I know some other folks on the shows writing Morbideli off at
• 22:08
  the beginning of the year and Bastionini and some of these
• 22:11
  guys cuz they. Were.
• 22:13
  At the bottom, but what do you I'd love to see how you guys
• 22:16
  thoughts on on on Frankie. Did he deserve to get one more
• 22:20
  year at VR46 or is he just is he like Kawhi and and the owner of
• 22:24
  the Clippers? Fast Frankie, Fast Frankie
• 22:31
  Morbidelli. He's a good rider.
• 22:33
  He has skill and honestly, he has the bike which I no not, but
• 22:39
  he has the bike that is helping make his skills a little bit
• 22:44
  amplified with being on that bike.
• 22:47
  But I mean he can start a race and he can ride the race for the
• 22:50
  most part, you know, and it's hit or miss on if he saved his
• 22:54
  tires properly, you know, to finish the race in the top 6.
• 22:59
  But it's the mistakes he make so often to me that's like is mind
• 23:03
  boggling me. Do you know like you make the
• 23:06
  weirdest mistakes that cost you the biggest penalties that hurt
• 23:09
  you the most. So often, like so often.
• 23:12
  Like how is this even possible? So that part I don't understand.
• 23:18
  I mean, at the end of the day, everyone knows it's a big shift
• 23:21
  coming up in 27, so I honestly, I'm not too worried about
• 23:25
  shuffling my grid on bikes that I know I'm not going to be
• 23:27
  racing more than After Nature anyway.
• 23:29
  So sure, I'll give him a seat too.
• 23:31
  You're already here, already got rapport with you.
• 23:34
  Let's see what you can do next year.
• 23:35
  Yeah, my bad. I think Frankie's more like Tony
• 23:37
  Yayo to 50. Oh my God, you love him, but
• 23:44
  he's always doing. Something wrong?
• 23:46
  He's always doing something wrong, man.
• 23:47
  Always. Tyson I pretty much agree to the
• 23:55
  most part on that. Like dude just can't get out of
• 23:58
  his own way. Just like we all know those
• 24:00
  people who just like all the heart in the world, all the
• 24:03
  whatever skill or experience and they just, they just seem to put
• 24:07
  that left foot right in front of the right and just trip over
• 24:09
  themselves. You know, I was looking at the
• 24:13
  standings real quick and I'm like, I mean, he's beating Fabio
• 24:18
  by not much, but he's also nowhere near the other 20 fours.
• 24:24
  So I think given the regulation changes, like I'm not too
• 24:28
  shocked that they kept him. Like why why break up the party
• 24:32
  before? Like everyone's going to be
• 24:34
  looking for contracts coming into 2027.
• 24:37
  And I think that's what everyone's sort of like, you
• 24:39
  know, waiting to see like what's going to happen, you know,
• 24:42
  almost like right before an election year kind of deal, you
• 24:44
  know, like, let's just let's wait to see who wins to see how
• 24:47
  this economy is going to turn out kind of deal, you know?
• 24:50
  Do you do you think Dijon, Antonio and back now hurry up.
• 24:54
  Looking forward to seeing the 26th Ducati I.
• 24:58
  Don't think they're looking forward to much.
• 25:01
  I bet Peko is he wants anything but a 25 Ducati right now.
• 25:04
  I don't. Think it's going to help him?
• 25:08
  It's not. It's not.
• 25:10
  As long as he's going to get. Sick.
• 25:12
  You see what Frankie's doing on the 24 and you see what Alex
• 25:16
  Marquez is doing on the 24 so and he won the champion no, he
• 25:19
  didn't win the championship on the 24, but he was close he was
• 25:27
  close Let me see what else am I all right?
• 25:30
  I think they, you know, Elisha had came to race, but I think he
• 25:33
  got hurt so he didn't really get none.
• 25:35
  So is so it's possible that some cat Conchantra may be out of a
• 25:41
  seat and also well, at the moment, Olivera is out of a
• 25:44
  seat. Wait.
• 25:45
  Didn't some cat already lose his seat like months ago?
• 25:48
  I thought he was hurt. Yeah, I think he was injured.
• 25:51
  I think it was. Yeah, I thought they took a
• 25:53
  seat. Sorry, my bad.
• 25:54
  No, no, no. I think he got injured during a
• 25:57
  practice round and then the second the test rider end up
• 26:00
  getting injured too. So like both of them got injured
• 26:02
  back-to-back and then they threw somebody else.
• 26:05
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
• 26:12
  So, but what what are your thoughts on on those guys losing
• 26:15
  their seat? I mean, I feel like Oliveira
• 26:17
  should have a seat because he had it worse than mayor.
• 26:21
  I mean, for the last like 5 years, some other rider, I think
• 26:24
  there's only one time that he took himself out outside of
• 26:26
  that. It was like some other rider
• 26:28
  taking them out and and taking them out for like, you know,
• 26:32
  more than four races in in the season.
• 26:34
  Yeah. Yeah, Olivera is just that kid
• 26:40
  is a magnet for Rex, but I don't know who who gets taken out more
• 26:43
  him or mirror, you know, like, but they're always on the tail
• 26:47
  end of getting wrecked out by somebody else, like every single
• 26:51
  time. And it is it's heartbreaking
• 26:53
  because Olivera does have skill. Like he was able to do some
• 26:57
  things and like she like put the bike up front a couple of times
• 27:01
  in his career, you know, but for some reason he's just not able
• 27:06
  to avoid the bikes aren't able to avoid him.
• 27:08
  You know, he's just magnetizing it, you know, so I it's like to
• 27:12
  to see him get written off, but it's like you rather got to get
• 27:18
  fast enough to get away from that group of people doing all
• 27:21
  the wrecking, you know, like that's pretty much your only
• 27:24
  option because obviously stand back there.
• 27:26
  It's not helping your career out.
• 27:27
  I. Agree.
• 27:31
  Go. Ahead.
• 27:33
  I'm really not surprised either of them lost their seat,
• 27:35
  frankly. Like what is that?
• 27:39
  You're only as good as your last race.
• 27:41
  I mean, at this level of racing with this amount amount of money
• 27:44
  on the line, like, I mean, it sucks.
• 27:47
  Everyone would love to have, you know, I gave you 3 good years or
• 27:51
  whatever, you should give me a hand or whatever.
• 27:53
  But that's just not the world we live in, and it's not the series
• 27:56
  you're in. And it is what it is.
• 27:58
  But I feel for Miguel more than I feel for some some chat like
• 28:03
  he's he's like seconds off the pace.
• 28:06
  Like he shouldn't have been on the grid to begin with.
• 28:08
  Like, yeah, that seems dangerous.
• 28:10
  That seems like putting a novice in an expert race, you know what
• 28:12
  I mean? Like.
• 28:14
  Almost, but I think it's one of those things we're not what I
• 28:17
  think. I know for riders if Moto GP
• 28:21
  comes calling you have to accept.
• 28:25
  Because Moto GP contractor they gave me one right now.
• 28:28
  So so I. Don't fault him for it.
• 28:33
  I'm not saying like I wouldn't do the same thing.
• 28:35
  Yeah, but if I, if I guru went to the to the to Honda instead
• 28:39
  of a Berylia, Samcat would still be in Moto 2.
• 28:43
  But they, it's the I'm gonna mess up their name.
• 28:47
  But LCR, the Asian side, they want a Japanese ride or Asian
• 28:52
  rider on a bike, as they've done with Tekanakagami for years and
• 28:57
  stuff like that. And which makes sense, right?
• 29:00
  And because there's a lot of Asian riders racing in all parts
• 29:03
  of Asia right now. And when he goes to Indonesia,
• 29:06
  where he's from, he's like a God over there.
• 29:08
  Samcat even in Moto 2. So you know, it makes sense, but
• 29:14
  like, I don't think riders should be penalized because I
• 29:16
  think even Joe Roberts got penalized because he didn't want
• 29:19
  to go to Aprilia when Aprilia was really bad and and and he
• 29:22
  should at least have an opportunity to go with the track
• 29:25
  house racing team and stuff like that.
• 29:26
  But I think the parent company Aprilia is like, Nah, man, you
• 29:29
  had your chance and you said no to us kind of thing.
• 29:32
  So. But what are your thoughts on
• 29:34
  that? Pass Can you integrate?
• 29:41
  It's not. It's not Joe Roberts.
• 29:43
  Not. Yeah, Joe, Joe Robertson, just,
• 29:45
  you know, having to take that opportunity to go to Moto GP
• 29:49
  when you're not ready. Right.
• 29:52
  It's just one of those I think you're in a rocket between rock
• 29:54
  and hard place. I mean, I'm sure he understood
• 29:57
  the realities of that choice, whereas like if he said no, the
• 30:00
  the risks of them not wanting to sign them again are there.
• 30:03
  And I think why Samkhat took that contract because he knows
• 30:07
  like this is my one chance. Either I do well or I don't get
• 30:11
  the seat or if I deny this, I probably won't get a seat
• 30:14
  anyway. So I'll take the contract and
• 30:17
  see what I can do. Like, I don't think, I think
• 30:19
  that was Joe Robert's only opportunity to get into Moto GP.
• 30:21
  I don't think anyone else will give him a contract.
• 30:24
  I don't think anyone's seen any sort of performances worthy of
• 30:28
  giving him a Moto GP contract. I when I, when I saw that that
• 30:33
  he refused or whatever the rumors or the whatever came out,
• 30:36
  I was like, that was a mistake. Like if your goal is to go to
• 30:38
  Moto GP, you should have just taken it.
• 30:41
  But here we are. And he wasn't the only one.
• 30:44
  I mean, he wasn't he definitely. I mean I think Sam Logan ended
• 30:47
  up getting the seat eventually but back then and and Sam didn't
• 30:50
  make it the whole season I don't believe.
• 30:52
  And that's probably what would have happened to Joe, you know,
• 30:55
  like, unfortunately, unfortunately, but you know.
• 31:01
  Yeah, I, I, I agree. So all right, let's we're
• 31:05
  running through. Did you guys catch any of the
• 31:08
  Moto 2 races before we we talk about this weekend coming up?
• 31:13
  It was a pretty impressive race. You know, Gonzales is leading
• 31:17
  the championship and you know, he's fighting I think with
• 31:21
  connect, but Diego's like right there and obviously he he messed
• 31:25
  things up this past week, past weekend for those guys and and
• 31:28
  Balaton thoughts on Moto 2 and how how how the racing is going
• 31:33
  on for the whole season. I I didn't watch.
• 31:37
  I'll leave it to the guys that watched.
• 31:41
  Yeah, same here. Like I really I didn't watch
• 31:43
  Moto 2. I haven't been following Moto 2
• 31:45
  too heavy this year. I do know Connect is riding the
• 31:49
  best he's rode in his career. I feel like with the
• 31:54
  consistency, because I've always wondered about Connect, is like,
• 31:59
  why aren't you not progressing? Because you've been at this for
• 32:02
  a while, you know? But it's one of those things,
• 32:04
  you know, honestly, just sometimes your time is your time
• 32:07
  and it doesn't come when it comes as early for some people.
• 32:11
  But I feel like he's doing good right now.
• 32:13
  He has a couple points he needs to try to close if he wants it.
• 32:16
  Gonzalez is rolling, so good luck.
• 32:20
  And you also got the young cat right behind you, you know, so
• 32:23
  it's kind of like he can't make a mistake.
• 32:25
  But like I said, for Moto 2, it's been a lot of highlights
• 32:29
  and just kind of catching up just real briefly with Moto 2.
• 32:34
  But I I agree that Canet's riding the best.
• 32:37
  He's having the best seasons he's had.
• 32:39
  I think he's one of the the most races.
• 32:41
  I mean, he's usually in second place and fighting for the
• 32:45
  championship this far into the season because usually in the
• 32:47
  beginning of the season he'll be up there and then injuries.
• 32:51
  I mean, like, yeah, at least with Mayor, he'll fall and walk
• 32:54
  back. Like Canet, most of the times he
• 32:57
  fall, he's hurting. So he's breaking something.
• 32:59
  Yeah. He's like Martine.
• 33:03
  Soft bones seriously. And, and, and, and we saw that,
• 33:09
  that he's, I mean, and he's been riding wounded, you know, for
• 33:11
  several races this year already and, and, and kind of finished
• 33:15
  further back. And now that he's healthy again,
• 33:17
  you, you kind of see his pace coming back and stuff like that.
• 33:20
  So, you know, he, that's one guy I think should have a motor,
• 33:23
  should have had a Moto GP ride, because I think he is one of the
• 33:25
  talented, the talented, the riders in Moto 2.
• 33:31
  And, and I know, like, you know, there's, there's been rumors in
• 33:34
  the past when, you know, just he had just had too many tattoos
• 33:38
  and, and, and some manufacturers didn't want that associated to
• 33:43
  their brand and stuff like that, which is kind of weird because
• 33:46
  first of all, everyone in in, in Moto GP has a tattoo.
• 33:50
  So, so that's crazy. So let's, let's talk about what
• 33:55
  to expect this weekend in Cataluna.
• 33:58
  You know it, I believe it's Marquez's home track.
• 34:02
  And you know, I got, I got to look at the stats and see if
• 34:05
  we'll look at the stats and see how some of these other riders
• 34:08
  have done. But let's kind of kind of talk
• 34:10
  about Cataluna. You know, what do you think of
• 34:12
  that track, the location, the, the atmosphere is going to be
• 34:17
  like as well, 'cause I, you know this, the Spaniards, they, they
• 34:21
  love motorcycle racing. Look at this point of the
• 34:29
  career, I mean, not career, but this point of the season, I'm
• 34:34
  just like, just go ahead and give it to him already.
• 34:38
  He's winning at Marcus, winning at track to where he's sucked at
• 34:43
  and he's winning, you know, So like you got the he's hungry,
• 34:49
  you know, and I feel like he, he's definitely proved a point,
• 34:52
  you know, and I feel like he did that last year with Garcini
• 34:55
  where he made that choice to be like, I'm racing big Garcini for
• 34:59
  nothing because I just want to be competitive.
• 35:01
  And now he's on factory and he's proven it this year.
• 35:04
  Like he's dominant. I feel like Cataluna is going to
• 35:06
  be exciting for the first couple of laps and then it's going to
• 35:10
  be Gap City and he's going to do his thing or he's going to sit
• 35:13
  behind whoever is in first place, probably Ben Seki, and
• 35:16
  sit behind him for up until the last two laps and then instantly
• 35:20
  passing me walk 4 seconds ahead of him.
• 35:22
  You know, like that's my anticipations.
• 35:28
  It's going to be a good race for 2nd place and back.
• 35:30
  Got you. What do you think about the
• 35:32
  atmosphere and stuff like that and the meaning of Cataluna?
• 35:35
  We've seen some really good battles in the past.
• 35:39
  So you know, it is a good place for a good showdown.
• 35:43
  You think we're going to it sounds like you're saying it's
• 35:46
  going to make like Marquez might kind of run away with it and and
• 35:51
  let me know when y'all catch up. I mean, that's my personal
• 35:55
  opinion, You know, like there certain people at certain tracks
• 35:59
  are able to close the gap on him a little bit, but when it comes
• 36:02
  down to who wants to win more and who has the skill to get it
• 36:06
  done, that's where the separation comes from, you know,
• 36:09
  like, so that's where he has the tools necessary.
• 36:13
  Honestly, he's riding the best bike on the grid right now, but
• 36:16
  he also has the mind and the skills on top of that to put to
• 36:21
  work with. He needs to be clutched and hey,
• 36:25
  I got X amount of time to rid this person here.
• 36:27
  I got X amount of time to win this race.
• 36:29
  Let me buckle down and do it. There's not a lot of people on
• 36:32
  grid that can compete against that version of Mark Marquez
• 36:35
  now. I feel like that's what
• 36:36
  separates them. So I don't want to say he's
• 36:38
  going to run away with it, but it's like unless you do run away
• 36:42
  with it further enough for out of his reach quick enough, he's
• 36:47
  going to win the race, OK. What are your thoughts, Tyson?
• 36:51
  Far gone conclusion or you know Vinales is going to come back
• 36:56
  and. You know, oh boy.
• 37:01
  The Batman that's. Right.
• 37:06
  I mean, he's going to win unless, I mean, he's competing
• 37:08
  with himself. So if he decides to crash, he's
• 37:11
  not going to win. If he doesn't crash, he's going
• 37:13
  to win. I think to your point, Sir John,
• 37:17
  like I think this is the most complete mark has ever been.
• 37:20
  Like, I don't think it's I don't necessarily think it's the
• 37:22
  fastest he's ever been. Like, you know, a couple years
• 37:25
  ago in his Honda heydays, I think he was just like, he was
• 37:27
  just trying to prove the point that he's the fastest thing with
• 37:29
  two thumbs. And like he just he didn't care.
• 37:34
  He was like, I'm going to make a point that like, I know I'm
• 37:36
  winning. I'm in first place, but I'm
• 37:38
  going to put, you know, gaps on you.
• 37:40
  Like I'm going to finish this race 40 seconds ahead.
• 37:43
  I mean, I don't know actually, but like that kind of point.
• 37:45
  Whereas now I think he's just like, you know what I don't
• 37:48
  need? I don't like I'm going to win.
• 37:50
  Why should I risk everything for, you know, an extra couple
• 37:54
  seconds just for bragging rights?
• 37:55
  So I think that's what I mean by the most complete where he's
• 37:58
  like, OK, I can relax and like not risk my body, not risk these
• 38:02
  points and just win the race. No one else can touch me and his
• 38:07
  control is insane. Like I watching him race other
• 38:11
  guys, it's like watching an expert fight an amateur like and
• 38:16
  they're all top of the line, premier class riders, the best
• 38:20
  in the world. But he just does what he wants
• 38:22
  when he wants to. And that is the scariest thing
• 38:26
  about him. Like this year, like just OK, I
• 38:30
  don't pass you this corner whenever, you know, next corner,
• 38:33
  corner after that, next lap, whatever, it'll happen.
• 38:37
  We'll do it. And it's just like, I don't
• 38:39
  know, can compete, but I really hope Bez keeps it up.
• 38:43
  I hope Martine's doing better. Like I think Martine's a better
• 38:45
  rider than Bez. He's just still getting up to
• 38:47
  speed. I think if they both were up to
• 38:49
  speed, I think Martine would realistically be in second at
• 38:54
  this stage. Maybe, maybe fighting Alex for
• 38:56
  2nd to a degree. But like I don't think he would
• 38:58
  be behind Petco. That Aprilia is pretty good and
• 39:04
  it's with a faster rider I like. I think if Mark was on the the
• 39:07
  Aprilia, he probably would have still won the championship I.
• 39:11
  Agree I'm. Not any of the other.
• 39:12
  Bikes, yeah, I would agree with that too.
• 39:14
  After seeing what Bez is doing and after seeing what Martine
• 39:16
  did the other day, I can say I I I think so too.
• 39:19
  I think, I think if Mark was on an Aprilia, he he would be
• 39:23
  fighting for the championship. Would he have as many points as
• 39:26
  he has right now? I don't know, but I think he
• 39:28
  because Aprilia is very competitive, yeah.
• 39:32
  I 100% agree with that right there.
• 39:34
  Like, I don't think he'd be walking away with the
• 39:35
  championship, but I think it would be like someone's going to
• 39:38
  have to put up a serious fight to like, take it from him.
• 39:42
  It would have to be Fabio on a Ducati.
• 39:48
  Say, because the whole thing is like 14, Jorge left because Mark
• 39:52
  took his seat. Like he was like, I'm getting
• 39:54
  the Ducati seat. Well, that's it.
• 39:55
  So what if Mark stays or whatever and Mark goes to
• 39:58
  Aprilia and Jorge then goes to the Ducati?
• 40:02
  Like what would that championship be?
• 40:03
  It would be Jorge, most likely. The 24 would be.
• 40:06
  My guess is I don't think Petco and Jorge would have taken the
• 40:09
  25. But so the 24 against Mark on
• 40:13
  the what is the RS25I think that'll be quite the
• 40:16
  championship throwdown and I think it would be between Jorge
• 40:19
  and Mark, not Pekko. Yeah, and just watching again
• 40:24
  what he did this past weekend, Martine, I I feel like it, it's
• 40:29
  possible that yeah, he might be. Well, let me ask this before we
• 40:32
  move on to another manufacturer because I mean, and I've been
• 40:35
  saying it all, I haven't been, I haven't brought this up all
• 40:38
  season, but and I've kind of been bashing Ducati.
• 40:42
  But how much credit should Ducati get the team get for what
• 40:44
  Mark is doing? None.
• 40:46
  I don't look at the rest of the riders.
• 40:53
  It's that's tough. That's a tough question
• 40:56
  actually, because it's like you want to be like, Oh no, Ducati
• 40:58
  did this, but you got Pekko being a fierce fighter for what,
• 41:06
  three years in a row? That face plants hard on that
• 41:09
  25. Everyone else is kind of like
• 41:13
  whether you got mark being marked.
• 41:15
  So I. Mean, I do mean to cut you off,
• 41:18
  but like Alex was doing well, Fuhrman is up there as well.
• 41:21
  So it's not just Mark. Obviously Mark is the one that's
• 41:23
  winning, but. So, but that's the thing though.
• 41:26
  So like, it's not just Mark, but it is just Mark because you got
• 41:30
  Ricky Outiger, which she is. He has so many random flashes of
• 41:36
  like greatness. It's crazy.
• 41:38
  Ellie. Junior.
• 41:41
  Yeah, that that's that dude is like, I'm excited to watch him
• 41:44
  like two or three years down the line.
• 41:46
  Oh, Alex was doing good. Oh, you know, so they can ride
• 41:48
  the bike. So John, one second Mark, Mark,
• 41:52
  66% of Ducati's points. There you go. 66.
• 41:58
  Wow, Yeah, I. I.
• 42:05
  Mean, yeah. I feel like Alex and and and
• 42:10
  Herman. I mean, they're doing good.
• 42:13
  So Dakota is doing something because they're doing something,
• 42:17
  correct. The thing is, I feel like they I
• 42:20
  hope they don't get too locked in on Mark's performance because
• 42:24
  at the end of the day, you're going to end up like Honda if
• 42:28
  you don't pay attention. Yeah.
• 42:30
  Yeah, what they, what they should do is they should have
• 42:35
  like blind rider feedback or Mark should just say just give
• 42:41
  me a bike. Don't fucking listen to me.
• 42:44
  Listen to everybody else but me. Like I'm clearly going to win on
• 42:48
  whatever you give me. So like, if you want your bike
• 42:50
  to be better, ignore anything I tell you and listen to everybody
• 42:53
  else. Well, I mean, in our fairness,
• 42:55
  Mark only got there, so they were listening to all 8 riders
• 42:59
  and we saw what 8 riders were doing, you know, being very
• 43:03
  competitive at different track, different riders winning when
• 43:06
  they had eight bikes on the grid.
• 43:07
  So you know, there's something to be said for that and, and
• 43:10
  that's what Aprilia is doing. You know, that that kind of
• 43:13
  mindset of listening to the riders.
• 43:15
  We see that with KTM as well. Honda's starting to adapt that
• 43:19
  Yamaha is trying to. So that's kind of the way.
• 43:22
  But Mark is doing something that these other guys are not doing.
• 43:26
  But again, you're saying it wouldn't matter because if he
• 43:29
  was on the KTM, he'll just do the same thing?
• 43:31
  Or in April, Yeah. 100%. Yeah, I think the Aprilia for
• 43:36
  sure. I'm I'm not 100% certain he
• 43:38
  could win the championship on a KTMI.
• 43:40
  Think he would fight for it and I think.
• 43:42
  He would fight for it. It would make it interesting for
• 43:45
  sure. KTM, I don't think he.
• 43:46
  Could pull it off. Well, so the weird thing is Mark
• 43:50
  likes to wobbly, or kind of. He likes to push the front a lot
• 43:54
  and has that loose, weird front wobbly feeling that I think he
• 43:58
  likes. So it's kind of like, and it has
• 44:00
  the power. Like the way that these KTMS are
• 44:03
  freight training these Ducatis on straightaways right now is
• 44:05
  ridiculous. Like I thought ducks were the
• 44:08
  fastest thing. Sorry, I think he would.
• 44:11
  Have struggled quite a bit with the chatter, like they all
• 44:14
  struggled quite a bit like I think he's amazing, but I
• 44:16
  there's just some things like he just can't work around and I
• 44:18
  think that would have been a serious struggle that would have
• 44:21
  Hanford him at the the first half of the season.
• 44:24
  Like they seem like they've sort of figured it out to a degree.
• 44:26
  But Mark's big thing is he loves sliding the front.
• 44:29
  He loves being hard with brakes, really pushing that front into
• 44:32
  corners and if your rear tire is just entire time.
• 44:37
  Like how much can you? Trust when you have grip.
• 44:39
  Like when can you tell it's the phone chattering or the rear
• 44:41
  chattering kind of deal? So yeah, I think you could you.
• 44:45
  Make it interesting and I think he.
• 44:46
  Would make a serious attempt on the KTM for the championship.
• 44:49
  I just don't know if he could realistically pull it off.
• 44:52
  Yeah, it wouldn't be a. It wouldn't be a guarantee,
• 44:55
  that's for sure. I feel like they're brilliant.
• 44:59
  A brilliant would be I. Still would probably say it's a.
• 45:01
  Guarantee it would just be closer, but any other
• 45:06
  manufacturer from their light out of it's just it wouldn't
• 45:08
  work. Not with their current standing
• 45:10
  or where they're at. I mean, Mark is good, but he's
• 45:13
  you can't, you're not that good. Like, you can't be that good,
• 45:17
  you know? Like, yeah, since he's the
• 45:20
  Messiah, not God. Right, exactly.
• 45:24
  So OK. So.
• 45:24
  Mark in the 1st place who's? In 2nd and and 3rd and what do
• 45:28
  you what do you guys think? Where's Yamaha in in the
• 45:32
  standings and over the weekend? What do you guys think?
• 45:38
  Cataluna I think. Fabio, he'll put it in the.
• 45:40
  Top well in the Sprint, he'll probably put it in the top
• 45:43
  seven. I'll give him if he can finish
• 45:46
  the race and not wreck out in the first corner.
• 45:53
  I think, I think Fabio, I think Yamaha.
• 45:55
  'S probably Fabio will be top ten, but the rest of the Yamahas
• 46:00
  probably won't touch the top 10. They seem to struggle here last
• 46:04
  year. I mean, obviously different
• 46:05
  bikes to a degree, but they're all iterations on previous
• 46:07
  bikes. So especially with Honda doing
• 46:11
  better, I think they're probably going to chip away at some of
• 46:12
  their sort of successes that they had.
• 46:16
  And it looks like Aprilia and KTM did pretty well around
• 46:19
  Catalunya last year. So I think it would be a a
• 46:21
  pretty interesting race. I think it realistically could
• 46:23
  be up to anybody, OK. So we got Aprilia.
• 46:30
  So did you guys say Aprilia? You think Bazecki or Martini
• 46:34
  will be, you know, top five? I think I think Bazecki would
• 46:42
  certainly be top. 3. Benz is on a roll right now.
• 46:47
  You know, like. It's hard to, it's hard to
• 46:50
  really break that momentum when you got it going.
• 46:53
  So I do expect this game in the top three again as well, just
• 46:57
  like Tyson said. Okay.
• 47:02
  How about the you know, Alder gear?
• 47:05
  I know Alex hasn't been the same since he is injury, which is
• 47:10
  unfortunate, you know, because he's showing he's showing some
• 47:14
  pace but making some mistakes. So you think I you know, and
• 47:18
  same thing with mobile Delhi and Digia.
• 47:20
  How do you think the other Ducatis are going to fare and
• 47:22
  and even best back now you because we haven't talked about
• 47:25
  back now you much. But you know, I know you guys
• 47:28
  are saying he's he's he's done for the season, but Petco, Petco
• 47:32
  is not he's not. Mentally there, Petco is like
• 47:35
  somewhere on vacation, crying in a corner somewhere.
• 47:39
  Like he's mentally been checked out.
• 47:42
  I feel like, like he's yeah. I mean, I think he's.
• 47:47
  Obviously he's struggling, that's quite obvious.
• 47:51
  But I mean, you look at Fabio too, like I don't, I mean
• 47:54
  Fabio's no Jorge Martine or Fabio or Quattuaro or Marquez,
• 47:59
  but like he's still a quick rider and he's not doing
• 48:02
  anything on the 25. So I think generally the 25 is a
• 48:06
  was a the wrong development choice for Ducati, at least this
• 48:11
  year. Like who?
• 48:11
  Knows if. Whatever you know an iteration
• 48:14
  is better or not, but right and in all fitness.
• 48:18
  Mark does say there's issues with the bike, but he knows how
• 48:21
  to ride around it, right? So.
• 48:26
  He like he had to ride around Honda his.
• 48:27
  Whole career, well, he's like you guys are struggling with
• 48:30
  these. You would have died on the
• 48:32
  Honda. I I, I I.
• 48:38
  Yeah, I I I agree. I think so.
• 48:40
  I mean, I think that if I think the, the struggles that Marquez
• 48:44
  had on that Honda made him a better rider coming to Ducati.
• 48:49
  I mean, it's kind of like, you know, if you, if you grow up
• 48:51
  playing basketball on a crate and all of a sudden you're
• 48:53
  shooting in a, in a, in a, in a, in a rim, you're going to
• 48:57
  probably hit way more shots than you were hitting in that crate
• 48:59
  and probably be way more accurate kind of thing.
• 49:02
  Not the same way. Not to say I'm calling the Honda
• 49:04
  a crate, but milk crate I mean but.
• 49:08
  Yeah. What do you what do you guys
• 49:13
  think about? Al the gear, like I said, Mark,
• 49:19
  Alex Marquez and the the VR46 guys.
• 49:22
  I mean, I think it's a track that these guys have gone well
• 49:25
  at in the past and you know, can they?
• 49:29
  I mean, you know, if I was them, I would all work together and
• 49:31
  and try to get in Marquez in front of Marquez at different
• 49:34
  times of the race and see who, you know who nobody can make it
• 49:37
  at the end. Like in some maneuver into turn
• 49:40
  1. Like exactly because because you
• 49:45
  know, you see that Bazecki fights, you see more Badeli
• 49:50
  fight, you see Digio fight, you see Acosta fight.
• 49:53
  You know, we haven't seen Fermin Alligator because he's just been
• 49:55
  further in the back and Mark just had so much time in front
• 49:58
  of him that he hasn't been able to do that.
• 50:01
  We have seen Alex fight with his brother, but you know he made
• 50:06
  one mistake and and that was that he could just questionable.
• 50:12
  Tell us. What you think and then you
• 50:15
  know, Tyson, you can, you can follow up after that.
• 50:18
  But yeah, you know, what do you think about the other Ducati
• 50:20
  riders and, and do they stay on the shot?
• 50:22
  And also the, the, the, the, the riders I mentioned, because
• 50:25
  they've kind of fought with, they've kind of been in front of
• 50:29
  Marquez in different sections of the race.
• 50:31
  I won't say they, they, they fought with him.
• 50:34
  Yeah, it's tough. Because I put up like.
• 50:37
  The finishes for last year, just to see kind of where everyone
• 50:41
  went at and it's like you got to pray that finished fourth.
• 50:45
  You, of course, you got Petco Martin Mark, Mark finished
• 50:49
  third, you know, so it's, it's, it's questionable to me because
• 50:54
  it's like I could maybe. Give Ben Seki.
• 50:58
  Like, just because he's on the road, give him the credit.
• 51:00
  Like he's going to be up front at some point, you know, so he's
• 51:04
  going to make a good solid fight for it.
• 51:06
  And he, he does have a fighter spirit, you know, he's not
• 51:08
  scared to light you up, you know, so he will send it.
• 51:12
  DG actually finished. Well, he was top five, he was in
• 51:15
  fifth, you know, but he's also struggling on a 25.
• 51:18
  So it's like, how does that translate now?
• 51:20
  You know, so all the, these Ducati guys that were out front
• 51:23
  last year are on 20 fives now and they're struggling except
• 51:27
  for Mark. That's where the, I feel like
• 51:29
  the other brands have a stock, you know, you can see their
• 51:32
  previews come up front. You can see the Hondas get back
• 51:35
  up there. That's it.
• 51:42
  That's sort of red stuff. It's, it's just like it.
• 51:46
  It's. Unpredictable.
• 51:47
  You could say it KTM. I mean, so I will.
• 51:52
  Say the KTM what Acosta, he's he's going to finish in the top
• 51:57
  five a wreck out, you know, like and he's not scared to fight you
• 52:01
  either. You know, like he's not scared
• 52:02
  to fight. He's not he he's not oh, you're
• 52:04
  a world champion. I don't care.
• 52:06
  I'm about to light you up inside stuff, you know, So like, he's
• 52:09
  definitely is going to send it as well.
• 52:12
  That's beautiful. Bassinini is showing signs of
• 52:16
  finally getting comfortable on the KTM, which he's phenomenal
• 52:21
  at. Late pace race, I mean late race
• 52:23
  pace, he always comes on strong. And I'm starting to see that
• 52:27
  over the last, what, 2 rounds? I think he started making
• 52:29
  strides. Then he won one round he wrecked
• 52:32
  out. But still, it's starting to show
• 52:34
  that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 52:35
  It's starting to show that. Sign of like him.
• 52:38
  Getting comfortable and then we do have to say we do have
• 52:41
  Maverick, which is coming back, granted, depending on his health
• 52:44
  and how he actually feels, this is a track to where he's fast
• 52:48
  at, you know, so he could mix up the grid a little bit here and
• 52:51
  there. And if the stars align, you
• 52:53
  know, he could be a threat as well.
• 52:55
  So there's a lot of, you know, the KTM boys.
• 52:58
  I can, honestly. See out.
• 52:59
  Out running the anyone on the on those ducks minus Mark.
• 53:06
  Yeah, I I agree, Alicia. Sparger is going to be in a
• 53:09
  race. I think that's his home track as
• 53:12
  well. I think he did well.
• 53:14
  If I'm not mistaken, he did well on the April year in 23 there I
• 53:17
  thought, I think he won. What was that year?
• 53:21
  He was he the last. He won.
• 53:21
  The he won. The Sprint.
• 53:23
  He won the Sprint. OK.
• 53:24
  Yeah, yeah, because. He did he like, think the race
• 53:26
  was over? Early and like pulled up
• 53:28
  celebrating years ago. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 53:31
  They were showing that all. Over like Instagram and YouTube
• 53:34
  today. It was hilarious.
• 53:35
  But that's the problem too for the grid.
• 53:37
  Because. Elisha at that strike is fast so
• 53:40
  it's like low key he can snatch one of those top ten positions
• 53:43
  right from underneath somebody like easy yeah right from.
• 53:49
  Yes. Oh man.
• 53:55
  Yeah, he could. And and you know, the Honda is
• 53:58
  in the top four, top six. So the Honda is definitely
• 54:01
  quick. But what are your thoughts,
• 54:04
  Tyson? You agree kind of with what Sir
• 54:06
  John is saying as far as did we miss anyone that can be
• 54:11
  competitive with Mark right now, I'm really high on.
• 54:14
  Fuhrman, I really didn't have too many thoughts on him last
• 54:18
  year. And really at the beginning of
• 54:19
  this year I was like, yeah, we'll see how he does.
• 54:21
  You know, he seems to be a hot commodity, but I haven't
• 54:24
  necessarily seen anything out of him.
• 54:26
  But, you know, other than Mark doing his fun hot laps at the
• 54:30
  end of the race in the 30 sevens, he was the only other
• 54:33
  racer in the 30 sevens. Like if he didn't and that was
• 54:36
  after he crashed, if he hadn't have crashed, could he have kept
• 54:40
  up with? Mark, could he have actually
• 54:41
  like pushed? Him into a couple corners, like
• 54:43
  I don't think he would have beat him, but I could see him making
• 54:45
  like a, you know, showing a wheel and then mark just being
• 54:47
  like good luck next time kid, and then like so.
• 54:52
  I I think if it was. A video game and you could turn
• 54:54
  off tirewear. He, he, he would, he, he would
• 54:58
  definitely beat Mark. But I, I think, you know, Mark
• 55:02
  has all, has pretty much everyone's number in the sense
• 55:07
  that like, OK, yeah, I know this dude is fast because I see, I
• 55:09
  see his times and I got the data and stuff like that.
• 55:13
  But he's starting back here and he's, he already knows like, all
• 55:16
  right, he's going to have to burn, you know, he's going to
• 55:18
  have to keep this pace to catch up to me.
• 55:20
  And, and as long as I, I, I'm, I'm ahead of him by a second and
• 55:23
  a half, I'm good. And he's going to run out of
• 55:26
  tire because like you get, like you guys said, he just waits
• 55:29
  until somebody makes a mistake or somebody just burns their
• 55:32
  tire out too soon. And, and then he, and then he
• 55:36
  pounces. So I, I, I think for Furman, he
• 55:39
  has to qualify well. And then when I say, well, he
• 55:42
  got to be at least top six and, and then he's going to have to
• 55:46
  just become the bigger than the race.
• 55:49
  You'll have some real good races.
• 55:50
  If you can get tops like first or second row qualifying, he's
• 55:54
  going to have some good races coming up and I think he's
• 55:57
  realistically, I think Ducati should be looking at him for
• 56:00
  some future plans. I mean, obviously if his
• 56:02
  performances continue kind of deal and you know he keeps it
• 56:05
  up, but he don't have, you know, he's he's.
• 56:09
  Yeah, he signed. With Ducati specifically, not
• 56:11
  with Garcini or nothing like he signed to Ducati contract.
• 56:14
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's the interesting.
• 56:17
  Part to. Where it's like they're planning
• 56:19
  on him being the star, yeah, but that's just like his contract
• 56:23
  ends at. The end of 2026, correct?
• 56:25
  Correct. Yes.
• 56:27
  Yes, yes, yes. So it'll be yes.
• 56:29
  It'll be interesting to see what I I think.
• 56:31
  You know, I remember, I think it was a Bobby Shakes, I forget who
• 56:34
  said that, that, you know, Alex Marquez could get a factory
• 56:39
  seat. And then when he said it, I
• 56:41
  thought he was crazy. But then after seeing what Alex
• 56:44
  Marquez did. But, you know, I think the next
• 56:46
  year the factory seat is open for Furman or any other rider
• 56:53
  that does better than I think back night or next year.
• 56:55
  Yeah, I mean, I would love to see Alex.
• 56:58
  Doing better. I mean, he's obviously in
• 56:59
  second. He's doing a great job this
• 57:00
  year. It's the best he's done in
• 57:01
  motor, whatever. But much like Bez or Frankie or
• 57:06
  Veniales, like you got to put a whole season together, you know,
• 57:10
  like you can't just have 5 good races and then the rest of them
• 57:13
  mediocre. Like I don't think that
• 57:16
  performance, like if you can pull out another second next
• 57:19
  year, I'd say Ducati probably looks at him realistically.
• 57:22
  But other than that, I doubt they're actually looking at him
• 57:24
  for a realistic contract on their team.
• 57:27
  You know, listen, Mayor. You know, won a world title and
• 57:31
  didn't win 5 races. The late, great Nikki Hayden
• 57:36
  didn't win 5 races and won a title.
• 57:38
  I mean, I know it's a different time now because there's Mark
• 57:40
  Marquez and he's healthy and, and on the best bike on the
• 57:43
  grid. But you know, you, it, it, it
• 57:46
  does happen. That's the thing.
• 57:47
  The Spurs won a championship too.
• 57:48
  But you know, that's, I mean, it certainly does.
• 57:50
  It's just one of the like. It goes with like the grid to a
• 57:53
  degree, you know, like, depends on how other people are doing
• 57:56
  it. If I had a choice between Furman
• 57:58
  and Alex and Furman was like behind Alex next year in the
• 58:01
  championship and just on fire, I probably would probably take him
• 58:04
  over Alex and leave Alex and Cosini.
• 58:06
  Like he's getting older too. I mean, he's not ancient or
• 58:09
  anything, but you know, was he 2930?
• 58:11
  Yeah, and and I think Furman. Is a better rider than Alex in
• 58:16
  the sense that I think Furman to me, and I've said this on air,
• 58:21
  Furman is Aldiga is a better rider than Acosta because when
• 58:25
  Furman was in the European series on a Moto 2 bike and and
• 58:30
  Acosta was in Moto 3, like he was nasty on that European
• 58:34
  series and stuff like that. And, you know, even his first
• 58:37
  year in Moto 2, he Furman was nice.
• 58:41
  And then once he got that Ducati contract, it was almost like all
• 58:44
  of a sudden, you know, he, he was, you know, taking days off,
• 58:47
  it felt like. And, and in Moto 2, you know
• 58:50
  what I'm saying, which if you signed him, I know you're trying
• 58:52
  to save your body for Moto GP, but like, you signed the Moto 2.
• 58:56
  So you know what I'm saying? Like you should, you should, he
• 58:59
  should have showed up last year in Moto 2.
• 59:00
  And I think he, he, he kind of just, you know, I don't know, he
• 59:04
  made mistakes, was kind of doing silly stuff and stuff like that
• 59:07
  towards even after they after, after Ducati announced that
• 59:11
  because he forced Ducati to say he had the factory contract at
• 59:14
  Phillip Island. And and and so when that
• 59:16
  happened and after that, he just kind of, you know, like you just
• 59:20
  got, you just got rich and just started partying, not taking it
• 59:27
  seriously. And but it's so it's good to see
• 59:29
  him, you know, being competitive now and, and, and he's a rookie
• 59:33
  and which is which is really also impressive.
• 59:37
  You know, it's it's good to see that that year was just kind of
• 59:40
  what it was. But at the same time, I think
• 59:42
  the team from last year didn't get the the firm in that
• 59:46
  Grasini's getting this year, yeah.
• 59:51
  I think unless I've. Missed anything?
• 59:53
  I think we've covered a lot for what's coming to what's coming
• 59:58
  for Moto GP this round, so if I missed anything or if you guys
• 1:00:02
  want to, you know, bring up something, you know, now will be
• 1:00:04
  time, guys. Let's see what happens.
• 1:00:11
  I like that I. I I like.
• 1:00:13
  That definitely see what happens and, and, and also, I guess I, I
• 1:00:19
  don't know if you guys have seen this.
• 1:00:20
  So we'll, we'll leave on this note.
• 1:00:23
  There is a, a, a finance group that's looking to buy Formula
• 1:00:29
  One. Will you guys, you know, I don't
• 1:00:32
  know if you've heard about that. And you know, right now Liberty
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  Media Groups own Formula One and they own, I believe it 80% if
• 1:00:41
  not all of Moto GP. So if Liberty was to sell
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  Formula One, now all of a sudden that pie gets a lot smaller for
• 1:00:49
  with just Moto GP. But you guys, I don't know if
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  you heard anything about that and if you have or if you're
• 1:00:54
  just hearing it now, what do you think is like Formula One should
• 1:00:57
  be sold? I mean, if it's, who owns the?
• 1:01:08
  Death of Formula One. Say again, who owns it?
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  Yeah, that's really. Who owns it right now?
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  Liberty Media Group Same. Owners, They bought a media,
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  yeah. OK.
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  Yeah, and they bought it 10. Years ago, 15 years ago,
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  something like that, something like that.
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  Mid twenty 10s they bought it from and I think it's a it's a
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  middle. Eastern I or Saudi group that's
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  trying to buy it off for ridiculous money, but they, I
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  think they, they turned them down once and they, and they,
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  and they're back at the table again trying to say, Hey, you
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  know, which I mean, you know, if it was to go to, I assume if
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  you're trying to buy something and they own two companies,
• 1:01:45
  you'd probably try to get both, right?
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  Moto GP and Formula One, because I, I can see the package deal
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  having Moto GP in that camp because, you know, I think
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  they're trying to bring Moto GP into where Formula One is as far
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  as entertainment value. And also kind of you look at
• 1:02:02
  what you see in it with I, I, I would say European soccer with
• 1:02:05
  shakes. It says it's just soccer.
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  We see what's happening. Oh, oh, I should say.
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  Football. My bad.
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  With with, with, with football over there as as far as the
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  amount of money and the and the crowds and stuff like that.
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  I I doubt they can sell Moto. GP because they just got Moto
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  GP, did they not in like the last eight months, something
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  like that? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  But my guess? Is there's some sort of like
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  contracts? On how long they can possess it
• 1:02:31
  and stuff like that. So I obviously I have no idea.
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  I have no idea what's in those contracts, but right from
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  Martine does. Oh boy.
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  Oh boy. You got to read them contracts,
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  man. Oh, man, but you're right, we
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  don't know. And, and I and I and I hope it's
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  just somebody, it's just a team that's, I mean, it's just a
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  company that's looking and they stick around because, yeah, like
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  I, I just really started watching Formula One more often
• 1:03:02
  in the last few years. But it's very entertaining and,
• 1:03:06
  and I like what they're doing and, and I see what's the stuff
• 1:03:09
  they've already done in Moto GP and, and how much better Moto GP
• 1:03:13
  is, not necessarily from a writer perspective, but from an
• 1:03:16
  entertainment perspective. As far as logging on, as far as
• 1:03:19
  just, you know, how the the press conferences are now and
• 1:03:23
  stuff like that, which is if you're, if you're long in the
• 1:03:26
  tooth, as someone like to say, you probably might not like to
• 1:03:30
  change because you always want to see the top three writers in
• 1:03:32
  the press conference. Well, it's nice to see other
• 1:03:34
  writers in the press conference now.
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  Yeah, so. It is.
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  It is good to get that at the marketing.
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  Out there. I like Liberty Media.
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  They've obviously done quite a bit with Formula One.
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  Formula One's more popular than it's ever been.
• 1:03:47
  My only problem with Liberty Media is that they love St.
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  circuits and I hate St. circuits.
• 1:03:53
  Like they're terrible circuits. Like at first they were fun and
• 1:03:58
  now it's like now that there's like whatever 8 St. circuits on
• 1:04:01
  the calendar, it's like come on. Like there's great tracks like
• 1:04:03
  they go to Vegas and Miami, like go to Rd.
• 1:04:06
  Atlanta. That would be sick.
• 1:04:08
  That is a sick track. That would be.
• 1:04:11
  I have no idea how. Realistic it is for Moto.
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  GP but I would much rather go to Rd.
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  Atlanta. Than go to.
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  Miami and spend 3 grand on tickets just to go to the
• 1:04:20
  Dolphins parking lot. Like I just want to be sad.
• 1:04:23
  Go to the Dolphins. Game, you know?
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  Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
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  So, Louis. Louis, that's Ortega.
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  That's on our The Monday show. We've talked about this a bunch
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  and it comes down to the facility, you know, you got, you
• 1:04:38
  got Moto GP, you got Moto 2, you got Moto 3, you know, so it's
• 1:04:43
  nice when you can, you can have a paddock that can hold all that
• 1:04:47
  and that's the downside. So I think they would have to
• 1:04:48
  build up something or create something temporary to make that
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  work. And a street circuit.
• 1:04:55
  No, just even. That Rd.
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  Atlanta. Like they need, you need a
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  paddock space kind of thing to hold all, all the big rigs and,
• 1:05:03
  and, and everything and not, and not bump, you know, certain
• 1:05:07
  people into tents. Kind of cause like now some of
• 1:05:09
  the track, we'll see some of the Moto 3IN in tents and canopies
• 1:05:13
  and stuff like that. But I think that's more for show
• 1:05:15
  and tell when they do the walkthrough.
• 1:05:17
  But it, you know, I think that's the biggest thing It's just
• 1:05:19
  having I think the US would have to either modify a facility to
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  house Moto GP. We'll build a facility that can,
• 1:05:28
  can, can, can house it like like Coda, essentially.
• 1:05:33
  Fortunate, though, like we have these great.
• 1:05:35
  Tracks like objectively the layouts and like you know how
• 1:05:38
  the tracks run and their flow, they're amazing tracks, but like
• 1:05:42
  they don't have the money coming into them like Coda.
• 1:05:44
  Like why do they go to Coda so they can have 200,000 people pay
• 1:05:47
  tickets every every day. Why do they go to Coda?
• 1:05:49
  Because they have that money influx to build those, you know,
• 1:05:53
  media tents and media, you know, buildings and the garages and
• 1:05:57
  that sort of stuff. Like, I mean, assuming to get
• 1:05:59
  sort of like a similar level of what do you want to call it sort
• 1:06:02
  of like infrastructure. At any other track that isn't
• 1:06:06
  Coda Indy or Laguna would be 10s of millions of dollars.
• 1:06:11
  And I guarantee none of them want to spend that kind of money
• 1:06:14
  for the amount of money that Moto GP realistically will be
• 1:06:16
  giving them for the event to come there.
• 1:06:20
  So yeah, no, I think it's going to have to be just.
• 1:06:23
  Some, you know, you know, maybe Keanu, Keanu Reeves might want
• 1:06:26
  to spend some of his movie money and build a track.
• 1:06:31
  He'll probably do it for Canada first, but you know, like it.
• 1:06:35
  That's the downside. I mean, and I think that's the
• 1:06:37
  huge biggest thing with racing in the US is getting the
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  facilities right. So that way you can have these
• 1:06:44
  big shows and stuff like that, you know, and even, you know,
• 1:06:49
  like, even like, I know New Hampshire Speedway's starting to
• 1:06:51
  do more concerts now and stuff like that.
• 1:06:53
  So. And New Hampshire Speed is, you
• 1:06:56
  know, despite what it is for NASCAR, they're like, they have
• 1:06:59
  the facilities big enough to to house everything, but, you know,
• 1:07:03
  they're just known for Oval track.
• 1:07:05
  So that's the downside. Yeah.
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  I mean no realistic professional.
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  Organization is going to go to Loudon for a motorcycle track.
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  No, Well, you know, I mean, you know, more America riders.
• 1:07:15
  Are showing up for the classic, and that's just they're choosing
• 1:07:18
  to on their own. But, you know, I, I think at
• 1:07:22
  some point they're going. To they're going to like the
• 1:07:25
  teams are going to show up because it's it's you know, so I
• 1:07:30
  can't I. Can't speak for.
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  Any of the teams or anyone else in.
• 1:07:33
  But like, from our perspective, we want, we're trying to grow
• 1:07:36
  the sport, the sport, you know, US riders were the biggest
• 1:07:40
  riders in the world at one time, you know what I mean?
• 1:07:43
  And, and so it, it, it would it, you know, it's a sacrifice for,
• 1:07:47
  for, I guess people like us and, and whoever is trying to, you
• 1:07:51
  know, rebuild or help build, you know, racing in the US.
• 1:07:55
  So you would think that it's, you know, teams and I get it,
• 1:07:58
  you know, there's a price on everything.
• 1:07:59
  But it, it would make sense for, for, for teams to show up and,
• 1:08:04
  and run and, and do that. And it's still good money.
• 1:08:06
  I mean, granted, you know, they, some of these writers make way
• 1:08:08
  more money than what Loudon's giving out.
• 1:08:10
  But you know, 60 grand is a lot of money to in, in, in a weekend
• 1:08:14
  and stuff like that. And from a nostalgia
• 1:08:17
  perspective, as you know, Tyson, it's the, it's the oldest Rd.
• 1:08:20
  racing series in the country. You know, it's been around for
• 1:08:24
  over 100. They've been racing over 100
• 1:08:26
  years. But I, you know, it, it, it
• 1:08:30
  comes down to numbers and that's the downside of it.
• 1:08:32
  But I I do think teams should show up or allow their riders to
• 1:08:36
  show up even if they want to come on and bring their own bike
• 1:08:38
  and bring their own team. I think that's it, guys.
• 1:08:45
  Well, I want to thank you guys for coming on.
• 1:08:47
  I really appreciate it. We we've been kind of chatting
• 1:08:51
  offline, you know about coming on and that's kind of how you
• 1:08:55
  guys connected with us and stuff like that because you guys
• 1:08:59
  follow the show and it was nice to have you on and talk Moto GP
• 1:09:02
  as well. And I hope to have you guys on
• 1:09:04
  again. I really appreciate it, Tyson
• 1:09:07
  and Sir John Hampton, I really appreciate it.
• 1:09:09
  Thank you guys for coming on tonight.
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  Thank you. Thank you.
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  Appreciate it. Thanks so much, Rexy.
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  Thanks, Peace.