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In Depth with Senna Agius: Chasing the MotoGP Dream | MotoGP Pit Talk · Pit Talk

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Pits Talk podcast, brought to you by
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  Speaker 1: Shannon's Insurance for your dose of all things F one
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  Speaker 1: and Moto GP. Alrighty Sena Agy is welcome back to
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  Speaker 1: Fox Sports.
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  Speaker 2: How are you going?
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  Speaker 3: Oh good?
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  Speaker 4: Thanks for having me back home in Australia now in
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  Speaker 4: the sunshine, which has been really needed after a busy
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  Speaker 4: first part of the year.
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  Speaker 1: Let's touch on Thailand, because what a rollercoaster of a
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  Speaker 1: weekend for you. I mean, before we get into anything
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  Speaker 1: there your first career pole position in Moto two class.
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  Speaker 2: What was that like? How are you feeling for that?
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  Speaker 4: I felt great all weekend. I was competitive all weekend
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  Speaker 4: and felt great with my bike. It's always unknown going
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  Speaker 4: to Thailand.
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  Speaker 3: We test in.
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  Speaker 4: Hareth say like winter conditions, really cold, full of grip,
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  Speaker 4: everybody super fast, so credit to my crew. We took
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  Speaker 4: pretty much out base from Herath and it worked in Thailand,
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  Speaker 4: which was good.
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  Speaker 3: We hit the ground.
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  Speaker 4: Running, no great Friday, great Saturday morning. We were down
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  Speaker 4: on top speed all weekend on sector one and two,
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  Speaker 4: so I was super always in the top three, top
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  Speaker 4: two in sector three four, so I knew I really
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  Speaker 4: need I was losing three tenths on each straight for
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  Speaker 4: free and it would be from like one hundred to
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  Speaker 4: two ninety k's an hour, so there was nothing to
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  Speaker 4: do with like getting off the corner or anything.
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  Speaker 3: We were writing really well on that aspect, and so.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, for the pole app, I found a little slipstream
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  Speaker 4: through out as turn one and that just allowed me
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  Speaker 4: to go through sector three and four. How I wanted
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  Speaker 4: on par with the others and use my strong student
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  Speaker 4: sector four and yeah, nearly got nearly when it was
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  Speaker 4: all over when I caught Aaron, But yeah, I went
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  Speaker 4: a little bit hot into the last corner, I went
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  Speaker 4: a little bit deep, missed a little bit of time
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  Speaker 4: on the exit. But the speed that I went into
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  Speaker 4: the last corner to get past him actually ended up
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  Speaker 4: helping me because it's not a very long run to
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  Speaker 4: the line.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, pole AUP was cool.
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  Speaker 4: I've always felt I've been a little unlucky on pole position,
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  Speaker 4: sorry like going for pole in the past, I've been
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  Speaker 4: close and something's always happened or someone with better track
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  Speaker 4: position gets us. So yeah, so yeah, that was something
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  Speaker 4: cool to tick off. But quickly after that I was
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  Speaker 4: already thinking about the race and yeah that was that
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  Speaker 4: was another story but pole position's cool and I'll never
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  Speaker 4: forget it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, what a way to start twenty twenty six
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  Speaker 1: with ticking off pole position. Last year you had the wins,
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  Speaker 1: you had the podium. Now you've ticked that box. You
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  Speaker 1: got the Teaso watch.
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  Speaker 2: To prove it.
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  Speaker 1: But then someday, like you said, everything changed. So fill
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  Speaker 1: us in because we're watching here on the broadcast back
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  Speaker 1: home in Australia and we heard Jack Appleyard saying to
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  Speaker 1: Matt Burt that they changed the ECU but they couldn't
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  Speaker 1: give us any more info. And then obviously we saw
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  Speaker 1: what happened. So what actually happened from your point of view.
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  Speaker 4: From the first lap of the race, I was I
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  Speaker 4: had not the same and we're already struggling on top speed,
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  Speaker 4: but there was something us sluggish, feeling didn't bike was
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  Speaker 4: not pulling off the first two sectors worse than the
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  Speaker 4: previous day. I was using first gear off the hairpin
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  Speaker 4: that should have been second, Like, I just felt that
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  Speaker 4: it just wasn't.
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  Speaker 3: All my shift points are really late, and that.
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  Speaker 4: Was on the first lap, so I was a little
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  Speaker 4: bit radic on the brakes, like I made that mistake
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  Speaker 4: into turn three and gave away the potential lead there
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  Speaker 4: because Guevara went wide in front of me, and I
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  Speaker 4: was just really hungry on the breaks, passing in a bit,
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  Speaker 4: not crazy spots, but just riding a bit too aggressive
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  Speaker 4: at the beginning, just to catch up the ground that
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  Speaker 4: I felt like I was losing. And then yeah, unfortunately,
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  Speaker 4: coming out of turn nine, when I threw my body
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  Speaker 4: in a changed direction, the bike lost power and then yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I couldn't when I threw my body over, I didn't
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  Speaker 4: expect it to just completely cut out and die on me,
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  Speaker 4: so I couldn't react. And where I'm on the middle
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  Speaker 4: of the track and I'm luckily that David and Philip
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  Speaker 4: are okay because it could have been a pretty bad
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  Speaker 4: accident and my helf. Honestly, I think I got away
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  Speaker 4: with it pretty unscathed, like I did. So, yeah, I
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  Speaker 4: pushed the bike back to the box when I saw
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  Speaker 4: the red flag, and yeah, it was just running in
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  Speaker 4: that heat, which was terrible. And credit to the guys
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  Speaker 4: they did change these year. Yeah, long story short, there
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  Speaker 4: was just a fault code somewhere on a pardle on
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  Speaker 4: the bike, and I think once the bike registers a
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  Speaker 4: folded it shut it down. It was something to do
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  Speaker 4: with the engine or anything like that. So, yeah, there's
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  Speaker 4: something not quite right, and the guys changed it. All
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  Speaker 4: Hends on deck Motor three team were in our box
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  Speaker 4: and it was a b's a beehive, sorry in the
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  Speaker 4: box and I was just trying to stay calm and yeah,
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  Speaker 4: a little bit of a confusion with the rules regarding
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  Speaker 4: starting from pitt lane second time. Yeah, I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 4: I think that needs to be clarified a little bit
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  Speaker 4: more clear in future.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I should have started from the back of the grid
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  Speaker 4: on the second one, and I think I could have
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  Speaker 4: rode it to at least score a point, but luckily
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  Speaker 4: they awarded I think on Tuesday we got told that
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  Speaker 4: they awarded half points, which I understand, Like, Okay, if
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  Speaker 4: you're the winner, I understand you'll be a little bit
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  Speaker 4: dirty that you didn't get your points, But in the
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  Speaker 4: end of seven, that race probably doesn't deserve full points
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  Speaker 4: and it limited the damage for us in the championship.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just thinking about this and it's only just comes
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  Speaker 1: to my thought. Do you think a problem like this
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  Speaker 1: because we know that the track temperature and the changes
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  Speaker 1: from when you guys were practicing on Friday. Saturday was
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  Speaker 1: a vastly different to Sunday. If you had had like
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  Speaker 1: a morning warm up or something, you might have already
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  Speaker 1: been able to pick up on this problem. Do you
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  Speaker 1: think that would have helped or it was just a
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  Speaker 1: freak incident where it happened in that moment.
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  Speaker 4: It's freaky. I think it was a freak accident. Well,
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  Speaker 4: not accident like failure, let's say. But well, if we
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  Speaker 4: had warm up and it happened to warm up, then
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  Speaker 4: obviously something would have been changed before the race.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 4: And it's actually no fault to the team either, Like
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  Speaker 4: they can they can't get too down about it, and
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  Speaker 4: I said that pretty clear when I come in, like
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  Speaker 4: nobody is to should get really angry or upset about it,
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  Speaker 4: because there's nothing in our control, you know, in Moto
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  Speaker 4: two where we don't play with you likes we don't.
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  Speaker 4: You know, the engines are all sealed everything, so there's
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  Speaker 4: nothing independently that we're doing different that's failed, you know,
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  Speaker 4: it's just the equipment we've been given. And I'm sure
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  Speaker 4: we will be rectified when we get to Brazil with
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  Speaker 4: new parts or an understanding of what happened for future races,
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  Speaker 4: because it seems to be something to do it's happened
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  Speaker 4: to me before last year. It seems to be something
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  Speaker 4: to do with like catastrophic temperatures because everybody's at bike's overheating.
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  Speaker 3: But looks like, I don't know, it looks like it's
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  Speaker 3: happened to me, to.
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  Speaker 1: Us, but I mean taking away that look at your
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  Speaker 1: Thailand results. We know you've been stronger in the past year.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously had pole position, you were fast from the get
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  Speaker 1: go leading into the twenty twenty six season, your third
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  Speaker 1: year with the team, third year in the World Championship.
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  Speaker 1: It must be a positive start for you seeing this
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  Speaker 1: success now and being able to carry that throughout twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty six.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, of course I was strong in Thailand last year
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  Speaker 4: with the podium and a great race. Yeah, it used
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  Speaker 4: to be one of my weakest tracks, and last year
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  Speaker 4: I found a bit of a click moment and then yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it's treated me well so far till Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, starting off great. We also tested really well.
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  Speaker 4: I was a little bit under the radar, didn't had
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  Speaker 4: a couple of different bike problems, just teething issues with
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  Speaker 4: some stuff that you wouldn't ever dream of. We actually
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  Speaker 4: had some problems in Herreth the new body work on
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  Speaker 4: the Calyx where it joined the bike. It was touching
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  Speaker 4: on like a cable and it's where like because of
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  Speaker 4: the new fitman of the the you know, everybody will
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  Speaker 4: notice the bikes look a little different this year. So
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  Speaker 4: we had some random stuff like that. When I tried
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  Speaker 4: to do some yeah, laptimes in Herreth, so I missed
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  Speaker 4: out on that. So I went flew under the radar
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  Speaker 4: in testing, which is fine, Like We've got a lot
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  Speaker 4: of laps in and I'm not too down about Taileen, Honestly,
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  Speaker 4: I was. My crew obviously took it pretty hard because
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  Speaker 4: we were looking like, you know, contending for the win
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  Speaker 4: one hundred percent. But yeah, I just wanted to bottle
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  Speaker 4: that positivity from the day's pride that we felt and yeah,
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  Speaker 4: move on to Brazil.
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  Speaker 1: What you got also twenty twenty six, I mean last
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  Speaker 1: year you got the win. This year already started with
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  Speaker 1: the poor position.
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  Speaker 2: What is it for you?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, apart from Moto too world champion, what are
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  Speaker 1: the goals for you by.
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  Speaker 3: For the championship? Be in the mix.
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  Speaker 4: Be I don't want to be a name anymore that
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  Speaker 4: can sometimes be there, So I'm not. I'm ready to
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  Speaker 4: just cement myself and I want to do that for
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  Speaker 4: me and have a great year and put myself in
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  Speaker 4: the spotlight. And you know, like I think I can
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  Speaker 4: do it. There's no time to say like I think anymore.
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  Speaker 4: I know I can do it. I've proved I can
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  Speaker 4: do it, and I'm constantly fixing things that I can
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  Speaker 4: improve and deal with.
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  Speaker 3: And learning new tools for different situations.
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  Speaker 4: So I want to put that all into into show
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  Speaker 4: this year and have a great year for me and
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  Speaker 4: my side of the box.
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  Speaker 3: And I think we learned a lot from them.
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  Speaker 4: The guys that beat us last year convincingly, like Marrera
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  Speaker 4: winning the championship, how we went about things and just
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  Speaker 4: analyzing the season and on what it takes in Moto too,
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  Speaker 4: And that's part of my job of analyzing myself and
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  Speaker 4: others and understanding where I need to be better.
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  Speaker 1: Can you share with us maybe something that you've learned,
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  Speaker 1: like there's something there where you've gone. Ah, that's what
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  Speaker 1: I can do differently than the others to get that
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  Speaker 1: extra one percent.
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  Speaker 4: I think in Motor two, with all the bikes being
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  Speaker 4: the same, at one point, you just need to get
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  Speaker 4: on with the job with what you have. And I
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  Speaker 4: think there's a a've you know, tripped up on trying
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  Speaker 4: to find that perfect feeling. I think what separates the
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  Speaker 4: best from the rest is getting on with it when
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  Speaker 4: it's not so perfect and figuring out the strong suits
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  Speaker 4: and I think pushing the limits. It's going to take
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  Speaker 4: more time on the limit for me to understand how
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  Speaker 4: to extract the maximum even when you're not feeling good,
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  Speaker 4: and with so many races and conditions and different tracks
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  Speaker 4: and whatnot, then you don't really have time to find
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  Speaker 4: that sweet spot. And that what makes the riders, some
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  Speaker 4: riders so consistent. So my teammate was very good at
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  Speaker 4: that last year was he was always pretty fast straight
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  Speaker 4: out of the boxes everyone could see. And that's just
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  Speaker 4: a different mentality and a different way of riding. And
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  Speaker 4: I think that's what it takes. You need to be
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  Speaker 4: on the pace at all times and figure out how
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  Speaker 4: to adapt when things don't feel quite right to get consistency.
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  Speaker 1: How important is twenty twenty six for you to progress
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  Speaker 1: ahead and reach your long term goal of Moto GPS
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  Speaker 1: that what you're aiming for for twenty seven, then for.
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  Speaker 4: Sure, I bet it just comes down to results, you know,
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  Speaker 4: like nothing's going to be handed to you for for nothing,
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  Speaker 4: so it's results. Hopefully there's a couple of spaces for
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  Speaker 4: Moto two guys, like you know, we've looked up to
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  Speaker 4: these guys a Motor GP that are best in the
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  Speaker 4: world for years. But I think with new rules coming
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  Speaker 4: in and writers on different parts of their career, I think,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I believe Motor two is the hardest category,
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  Speaker 4: and it's pretty vocal knowledge that some people say it
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  Speaker 4: is the hardest just because we're all on the same
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  Speaker 4: same equipment and stuff like that, and the racing is
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  Speaker 4: so tight. It's become ever since the rule changes and
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  Speaker 4: the tire changes, it's become a tighter time gap than
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  Speaker 4: Moto three and that's just absurd. So it's a tough category,
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  Speaker 4: and yeah, I just want to be there, but yeah,
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  Speaker 4: nothing's going to be gifted to me unless I'm at
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  Speaker 4: the pointy end.
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  Speaker 3: And so this is what our goals are for this year.
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  Speaker 1: Would you say then it's beneficial you having stayed with
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  Speaker 1: the same team now third year there or do you
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  Speaker 1: feel like that it's extra pressure if you know everything
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  Speaker 1: you know the insides and outs. Having that extra pressure
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  Speaker 1: then to try and be consistent for the podiums and
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  Speaker 1: the wins.
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  Speaker 2: This year.
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  Speaker 4: I had more pressure on me last year. Yeah wow,
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  Speaker 4: Yeah second year. I went into last year without proving
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  Speaker 4: a whole lot, let's say so. Of course, my Jogen
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  Speaker 4: from Intact, the team boss, obviously believes in me and
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  Speaker 4: took me from Junior World Championship to Moto two and
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  Speaker 4: for a second year last year. And I think once
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  Speaker 4: I did a breakout year last year, I think that's
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  Speaker 4: when the actually the pressure release was off. Now it's
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  Speaker 4: kind of the level is set on my side of
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  Speaker 4: the box and from what my team expected me. I
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  Speaker 4: think it's set now and that becomes like that. It's
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  Speaker 4: this year we're much more calm because I think, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: we know our level when we get things right, and
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  Speaker 4: that for me is a nicer feeling.
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  Speaker 3: I don't.
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  Speaker 4: I feel more comfortable now to get onto our level,
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  Speaker 4: not pressure to perform. We know what I can do.
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  Speaker 4: I know what I can do. My team's amazing. The
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  Speaker 4: team are absolutely perfect. You know, there's nothing that they
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  Speaker 4: don't do for performance on with all the guys involved
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  Speaker 4: in our projects. So yeah, it's just we have two
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  Speaker 4: strong riders in the team, and I think that's a
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  Speaker 4: real positive, positive thing. There's no like a writer, b
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  Speaker 4: rider and stuff like that. So me and Manu hopefully
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  Speaker 4: will fight together for the championship.
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk a bit more about what's coming up,
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  Speaker 1: because you're headed to Brazil, the first time that motor
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  Speaker 1: GPS racent this track and the first time they've been
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  Speaker 1: to Brazil in ages. But obviously your name is so
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  Speaker 1: intertwined in Brazilian Motorsport Royalty. Yeah, okay, so we need
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  Speaker 1: to clear this up.
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  Speaker 2: You are named after air and Center, right.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I am named after ant and Center, and that's
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  Speaker 4: cool going there.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what it's going to be like.
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  Speaker 4: You know, everyone's going to be there for the Brazilian
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  Speaker 4: rider or riders with Morbidelli and Diago. So I think
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  Speaker 4: the name's cool and I've already it's weird when the
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  Speaker 4: Brazil race got announced. They've got a load of like
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  Speaker 4: social media following and random stuff like likes and stuff
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  Speaker 4: off all these Center fans accounts and thinks.
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  Speaker 3: So it should be cool.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I've got a couple of things lined up with
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  Speaker 4: Alpine styles and stuff like that. And I got some
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  Speaker 4: shirts and stuff like that. So yeah, I'm excited to
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  Speaker 4: get there. I've honestly never been anywhere close to that
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  Speaker 4: part of the world. And the track looks super cool,
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  Speaker 4: a new facility for everybody and where and Centam was from,
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  Speaker 4: so it will be cool for me and my dad.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's incredible. But I've enjoyed some research on
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  Speaker 1: the track and I'm struggling to find things.
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  Speaker 2: What do you know about this circuit?
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  Speaker 1: Have you done any laps in like a sim or
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  Speaker 1: watched on YouTube or how are you preparing?
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  Speaker 3: I found a YouTube race of it.
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  Speaker 4: They had like a Brazilian Junior Cup on those one
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  Speaker 4: fifty yamahas, and I watched them go around. And the
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  Speaker 4: tracks jet black like it's brand brand brand new. It's
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  Speaker 4: got like term one, super fast, and then it's got
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  Speaker 4: some twisty sections. Not the biggest track in the world,
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  Speaker 4: but Fertility looks cool. It looks like we'll make for
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  Speaker 4: great racing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just so excited.
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  Speaker 1: Bit what does it feel like for you guys going
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  Speaker 1: to somewhere where it's a blank slate for everyone, right,
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  Speaker 1: do you feel then you can go in and you
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  Speaker 1: don't necessarily have to know the ins and outs. Because
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  Speaker 1: I was talking to Joel and I was like, have
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  Speaker 1: you prepared for this? And he goes, no, I just
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  Speaker 1: get on there, go for my track walk on Thursday
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  Speaker 1: and figure it out. What are you like, do you
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  Speaker 1: have to go into these knowing everything or are you
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  Speaker 1: the same you go, do you track walk and then
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  Speaker 1: you just wait for FP one.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I feel good with the bike at the moment on
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  Speaker 4: a base setting, so I think we can just take
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  Speaker 4: that there and do labs and get on with them
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  Speaker 4: and learn it as fast as possible. I think, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: we're not going to have time to really fine tune
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  Speaker 4: things straight away. I think it's just more time on
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  Speaker 4: track on Friday. That will probably be our plan. But yeah,
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  Speaker 4: luck what Joel said, just walk it and try and
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  Speaker 4: understand what you can. Like obviously got to try and
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  Speaker 4: understand the gearbox and different variations. Honestly, it's it's probably
• 15:05
  Speaker 4: harder for the technicians than it is the writers, because
• 15:08
  Speaker 4: you know, you jump on a track and it becomes
• 15:10
  Speaker 4: natural and you find the fast way around it and
• 15:12
  Speaker 4: you're feeling and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 3: But they've also got a lot of guesswork coming up.
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, I'd rather not do their job and he
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: seeks to your job of stick to mine. Let's talk
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: about the spicy subject that's happening here in Australia at
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: the moment with the Adelaide Street circuit. What's been your
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: thoughts on that. I'm assuming it's a bittersweet because that
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: kind of seems to be the feeling from everyone at
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: the moment.
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it is a bittersweet, but I think in the
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: modern era, you've got to separate what's good for the
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: sport and everything like that and what's good for.
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: The best lack of a better term, I don't know emotions.
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: I've got so many like emotions connected to Philipilin, and
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: it's not just because of success. I used to go
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: there and watch and it's not an unbiased opinion that
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: Philipilin is the greatest racetrack, like the scenery, the track layout.
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: So from a motus points point of view, it's a
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: little bit upsetting that the whole history behind it. And
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: I don't think, yeah, we're gonna get back to race
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  Speaker 4: there at world championship level anytime soon, but you know,
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: the sport needs to evolve and we look at other
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: sports that are more plumb and big, like say like
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: an F one type view point of view. And if
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: Adelaide and furthermore, the whole Motor GP calendar has that environment,
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: then it's only going to grow the sport so much.
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: And I think Adelaide can be a massive turnout and
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: a massive opportunity for trained motorsport.
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  Speaker 3: Like I think you've got to we just got to
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: remember what it was.
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  Speaker 4: I just just don't feel like it's fair to forget
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: about phil Valle, you know what I mean, Like it
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: is the greatest racetrack and I don't think you will
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: be able to beat it, but it's time to move on.
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: And if Adelaide brings the skeptical that what we are
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: being shown that you know it can be with what Yeah,
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: like the track looks cool, the location looks cool, looks
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: like a m F effort I need to say, to
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: put a street circuit into wherever it is and move
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: things come race weekend. So I think it's a big
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: effort from and commitment from everybody. And yeah, I would
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: just say congratulations are all involved, because I think it's
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: a new chapter and I can't wait to get there.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: No, you are right, it's a massive thing.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: And to move from the iconic Philip Island, which, like
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: you said, has so much history, I mean, not really yourself,
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: but all the Aussie riders to go do something new.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: It is taking a risk, But I do see what
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: you're saying is that risk is.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: Sometimes needed in a sport to help it grow.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: With regards to the circuit itself though, I mean, a
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: street circuit is something that you're excited to write just
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: because it's something completely different.
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, the track map layout thing that was shown down
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: when Jack was speaking is you know, it just doesn't
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: look like anything close to what we normally write on,
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: you know, different kind of straits and type looks like
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: tight chikanes like I'm not sure. I've only seen the
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: track map, but I don't know the scale of all
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: the straits, Like some of that back section just looks
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: absolutely flat out like it could be super cool. I
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: hope it's great. Yeah, I just hope it turns out well.
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: And yeah, let's let's hope all that the safety and
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: stuff like that transitions well. And honestly, if it goes
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: ahead and being based in a city creates so much traction,
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: everybody involved in it it opens a chapter for the sport.
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: Then it wouldn't surprise me if more cities up to
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: build street circuits. If it's shown.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: Possible exactly, it could be the new year of prodeg GP.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: So we will just have to wait and see on that.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: But I just want to touch on you mentioned something
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: special coming for Brazil your final home grownd Prix at
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: Philip Island.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: Are you going to do something special as well there?
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah, of course, I I had special things at both.
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: I know I'd rather win in Brazil, so yeah, there'll be.
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: I've yeah, teed up a couple of things for Brazil
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: to personalize it a little bit, and I think it's cool.
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: My name's super rare and stuff like that, and yeah,
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: I hope it brings us success.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: And then when you back to racing, back to twenty
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: thirty six, sorry because I'm already jumping ahead of the
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: year here, how are you feeling going back to the
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: Europe once you get those flyaways done, back to those
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: European races, that the circuits that you know through and throughout,
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: is that somewhere where you think, then we'll really start
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: to see that progression. Hopefully see you finding for all
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: those Prodiums more often.
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll be there. Yeah, I get along with all
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: the tracks in Europe quite well. You've been racing them
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: for a couple of years, and yeah we were strong
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: in the European races last year. But I need to
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: say the level of Moto two has gone up this
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: year one hundred percent. There is some proper talent out
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: there and even the rookies jumping up, they're fast, you know,
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: asked by team intactors, a load of riders, a couple
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: of seat swaps and stuff like that in Motor two,
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: riders on different bikes and a now that weren't faster
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: and now fast. So I just from my experience and
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: obviously been racing the last two years, I can confidently
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: say that this will be the hardest year of Moto two. Yeah,
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: everybody's flying, and when we all get back to Europe,
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: the level super high run so familiar, so it'll be tough,
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: but we're are in there.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Awesome will sooner.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: We can't wait to see out on track next weekend
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: the Brazilian Grand Prix and hopefully that sad a name
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: lives up to its legacy there. But thank you so
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: much for taking the time to chat with us here
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