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Toprak’s MotoGP Bombshell + Aragon Goes Marquez Mode: MotoGP Pit Talk · Pit Talk

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  Speaker 1: Aragon turned into Marquez Land, a surprise rookie jumped on
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  Speaker 1: a Moto GP bike, and finally the announcement we've been
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: waiting for. Toprac is heading to Moto GP. From shock
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  Speaker 1: test to silly season chaos, and we have got a
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  Speaker 1: lot to unpack in this episode, so let's get straight
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  Speaker 1: into it. As always, this episode of Pit Talk is
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  Speaker 1: brought to you by Shannon's Insurance.
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  Speaker 2: I'm your host, Rinita.
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  Speaker 1: Vanmullen and joining me as always Matt Clayton. Mat no
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  Speaker 1: silly intros at this time, because we are straight into
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  Speaker 1: facts and you can finally write about top Rac actually
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  Speaker 1: moving into Moto GP.
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  Speaker 3: And this is after me saying a few weeks ago
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  Speaker 3: that I was banning myself writing about him until it
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  Speaker 3: was actually happening, because I feel like I've started this
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  Speaker 3: story about two hundred times and it's never actually amounted
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  Speaker 3: to anything.
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  Speaker 4: But is it funny?
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  Speaker 3: Like we have a Grand Prix weekend where we set
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  Speaker 3: in the lead up that it was probably going to
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  Speaker 3: be very one sided, and then it was very very
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  Speaker 3: one sided, and all of a sudden, there is so
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  Speaker 3: much to talk about because of all the other things
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  Speaker 3: that are happening on the periphery. So yeah, this pod
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  Speaker 3: could go in a million different directions. So I guess
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  Speaker 3: where do you want to start? Because there's plenty of
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  Speaker 3: starting points.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like let's talk about the top Rack news.
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  Speaker 1: That's probably the biggest talking point as of right now
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  Speaker 1: because for us Ozsie's Jack Miller, and we've spoke about
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  Speaker 1: it so many times on the pod. We know he's
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  Speaker 1: only on that one year contract. Top RAC's coming into Parmaha.
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  Speaker 2: I'm hearing rumors.
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  Speaker 1: About Miguel trying to get out of his contract. Now,
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  Speaker 1: what's your take on that? A let's talk about top
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  Speaker 1: Rack coming into Moto GP. How do you think he's
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  Speaker 1: going to go? Because some people are saying, oh, the
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  Speaker 1: writing style is so different from superbikes Tomoto GP. But
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  Speaker 1: it's top Rack, right, it's the man who's just dominated
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  Speaker 1: in superbikes.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you say a house top Rac going to go
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  Speaker 3: A should be? You've just said Pramaha. So everyone taking
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  Speaker 3: shots at home, please feel free to down your first
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  Speaker 3: one for the evening.
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  Speaker 4: But look top Rack in MotoGP.
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  Speaker 3: This is super intriguing because it's been like this great
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  Speaker 3: unknown for years. We know how good he's been in
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  Speaker 3: world superbikes, and it's not just that he wins there,
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  Speaker 3: it's how he wins.
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  Speaker 1: Like.
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  Speaker 3: The guy's a showman, he's a stylist, he does it
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  Speaker 3: his own way. He's got fantastic celebrations. He's got this
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  Speaker 3: enormous fan base from a part of the world that
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  Speaker 3: you know, we've not had a massive amount to cheer
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  Speaker 3: about in the past. It's going to bring a new
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  Speaker 3: dynamic to Moto GP. It's interesting to me that I
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  Speaker 3: don't know how old is too old for a rider
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  Speaker 3: to make a switchlight this. But he's twenty eight. It's
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  Speaker 3: not like you're talking about a twenty two year old here.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, he's a mega talent. He's been a mega
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  Speaker 3: talent in a production bike series. And anyone expecting this
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  Speaker 3: guy to walk into Moto GP and be awesome from
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  Speaker 3: day one, I think that's a little bit optimistic, and
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  Speaker 3: it probably depends on where your passport comes from or
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  Speaker 3: who you're supporting these things. But I don't I think
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  Speaker 3: it's fanciful to think that he's going to come in
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  Speaker 3: and just be right on it right away against the
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  Speaker 3: best riders in the world on very very different motorcycles.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's the first thing, he's going to be excited.
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  Speaker 3: He's going to probably bend a few bikes along the way,
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  Speaker 3: let's be honest, because that happens with these really fast
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  Speaker 3: guys that come in from other series. But it adds
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  Speaker 3: another injection of adrenaline into twenty twenty six. And I say,
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  Speaker 3: why that's important is that because we've got this rule
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  Speaker 3: change coming in for twenty twenty seven, which is kind
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  Speaker 3: of this hard reset for MotoGP that we've been talking about.
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  Speaker 4: For a while.
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  Speaker 3: Twenty twenty six to me kind of feels like an
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  Speaker 3: extension of last year and this year it's going to
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  Speaker 3: be decaty domination. Is everyone going to start turning the
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  Speaker 3: development tap off on a thousand cc rule set that's
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  Speaker 3: going to be obsolete at the end of the year.
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  Speaker 3: There's no point developing lots of arrow and ride height
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  Speaker 3: devices because they're all.
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  Speaker 4: Going in the bin anyway.
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  Speaker 3: So I kind of feel like twenty five and twenty
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  Speaker 3: six will kind of meld into one when we look
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  Speaker 3: at it in the future. The key thing for Razgatlioglu
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  Speaker 3: coming in now, I think it's really smart by Yamaha
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  Speaker 3: because he gets to learn the circuits, he gets to
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  Speaker 3: learn the tires, he gets to learn how motor GP
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  Speaker 3: weekend works, and there's not necessarily going to be the
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  Speaker 3: pressure of expectation because he's coming in riding a bike
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  Speaker 3: that's not a race winning bike, because Yamaha hasn't won
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  Speaker 3: a race since twenty twenty two, So it's not like
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  Speaker 3: people are expecting him to come in and be like,
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  Speaker 3: you better be in the top four in the World Championship.
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  Speaker 3: That's not going to happen. I think the key thing
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  Speaker 3: is he gets all the He'll get the l plates
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  Speaker 3: off next.
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  Speaker 4: Year if you like.
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  Speaker 3: So when we hit twenty twenty seven, with the ground
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  Speaker 3: running and this sort of reset playing order, he's going
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  Speaker 3: to be just as experienced as everybody else. He's not
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  Speaker 3: going to be so far behind as you would be
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  Speaker 3: as you came in in twenty seven. So I think
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  Speaker 3: it's smart by Yamaha to come in. But the other
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  Speaker 3: side of the coin for this, of course, is that
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  Speaker 3: you know, Yamaha's got four bikes now, four riders. Fabio
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  Speaker 3: Quatrero is the kingpin of the whole thing. He is
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  Speaker 3: their shining light. We've seen this year that as Yamaha
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  Speaker 3: has improved, if we ever needed to be reminded how
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  Speaker 3: good Fabio is. Like he's given us a bit of
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  Speaker 3: a reminder this year for anyone that might have lost
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  Speaker 3: the faith. He's the leader of this project. And an
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  Speaker 3: interesting part about Razcatlioglu coming in, even if they necessarily
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  Speaker 3: wanted to put him in the factory team next to Quatroa,
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  Speaker 3: there's a clash of sponsors. Rasquatlioglu is personally sponsored by
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  Speaker 3: Red Bull. Of course it is the Monster Energy Yamaha
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  Speaker 3: Motor GP factory team, so that doesn't work. So he
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  Speaker 3: was always going to come in with Pramak. Now you've
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  Speaker 3: got this really interesting situation where Pramak has two riders
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  Speaker 3: who are new for this year. Miguel Olivera is on
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  Speaker 3: a two year contract and has been injured or not
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  Speaker 3: very good for the most part that he's been there.
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  Speaker 3: And Jack Miller's on a one year contract because he
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  Speaker 3: was the last rider signed on the grid for this year.
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  Speaker 3: So Yamahad had frankly all the leverages, like Jack would
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  Speaker 3: have taken whatever they offered him in September last year.
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  Speaker 3: Jack's been really good this year, and I think this
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  Speaker 3: time last year you had to put your patriotic Australian
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  Speaker 3: had on to really come up with a reason why
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  Speaker 3: Jack Miller should stay in Motor GP, because his final
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  Speaker 3: year with Katie it was pretty ordinary. There was absolutely
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  Speaker 3: no doubt he was going to be replaced by Pedro
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  Speaker 3: Acosta on about nine two of the season Big Guitar.
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  Speaker 3: It felt like that was pretty much inevitable. It's a
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  Speaker 3: little bit fortunate to be on the grid this year,
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  Speaker 3: but that owes itself to Pramak, can you him. He's
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  Speaker 3: vastly experienced with a number of different manufacturers, Pramak Yamaha
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  Speaker 3: as much as an established brand and an established team.
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  Speaker 3: It's a bit of a startup, right, so they needed
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  Speaker 3: Jack's experience and his ability technically to drive them forward.
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  Speaker 4: I actually think.
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  Speaker 3: Jack's been really good this year, where last year he wasn't,
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  Speaker 3: and he absolutely deserves to stay on the grid for
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty six given what's coming in twenty seven is
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  Speaker 3: what we were talking about. But of course you've got
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  Speaker 3: this contract situation. Jackson one year, Miguel's on two, and
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  Speaker 3: so is it as easy as just saying, well, Miller
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  Speaker 3: is going to be the guy that this is out
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  Speaker 3: here because he's got the shorter contract tenure. I'm sure
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  Speaker 3: you heard some stuff in Aragon over the weekend, as
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  Speaker 3: I heard from Afar. It's not as simple as that,
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  Speaker 3: by the sounds, isn't.
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  Speaker 1: No. I'm hearing a lot of rumors about Miguel trying
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  Speaker 1: to get out of his contract as well, But then
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  Speaker 1: spending time with Jack on the weekend, and you're talking
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  Speaker 1: about what he was like at KTM last year. We
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  Speaker 1: interviewed him here.
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  Speaker 2: For Fox Sports, and it.
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  Speaker 1: Seems like to me, spending some time with Jack this weekend,
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  Speaker 1: his whole mental, his outlook, everything is.
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  Speaker 2: So much more positive.
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  Speaker 1: I spoke about it in Thailand as well, and that
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  Speaker 1: was the season open. I now where eight rounds in
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  Speaker 1: and Jack is still this positive, happy guy. It seems
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  Speaker 1: like Pramak is the been the switch that he needed.
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  Speaker 1: But it's that one year contract looming.
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  Speaker 4: Then.
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  Speaker 1: On the other point, and this is something I want
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  Speaker 1: to ask you matter is you know, Pramak do have
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  Speaker 1: the riders in Moto two as well, so are they
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  Speaker 1: going to want to try and bring those riders up
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  Speaker 1: through to Moto GP. But now they've signed top Racks,
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  Speaker 1: so there's a lot going on in that aspect too.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they need about six four bikes, don't they at
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  Speaker 3: this point, but I think with the Moto two team
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  Speaker 3: that was clearly establishing that team is something for the future.
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  Speaker 3: Now for the future in inverted commas is this sort
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  Speaker 3: of nebulous How far are we going into the future here?
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  Speaker 3: So they've got Tony Ablino who's been around for a while,
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  Speaker 3: and east At Cuavaro, who's super, super young and has
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  Speaker 3: pedigree as a Moto three champion. I still believe they're
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  Speaker 3: the future, but that future might be pushed back a
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  Speaker 3: little bit now. I can still see Guevara is the
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  Speaker 3: one for me. I think we'll see him in Motor GP,
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  Speaker 3: but it might take him another two or three years
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  Speaker 3: to get there, which I think is fine because he's
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  Speaker 3: still young enough. The key thing for me, and you
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  Speaker 3: probably heard this over the course of the weekend, it
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  Speaker 3: seems like there's a clause in the Olivera contract that
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  Speaker 3: Yamaha can basically a null that second year of his
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  Speaker 3: contract if he is the last place of Yamaha's four
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  Speaker 3: riders in the championship at the end of this season.
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  Speaker 3: So there'll be a cutoff point in this season where
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  Speaker 3: they have to make that decision. You look at the
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  Speaker 3: championship standings right now, Quatarero is a leading Yamaha by
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  Speaker 3: some distance. Jack is the second best place Yamaha, ahead
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  Speaker 3: of Alex Ritz and then Miguel Olivera. As we've said,
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  Speaker 3: he's missed three rounds, but he scored so few points
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  Speaker 3: in the rounds that he has been there, and Olivera
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  Speaker 3: kind of acknowledged that over the Aragon weekend basically saying, look,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I need to perform. I need to perform now.
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  Speaker 3: And it wouldn't surprise me. With these contract clauses, a
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  Speaker 3: lot of them kicking around the mid season break where
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  Speaker 3: we get that break after the checker public it probably
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  Speaker 3: gives Olivera, what four more rounds to actually do something.
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  Speaker 3: He's a long long lay behind Rins and Miller in
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  Speaker 3: terms of not being the last Yamaha rider in the standing.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, these contracts, as we know from Juje Martin,
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  Speaker 3: there's always lines in them that you never expect to
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  Speaker 3: come out. But that might be the thing that moves
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  Speaker 3: Olivera on. But you probably during the week I wrote
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  Speaker 3: for Fox Sports dot com dot Au that it's a
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  Speaker 3: little tough on Miguel Okay and he's proven to be
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  Speaker 3: a grand Prix race winner. I still think in the
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  Speaker 3: right day, in the right circumstance, he's still a very
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  Speaker 3: good motor GP rider. You do wonder about these contracts
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  Speaker 3: because I look at Alex Rinns and Alex Rins is
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  Speaker 3: a fantastic motor GP rider when he's at his peak.
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  Speaker 3: But when he's at his peak is the key part
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  Speaker 3: of that sentence. Alex Rins has been either injured or
• 9:51
  Speaker 3: recovering from injury for basically two years Magello twenty twenty
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  Speaker 3: three when he broke his legs basically two years ago
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  Speaker 3: this week.
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  Speaker 4: And I think, if I remember.
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  Speaker 3: My own story, which I we should given that I
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  Speaker 3: wrote it, I think he's been in the top ten
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  Speaker 3: three times since then in two years, and he's mister
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  Speaker 3: heaper racers. I think he's out quite qualified quatro four
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  Speaker 3: times in two years as teammates. And you had these
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  Speaker 3: races recently when Fabio is on Pole and rinses in
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  Speaker 3: q Q one. It's too big of a gap between
• 10:18
  Speaker 3: two riders on the same bike. And you know, Alex
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  Speaker 3: Renz proved himself as a guy who could win races
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  Speaker 3: with Suzuki and with Honda and fully fit is a
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  Speaker 3: fantastic manor GP rider, but fully fit and Alex Rerins
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  Speaker 3: is not two things you're saying in the same sentence
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  Speaker 3: these days.
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  Speaker 4: It's really really harsh, But.
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  Speaker 3: You do wonder if he's ever going to get back
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  Speaker 3: to being what he was, where someone like OLIVERA to
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  Speaker 3: me is still like a TVC because we don't have
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  Speaker 3: enough evidence of whether he can do anything on a
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  Speaker 3: Yamaha yet.
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  Speaker 4: Because it's been super disjointed.
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  Speaker 3: So in terms of the three riders that could be
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  Speaker 3: potentially under the pump here, to my mind on performance,
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  Speaker 3: Jack should be the safest of the three because I
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  Speaker 3: think he's over delivered or what Yamaha expected of him
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  Speaker 3: this year. OLIVERA is inconclusive because he's been hurt and
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  Speaker 3: there's the form line with Rins that it doesn't look
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  Speaker 3: like it's going up. He's sort of stuck where he is,
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  Speaker 3: and I think he's just so physically limited these days.
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  Speaker 3: So wherever Yamaha go, I think all three of those
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  Speaker 3: guys are worthy motor GP riders, and maybe Oliver or
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  Speaker 3: Rins if it's one of those two, can find a
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  Speaker 3: seat elsewhere. There's going to be seats around because that's
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  Speaker 3: how motorgp works. I think Jack's actually a lot safer
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  Speaker 3: this year that he was last year. He's pretty lucky
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  Speaker 3: to be on the grid this year. I think it
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  Speaker 3: would be a bit of a travesty if he's not
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  Speaker 3: for next year, given what he's brought to Yamaha, and
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  Speaker 3: as you said, he seems completely reinvigorated this year. He's
• 11:36
  Speaker 3: a different person a different personality. Yamaha really enjoying what
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  Speaker 3: he's bringing. And you look at how competitive Yamaha is
• 11:44
  Speaker 3: this year compared to the last couple. You can't tell
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  Speaker 3: me that Jack's fingerprints aren't on part of that resurgence
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  Speaker 3: for them. I think he's a huge asset for them,
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  Speaker 3: and I think he should stay.
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  Speaker 1: I think for our listeners, don't necessarily include Aragon, because
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  Speaker 1: we know Aragon's a track that just doesn't suit the Yamaha.
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: They struggle here. I think Fabruary post on his Instagram
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  Speaker 1: they haven't. He hasn't scored points here in the last
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: four years. Something ridiculous like that, right, So remove aragonau
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  Speaker 1: the situation. Yeah, Yamaha are on the resurgence. My question
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  Speaker 1: is kind of to Yamaha and to you as well.
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  Speaker 1: Matt Okay Alex Rins. If you see him walking around
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  Speaker 1: the paddock, he has this like compression sleeve on his leg.
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  Speaker 2: He's like sop on his calf. He's limping.
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  Speaker 1: Why is he not taking a page out of Mark
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  Speaker 1: and Jorge Martin's book of resting, recovering properly and then
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  Speaker 1: trying to come back to fight, Because Yeah, like you
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  Speaker 1: said about Alex Rins, is kind of like Maverick Vinalez
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  Speaker 1: where you just have like this spark of okay, he's
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  Speaker 1: doing really well, but then he's dropping back.
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  Speaker 2: Why is he not recovering or why is he not moving.
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  Speaker 1: To a test writer position where he could be a
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  Speaker 1: bit more beneficial.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you have to. You do have to wonder.
• 12:57
  Speaker 3: I think the key to that is, you know, we
• 12:59
  Speaker 3: talk about Jello twenty twenty three. So he won that
• 13:02
  Speaker 3: race at Cota for Honda, that elsr win, which came
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  Speaker 3: from kind of nowhere at the start of twenty three,
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  Speaker 3: broke his leg at Magello and probably tried to come
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  Speaker 3: back too quickly. He'd already signed for Yamaha to be
• 13:13
  Speaker 3: Quattroro's teammate for twenty four at that point, and it's
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  Speaker 3: almost like he came tried to come back too fast
• 13:20
  Speaker 3: in order to prove that he was the right man
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  Speaker 3: for the job. I still vividly remember this because it's
• 13:24
  Speaker 3: a Philip Island memory. You know this, from the paddock
• 13:27
  Speaker 3: up to the media center at Phillip Island. I actually
• 13:29
  Speaker 3: counted the number of steps because I was watching Alex
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  Speaker 3: try and negotiate them on crutches at the time. I
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  Speaker 3: think it's seventeen steps from the paddack up to the
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  Speaker 3: media center or something along those lines at Phillip Island.
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  Speaker 3: And I wrote about it that weekend. The hardest thing
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  Speaker 3: he did that entire week ken was get up the
• 13:43
  Speaker 3: steps to go to do the press conference and get
• 13:45
  Speaker 3: down the steps again on these crutches. And you mentioned
• 13:47
  Speaker 3: the brace that he wears on his leg. He only
• 13:49
  Speaker 3: ditched the crutches at the start of this year. I
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  Speaker 3: think it was Argentina that he finally got rid of
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  Speaker 3: the crutches. So he's not been right for basically two
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  Speaker 3: full calendar years. He's a really, really good motor GP rider.
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  Speaker 3: But you do wonder, like you said, Martine's taking his time,
• 14:02
  Speaker 3: Marquez took his time.
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  Speaker 4: Rinz might have rushed back too.
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  Speaker 3: Quickly for reasons that we just detailed back in twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty three, and he's kind of still paying the price
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  Speaker 3: for it a little bit because he's just not the
• 14:13
  Speaker 3: rider that he was. I mean, this is a rider
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  Speaker 3: who went toe to toe with Mark Marquez several times
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  Speaker 3: in Grand Prix, including Australia in twenty twenty two as
• 14:21
  Speaker 3: Suzuki was winding down, and beat Marquees in a head
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  Speaker 3: to head fight a couple of times.
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  Speaker 4: Did it?
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  Speaker 3: Silverstone as you remember back when he was at Suzuki,
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  Speaker 3: really really talented rider. But I don't know if that
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  Speaker 3: guy's there anymore, just simply because physically he can't be
• 14:35
  Speaker 3: that same rider anymore.
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you've hit the nail on the head.
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: And then that leads me to the question is is
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: it just holding onto a seat because of the fact
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: of holding onto a seat or could some of these
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: younger rookies like Bramak who have that Moto two bike
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: sorry Moto two team can then start bringing riders through.
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: But we're not team owners. Where just speculating here.
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: There's so many if buttson wins, But there's these little
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: things that I've seen over the weekend, Like I said
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: about Alex who's still limping, and you're like, how are
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: you mustling a Moto GP bike around Aragon, which does
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: have quite a lot of elevation. Yeah, we're going to
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: Magello next that has even more elevation.
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: How are you doing that?
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: Struggling off so many unanswered questions, but the question that
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: we knew was going to get answered this weekend was
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: Mark Marquez absolutely dominating Aragon. What can I say, leading
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: all sessions and beating his own record, which I thought
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: was hilarious the way Meto GP had it on the
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: screen of Mark Marquez has beat Mark Marquez at his
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: own record of leading every single session since twenty fifteen.
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: What do you say to that? It's Marquees Aragon, is
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: markez Land?
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: It is I mean, what's one of six eighty clockwise
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: tracks on the calendar, So it's Rightney's wheelhouse. We know
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: that we know how good he is there because we
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: saw that the previous year on that surface that was
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: like a skating rink and he's on a two year
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: old Decatti and making everyone look ridiculous. But there were
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: two parts of the weekend for me, I'll go three parts.
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: Friday morning practice. I think he was eight tenths of
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: a second faster than everybody else, which is just you
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: look at the time sheets and go, yeah, okay, here
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: we go the sprint race where he didn't get a
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: very good start and drop back to fourth, and when
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: I'll just overtake it. If everybody had clear off, that'll
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: be fine to go win the sprint race. But in
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: the actual Grand Prix, and you were to see this
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: on Sunday, cruising out front, got the start right led
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: from the start, and he said, as the laps were
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: counting down, he started thinking about Austin where he was
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: in the lead, and he dropped it and scorned at
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: a heap of points. So just because he could not,
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: because he had to, he decided to go set a
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: new circuit lap record with three laps to go on
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: twenty one lap old tires, just to basically keep himself
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: fully focused. And it was completely planned. It's like I'm
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: just going to attack here to see if i can
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: set the fastest lap to make sure I stay in
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: my race rhythm and I don't sort of button off
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: mentally or start cutting a few corners or what have you.
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: He was going to be locked in right the way
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: to the end. Because of a previous race where he
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: thrown some away and I thought, that's just a classic
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: insight into what Mark is like. He's aware that he's
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: now starting to wander mentally, like, don't do what he
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: did in Austin. Don't do what you did in Austin.
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: So he did the opposite of what he did in
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: Austin and decided to go and break a circuit record
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: because he could. And that just shows you that. I mean,
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: he basically rolled out on the last lap of one
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: by a second and a bit, but if he was pushing,
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: that felt like a five seven eight second whatever he
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: wanted it to be win because a combination of the
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: best bike on the grid and Mark Marquez and this track,
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: there was just this inevitability about it the whole weekend,
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: and you could almost argue right that Alex Marquez was
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: almost like the biggest winner of the weekend because on
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: a weekend where he wasn't in the same post code
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: as his brother, he only actually lost eight points over
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: the course of the weekend, it felt like eighty eight
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: points given that Mark was in his own race. So
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: Alex has done kinde of well, really, he did the
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: best he could to only lose points to his brother
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: and managed to beat everybody else. But I'm sure you
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: were there. I mean, there was a huge Marquez grandstand
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: there just on the off the corner where the wall
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: is there. They were having the best time of their
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: lives and it was nice to see the Marquers were
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: celebrating afterwards. But the whole thing felt like it was
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: kind of predetermined as suit as Friday practice started, didn't
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: it for.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: The listeners just a little insight.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: I did a vlog for the Fox Sports YouTube channel
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: that I'm calling the Marquez Effect because.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: I'm going to show you just how many.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: Mark Marquez and Alex Marquez fans there are in Aragon
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: and if you've only ever experienced Philip Island, this is
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: going to give you an insight to what Matt was
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: saying is I got up close when the riders were
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: doing their lap around the circuit and awesome the Marquees grandson.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: They had a live MC there who was hyping the
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: crowd up. Mark and Alex came up with the T
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: shirt guns and watching. I actually watched some of the
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: practice sessions from that corner because it's really interesting near
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: the wall as they come up and over and head
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: back down the elevation again. And every time Mark or
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: Alex were on track, stepping in and out of their
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: pit garage.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: Wherever you were, you.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: Knew that Mark and Alex were there because you would
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: just here the crowd raw at any time of the day.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: So the Marquez brothers are literally the biggest celebrities there
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: are in that part of the world, which was crazy,
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: but we obviously know that. Yeah, Mark was just in
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: his own post cred as you said. One thing we
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: spoke about though in the pre preview pod was you
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: said that you started to see this is where the
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: twenty five GP would start to expand in the GP
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: twenty four.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: Ward State workers.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: We didn't really see that this weekend, though, did we,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: Because we saw Morbidelli and Aldiger and all these guys
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: were battling and they were up the front. It's just
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: the fact that it was Mark Marquez being Mark Marquez.
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, complete race for second place really, So, I mean
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: it's one of those tracks that it's a decading track
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: at the best of times, and then it's like it's
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: Marquees in like category one and then everyone else sort
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: of behind that. I mean, Franko Morberdelli really good qualifying
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: for It's the best qualifying he's had for a long time.
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: Faded a bit in the Grand Prix, but the twenty
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: fives weren't quite as strong here as maybe I suspected
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: they might be. But we talked about this a little
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: bit offline before we started. I reckon that that podium
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: for Pekabanyai on Sunday might be a super interesting result
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: to monitor from here, because he did something super different
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: with that bike on Sunday. Saturday was an absolute disasters
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: twelfth in the sprint, and the other five decaddies were
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: all the top six, so he was in this category
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: of absolutely nowhere, and it's just an extension of how
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: his season has gone. It feels to me like they
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: might have unlocked something for him on Sunday, which was
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: a really really random thing that we can get into
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: which might be the world's longest podcast, but I'll try
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: and keep it short. But it feels that Banyai had
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: a result on Sunday that was worth more than just
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: your average third place finish because you saw him after
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: the race. He doesn't usually get that fired up about
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: finishing third. I mean, he's won thirty Grand Breeze. The
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: way he runs. He was super excited to finish third
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: because I think he reckons he found something, don't you think?
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: I think so.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Match And you know you spoke recently on Fox sports
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: dot comdo for Slash Motorsport where you said that there's
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: some internals, there's some changes that have happened in Peko's bike,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: and there's been some talks. We've heard Ta Doozzi saying
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: to Jack Appleyard and these guys, you know that they
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: found something, They found something with Peco whatnot. I heard
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: some little whispers about potentially it was like the rear
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: right height device the weight had shifted, so he was
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: struggling and that's why we're seeing so many front end crashes.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: But yeah, what do you know, because you're looking at
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: me like you've got some inside got here?
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, a little bit.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: So I wrote a couple of weeks ago about this.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: Two things about the twenty five that are different to
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: the twenty four Ducatti without getting super granular here, it's
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: the engine internals are different, and the weight distribution of
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: where they are and the bike.
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: Is different, and the rear ride.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: Height device is much more towards the front of the bike,
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: but it's also lighter. So Banniol's biggest problem all year
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: is he uses the word feeling all the time. I
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: don't have the feeling, have the feeling, and he doesn't
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: have the confidence on the front end of the bike
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: in corners. You often see him run wide or he's
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: not as good in breaking because he's an awesome late
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: breaker as we've seen over the past couple of years.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: He doesn't have the confidence in that, and turns out
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: that on race day at Aragon it was a bit
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: of a hail mary I reckon. They through the biggest
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: break discs you can possibly use in motor GP. That
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: through fifty five millimeter break discs into the front of
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: Banyai's bike. Normally you're running three forties, so he's gone
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: the heaviest possible break disc These are the brakes that
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: you use at something like Motegi, which is all like
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: long straights in the ninety degree corners, long straights in
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: the ninety degree corners. What that's done and a hatsip
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: here to Simon Patterson from the race of digging this
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: out from Brembo. The bigger caliber break discs are about
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: four hundred grams heavier than the ones that are lighter.
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: Four hundred grams doesn't sound like a lot, nearly half
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: a kilo, but all that weight's on the front of
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: the bike, and Banyai the whole year has said, I
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: don't have feeling at the front. I don't have feeling
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: at the front. Yes, you're running a heavier break disc,
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: but it's redistributed the weight to the front of the bike,
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: which is where he's wadded it the entire year. And
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: so you go in twenty four hours. He was hopeless
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: in the sprint, to the point that he's back dealing
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: with Jack Miller after Jack and had his run in
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: with Juan Mier. And it was interesting because Jack after
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: the sprint spent the entire sprint sitting right behind Banyai,
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: which is you would not expected to catty at a
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: Yamaha at Aragon to be in the same piece of
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: real estate. And Jack was like, I don't recognize the
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: way Peco's riding, Like he's riding in a completely different way.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: His body's not hanging off the side of the bike
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: like it normally does. And Jack's like, I know Peco
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: better than anybody on the grid.
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: Because they were.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: Teammates for four years and Jack knows exactly how Peko rides,
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: and he's looking at him thinking, I don't recognize this.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: I've not seen this before, and this is Peco trying
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: not to lose the front on every single court and
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: that's why he was so dog slow. I think he's
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: fourteen seconds behind Mark Mecmarquez in eleven laps.
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: That's dreadful.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: Fast forward twenty four hours he finished two seconds behind
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: his teammate and on the podium twenty four hours later
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: after they'd run the bigger break discs. And I'm going
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: into a long piece on this for Fox Sports dot
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: com dot Au that's going to run on Thursday, Australian time.
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: But you do have to wonder whether they found something here.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: And you know we always say motorsport, right, there's no
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: magic bullets with this thing, like, there's not just you click,
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: can't click your figures and everything gets better. But maybe
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: they have clicked their figures and they've found something here.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: It's a pretty random left field solution. But the thing
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: for me, and we talk about this offline before what
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: are the next two races? Migello Asen, who's one at
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Magello the last three years Peco Van who's one at
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: Assen the last three is Peko Vanyaya. And you remember
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: particularly Asen, there's some of those weekends it's a bit
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: like Marquez Aragon.
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: It's like west Pecker.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: Oh he's six seconds in the lead, you just don't
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: see him for the entire weekend. So if they've really
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: found something on this bike, if he goes out and
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: wins at Magello, we know how good he is there.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: If he goes out and beats Mark on a red
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: Ducat at home at Migello this World Championship, he's probably
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: too far behind Mark to win the title unless Mark
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: helps him by falling off a couple of times, which
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: Mark can do from time to time. But it's certainly
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: going to be interesting because I think there are races
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: later in this season where we know there's tracks where
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: Peko is just about unbeatable when he's been Peco Vanyaya.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: We haven't seen heaps of that this year so far
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: in eight rounds, but it doesn't mean that it's not coming.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: And if he's got this bike balance right, whether that
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: transfers across from Aragon, which is not a great circuit
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: for him anyway, if he can make it work at Magello,
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: if he can make it work at Asen, then doesn't
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: that add a wrinkle that we didn't see coming to
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: the end of the season because it was pretty much
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: one way traffic before ARAGLV, wasn't it.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was the Marquez Brothers show. But yeah, I
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: think you have Peco Banyai back in. Ultimately, then we'll
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: go back to what I said where you mentioned the
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: gap between the GP twenty fives and GP twenty four's
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: is going to become more realistic. Yep in seeing that
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: though we know Diggia is on the GP twenty five
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: as well, and just looking at the results from the weekend,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: he was P. Nine, So it's as much the bike
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: as it is the rider on the bike.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: And if the rider on the bike is.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Peco Banyaya and all his eyes are dotted and his
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: teas across and he's comfortable, that's when we're going to
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: see him that closer to the top. But so, yeah,
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: if your podium on Sunday was a Ducad dominated podium,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: we knew that, but looking at P four, Pedro Acosta
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: made a surprise appearance, and it seems like every debrief everything.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: Like I heard from Pedro on the weekend, He's still
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: just saying I'm not happy. I'm not happy, And I
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: feel like that's just Pedro's tagline at the moment. But
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: I mean a P four from a KTM where the
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: next KTM I'm just looking at the results was Anaya
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Bastianini in twelve. You think that's a big jump. And
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Brad Binda, we know he's this is not his strongest
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: circuit either, and he had a DNF. But Petro Costa
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: P four that's not too bad for a KTM.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: No, not at all, And it's interesting like Binda was
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: running quite high in the Grand Prix until crashed. Vignales
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: ended up crashing and I think he was the last
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: classified rider, but I think he said his fastest lap
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: with a broken bike or the last lap of the race,
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: because Averick Vignalez just filed that in the Maverick Vidales
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: file like we always do. But interesting with a Costa
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: because you remember he was on the podium at Aragon
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: last year. Now that owed itself to a little bit
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: of Alex Marquez, Peco Vannyaya running over each other in
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: the gravel nonsense.
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: Later in that race, he.
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: Wouldn't have been on the podium otherwise, but it's been
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: generally a pretty good track for him through the junior classes.
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: And something that's interesting now is we always think of
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: the DECADI as being the grid's fastest bike right through
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: the speed traps. These days, generally speaking, it's a KTM
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: that's the top of the top of the speed traps.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: There's nothing wrong with the straight line speed of a KTM.
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: You know, the quartering stuff's a bit of an issue
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: from time to time. But what do we have at
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: aragon A one kilometer back straight and you could just
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: see like a Costa was right in the fight with
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: Banyaya early in that race, simply because Peko would gap
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: him in the first two thirds of the lap and
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: then this KTM would unleash it self out of that
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: third last quarter and all of a sudden they be
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: back on there again. So it's going to be a
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: bit circuit specific for a cost I'd be curious to
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: see how they go at Magello, which is you feel
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: the bike's always just turning or doing something at Magello
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: with the elevation change and the fact that you're very
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: rarely upright in a straight line on that track, even
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: the start finished straight's got the huge undulation is that
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: goes over the crest there, So it might be a
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: bit of a one off, but there's not been heaps
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: of good news for Katie of this year. Let's be honest,
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: and a Costa goes from being half grumpy to fully
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: grumpy most of the time. So he was only half
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: grumpy on the weekend because he finished fourth, But a
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: cost of being a costas like, are you happy you
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: finished fourth? No, I wanted to finish third. That's pretty
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: much whatever you give him. If it's not a weird
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: he's probably not going to be that thrilled about it,
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: But considering where they've been lately, that's a very good.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: Result for them, very good result.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Looking at some of the other manufacturers in the top ten,
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: it leads me to micro Bitzeki on.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: Prillia, which also then leads me to the.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: Shock announcement of Mano Gonzales testing with track House on Monday,
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: something that I was totally oblivious to, And to be honest,
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: when that announcement got made, you could see a lot
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: of the journalists in the media sense of going, oh, okay, this.
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: Is really happening.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, inside word from someone at trackhouse.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: So this is a Prillier driven and not.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: Trackhouse driven, which I thought was very very interesting.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: But then what was Manu.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Two seconds off off the fastest on on Monday.
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: Decent?
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: Pretty decent, I thought, for a guy who's never ridden
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: murder GP bike before and had absolutely no way to
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: prepare for this, he was just thrown in the deep
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: end at the very very last last minute. You know,
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: it was super interesting. You say it was a prillier
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: thing and not a track house thing. Who looks after trackhouse.
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: It's Davide Privio, right, and he's got this awesome track
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: record of finding rough diamonds or guys that might not
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: necessarily be ready a Moto two and bringing them up
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: into Moto GP. He was a guy that bought Maverick
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: vinalez in. He was the guy that bought Alex rins In.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: He was a guy who bought Juan mir In. They've
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: all won races, mirrors of world champion. If you get
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: the nod of approval from David A. Brivio, you're probably
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: doing something right. And so, I mean, Gonzales has clearly
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: been the guy in Moto two this year he's had
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: a couple of rope rounds, the last couple, but yeah,
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: a left field test. I like it when these guys
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: get thrown in the deep end with very little prep
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: because Motor GP and motorsport generally it's all about simulators
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: and data and getting yourself as completely ready as possible.
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: Sometimes they can go are you free on Monday? Do
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: you fancy riding one of these? And of course if
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: you've made a Gonzales you're going to say where do I?
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: Sighn and let me add it? And he would have
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: had the best day of his life. Quite what that
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: does to his Moto two riding Once we get to
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: the next track, of course he's going to have to
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: relard everything again. But if you're him, it was a
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: complete no lose situation, right, you can get on the
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: bike and look really good and impress some people. Yeah
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: there's not a spot for him on the grid yet,
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: but there will be people looking at that going huh.
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: He handled that quite well with absolutely no preparation. And
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: Moto two is such a jungle to try and get
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: out of to get to Moto GP. Any chance you
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: get you got to take it. So interesting decision by Aprilia,
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: and I thought he acquisted himself pretty well.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: Well if you were looking at the results from Monday's tests,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: no surprise there. Maverick Vignalees was fastest.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: He is the test.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: But to be honest, they were actually lapping quicker than
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: what they were during Sunday's race. In saying that, because
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: I was on the ground for Sunday's race when the
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: race was actually.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: On, it was hot, so true, temperatures were through the roof.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: So in doing this, you know, some of these these
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: lap times that they could have been doing it early
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: in the morning, they could have been doing it late afternoon.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: We're not like, you know, it does change, the weather
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: does change that there. But one thing I found interesting
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: from the test was that someone posted on Instagram saying, ah,
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: is there Italians working at KTM now because they were
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: testing KTM were testing a new front firing design that
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: was literally a copy and paste of the GP twenty five.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: Did you see that, Matt? Do you see the photo?
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: Did? Yeah? I did.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: It's one of those things that Decadi will say it's
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: a being paste and Katie em will say, I know,
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: we were inspired by what they were doing it. There's
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: no copying and pasting here. We thought yours was good
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: and we decided to build our own version.
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: You love these.
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: In any top line motorsport, there's always some guy with
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: a camera that's wandering up and down pit lane, or
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: they're wandering up and down all agree before the race,
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: like taking a bit of a sneaky look at what
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: everyone else is doing.
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: And you know, the what is it? The imitation is
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: the sincereous form of flattery. Right.
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: If you're making something that's good and everyone wants it,
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: then you'll start seeing variations of your bike on other
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: people's bikes. What they're basically saying is you do it.
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: A great job, guys, keep it going. But yeah, it
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: is funny, isn't it. There's no secrets in this sport.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: There was no secrets in this sport.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: At the race on the weekend as well, Augusto Fernandez
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: was filling in a wild card for Yamaha, and what
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: we learned was Augusto was trialing a new engine that
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: they seemed to be really happy with. So then Augusto
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: didn't take part in Monday's test as he was getting
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: prepared for a private test with Yamaha. Rumor is now
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: the engine that Augusto was using during Sunday's race and
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: all weekend is now going to be the new version
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: of the engine that Fabio and Alex and Jack and
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Miguel are going to be using for the rest of
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: the season. But let's talk about Honda as well, because
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: Honda this weekend. Yeah, Juan Miir was I think P
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: nine on Sunday so strong for Juan. But Zarko having
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: come from such a high the previous two races to
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: just nowhere this weekend. We kind of spoke about it
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: before in the preview that yet this is a track that.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: Maybe wasn't going to suit them.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: But it's looking like during Monday's tests that Zarko felt
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: like he'd made progress once again. But this is something
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: we keep hearing from him. Yeah, we're making progress. We're
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: making progress, right.
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: I think it's funny with Hondra and Yamaha, they're coming
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: from so far back right that we see any sort
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: of sign of progress like a Zarko win or a
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: bunch of coaturo poles. Oh, they're back, they're back. They've
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: still got a long way to get back back. There's
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: gonna be flashes, and I think that's the way those
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: two are going to be this season. There's going to
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: be some weekends where they're kind of anonymous, you know.
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: Zak I'd come off back to back podiums and so
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: it was a massive fallback for them, and obviously the
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: factory Honda team only had the one rider with Luca
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: Marini being out, and it sounds like Marini might be
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: out for quite some time by what you're hearing around
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: the place. But hat tip to Juan Meir who absolutely
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: fuming with Jack Miller on Saturday and he's incredulous Juan
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: Meir style. But seventh place on Sunday in the race,
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: best result I think since India, remember the one off
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: Indian Grand Prix where I melted in twenty twenty three.
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: He was actually really quite good and I think he was.
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: It was quite funny afterwards, a he was relieved he
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: didn't crash. We didn't get the Joan mir writer okay
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: graphic up on the screen, but he was saying it
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: was nice to overtake people and then not have them
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: come straight back.
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: Past you again.
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: It was just sort of funny how he mentioned that,
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: like he was super fired up after finishing seventh, which
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: quite frankly, if you'd given that guy seventh three years ago,
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: he would have looked at you like, I want more
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: than that. But my god, it's been desper of him.
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: He's a good rider. We just haven't seen him stay
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: aboard his bike long enough in the past few years
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: to actually do something about it. But on the whole,
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: a pretty bla weekend for Honda, a very bla weekend
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: for Yamaha. But like you said before, Aragon's a bit
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: of an outlier. I don't think that's going to continue.
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: They will be inconsistent because they're coming from so far back,
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: and there will be flashes. But yeah, Aragon was one
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: best forgotten I think for both of them.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: Yes, and for the listeners or the viewers at home.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: Maybe you thought the Aragon Moroto GP race was a
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: little boring. Look, I kind of agree with you on
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: that because it was the Mark Marquez Show. But if
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: you tuned in to Moto two and Moto three, boy,
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: go with that. We were talking off I know, we
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: keep saying that because we have this catch up before
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: we come on talking about everything that happened, Let's talk
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: about the Moto two prodium. A Turkish writer a Brazilian
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: writer and a Belgian writer. The Brazilian writer was on
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: poll When do you ever hear of a non Italian
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: or a Spanish writer at least somewhere in the top
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: three and taking pole in a Motor GP race.
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so true.
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: It sounds like the start of a bad joke, doesn't it,
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: Like a Turk of Belgium and a Brazilian walked into
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: a bar. Insert your own punchline. But yeah, it was
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: just so nice to see some new faces up there.
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: And the last lap of that race, which I do
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: I'd had to admit I did watch about three times.
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: I still don't know how Dennis Onchu won that because
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: you see them coming into the last corner, Well, that's nice,
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: it's going to be a close finish, and that's done.
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: And then you see the photo finish which they put
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: up on the screen, and it was what one third
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: of the width of a wheel, like it was absolutely
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: crazy if that race had finished one meter earlier than
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: Marera's won his first Grand Prix. So yeah, super fun
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: result Moto two. Funnily enough, the last couple of rounds
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: meant obviously ceterageous. Winning at Silvester was pretty dramatic at
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: the end. It's almost served up the best race of
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: the day for the last couple of Grand Prix, which
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: is not something we often say about Mono two motors
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: has been actually pretty interesting this year. Often you get
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: these races that are pretty strung out, but certainly the
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: last couple have been super fun. But like you said,
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: like you just keep waiting for the Italian or the
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: Spanish national anthem and neither of them are happening. It's like,
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: that's weird. But it was super fun though, And Marrera
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: looks like a guy who might be particularly with Brazil
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: coming onto the calendar, and it'd be great to have
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: a writer from that part of the world. He's a
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: guy whose name you would not be surprised at all
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: to see in the Motor GP conversation before too long,
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: because he's pretty fast and pretty good so early in
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: his career.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: Like I just mentioned the flags and I pulled up
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: the result, So yes, Santa was fourth Australian Phillips a
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: latch Czech Republic.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: Then it's the first.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: Italian, a sorry, Spanish of Aaron Connett. Then we go
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: to the American of Joe Roberts. So yeah, we are
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: seeing this multi cultural like a blend coming in.
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we foundations of the World Championship Love.
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Gonzales had a terrible qualifying. I was actually in
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: Senna's box when that happened and the crash and just
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: didn't have time to return. But otherwise it just feels
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: like this season kind of has just been the Gonzales
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: show with him just running away and you can see why
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: he's been off at this little ride, it's little test
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: in Moto GP. But then let's go further down to
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: Moto three. And I want to touch on Joel Kelso
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: because I spent a lot of time with him this weekend.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: He showed me around.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: The track, gave me some pointers for when I make
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: my Moto three debut, which is going.
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: He gave me some good pointers for.
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: The track, and he was talking about this weekend and
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: he said, look, this weekend for me, I'm aiming for
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: a top.
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: Five because this is a track that I feel it is.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: Not my strength. And one thing I noticed, and I
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: don't know if you guys saw on the Fox Sports
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: YouTube where I did my track walk with Joel as
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: I mentioned that Joel for me, seems like he's looking
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: at things really differently. Now he's he's learning to take
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: away from the positives but also the negatives and what
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: he can learn on. So the sitting there and dwelling
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: on it and getting really down in himself. And actually
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: saw him after the race and I said, like, that
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: was awesome, Like, you know, you got a good start,
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: you were consistent.
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: He goes, yeah, he goes, but I know, Magello, I'm
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: going to be a lot stronger at and I'm really
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: looking forward to that.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: And I think this is we spoke about so many
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: times for Joel. Compared to the last year, Joel would
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: be so strong for the first half of the race
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: and then he drop off. Now we're seeing him progressively consistent.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: And if that consistency means it's a P seven for
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: him like it was here in Aragon, then he's taking
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: away the positives for that.
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: But let's talk about that Motor three race as well,
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: because we had the Aspah boys taken each other out.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: Then we had all that drama, all the.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: Overtaking, the what we love about Moto three, right the
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: slip streaming, everything. Joel was telling me about that and
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: the last race. But then we go back to the
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: old Spanish podium. How's the maximum Kielez though, I mean
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: the Mark Marquez little prodigy that's coming through right.
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, he's He's a guy who's making a name
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: for himself pretty quickly, isn't he. He's a super we're
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: exciting super motor GP at most tracks. Is you know
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: you hide behind the couch on the last lap just
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: in case something might happen, and certainly an hour ago,
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: like where's this going in the last lap? But super
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: enjoyable race. The thing you mentioned about Joel before, and
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: you know we've known this because we've spoken to him
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: for a bunch of years. Now, I reckon it feels
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: like he's aged about three years in the last twelve months.
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: And I don't mean that in a negative way. There's
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: this maturity and belief, and you know he's an experienced
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: motor three head now and I don't reckon he gets
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: too high or too low with stuff. He's just really
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: balanced now as a person, and you see the way
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: that translates into his riding.
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: He's grown up fast.
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: You know, he's been a motor three for a little
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: while now, before it was this, Well, that's nice that
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: he's got to result and what have you. But he
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: now knows that he's good enough to fight at the front.
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: The results tell you.
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: That he is.
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: He's really matured into a front line Motor three rider.
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: And what you just said then about you know, that's
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: a great result, Aragon. He's already thinking ahead to somewhere
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: where he's going to be stronger.
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: That's not what last year.
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: He would have been fuming about something, or he would
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: have been taken it really badly and taken a few
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: days to come down from it. Now he's got this
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: sort of thirty five thousand foot view where he looks
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: at what's next and this is a race I can
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: capitalize on. This is one where it might be a
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: bit of damage limitation. He's putting together a really nice championship.
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: It's really good to see because it feels like it's
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: nice to have an Australian that's really legit at the
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: front of that championship now and he really does look
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: like that.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: This year he spoke to us about his goal of
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: eventually going to Moto GP, which means he does have
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: to step through Moto two. And I think this new
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: mentality is what he needs to become.
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: A Moto two writer couldn't agree.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: Even though the age difference between Joel, Jacob and Senna
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: is not that much. Now we're seeing Joel acting more
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: like Senna, and I think Senna's had that experience coming
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: through the European Championship and then going straight into Moto
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: two where he's constantly looking forward, looking at things very differently,
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: Joel's now taking that step up.
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: And we saw this weekend.
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: You know, it wasn't a good result for Jacob Rulestone
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: with that DNF, and I think it was a mechanical issue. Yeah. Technique, Yeah,
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: technical issues, So yeah, obviously not his fault. But I'm
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: starting to now go is the pressure starting to.
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: Get to Jacob as well?
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: Because this is his second year with the TEKTA team.
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: You know, it's a championship winning it's a race winning team.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: Is that pressure starting to be amounted on his shoulders?
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: And is he starting to crack a little bit?
• 42:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: Look, I think there's a bit of impatience there, which
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: is understandable. I mean, obviously the start of his season
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: he was injured through you know, circumstances, and it's taken
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: him a while to get back to being where he
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: needs to be. You know, there's not many Australians in
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: this World Championship paddock, and because these guys are all
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: similar ages and they've come at it from really different directions,
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: but they'll all be looking at each other's results. And
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: Joel's been on podiums and sent us one of Grand
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: Prix and you know, so the pressure there comes from
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: probably wanting to keep up with the guys that have
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: got the same passport, right, because you're always mentioned in
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: the same conversation, you're going to be compared to what
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: your compatriots are doing because there's so few of you.
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: So it's been a rough go for Jacob this year
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: because he's just not really had a great run at
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: it because he was injured and then recovering from injury.
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: It was a shame that he was in a good
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: position to get a good result. And then, I mean,
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: it's motorcycle racing. Bikes are going to have technicals from
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: time to time and it's going to happen. Those ones
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: never hurt quite so much when you're circulating in thirteenth right,
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: Like when you're in a good position to get somewhere
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: and there's something out of your control takes it out
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: of your hands. I think the positive for him was
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: the speed was there. He looked like he belonged up there.
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: The whole weekend had been pretty strong. You just have
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: to shrug your shoulders with the technical and move on
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: and try and replicate that for the next one. But
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: isn't it nice that we're talking about guys being Australian
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: guys being in strong positions in races and good positions
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: in the championship and the glass is very much half
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: full because we've had seasons in the past where you know,
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: it was either Jack Miller or Bust. We were getting
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: nothing on the World Championship stage. There were other guys
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: kind of making up the numbers here and there.
• 43:57
  Speaker 4: You'd get a.
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: Random Kelso podium and a soaked Philip Island, which was
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: a super outline back in twenty three. But it's just
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: nice to have guys in each World chair beget category.
• 44:06
  Speaker 4: Now.
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: As an Australian fan, we you look at it and go, huh,
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: we could be fighting for something meaningful here. It definitely
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: makes the whole Sunday night on the couch for everyone
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: in Australia pretty enjoyable, I think definitely.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, we've got the youngsters like Carter Thompson
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: who were going to catch up soon, these guys coming.
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: Through the Red Bull Rookies.
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: The actually I ran into Harrison Voyd, who's doing the
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: Super Sport World Championship. You know, the Aussie guys, they're
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: all there, they're all supporting each other. It's a fact
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: of us as a nation need to get behind them
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: as well and help support them and cheer them on
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: from our sofas because they're over there representing their country
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: in countries there they're living in for the first time
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: and having to experience everything new, and they're so far
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: away from home that it is nice. Like when Senna
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: was on the podium, Joel and Jacob Jack they all
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: came down to celebrate with him because we're all in
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: this together. And it's funny because even now I'm over
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: here only for four races, but all of a sudden,
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: all the Australian get together, which is really really nice.
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: To be a part of.
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: All ten of you get together at the same time,
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: we're very much a minority in that paddock. But you're right,
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: I did certainly notice that we'd said of winning at Silveston,
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: where everyone just suddenly appeared in Park fer Me to
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: wish him all the best for what he had done.
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: The thing we have to remember is that, you know,
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: Motor GP, there's only twenty two guys on this grid,
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: and there's no right that there's some sort of Australian
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: on there. We've had great World champions obviously, but to
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: have a writer in that World Championship from this part
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: of the world, it's a really hard thing to do.
• 45:30
  Speaker 4: We've been a little bit spoiled because.
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: Jack's been there for ten years and he's just been
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: ever present and he's won some Grand Prix and given
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: us lots of great moments and whatever happens with Yamaha.
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: You know, Jack's certainly closer to the end of his
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: World Championship career than the beginning. I mean, he'd say
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: that himself. But one of these younger guys coming through
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: the feeder classes is going to be the next guy.
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: And that's the exciting thing. Like, there's nothing more exciting
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: than seeing an Australian guy on the ground floor as
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: they're sort of getting their feet wet and becoming who
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: they are. These are the days you remember. You remember
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: the Jack Millermoto three days where doing the worm in
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: the gravel trap at the French Grand Prix, and he's
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: got a terrible haircut, he's crying on the podium in
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: guitar and all these sorts of things.
• 46:07
  Speaker 4: That's the Jack Miller story. And now we're seeing some
• 46:10
  Speaker 4: of these young.
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: Guys that are starting to write their own stories and
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: let's hope one or more of them ends up on
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: the Premier class.
• 46:16
  Speaker 4: Grew at some.
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: Point, definitely, But we only have one week before we
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: head to Migello. So you're on F one Judy's once
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: again in Canada. Love that for you, with a really.
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: Good time zone in Australia.
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: Right dig you be heads to Magello and as you mentioned,
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: this is Peco Bangay's ground, so we've gone from Marquez
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: Land to Peko Banyaya hopefully masterclass in Magello. As I've
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: mentioned a lot though in this podcast, you can listen
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: read Matt's articles on Fox sports dot com, do Au Forward,
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: Slash Motorsport, and I've mentioned a few videos. I did
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: a really cool behind the scenes of what Jack Miller
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: does in a day to see his time stamps of
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: what day in the life of our workday, A nine
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: to five shall we call it Jack Miller, So you
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: can check that out on the Fox Sports YouTube. Also,
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: my track Walk with Joel Kelso gets some really good
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: insights into Aragon and we talk about Joel's mental mental
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: abilities right now and where he's at, but also what
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: he misses from Australia, what food he misses from here.
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: So that was a good little insight into the world
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: of Joel.
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: Keep up to date though with all the ladies news,
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: also on our socials at Fox Motorsport everywhere Matt's articles
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: around foxsport dot com do a force slash Motorsport. This podcast,
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: as always, is brought to us by Shannon's Insurance. But Matt,
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: I think we've pretty much wrapped up Aragon. We're gonna
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: head to Michello. I'm gonna be on the ground. Hopefully
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: we can get some good insights there for you guys
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: as well, and from Matt Clayton and myself Rined of Mulin.
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: We're gonna be back real soon with more motor GP
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: Pittok