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Pecco’s Double Triumph & Pedro’s Costly Slip Japanese GP Recap: MotoGP Pit Talk · Pit Talk

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Speaker 1: The professor prevails in Mategui, while the rookies errors cost
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Speaker 1: him his first Grand Prix victory twice. I'm your host,
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Speaker 1: Rnita Vanmullen, and today we've got the Motor GP Ninja
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Speaker 1: of Knowledge mac Layton Matt. I feel like we have
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Speaker 1: to start with Saturday and talk about Pedro Acosta taking pole,
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Speaker 1: huge step for the rookie, and then also the first
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Speaker 1: time I think we've had all year, three different manufacturers
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Speaker 1: on the front row. It's so exciting to see these
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Speaker 1: changes happening in the grid.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was cool Pedro Acosta on pole, Vanya second
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Speaker 2: Vignales thirty. Okay, we've had this season that's been so
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Speaker 2: massively dominated by a decady that it was nice to
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Speaker 2: see some variety up the front. But that was a
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Speaker 2: very very cool qualifying session because you had this looming
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Speaker 2: specter of rain the entire time. It looked like Mark
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Speaker 2: Barkes had pulled just a supernatural lap out of the bag,
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Speaker 2: and then it turns out that he breaks track limits
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Speaker 2: at turn four and the message was slow getting to him,
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Speaker 2: so he didn't have a chance for a second lap.
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Speaker 2: At the end of the day, you end up with
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Speaker 2: Pedro Acosta on pole and he's been a little bit
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Speaker 2: wasn't so anonymous, but he certainly cooled down from how
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Speaker 2: well he started the season. And remember Austria was terrible.
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Speaker 2: He's berating himself and angry with everybody and everything that
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Speaker 2: we've got a taste of this in Indonesia the previous week.
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Speaker 2: And then to seek him put a bike on pole that,
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Speaker 2: let's face it, it's not really a bike that should be
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Speaker 2: on pole on merit, and he's a rookie and he
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Speaker 2: goes and sticks it on pole at a track that
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Speaker 2: he's clearly never ridden a Motor GP bike before against
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Speaker 2: all of those decaddees. So so impressive, and it just
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Speaker 2: shows you why everyone's so excited about what this kid
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Speaker 2: could do. Because I don't know about you, but it
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Speaker 2: doesn't look like it's some one off, does it. It
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Speaker 2: looks completely repeatable that you wouldn't be shocked at all
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Speaker 2: if he got another pole or two before the end
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Speaker 2: of the season. I just think he's that good.
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Speaker 1: Oh for sure, he's going to get a podium and
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Speaker 1: a win. Sorry, he's going to get his Motor GP
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Speaker 1: win in his rookie year. It's inevitable. It's got to
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Speaker 1: have to happen because it's Pedro Acosta, right.
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Speaker 2: It feels like it when you consider what he's riding
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Speaker 2: relative to I mean, look, the Catty's not only got
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Speaker 2: strength of numbers with eight of them, but they're clearly
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Speaker 2: the best spike. We've talked about this a few times,
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Speaker 2: and you have to look at what a cost is
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Speaker 2: doing relative to super experienced guys like Brad Binder and
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Speaker 2: Jack Miller on the same machinery. Now he's behind Binder
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Speaker 2: in the standings for reasons that we'll get to it
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Speaker 2: later in this podcast. But you cannot help but be
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Speaker 2: impressed with his rookie season because he came in with
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Speaker 2: so much hype after winning mto three, Moto two. But
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Speaker 2: you know, when someone comes in with that much expectation,
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Speaker 2: they can only kind of disappoint, if you know what
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Speaker 2: I mean, if they're not great from day one. But
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Speaker 2: we saw those first two or three races when he
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Speaker 2: was on the podium and he's finishing strong, and look,
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Speaker 2: you know, we do have to talk about what happened
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Speaker 2: over the course of the weekend because you'll beating himself
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Speaker 2: up for it. But at the end of the day,
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Speaker 2: he ticks so many boxes this rookie season, and yeah,
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Speaker 2: I mean he's running out of chances to get that
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Speaker 2: first win in twenty twenty four, it wouldn't be a surprise.
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Speaker 2: But once he's in that factory KTM team next year,
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Speaker 2: I think that's going to lift that entire organization up
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Speaker 2: and maybe they had a big challenger to Decanty next year.
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Speaker 1: Well, you mentioned Q two and I want to talk
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Speaker 1: on that a little bit because it was super interesting
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Speaker 1: in the fact that Joe Martin had his worst qualifying
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Speaker 1: I think since was it twenty twenty three that you
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Speaker 1: don't expect that from him. So my thought, and I
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Speaker 1: know I've been saying this so much, but is it
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Speaker 1: the pressure? Was it just mategi because there was like
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Speaker 1: so many unknowns of was it the weather getting that
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Speaker 1: file lap in? Was it that needed to be happened
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Speaker 1: at the beginning of the session? Did he leave it
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Speaker 1: too late? What is going on with Joje Martin in
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Speaker 1: that Q two because it's so unlike him.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a little bit. It's felt inevitable that
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Speaker 2: more of them were going to go down because that
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Speaker 2: was such a weird Q two because normally you see
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Speaker 2: the way Q two develops and that everyone will get
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Speaker 2: a banker lap in on that first run, they'll build
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Speaker 2: to the ball, they'll leave it all out there on
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Speaker 2: that last lap. But it felt like every single corner
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Speaker 2: of every single lap, the weather was variable. It wasn't
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Speaker 2: like it was starting bad and getting worse. It was
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Speaker 2: very So is there a bit of raid on your visor?
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Speaker 2: Is there not? Is it threatening in some parts? Is
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Speaker 2: it threatening in other parts? And you see the aerial
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Speaker 2: shot of that twin ring Motigui layout, it's over such
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Speaker 2: a vast area because you've got the IndyCar oval there
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Speaker 2: and so the circuits super spread out, you can have
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Speaker 2: totally different weather in one end of the track than
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Speaker 2: the other. So combination of really strange track conditions and
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Speaker 2: air conditions and the nature of that track where it's
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Speaker 2: a lot of big stops into hairpins, I think it
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Speaker 2: was inevitable that someone was to come off. Now the
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Speaker 2: fact that it was Martin, he's normally so volcanic over
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Speaker 2: one lap, we'd seen what Marquez had done earlier in
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Speaker 2: that session, perhaps a little bit of pressure. But what
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Speaker 2: was strange for me is that everything leading up to
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Speaker 2: qualifying it kind of felt like of the two title protagonists.
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Speaker 2: It felt like Pecot was on the back foot a
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Speaker 2: little bit and he was the one that came through.
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Speaker 2: And I do wonder if that's going to be a
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Speaker 2: theme over these next four races with Martin holding the advantage.
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Speaker 2: But I think, and we've said this before, I think
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Speaker 2: I have more trust in Banoya to make fewer mistakes.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 2: I know that sounds weird for a guy to had
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Speaker 2: seventy nfs this year, but because he's been in a
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Speaker 2: couple of title fights already and he's won them, I
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Speaker 2: trust him to be a bit more solid in the
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Speaker 2: back end of races. And maybe Joje Martine's the guy
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Speaker 2: who's possibly faster but maybe more prone to making errors.
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Speaker 2: It's probably something to watch going forward. But yeah, it
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Speaker 2: was unusual to see him so far back on the grid,
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Speaker 2: But you've got to say he did a pretty good
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Speaker 2: job saving it, didn't they.
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Speaker 1: Yes, he made up a fair few positions, which we
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Speaker 1: will talk about the sprint and the race shortly. But
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Speaker 1: you mentioned earlier that Mark Marquez's poll lap disqualification. I
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Speaker 1: posted on the Fox Sports socials this social media screen
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Speaker 1: grab basically where Moto GP posted. You know, the rules
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Speaker 1: of the rules blah blah blah, and you can see
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Speaker 1: where Mark's blake goes on there, and then Mark commented that, going, yeah,
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Speaker 1: but the timing is the timing, and you could see
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Speaker 1: he was so frustrated with the fact that it took
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Speaker 1: so long for the stewards to get that notification to him.
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Speaker 1: Do you think that it was fair or should it
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Speaker 1: have been a much quicker response from the stewards.
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Speaker 2: Look, I think it should have been a much quicker response.
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Speaker 2: I don't think they are denying that, and I don't
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Speaker 2: think Mark's denying that he ran onto the green and
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Speaker 2: it was a track limits violation either. I think both
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Speaker 2: agreed with the sentiment. But the timing of when that
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Speaker 2: message was delivered there was some sort of software or
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Speaker 2: electronics glitch or something someone's probably trying to install, like
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Speaker 2: a new iPhone update in the background or something who knows,
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Speaker 2: But you know, when you've already got a roll at
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Speaker 2: clock at a fifty buet Q two session, you can't
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Speaker 2: have delays like this. So here he was thinking that
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Speaker 2: he was on pole and then the lap got scrubbed
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Speaker 2: and he was nine that he didn't have a chance
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Speaker 2: to do anything about it. So look, just one of
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Speaker 2: those weird technical things that it shouldn't go wrong in
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Speaker 2: top level sport, but it does. The stewards explained what
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Speaker 2: had happened, and they said they'll try a nine it
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Speaker 2: out so it doesn't happen again. But you know you're
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Speaker 2: going to have situations like this where things fail. It's
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Speaker 2: just you don't want them to fail at that moment.
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Speaker 2: So it was a The problem was a problem of timing,
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Speaker 2: not the fact that there was some sort of dispute
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Speaker 2: that he broach track limits or the fact that the
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Speaker 2: penalty needed to be given. It was just a timing
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Speaker 2: thing and unfortunate for markus. My goodness, that was a
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Speaker 2: lap when you consider what it is that he's writing.
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Speaker 2: And I love watching him about you, but I love
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Speaker 2: watching him in those conditions where everyone's a little bit unsure.
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Speaker 2: You know, we see guys going out on their outlaps
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Speaker 2: in there, dragging their foot along the ground to trouble
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Speaker 2: work out how wet it is. I love watching him
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Speaker 2: in situations like that because he's always been a guy
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Speaker 2: that's just all right. There's only one way to find
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Speaker 2: out where the group is. Let's go and attack it
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Speaker 2: and just live on my wit it's it's super fun
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Speaker 2: to watch, but in the end, a bit like Juje Martine,
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Speaker 2: like he was way further back on the grid that
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Speaker 2: he should have been, But it didn't really affect his
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Speaker 2: weekend too much because of how well he.
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Speaker 1: Recovered Saturday's sprint. It's hard to not talk about peker
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Speaker 1: van Yaya's starts at the moment because we see him
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Speaker 1: in these his practice starts and it looks like he's struggling,
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Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden it comes to the
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Speaker 1: Grand Prix, he just gets the whole shot every time.
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Speaker 1: Those two caddies are insane. But then we had the
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Speaker 1: opposite happen with Maverick Vinalez who got the terrible sart
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Speaker 1: and just like blended into the back of the field.
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Speaker 2: Well did it twice, did it on Saturday and Sunday.
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Speaker 2: And my understanding was the Saturday problem was that the
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Speaker 2: rear ride height device didn't disengage properly, which we've heard
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Speaker 2: that a number of times. And I don't think there's
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Speaker 2: going to be that many people too worried about when
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Speaker 2: they leave the sports. I'm not sure exactly what they're
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Speaker 2: adding at this point. If everyone's got them and everyone's
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Speaker 2: theoretically making the same start. Then we're just investing a
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Speaker 2: heap of money into something that's not really helping the show.
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Speaker 2: That's another podcast, I think. But yeah, Vignalez, the race
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Speaker 2: started and he went from the front row and we
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Speaker 2: barely saw him again except for what he crashed on
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Speaker 2: Sunday is just you know, a black bike down in
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Speaker 2: the gravel. So it was a weird one because he
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Speaker 2: hasn't been up the front in qualifying for a fair while,
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Speaker 2: and like you said, it's like, oh, this is good.
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Speaker 2: Three manufacturers on the front, maybe we're going to get
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Speaker 2: a diverse race. But he was out of the equation
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Speaker 2: pretty quickly because of that ride height device I mentioned
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Speaker 2: before on Saturday and then crashed out on Sunday. And
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Speaker 2: I think where you're going next? And I haven't seen
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Speaker 2: your run sheet here, so I'm just projecting. I think
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Speaker 2: the next two words on your run sheet might be
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Speaker 2: Pedro Acosta, because we do have to talk about what
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Speaker 2: happened to the pole sitter, don't we.
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Speaker 1: Well. I heard on the coverage that he's running the
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Speaker 1: chassis that Brad Benda was testing, and Brad didn't like it.
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Speaker 1: But I wanted to ask you, is that what you
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Speaker 1: think is helping propel Pedro Acosta. Does he seem to
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Speaker 1: just be gelling with this new Chaffi. But then obviously
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Speaker 1: what happened, what happened crashed out of the lead. Is
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Speaker 1: that just like I said, the intro was at just
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Speaker 1: a rookie error A little bit.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, on the first part, I was curious
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Speaker 2: to hear Herbet Poncherraal speaking to Simon Crafar on the
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Speaker 2: coverage where they said that after Aragon they've stopped throwing
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Speaker 2: so many new bits at Pedro and the bike to
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Speaker 2: test because Katim's always trying to push the envelope and
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Speaker 2: bring updates, and it got to the point where I
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Speaker 2: think he was almost trying too much stuff without you know,
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Speaker 2: being remembering what it was that he'd tried and how
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Speaker 2: he tried it. I remember he mentioned in the Messano
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Speaker 2: test he said we tried this, and I think that
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Speaker 2: was the second run, but maybe it was the third
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Speaker 2: run and I can't remember. And then there was something else,
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Speaker 2: and they're throwing so much stuff at him that maybe
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Speaker 2: they've stripped it back and said all right, here is
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Speaker 2: a bike, go and work with this, go and understand this.
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Speaker 2: Find out where the performance envelope goes, and he just
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Speaker 2: seems to have been a lot more settled since then.
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Speaker 2: We saw how good he was in Indonesia, as I
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Speaker 2: mentioned earlier, but in terms of the sprint and the
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Speaker 2: Grand Prix, I mean the sprint was the one that
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Speaker 2: surprised me a little bit because you would have thought
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Speaker 2: starting on pole in motor GP race for the first time,
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Speaker 2: all right, bit of pressure in the early lapse, but
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Speaker 2: he had a pretty comfortable lee before he crashed out
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Speaker 2: with three laps left, and I reckon that one was
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Speaker 2: done simply because Bagnal was second and not really going
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Speaker 2: to push hard enough to risk for a minimal number
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Speaker 2: of points where he's got a championship deficit to think about.
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Speaker 2: So the race was there for a costa to lose,
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Speaker 2: and he managed to lose it, probably by over pushing
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Speaker 2: a little bit. He had a comfortable margin, he was
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Speaker 2: trying to make it more comfortable. That's just an inexperienced thing,
11:02
Speaker 2: perhaps being a bit anxious for that first win. But
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Speaker 2: the Sunday race, where he'd been beaten into term one
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Speaker 2: by Vanyaya, he had second place pretty comfortable at that
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Speaker 2: point because as we mentioned, before Martina Marquez was so
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Speaker 2: far in the pack that they had to fight their
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Speaker 2: way through. So it wasn't a comfortable second place, but
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Speaker 2: it was a second place you could consolidate on and
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Speaker 2: then see what happened in the back half of the race.
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Speaker 2: And then not even three laps it, he's down at
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Speaker 2: the last corner and managed to continue on for a
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Speaker 2: little bit. I think he kept going hoping there might
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Speaker 2: have been a flag to flag and he could have
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Speaker 2: come in and changed bikes and see what happened there.
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Speaker 2: But such a disappointment to leave motigue with no points,
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Speaker 2: given how good he was for the whole weekend, and
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Speaker 2: you know, he said he was just sad after the race.
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Speaker 2: Like the good thing with him is he's pretty unfiltered
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Speaker 2: when it comes to when he does his media and
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Speaker 2: that sort of thing, and there's no hiding how disappointed
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Speaker 2: he was. And it's good that he's disappointed, because you
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Speaker 2: get the sense that once he gets away from the weekend,
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Speaker 2: he'll look at how that panned out. It's like, I've
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Speaker 2: got no points here, but I've taken pole. It's still
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Speaker 2: a successful weekend despite the lack of points, but it's
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Speaker 2: already a successful weekend, if you don't make the same
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Speaker 2: mistakes next time you're in that situation. So the next
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Speaker 2: time he gets up the front, I don't think if
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Speaker 2: it doesn't go well, I don't think it's going to
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Speaker 2: because of that. Let's say that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he's going to learn those lessons and
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Speaker 1: the mistakes that he made. He'll go and assess everything
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Speaker 1: and what I feel like I'm learning about Pedro And
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Speaker 1: I guess you can agree or disagree, but it seems
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Speaker 1: like he is a very methodical writer and is almost
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Speaker 1: like an old soul when it comes to his riding
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Speaker 1: and the bike and understanding. Where quite often you'd see
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Speaker 1: these rookies come in and I'm interested to see next
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Speaker 1: year with these motoritude guys who are stepping up, is
12:43
Speaker 1: how much it is just like full gaass flat out
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Speaker 1: where Pedro seems to be. He's so involved with the development, understanding,
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Speaker 1: working with the engineers and everything that it's almost like
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Speaker 1: he's a different generation writer. He shouldn't be so young.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, completely, like he's got an old head on
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Speaker 2: young shoulders. The thing I like about him too is
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Speaker 2: he's really accountable in that he's not going to be
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Speaker 2: one of these guys that looks for a million excuses
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Speaker 2: to blame everything under other than himself. He's very much
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Speaker 2: in the moment. He'll put his hand up and say,
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Speaker 2: I stuffed up here. Now we move on to the next.
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Speaker 2: But it's good that he there's a real care factor
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Speaker 2: there because he is so invested, like he's impatient, which
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Speaker 2: all the great writers are. You have to remember, this
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Speaker 2: kid's still twenty years old. But there's a degree of
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Speaker 2: accountability there that I like. And you see this in
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Speaker 2: all forms of motorsports. Sometimes it's a bit I win,
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Speaker 2: but you lose or we lose, and there's a deflection
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Speaker 2: of accountability there. He's very quick to put his hand
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Speaker 2: up when it's his mistake, even if sometimes there might
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Speaker 2: be extenuating circumstances. So long term, as much as matigue
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Speaker 2: is going to hurt, I think it's going to hold
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Speaker 2: him in good stead because yeah, he would just learn
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Speaker 2: from his mistakes, and he's that mature old soul as
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Speaker 2: you were saying before, and I'd be very surprised if
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Speaker 2: he did the same thing twice in the future.
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Speaker 1: I just want to also mention and we'll move on
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Speaker 1: from Pedro shortly, but I loved how in the Thursday
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Speaker 1: press conference. Afterwards, Motor GP posted how he was saying
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Speaker 1: that Johe Martin and Peco Banyaya need to create more
14:10
Speaker 1: entertainment for everyone. I thought that was hilarious. And then
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Speaker 1: after the sprint, I think it was Lewis Sudderby said
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Speaker 1: I'm so sorry. I said, how you haven't put a
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Speaker 1: tire wrong or race and then you tucked the front.
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Speaker 1: And then Pedro looks directly down the camera and was like, commentators,
14:28
Speaker 1: just don't mention my name in Sunday's grom pre please,
14:31
Speaker 1: I don't want the commentator curse.
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Speaker 2: He's I love this kid's krismus because he's so unfiltered
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Speaker 2: about everything. You get the sense that you know, he's
14:39
Speaker 2: pretty similar to the way he is on camera when
14:42
Speaker 2: he's off camera. There's just one speed with him and
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Speaker 2: he says what he thinks. But that was Lewis Sardaby.
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Speaker 2: I felt you're always flirting with dangerous a commentator when
14:50
Speaker 2: you start mentioning things like that, And he wasn't saying
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Speaker 2: anything that was untrue. He had been absolutely flawless to
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Speaker 2: that point, and no, sir, in that sentence come out
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Speaker 2: of his mouth that a Costa was in the grad
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Speaker 2: so yeah, ultimate commentator's curse there. That was horrible.
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Speaker 1: Let's touch on Jack Miller. So Saturday Sprint PA, first
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Speaker 1: KTM across the line thanks to obviously Pedro crashing out
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Speaker 1: and that weird technical error that happened with Bradbinder's bike,
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Speaker 1: and then p ten on Sunday. I guess, is this
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Speaker 1: the boost of confidence that Jack needs heading into the
15:23
Speaker 1: rest of the year.
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Speaker 2: The start on Sunday, if you've gone back and watched it.
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Speaker 2: I actually went and watched the onboard. It's a bit
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Speaker 2: like a video game in it. He went from fourteenth
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Speaker 2: on the grid to fifth on lap one and he
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Speaker 2: just decided, I'm going to stick to the inside line here,
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Speaker 2: and I'm going to run a really really tight line
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Speaker 2: and where everyone's elbowing each other and carrying on the
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Speaker 2: first lap and we can talk about Juan mir and
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Speaker 2: Alex Marquez a little bit later on. He looked up
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Speaker 2: and he said afterwards, holy shit, I'm in fifth place.
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Speaker 2: It was just like the greatest analysis of all time.
15:52
Speaker 2: It's like, how did I do that? And look, the
15:55
Speaker 2: KTM is not a bike that should be fighting up
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Speaker 2: in those positions for anyone than Pedro Acosta. At the moment,
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Speaker 2: there was always a sense he was going to regress
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Speaker 2: to the meme, but put a couple of nice passes
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Speaker 2: on Marquez and Bastianini and looked pretty decent and it's
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Speaker 2: settled to where it probably should have been by the end.
16:12
Speaker 2: I think he was probably a bit disappointed that he
16:14
Speaker 2: lost that place to Elasias Bagaro on the second last lap.
16:16
Speaker 2: He looked like he had that covered. But look top
16:19
Speaker 2: ten finish in the sprint in the Grand Prix. It's
16:21
Speaker 2: not often we've said that.
16:23
Speaker 1: This year.
16:23
Speaker 2: It's the third double top ten of the year Portugal
16:25
Speaker 2: and San Marino with the other two, so definitely heading
16:28
Speaker 2: in the right direction. I think he was super frustrated
16:31
Speaker 2: on Saturday because he just keeps getting knocked out in
16:34
Speaker 2: Q one, where you look at who's in Q one,
16:37
Speaker 2: you're thinking, all right, he should be a guy that
16:38
Speaker 2: comes through here and just made a mistake at the
16:41
Speaker 2: end of Q one, and the difference between qualifying on
16:44
Speaker 2: the first three rows and qualifying further back is yeah,
16:46
Speaker 2: we know the KT gets off the line really well.
16:49
Speaker 2: Jack's one of the best guys on the GRIT on
16:51
Speaker 2: first laps but you're giving yourself so much to do
16:55
Speaker 2: this weekend up paid off where he had that mega
16:56
Speaker 2: first lap seven days before that, he was on the
16:59
Speaker 2: ground three corners because he's just in the jungle of
17:01
Speaker 2: the mid pack as they thunder through the first few corners.
17:04
Speaker 2: So a Q two appearance, I mean, look, Phillip Island
17:06
Speaker 2: is somewhere he's generally qualified pretty well and he always
17:09
Speaker 2: starts well there. We've seen that several times, even going
17:12
Speaker 2: back to the older second tier Honda days. He was
17:14
Speaker 2: got off the start at Philip Island. But you've just
17:17
Speaker 2: got to get out of Q one because the depth
17:19
Speaker 2: of MotoGP at the moment. There's seriously good guys in
17:22
Speaker 2: Q one and we don't see it as much because
17:24
Speaker 2: the TV coverage focuses on the front, but it's madness
17:28
Speaker 2: back there on the first lap, and the risk taking
17:30
Speaker 2: because people know how these races go now is pretty
17:33
Speaker 2: severe back there. So you know, in seven days he
17:35
Speaker 2: got the he went from zero to hero in seven
17:38
Speaker 2: days on the first lap. But look, double top ten
17:40
Speaker 2: as good as it can get at the moment, and yeah,
17:43
Speaker 2: at least things are looking positive ahead of Philip Island
17:45
Speaker 2: for him.
17:46
Speaker 1: Did you see those photos that we posted on the
17:49
Speaker 1: Fox socials of the Vader seas or the vapor trails
17:53
Speaker 1: coming on. Yes, how incredible is that taken by Gareth
17:57
Speaker 1: Harford who's a motor GP photographer. If he's been captured before.
18:01
Speaker 1: I think it might have a few years ago with Zako,
18:04
Speaker 1: but you could really see how the arrow is coming
18:08
Speaker 1: into play makes it that's what you seek.
18:11
Speaker 2: Yeah, there were some really interesting stuff with Jack on Saturday.
18:13
Speaker 2: He had those amazing photos which was a combination of
18:15
Speaker 2: the light being dull enough that you could see and
18:17
Speaker 2: this huge humidity because it looked like it was about
18:20
Speaker 2: to rain the entire time and never quite did, so
18:22
Speaker 2: those photos were amazing. But I don't know if you
18:25
Speaker 2: saw on the coverage the slow mo shot of Jack
18:27
Speaker 2: coming out of that big stop at the end of
18:29
Speaker 2: the back straight there with the chassis twisting and bucking
18:33
Speaker 2: and vibrating. And every time he comes into a media
18:36
Speaker 2: debrief he always talks about the vibration through the chassis
18:38
Speaker 2: and we haven't been able to get on top of
18:40
Speaker 2: it during the year. And someone brought up that that
18:43
Speaker 2: slow mo shot had gone out on the world feed
18:45
Speaker 2: through Q one and he looked at everyone said, see,
18:47
Speaker 2: I'm not making this up, like this is exactly what
18:49
Speaker 2: we've been dealing with for the last ten months ever
18:51
Speaker 2: since that new re attire went in. It's just so
18:54
Speaker 2: the performance of that retire is so strong and so
18:56
Speaker 2: powerful that that bike looks like a super handful getting
18:59
Speaker 2: back on the gas. And that's what he's been saying
19:01
Speaker 2: all year. If you're doing that corner by corner lap
19:04
Speaker 2: by lap, someone like a Coster maybe who's never ridden
19:07
Speaker 2: abotor GP bike before, you know, he doesn't necessarily know
19:10
Speaker 2: any different. So it's almost sometimes it's better to not
19:13
Speaker 2: know what's going on, where someone like Jack or Brad
19:16
Speaker 2: Binder or some of the more experienced guys on that
19:18
Speaker 2: bike are like, hang on, it wasn't like this before,
19:21
Speaker 2: but it was Jack saying on Saturday, So I'm not
19:23
Speaker 2: making this shit up. This is actually real. So yeah,
19:26
Speaker 2: it was quite funny to see that.
19:27
Speaker 1: I think. Yeah, even from like a technical standpoint, it
19:30
Speaker 1: was really cool to witness because you hear these writers
19:32
Speaker 1: talking about chatter a lot, and I guess it's someone
19:35
Speaker 1: who doesn't understand the bikes or what's going on. You're like,
19:38
Speaker 1: what's his chatter? Like I don't understand that. And then
19:40
Speaker 1: you see that bouncing and like you said, corner after corner.
19:43
Speaker 1: If that's happening, no wonder. They're losing the drive, they're
19:48
Speaker 1: losing corner entry, they're losing the speed everything that comes
19:50
Speaker 1: along with it. But yeah, I guess for Jacket it
19:53
Speaker 1: was really cool to see and cool to see even
19:56
Speaker 1: the commentators talk about, like, oh my god, look at
19:59
Speaker 1: what's happening to his US sixteen right now. So I
20:01
Speaker 1: love those supersomos on the I.
20:04
Speaker 2: Could watch those soups. I'm a massive nerd for the
20:06
Speaker 2: super SlowMo camera. I got a bit. I love watching
20:08
Speaker 2: those things because the just the detail that you get
20:11
Speaker 2: to see with everything slowed down that much that it's
20:13
Speaker 2: impossible for the naked eye to see. And I find
20:16
Speaker 2: myself watching them a couple of times because you're looking
20:18
Speaker 2: at what the front of the bike's doing. You look
20:19
Speaker 2: at what the back of the bike's doing when it's
20:21
Speaker 2: dull like it wasn't Motigi. I love the clear visors
20:24
Speaker 2: so you can see where the rider's eyes are. That's
20:26
Speaker 2: always a really cool thing to watch on the coverage
20:28
Speaker 2: as well. So yeah, super slowo camera, big tick in
20:31
Speaker 2: this household big tick.
20:33
Speaker 1: But let's move on to Sunday's from Prix so we
20:35
Speaker 1: can tick that one off the list. You mentioned it earlier.
20:38
Speaker 1: I was going to bring up straight away what a
20:40
Speaker 1: bizarre crash between Alex Marquez and Johan Mia. I know
20:44
Speaker 1: that Alex has been given that penalty, but the way
20:47
Speaker 1: that his bike was stuck under John Muir's Honda, that
20:51
Speaker 1: was just so so weird.
20:53
Speaker 2: I'm not I'm not sure I've seen a crash like
20:55
Speaker 2: that where another bike attaches itself to a bike with
20:58
Speaker 2: a rider still on it and get dragged the entire
21:01
Speaker 2: way through this at the gravel trap and Juami managed
21:04
Speaker 2: to stay upright while towing Alex Marquez's riderless Deckatti behind
21:08
Speaker 2: him through a gravel trap. It was absolutely bizarre, and
21:11
Speaker 2: Mira ended up falling off, which Mir and foleyoff as
21:14
Speaker 2: a common theme on this podcast. For those of you
21:15
Speaker 2: playing podcasts Bingo at home, that's twelvety and f's for
21:18
Speaker 2: Jeanmir this year out of thirty. It's pretty grim for him,
21:21
Speaker 2: but this one wasn't his fault because he got just
21:23
Speaker 2: completely rammed up the back by Alex Marquez. And nobody
21:27
Speaker 2: was happy after that because Jeanmir was saying, it's not
21:29
Speaker 2: the first time he's done it, and I want an
21:31
Speaker 2: apology and this is ridiculous. And to be fair to him,
21:34
Speaker 2: he'd actually had a really good start because he qualified
21:36
Speaker 2: down the back and he was already nibbling around the
21:38
Speaker 2: fringes of the top ten. But Alex Marquez was pretty
21:41
Speaker 2: filthy because he's got a long lap for Australia and
21:44
Speaker 2: he was saying, all right, so I got taken out
21:46
Speaker 2: by another rider's bike in just seven days ago when
21:49
Speaker 2: Jack Miller's Katim skittled everyone on the first lap. There
21:52
Speaker 2: no penalty for Miller, which I did agree with to
21:54
Speaker 2: be fair, because it was Jack had made his own
21:56
Speaker 2: mistake and Jack Spike had taken somebody out. Alex Marquez
21:59
Speaker 2: ran straight up the back of Juan Mir and fell
22:02
Speaker 2: off his own bike, So I'm not sure he's got
22:04
Speaker 2: a leg to stand on with complaining about the penalty.
22:06
Speaker 2: But yeah, I think if Alex Marquez gets through lap
22:09
Speaker 2: one at Philip Isle and they probably should be like
22:11
Speaker 2: a round of applause or something, because the last two
22:13
Speaker 2: races he's got all the way to Indonesia, all the
22:15
Speaker 2: way to Japan. I think he did three corners in
22:17
Speaker 2: one race and about ten in the other, so a
22:19
Speaker 2: lot of travel for not much reward for Alex Marquez.
22:22
Speaker 2: But the trivia nuts noticed that there were seven decatties
22:27
Speaker 2: in the top eight finishes. His was the only one
22:29
Speaker 2: that wasn't, so a bit of variety for Alex. Thank
22:32
Speaker 2: you for providing that, if not anything.
22:33
Speaker 1: Else, well exactly because Mark then said in the post
22:37
Speaker 1: race press conference the big Debrie Storry to Simon krafas
22:40
Speaker 1: super boring race, and we're like, yeah, apart from that
22:42
Speaker 1: crash that happened earlier on and maybe Vignalas and then
22:45
Speaker 1: Pedro Acosta, there was nothing else that really happened in
22:49
Speaker 1: Sunday's Grand Prix.
22:49
Speaker 2: Right, it was super frustrating because it felt like it
22:53
Speaker 2: felt like something was about to happen for twenty four
22:56
Speaker 2: laps it didn't actually happen. Let you go, oh, here
22:58
Speaker 2: we go, this is going to happen. You got the
23:00
Speaker 2: top four in the championship, in the top four positions
23:02
Speaker 2: after about ten laps, after Martine and Marquez have worked
23:05
Speaker 2: their way through, So thinking, all right, this thing's like
23:08
Speaker 2: a you know, a sauce bent on the stove right now,
23:10
Speaker 2: that's sibbery. You know, it's coming up to the boil, slowly, slowly,
23:13
Speaker 2: but surely, and it never quite got there. And we
23:16
Speaker 2: had the bit where the white flags came out. It's like, oh,
23:18
Speaker 2: it's it going to be a bit of rain here?
23:19
Speaker 2: Does someone have to be brave on some dry tires.
23:22
Speaker 2: It almost became a good race for fourteen laps and
23:24
Speaker 2: never actually did. And I've written something for Fox Sports
23:28
Speaker 2: this morning on Monday here saying that, you know, Mark
23:31
Speaker 2: Marquez kind of summed up what we all thought that
23:33
Speaker 2: he just struck his shoulders and said it was a
23:35
Speaker 2: super boring race, and he's not wrong. It's Look, it's
23:38
Speaker 2: great that Banya has narrowed the championship deficit to ten
23:41
Speaker 2: points now, because I'd be really surprised now if this
23:44
Speaker 2: doesn't go to a last race showdown at Valencia, which
23:48
Speaker 2: you know we've seen that in the last couple of years.
23:49
Speaker 2: It's super tense, it's really really good TV. You find
23:53
Speaker 2: out a lot about writers under stress in those sorts
23:55
Speaker 2: of situations. But if the long term payoff is worth,
24:00
Speaker 2: if Valenci is good, if we get a fantastic Malaysia,
24:02
Speaker 2: and of course Australia in two weeks time, but I
24:05
Speaker 2: don't think Japan's going to rank very highly on races
24:07
Speaker 2: that I will rewatch again just to see if I
24:09
Speaker 2: missed anything, because I'm fairly sure I saw everything I
24:12
Speaker 2: needed to see.
24:13
Speaker 1: Did you see Jojem Martin and Peco Banaya Mark Marquez
24:17
Speaker 1: in that little room before they go out on the
24:19
Speaker 1: podium and Peco? I think Mark said, what's the points gap?
24:23
Speaker 1: Now Peco goes ten and then Peco goes joyes should
24:27
Speaker 1: let me close the gap and then we go to
24:29
Speaker 1: Valencia with zero points and just battle it out and
24:32
Speaker 1: then Peco Sorry, Jem Martine was like, yeah, I'm keen.
24:37
Speaker 2: And where that was funny too? Is you wonder how
24:39
Speaker 2: that conversation goes if there's not a camera heaves dropping
24:41
Speaker 2: on it as well? Because there's a performative aspect to
24:44
Speaker 2: that green room before they go out on the podium too,
24:46
Speaker 2: because they know everything they say and do is be
24:48
Speaker 2: recorded and it's going to be broadcast. That was pretty funny,
24:50
Speaker 2: but Peko put him on the spot there. But well,
24:53
Speaker 2: I don't know about you. I don't mind necessarily a
24:55
Speaker 2: championship where one manufacturer is doing so much winning. I mean,
24:59
Speaker 2: Decadie's on my last thirteen Grand Prix. We've not seen this
25:01
Speaker 2: since I think it was two thousand and one, two
25:03
Speaker 2: thousand and two with Honda. It was the last time
25:05
Speaker 2: a single manufacturer won this many races in a row.
25:08
Speaker 2: I don't mind necessarily one manufacturer dominating if you get
25:12
Speaker 2: a really live championship fight, which it feels like we're
25:15
Speaker 2: going to get with banyor Martin for a second straight year.
25:18
Speaker 2: But you've got all of these little ancillary stories in
25:21
Speaker 2: that Martin's leaving Tocadi. Imagine if Dacadi dominate a season
25:25
Speaker 2: like this and then Martin wins the championship and takes
25:27
Speaker 2: number one and goes off to a prilier with it
25:29
Speaker 2: like as a marketing exercise, that's a disaster. You've got
25:32
Speaker 2: the Marquez situation where he's coming into bad YYS team
25:35
Speaker 2: next year. So there's all these little subplots bubbling away
25:38
Speaker 2: in the background that makes me think these last four
25:41
Speaker 2: races will be pretty good. But yeah, the Sunday race
25:45
Speaker 2: was nearly a good race for twenty four laps, but
25:47
Speaker 2: not quite.
25:48
Speaker 1: I guess one of the highlights that we could say
25:51
Speaker 1: juhe Martin from p. Eleven to P second, P. Two
25:55
Speaker 1: on Sunday and Mark Marquez from p. Nine to P. Three.
25:58
Speaker 1: I love it when you see them coming through the pack, right.
26:01
Speaker 2: So what you're saying is we should have reverse grid,
26:03
Speaker 2: like just like a random wildcard reverse grid race. So
26:06
Speaker 2: we'll start, you know, like one of the Hoddess probably
26:08
Speaker 2: be on pole or something, and all the decadeies have
26:10
Speaker 2: to start down the back. That would be kind of fun,
26:11
Speaker 2: just to change things up.
26:12
Speaker 1: The carnage. Oh could you imagine the carnage? Oh, so entertaining.
26:21
Speaker 1: We're going to talk about Remy Gardner because he was
26:24
Speaker 1: our wild card Aussie for Yamaha, filling in for the
26:28
Speaker 1: injured cow crutch Low. Obviously, we know Yamaha this track
26:31
Speaker 1: it doesn't really suit their bias because it's very stop
26:34
Speaker 1: and go. But from what I heard and what he said,
26:37
Speaker 1: it was a positive takeaway for the parts that he
26:40
Speaker 1: was testing and giving a clearer understanding to Yamaha. Yeah.
26:44
Speaker 2: Look, I mean I think when you have a wildcard
26:46
Speaker 2: in a situation like this, and Remy's obviously not full
26:48
Speaker 2: time in the series now, so everything's a little bit
26:51
Speaker 2: alien to him, even though he's done these couple of
26:53
Speaker 2: wild cards this year with cal Crushlow has been too
26:55
Speaker 2: injured to do them. The job description is really different
26:58
Speaker 2: on these weekends and that yes, she could look at
27:00
Speaker 2: the standings to go. He was last on the greed,
27:02
Speaker 2: he finished last in the sprint, he finished last than
27:03
Speaker 2: the Grand Prix. But you're in your testing things in
27:07
Speaker 2: a race environment, and if Yamaha are happy with the
27:10
Speaker 2: jobless they've given you to do, and you've managed to
27:12
Speaker 2: do that, then that's job done. As far as Rumi
27:15
Speaker 2: is concerned, I'm sure he would have loved to have
27:16
Speaker 2: had a soft tire in there and gone healthful leather
27:18
Speaker 2: for fifteen laps to enjoy himself, to see where he
27:20
Speaker 2: could have got. But you know what you're signing up
27:23
Speaker 2: for when you're doing one of these wild cards, and
27:25
Speaker 2: getting a chance to get on a motor GP bike
27:28
Speaker 2: is not something that is afforded to too many people.
27:30
Speaker 2: And probably he thought that he'd never get a chance
27:32
Speaker 2: to again after finishing up with Katyeah in twenty twenty two,
27:35
Speaker 2: so he came to Japan. He did the job for
27:37
Speaker 2: a Japanese manufacturer and he will go back. He's got
27:40
Speaker 2: a back to back to finish world superbikes at Esterilla
27:43
Speaker 2: and Herrath. I think it is so five weekends in
27:45
Speaker 2: a row on his bike, He's going to need a
27:47
Speaker 2: rest after this.
27:47
Speaker 1: I think Lucky he loves his job. We said that
27:50
Speaker 1: in the last podcast, right, Lucky he loves what he
27:52
Speaker 1: gets to do. Well, let's move on to Moto two
27:56
Speaker 1: because monor Gping not the most exciting. Grand Prix two
28:00
Speaker 1: was so many if but wrong tied choices, slicks, wets,
28:05
Speaker 1: race restarts, red flagged. It was a lot to process.
28:09
Speaker 2: I wish we'd had those conditions about an hour later,
28:13
Speaker 2: just to throw a curveball in there, because it was
28:14
Speaker 2: one of those. So Moto two they ondly have the
28:17
Speaker 2: one bike, so there's no changing for wet weather bikes.
28:20
Speaker 2: So they got halfway around the first lap and it
28:21
Speaker 2: started pooring with rain randomly, so it was red flagged,
28:24
Speaker 2: truncated race, and then it became a track that was
28:28
Speaker 2: wet but drying, but no one knew how fast it
28:30
Speaker 2: was drying because it was the sun. It was just
28:32
Speaker 2: the heat and the humidity that might dry it up.
28:34
Speaker 2: So it was one of those races where sort of
28:37
Speaker 2: fortune favored the brave a little bit. So the riders
28:39
Speaker 2: on slicks were the ones that ended up getting the benefit.
28:42
Speaker 2: The ones that were more cautious on wet's started up
28:44
Speaker 2: the front and went backwards. But I think I Gura
28:47
Speaker 2: finishing second in that race. It's now really hard to
28:50
Speaker 2: imagine that he doesn't graduate to Motor GP next year
28:53
Speaker 2: as a world champion. In motor two. I think they
28:55
Speaker 2: leads sixty points now. He came through from a long
28:58
Speaker 2: long way back to finish on the podium, but nothing
29:01
Speaker 2: like a bit of rain early in the race to
29:03
Speaker 2: spicings up. But when I was watching that, I was thinking, Man,
29:05
Speaker 2: can you imagine if that was Lap one of the
29:07
Speaker 2: Motor GP race, everyone's diving into the box. There would
29:11
Speaker 2: have been some and you know who they would have been.
29:13
Speaker 2: Jack Miller would have been in front of the cue.
29:15
Speaker 2: It would have been you know what, I've got nothing
29:16
Speaker 2: to lose here. I'm going to try and wobble around
29:18
Speaker 2: on some slicks here and hope this and hope that
29:20
Speaker 2: this weather passes and I could look like an absolute
29:23
Speaker 2: hero here and get a podium or even something better.
29:25
Speaker 2: But I was happy that some rain came. I just
29:27
Speaker 2: wish it'd have been about an hour later.
29:29
Speaker 1: I was thinking the same thing when the white flags
29:31
Speaker 1: came out during MEDERGP, going Johe Martin is going to
29:35
Speaker 1: follow whatever Peco Banyaya does. dB.
29:39
Speaker 2: Yeah, after what happened at beside it. If Peco appeared,
29:42
Speaker 2: Joge was right behind him. If Peco stays out, Joes
29:44
Speaker 2: just mimicking what Peco's doing. Get this point, that's a
29:46
Speaker 2: mistake he's not going to make again.
29:49
Speaker 1: Well, our Aussie senter ag is sorry, guys, we diverted
29:52
Speaker 1: from Moto to to MotoGP, but back to Moto two
29:54
Speaker 1: Ozzie Center ags P twenty obviously just tough conditions and
29:58
Speaker 1: we see I agree like you said, the guys who
30:01
Speaker 1: went out on the slicks just were setting lap times.
30:04
Speaker 1: They were crazy fuzz Jake Digson, he was on poll,
30:07
Speaker 1: got a good start and then just fell back through
30:09
Speaker 1: the field. So wrong tied choice for Sena. But it's
30:12
Speaker 1: a gamble that he had to make.
30:14
Speaker 2: Right Well, I think he was also in the majority.
30:17
Speaker 2: I think there were only seven or eight out of
30:19
Speaker 2: the twenty six on the grid that went with the slicks,
30:21
Speaker 2: so you could see if you'll see some guys in
30:23
Speaker 2: that top ten that you haven't seen all year when
30:25
Speaker 2: you look at the classification, but he went with the majority,
30:29
Speaker 2: I guess, and look, it certainly looked wet enough to
30:31
Speaker 2: be there on wet tires, but in the end that
30:34
Speaker 2: ashfelt dried pretty quickly. So start a twentieth, finished twentieth.
30:38
Speaker 2: Just one of those ones you just have to put
30:39
Speaker 2: down as a learning experience and move on.
30:42
Speaker 1: And Moto three we have to talk about David Alonso,
30:47
Speaker 1: the first Colombian ever to win a Moto three title.
30:52
Speaker 1: Big weekend for David, big big year for David Alonzo
30:54
Speaker 1: as well, who's moving up to Moto two next year.
30:57
Speaker 1: But it's kind of been like we knew it was
30:59
Speaker 1: going to happen, Like he's what ten victories this year,
31:03
Speaker 1: He's just dominated. But do you think we're starting to
31:06
Speaker 1: see well they called him the baby goat, right, are
31:09
Speaker 1: we starting to see another Pegro Acosta, Mark Marquez, Valentino
31:12
Speaker 1: Rossi coming through the ranks. Yeah?
31:15
Speaker 2: I love this kid. I mean he's won ten out
31:17
Speaker 2: of sixteen races in Moto three, which is the hardest
31:21
Speaker 2: category to win a single race in, and you're looking
31:24
Speaker 2: at who this season is being compared to. Now, this
31:27
Speaker 2: is as good as any of the best lightweight class
31:29
Speaker 2: seasons we've ever seen. Still four rounds to go, you
31:32
Speaker 2: could still conceivably add to those ten wins. But it
31:36
Speaker 2: was really interesting in the post race for Moto GP,
31:39
Speaker 2: where Pecovannaya, Jorge Martin and Mark Marquez all talked pretty
31:45
Speaker 2: glowingly about a lotso and I know that he's done
31:47
Speaker 2: a lot of training with Mark Marquez in the past,
31:49
Speaker 2: and the point that Marquez made that was really obvious
31:53
Speaker 2: to me on Sunday. He said, you know, he's a kid,
31:55
Speaker 2: let him enjoy this, but also you can't see how
31:58
Speaker 2: it's not going to be good for in the future.
32:00
Speaker 2: He's got the talent, but there's a real charisma to him,
32:03
Speaker 2: like he's a bit of a showman to him. And
32:05
Speaker 2: I don't know about you, but the post race celebrations
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Speaker 2: with his little pocket bike that he'd started his journey with,
32:10
Speaker 2: and you know, he looked so there. It was just
32:13
Speaker 2: so genuine how excited he was. And he's a kid,
32:15
Speaker 2: he's eighteen years old and with what he's done, but
32:18
Speaker 2: I love the charisma and the way that he speaks.
32:21
Speaker 2: He's I think he's got three or four languages going
32:23
Speaker 2: at pretty decent levels as an eighteen year old, which
32:25
Speaker 2: is certainly more impressive than you and me. But look,
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Speaker 2: he's an absolute star of the future of this kid.
32:30
Speaker 2: He sounds like he's got his head screwed on the
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Speaker 2: right way. He asks the right questions, He trains super hard,
32:35
Speaker 2: and give him about two or three years and Juge Martin,
32:38
Speaker 2: he said, he's like, yeah, give it three years. He's
32:40
Speaker 2: going to be up here giving all of us a
32:41
Speaker 2: hard time because I think he's the next one. And
32:44
Speaker 2: winning ten out of sixteen in Moto three. It seems
32:47
Speaker 2: almost impossible to say it, but it's a full credit
32:49
Speaker 2: to him. And we've we've got our first world champion
32:51
Speaker 2: with four rounds to go, which is pretty impressive.
32:54
Speaker 1: Very impressive. Tough weekend though for Job Helso and Jacob Rolstone.
32:59
Speaker 1: Kelso crashing out when he was in that top ten group,
33:02
Speaker 1: which was such a shame. Managed to pick the bike
33:04
Speaker 1: out rejoin the race, but p twenty one back of
33:07
Speaker 1: the field right, and then same with Jacob Rulso. He's
33:10
Speaker 1: just having a tough run at the moment.
33:13
Speaker 2: Yeah, Jacob was a little bit happier with how this
33:15
Speaker 2: weekend had gone relative to the last couple. He finished seventh,
33:18
Speaker 2: finished seventeenth, just outside the points, but three straight races
33:22
Speaker 2: for him with no points, but he was feeling like
33:25
Speaker 2: he'd actually made some progress and things were better than
33:27
Speaker 2: Indonesia and that second Massana around it Kelso we've been
33:30
Speaker 2: so used to him being up the front that I
33:32
Speaker 2: had to go and scramble and thought, when was the
33:34
Speaker 2: last time he hadn't had a top ten finish. He
33:37
Speaker 2: had six straight top tens and score points in eighteen
33:39
Speaker 2: out of his last nineteen, so he came back to
33:41
Speaker 2: last year. So he's had a super consistent year and
33:45
Speaker 2: you're always going to make a mistake here and there.
33:47
Speaker 2: I think he was just super frustrated because he was
33:49
Speaker 2: in the back end of that top ten. We've seen.
33:51
Speaker 2: There's a lot of races this year where he's finished
33:53
Speaker 2: in that fifth to eighth bracket where he doesn't quite
33:57
Speaker 2: have the machinery necessarily to fight for podiums, but he's
33:59
Speaker 2: always in the next group. So I think that was
34:01
Speaker 2: the frustration for him. But the good thing for Joel
34:04
Speaker 2: and Jacob and Center, of course, is that their nixt
34:07
Speaker 2: race is on home soil, and if Joel needs any
34:10
Speaker 2: more motivation, I don't think many people at Philip Poland
34:13
Speaker 2: wanted to rain in a couple of weeks time, but
34:16
Speaker 2: he made pretty good use of it last year and
34:17
Speaker 2: got that first World Championship podium. And I dare say
34:19
Speaker 2: there'll be a febit of Joel Kelso Merch in the
34:21
Speaker 2: stands because he certainly captured some imaginations that day.
34:25
Speaker 1: Yes, he definitely did it one of the highlights when
34:28
Speaker 1: I was talking to him earlier this year about Philip
34:30
Speaker 1: Island and and his podium place last year, and you
34:32
Speaker 1: could just see his eyes light up. But to be honest,
34:34
Speaker 1: when I was talking to Jacob and Joel, it's the
34:36
Speaker 1: same thing. They're so excited to come race at their
34:39
Speaker 1: home Grand Prix in front of the fans and friends
34:41
Speaker 1: and family here they don't get to see for twelve
34:43
Speaker 1: months of the year, right because they're alway traveling. So
34:46
Speaker 1: for those guys heading home, obviously Jack Miller as well,
34:49
Speaker 1: the Australian Grand Prix, and for us as fans, we're
34:52
Speaker 1: all so excited to attend. But I think that is
34:55
Speaker 1: everything from the Japanese Grand Prix next up, like we
34:59
Speaker 1: just said, the ostri Alien Grand Prix and Matt, you
35:01
Speaker 1: and I are going to be on the ground covering,
35:03
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35:22
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