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MotoGP Heats Up in Catalunya · Pit Talk

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  Speaker 1: Ola Adodos MotoGP heads back to Barcelona, a circuit that
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  Speaker 1: holds many fond memories for some of our riders, i e.
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  Speaker 1: Fabriocordorarro in his first Moto GP victory and some not
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  Speaker 1: so happy ones flash back to Alisia Spargaro celebrating the race,
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  Speaker 1: our lap too early, but in the fight for the
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  Speaker 1: very top step? Can anyone stop Mark Marquees on his
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  Speaker 1: home turf. Welcome back to Pittok sponsored by Shannon's Insurance.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, Rinita Vanmullen, and I've bought along my
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  Speaker 1: partner in Chrime. He's got more hot takes than the
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  Speaker 1: Catalan Sun and can drop Moto GP trivia Fassa. Then
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  Speaker 1: Mark Marquees can go through that pack at the moment.
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  Speaker 1: Matt Clayton, Matt, sorry, I had to give you a
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  Speaker 1: really good intro this time to fill in, because I mean,
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  Speaker 1: what are we gonna say? Mark Marquez is gonna win
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  Speaker 1: in Barcelona?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know about that. Reronetta. Look if I just
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  Speaker 2: go the fist pump and just depart this podcast about
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  Speaker 2: five minutes earlier is because I've got a lap too,
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  Speaker 2: so you know I've done an Alisha Spargo. I'll just
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  Speaker 2: I'll just leave you to close it out. But I
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  Speaker 2: always enjoy this round because it's not what it seems
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  Speaker 2: on paper. It's a bit of an odd one because
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  Speaker 2: of the configuration of the track and the track surface
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  Speaker 2: and what have you, which I'm sure we'll get into.
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  Speaker 2: And it's also it's not really a Mark Marquez stronghold,
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  Speaker 2: and given the form that he's been in for the
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  Speaker 2: last seven rounds, we have to take everything we can
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  Speaker 2: get at this point to think there might be someone
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  Speaker 2: else that could win the Grand Prix this weekend. But
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  Speaker 2: thoroughly looking forward to it because it does throw up
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  Speaker 2: interesting races this place, which I'm sure we're going to
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  Speaker 2: get into in the next twenty five minutes or so.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, And I guess that's one thing I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to talk about, and hopefully our listens are interested to
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  Speaker 1: know about the track surface here, because this is one
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  Speaker 1: of the tracks on the calendar that does overlap with
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  Speaker 1: Formula One to start with. But there's obviously a lot
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  Speaker 1: of other racing that happens here, like the European Championships,
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  Speaker 1: the Spanish Championships, all of that, but they do things
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  Speaker 1: like cycle events here and more car races and events
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  Speaker 1: that we don't know about. But the riders often say
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  Speaker 1: about the surface of this track, it is one of
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  Speaker 1: the more difficult parts to it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's one of the busiest tracks in Europe because
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  Speaker 2: of where it is. So I mean, obviously you've been there,
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  Speaker 2: you know where this is. But this is one of
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  Speaker 2: the more accessible tracks compared to major cities in Europe.
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  Speaker 2: It's only about thirty k's outside of Barcelona. God knows.
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  Speaker 2: I've miss to turn off at the circuit about three
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  Speaker 2: hundred times when I've gone there off the freeway. But
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  Speaker 2: it's a super busy track because f one goes there,
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  Speaker 2: sports car goes there, there's always track days going on,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of non motorsport related use as well, so
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  Speaker 2: it's a very busy place. And the track surface itself,
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  Speaker 2: it's just this really weird mix. It's billiard table smooth,
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  Speaker 2: which is great because lasting riders want is bumps everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: Hasn't been resurfaced to my memory, I reckon it's twenty eighteen.
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  Speaker 2: Was the last time it was surface. I'd have to
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  Speaker 2: go and dig that out. I reckon it's twenty eighteen.
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  Speaker 2: And there's something about this track when it gets hot
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  Speaker 2: that it doesn't actually grip up. It becomes even more slippery,
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  Speaker 2: to the point where it's always like riding in the
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  Speaker 2: wet to some degree. There's absolutely no rear grip whatsoever.
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  Speaker 2: And you combine it with the configurations of corners here
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of really long corners, so you end
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  Speaker 2: up with these really strange races a lot of the
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  Speaker 2: time where they build to a boil.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: You have these really really slow build ups and it's
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  Speaker 2: all about you know you're going to run out of
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  Speaker 2: tire at some point, but when do you deploy it.
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  Speaker 2: Do you make a bolt at the start and try
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  Speaker 2: and get a lead that you can't relinquish. Do you
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  Speaker 2: push in the middle part of the race? Do you
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  Speaker 2: have anything left in the last five or six laps?
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  Speaker 2: So you end up with these quite interesting sort of
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  Speaker 2: strategic races that perhaps you don't see anywhere else. But
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  Speaker 2: the number one word you're going to hear what it's
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  Speaker 2: two words you'll hear all weekend from Barcelona. You'll just
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  Speaker 2: hear grip or complete lack thereof, and everyone will just
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  Speaker 2: be talking about spinning the entire time because there is
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  Speaker 2: just absolutely no rear grip at this place, so it
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  Speaker 2: throws up interesting races. But something when I was doing
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  Speaker 2: a little research. I actually do some research occasionally for
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  Speaker 2: this podcast. It's really strange, right, So it's September. Last
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  Speaker 2: year we had two races in Barcelona because the season
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  Speaker 2: n AALI was moved there from Valencia when that region
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  Speaker 2: got flooded. So last year we were there in round
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  Speaker 2: six and Round twenty. So we're there in May and November,
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  Speaker 2: and here we are in September. So you can take
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  Speaker 2: a lot of what happened last year and kind of
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  Speaker 2: throw it out because last year when we were there
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  Speaker 2: in May, it was super hot. When we were there
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  Speaker 2: in November, the sun, as you know, sets megafast in
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  Speaker 2: Barcelona and it goes super cold, and like November in
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  Speaker 2: barcelona's like really pushing it as far as you want
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  Speaker 2: to race there. So you've got this different sort of
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  Speaker 2: set of parameters this weekend. So yeah, we do the
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  Speaker 2: end of season tests there. We had to race there
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  Speaker 2: in round twenty. You had to race there in Round six.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how much relevance that's got for this
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  Speaker 2: weekend because it kind of feels like it's a bit
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  Speaker 2: of a hard reset because we're here in September. It's weird.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just looking at the weather forecast, so for example,
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  Speaker 1: it's saying, well, the circuit is it's class as Barcelona,
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  Speaker 1: but it's just outside more in Catalan territory.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, moderl dolars.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well mellow. Yeah, So looking at the weather Friday,
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  Speaker 1: it's saying possible rain a top of twenty three, Sunday
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  Speaker 1: a top of twenty five, and then Sunday a top
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  Speaker 1: of twenty seven. But a lot of bit overcast on Sundays. So,
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  Speaker 1: like you said, that does change everything. And if this
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  Speaker 1: track is slippery and everything we're hearing about this script,
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  Speaker 1: what other writers going to go off? They have all
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  Speaker 1: this data, like they say, But I think it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be a case of who can utilize the tires
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  Speaker 1: their best. And we know that a Prilliers are strong here.
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  Speaker 1: We know that that previously they have won Elisa.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So are we going to see more of Marco Batzeki
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  Speaker 1: this weekend like we have been seeing in those last
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  Speaker 1: few Grand Prix? Is he really going to take it
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  Speaker 1: to Mark Marquez this weekend?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? This has been in a Prillier track, even when
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  Speaker 2: a brilliant work great at other tracks. He said. In
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty three they won the sprint and the Grand Prix,
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  Speaker 2: won two in the Grand Prix with the Spargo and
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  Speaker 2: Maverick Vignalez. As much as we were laughing about Alaish
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  Speaker 2: losing count of how many laps there were to go
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  Speaker 2: that one year, which frankly, of all the circuits in
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  Speaker 2: the world, he should know how many laps there are
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  Speaker 2: to go. He's probably done fifty million laps around there.
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  Speaker 2: Because you mentioned Granolia's before, which is literally down the
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  Speaker 2: road from this track, That's where Alasian Pole grew up.
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  Speaker 2: So strange that he wouldn't know how many where the
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  Speaker 2: timing towel was to see the laps counting down. But
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  Speaker 2: this was a good Aprillia track even before Aprillia were
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  Speaker 2: quite decent. We know that Aleish won the sprint there
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  Speaker 2: last year, which was a lot of that was just
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  Speaker 2: Peco making a massive mistake on the last lap and
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  Speaker 2: falling off. But this is a good a Prillia track.
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  Speaker 2: Aprilli has been pretty good for well since Silverston. Since
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  Speaker 2: Berzeki won at Silveston, we've seen the Aprilli has been
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  Speaker 2: right up there. He's been on the podium I think
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  Speaker 2: four times in the last five Grand Prix. And then
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  Speaker 2: you've got the Juge Martine factor in that he's still
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  Speaker 2: so underdone and not necessarily ready for Grand Prix racing
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  Speaker 2: and the bike. But what he did in Hungary last
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  Speaker 2: time out, sixteenth on the grid, fourth in the Grand Prix,
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, okay, he's coming maybe faster than we thought.
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  Speaker 2: And if there was ever going to be a Sunday
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  Speaker 2: where Mark is vulnerable, I think it could be here
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  Speaker 2: because of the corner configuration of the track. The Aprilli
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  Speaker 2: is generally very good around here. Their bike is clearly
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  Speaker 2: the second best in Motor GP right now. Bazeki's kind
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  Speaker 2: of back in twenty twenty three. Bez form now like
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  Speaker 2: the best we've ever seen of him, and I still
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  Speaker 2: think that Juge Martin's going to win a race before
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  Speaker 2: this seasons. I just have this feeling that there's going
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  Speaker 2: to be a particular set of circumstances. We know that
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  Speaker 2: the championship's been a total disaster, but the abilities there
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  Speaker 2: in the bikes there we might find out where the
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  Speaker 2: bike's ceiling is, because I think he's the guy most
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  Speaker 2: likely to find it, so I'm actually look the sprint.
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  Speaker 2: If Mark stays on board in the sprint, I think
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  Speaker 2: Mark wins, because that's what happens with sprints in twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty five, as we've seen so far this year. But
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  Speaker 2: over the longer Grand Prix distance, and because of the
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  Speaker 2: super particular way this track needs to be ridden, I
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  Speaker 2: could see it proorlyer really pushing Mark. The flip side
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  Speaker 2: to this, of course, is that I kind of feel
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  Speaker 2: like Mark's been riding with a little bit left in
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  Speaker 2: the tank the last few rounds, particularly hungry. It kind
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  Speaker 2: of felt like he could have pulled the pin whenever
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  Speaker 2: he really wanted to, so we might get The answer
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  Speaker 2: to the question is also how far fast is Mark
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  Speaker 2: really in that if he really has to push, then
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  Speaker 2: we might see how quick he is, because in Hungary
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  Speaker 2: I kind of thought he was just sort of keeping
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  Speaker 2: guests entertained for the first half of that race before
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  Speaker 2: he disappeared. So I like a prilious chances this weekend,
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  Speaker 2: but I don't think it'll be in the sprint. I
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  Speaker 2: think if it happens, it'd be in the longer race
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  Speaker 2: on the Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you this later, but I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to ask you now, because this is the home grownd
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  Speaker 1: Prix for many a lot of these Spanish and as
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  Speaker 1: Hangen riders have done millions of laps around their circuit.
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  Speaker 1: Could this be the one the Sunday race where we
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  Speaker 1: see Johei Martin finally back on the metorgp podium in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 2: I could see a podium. Yeah, absolutely. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: he's quite ready to win a race yet, but I
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  Speaker 2: think he's absolutely on course, given his adaptation has been
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  Speaker 2: super fasted, like really impressive. I thought that there'd be
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  Speaker 2: a race like he did in Hungary coming up, but
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  Speaker 2: I didn't think it'd be yet. I thought it might
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  Speaker 2: be until we get to the flyways something like that.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, absolutely, I could see him on the podium.
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  Speaker 2: But you mentioned the fact that there's so many riders
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  Speaker 2: from in and around this area and they've all done
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  Speaker 2: a million laps here. They've generally all done a million
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  Speaker 2: laps yet Anyway, like whenever Jack Miller does any training
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  Speaker 2: on a proper track when he's not going around go
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  Speaker 2: kart tracks, it's not far to get up to Catalonia
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  Speaker 2: from where he is. All of these guys whether they're
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  Speaker 2: Spanish or not, have done ten million laps around this place,
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  Speaker 2: which is kind of fun because it takes just a
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  Speaker 2: variable out of the equation. It's like there's none of
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  Speaker 2: this unfamiliarity stuff you think of last round at Baloton Park,
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  Speaker 2: nobody knew the track. This track's probably the circuit on
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  Speaker 2: the calendar where these riders, all of them. I can't
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  Speaker 2: think of another track where you would do more laps
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  Speaker 2: than this. Maybe Malaysia because you've been there for preseason testing.
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  Speaker 2: Other than that, they're always here. They know this track
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  Speaker 2: so so well. So it becomes who can read the
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  Speaker 2: condition's best, Who thinks on their feet the best, who
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  Speaker 2: adapts the fastest. You mentioned that weather forecast coming in.
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  Speaker 2: I love the fact that no three days are the same, right,
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  Speaker 2: so you're going to have this sort of like moving
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  Speaker 2: ground beneath you the whole time. Who can improvise the best?
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  Speaker 2: And going back to the Juge Martine question, he's a
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  Speaker 2: guy who and I'll say this politely and it's actually
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  Speaker 2: a comp rather than a criticism. I'm not sure there's
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  Speaker 2: a hell of a lot of thought and historical precedents
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  Speaker 2: going into the way Jullgey Martin rides. I think he's
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  Speaker 2: an instinctive writer. This is a weekend where you need
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  Speaker 2: to just adjust to what it is that you've got
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  Speaker 2: underneath you and perhaps not spend the entire weekend concerned
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  Speaker 2: about or lamenting the fact that you don't have something
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  Speaker 2: at Peco Vanya. So that might be one of those
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  Speaker 2: weekends where the less thinking you do, with the more
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  Speaker 2: riding you do, maybe it's better off for you. And
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  Speaker 2: the more intellectually you try to approach this weekend, the
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  Speaker 2: more you might tell yourself. If knots, I.
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  Speaker 1: Think, yeah, Pecovana into a tea at the moment. Right now, man,
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about the other resurgence that I'm really enjoying
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  Speaker 1: at the moment. A prelier to the side, I will
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  Speaker 1: talk about Pedro Acosta because he's leading the charge for
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  Speaker 1: KTM and I feel like this could be this could
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  Speaker 1: be another strong weekend for him. I'm looking at the
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  Speaker 1: data from last year's race, and Pedro Acosta had the
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  Speaker 1: best race lab, you know, and it wasn't that far
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  Speaker 1: off of Alicias Bugger's pole lab to be fair. That's
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  Speaker 1: in in the Moto GP race. So could we see
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  Speaker 1: another strong Pedro a Costa race this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: It's interesting. I kind of feel that Pedro the first
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  Speaker 2: half of this season. I said, the first eight to
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  Speaker 2: ten rounds, there was so much outside noise going on
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  Speaker 2: with him and with KTM. We know they had their
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  Speaker 2: financial problems over the off season. New parts and things
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  Speaker 2: were slow to arrive on the bike. What's the future
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  Speaker 2: of this team? Who's going to own it, who's going
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  Speaker 2: to buy it out? We know they got themselves into
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  Speaker 2: some financial difficulties. We also know that he was having
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  Speaker 2: his head turned. He was getting super restless. You know
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  Speaker 2: there's links with Ducati. Is he possibly going to Honda?
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  Speaker 2: Is he trying to get into onto a VR forty
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  Speaker 2: six D Catty. It felt like the riding part was fine,
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  Speaker 2: but there was just a lot of outside noise coming
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  Speaker 2: from the team and was his head turn and was
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  Speaker 2: he trying to get out of all of that. I
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  Speaker 2: don't think it's any coincidence that as KTM's got itself
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  Speaker 2: sorted financially. We know that there's been some Indian investment
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  Speaker 2: in that company. Things seem a lot more stable now
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  Speaker 2: from a financial platform, and all of the potential avenues
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  Speaker 2: that he could have gone to have dried up for
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  Speaker 2: the time being, and we've seen this week that VR
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  Speaker 2: forty six is going with the same lineup for next
• 12:05
  Speaker 2: year with Franque Morberdelli being resigned. That was kind of
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  Speaker 2: his only chance really to get on into Catti the
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  Speaker 2: hont The things closed up because we know that's a
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  Speaker 2: done deal now, and then I think if Honda were
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  Speaker 2: going to look elsewhere, I don't think he's top of
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  Speaker 2: that Q necessarily. I think, well, hey, Martin would be.
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  Speaker 2: So things have kind of stabilized in terms of the
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  Speaker 2: team in the manufacturer and also for him. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think it's any great surprise that his form has started
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  Speaker 2: to go up basically since Bruno when he first got
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  Speaker 2: on that podium. The start of the year was super
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  Speaker 2: disappointing because it felt like he was focused on the
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  Speaker 2: wrong stuff, and we know how good the guys he
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  Speaker 2: had one of the better rookie seasons we've seen in
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  Speaker 2: a while. To me, he's now back to where he
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  Speaker 2: probably should have been at the start of the season.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if he's made some amazing leap or something.
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  Speaker 2: He's just back in the conversation now we know that
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  Speaker 2: circuit to Catalogia has an enormously long front straight where
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  Speaker 2: top speed then breaking down into turn one is a
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  Speaker 2: really really big deal there. That KATM is an absolute
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  Speaker 2: rocket ship in a straight line. It's motor Chip's fastest
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  Speaker 2: bike in a straight line. It's all about for me.
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  Speaker 2: If he can qualify on the first couple of rows,
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  Speaker 2: I think he's going to be a major player on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: He has this bit of a propensity to mess up
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  Speaker 2: Q three a little bit when he's been a Q
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  Speaker 2: two Rather I'm going forward the right here Q two
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  Speaker 2: when he's had a good weekend. You look at Hungary
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  Speaker 2: last time out. He was fastest on Friday, he was
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  Speaker 2: right up there on Saturday and then chucked it in.
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  Speaker 2: Q two started too far back. He's on the third row.
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  Speaker 2: Never really got a chance to do something in the sprint,
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  Speaker 2: fell off, came through the pack and had a good
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  Speaker 2: Grand Prix and finished second in the end. But I
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  Speaker 2: think his weekend was he put a seiing on himself
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  Speaker 2: because he made the mistake at the important part of
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  Speaker 2: the weekend. If he gets up the front, he's clearly
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  Speaker 2: the best KTM ryder right now because Vignalees is half fit.
• 13:47
  Speaker 2: Brad Binder he's had not a great year by Brad
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  Speaker 2: Binder standards, fast you need. He's coming on, but he's
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  Speaker 2: coming from a fair way back. So yeah, I wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: be surprised at all to see a Costa right up there.
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  Speaker 2: But you know what's interesting, and I'm sure you're probably
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  Speaker 2: going to bring this up. I wrote earlier in the
• 14:02
  Speaker 2: week for Fox Sports dot com dot AU that we
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  Speaker 2: talk about the Ducatti Cup at the start of the season,
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  Speaker 2: and if you look at the headline results to Caadi
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  Speaker 2: is still winning everything because I've got Buck Marquez riding
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  Speaker 2: for them. But you look at where the other Ducaties
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  Speaker 2: are relative to where they were at the start of
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  Speaker 2: the season. If you're on a Ducati in the first
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  Speaker 2: five rounds, you're probably finishing in the top five of
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  Speaker 2: the Grand Prix, because they are all finishing in the
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  Speaker 2: top five in the Grand Prix. But we've got fourteen
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  Speaker 2: minutes into this podcast and we've talked about Joge Martin,
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: We've talked about Marco Batzeki, We've talked about Pedro Acosta.
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: There's different brands that are getting in the mix. Now,
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: you quoted that stat the last time we did a
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: pod where there were four manufacturers in the first five
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: finishes at a Grand Prix for the first time in
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: two years when we're in Hungary. Last time. It's still
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: Marques and a Ducati up front, but the configuration of
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: what's behind him has really changed from probably Silverston onwards.
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: That's really exciting as a neutral because quite frankly, you
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: and I don't care who wins. We just want to
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: see a good contest. We want to see it be entertaining.
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: And I like the fact that, yeah, Dcati's still winning
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: everything because I've got the best rider in motor GP.
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: But it's not a foregone conclusion anymore as to who's
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: going to be making up the podium and challenging for polls.
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: We've seen that, so a cost is part of that mix,
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: but I think it's a wider mix now where you
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: can't just turn up at a track and go, oh, yeah,
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: Decatti's going to lock out the podium here because it's
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: not happening as often as it was.
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: I'm literally looking at the championship standings right now as
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: we speak, and you're smack bang on the points. So yeah, okay,
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: the first three are do you caddies, and we know
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: that it's Mark Marquez, obviously Alex Marquez who had that
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: incredible strong start to the year that surprised us all
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: and obviously things have changed, and Peco Baannoya because there
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: was that consistency of him being third overall for that
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: first half of the year. Right. Then we get to
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: fourth position, Marco Bezekion Aprilia Pedro Cossa in fifth on
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: the ktm Okay. Yeah, then a couple more of the
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: the JU caddies, but Fabio Digi Antonio who's on the
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: same bike as Mark Marquez, He's currently in seventh. Then
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: let's go further down. We've got Zako in ninth for Honda,
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: and rounding out in tent is faber Corduro. So the
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: top six as we assumed it was going to be
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: for did you caddy Cup? It's not that You caddy Cup.
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: There's there's a few little hints and sprinkles of other
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: manufacturers in there.
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely. Since Berzeki won at Silveston, he has scored
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: the second most points on the grid in that span,
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: more than Alex Marquez has other than Mark, and over
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: the last four rounds, I think it's Mark ahead of Berzeki,
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: ahead of a Costa. So you've only got one to
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: caddie in the top three since Bruno, So it's definitely changing.
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: And I think maybe we're not noticing it as much
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: because we look up and Mark Marquez is on a
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: fourteenth race winning streak. He this is becoming a lot
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: more now about I don't know if the bike's making
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: the difference, the ultimate difference anymore. I think Mark is,
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: and not necessarily because Mark's level has dropped. He's just
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: stayed exactly where he's been all year. But look at
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: where alex is, look at where Peco is. The VR
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: forty sixty caddies, it always seems like one of them
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: has a decent weekend, but never both of them at
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: the same time. I mean, Digia was pretty unlucky and
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: hungary because he had that electronics glitch on the on
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: the grid, probably would have fished top four in that race.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: But this it doesn't feel like there's that same ever
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: present du Catti lockout now of these top four or
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: five positions, and it's what we want to see, and
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: someone like a resurgent Acosta or Bazeki who's just unlocked
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: this super consistent run. It just adds to the mix
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: and yeah, we know who's gonna be world champion. Let's
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: be honest, there's no intrigue here. But the back end
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: of the season is going to be interesting to see
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: how this narrative plays out. Du Cati Cup or not
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: du Catti Cup. We've got eight rounds to find out.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: Can we just talk about the fact of Let's tell
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: her like the storytelling side of it. Take it away
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: from the racetrack for a minute of the sprint in
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: Hungary where it was Mark Marquez and the two VR
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: forty six's and I don't know if you saw that
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: clip that Moto GP posted Matt where it was the
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: you know how they all get in the back of
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: the car because they take them to the podium, which
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: is normally where the fan z owners. And there was
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: Digitia who was talking to Mark, and that was Morbidelli
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: who was just looking out the window. And you can
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: definitely tell where Morbidelli's alliance lies within the whole forty
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: six and then ninety three.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: I love those videos. Well, two things to me. Can
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: we get a bigger car for them to sit into?
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: Why are there three adults sprammed into the back of
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: a car like I'm not getting in the back of
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: a car with two other adults, like what I was
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: sitting in the front, So one get a bigger car
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: or a bigger car sponsor. I don't know what that is,
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: but those videos are so funny, not because of what
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: is said. It is because of what is not said.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: And you need a body language.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: Oh I love reading a bit of body language, like
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: Morbidelli was just looking at the window like he could
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: wait to get out of the car. And if you've
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: been around Fabio jan Antonio, he's literally the nicest guy
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: at motor GP. He will talk to you forever, so
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: he's happy to start a conversation with anyone, whether it's
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: Mark or not. And you could kind of tell Mark
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: was sitting in the middle of these two, but it
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: was a little bit on the awkward side. It was
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: so funny to watch because he's not just sitting there
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: with his brother, sitting there with Pecko looking sad that
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: he's been beaten again. There's just so much interesting body
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: language at a ninety second video. I always make a
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: point of watching them, but I never really necessarily listen
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: to what's being said. With my not particularly great Spanish
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: or reading subtitles. I just love watching the body language
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: between the three of them. That one was super interesting.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: I'm glad you picked up on that.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I loved it. And then when obviously I
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: saw Frankie was resigning R forty six, and I've replayed
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: that video in my head and I'm like, yep, we
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: know where his alliance lies on.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: Oh yes, oh yes.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: But before we round out this weekend, we obviously have
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: to talk about Jack Miller because we are waiting for
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: the announcement of whether Jack is resigning with Yamaha for
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: next year or if he's going to go to well Superbanks. Matt,
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: you obviously have the inside knowledge within the paddock. Have
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: you heard any updates? Do you think we'll get an
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: announcement this weekend?
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: So let's go behind the curtain here. I sin, I
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: thought it was gonna happen Tuesday night, so we speaking
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: Thursday morning. I sent someone who would know a message
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: and said, just asking for a friend, but do I
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: need to stay up past midnight tonight to write a
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Jack Miller has resigned with Pramak Gamaha story. And the
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: response I got was tell your friend they could have
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: it early night it's not happening tonight, so I did
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: have it early night. It was great. But I think
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: what this now comes down to, and this is something
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: that we talked about off air a little while ago,
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: and I'm not going to reveal any secrets here, but
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: I think it's going to happen. I think the timing
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: of this now, because it has been pushed and pushed
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: and pushed. Would it not make sense that this gets
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: announced at Massano, given that it's Pramac's home round, It's
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: the race that they it's the race that they have
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: the greatest sort of commercial ties to, it's a home
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: race of paler Cabernati in that team. I don't think
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: there's any great conjecture as to the fact that it's
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: going to be Jack because you look at all the
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: other moves that have happened in the rider market in
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: the past two weeks on the superbike side and the
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: Motor GP side. So this week in Motor GP we've
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: had Jones Ziico signed for twenty six and twenty seven.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: That's interesting. We'll get hum back to that. Lukamurini signed
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: at Honda for next year. Franco Morbidelli confirmed at VR
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: forty six for next year. But then you look at
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: the potential avenues where other guys have signed superbikes like
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: iketh Le q Oona. We know that Johnny Ray's retiring,
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: Bautista's moving, sam Low's is heading over Sam Low's, Jake
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Dixon is heading over. Got my British riders confused. There's
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: a lot of other dominoes in this that have fallen
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: where we kind of thought. So now we're just literally
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: waiting on two announcements that are kind of in the
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: done deal category, and I don't know which one will
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: come first, But it looks like the Diogo Morrera thing
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: to Honda is happening because both Yamaha and Honda wanted Marrera.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: It looks like Honda have offered more years and full
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: factory status, which makes sense. And right now, if you're Marrera,
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: you're sitting there, you're thinking, I get to choose between
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: a Honda and a Yamaha. I reckon twelve months ago
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: that was a bit of a toss of the coin. Now,
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: I think Honda's shown more progress to me this year
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: than Yamaha has, and with the uncertainty of this whole
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: Yamaha V four thing, do you go with Honda, Yeah,
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: you probably do. That's a that we know is going
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: to fall. And then I think, I don't think Jack
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: keeps his seat at Pramac by default, necessarily because I
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: I've written this in the last couple of weeks. There's
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: a very sort of specific job requirement that he fills
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: because they are fast tracking this V four. You look
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: at the other riders in the Yamaha stable for next year.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: Fabio Couaturero has never ridden a V four in his life,
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Alex Ridds has done one or half of a season
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: when he got injured at Honda in twenty twenty three
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: and then left to go and right at Yamaha, and
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: Top Brack has never ridden a moor GP bike other
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: than a test at a race weekend. Yet, so three
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: quarters of your rider lineup have a grand total of
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: seven races on a V four between them, and you're
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: trying to bring this new bike in. Who's Jack Miller
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: written for? He is written for Honda V four, written
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: for Dacadi V four, written for KTM V four. Vastly
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: experienced knows how these engines work. The fact they could
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: have gone into next year with two rookies at Pramac
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: Alex Ridds has done half a dozen races on a
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: V four and Coaturo's ridden one that to me doesn't
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: align with trying to bring the V four project along
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: to make it your preferred engine of choice. So it's
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: a really specific job description if you like, like if
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: you're applying for a job through some website or what
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: have you. Jack has more of the boxes ticked on
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: that job description than a lot of other guys. And
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: you think, okay, Miguel Olivera's written some V fours as well,
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: which he has, but then you look at the points
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: table and it's been absolutely one way traffic this year. Yes,
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: Olivera's had some injury issues even when he's been fit.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: I think he's out qualified Jack once all season. I
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: think it's fifty two to ten in the points all season.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: So it's pretty clear which of those two writers should
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: be retained. So no, we don't have the announcement yet,
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: frustratingly because we all want it. I'm sure Jack wants
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: it as well, but I'll be really keen to see
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: what he's like in his pre event press availability at
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: Cassialounia on Thursday night, Australian time, because in Hungary he
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: was annoyed. He was really angsty about everything. I think
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: there would have been some conversations behind the scenes there,
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: just like look, just chill out here, we've got you,
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: this is fine. I think he's demeanor will be really
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: interesting in his press debriefs at CATALOONYA. What wouldn't surprise
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: me at all is if he gets on the front
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: foot with this this weekend, instead of waiting for the
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: inevitable question to be asked by one of the press pack,
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: he'll sit down and he'll go, yeah, look, no news
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: on the contract yet, but I've been told it's all
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: heading in the right direction. So when I have some yews,
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: I'll let you guys know. And they just put that
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: thing to bed instead of answering four or five questions
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: about it and getting increasingly agitated like he did in
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: Hungary last time out. There's an art to winning the
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: press conference if you like. I reckon that he will
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: go in there and be quite on the front foot
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: about this and just put that thing to bed. We
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: have the race weekend, then maybe we get to Masato
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: teams home race or sorted and everyone just gets on
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: with life. But yeah, that's a story. I thought I
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: would have written this week already, but apparently not.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: I saw a video once again that Moto GP posted,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: and they asked Jack, oh, is there a question that
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: you were just over being asked like you just want
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: to be put to bed? And he goes, what am
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: I doing next year? I answered that question, and then
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: they said to him, do you remember that viral video
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: last year where they found Jack had his blindfold on
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: and he put his hands in a box and there
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: was nothing there, and he goes, oh, is this my
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: contracts for twenty twenty five?
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: It's so funny. And this is where this is where
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: we love Jack from a media point of view, in
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: that he's this whole one year things not unusual to him.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: If I'm remembering rightly, I think he only ever had
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: one multi year contract that was with KATM and one
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: sees it into that contract he was being asked when
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: he was getting booted for Pedro Acosta, which we as
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: we know that ended up happening, So this is not
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: unfamiliar territory for him. But this is where Jack's such
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: an asset to Motor GP in that Jack never ducks
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: a question and sometimes I can imagine if you're working
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: in the press department for his team, you'd have your
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: head in your hands. And some of these questions because
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: Jack only has the truth filter. There's no other filter.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: You can't turn it off. And that's one of the
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: things you love about him. You ask him a direct question,
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: you get a direct answer, and then we all move on.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: So yeah, sometimes the honesty is the best policy for
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: Jack ninety five percent of the time. But he does
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: get himself into a little hot water because he doesn't
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: know how to don't know how to big disorders with
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: these things.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: He doesn't. I love that he finished that video. Often
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: you guys can see it on the Moto GP socials
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: that he goes. Yeah, if you just need any viral content,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: just put the camera on me. I'll give it to
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: you as it is.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: He's not wrong's wrong, He's not wrong.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Moving on too quickly to our other Aussie sener ags,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: he is back this weekend after that massive crash that
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: we saw in Austria.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: Austria.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, yes, it feels like we know we're on
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: race four hundred of this season, so they're all starting
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: to blend in. But yes, Sena ags is back says
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: he's ready to go. So that's for Moto two. And
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: then obviously we have our Aussies in Moto three, jcob
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Ralston and Joel Kelso. So once again we mentioned this earlier.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: This is a track that the MotoGP writers have done
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: a lot of laps on, but also our Aussies because
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: they've been over in the Lower championships as well. It's
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: close to their home. They ride here a lot. There's
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: close by is Rocko's Ranch. I don't know mat if
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: you've ever been there, but it's a it's a flat
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: track place literally right next to the circuit, which is
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: really cool. A lot of the MotoGP riders and other
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: wealthy bike riders and everyone goes there and trains flat tracks.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: So the boys are local to this circuit just as
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: much as they are for Philip Island.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, like all the Aussie guys would have done
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: more laps around Barcelona than they would have done Philip
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Island for sure, and a lot of them when they
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: moved to When they move to Europe to compete in
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: the World Championship, they do go and live in Spain,
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: and it makes sense to go and live close to
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: this track because you can always get on it, so
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: they're practically locals, they'll know their way around here. Good
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: to see center back. That was a pretty scary accident. Yes,
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: you missed Grand Prix round, but that was one of
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: those ones when you saw it as it happened. Oh boy,
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: that's like that had potentially really really bad consequences. So
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: I'm glad that he's back and Moto three at this
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: track because of the nature of it is the last
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: five laps of Moto three, like you'll find yourself just
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: giggling most of the time because there's absolutely no analysis
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: being done here. It's like what on earth is going
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: to go along? So looking forward to that. But before
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: you get off the ifore we finish this podcast and
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: get off the Aussie seed, do we need to talk
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: about marquees matchpoint stats here? Because there is a chance,
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: and there is a chance that he could set himself
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: up to win the World Championship at Massano, and wouldn't
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: that be a story? He can win the world He
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: could win the World Championship Massado if things go well
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: this weekends. I've crunched the numbers. I just want to
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: let you know the numbers because I know you'll be
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: wondering and our listeners will be wondering too. So he
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: is one hundred and seventy five points in the league
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: right now. So to be world champion at Massano, he
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: needs to lead by two hundred and twenty two points.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: Sounds like a lot. So he needs to outscore Alex
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: Marquez by forty seven points in the next two rounds.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: That sounds like a lot. The last two rounds were
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: Austria and Hungary. Mark has outscored Alex by fifty five
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: points in the past two rounds, so it's absolutely doable.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: At Massano. Mark's been amazing for the last seven rounds.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: Alex has gone the other direction. He's had one Grand
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: Prix podium and two sprint podiums in the last five rounds,
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: so he's had of a potential ten podiums he had
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: free and you think at the start of the year
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: it was Mark Marquez first, Alex Marquez second in just
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: about every single time we went for a race. So
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: Mark's in the best four he's been in for eleven
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: years and Alex has dropped off and that's what's open
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: this possibility that he could potentially win the World Championship
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: at Massano, and as much as it would be kind
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: of cool for him to win the championship in Japan
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: because he's won championships in Japan in the past, and
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: it's almost like full circle moment, he decided in Japan
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: a couple of years ago that was time to leave
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: Honda after all the success they'd had. Imagine what social
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: media is going to be like if he wins the
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: World Championship in Valentino Rossi's backyard in Messado. Oh my god,
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: Like you may as well just sit back from your
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: chair right now, because it's going to be nuts in
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: your world.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: I I'm glad you bought it up because I wasn't
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: sure whether to or not, but I think we need
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: to talk about it. So obviously I do social media.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: And I was listening to an interview with Mark Marquez
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: and he said, I don't want to win in San Marino.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: His words were because that would mean Alex has had
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: a bad run in bus. What I didn't read here
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: and what I'm reading through the subtext is I don't
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: want to win in Italy, literally next door to Valentino's
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: rossis because I will have to have security guards and
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: get flown out by the Spanish Army. Can you imagine
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: that the people probably knocking on his boator home.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: And the other part of this, of course, is that
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: this is something that hasn't been discussed enough. When's the
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: next in season test. It's the Monday after Massano because
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: we've been talking about it, because Yamaha's going to run
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: the V four and Crosserera and probably Jack Miller will
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: get a run at that. If you're Mark Marquees and
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: you're going to have the world's greatest party after winning
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: your seventh World Championship you've been waiting for since twenty nineteen,
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: do you think you're going to want to go and
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: test the next morning. I wouldn't have thought so. So Yeah,
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: there's a number of reasons why he'd probably like it
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: to be Japan. The security aspect of Massarto might be
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: one of them. But yeah, I'm not sure I'd be
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: up for a ten am pit laid open start on
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: the Monday after winning a World championship. I might call
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: him sick that day. I think I don't.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: Blame you because he did say, you know, I'd rather
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: win in Japan or Indonesia, and I felt like that
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: was a very pr thing to say because of his
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: massive fan base in Asia. We know that, and then
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: how much the love motorcycles and obviously Mark Marquez. But yeah,
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: I'm thinking maybe it's just because of the VR forty
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: six army, because we saw what they did at Magello
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: and I was there on the ground, and yes, the booing,
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: the like. Even Mark said, you don't have to hate
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: my brother. He had nothing to do with it. But
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: you know, so could you I just keep saying, could
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: you imagine, just just picture it?
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: Yes, I can imagine it would be that.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Would make world news for sure.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I can imagine it. And there's there's probably a
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: part of it, part of it for Mark that he
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: probably secretly enjoy it as well, if only for the
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: fact that, you know, the only way he really gets
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: here is he needs to be excellent and Alex probably
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: needs to be a bit rubbish, which he's not been
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: great for the past five rounds. I think we need
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: to look at Alex Marquez's season and say, well, maybe
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: the first seven eight rounds were kind of the outlier
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: because he was so good at the start of the year,
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: But that's also not really in keeping with how his
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: career is beg to this point, like he was massively
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: outperforming his normal expectations. Mark's just doing what Mark does
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: when he give him the best bike and the gritty
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: makes everyone look a bit average. So yeah, look, the
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: main thing for Mark is he'll take a win wherever
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: because it's been so long since he won one. But yeah,
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: winning it at Masano with everything you talked about and
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: then the fact you have to do a test the
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: next day. Maybe not the greatest idea, maybe not.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: But I think that's going to make this weekend even
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: more exciting because listeners just see what's happening, Watch what
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Mark is doing, figure out the tactics he's doing, because yeah,
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: like what if we do have a juge Martine, Marco Barzeki,
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: a stronger prillier weekend and we see Mark maybe not
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: pushing as hard as he normally does. Like I feel
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: like all that's going to come into play if he's
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: really really considering this, not winning at Mazano because he
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: keeps calling it impossible.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: Nothing's impossible. This year for Marcus, we've seen who would
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: have thought we'd been talking about a guy winning fourteen consecutives. Yeah,
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: it's been one of those seasons. Anything is possible this season,
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: and yeah, the next two weekends as a back to
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: back is going to be super interesting.
• 33:08
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