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MotoAmerica Round 2, look back at WorldSBK action, and a preview of MotoGP this weekend in S6 Ep 25 · B 4EVA Kool "Race A Motorcycle" Podcast

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  let's go to TJTJ, man. Welcome to the show, man.
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  How you doing today? I'm doing good, had a good
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  weekend of watching Moto America and I'm just waiting for the
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  good way to come. And we got our couple weeks out
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  of the way, right, no racing. So we're back at it with Moto GP
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  coming up and yeah, we're a super bike also this this past
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  weekend. So we're back out of a racing.
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  I'm excited. I got to say, you know, you know
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  it losing that Qatar round definitely, you know, freed up
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  some time for me to do stuff I don't want to do, like maybe
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  change oil on generator and stuff like that.
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  So it's nice to have racing back so I can not necessarily sit
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  back and do nothing, but at least enjoy the past time.
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  So yeah, it was good to see. It's good to see World Super
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  Bike as well. It was a crazy weekend just
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  being at Rd. Atlanta and then also just
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  trying to keep up. What's going on in World Super
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  Bike. I see the Celtics doing their
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  thing. Are you excited for that OF?
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  Course, you know, you know, New England's always in the sports
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  talks. So now Patriots out of the way,
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  we got the Celtics this go around and we'll see what we can
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  do. We're looking good, OK.
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  OK, that's right, right. Go to the Super Bowl.
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  I mean, I'll tell you being what you're going to do.
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  Reese, man. Welcome to the show, man.
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  How you doing tonight, man? You're you're back home on a few
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  times. You've gotten home before me.
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  Exactly, man, just exhausted right now from heat and pollen,
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  I want to say from being in Royal Atlanta.
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  But yeah. Yeah.
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  Oh good. Nice.
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  Yeah, I definitely say the heat on Saturday was wild.
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  I, I think I got a little bit of heat stroke, I'm not going to
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  lie. And then just, you know, trying
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  to cut, get a cover as much as the track as possible.
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  Need like a dust mask, man. I mean, I was, I was eating dirt
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  for a little bit too, man. It was.
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  It was bad, man, that that pollen was killing me.
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  I couldn't stop. Eyes are red, coughing,
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  sneezing. I'm like, yeah, it's time to go
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  home. You know, listen, I mean, it's a
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  good it's a good way to end the weekend.
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  Y'all you guys got the W on Sunday after having the crazy
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  Saturday. So it's it's I mean, you can't
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  ask for a better turn around than that.
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  Nope. Great way to redeem ourselves
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  and get it back on the podium and see if we can build off of
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  that momentum. All right, I'm pretty sure Louis
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  is going to have a couple of questions for you and you guys
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  on what happened. So we, we, we going to keep it
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  moving. But Louis, man, welcome to the
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  show. I'm glad you're upright.
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  And we thought I might have to send you some chicken soup or
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  something like that, man. How you doing, man?
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  Doing better, doing better. I know I've missed a couple of
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  shows, been under the weather, traveling.
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  It's just been a combination of everything possible to keep you
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  off the show for the last couple of weeks.
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  But I'm a trooper through this one and 'cause I, I was, I was
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  actually missing interacting with the fellas and and having
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  some of the banter that we have. So I really wanted to get on the
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  show this today. Nice, nice.
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  Well, we got we got a lot to cover today, man so it's it's
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  going to be crazy man. It was good to see you face to
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  face again and you as well, Reese.
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  I mean, it's we've been doing this show for a little bit and
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  and you know now hopefully this year we'll we'll see a lot more
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  of each other in person versus the on the screen only.
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  Well, let's talk about motor America before we dive into
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  world super bike. It's officially the second
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  round. But for you guys, the Super bike
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  guys, it's really the first round.
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  So it's kind of a weird kind of situation for you guys because
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  you guys got to say second round, I suppose, but really you
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  guys didn't have like like the DNF.
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  So we'll start with Reese, man, Let's talk about the weekend.
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  And and from your perspective, it must be nice to be, you know,
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  back on back at with the team, not just testing and and now in
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  the mix and stuff like that. So who?
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  Who was the first person to drop a wrench?
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  Probably me, but probably me. But no, it's nice to be back
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  with the guys. It's nice to be back in colours,
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  you know, not just testing. It's good to be back in front of
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  the fans and not just, you know, just the crew.
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  So it, it's kind of nice now and, and to put on the show and
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  you know, we had our little UPS, you know, our little hiccups in
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  the beginning like any other people would.
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  But you know, Race 2 came out, redeemed ourselves, and we put
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  on a show. Man, is it is it one of those
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  things where you guys are like, you know what a relief, get it
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  out the way. Hopefully y'all done with with
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  crashing for the rest of the season or is it?
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  Is it kind of like man already like you know, or is it just you
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  guys are professionals and y'all, y'all?
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  It doesn't matter if you you make the three or not.
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  You you don't. You don't change your facial
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  expression. I mean, hopefully we're done
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  with crashing, but I mean, that's part of racing.
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  I know Richard always says, you know, you rather whatever you
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  got to do, don't crash in the race.
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  You know, gain as many points as you can possibly you can.
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  You know, that's the name of the game.
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  Try to gain as maximum you can win both points If if you need
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  to pick it back up and go, go. But you know, crashing practice
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  or warm ups or, you know, whatever.
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  That's a little bit different than crashing in a race because
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  then, you know, we want the most points we can because at the end
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  of the day, you may come down to that last race and you may need
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  that two points or one point. Right, right, right.
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  Yeah, I know can definitely see that.
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  TJ, man, I mean, you know, you and I were fans of the sport at
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  the at the highest level here. What is it like for you to have
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  Motor America back and and you know you you got some more time
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  to fill but watching races? No, it's good to see Motor
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  America back and I like it because, you know, being a local
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  rider, you know, we have some riders that participate in Motor
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  America. So huge supporter and just what
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  the season, how the season left off last year.
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  Just very excited to see how the Super bike class will start.
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  And as we all had our eyes on, you know, the top top runners
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  like Beau BA and and and who we got Beau BA and Sean Daniel
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  Kelly, Bobby Fong, you know Bobby Fong.
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  Yeah, sorry to Jacob, but it was good to see like Schultz come
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  out of nowhere and and just just run the, you know, the table
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  basically the first race. It's just he's at a huge pace,
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  you know what I mean? So it was just, you know, just
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  to see someone come from super bike class, super sport class
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  and and do that and it was just this side of weekend to see like
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  how the season's going to go. So it's just off to a good
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  start, I say. Yeah, I mean, depends on who you
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  ask about that. Good start because we're going
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  to dive into that PJS crash moving up from, you know, super
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  sport to super bike. We talk about Schultz who who
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  won and another guy broke a finger and, you know, and got
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  concussed. You know, Lewis, man, you know,
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  you were back in action this weekend and been traveling and
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  all that. Do you do you take time out to
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  sit on the hill, put your take your shoes off, you know, get
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  your fingers in the dirt and and enjoy the race?
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  What's what's happening? Nah, I usually will watch the
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  race from from one of the TV's in the area or I'll try to be in
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  a corner or somewhere and maybe watch the front straightaway.
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  But I usually watch them on the TV's just so you can get a
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  little bit better view of around the track versus just that one
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  corner you're at. So you know, I'm either I'm in
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  the somebody's paddock watching it or I'm watching it on the big
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  screen with the rest of the fans at the podium.
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  That's kind of where I was for most of the day on Saturday.
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  I was watching it at the big screen because I like to be
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  around other people and that I don't know, and just kind of
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  listening to conversations of what people say.
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  Sometimes people will say really smart things, sometimes people
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  say really dumb things. And it's entertaining to listen
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  to people that sometimes have ridden motorcycles on the track
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  and kind of know a little bit and then other times you can
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  tell within the 1st 5 words this person never ridden a bike in
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  their life to to anywhere near its potential.
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  You did a lot of sneezing and and mumbling under your breath.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. I, I keep the shades on and I
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  just keep a big grin on my face the entire time.
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  As I, you know, I listen to people sometimes.
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  It's it's pretty hilarious. No, it, it is, I, I think, you
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  know, I don't know what it is. It's, it's like, you know, too
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  much fresh air. It's not you all at once, you
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  know? You start daydreaming,
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  hallucinating, and start saying things that you can't do and
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  stuff like that. It just, it just reminds me of
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  that that guy at the bar that starts talking about back in
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  high school, his four touchdown game.
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  Al Bundy. Is Al Bundy?
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  Yeah, yeah, and the story gets better and better.
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  Let's talk about super before we talk about super bike, guys.
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  Kayla, you know, got first place on the grid, got pole position,
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  I believe. And correct me if I'm wrong,
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  guys, she's the first female to get pole position in the modern
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  era, at least overall at this level.
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  Pretty impressive to see. I was I was a little shocked.
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  I'm not going to I'm not, I'm not going to lie.
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  I know she was finishing top five last year and stuff like
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  that. But out the gate I was a little
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  surprised to see see her get pole position.
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  What your thoughts TV on on Kayla getting pole position?
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  What it does for the sport overall, because she's up.
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  She's up the mindset that she wants to race with the boys.
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  She's not. She doesn't want to be put in a
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  in a in a any other box, but she wants to race with the boys.
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  Yeah, she she's definitely proven herself for sure.
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  Yeah, I'm very happy for her. I mean, you can see she's been
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  putting in the work in the offseason.
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  I mean, she had a pretty solid year last year and coming into
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  this year, her mind has been set to to win and to start off the
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  season like this to get pole position.
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  It's just good to see she's up here to stay and what she's
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  doing for the sport, especially for the females, is pretty
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  awesome because she's just showing that you can win.
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  And like she's been she's in battle with the boys since day
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  one. And like, yeah, I'm just even if
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  she didn't get on the, you know, she started first but didn't end
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  so that bad, but she still still was top five.
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  So she she did very well, very, very happy for her.
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  So see what happens next round. No doubt, no doubt.
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  What are your thoughts? Reese?
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  Saw what Kayla did the Super sport class and I think she she
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  even LED a couple of laps as well.
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  So pretty impressed. And I mean, as a as a rider
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  competitor, I mean, it's a good way to build on a season, you
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  know what I'm saying? To to get podium in Daytona, to
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  get pole position, to finish top five pretty good.
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  What are your thoughts, Reese? I mean, I was pretty impressed.
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  I mean, she did she did very well.
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  I mean, there's a bunch of guys, you know, people in her group
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  that's very fast and you got Heron, you got a you know, you
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  got Blake. There's a couple of guys in
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  there that that is Sharks and Bender.
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  Of course, you know, they beat the actual, you know, but you
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  know, for his defense, it is his first time in the track.
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  But he you know, she did very well and talking to speeds, you
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  know, about her talking to him over the weekend.
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  She's been put in a heck of a lot of work.
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  She's been in Jennings. She's that every time you turn
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  around, she's on the track, she's doing something with
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  either whether it's a bike or whether it's a mini bike, you
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  know, so she's getting her work in and Ben says she's she's
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  coming along very well. So I was very impressed to see
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  that. Yeah, it's nice.
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  Yeah, likewise, man. I mean, like I said it, it it
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  for for me. Like I said, I I was a little
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  surprised this came this soon, but this this the Super sport
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  class is I mean, everybody's going to be in trouble if she's
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  already doing this. We thought Louis on how she did
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  and and we'll jump into the rest of the the race weekend.
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  I mean, she did well, I think for considering this is what,
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  her second, third year, now third.
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  Year. 3rd year, I mean, you know, this is the progression
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  you want to see from somebody in their third year in the class,
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  especially on a top team like Ray Hall.
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  You know, they've kind of set a pedigree for themselves where
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  they do put out very, very competitive bikes.
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  They have competitive teams. So this is the progression you
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  want to see and hopefully she can keep kind of moving it
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  forward. You know, I, I still think that
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  there's a little bit of recency biased where people keep
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  forgetting that Elena Myers did a lot of these things 1520 years
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  ago. And because Moto America is not
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  owned by the same company that owned the racing back when Elena
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  Myers was doing it, Moto America kind of kind of puts it in the
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  back burner and kind of like, whoa, she's the first one in
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  Motor America to do this. And she's when the first one.
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  Well, Motor America might be Motor America.
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  US motorcycle racing, AMA racing's been around longer than
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  Motor America. And they should still, you know,
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  I always say they should still kind of give a little bit of a
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  tip of the hat to the people that came before and not
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  completely just, you know, make them disappear or make them
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  irrelevant or make their contributions irrelevant.
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  I mean, it took a long time for a woman to get back to where
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  Kayla is now because after Elena Myers, for a long time, we had
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  women come and go, but they really didn't do any kind of
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  impact. And Elena's.
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  So for me, Kayla's the first one making an impact since Elena.
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  And there's a lot of racers that hate on Elena for whatever
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  reason. I mean, it's if you go through
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  the paddock, you can actually ask people and some people just
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  have this weird just dislike of her for whatever reason.
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  But you can't discredit what she did at her time.
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  I mean, she rode up, she rode a Moto GP bike, she rode, she won
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  at Daytona on Super Sport. She beat guys, she ruined, she
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  won, she raced super bike like she did a lot of stuff.
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  So I hope Kayla can continue to grow in her progression and keep
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  bringing it to the guys on a regular basis.
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  And, you know, again, make it just a racer against a race has
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  nothing to do with her being female racing against guys.
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  She's just another racer out there competing on the same
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  level on equal equipment and having the same results.
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  Like, I almost want to get to the point where it's kind of
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  irrelevant of, you know, yeah, she's a woman.
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  It's kind of irrelevant when this is Motorsports.
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  This isn't basketball. You know, it's not Angel Reese,
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  you know, squaring up against LeBron James.
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  You know, this is that kind of, you know, if you train hard, if
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  you work hard, if you put in the time, if you got the right bike
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  and you've got the right skill, everything else falls into
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  place. Right, right.
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  Yeah. So I mean, I, I, I, I, I get
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  what I, I hear what you're saying and I get it.
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  Like it, it we and I think it might be more the people that
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  are asking the question. So the folks in the media, I
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  think it's low, not necessarily, I don't say low hanging fruit,
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  but it's easier to say you're a woman competing in this sport
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  and just, rather than just ask how she felt or what you know,
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  or, or how did you put it together and that kind of thing.
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  I mean, I, I think, you know, again, that's, that's a, that's
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  media doing that part of it. And, you know, we'll try our
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  best not to be like that, but let's let's jump into the race
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  one on Saturday. I mean, it was, it was a lot of
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  action on on Saturday. I mean, for me, it was crazy
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  because I'm I'm running around trying to learn the track and,
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  and trying to miss people and stuff like that.
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  But were you guys a little bit surprised that Darren was able
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  to pull that one off and and and win that or just kind of decide
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  from Daytona and stuff like that?
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  Because I mean, obviously race 2 was different.
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  You start with TJ. Well, I mean, he's on the
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  Ducati. I mean, I knew Dan Brin is going
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  to be a firm runner and that draft is pretty serious at at
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  that track. But I mean, I didn't expect him
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  to to get that much of a gap and take off like he did.
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  But he had a hell of a race. I mean, like Blake Davis, Tyler
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  Scott, I mean Kayla, they were all hanging in the first couple
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  laps. But, you know, I'm sure it was
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  really hot there and I had lots of a little bit to do with it.
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  But yeah, he wrote a hell of a race and never looked back
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  really after that. Right.
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  Yeah, yeah, no doubt. Reese.
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  I mean, were you surprised by how scrappy he was been he was
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  little scrappy. You surprised at all?
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  Nope, not at all. I mean, I expected him to come
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  in and do that. I expected him to be scrappy.
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  I expected him to. I almost expected him to die.
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  Bomb a couple people, you know, Yeah, Surprise.
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  Exactly. I I was expecting that, but I
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  didn't see it. So.
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  But no, I expected him to be right there, you know, and do
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  what he did. But I mean, he was very good and
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  he he actually picked the track up faster than I thought he
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  would be. So, yeah, yeah, it's impressive
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  how, you know, the folks at that level can learn to track faster
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  and and we see, you know, some some folks that come in that are
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  also racing in different classes and it's the first time at the
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  track and when we see the struggles that they have.
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  Louis, what are your thoughts on Bender?
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  You know, is it, I mean, it's not the same as Petrucci coming
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  over as some of these other guys.
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  We're in the sense that, you know, he's not on a super bike.
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  He's he's on a super sport. Can he run away with the title?
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  I mean, you know, in Moto 2 and Moto GP he did struggle.
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  So it wasn't clear that he he would be a front runner coming
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  out here. And, and again, you know, we'll
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  jump into Race 2 because it, you know, it seems like Karen's
• 22:25
  like, you know, not on my watch on, on, on the Sunday race.
• 22:30
  Yeah, I mean, I, I was surprised that he's going to get pick up
• 22:33
  any track fast. I mean, if you're fast, you're
• 22:35
  fast anywhere you go. I always said that really fast
• 22:38
  guys within one, 1 1/2, maybe 2 sessions should be at the pace
• 22:44
  of the guys at the front. If you're truly fast, fast knows
• 22:48
  how to go fast, Fast figures that out.
• 22:50
  You sit down, you get the track layout, you already go out there
• 22:53
  with a lot of data, you already know what gear you need to be in
• 22:56
  when you go into a corner. So now you're really just
• 22:58
  working on your break markers and understanding how the break
• 23:01
  markers line up with the track and finding your markers on the
• 23:05
  track. So you know exactly where you're
• 23:06
  shifting, but you already know before you even get on the bike
• 23:09
  at this level. Turn one, I'm supposed to be in
• 23:12
  this gear. Turn 3, I'm supposed to be in
• 23:14
  this gear. Turn 5, I'm supposed to be in
• 23:16
  this gear. Turn 7, I'm supposed to be in
• 23:17
  this gear. You already know that part.
• 23:20
  And that's that's where a lot of people struggle because when you
• 23:23
  go to a track as a track day person, you're kind of going out
• 23:27
  there figuring out this all stuff.
• 23:28
  But at this level, these guys already have a notebook and
• 23:31
  they're told, hey, for this bike, this is the gearing that
• 23:35
  we're using. These are the sprocket setups
• 23:37
  that we have. And by using the sprocket setup,
• 23:40
  more or less, these are the gearing where you should be in
• 23:42
  the gears throughout the track based on the data that we have.
• 23:46
  Now you go out there, if you can do something slightly different,
• 23:49
  if you can carry a gear a little longer, if you can go to full
• 23:51
  throttle a little faster than some things might change, but
• 23:54
  more or less this is where you need to be.
• 23:57
  So I didn't think he was going to have any problem getting up
• 23:59
  to speed. He's he knows how to go fast.
• 24:03
  I still say that that class is still Josh Herons to lose.
• 24:06
  And I won't change that tune until something drastic happens
• 24:11
  because I mean, this is a guy that's won that class multiple
• 24:14
  times. This is a 2, you know, multi
• 24:16
  time super bike champion who's kind of been relegated back to
• 24:19
  super sport. And it's not like he wants to
• 24:22
  stay in super sport. So for him, you know, I think
• 24:25
  even though he might not put pressure on himself, the the
• 24:28
  only person with pressure to win in that class is Josh Herring.
• 24:32
  Nobody else there is expected to beat him.
• 24:35
  So if he doesn't come away with a with the championship this
• 24:38
  year, anything less than the championship for them, for him
• 24:41
  is is a loss. Whereas everybody else, second
• 24:44
  or third place is great. You know, if Kayla ends up
• 24:47
  second place at the end of the year, nobody expected her to be
• 24:50
  there. So, you know, there's no
• 24:53
  pressure on her. There's no pressure on anybody
• 24:55
  else. The guy to beat in that class is
• 24:57
  Josh Herron until something else happens.
• 24:59
  And I think Darren Bender, if anything, will keep Josh Heron a
• 25:03
  little honest this year where he won't walk away.
• 25:06
  But there's going to be tracks where you're going to see that
• 25:09
  Josh Heron has a lot of time on these tracks.
• 25:12
  He understands his track better than anybody else.
• 25:14
  And he might win a couple of races in that class by like 8-9
• 25:18
  or 10 seconds, to be honest with you.
• 25:20
  Like he might actually walk away from the field at a couple of
• 25:23
  tracks where he's just known to be really fast.
• 25:25
  All right. Well, let's see guys.
• 25:27
  Let's see TJ, you heard all what Lewis just said that you think
• 25:32
  it's it's herons to lose. I mean, you know, we hear how
• 25:36
  strong Kayla worked in this offseason and stuff like that.
• 25:40
  So he's probably saying, hey, this might be mine to win.
• 25:42
  So what are your thoughts, man? Is it is it his to lose?
• 25:45
  And, and I'll say this too, because I, I don't, he lost the
• 25:50
  just, he lost the seat and he, and he's kind of being demoted
• 25:53
  too, right, because he's going back to super sport.
• 25:55
  And that's a different mentality you have to deal with mentally
• 25:58
  versus somebody who's on the progression of moving upward.
• 26:01
  Not, you know, now you're sitting here trying to, you
• 26:04
  know, now let's say have a second coming, but like, you
• 26:07
  know, you're, you're trying to hopefully get back to super
• 26:10
  bike. I assume Josh wants to get back
• 26:12
  to super Bike. Yeah, I mean, I mean with his
• 26:16
  resume for sure, like every any series he goes out in, he's
• 26:22
  pretty much respected for himself I would say to try to
• 26:25
  win because basically he's he's got a lot of championships under
• 26:29
  his belt. It's such that the way the
• 26:32
  season played out, it basically got demoted and had to find a
• 26:37
  ride. And he's now in super sport and
• 26:40
  with his class of riding, it just goes to tell like, yeah,
• 26:44
  you're supposed to win. I don't know if he's thinking
• 26:47
  that way, but I think that if he's now in super sport, it's
• 26:51
  more defending his titles that he has where he can't just go
• 26:55
  there to lose. So I think he, it is his season
• 27:00
  to lose basically because you know, his resume, like he's he's
• 27:05
  trying to get back to the Super bike.
• 27:06
  So he's definitely going to have to show that he can go down a
• 27:12
  class and still win and get back to where it's supposed to be.
• 27:15
  But you know the contacts work so.
• 27:18
  Yeah, I mean, Reese, what are you?
• 27:19
  What are you, what are your thoughts on is it Herron Saluz
• 27:22
  and is it safe to assume Herron should have the same mindset as
• 27:28
  Schultz? I don't know if the reason why
• 27:30
  he, you know, they got back to the Super sport class and have
• 27:33
  to not to say redeem themselves, but you know, earn another spot
• 27:36
  in in world super bike world and in super bike class at Motor
• 27:40
  America. Is this championship parents to
• 27:43
  lose? It definitely is.
• 27:45
  It definitely is his to lose. I mean, he's had the most wins,
• 27:47
  he's the most consistent. So he it is his to lose.
• 27:53
  I mean, look how many Daytona championships the guy has and he
• 27:57
  didn't like, Lewis said. He knows these tracks better
• 28:00
  than anyone, especially like Atlanta Lagunas is around, you
• 28:06
  know, and then, you know, he could stretch the legs out in
• 28:08
  the Ducati and write in Rd. America and Barbara.
• 28:11
  He's going to he's going to do very well.
• 28:13
  So, you know, this is his championship to lose.
• 28:16
  It's not, yeah, you've been kind of demoted and then go back and
• 28:20
  redeem yourself and prove yourself.
• 28:22
  But it, it, it there's a lot of things when you go down to
• 28:25
  redeem yourself into another class, it's not only can you
• 28:29
  still ride, it's also attitude and a humbleness.
• 28:34
  Once you can put all three of those together, it's hey, let's
• 28:38
  go ride. OK, all right, no doubt, no
• 28:41
  doubt. Let's talk about the rest.
• 28:44
  Well, not the rest, but let's talk about the top, right,
• 28:46
  Because I mean Kayla, Ty Scott, which I mean Ty Scott, I mean,
• 28:51
  he's he's done well at Loudon And and I mean this guy, he he
• 28:55
  fights and fights and fights. And I'll say he has the same bad
• 28:57
  luck that Oliveira has, but he's definitely like, I'm pretty sure
• 29:01
  he feels like he shot more wins under his belt than he currently
• 29:04
  has. So we got Kayla, we got Tyler,
• 29:07
  we got Josh, we got Darren. I mean, I, I, I got to say like
• 29:11
  these, these might be the full bike riders that are going to be
• 29:14
  out front this year to, to win it.
• 29:16
  Is there anyone else that you got that that you see at the
• 29:19
  moment that can come in there? I know Blake should be there,
• 29:22
  but the way these other riders have had these first two rounds,
• 29:26
  I mean, they're kind of setting themselves above everyone else.
• 29:29
  What are your thoughts, TJ? Yeah, I'm just looking down the
• 29:33
  list and looking at the times that they've been pulling out
• 29:37
  and I should see like that's the top five for me, who's just kind
• 29:43
  of nailed it. I would love to see someone else
• 29:46
  to step up a little bit. But yeah, Josh, Taylor, Blake,
• 29:52
  Tyler and Darren feel like that's going to be the top five
• 29:57
  that's going to be fighting for the championship this year.
• 29:59
  And I think it's going to be a heck of a battle because they're
• 30:02
  all right there like with the intense from each other.
• 30:06
  I know Josh has the most experience, but you know, you
• 30:10
  got Darren Bender coming from, you know, the other side and and
• 30:15
  and you know, he ain't afraid either.
• 30:18
  So especially how we talked about how we learned this track
• 30:21
  very fast. So we see other GP riders come
• 30:25
  in like Petrucci and Lawrence Baz and a couple other guys
• 30:30
  where they had no trouble either.
• 30:32
  So. Right.
• 30:33
  No, no doubt. What are your thoughts, Reese,
• 30:35
  man? I mean, are these are these the
• 30:37
  four contenders for the championship?
• 30:39
  I know I didn't mention Josh Hayes and there's some other
• 30:42
  writers that, you know, DeMarco and, and these guys, I mean that
• 30:45
  they they, they could, but it seems like right now these are
• 30:48
  the top four or five guys. I mean, I think they are the top
• 30:52
  four or five guys. I mean, he's still got the old
• 30:55
  dog in there, Josh Hayes. I mean, he's still, I mean, race
• 30:59
  1 he looked very, very strong. He looked very competitive.
• 31:01
  I don't know happen race 2 maybe that they they messed up on a
• 31:04
  set up because you know, the temperature dropped really bad.
• 31:07
  It was really cool. But he looked very strong.
• 31:12
  I mean, like you said, you still got Blake.
• 31:14
  Blake looked strong race one and then kind of fell a little
• 31:18
  behind on race 2. But then we're going to another
• 31:22
  round. We're going to Barber where it's
• 31:23
  going to be definitely a little a whole lot warmer.
• 31:27
  So those are the top guys up there, but they're also some
• 31:32
  some other guys in that class that is going to is probably
• 31:35
  going to surprise a bunch of people.
• 31:37
  OK, all right. No doubt, no doubt.
• 31:40
  Lewis, man, I, I, I, I know you got a lot to say.
• 31:42
  I, we, we got these four riders that, that we feel that, well,
• 31:46
  I'm saying that, you know, can run away with it.
• 31:48
  I'm sure you're going to add a few more that we haven't noticed
• 31:52
  and maybe why one of the ones we we mentioned shouldn't be there.
• 31:55
  I mean, right off the bat, just looking at real quick, the first
• 31:58
  one that I would say is, you know, Ducati definitely is kind
• 32:02
  of already put in their stamp that they have the best bike in
• 32:05
  the grid right now. Obviously the Yamaha had to do
• 32:09
  the conversion back to its stock swing arm.
• 32:11
  So they're racing it with a stock swing arm that's a little
• 32:13
  bit shorter. I guess they are figuring some
• 32:16
  stuff out because we do have some Yamahas towards the front.
• 32:19
  But it's not like it was last year.
• 32:21
  Like last year it was the Matthew Schultz and Blake Davis
• 32:24
  show with only one Ducati, and now it's a bunch of Ducatis.
• 32:28
  And I think there's going to be more Ducatis inching their way
• 32:31
  up into this top five top 6 before more Yamahas inch their
• 32:36
  way up into this top ten. Let's put it that way.
• 32:38
  All right, he was like. A Jamaican Canadian that jumped
• 32:42
  out the gate against Lewis back in the day in the Olympics.
• 32:48
  I like, I like Tyler Scott, you know, I'm a Suzuki guy, you can
• 32:52
  see. But until he shaves that thing
• 32:54
  off his upper lip, I could never root for him because that thing
• 32:57
  just looks horrible. I don't know what it is, it's
• 33:01
  been growing there or trying to grow for a couple years.
• 33:03
  He just needs to let it go man. It's not happening bro.
• 33:06
  You know, when I see him he reminds me it was Albert Buttus
• 33:09
  or whatever his first name is in four below 1 though. 4 below
• 33:13
  one. They they they used to write for
• 33:15
  Mercedes racing Mercedes. Sometimes you got to just
• 33:18
  understand that nature didn't give you the ability to grow a
• 33:21
  mustache and just just live with it, man.
• 33:23
  Because that thing just looks worse every year, man.
• 33:27
  It's so harsh, man, It's so harsh.
• 33:31
  Blake Davis I, you know, I hope he does well, but again, I think
• 33:35
  the Yamaha is going to struggle this year and I don't think he's
• 33:37
  going to be at the front where he wants to be just because the
• 33:40
  Ducatis are strong and you got a lot of strong riders this year.
• 33:43
  You know, last year was really the PJ and Matthew show and he
• 33:47
  was there. Tyler had a couple of flashes of
• 33:51
  brilliance, but not anything sustained.
• 33:55
  So even getting into the top five and finishing the top five
• 33:58
  this year is probably going to be very, very hard for Blake and
• 34:01
  it's going to be a tough pill for him to swallow at the end of
• 34:03
  the year. And if there's anyone missing,
• 34:06
  and I've talked to him quite a bit this past weekend, is
• 34:09
  Alessandro Demario, man. I mean, he's still a rookie in
• 34:12
  his class, but I would not, would not underestimate what
• 34:17
  this kid can do on the bike, man, once you kind of get
• 34:19
  something sorted, He had a mechanical issue.
• 34:23
  He had one crash, which was a setup issue that he had.
• 34:27
  They went the wrong way with the setup and he didn't have the
• 34:30
  right feel. And that's why he crashed in
• 34:31
  turn 1. And then the second race, he
• 34:34
  just had a horrible start. He just, you know, let the
• 34:36
  clutch go at the start and the bike just stalled on him almost.
• 34:39
  It just sputtered, sputtered, sputtered.
• 34:41
  Nothing happened. And he kind of just got
• 34:43
  relegated a little bit further back than he wanted.
• 34:45
  He had to battle through some guys to kind of finish where he
• 34:48
  finished. But again, these are growing
• 34:51
  pains for a rookie. But you know, talent wise, this
• 34:55
  kids going to put it together, man.
• 34:57
  And he's going to surprise some people and there's going to be
• 34:59
  some races where he's going to be right at the front battling.
• 35:02
  And as long as he keeps his level head and races the way he
• 35:04
  races, I mean, I really think he will end up in the top 7 at the
• 35:08
  end of the year. Yeah, no, I I agree.
• 35:11
  I agree. There's some there's a lot of
• 35:13
  good names in the in the field right now and and I'm looking
• 35:18
  forward to see as the season progress where they end up
• 35:20
  because it's pretty crazy. Let's talk about world super
• 35:23
  bike, man. We'll put you on a hot seat.
• 35:24
  Reese. Reese, what happened in race
• 35:26
  One? Man, what happened?
• 35:32
  Was I was going to say what happened was I saw the back of
• 35:35
  my eyelids. I didn't even get a chance to
• 35:36
  see it honestly. Nice.
• 35:39
  So that's the crazy part. I saw the back of my eyelids.
• 35:42
  I'm not even going to lie to you on that one.
• 35:45
  You know, being up at 6:00 and 5:00 in the morning, I I wasn't
• 35:49
  even paying attention to the world super bike.
• 35:51
  I was paying attention my we're. Talking, We're talking about
• 35:54
  Super Bike Boat America, you know.
• 35:57
  You said world super bike. OK, so.
• 36:00
  My bad, my bad. I'm getting getting ahead of
• 36:02
  myself. What happened in race one?
• 36:07
  I mean, Bobby tucked the front. That was it.
• 36:13
  I mean, you know, like he tucked the front and he had Marshalls
• 36:18
  jumping in and telling the guy not to, to kind of get away from
• 36:22
  the bike and he wanted to pick up the bike and keep running.
• 36:25
  And then all of a sudden you had a red flag.
• 36:28
  Somebody end up crashing and they had a red flag that race.
• 36:32
  So he went back to restart it and got it restarted.
• 36:35
  So he brought it in and he was trying to repair it.
• 36:37
  But because, you know, rules say if you kind of abandoned the
• 36:41
  bike, you don't actively trying to get it started and it's a red
• 36:44
  flag you can't restart. So that was a deal.
• 36:48
  But how can you restart if the marshals are in your way telling
• 36:51
  you to go away? Got you.
• 36:53
  And and so is that a, do you guys think is that a more
• 36:56
  clarification needs to come from race direction?
• 37:00
  I don't think it needs to be more clarification.
• 37:01
  I think it needs to be for race direction.
• 37:03
  I think it needs to be better training for the Marshalls.
• 37:06
  If you actually see a rider trying to restart, because those
• 37:09
  Marshalls don't know, they don't know pretty much the logistics
• 37:13
  or or mechanical things of the bike.
• 37:15
  Can he, can he get it restarted? Is it on fire or is it working?
• 37:19
  Is it rideable? You know, you, they have no
• 37:22
  idea, you know, they just see a bike down.
• 37:24
  Oh well, they can't get it restarted.
• 37:26
  You know, they just hearing the bike trying to restart and
• 37:29
  they're like, oh, it won't restart, but not knowing that
• 37:31
  the pump needs to be reset and a couple things, you know, that
• 37:35
  needs to go on trying to get that bike started.
• 37:36
  It'll start. Sometimes it takes a little
• 37:40
  second, but I think they need to be better training for them to
• 37:43
  let the the riders, at least if you see them going back to the
• 37:46
  bike, let them try to get it started because that that could
• 37:50
  that could be detrimental in the long run.
• 37:54
  No, no, no. No doubt, TJ.
• 37:56
  Man, did you get to see race one?
• 37:59
  Oh, yeah. What?
• 38:00
  What are your thoughts, man? What?
• 38:03
  Do you got it is for we want to talk about that situation.
• 38:08
  It was a crazy start of a race, first of all, with a couple
• 38:13
  crashes and then the bike crashing in the middle of the
• 38:16
  track that caused a red flag. You know, you had Bobby a
• 38:21
  starting from the way back, you know, so it's it's a it's a
• 38:25
  couple of things. And but to see Bobby tuck the
• 38:28
  front, it was it wasn't a good look to see that, you know, I
• 38:32
  want to see him finish. But when, when they brought up
• 38:35
  that rule, like they literally saw like like the first thing he
• 38:39
  did was pick up his bike. And when the crash happens like
• 38:43
  that, like there's like a certain window of time that you
• 38:46
  really have to get out of the way of for safety and stuff like
• 38:49
  that. So like, you know, I felt like
• 38:52
  the marshals kind of pushed him out of the way because maybe it
• 38:55
  took too long, but like he tried and right as that happened, you
• 38:59
  know, the red flag hit. So I felt like he should still
• 39:02
  have an opportunity to, to, to restart, but I don't think he
• 39:09
  abandoned his bike at all. It was more of like he was
• 39:11
  listening to the marshals, like following the rules of of the
• 39:15
  situation. But I I don't think he should
• 39:18
  have been penalized for that. But it was a good win for for
• 39:21
  Schultz and just to see his pace in the first race, you know, I
• 39:26
  was just wondering who could keep up with that pace.
• 39:29
  So Race 2 is much different than it was good on on that end.
• 39:33
  So. OK.
• 39:35
  OK, I'll, I'll, I'll say this real quick, TJ.
• 39:39
  Bobby was keeping that pace. Oh yeah, he was.
• 39:43
  Oh yeah. Well, yeah, I guess, yeah.
• 39:45
  It happened so fast. So it was the first first.
• 39:48
  It was like 2-2 laps in and something like that.
• 39:51
  Yeah. So.
• 39:52
  Yeah, he had a good show, said a hell of a start.
• 39:56
  Like he had a hell of a start. But Bobby did track that pace
• 40:00
  down, so I'll give him that. OK, Louis man, I, I, I see you
• 40:05
  got Paul Asparagus Suzuki suit behind you there.
• 40:09
  This is don't insult this suit by saying Paul Asparagus
• 40:12
  brother. This is not one of the Asparagus
• 40:14
  brothers. This is this is World Moto GP
• 40:18
  champion Johan Meer. OK, OK, that's what's up.
• 40:23
  That's what's up. I'm a fan of me.
• 40:24
  How are your thoughts on super on Super bike Motor America?
• 40:29
  Let me get the world out of there and you know on Bobby.
• 40:33
  I got a question on what's actively competing.
• 40:35
  Do you have to actively be competing in your sport or can
• 40:39
  you just be like punching Marshalls in the face and say,
• 40:42
  hey, I'm actively competing in the UFC until there's a red flag
• 40:45
  and then I can pick my bike up? Because I think this is, again,
• 40:49
  this is Motor America breakdown. When Motor America goes to
• 40:52
  different tracks, they look for volunteers to work as corner
• 40:56
  marshals. They're trained for a minimal
• 40:59
  amount of time and then they go, they go out there and they have
• 41:02
  to do the best they have with the training they have.
• 41:06
  If a rider is trying to pick up their bike, are they being told
• 41:10
  to help the rider? Are they being told to pull the
• 41:13
  rider off the track? Because obviously they're in an
• 41:15
  impact zone because if they crash there, somebody else can
• 41:17
  crash there. So there's two different things
• 41:19
  going on right now. But if a rider's trying to pick
• 41:21
  up their bike to get back up and running, I'm not saying the
• 41:24
  Marshall needs to go out there and help them, but the Marshall
• 41:27
  did not, should not go out there and hinder them either because
• 41:30
  he's actively trying to compete. And we had this, you know, we
• 41:34
  had a similar situation happened a couple years ago at Barber.
• 41:38
  So that was completely different.
• 41:39
  The rider was there screaming and yelling at the bike instead
• 41:42
  of actually trying to pick up the bike.
• 41:43
  So yeah, he wasn't actively competing, but this wasn't the
• 41:47
  situation. This rider was actually trying
• 41:49
  to pick up the bike was getting pulled away from the marshals.
• 41:52
  Another bike goes down. So he does get the bike up and
• 41:54
  running. And now he's told, well, you
• 41:57
  weren't actively competing when the bike crashed, so now you
• 42:00
  can't restart. Like, it's like, you know, you
• 42:04
  need to train your corner brokers better.
• 42:06
  Right. Or there needs to be a little
• 42:08
  bit more clarification in the rule.
• 42:09
  It can't just be because you were pulled away from the bike
• 42:12
  or you weren't actively lifting the bike that you're not
• 42:15
  actively competing. You know, you could be getting
• 42:18
  up from the dirt. Let's say Bobby slid and he's
• 42:20
  laying in the dirt and he's getting up.
• 42:21
  Just as he's getting up, somebody crashes and red flags.
• 42:24
  You're not actively competing because you're laying in the
• 42:26
  dirt. I have to lay in the dirt before
• 42:29
  I get up. I just crashed.
• 42:30
  Like like fix this rule. This rule is stupid.
• 42:34
  It's it doesn't have enough clarification and it doesn't
• 42:37
  have enough like Gray area to let riders actually compete and
• 42:42
  give them time to show they're competing.
• 42:44
  If I crash and I slide 20 feet away from my bike and I get up
• 42:48
  and I'm coming back to my bike, the other bike red flags when
• 42:52
  I'm 10 feet away from my bike, I'm not actively competing.
• 42:55
  Why? Because I didn't Sprint 20 feet
• 42:57
  to pick up the bike. Like this is some, this is some
• 43:00
  bullshit, man. Let's call it what it is.
• 43:01
  This is some mode America, once again, Gray area bullshit that
• 43:05
  they don't want to define because if they define it,
• 43:08
  they'll be locked into this and they'll have to live with this
• 43:11
  rule. Whereas if they leave it Gray,
• 43:13
  you know, one person can be actively and compete not
• 43:15
  competing and one person can. And hey, this is there's not
• 43:18
  clear definition in the rule who who are you to argue with us?
• 43:23
  So just make this shit up as we go.
• 43:25
  Do do do corner workers need, you know, like play cards like
• 43:31
  like quarterbacks have and they and they just yell out, yell out
• 43:34
  and play from from the tower and they can look at the cards and
• 43:38
  see what to do. Is it is it time to implement
• 43:40
  the tech where where tech just tells them to the corner work?
• 43:44
  What's to do? And and they and they don't have
• 43:46
  to think. Well, corner workers have
• 43:48
  speakers and headphones. That's how they're able to, but
• 43:51
  kind of, hey, we got a, we got a man down to turn whatever.
• 43:53
  We got a person down to turn whatever.
• 43:55
  We've got fluid down. We've got, you know, this is how
• 43:57
  they're able to communicate. So is it race control doesn't
• 44:01
  have enough visual means to see every corner of the track And
• 44:06
  they just kind of go about what they see on the screen when the
• 44:08
  screen kind of goes to that corner and there's a delay
• 44:11
  sometimes even at the track when you move a camera from one place
• 44:14
  to another. So there might be a 1015 seconds
• 44:17
  delay and all of a sudden it looks like the guy's not
• 44:20
  competing but actually live in that corner, right?
• 44:22
  Then the bike, the guys trying to pick up the bike like there
• 44:26
  is just, there's just either have to train people better or
• 44:30
  they have to have a dedicated amount of corner workers that go
• 44:34
  to every event. They can't rely on volunteers at
• 44:37
  every single event because then that brings in another thing.
• 44:40
  Let's say we go to Majello and every corner worker is a
• 44:44
  volunteer at Majello and Marquez crashes.
• 44:47
  How many of them mother fuckers are going to come help Marquez
• 44:49
  at Majello? All of.
• 44:52
  Them, all of them. All of.
• 44:53
  Them. Yeah, they're going to help
• 44:54
  them. They're going to light the bike
• 44:57
  on fire. You know, this is what I mean.
• 45:01
  You have that, you're a professional sports league.
• 45:04
  You don't go from town to town hiring temporary referees.
• 45:08
  You have to have a certain amount of referees that go to
• 45:10
  every event and are stationed in every corner and you can station
• 45:14
  1 full time corner worker with four or five volunteers because
• 45:20
  then you at least have somebody that's well trained and can use
• 45:23
  the tools that they have there. That's what I'm saying.
• 45:27
  You want to be a pro league, act like a pro league.
• 45:30
  You got to invest some money. You can't be doing mistakes like
• 45:33
  this. This looks, it looks, it looks
• 45:36
  really bad, man. Like that's the worst way I
• 45:37
  could do it, and not just because it's Bobby.
• 45:39
  Had it been anybody else, I'd still be on the same rant like
• 45:42
  this doesn't look professional. Well, and and it causes at the
• 45:46
  end of the season, if you lose by X amount of points below the
• 45:50
  DNF. Now all of a sudden it's just
• 45:51
  like it could have been a different story, especially with
• 45:53
  the red flag after to yeah, back out there.
• 45:57
  You have a valid point for. Sure, Bobby loses by 10 points
• 46:00
  at the end of the season. Right there is where he lost the
• 46:02
  championship. Yeah.
• 46:05
  Technically, you could say right there is where he lost the
• 46:06
  championship. Or, or at least train the corner
• 46:09
  workers, like instead of just bringing them in for a couple
• 46:12
  days before, you know, during the like race weekend, say, hey,
• 46:15
  that's what we're going to do on what's that Thursday when we
• 46:18
  roll in? This is how you do it.
• 46:20
  No, bring him in all we like, you know, on a Monday.
• 46:24
  How many? Corner How many corner worker
• 46:26
  stations are at Rd. Atlanta?
• 46:28
  At Rd. Atlanta is it 1310 or 1310 or 13
• 46:32
  corner worker stations? I.
• 46:35
  Don't. Remember, let's say, let's say
• 46:36
  let's say there's 13. You telling me you can't have 13
• 46:40
  full time people on staff that go to every single event and
• 46:43
  cover 13 corners because every track is going to have more or
• 46:46
  less the same amount of corner worker stations?
• 46:49
  They got to, they got to, they got to do a certain amount of
• 46:51
  hours at club racing level before they.
• 46:53
  Get, hey, maybe that's maybe that's what they got to do.
• 46:56
  You know, maybe they, or they get trained by Motor America,
• 46:58
  you know, they get flown out to all the, there's people that get
• 47:01
  flown out to all the races by Motor America.
• 47:03
  Now they do other jobs that are not as consequential to the
• 47:06
  finished product. They're not as consequential to
• 47:08
  the race, but their staff members, they get paid.
• 47:12
  They get flown out every weekend to do these events and then
• 47:15
  after the weekend they get a check cut and we'll see you in a
• 47:17
  month at the next event and that's it at.
• 47:19
  The next event. That's it.
• 47:20
  So if this is going to cost, let's say you know, you got 10
• 47:23
  guys three weekends, let's say this ends up costing 25 grand
• 47:33
  per weekend. But you can eliminate the amount
• 47:36
  of of mistakes, you could possibly eliminate the amount of
• 47:39
  injuries or eliminate the amounts of problems on the
• 47:42
  track. You have people at every corner
• 47:44
  that a little bit more well trained and like medical
• 47:47
  response. All of this adds up.
• 47:51
  I think, you know, investing a quarter million bucks throughout
• 47:54
  the entire year to make a better product and to keep your riders
• 47:57
  safe is probably worth it. Right, I agree.
• 48:00
  I I still think that the decision could have been better
• 48:04
  as well. Besides, the corner work is
• 48:06
  because I feel like he was still actively participating in the
• 48:10
  race, like he was still kind of on track when the red flag took
• 48:13
  place. I believe.
• 48:15
  It's not like he crashed 5 laps of four and then he's already
• 48:19
  sitting in the paddock and then a red flag appeared.
• 48:21
  So like I feel like, I feel like he should have still like, you
• 48:26
  know, it shouldn't even have been a, it should have been a no
• 48:29
  brainer. Like especially the effort that
• 48:31
  he put in to try to pick up his own bike.
• 48:33
  So I felt like he got screwed. No, I, I agree it is.
• 48:37
  And and you know, there's winners and losers when it comes
• 48:40
  to crashing and red and red flags.
• 48:41
  I mean, we see, we see the Moto GP as well with timing and stuff
• 48:45
  like that and, and their reaction.
• 48:47
  So it's crazy, I mean. He rode the bike in, so he did
• 48:52
  ride it in. Yeah, yeah.
• 48:54
  So it's. Well, but what it should have.
• 48:59
  We'll see what happens at the end of the year.
• 49:02
  What happened, Speaking of the end of the year, guys, who which
• 49:09
  manufacturers and as much as you can say, Reese, I know you're
• 49:11
  going to say Yamaha, but which who you know, which one walks
• 49:15
  away this weekend with the wins, the losses that we did all
• 49:19
  right? Because I mean, we see two
• 49:21
  Yamahas when BMW was on the podium, Ducati was on the
• 49:26
  podium, you know, what are your what are your thoughts, TJ?
• 49:30
  Which, which manufacturer walked away with the win?
• 49:34
  I mean, obviously, yeah, I got the win, but.
• 49:38
  I got to say BMW for me, like Sean Dillon, Kelly really proved
• 49:44
  that he's a really good rider and like getting on that bike
• 49:47
  and putting it on the podium. I just felt like it's a good
• 49:51
  start for them, you know? So it's definitely a a big win.
• 49:56
  That's that's what I'll say, BMW.
• 49:59
  I I like that I like that. I mean, listen, I mean you, you
• 50:03
  guys are the only ones that's not struggling Moto GP world
• 50:05
  super bike the Yamaha struggling.
• 50:08
  You guys out here, you know, you got back-to-back wins.
• 50:11
  I know you got you would have preferred to have the attack
• 50:13
  Yamaha get both. Can you answer the question
• 50:17
  subjectively? Yeah, my answer is subjective.
• 50:20
  I still say Yamaha. I mean, it's not even just, you
• 50:26
  know, because I'm there. It's literally, if you look at
• 50:29
  Race 1, you had Schultz, then you have Bobby sitting in second
• 50:35
  for a while until he crashed out.
• 50:38
  But then come Race 2, you had two Yamahas on a box.
• 50:42
  So, and overall, you know, there's got to be a Yamaha.
• 50:47
  And one broke, broke and limped across the line, right?
• 50:50
  Bobby, not Bobby, Matt limped across and then you had JD back
• 50:54
  and forth. So so I mean, both of your guys
• 50:57
  are in top five, both of your guys, all three guys are in top
• 51:00
  five when a lot, a lot of fans were counting this out like, oh,
• 51:04
  the Ducati and BMWs are going to run it, but I like, hey, don't
• 51:09
  poke a sleeping. Bear.
• 51:10
  OK, all right, all right, nothing.
• 51:12
  They hibernate though. Don't poke a sleeping bear, man,
• 51:18
  Leave them alone. What are your thoughts, Lewis,
• 51:21
  man? I mean, is, is it BMW that they
• 51:24
  kind of did all right? Is it Yamaha all the way?
• 51:29
  Ducati should have done better when you look at what was
• 51:31
  happening in in Wilson Bike. I think everything kind of fell
• 51:35
  right into place where it should be.
• 51:37
  You know, I think Yamaha, you know, is the veteran champion
• 51:40
  bike of the series for how many years now?
• 51:44
  You know, it's always been a competitive bike.
• 51:46
  Even when it's not competitive, it's still competitive.
• 51:48
  It still pulls out some some tents every year that weren't
• 51:52
  there the year before. A lot of people I know we're big
• 51:56
  on Ducati coming in this year and dominating, but this being a
• 51:59
  different Ducati than last year. And most of the teams didn't get
• 52:02
  their bikes till very, very late to even test.
• 52:05
  So like the Ray Hall team, I think they only got their bike
• 52:08
  like 2-3 weeks ago. So they've barely been able to
• 52:10
  test on his bike. So they've had, they have almost
• 52:12
  no data and all the data they they have is based on what
• 52:19
  they've done in Europe. And all the testing that they've
• 52:21
  done in Europe is based on Pirelli tires.
• 52:24
  So when you get that data here, now you have to kind of convert
• 52:27
  that data into how to make this work with Dunlop tires, which
• 52:31
  aren't the same beast. You know, they're just not, no
• 52:34
  matter what anybody thinks, they're not the same beast.
• 52:37
  They work differently and you kind of see it.
• 52:41
  You know, there's struggles with Cameron Beaubiet.
• 52:43
  You could see where he has speed, but he has some issues
• 52:46
  coming out of corners. It seems like coming out of
• 52:48
  corners, that bike wants to go left, right, left, right, left,
• 52:51
  right, left, right, straight. And it's because it's got, no,
• 52:53
  it's for some reason it can't put the power down because that
• 52:56
  rear tire is just not gripping up.
• 52:58
  Is that after you watch the P JS crash?
• 53:01
  No, that was he went. He went right, left, right,
• 53:03
  left, right. Left crash he.
• 53:05
  Was different. It wasn't the same.
• 53:08
  No, he went right, left, right, left, then over the bar, then
• 53:11
  splash. I I feel bad for PJ man.
• 53:14
  That was that was a hard crash because I mean, when you go face
• 53:17
  first like that, that that those are the ones that suck, man,
• 53:20
  because you wake up just looking at the dirt through your helmet.
• 53:23
  And what's bad is not. There.
• 53:26
  I put I put the 2 two videos together.
• 53:31
  He looked like if you go back, you know, back in the day, you
• 53:34
  he looked the way he crashed. He crashed and laid faith first
• 53:38
  into the ground looking like a Simicelli.
• 53:40
  He looked exactly like him. I was like, oh God, I.
• 53:44
  Was. Like God, I feel bad so.
• 53:47
  But, you know, so the Ducatis are going to have a little bit
• 53:50
  of a teething pain until they can kind of sort it out.
• 53:53
  And maybe they'll sort it out by like the third round or the
• 53:55
  fourth round. I mean, they have speed.
• 53:57
  That's one thing that Ducati does not miss.
• 54:01
  I'm surprised that, you know, BMW had two guys in the top five
• 54:07
  or six the first race and then two guys in the top ten in the
• 54:11
  second race. I mean, I know Jason Eribe hurt
• 54:14
  his hand. I think he's got like two or
• 54:16
  three broken bones in his wrist, but still finished to eke out a
• 54:20
  top 10 or top 11 in the second race.
• 54:23
  And SDK is showing that, you know, he can put it together.
• 54:27
  The bike and the team are working well and they've got a
• 54:30
  strong package. It's, it's going to be hard to
• 54:33
  say which manufacturer is really going to be the breakout.
• 54:36
  You know, I think for now I'll stick with Reese, with Yamaha,
• 54:40
  You know, I, I think those guys are, are nobody expects them to
• 54:44
  be doing much of anything every year.
• 54:46
  So it's, it's almost like every year they come in as the
• 54:47
  underdog because Ducati is going to do this and BMW is going to
• 54:51
  do that and somebody else is going to do that.
• 54:54
  But at the end of the day, you know, there's two Yamahas in the
• 54:56
  top 4, there's 3 Yamahas in the top 8, and after that, you know,
• 55:04
  it's a mix of Ducatis, Suzuki's and BMW.
• 55:08
  So I think Yamaha has the most people in that top 6-7 range
• 55:12
  right now. You had JD in fourth, you have
• 55:16
  Matt in second, you have Bobby in first and in race one, if you
• 55:21
  know JD didn't fry his clutch, he would have been probably on
• 55:25
  the podium. Nice, nice.
• 55:28
  I'm excited. I'll I'll say this guys, before
• 55:30
  we talk about world super bike a little bit and then get out of
• 55:32
  here and we talked a little bit about P JS crash.
• 55:37
  Should we? Should Motor America have been
• 55:38
  shown that crash over and over a few times?
• 55:42
  That's their MO, man. You know, that's their MO
• 55:46
  knocked out, man. I mean, let let's leave that for
• 55:48
  WWE. Any of these other sports.
• 55:52
  Like, you know, the man's knocked out.
• 55:54
  Like, why, why? Like why?
• 55:56
  Show it over. That's their MO, man.
• 55:59
  Knock them out like Fight Night. That's their MO for summary.
• 56:05
  I don't know who it is that their that does their like put
• 56:09
  together their their packet, their real packages and their
• 56:13
  producer that actually cuts the pieces for like Instagram,
• 56:17
  Facebook, social media, online, even their own internal
• 56:20
  commercials. But they love to, you know,
• 56:24
  crashes bring attention, man. When you're driving on the
• 56:26
  highway and you see a crash, everybody's looking, everybody's
• 56:32
  looking. Why is there so much traffic?
• 56:33
  Because everybody's looking. You fade out before he fades to
• 56:36
  black. Man, come on.
• 56:37
  Just you don't have to show that part.
• 56:44
  You know what I mean? I, I get, I get what you're
• 56:46
  saying. I mean, cause at least with Moto
• 56:48
  GP they, they tend to when it, when rider is out, they tend not
• 56:51
  to show that in Moto GP these days.
• 56:52
  Not to say that was always the case, but if a rider is out like
• 56:56
  the last couple of years, they don't really show it.
• 56:59
  Yeah, they don't. They don't show the after
• 57:00
  effects. They show the in action footage,
• 57:02
  the guy flying through the air, hitting the ground, sliding,
• 57:05
  stuff like that. But then they cut hard cut.
• 57:08
  But if you go watch it, you know the whole.
• 57:10
  You watch the release, then you see the.
• 57:16
  Guy all mangled and balled up in the corner.
• 57:18
  The guys running out with the little the big doctor signs.
• 57:27
  He looks like a racer. Let's let's talk let's talk
• 57:29
  about like which I'm happy that motorcycle racing is back here
• 57:35
  and and abroad. You know, we talked about ZX
• 57:39
  motor last time. We got a lot of we got a lot of
• 57:42
  people had a lot to say. ZX motor again looks pretty good
• 57:46
  out there in that super sport class.
• 57:49
  And I mean, I think he would have got away with it if Messi,
• 57:52
  German Messi, man, that boy can ride that.
• 57:56
  That was a that was a hell of a finish.
• 57:57
  What are you what are your thoughts on the Super sport
• 57:59
  class? We know Reese was was counting
• 58:02
  sheep. So what do you have to have to
• 58:04
  DJ? Oh, I mean the Super port class.
• 58:11
  I mean, yeah, that I didn't really see much of it either.
• 58:15
  But I mean, the there's the the CF Moto does vices pretty much
• 58:22
  killing the game right now. They're definitely stepping it
• 58:24
  up and showing that you know they're bite to be breaking
• 58:29
  with, you know, they they're pulling, pulling some strings
• 58:32
  right now. Right, right, right.
• 58:34
  No doubt. It seems like we might have to
• 58:37
  do the Apollo section here when they don't watch the the races,
• 58:40
  Reese I mean, Lewis, I don't know.
• 58:42
  You know we have time to watch all these races, right?
• 58:47
  Lewis on on the Super sport. No, I think I, I mean, I've
• 58:51
  always liked super sport, man. I always, I've always said that
• 58:54
  it's similar to Moto 2. It's like the most competitive
• 58:57
  racing for the most part. You can get groups of like up to
• 59:00
  7 or 8. So it looks like a Moto 2 or
• 59:02
  Moto 3 grid sometimes and super sport, you know, especially now
• 59:06
  with the level of talent that's in super sport, it's crazy when
• 59:10
  you look at the names that are in super sport, it's like X
• 59:14
  Moto, 2X Moto, 2X Moto this X Moto.
• 59:17
  That's like, man, this is just like a, this is a killer's role.
• 59:21
  Like how do these people get on 9 hundreds?
• 59:25
  Like how do these people get on like super sport bikes?
• 59:27
  It's crazy. Dude, I feel bad for Cat, Cat on
• 59:30
  Chew 'cause I, I think he's, he's like, Manzi's gone all
• 59:34
  right? Nah, here comes, here comes all
• 59:37
  these other like killers. Just straight killers.
• 59:40
  Arenas. Arenas isn't playing.
• 59:41
  It is. I'm his first win since 2020.
• 59:47
  And that's the thing, once these guys, especially guys that
• 59:49
  haven't had a win in a long time, they've been battling,
• 59:52
  they get that first taste of Prosecco, man.
• 59:56
  They want more and they get that bonus check that they haven't
• 59:59
  seen in like 6 years. They definitely want more of
• 1:00:02
  those. I mean, I'm, I'm, you know, I'm
• 1:00:07
  super happy with the mix of bikes too.
• 1:00:10
  It's not just one manufacturer running away with it.
• 1:00:13
  Like there's our nines in there. There's a little bit of
• 1:00:15
  everything. It's not just one thing, It's
• 1:00:17
  not Ducati running away with it. It's not Yamaha running away
• 1:00:20
  with it. Like if the bikes are
• 1:00:22
  competitive, the bikes are pretty for the most part, they
• 1:00:26
  seem to be pretty evenly matched.
• 1:00:29
  Maybe some have a little bit of a gain here and a loss here and
• 1:00:33
  some of them have a loss here and a gain here.
• 1:00:34
  But I mean, this is this is turning out to be the better of
• 1:00:39
  the two championships this year because World Super bike outside
• 1:00:42
  of, you know, this weekend when ITCA finally like started
• 1:00:45
  stepping up, it's been a little bit of a snooze fest.
• 1:00:48
  Yeah, yeah, no, I, I, I agree the Super sport class has been
• 1:00:52
  really good. The sport bike classes as well.
• 1:00:56
  I got to say it's, it's it's fun to watch a little bit more speed
• 1:01:01
  than the 300 super sport that they that they were running.
• 1:01:04
  And it's and again, talk about mix of bikes, because you got
• 1:01:07
  the triumph six 60s in there. You got the Rs 660 in there, the
• 1:01:11
  Prolia, you got the R sevens, I believe, and also you got the
• 1:01:15
  Suzuki and I think there's even the Kawasaki in there too, if
• 1:01:18
  I'm not, if I'm not mistaken, in the in the sport bike class.
• 1:01:22
  But let's but let's talk about this super bike class before we
• 1:01:25
  get out of here. We do have Moto GP coming up
• 1:01:27
  this weekend. Ika's getting close guys.
• 1:01:31
  I mean, you know, I mean the rain.
• 1:01:33
  He definitely let some laps and and you know, I don't, I don't
• 1:01:37
  know. Buluga figured it out and put
• 1:01:41
  his head down and and and and and got the win.
• 1:01:44
  He he has thirteen wins in a row top to tie top rock in the in
• 1:01:50
  the most consecutive amount of win.
• 1:01:53
  Can the other BMWs stop? Buluga, PJ.
• 1:02:01
  Can the other BMW, the other Ducatis?
• 1:02:11
  My bad. I'm fine.
• 1:02:13
  I think the closest one is obviously Eagle Eagle.
• 1:02:17
  I hope that he would pull one out this weekend.
• 1:02:20
  But you know, Bulgar has just been too much.
• 1:02:24
  I mean, he's had Eco had, you know, a shot where, you know,
• 1:02:28
  Bulika, you know, sort of die bombed him, but it clean took
• 1:02:32
  took the lead. So yeah, I think it'll be a
• 1:02:36
  Ducati for sure now. Now take Bulika.
• 1:02:39
  I just don't know who, but I say Eco will be probably the first
• 1:02:42
  one. I mean, he's right behind him.
• 1:02:45
  He's his biggest Bullock, his biggest challenge right now.
• 1:02:49
  Right, right, right. So.
• 1:02:52
  Likewise our Reese, I mean, who's who's going to start
• 1:02:54
  Bulaga? I mean, when you have your, when
• 1:02:57
  you have a teammate that looks like they're going to be 1 and 2
• 1:03:00
  for the season. I I mean, you know when, when,
• 1:03:03
  when you're, when you're down and you're trying to get your
• 1:03:06
  rider to, to run up front. It's one thing when you're 1 and
• 1:03:09
  2. What's the speech like?
• 1:03:13
  Just don't take each other out. That's pretty much it.
• 1:03:18
  Do what y'all do but just don't take each other out.
• 1:03:21
  No, no, you can say. Yeah, I mean, as a as, as a crew
• 1:03:25
  member, who do you root for? Who's bringing you coffee in the
• 1:03:27
  morning? Who says hello to you more, you
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  know, as a rider? Just root for where we're going
• 1:03:38
  to win. That's it.
• 1:03:39
  One or the other, like is both on the same team.
• 1:03:41
  I'm like, well, we're getting a championship, so good luck that
• 1:03:48
  that that's. Pretty much.
• 1:03:49
  But you know, all jokes aside though, I mean, can anyone else?
• 1:03:52
  I mean, these other Ducatis, I mean, Batista looks good, not
• 1:03:56
  the Lowe's brother didn't crash and either one of them.
• 1:03:59
  So that's pretty good. All the Ducatis look pretty
• 1:04:01
  good. You know, for the most part.
• 1:04:03
  I think one race was like top five or something like that.
• 1:04:06
  Ducati's, I mean anyone you know, is it, is it something you
• 1:04:10
  can chip away at, you know, over, over the course of the
• 1:04:13
  season to, to get to you know, where you're, you're right,
• 1:04:16
  you're finishing only a half a second behind them, maybe even
• 1:04:19
  less. You can you can chip away just
• 1:04:22
  inch every so closer. But I mean, at this point in
• 1:04:25
  time, who's really going to beat Bullocka?
• 1:04:26
  I mean, it's like Lewis is sometimes becoming a snooze
• 1:04:29
  fest. And you know, I watched the the
• 1:04:31
  past rounds. Unfortunately, like I said, I
• 1:04:32
  didn't get a chance to watch this one because we were just
• 1:04:35
  slammed, you know, trying to get everything ready.
• 1:04:37
  But at this point in time, it's pretty much a Bullock series.
• 1:04:41
  It's just his. It's his championship to the I.
• 1:04:44
  I I disagree since I watched this weekend, it looked pretty
• 1:04:48
  close. We we can't forget about you
• 1:04:50
  know it, it will play a part in the championship.
• 1:04:56
  You know, Lewis, the the lowest brothers didn't crash this
• 1:04:59
  weekend. They look pretty good. 123
• 1:05:02
  Ducati, you know, not the same as last round because we had the
• 1:05:07
  BMW in there, you know, Petrucci finished in front of Oliveira.
• 1:05:13
  I said he had to do something. I think the man heard me, you
• 1:05:16
  know what I'm saying? So what?
• 1:05:17
  What are your thoughts? Yeah, this this championship is
• 1:05:22
  definitely Nicola Bulogas to lose like so that's that's a not
• 1:05:26
  even not a non starter. I mean, he, he, he had a quote
• 1:05:31
  this weekend that was pretty telling.
• 1:05:34
  He's saying he, he said he misses racing against top rack
• 1:05:39
  because it's lonely at the front.
• 1:05:44
  And it's like, damn, like that's kind of a slap in the face to
• 1:05:48
  the seven guys behind you. Careful what you wish for too,
• 1:05:51
  right? Because.
• 1:05:52
  Yeah, because and I and I know that, you know, we've spoken
• 1:05:56
  about this before. I know the Ika Lakawona is a
• 1:06:00
  talent. The dude can do a lot with a
• 1:06:02
  bike. I just think that Nicola Bulaga
• 1:06:05
  has got just that one extra thing that Ika doesn't have just
• 1:06:10
  yet. More, more see time on Ducati
• 1:06:12
  and you know, running against top rack for the last couple of
• 1:06:15
  years. Here's the thing.
• 1:06:17
  Yeah, exactly. You've been, you've been running
• 1:06:19
  with top rack. So you are, you're as sharp as
• 1:06:21
  you're ever going to be because you 2 sharpened each other to
• 1:06:24
  the point where you guys are the the razor blades in the in the
• 1:06:28
  class, Everybody else is a sword.
• 1:06:30
  You guys are razor blades. Nikolai now needs to sharpen
• 1:06:34
  himself into a razor blade if he really wants to compete with
• 1:06:37
  Nicola. And there's going to be tracks
• 1:06:39
  where he's probably going to compete because some of his
• 1:06:41
  skills work better there. But dude, when they get to the
• 1:06:44
  Italian rounds, you think you think Nicola is not going to
• 1:06:47
  stretch him something off of the Italian rounds when they get to
• 1:06:51
  some of these other races where like, you know, Nicolas
• 1:06:56
  strengths can really show he's he's just going to go back to
• 1:07:00
  stretching these guys and then managing the pace from the
• 1:07:02
  front. You know, and that's the other
• 1:07:03
  thing is right now Nicola is showing a level of mind
• 1:07:07
  strength, a level of mental fortitude.
• 1:07:10
  That's like next level because when you win this many races in
• 1:07:13
  a row, you are so mentally strong.
• 1:07:16
  Like you're so tuned into your bike, your tires, you know, you
• 1:07:20
  can feel every bolt in the bike vibrating through your butt
• 1:07:24
  cheeks, but you know, you, you, you know everything that's going
• 1:07:27
  on the bike. You can tell them.
• 1:07:29
  You can tell them how how tight the valve springs are.
• 1:07:32
  Like you're that tuned in with the bike?
• 1:07:35
  I'll play devil's advocate a little bit.
• 1:07:36
  You know, you, you, you know, you mentioned tap rock.
• 1:07:39
  You know, iron sharpeners, iron of his sword.
• 1:07:41
  Sharpen the sword. I mean, he could get bored.
• 1:07:46
  And and that's the only problem is he could get bored.
• 1:07:49
  But I think what will happen is they'll the world super bike
• 1:07:54
  will bring in the their rule where it either adds weight or
• 1:08:00
  brings down the RPM. They'll they'll bring in that
• 1:08:04
  rule that they have in place to like restrict riders that seem
• 1:08:07
  to be walking away with the championship.
• 1:08:10
  At a certain point, they're going to put that rule into
• 1:08:12
  place for him. They're going to either add
• 1:08:13
  reduce his RPMS or they're going to do something to slow him down
• 1:08:17
  because he can't just keep walking away like this.
• 1:08:21
  And they might do it for all the Ducatis, because Ducatis in
• 1:08:23
  general are kind of like running the show right now.
• 1:08:27
  Yeah, yeah. I mean, but the Yamahas, the
• 1:08:30
  Yamahas look good. They they look good this past
• 1:08:32
  weekend, so choppy looked good on on that 97.
• 1:08:38
  The big motors look good. Groloff looked good on the
• 1:08:40
  Cowie. I mean you know, even the BMWs
• 1:08:43
  are looking good guys. I mean you know what I mean It's
• 1:08:45
  it's it's close. I think Groloff.
• 1:08:48
  Was back in like I forgot what somebody said.
• 1:08:51
  Yeah, like 10. Yeah, but you can look good from
• 1:08:53
  back there. Look.
• 1:08:54
  Good. Did you?
• 1:08:55
  Say you look good back there. I mean just just the.
• 1:08:58
  Colors, you know, not crashing, just.
• 1:09:00
  Look good, not crashing, passing people, being active, being
• 1:09:04
  actively competitive. I got a question for Lewis,
• 1:09:12
  though, 'cause somebody asked me this question.
• 1:09:14
  It was like, why is there no ZX 10s actively competing in Moto
• 1:09:19
  America or anywhere besides the one of Garrett?
• 1:09:23
  I know the answer. Yeah, I gave an answer, but I
• 1:09:28
  want to hear Lewis's answer. It says no ZX10 money in the US.
• 1:09:34
  Like if you look at every manufacturer that's out there,
• 1:09:37
  people are racing them because there's some money to either be
• 1:09:39
  made or some money to help you go racing.
• 1:09:42
  Like Honda's putting a lot of money in right now.
• 1:09:44
  If you look at all the Hondas that are in stock 1000 class,
• 1:09:48
  you know, Andrew Lee this weekend won on the stock 1000
• 1:09:51
  class, which is races within the Super bike classes.
• 1:09:55
  Honda is putting out a lot of money for these people to go
• 1:09:57
  race. This is why they're doing it.
• 1:10:00
  You know, This is why they're out there because there's an
• 1:10:02
  opportunity to race to get paid, your bills paid for and probably
• 1:10:05
  make some money. But here in the US, Kawasaki
• 1:10:08
  racing is non existent. There's no money in it.
• 1:10:12
  They don't have any contingency support.
• 1:10:14
  They don't have any race support.
• 1:10:15
  They don't have anything, which is crazy to me because they were
• 1:10:18
  the number one selling motorcycle brand last year in
• 1:10:22
  the US, but they're investing 0.0 back into St. riding.
• 1:10:28
  They do a shit ton in the dirt with supercross and everything
• 1:10:32
  else, but when it comes to the street they invest 0.0, which is
• 1:10:36
  crazy when you think about the amount of ZX 10's and six three
• 1:10:40
  sixes and everything else that they sell here in the US.
• 1:10:44
  Now, how many of those 63 sixes actually make it out of the
• 1:10:46
  showroom floor without imploding?
• 1:10:48
  That's a different story. But they should just fix that.
• 1:10:51
  That's, you know, that's just a shitty bike, but you know,
• 1:10:53
  they're, they used to have AZX 9 years ago.
• 1:10:57
  Oh yeah, I remember. They could be racing AZX 9 in
• 1:11:01
  Super Sport technically, but they're not.
• 1:11:04
  They're not doing anything that shows that they want to actually
• 1:11:07
  competitively be in Rd. racing outside of the 300 and the 400.
• 1:11:13
  And that's it. There's no replacement for a 636
• 1:11:18
  that can be used in Super Sport, there's no ZX10R that is getting
• 1:11:24
  any kind of push in the US to go racing here, and there's a lot
• 1:11:27
  of fast guys that'll be willing to jump on a Kawasaki if
• 1:11:30
  Kawasaki was actually willing to put some money forward.
• 1:11:32
  But they're just not. Right, Tough, tough, tough
• 1:11:39
  business guys. We got Moto GP this coming
• 1:11:42
  weekend in Spain and before we get out of here, what are you,
• 1:11:48
  what are you hoping to expect as far as you know?
• 1:11:54
  Is Zuccotti going to be back on top?
• 1:11:56
  Run away with it? What what, what are you thought?
• 1:11:58
  Just thought with TJ, go around the horn and also pick your
• 1:12:01
  writers for Sprint and GP. So we so no one gets the DNF.
• 1:12:08
  Lewis I. Was expecting Zuccotti to bounce
• 1:12:14
  back at least so they can, you know, compete a little more with
• 1:12:19
  Aprilia. So hoping to see that and the
• 1:12:25
  way Martinez riding, he's competing for a championship
• 1:12:29
  right now. So I'm hoping to see that Bez
• 1:12:32
  will stay on track and you know, compete for a title for himself.
• 1:12:38
  You know, so hopefully he can continue winning because I
• 1:12:42
  thought about it, I think it'll be very it'll it'll probably be
• 1:12:44
  devastating to see Martine win a championship on Aprilia after
• 1:12:48
  the work that best put in. So I'm just hoping that he can
• 1:12:52
  stay, you know, the number one guy and not see Martine kind of
• 1:12:56
  tip away. So hopefully best game, you
• 1:12:59
  know, be a mistake free and hopefully see Ducati bounce back
• 1:13:02
  a little bit all. Right, OK, no doubt.
• 1:13:05
  So who you who your 3 writers for the Sprint and and three
• 1:13:09
  riders for the the main race and they can be 1 and the same
• 1:13:12
  depends on what you want to do. So y'all gonna have to come back
• 1:13:15
  to me on that one because y'all always get me to go first.
• 1:13:18
  So I gotta think, I gotta think about this for a second.
• 1:13:21
  I'll I'll even go second. Give give me a second on that.
• 1:13:25
  You got it, Reed Lewis. Who?
• 1:13:27
  Who wants it? I'll take it where we going, I
• 1:13:34
  would say. Hey.
• 1:13:44
  Martine, Mark, Mark and. Bez.
• 1:13:49
  Yeah, Bez. OK, safe bet there, right there.
• 1:13:55
  And for the race? Is it for both I'm?
• 1:13:58
  Going No, I'm going for what? Bez Mark and I'm going Acosta.
• 1:14:10
  OK, Yeah. That's a little bit of a tough
• 1:14:19
  one. I this I predict that this
• 1:14:22
  weekend Bizecki's race win streak will come to an end.
• 1:14:28
  So that is, that means that I need to go ahead and I need to
• 1:14:35
  pick a winner that's not going to be Bazecki for the actual
• 1:14:38
  race, OK? And I don't think Bazecki's
• 1:14:41
  going to win the Sprint. OK.
• 1:14:43
  So I'm going to go Marquez, Martine, Acosta and the Sprint.
• 1:14:52
  OK. And I'm going to go Martine,
• 1:14:56
  Marquez and Bazecki in the race. OK, I like that.
• 1:15:00
  That's not bad. I hate to give my team credit,
• 1:15:05
  but we've seen what he did last last time out both races.
• 1:15:11
  I think he's finally kind of getting over his injuries and
• 1:15:15
  you know, the Aprilia has shown that it is the bike to beat.
• 1:15:19
  It's got that one little step up on the Ducati.
• 1:15:22
  I think Ducati will maybe close the gap a little bit this week,
• 1:15:25
  but I still think in the short race and in the long race,
• 1:15:31
  Bazecki will not be in the top step.
• 1:15:33
  I think there'll be two different Spaniards at the top
• 1:15:35
  step. Wow.
• 1:15:36
  Yeah. OK, You you ready, TJ?
• 1:15:39
  You want me to go for you? No, I I can pick.
• 1:15:42
  So yeah, I was going to say the the Sprint.
• 1:15:46
  I'll say Mark Bazecki and Acosta and then I'll say for.
• 1:15:56
  So that's the Sprint GPI got to say Mark Pezzacki and Martine.
• 1:16:06
  Man, all right, all right, hey, that's pretty good.
• 1:16:10
  So I'm going to go with Martine for both Sprint and main race.
• 1:16:19
  I'm going to go with Bez for the main race.
• 1:16:26
  Man, this is tricky. I'm going to go with Agura for
• 1:16:31
  the main race and then I what I need one more for the Sprint.
• 1:16:36
  Now that's tough. I'm going to go with.
• 1:16:47
  I'm going to go with Digia in the Sprint.
• 1:16:51
  I'm going with. Digia, he is on the street.
• 1:16:54
  Yeah, yeah. I'll go with Digia in the Sprint
• 1:16:57
  so. No, I think I'm I'm not rooting
• 1:17:00
  for Digi this weekend. I'm hoping he falls apart this
• 1:17:03
  weekend. As you can see, the scores,
• 1:17:10
  guys, not too shabby. Not too shabby.
• 1:17:15
  At some point I'll have the rules.
• 1:17:16
  Who know? I don't know exactly how it
• 1:17:17
  works, but you know. There's a, there's a Gray area,
• 1:17:22
  you know? There's always a Gray area, you
• 1:17:25
  know. Well, that was the thought room,
• 1:17:29
  but we're working on to the fourth room.
• 1:17:31
  Long as I'm in the middle. Long as I'm in the middle then.
• 1:17:35
  But I think, well, I can I show the host, there we go.
• 1:17:42
  Gives us some totals. So not too bad. 171 for me.
• 1:17:48
  TJ 144, Reese one 57 and Lewis won 47.
• 1:17:55
  And and I didn't even did I miss around.
• 1:17:57
  Yeah, you did. So look at.
• 1:17:59
  That man I should be like 200 something points.
• 1:18:03
  That's what all races say, huh? Exactly.
• 1:18:06
  You know what man? That was?
• 1:18:08
  That was my weekend of not actively competing.
• 1:18:11
  There you go. All racing shirts I'm.
• 1:18:22
  Not actively competing. Can't.
• 1:18:26
  Afford no DNS. Can't afford no DNS.
• 1:18:29
  No, no, you might get away with one, but not many more.
• 1:18:34
  It's a long season. So guys, I want to thank you for
• 1:18:38
  coming on. We got TJ with two wheels and
• 1:18:41
  coffee. We got Reese from Attack Yamaha.
• 1:18:43
  Congrats. Over the weekend we got the real
• 1:18:45
  Louis Ortega. Glad to see you upright again,
• 1:18:48
  man Peace. Peace.
• 1:18:51
  Take care everyone.