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Vroom Vroom Wednesdays: 2026 MotoGP Round 2 & World SuperBike in S6 Ep 17 · B 4EVA Kool "Race A Motorcycle" Podcast

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  What are we here for? What do you truly want?
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  When change is not enough, what do you do?
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  What are we here for? What do you truly want?
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  When change is not enough, what do you do?
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  Let's talk about it, the Proms we face.
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  Let's fight hatred. No down ways the mind is naked.
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  We can see it without an X-ray. Life is easy if we work
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  together. We are the keepers, we are the
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  people. We are all equal, filled with
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  purpose. The past has pain, it'll drive
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  you, even make you take aim. But together is where we should
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  aim. Together is where we should
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  know. What are we here for?
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  What do we truly want when change is night and night?
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  The. Welcome back to another edition
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  of the Be Forever Cool podcast, Indirect 25.
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  We got some fun tonight. This is Room Room Wednesdays.
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  Got the guys and we're going to introduce them in a little bit.
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  I want to thank everyone for liking and subscribing and doing
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  all the wonderful things. We like all the comments and all
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  that stuff. I mean, we really appreciate it
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  back and forth on IG on on TikTok as well.
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  Facebook even read it, you know what I'm saying?
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  So very excited. Definitely.
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  I'm excited that you guys like what we're doing and we hope to
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  continue to do it and and have some fun.
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  This past weekend was the Brazil round.
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  We have coder coming up. Press conference is going to be
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  tomorrow, Thursday. The season is not what we
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  thought it would be. A lot of craziness.
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  But before I go into it all by myself, let me bring the guys
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  and welcome to the show. Jordan man, how you doing
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  tonight? Loving life, brother, loving
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  life man. Like I said this, this season is
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  not what is expected to all to be wrapped up.
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  I'm glad that it's it's been a kind of a moving shaker so far.
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  So I'm liking it. I'm liking the way everything is
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  starting out. Even with Moto 2 and Moto 3.
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  It's not all Gimme. It is definitely some movers and
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  shakers in the in the in the paddock this year.
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  Nice, nice man. So how's the weather in in
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  Georgia, man? Weather's pretty good actually.
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  It's riding weather down here, brother.
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  It is definitely riding weather. As long as it doesn't rain as
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  much as it has been for the past couple weeks kind of off and on.
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  It's definitely riding weather. So if you need to come down to
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  the South, I got a spot, got extra room all.
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  Right. Well, I think for me it's going
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  to be going up, but I'm going to try to definitely make it as I
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  sort out my camera situation here.
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  Let's bring in the the the other guys.
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  Welcome to the show, Smitty, man.
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  How you doing man? Pretty good, pretty good.
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  What's going on with you guys? Man, ain't nothing much, man.
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  Overheating my camera here. So that's unfortunate, but we're
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  going to have to fix that. That fire, that's why.
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  You know what it is talking to you guys.
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  It's that intro, man. And, and not paying attention to
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  what I'm doing. That's what it is, man.
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  That's good, man. How was how was that Atlanta?
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  Not bad, good weather but it's pollen season for now so hope
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  that goes away soon but other than that pretty good.
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  Can't go playing, but now playing golf, working on my
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  bike, getting ready for my first track day in two weeks and my
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  race isn't coming up. So that's it.
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  OK, OK. That's what's up man. 2 weeks
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  where you doing the track day at?
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  This one going to be at Barber and I got some new wheels I want
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  to test out so. When you say new wheels, what
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  kind of wheels? No, I got some Koromoto aluminum
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  wheels now, a little bit lighter than the stock wheels, so.
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  OK, OK, OK. Want to see how much better or
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  if it does anything different to the bike handling wise, so we'll
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  see. All right, that's what's up
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  that's what's up man, I I don't think I'm going to be there for
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  a couple of weeks. I know I'm going to be up that
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  way for Moto Moto America, but I do I definitely do want to do a
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  track day up that way for sure. Well, let me keep it moving and
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  get the rest of the gang in here and then we'll all chop it up
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  and and hopefully I I get to do that track day with you up that
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  way Tyson man, welcome back to the show man.
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  How you doing tonight? What's?
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  Up Rexy doing good. How are you?
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  Yeah, you know, technical difficulties.
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  Got to yell at the who's the producer?
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  You know, I feel like what you would call it in Tropic Thunder,
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  just as the guy playing the guy, you know that one.
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  Dude playing a dude playing another dude.
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  Yeah man, you must be excited. Next month is Neymar series, so
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  I I know you got to be, even though the weather may not show
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  it, you got to be ready man. Yeah.
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  I mean, the weather never, never shows it for round one, so
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  that's going to probably be cold, but looking forward to
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  being there round one. Yeah, nice.
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  That's what's up. I wish I was going to be up
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  there for round one, but I think I think I'm going to make it up
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  there for the classic at the moment.
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  That's the plan. So and if I'm if I'm lucky
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  enough, I'll trailer up the R6 and maybe do the form of the 40s
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  fun man. So, but enough about what we're
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  talking about as far as meeting up and track days and racing.
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  Let's let's talk about Brazil guys.
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  We did the Monday show, talked about it.
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  I know you guys was watched it and see and saw what happened.
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  You know, we'll go around the horn and, you know, hear your
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  take on on on what you thought about Brazil, our track
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  conditions and or just, you know, the, the the ride itself.
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  We start with Jordan, man. Tell us what you think.
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  I was kind of surprised that, well, I'm not surprised of the
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  race, but with the track conditions being kind of iffy
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  the way it was, I thought the track times was going to be a
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  little bit less than what they were.
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  But you know, with, with those tires that everybody's running
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  right about now, man, you can go pretty much full lean angle, you
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  know, give it all the gas and you've got a lot of grip.
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  So I mean, they was knocking down teens when I was expecting
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  them to be in the 20s. So.
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  So they was they was on it from, from, from the jump.
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  And I was like, I was pretty surprised about it.
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  And then once Free Practice 2 came out, then everything
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  started getting dry, the next thing you know, it was off to
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  the races, quick, fast, in a hurry, and the top ten was in
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  the same second with 5 minutes left.
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  I was just like, man, it, it this season's going to be a lot
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  more fun than the current seasons they have been the past
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  couple years. And it it was exciting.
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  It was signing CC qualifying and then the race was we'll talk
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  about that. Yeah, yeah, no doubt, No doubt,
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  man. I was surprised at the times
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  too. So we'll talk about that because
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  I mean, that was some pretty fast time.
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  What are your thoughts, Smitty? Man?
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  On on the weekend. Did you buy your ticket to
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  Brazil? What happened?
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  I wish, man. So track conditions.
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  I mean, yeah, that were kind of bad, but sometimes it happens
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  that way. But it wasn't like a unsafe kind
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  of bad. It was just kind of, you know,
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  rocks kind of hitting people and riding, but which ain't that
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  bad, however. Smitty, you've done.
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  Listen. Listen, track days, right?
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  You've raised, you've had just the rubber of the bike.
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  Ping your visor. Yeah, things a little bit, but
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  they'll be fine but. This is this is like like
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  throwing like pellets at you like.
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  Listen, every guy that was in 2nd through 22nd got petted.
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  Sadness. You know what thing is you don't
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  want to get hit get in first place.
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  Every Look, man, listen, man, I, I, I hear that.
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  I mean, you're, you're, you're a former military guy.
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  So you, you are used to that advanced training where you
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  know, you have to overcome certain things.
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  But these guys, I mean, don't get me wrong, they ride hurt and
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  they ride jacked up. But like every, every to, I
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  mean, to get to ignore pebbles coming at you like that, man.
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  That's, that's about that concentration, bro, for 20/20/23
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  laps or whatever. Yeah, cut down.
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  I mean, everybody had had the same problem.
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  So it was kind of, it was kind of unfair throughout.
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  Right, right, right. So.
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  Soccer. All right, that's what's up.
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  That's what's. Up my surprise initially was I
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  was shocked but it was a fluke. But I think it was Friday type
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  Rack was like a third place I think.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  With the ranking mixed conditions, he was up there.
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  Yeah, that's why, because like I was saying like last year that
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  when it comes this year, I would say he's going to be between
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  like between 13 and 17th place, you know?
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  But I see him doing much. So when I saw him doing it, I'm
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  like, wow, God damn. OK, I'm wrong.
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  But then the then it dried up. Then he kind of became, but I
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  thought he was going to become just kind of a guy, you know,
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  so. That's not well.
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  I mean, yeah, I fear not. Fear not, Father.
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  We'll, we'll, we'll dissect that, OK.
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  I'm, I'm sorry, just a guy in Moto GP.
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  No, no, no, no, no. But, but I mean, he's still,
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  he's still a phenomenal writer. Yeah, like I'll be just a guy in
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  Moto GP. No, we wouldn't be.
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  No, we wouldn't be. We'll be lapped in three laps,
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  right? That's what.
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  I'm saying I'll be just a guy. That's what I'm saying.
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  You know what I'm saying? You mean that for us?
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  But Tyson, man, what are your thoughts about Brazil, man?
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  I mean it, you know, do you, do you think that they should have
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  kept Argentina even though Argentina didn't want to spend
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  any money on the facility? Brazil did.
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  But I mean, after this weekend, you know, I I do want to see
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  receipts. Yeah.
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  I mean, we both raced it loud and I mean, for track
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  conditions, I didn't think that was crazy terrible, but it is a
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  bad look for the premier class of racing.
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  Like you and I going out there and having a race day, like, OK,
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  you know, just live with it. You know, it's a track.
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  We've seen similar kind of thing.
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  But to see that like on the big stage and as you're saying with
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  earlier with like injuries and stuff like that, like the
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  seasons are longer now with the Sprint races and even more, you
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  know, weekends that like, do you really want to be like breaking
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  some guy's finger Round 2 because the track was literally
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  just degrading as they were riding it.
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  So I'm, I'm kind of in between. I, I don't necessarily care.
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  I just, I think it's a, a bad look for the, the general sort
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  of public and that kind of deal. But I don't think it was that,
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  that end of the world. But I did think the race was, I
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  didn't manage to catch much, much of the other sessions.
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  I was busy this weekend, but I did catch the race and I'm
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  really excited for the championship as a whole and the
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  rest of the season. But that race in general, I
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  thought was kind of boring to a degree.
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  Like, yeah, I mean, I liked seeing Marco out there up front.
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  Like, good for him. He's earned it.
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  I hope he wins the championship this year, it would be good to
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  see the Aprilia go across there, but other than that I just
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  didn't. I was expecting more, how about
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  that? Like not necessarily it was
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  boring, I just thought they would be more tight racing and
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  pushing. But I get it with the track
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  basically. Right, right.
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  Right, breaking apart that that makes it hard.
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  So it sounds, it sounds like you you were disappointed with
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  Ducati. I mean, I certainly was
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  disappointed with Ducati. I've I've been disappointed for
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  the first two races like. Yeah, yeah.
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  I I expect a little bit more, especially after the season they
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  had like I figured that would have lit a fire into them to
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  like, all right, let's let's make sure we put the nail in the
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  coffin and and Aprilia knows who's the top dogs and it does
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  not seem like they did that. No, no, I agree.
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  I agree. What are your thoughts, Jordan,
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  on that? I mean, you know, you watched
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  you guys watch the race, Aprilia seemed to have it figured out.
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  Acosta with KTM Digia I think saved save Ducati this past
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  weekend, even though Marquez won the Sprint race.
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  You know, I think if Digia didn't make the mistake, he he
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  would, he wouldn't have won the Sprint race, I think because he
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  only made one mistake. What are your thoughts, Jordan?
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  I agree. I agree Digi had a a really good
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  start, wouldn't have the best start but he had a really good
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  start. His pace was really.
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  Into time. So I was really expecting him to
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  kind of almost pull away. But like I said it, it was not
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  saying mixed conditions at that point in time in the Sprint, but
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  they were still dialing in like one or two last little minute
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  things. And like I said, you know, with
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  everything being pushed back with I wasn't going to talk
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  about it. But I mean, we can't talk about
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  it because obviously it, it is a talking point.
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  The sinkholes, you know, that, you know, that blew up in, in
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  the middle of the freaking track.
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  It's kind of like, OK, you know, what are we doing with this?
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  And, but I, I mean, for a semi new track, we haven't been there
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  in 22 years. When we finally get there, they
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  get new asphalt, they get a whole new, you know,
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  presentation, a whole new thing for the track.
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  And for something like this to happen, it's, it's almost, you
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  know, you have to look at the surrounding areas.
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  You're going to rainforest. So you're going to have soft and
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  hard packs and stuff like that. And you know, the ground is
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  constantly moving where you're at.
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  So I mean, it, it's, it is what it is, not say it is what it is,
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  but it is the area that you live in.
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  So to have a sinkhole and for them to fix it, patch it, get
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  everything all going on the same day within literally a matter of
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  hours and keep the the show going, you know, kudos to them.
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  Kudos. To them.
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  For for making that happen and like I said, you know, they had
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  a lot going on that Eva Smitty talked about.
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  You know, they, they had a lot kind of going on that they
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  wasn't expecting, but they they I think they did a really good
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  job and the racing wasn't that bad.
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  They just locked off was a 6-7 laps, but it was still good hard
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  racing from Moto 3 all the way to Moto GP.
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  And I've said for me it was exciting because I was, I was
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  looking at everything. I was looking at everybody.
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  I wish I had my notes because I just got in from running around.
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  But man, it, it was some good tight racing almost all around.
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  Nobody was was walking away besides one person, which, you
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  know, we'll talk about but but yeah.
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  Yeah, I, I, I, it, it does sound like you're saying.
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  So don't give a Ducati a hard time because the surface may.
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  Have they they made mistakes? They they they keep on, I don't
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  know if they keep on overextending themselves with I
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  don't know if the bike, I wouldn't say the track
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  conditions, but they keep on overextending themselves to
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  where they're trying to do too much instead of settling it.
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  You know, Mark is going to be Mark and you know, and God bless
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  everybody else on Ducatis, everybody else on freaking
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  Ducatis. You know, they, they doing good,
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  but they're trying to like catch what Aprilia has finally
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  starting to put down. And, you know, God bless Honda
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  Smitty. Don't worry, next year the 8.
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  Hundreds, man, I'm telling you. I mean right about now.
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  Aprilia has put it down. They've been talking about it
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  for years. Once they was able to get a
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  rider to master it, like Stoner mastered Honda.
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  Now you got to catch them. OK, all right.
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  I would have said Stoner mastered Ducati, but you know a
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  lot of people mastered that. Honda man, A long list of
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  champions. On Honda, but I remember that,
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  Valentino said. Once Stoner got on the Honda, he
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  said the Ducati. On the Honda, he was going to
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  win five more. He left.
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  He left early. He could have stayed on it.
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  He left early, but he could have won five on Honda.
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  Yeah, yeah. I mean, Marquez took a spot, I
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  think. What what are your thoughts on
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  Ducati, Smitty? I know you're a Honda guy like
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  Jordan that says, I mean, are you, are you buying what Jordan
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  is saying that the track made the Ducatis ride a little bit
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  more safer, turn down the temperature a little bit or we
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  all they all had the same condition.
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  So come on that kind. Of sounds like Ducati bias.
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  You know, it's like somehow Ducati's only bike that that
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  that track affected, you know, like all the other guys got 2
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  wheel drive or something, you know?
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  Come on man, they got front wheel drive motorcycles now.
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  Except for Ducati, right? Hey man, let's you can put a
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  little electronic motor on the front wheel.
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  Man, you never know. That's something man.
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  And the guys the only the only guy that the track somehow mass
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  affected. Stop it man, Come on.
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  Cut a shit man. You're, you're, you're thinking
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  that they're, they're, they're, they're slipping.
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  I mean, it's only the second round.
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  I won't say slipping because they're still, you know,
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  cricket. Mark and Didji ran a great race,
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  you know, during the Sprint. Well, I mean the the Sprint is
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  iffy because they don't really count the Sprint you you hit.
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  I mean you hit the rioters talk and the Sprint is just kind of
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  like qualifying the time. I'm like, dude, it's a race you
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  won, but it's like the race that they care more to win than the
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  Sprint. But.
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  The I mean, it's still a good bike, but it's not I mean, but
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  they they somehow just kept getting better and better and
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  better and it's showing like the past, like even last year
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  towards the end of last year, it's like, yo, this bike is no
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  joke, you know, and they kind of surpassed Ducati.
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  So but the kind of still a great #2 bike now, but it's not you
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  know what it was when Pekko was winning and all them other guys
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  were running before so. Yeah, I mean, listen, it it we
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  we had a good run. I was bawling about it last
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  year, even though we won the championship.
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  And you know, like I sounded like Danny Pedroza when he was
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  saying, you know, I need more grip.
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  And everybody was like, Marcus win and everything is fine.
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  And so, you know, so, you know, it's it's it's I feel bad for
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  Ducati. I mean, I was going to say, you
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  know, Bez and Martina won and two in the championship did Gin
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  Antonio and Marquez 3 and 4 Tyson.
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  What are your thoughts on on Ducati where they're at right
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  now? Too soon to tell gravel, too
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  much gravel or, you know, they're it's like that, you
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  know, the the Patriots or the bulls.
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  It's, it's just, it's just, you know, changing of the guards.
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  I mean, it's certainly a changing of the guards.
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  I think it's the beginning of that.
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  I mean, we see this all the time in, you know, racing.
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  Like when does a team slowly start dropping off and the team
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  picks up And that original team was like, actually, no, I'm
• 19:56
  going to keep going with this. Like, you know, one team goes up
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  and then they go down as the other team goes up.
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  So I guess it's probably the beginning of the changing of the
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  guards. But I'm really for me, it just
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  seems like 2025 Ducati. But Mark's hurt like he
• 20:13
  definitely seemed a little. Hesitant, tentative in the first
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  race of the year. And I saw a little bit more of
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  that in this race as well. I don't think the conditions
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  help. I think he figured, like, I'm
• 20:24
  already kind of hurt and it's pretty nasty out here.
• 20:27
  So like, let's just bring this thing home in a good spot.
• 20:30
  But I mean, none of the other Ducatis were, you know, doing
• 20:35
  crazy. I mean, Digit is a good rider
• 20:36
  and he did get third. But like, where's Petco, Mark or
• 20:39
  Alex? You know, all these other guys
• 20:42
  are not really blowing anybody else out of the water, so.
• 20:48
  Yeah, I mean, that's, that's, that's the unfortunate side.
• 20:50
  I mean, I like I said, I've been, you know, yelling about
• 20:53
  this for a little bit. Do do you guys think that Ducati
• 21:01
  can turn this around? I mean, we saw we saw at least
• 21:06
  it was. I mean, again, we'll see what
• 21:07
  did you did you did you is not Alex Marquez of last year.
• 21:11
  So we need more data to sit here and say, you know, he can do
• 21:15
  what Marquez, the Marquez brothers did last year like him
• 21:17
  and Mark could do that. I it's tough to say what Petco
• 21:20
  is going to do because testing was really well.
• 21:24
  It seems like there's just the bike is is what it is.
• 21:27
  And then I, I can't say it's the rider at this point, but do you
• 21:31
  guys think that, you know, they can figure it out before the
• 21:34
  summer break? Well, it depends on depends on
• 21:38
  what you mean figure things out. You mean become become become
• 21:40
  the best bike on a grid? I would say no.
• 21:44
  Yeah, man, the dominance that they had from it's gone.
• 21:47
  Listen. Just like F1, right?
• 21:50
  Like, you know what I'm saying? That the all the Republicans,
• 21:52
  the trophies, man. It's gone.
• 21:55
  Listen, everybody has their run. Honda had their run, you know,
• 21:59
  on through the early Rossi years, Yamaha had their run,
• 22:03
  Ducati had their run. Now it's a prettiest turn.
• 22:05
  It's that simple. It's just it's like it's like
• 22:08
  F1. Mercedes had it during the
• 22:10
  Hamilton era, Red Bull had it with with Max Verstappen.
• 22:16
  You know, last year was Norris. And right now, it seems like the
• 22:22
  Mercedes got it back A. Ferrari thing just comes.
• 22:25
  The Ferrari's looking good man, Come on.
• 22:27
  Yeah, them too. But you know, but and GP, same
• 22:30
  thing, every guy has their run except KTM.
• 22:33
  They had their run yet, so you know.
• 22:35
  They're broke all right, so. So you're, you're, you're saying
• 22:41
  they can't steal this season, They can't steal the
• 22:43
  championship this year. You're, you're, you're, you're
• 22:45
  ready to say that they're not going to you.
• 22:46
  You think if, if, if Aprilia stays healthy, then they're one
• 22:50
  and two. And if all the all the writers
• 22:53
  stay healthy, why they I would say yes.
• 22:55
  Yeah, because I mean, you would think that Ducati gets better,
• 22:59
  but guess what, They all get better.
• 23:00
  So it kind of stays the same, but it gets better throughout
• 23:03
  the year. So the Ducati, so it's Honda,
• 23:04
  but if they're still the best bike right now and they all get
• 23:07
  better, it stays where it is. The you know the picking order
• 23:10
  all. Right, All right, all right,
• 23:13
  Jordan. Happens every year.
• 23:15
  So approach you're saying to pull you all the way Jordan and
• 23:18
  that that they you know they're going to take it.
• 23:21
  That's that's where you're going.
• 23:22
  I'm. I'm I'm more or.
• 23:24
  Less let's talk about what they did two in the race, right?
• 23:28
  I mean, you know, Martine looked good from the first round and
• 23:31
  you know they did three and four in the Sprint and 1:00 and 2:00
• 23:35
  in the in the main race. I mean, that's pretty.
• 23:37
  Impressive, yeah. And I, I, I believe that not to
• 23:42
  say that Ducati's going to make a comeback.
• 23:45
  I like to think I, I agree a little bit with, Smitty said.
• 23:48
  It's like, you know, if Aprilia keeps on going up, then Ducati,
• 23:52
  you know, figures out some things and Aprilia, you know,
• 23:55
  keeps on figuring things out. And then like I said, that the
• 23:58
  pecking order may stay the same, you know, But like I said, it's
• 24:01
  really any given Sunday. We talked about the sprints, you
• 24:05
  know, sprints actually still do count as points even though,
• 24:09
  yes, it's not Sunday points, but they still count as points.
• 24:13
  So even if you don't have a good Sunday, who knows, your Saturday
• 24:17
  may save your championship. So not to say it's, it's
• 24:22
  completely outputted or you can't really or not really going
• 24:25
  to put it off, but definitely everyone's looking for Sunday
• 24:29
  'cause that's where a lot of everything counts.
• 24:33
  That's where a lot of points are going to be counting.
• 24:35
  That's where a lot of sponsorships are looking at.
• 24:38
  It's for that that Sunday ride. So I think it could stay the
• 24:45
  same if big, big if, if everybody stays healthy and if
• 24:51
  it all the tracks are Immaculate and everything works out like,
• 24:56
  you know, Jesus come down and touch every rider, you know, in
• 25:00
  any given Sunday is going to happen.
• 25:01
  So I mean, it's really a matter of if they can figure something
• 25:04
  out that another team hasn't figured out, they may use some
• 25:08
  cheat code that Marquez may pull out and go dart off in the Dagon
• 25:14
  tents again and throw everybody else off again and then be like,
• 25:17
  what are we doing? What are we doing?
• 25:18
  What's going on? So I mean, it, it's really
• 25:21
  dependent on what's going to happen.
• 25:22
  But I'm glad to really see that Moto GP is is really making a
• 25:27
  big staple here in the States. I don't know if anybody saw that
• 25:30
  they're making a big announcement what they did in
• 25:33
  New York and who knows what they're going to do in in Texas.
• 25:36
  But I'm really glad they're actually making it a real big
• 25:39
  effort. To support.
• 25:40
  Moto GP here in the States. I like I like that as well.
• 25:43
  And we'll touch on colder in a little bit.
• 25:47
  Tyson, I mean, what are your thoughts on Aprilia?
• 25:50
  I mean, you, you had Bez, Martine and Agoura all doing
• 25:56
  well on those fights. I mean, were you surprised in in
• 25:59
  before the qualifying where it looked like he was struggling,
• 26:02
  It looked like he wasn't going to have the weekend he had?
• 26:05
  Was he surprised that they were able to turn around that?
• 26:07
  Because normally when the weekend starts out bad, they
• 26:11
  don't really pulled off to where you know you're you're second on
• 26:14
  the grid and you're winning the race from start.
• 26:18
  I mean, yeah, it was certainly a surprise, especially him and
• 26:20
  Martine running up there in the 1st and 2nd.
• 26:23
  But I wouldn't say it's like a a massive 1.
• 26:27
  Like I definitely think they are probably slightly the best, the
• 26:30
  best bike on the grid. They look like their riders have
• 26:33
  the easiest time riding fast on their.
• 26:36
  Bikes. That's crazy to think, right?
• 26:38
  A couple of years ago when Elaish was mad that they
• 26:40
  couldn't, the clutch wouldn't hook up.
• 26:43
  Yeah, and it is a complete shock.
• 26:45
  But I mean, we could have said the same thing about Ducati in
• 26:47
  2020, 2018-2019. Like, Can you believe a Ducati
• 26:50
  isn't easy to ride and everyone loves it?
• 26:52
  Like for the longest time they were the worst, most unruly bike
• 26:56
  on the grid. But yeah, not totally surprised.
• 27:00
  I mean, they showed it in the last couple races of of last
• 27:02
  year. They seem to really figure out
• 27:04
  and, you know, get into a step with it with their bike and
• 27:07
  their riders. But I'm still worried about like
• 27:12
  Marquez. Like, I don't think this
• 27:13
  championship is over. Like, I mean, obviously it's
• 27:16
  only the second round, but like I definitely think their
• 27:19
  competition is Marquez if you can get healthy and start riding
• 27:24
  like you did last year. I mean, like the only difference
• 27:26
  between the Ducatis versus the affiliates this year is that
• 27:29
  Marquez is not at the top. All the rest of them are
• 27:31
  basically in the spots where they were last year, roughly so.
• 27:37
  No, Jan Antonio was a little bit further down even last year and
• 27:40
  the year before that Mark Marquez was pretty much, you
• 27:43
  know, where he was usually at. Alex was kind of fluctuating a
• 27:46
  little bit in the middle, but he was around 5th, 6th, 78.
• 27:50
  Alex is reverting to the mean here, unfortunately.
• 27:53
  Like I would like to see him back at the top like you did
• 27:55
  last year, but it it feels like that is how it's going to play
• 27:57
  out this. Year, you know, be careful what
• 27:59
  you asked for, right? You want the new bike, you see?
• 28:03
  Mar Bardelli on a 24 still and you see Furman on a 24 bike, you
• 28:09
  know, so he's on a 26 bike and Petco, even though it sounds
• 28:13
  like the but it seems like the bike is better than a 25 bike.
• 28:17
  I think he's struggling a little bit as well.
• 28:19
  And I think, you know, Pekko's struggling with Digi have
• 28:21
  figured it out this weekend. But you know, one weekend is not
• 28:25
  enough, as we saw that with Pekko last year.
• 28:28
  I think this is this is in in Japan.
• 28:31
  I think it was when he when he won the only, I think one of the
• 28:33
  only races we won last last year in the West.
• 28:36
  Yeah, he won that one. Yeah, you want that one in a
• 28:40
  way, Yeah, you're right. You're right, You know what I
• 28:42
  mean? So it, it'll be interesting to
• 28:43
  see, but it we'll see after Coda, because Coda is, is is
• 28:46
  distracted. But we're going to jump into
• 28:47
  Coda in a little bit. Let's talk about.
• 28:49
  Yeah, we'll talk about Honda because Smitty's here.
• 28:54
  It's, it's, it's interesting because I think the mixed
• 28:59
  conditions jacked up the, the Honda because like they were,
• 29:03
  they were steadily, I mean, I still think they're the third
• 29:05
  best bike on the, on the, on the grid as far as manufacturers.
• 29:08
  I I think they're definitely over KTM and and and Yamaha at
• 29:12
  this point. Is you can say that and you
• 29:16
  aren't wrong, but the gap between 2nd and 3rd is so far
• 29:21
  it's like it doesn't really matter.
• 29:22
  It's like you have 1:00 and 1:00 and 2:00 and then, you know, 3-4
• 29:27
  and five after that. So it's like, yeah, it's third
• 29:29
  place. Like it's a far third place.
• 29:32
  Especially with all those Ducatis.
• 29:34
  Then it crashing out both races. I'm trying to look where they
• 29:38
  qualified. I mean, you know, like a little
• 29:42
  half a second behind. The second-half a but that was
• 29:46
  the biggest gap. That was the biggest gap out of
• 29:47
  like all ten of them was a half a second.
• 29:49
  So like I said, everybody else like a tenth off a millimeter
• 29:53
  millisecond off. But that half gap in in 4th and
• 29:56
  5th, that was, that was, that was the biggest gap.
• 29:58
  You know, so I mean, it's, I, I, we, we can debate about the gap.
• 30:03
  3rd place is third place. I, I'll give them that.
• 30:05
  But, you know, I think they're in the position to I don't know
• 30:09
  if they'll finish second in the season, but I think they can
• 30:12
  maintain this position. And I think that if Mir can stay
• 30:15
  up and see that they got some technical gremlins on in in in
• 30:19
  the in the bike this past weekend as well.
• 30:22
  What do you thought you finished talking what you were saying
• 30:25
  Smitty about Honda? I mean, you do.
• 30:26
  Do you feel like they can, you know, win this year?
• 30:30
  I think they I think they can win.
• 30:31
  Do you think they can win? This year to win has to be like,
• 30:33
  be like, be like a rain race, honestly.
• 30:36
  So a. Dry, A dry race, I don't see it
• 30:39
  happen. I'm being, you know, realistic.
• 30:41
  I don't see it happening. OK, really I.
• 30:44
  Mean what? Beat who?
• 30:46
  Bez on the February beat Marquez had.
• 30:48
  One on Coda with Renzo on it. Yeah, but was that like 2 years
• 30:53
  ago? Maybe three.
• 30:55
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Three years, 3, but still the
• 30:58
  one. Yeah.
• 30:59
  You know what I mean? Zarko's figuring it out.
• 31:02
  Did the. Marquez crash that race.
• 31:06
  I don't remember. I don't remember.
• 31:10
  I remember if he's crashed out or not, so.
• 31:12
  He crashed out, he was injured and he last showed yeah before,
• 31:14
  but yeah, no. He he, he was, he crashed on the
• 31:16
  Ducati, but he was injured and wins one.
• 31:19
  OK, got Yeah, that's why we're. Listening.
• 31:22
  Yeah. We show up and and and and and
• 31:24
  you finish and that's what that's what happened.
• 31:26
  We can't. Everybody wins in.
• 31:27
  You know, I mean, you can't say, you know, you know, Michael
• 31:31
  Jordan won because Doctor Jay and and Russell wasn't playing.
• 31:34
  Can't do that, man. True.
• 31:36
  All right, all right, all right. So, you know, just so.
• 31:39
  Honda. Look, I'm waiting.
• 31:40
  I'm just waiting even for next year for him to win something.
• 31:43
  Right, so you're thinking eight 50s where the Honda will will
• 31:46
  will shine. All right, OK, OK.
• 31:49
  What are your thoughts, Jordan on on on Honda.
• 31:51
  I mean, you're going you're going to trade in that R6 for
• 31:53
  for for Honda. No, I I played it the new ride 6
• 32:01
  and when I raced the 600 class I'm it's a 24 Honda I'm racing.
• 32:05
  Yeah, it's a good bike, man. And the video game?
• 32:09
  Yeah, the. Video game.
• 32:10
  Yeah, perfect. But why?
• 32:11
  But it is I'm like what? Video.
• 32:14
  Game. I'm running the same one.
• 32:17
  Yeah, yeah. I don't know what's that?
• 32:19
  What are? What are your thoughts doing?
• 32:20
  I, I think Honda, they've got, I'm not saying they've got some
• 32:24
  work to do. They're making things move.
• 32:26
  They're they're making progress where they're going to beat
• 32:30
  April and everybody else. Probably not.
• 32:33
  Are they going to stay where they're at?
• 32:35
  Hopefully not. I like I said, I would like to
• 32:37
  see them move and shaken outside of a wet race.
• 32:41
  Got you. I'm I'm really tired of seeing
• 32:43
  them doing decent on a wet race so hopefully they they able to
• 32:48
  figure some stuff out and be able to get drive down on that
• 32:53
  Honda. That was the last time I did
• 32:56
  anything was Arco. That was what you.
• 32:59
  Got you, Got on the podium end of last year.
• 33:04
  At the end. Come on.
• 33:07
  Listen here, Smitty Junior. Come on.
• 33:09
  Don't do that, man. Everything.
• 33:12
  Was already settled. Everything was settled.
• 33:14
  No one cared about it anymore. It was kind of like a little.
• 33:17
  I don't have one. You know, you, you have a point
• 33:21
  there. I, I was, I was going to bring
• 33:22
  up the no, the Nokia part Tyson man.
• 33:24
  I mean, you know, do you think that these manufacturers may,
• 33:28
  you know, call the season, you know, and just wait for the new
• 33:33
  era? Because it's kind of like we, we
• 33:36
  got 20 more rounds to go and then we have new bikes.
• 33:39
  How much effort should we put in to get to how far?
• 33:42
  Because at the end of the day, even if they finish three or
• 33:47
  four in the title under, they still going to, you know, what
• 33:52
  is the effort worth it? My guess is probably the only
• 33:55
  teams actually developing their bikes this year are Honda or not
• 33:59
  Honda, sorry, Ducati and Aprilia because they're fighting for the
• 34:01
  championship. The rest of them I, I guarantee,
• 34:04
  are just banking on the next regs and any money that they
• 34:07
  have, they're going to be spending on the next regs
• 34:09
  without a doubt. Like, I mean, it's the same
• 34:11
  thing in Formula One. All these other sort of, you
• 34:14
  know, racing series, they all do the same thing, you know, tank
• 34:18
  it for the next season and you know restart.
• 34:22
  So I don't I think they have a good bike though Honda like I
• 34:24
  definitely think they could get a podium or potentially a win.
• 34:27
  Maybe, I mean it's a hard maybe on a dry track as the other guys
• 34:31
  were saying, but like I don't, I mean they seem to do pretty well
• 34:35
  in Japan and Malaysia and I could see it at some of the
• 34:38
  tracks, but. Yeah, I mean, I think they did
• 34:40
  Silverstone and and the French Open, French Open, French Grand
• 34:45
  Prix different. But that Silverstone and and the
• 34:47
  French race were were definitely interesting.
• 34:51
  Like there was other factors at play that they kind of, you
• 34:55
  know, won on and and got those finishes so.
• 34:58
  Right, right. But I mean, Honda's like the
• 35:00
  Lakers or the Celtics, like we shouldn't tank, right?
• 35:04
  We, we, we shouldn't, we shouldn't tank.
• 35:05
  I mean, we, we should, we should, we should show up.
• 35:08
  And I mean, I think Honda has the most world titles as a
• 35:11
  manufacturer. Yeah, I can definitely see them.
• 35:14
  Like I can see teams using this bike as a test mule for next
• 35:20
  season. And then, you know, if it works
• 35:22
  for the season, great. I'm sure Honda will work on this
• 35:26
  bike of a little bit throughout the season.
• 35:30
  But like I guarantee of the lion's share of whatever
• 35:33
  resources they have and budget is going into next year.
• 35:37
  Same thing with KTM, same thing with Yamaha.
• 35:39
  Like they're not investing in this year.
• 35:41
  I mean, why would you, as you were saying, like if your best
• 35:44
  bet is third, why would you invest all that money just to
• 35:47
  get third when you might get first next year?
• 35:51
  I agree. For the fans, man.
• 35:52
  For the fans. Yeah.
• 35:55
  Quick question, Tyson, you said something about or I think it
• 36:00
  was said something about world titles, probably got 54.
• 36:03
  Doesn't Ducati have 74? We're all super bike.
• 36:07
  We're talking about Moto GP, yeah.
• 36:09
  I'll say OK OK so Aprilia I know has 13 if I remember right, 13GP
• 36:15
  titles. Moto GP titles.
• 36:18
  Moto GP, well, now Moto GP, so I know they got the 250 they.
• 36:22
  They got. 500CC right what I'm saying 502 fifties.
• 36:26
  They might have like 7, yeah, they might have the 250, but not
• 36:29
  the 500. They got the milli.
• 36:35
  I know they got the Millie and something else.
• 36:37
  I thought they had like 3 at least with those.
• 36:40
  Listen man, P2 Finger. Hit that keyboard.
• 36:44
  Do that search and giving them numbers.
• 36:46
  I'm on it. So we can we can get it right,
• 36:50
  but I don't from from looking at when we did when we did the old
• 36:55
  series over the over the break, I don't I don't think they got
• 36:58
  the fight. I think they got I.
• 36:59
  Definitely see the Moto GP, they have 0.
• 37:02
  Yeah, yeah. Oh, that's the most of 21.
• 37:05
  Then MV Augusta with 18 and Yamaha with 18.
• 37:07
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 37:09
  Tyson with his cherry his cherry buttons.
• 37:12
  Yes. Are they actually MX Browns?
• 37:16
  Oh yeah, it was OK, OK, I was close.
• 37:22
  Nice, nice. All right, let's, let's talk
• 37:25
  about Yamaha cause you know it. And, you know, and I posed this
• 37:30
  on the last show last week because I was like, is it
• 37:32
  possible for Cuatro to get on a pole?
• 37:35
  And there was some doubt. But when I saw him, I, I don't
• 37:38
  know if he got on pole for a second, but I, I was just like,
• 37:42
  he might do it. He might do it.
• 37:44
  I mean, but let's talk about Honda, the efforts he's putting
• 37:47
  in even though he's not happy because I mean, he's put in an
• 37:50
  effort for a guy who who wants out.
• 37:53
  He he, he started off really good.
• 37:56
  I'm sorry, my bad. But.
• 37:58
  I mean look he done during the race, he made it made makes like
• 38:02
  third place, then each lap to drop down one position.
• 38:06
  On the Sprint, yeah. Next lap, yeah.
• 38:09
  And I don't know why, but the bike, you know, it's something
• 38:12
  that I that, that I never like, understood Like how, like, how
• 38:16
  does a bike lose pace during the race?
• 38:20
  I well, it's grip. I think it's grip.
• 38:23
  I think the, the, the, the, the, the Yamaha.
• 38:26
  No, I can't say Honda, but the Yamaha, I think, I think he's
• 38:29
  losing grip. But also I, I'm no Moto GP
• 38:33
  rider, but I remember when I went from racing a twin in this
• 38:37
  SV650 and having a twin bike on the street, you know, as a rider
• 38:42
  and, and then going to the to the inline 4.
• 38:44
  And it took me a whole season to get up to speed on the inline 4
• 38:48
  to the point where I even have to get a St. inline 4 just to
• 38:51
  get C time in. You may have enough grip.
• 38:55
  I just didn't I I just wasn't comfortable, you know, letting
• 38:58
  that scream at 15,000 RPMSII didn't know what that was like.
• 39:03
  Felt like I was chewing it. So I had to get you.
• 39:05
  I had to get used to that. So is it part?
• 39:06
  Is it part like he has to just get used to the V4I?
• 39:09
  Mean, but the same thing last year every year before.
• 39:12
  Differently though, you know what I'm saying, because you
• 39:14
  know he's he's going to have more mid and it seems like seems
• 39:19
  like Renz is is is is using the power better then then
• 39:23
  Quatarara, even though Quatarara got a better great great
• 39:26
  position. But you know, what are your
• 39:28
  thoughts on Yamaha overall, man? I mean, Yamaha, Yamaha had the
• 39:32
  same problem in half of the past, what, 345 years?
• 39:36
  They're down on power. It's that simple.
• 39:38
  You know, on the straight, some guys just blow by him every time
• 39:41
  and he'll catch him maybe in turn one turn 2 and dance a
• 39:45
  little bit. Then he pulls, they get pulled,
• 39:48
  they get, you know, yarded every time.
• 39:49
  So seems. Like.
• 39:50
  Like there wasn't that blow by this time.
• 39:52
  I mean, you know, I'm saying, I mean, maybe quarter hours is
• 39:55
  breaking late as ever, but it wasn't like like it wasn't prior
• 39:59
  years. I mean, you know, I'm saying
• 40:01
  Mark. Mark wasn't like pulling away
• 40:03
  from Cuatro on, on the street, on the straight.
• 40:06
  No, but he fell back one spot every nap seemed like.
• 40:09
  Yeah, listen, yeah, but that could be something else.
• 40:12
  But OK, fair enough. But what what are your thoughts
• 40:15
  Jordan on on Yamaha and and why Qatarara could fall back
• 40:19
  sometimes. Could just be mental, man.
• 40:21
  Maybe he's over the bike and it's just like, I have to well,
• 40:24
  like, why continue? It's just I'm just going to get
• 40:25
  more frustrated. I think it's a combination of
• 40:28
  what both of you guys said. It was definitely grip.
• 40:31
  So I can see him actually losing grip when he was actually
• 40:35
  pinning lending in I think was turn 3 to where on the on the
• 40:38
  right side is like I can see a little bit of chatter.
• 40:41
  Wasn't a lot, but I see a little bit of chatter as he was
• 40:43
  entering in. So obviously he was losing grip
• 40:46
  and he was coming wide in a lot of turns.
• 40:49
  I think it was 37, I can't remember.
• 40:52
  I think it was 9 also 9 or 11. He was just he was just getting
• 40:56
  a little bit of chatter was coming wide.
• 40:58
  But like you said also, I think he hasn't really come to grips
• 41:01
  completely like you said with that, with that V4, it does take
• 41:05
  some time to understand the power that you have now
• 41:08
  underneath you. And he never really had like a
• 41:11
  full season of testing. He only had a couple rounds of
• 41:14
  testing. And you know, even when he was
• 41:17
  doing testing, I believe he was bouncing back and forth.
• 41:21
  And another thing that I want to bring up was the aerodynamics.
• 41:27
  There's a couple of teams that's.
• 41:31
  I don't know why he did it, but it looked like he did it.
• 41:35
  I I, I will let Jordan come back in when he comes back in and
• 41:38
  finish. It was going to say, but to
• 41:40
  piggyback on what he was talking about as far as, you know,
• 41:42
  saying there's a couple of things.
• 41:44
  Tyson, could it be mental as well?
• 41:48
  Because last year Acosta, you know, he said this year, but
• 41:52
  last year when he came into the season, he wanted to win right
• 41:54
  away and he was and he was just, you know, win or get mad.
• 41:58
  Does Quatarara need to, you know, take some, you know,
• 42:02
  meditation, something just to come in?
• 42:04
  It would a clean slate instead of, you know, the past couple of
• 42:07
  years. I mean, it could help him for
• 42:11
  sure. It's not going to hurt, but I
• 42:14
  just think that Yamaha is just terrible.
• 42:19
  Like, where'd he end up? Did he crash out?
• 42:21
  No, I'm looking at qualifying here.
• 42:24
  But yeah, I mean, all those Yamahas are just kind of sitting
• 42:29
  in sort of the same spot, which would give me like that would my
• 42:34
  impression would be that that that's just the performance of
• 42:36
  the bike, you know? In the Sprint.
• 42:38
  He was in six in the Sprint, yeah.
• 42:39
  And then he was 12th. He was 16th in the race.
• 42:45
  Yeah. So like, I mean, it just seems
• 42:48
  like the, you know, the performance of the bike.
• 42:49
  I mean, he was doing this last year where he would be 15th one
• 42:52
  race and then the next race he had pole and fighting for 3rd,
• 42:55
  4th. And and as Jordan was saying,
• 42:57
  just slowly getting or spinning, maybe he was saying gets slowly
• 43:00
  eaten away by just slightly quicker guys behind him.
• 43:04
  And it just he just reminds me of Honda on the on the Ducati at
• 43:08
  the end of his career. Just not the guy, sorry, on the
• 43:10
  Honda, just you know, riding the piss out of the thing and
• 43:13
  getting whatever he can, but just just not having the support
• 43:18
  to to do more than that. Right, right.
• 43:21
  And I agree. I mean, one thing we can say is
• 43:24
  that I mean, you know, the KTMS look pretty bad.
• 43:28
  You know, they, they outside of Acosta, the rest of those guys
• 43:31
  suffered. I mean, it, it, it, it's pretty
• 43:34
  wild with me what KTM is going through right now.
• 43:38
  Are you guys surprised? We start with with Smitty, You
• 43:41
  surprised at what, how Maverick is suffering?
• 43:43
  And I mean, it's kind of, you know, that the whole, we saw the
• 43:47
  whole Lorenzo team. Training thing, yeah.
• 43:50
  Main thing and to have it completely fall apart.
• 43:54
  I mean it like did Lorenzo lose all his clients after this?
• 43:59
  You know, what are your thoughts on KTM and, and I mean, Acosta
• 44:03
  looks great and it sounds like he's going to be off 46 Academy
• 44:06
  next year or the factory. No, but it's like I said, you
• 44:11
  know earlier, you have Aprilia Ducati.
• 44:14
  Than everybody else, Honda. And the KTM is just not a good
• 44:18
  bike. And I think Acosta is
• 44:20
  overachieving on the bike. He's just that good.
• 44:23
  So when Maverick, his, you know, summertime new training regimen
• 44:27
  with Lorenzo and all that stuff he's doing, I mean, he's still
• 44:32
  just Maverick, you know? I don't do that, man.
• 44:35
  I mean. No, no, no.
• 44:36
  Listen, he'll surprise you. He'll surprise you one week and
• 44:39
  qualify and qualify on the front row and then it's fall back in
• 44:44
  the next couple of races. He's in 10th place again.
• 44:47
  So it's just a bad bike, you know, honestly.
• 44:50
  Yeah, I, I, I, I hear that. We'll talk to Tyson.
• 44:53
  I mean, you know, we, we, we said last, we said that a lot of
• 44:57
  people said that last year Martine should have, you know,
• 45:01
  kept his mouth shut on certain things.
• 45:04
  You know, we over the past weekend or, or week, I saw stuff
• 45:07
  in social media where, you know, Vinales is saying, you know, he
• 45:12
  regret what happened with Yamaha, but not with Aprilia.
• 45:15
  I mean, should these writers know not to just speak I'll in
• 45:18
  public say what you want around your family or friends and stuff
• 45:21
  like that. But you know, at some point, you
• 45:23
  know, you could get yourself in trouble if you're trying to stay
• 45:25
  into the paddock and and this sport is very cut throat as far
• 45:30
  as like, you know, if you go wrong and they isolate you,
• 45:33
  like, you know, some could say that happened to Joe Roberts.
• 45:36
  What were your thoughts about KTM?
• 45:37
  And, and if you want to add a little bit about Venialas and,
• 45:40
  and you know, maybe maybe not saying too much, but sometimes,
• 45:43
  you know, you don't want to burn those bridges, right?
• 45:45
  Yeah. I mean, just on that point
• 45:47
  there, I mean, when there's only so many manufacturers and teams
• 45:50
  like you really cannot afford to burn a bridge in the industry.
• 45:54
  But devil's advocate on that is my guess would be it's just like
• 45:58
  their only attempt to try to fix things like they've tried to fix
• 46:01
  it in the team. They've tried to do express
• 46:03
  this, express that. And then they're just kind of
• 46:06
  like fed up with it and they're lashing out maybe in the media
• 46:08
  hoping that that'll get a good reaction from the team for them.
• 46:13
  But I doubt it ever works out that way.
• 46:16
  I'd probably just, you know, all these guys have big egos and
• 46:19
  they probably don't see it that way and it's sours them on a
• 46:22
  relationship. Look at Mark team.
• 46:24
  Was he who he's a got beef with now Ducati and who signed him on
• 46:29
  originally Honda? KTMKTM yeah, find with Ducati in
• 46:33
  GP and. Didn't KTM say they would never
• 46:35
  hire him ever again after like what he pulled going in?
• 46:38
  I, I think so. I I think I mean I, I think so I
• 46:41
  think you know, and now with Ducati as well.
• 46:44
  I mean, I don't know if Ducati will take him back cuz but
• 46:46
  Ducati was already like we're out anyway yeah.
• 46:49
  I mean, I, I think Ducati put Marty in a bad position because
• 46:52
  he earned the right factory seat.
• 46:53
  He earned the right Louise get a get a he should have got the two
• 46:56
  year factory seat deal and and Ducati still would have won a
• 46:59
  championship. You know that's that's we know
• 47:02
  the bike was really good. So we didn't need Mark Marquez
• 47:05
  on the bike is one time you didn't need the best rider on
• 47:07
  the bike to win Yeah, agreed. You know, but but the.
• 47:12
  KTMI think they're fighting for worst bike on the grid right
• 47:15
  now. Like I mean we are only two
• 47:17
  weeks in like if things can change here, it's a long season.
• 47:20
  But from what I'm seeing right now, it's really like Yamaha and
• 47:23
  KTM are fighting for who has the worst bike.
• 47:25
  And it's kind of sad because KCM started and, you know, no one
• 47:29
  really had high hopes for them. And they started like gaining a
• 47:32
  lot of progress in the first couple of years in Moto GP.
• 47:35
  And then they seemed to hit a plateau.
• 47:36
  What was it, like 20-2, maybe 23?
• 47:39
  And they've seemed like they've taken every next season after
• 47:42
  that was a step down. And I really think probably
• 47:44
  their their financial situation with the parent company is
• 47:47
  probably a big reason for that. My guess, yeah.
• 47:52
  My guess is they had problems. I mean, we probably know they
• 47:55
  have problems for years before that and they're just getting
• 47:57
  less and less and less support. And then once the bankruptcy,
• 48:00
  you know, system took over, like it's just even less now.
• 48:03
  So I think that is what is hindering them.
• 48:06
  Yeah, when you're used to just writing checks and all of a
• 48:08
  sudden you got someone to answer to and they're like, we know
• 48:12
  what you did. So you're not signed any checks.
• 48:13
  And then with with Tech 3, having a Formula One guy come in
• 48:18
  and and say how much money we got in here.
• 48:20
  All right, this, this is only a one year thing.
• 48:23
  We giving you tires. It's and that's a tough
• 48:28
  situation for a rider, for an employee of any company.
• 48:32
  When companies are bought and and the top make changes and it
• 48:36
  trickles down and and it's numbers and it's all numbers
• 48:39
  because they don't know, they don't know the people.
• 48:41
  So it's all numbers that they're looking at.
• 48:43
  They don't know these people and they come in and change and, and
• 48:45
  as a rider, you're hearing it or you're in the meetings and
• 48:49
  knowing about it, but you still have to come out here and act
• 48:52
  like, you know, cancer is growing in, in, in, in the, in
• 48:55
  the, in the organization. Yeah, I'm sure it's very
• 48:59
  frustrating and it's, I'm sure from their perspective too,
• 49:02
  Like, you know, some of these guys, they're watching it happen
• 49:04
  and they're watching their team become less and less desirable
• 49:07
  to, you know, sponsors, other riders.
• 49:11
  And it's just, it's just a snowball of like just keep
• 49:14
  getting worse and worse and worse because you're doing worse
• 49:16
  and you're now going to be worse and keep doing that.
• 49:18
  And it's going to, it's going to keep going.
• 49:20
  Unless someone really, my guess would be they'd have to inject a
• 49:23
  lot of cash into the company or into the the team to actually
• 49:27
  get them to turn around. Right, right.
• 49:29
  Oh, a few people got to break some rules and say we're not
• 49:31
  listening. Well, I mean, you don't have the
• 49:35
  money. It doesn't matter how much you
• 49:36
  don't want to listen. You know, like if I only have
• 49:38
  $1,000,000, I can't spend $10 million.
• 49:41
  Right. No, no doubt, no doubt.
• 49:44
  You know, we can allocate something.
• 49:45
  We can, you know, eat cornflakes instead of whatever they have
• 49:48
  for. Breakfast.
• 49:52
  Let's let's talk about this next this weekend coming up in CODA.
• 49:55
  Like Jordan said earlier, we saw the VR46 with their cool, for
• 50:00
  lack of a better word, USA livery.
• 50:04
  Very cool, very cool. I'm I'm a fan of your, you know,
• 50:07
  so that's that. I'm a I'm a fan of VR46 Academy.
• 50:10
  And you didn't like what they did?
• 50:13
  I mean, if you're going to, if you're going to do it something
• 50:15
  like that, then emulate, you know, like they did with the
• 50:19
  Brazil, they did the Brazilian colors, the green, the yellow,
• 50:23
  they incorporated that stuff. And then it you know what it was
• 50:26
  for delivery they did with VR46, which is kind of like a
• 50:32
  hodgepodge. It was just I saw one area of
• 50:35
  the tank that had American flag on it.
• 50:37
  But everything else is like point out to me where it says
• 50:41
  America, USA have like the the Alamo or, you know, not say
• 50:47
  Eiffel Tower, but you know, Lady Liberty or something that
• 50:50
  emulates USA, not just the stars and stripes.
• 50:53
  Everyone knows that, but emulate, you know, the the gist
• 50:56
  of it, not just a hodgepodge of colors.
• 50:59
  And I don't like it. OK, all right, all right, all
• 51:04
  right. When you toss Smitty.
• 51:08
  Well my thoughts in general on this weekend is OK.
• 51:11
  So I'm torn. 2 things I want to see happen.
• 51:14
  Like I enjoy seeing history being made right?
• 51:18
  And Bez so far and Bez so far has led the most laps
• 51:22
  consecutive in combined races. No see, no, he I think if Bez
• 51:28
  leads this race from lap one to the end, he'll break that record
• 51:31
  right and I don't want to see that happen.
• 51:36
  However, you know, I'm a huge Marc Marquez fan, so I want to
• 51:40
  see Marc Marquez get a win also, you know, so I don't know, but
• 51:44
  I'm looking forward to something happening.
• 51:46
  Good this. Week either Bez take.
• 51:50
  Away and lead five straight races from flag to flag, which
• 51:54
  is impressive. Or Marquez, you know, become
• 51:57
  Marquez again. You know one of those two all.
• 52:00
  Right, All right, so you have no, I'm trying to get a photo of
• 52:03
  delivery, but. I saw it.
• 52:04
  I like it, you know, because it's it's colorful, it's wild,
• 52:07
  it's bright, it stands out. And sometimes we are so caught
• 52:11
  up in our old ways of hey, thing has to have to have to be this
• 52:15
  one solid color with a couple logos.
• 52:17
  Like, why? Have fun with you know what I'm
• 52:18
  saying? I like OK.
• 52:21
  Yeah, I don't mind the logos, but like if like I said what
• 52:24
  they did with the with the Brazil 1, you know, that was
• 52:27
  Brazil colors with us. You know all we.
• 52:30
  Really have is the red, white and blue.
• 52:32
  So I mean if they would have had something emulating just America
• 52:36
  in general. I guess like I said, doesn't
• 52:38
  have to be everything but just highlight some stuff and then
• 52:42
  instead of it just being are they the only?
• 52:46
  One doing a special ivory. Yeah, yeah.
• 52:48
  Not store. OK.
• 52:50
  Sometimes they bring it out on race day like a surprise, but
• 52:54
  yeah, I don't know. Maybe someone else is doing
• 52:57
  like, you know, the stars and stripes, red, white and blue
• 52:59
  kind of thing. And they're like, well, we can't
• 53:01
  do red, white and blue maybe. Like, yeah, that's it, you.
• 53:03
  Know this is cool as shit. Man, but what does it say?
• 53:07
  Does it say America? Does it say America anywhere?
• 53:10
  No. You have a.
• 53:11
  Little Valentino, right? And that's.
• 53:14
  What he does? Yeah, it has a little bit of
• 53:16
  red, white and blue lighted tank and and that's pretty much about
• 53:19
  it. So if they would have like did
• 53:21
  some some graffiti, you know, that's something that, you know,
• 53:25
  America, you know, really emulated.
• 53:27
  There's some graffiti on that. The tank has the US flag on it,
• 53:31
  right? There's some artistic stuff on
• 53:34
  it. I mean, I get what you're
• 53:35
  saying. I mean, but they're, you know,
• 53:37
  they're Italians, you know it. Comes Brazil that can just, you
• 53:44
  know, paint it green and yellow and.
• 53:47
  But I think that it's, it was green.
• 53:49
  I mean, they did it to they did what is it Barrows livery color,
• 53:54
  right? That's what they did, right.
• 53:55
  So all they, they did something that was done a while back.
• 53:58
  And and so for that, I, I mean, I that, that that's respectful.
• 54:01
  So, but I mean, you know, I mean, I have no problems with
• 54:05
  the color on the on it, but I, I, I don't think I think Joe
• 54:08
  Roberts will do the, the American thing, you know, thing.
• 54:11
  He always. Has because he got the because
• 54:14
  he got the. What's his name?
• 54:15
  You know the not the only fans, but the the other team, American
• 54:19
  racing, American racing, they always red, white and blue.
• 54:22
  So they always red, white and blue.
• 54:23
  That's what I'm saying. You know, kind of change it up a
• 54:24
  little bit so that it's not emulating American racing, but
• 54:28
  definitely stand out that. It has it has a star on it for
• 54:32
  the lone state, the Lone Star State, so.
• 54:35
  I mean, I Puerto Rico, it's. Definitely more Texas than it
• 54:38
  is. Come on man, don't do that.
• 54:45
  Yeah, you got, you got, you got, you know, you got, you got.
• 54:49
  We'll leave it for a different show.
• 54:50
  All right? All right.
• 54:55
  So what are your thoughts, Tyson on delivery?
• 54:58
  I like the the special deliveries.
• 55:01
  I've been teased with Red Bull liveries my whole life and so
• 55:04
  whenever one ever makes it into a race, I'm excited.
• 55:08
  So I mean, it is what it is. It's not my bike.
• 55:11
  I'm not riding it. I don't want the team.
• 55:13
  Looks cool, yeah. And and I'm not quite sure why,
• 55:16
  why Rossi would have done it, I mean, you know, versus another
• 55:19
  team. But I could see Marquez doing it
• 55:21
  right, because he's won so much too many times at coder and
• 55:24
  stuff like that. But in any case, I mean, it's
• 55:26
  cool to see. I would expect Marquez to have
• 55:30
  something like that, like I said, because technically right
• 55:32
  now he's still the king of Coda. So I would think that he would
• 55:35
  do some like a a Texas theme on his motorcycle.
• 55:39
  But like I said, I don't know if Ducati wanted to do that or not.
• 55:41
  Yeah, we'll, we'll, we'll see. It's tricky when you're sitting
• 55:44
  in that factory seat. What do you, what do you guys
• 55:46
  expect to see this weekend? I mean, you know, you just said
• 55:51
  Marquez King of Coda. Do you think that it's going to
• 55:54
  be Marquez figuring it out? Do you think that the pro year
• 55:56
  will continue to just stretch out necessary stretch out the
• 56:00
  field, but continue to do what they're doing?
• 56:02
  What do you expect to see this weekend, Smitty?
• 56:04
  What I expect is best to do what it does again, honestly, because
• 56:10
  Marquez is still hurt anyway. So, you know, he's not back to
• 56:13
  his normal self yet. But Bez, he's riding on another
• 56:17
  level that we've never seen before.
• 56:19
  So I think it'd be Bez #1, maybe Marquez or digi #2, you know,
• 56:26
  then Martine. OK, OK.
• 56:30
  That's what's up. Probably a Honda in fifth on 4th
• 56:32
  or 5th with Acosta on this KTM right there.
• 56:35
  So so my pick says, like I said, Bez, Marquez, Digi, Acosta and
• 56:41
  Mayor. OK, All right.
• 56:43
  I like that. What are you, what are you
• 56:44
  thinking, Jordan? Would you expect?
• 56:46
  Would you? Will you?
• 56:47
  Who you picking to win? I'm checking the weather right
• 56:51
  now. I'm checking the weather right
• 56:55
  now. It's really going to come down
• 56:58
  to that. I mean, with Marquez being the
• 57:01
  king of CODA, you know I'm not going to really write them out.
• 57:04
  You almost really can't ride him out.
• 57:06
  But that's the only time he hasn't won a coda when it was
• 57:09
  raining. So he crashed, that's why.
• 57:12
  Well, I'm saying so that's the only time he hasn't won a coda
• 57:16
  is when it was raining. So other than that, who you
• 57:20
  going to ride out? True.
• 57:22
  It was raining last year it. Was sprinkling what's?
• 57:26
  That I think it did sprinkle but he crashed.
• 57:28
  I was only time he crashed. Alright, just checking.
• 57:32
  Just checking. We thought it was Tyson.
• 57:37
  It seems like it's Mark is, but you know, we're going to, we're
• 57:42
  going to break it up a little bit, right?
• 57:45
  Yeah, I I definitely hope to see Mark at the top, but I feel like
• 57:49
  it should definitely be a good sort of litmus test for the rest
• 57:51
  of the grid as well. I mean, they've all got a bunch
• 57:53
  of experience at CODA and so do all the teams.
• 57:56
  So like they probably have set up styled in for it and
• 57:59
  everyone's probably going to go off right from the beginning,
• 58:02
  but I definitely think it'd probably be a fight between Mark
• 58:05
  and Marco and Zeki. But yeah, I don't know who else
• 58:12
  who else would be up there. It'd be cool to see Fabio too.
• 58:14
  He had a pretty bad year last year.
• 58:15
  So I think Dejan Antonio, him seeing him doing well this year
• 58:19
  is good to see as well. It sucks to see like a good
• 58:22
  rider. Then they have a shit year and
• 58:23
  then another one and then another one and they're out and
• 58:25
  it's like, you know, they just got unlucky and, you know, got
• 58:30
  bit but. Yeah, OK.
• 58:32
  All right. Yeah, I mean I I'll say Bez, Bez
• 58:35
  and Bez I mean Bez 123 fast. Right.
• 58:45
  I'll say Bez Martin and you know, I thought I'll throw
• 58:50
  Marquez out there because you keep like, like Jordan said, you
• 58:52
  can't rule him out at all. And, and you know, Digenna
• 58:56
  Antonio's coming off a second place and, and, and the third
• 58:59
  place. So anything is possible.
• 59:02
  And I think once, once he has the, once they have the Ducati
• 59:06
  dialed in for him. And we saw that in, in the, in
• 59:09
  2024, he can do well. And and so to for him to be
• 59:14
  already on the podium in the second race of the season, even
• 59:17
  though he had a crappy time in the first round, it's good to
• 59:21
  see because usually he's been coming on later in the year.
• 59:25
  So I think that did you did Jen, Antonio got an option.
• 59:27
  Obviously, Acosta, he's still hungry and anything is possible.
• 59:32
  Agura, I'm not gonna rule him out.
• 59:34
  I don't know what happened to Raul, but he Raul did well
• 59:37
  enough from last end of last season to to the first round
• 59:41
  that I mean, you got to give all as you guys said earlier, you
• 59:43
  kind of have to give them the right as a pass because of
• 59:47
  Brazil and the condition. So I mean, I think, you know, I
• 59:50
  think all four of Prolius has a chance.
• 59:52
  I think that two at least 2-3 Ducatis got a shot and two
• 59:57
  Hondas, one KTM. You know, so yeah, it's, it's
• 1:00:04
  tough, right to see that because you would think one of the
• 1:00:07
  things that bugs me is that the manufacturers don't give the
• 1:00:13
  riders all the same equipment and it's contingents on
• 1:00:16
  contingent on how they're performing.
• 1:00:19
  And it's like, I got to perform bad, good on a bad equip, bad
• 1:00:23
  stuff that before I get good stuff.
• 1:00:25
  It's like if you want all your riders to be competitive, just
• 1:00:29
  give them all the same stuff. And that's what Ducati was
• 1:00:31
  doing. And, and I don't, so it's weird.
• 1:00:34
  We're we're Honda, you know, two of the guys are getting stuff,
• 1:00:37
  but Zarko wasn't getting stuff last year.
• 1:00:39
  It's just like, give all these guys the right tools so they can
• 1:00:42
  go out there and bring your brand, you know, one step or two
• 1:00:45
  step closer. I don't know if there's rules
• 1:00:48
  in, in, in, in, in FIM or whatever the case may be that
• 1:00:51
  say they have to do it. But it it it's it's it's one of
• 1:00:54
  those things that would just it just, yeah, like you're killing
• 1:00:57
  riders by by making them ride with tool tools that aren't as
• 1:01:02
  good as, you know, the guy on the next Honda.
• 1:01:04
  Kind of. But it's like, if that's the
• 1:01:07
  case, then is it, is it really a factory team?
• 1:01:10
  They all have the same stuff. I mean at this.
• 1:01:13
  Point. It's the old point to separate
• 1:01:14
  factory teams from satellite teams.
• 1:01:16
  Well put. Like this if if if I'm Zarko and
• 1:01:19
  I got a factory contract which he didn't have this year but
• 1:01:21
  last year he had a factory contract.
• 1:01:24
  If I'm firming and I got a factory contract, I'm not on a
• 1:01:26
  factory bike. Why can't I get factory parts if
• 1:01:29
  I got the factory contract? Factory team, yeah.
• 1:01:33
  Exactly contract. So at least given the parts and
• 1:01:38
  and it's not like he's on a different manufacturer, you know
• 1:01:41
  what I'm saying. But I get it.
• 1:01:43
  Once Upon a time they separated the the satellite versus the
• 1:01:48
  factories. But in a since 2020, the lines
• 1:01:52
  are kind of been blurred, right, You know?
• 1:01:57
  Are we, are we still doing our our guesstimation for the seat
• 1:02:00
  or for the for the race? I thought you did that.
• 1:02:02
  Which, Oh, you did you Did you not come?
• 1:02:04
  I was. Just I was just kind of chiming
• 1:02:06
  in. I, I want to say Furman,
• 1:02:11
  Besseki, G Antonio. That's what I want to say.
• 1:02:17
  I'm thinking Furman's going to have.
• 1:02:18
  Something. He's he's been really surprising
• 1:02:22
  me for the past Furman. Furman for me, he's been really
• 1:02:30
  surprising me within the past couple races.
• 1:02:33
  So I think he's he could pull it off.
• 1:02:36
  And another reason why I say that Furman has for mean has
• 1:02:41
  really been he's really been showing me that he can point and
• 1:02:45
  shoot. And if he can do that, that's
• 1:02:49
  what a lot of Koda and a couple other race tracks are really at
• 1:02:54
  even, you know, Japan is really point and shoot.
• 1:02:57
  And he's really been sure he can cut you off.
• 1:02:59
  But he was coming on strong last year at Koda too on Crash Dart,
• 1:03:01
  right? I think, I think, but it was
• 1:03:04
  that later at the end of the of the race, I think it's like 3
• 1:03:06
  laps left. In Crash Dart, yeah.
• 1:03:09
  So I mean, if, if he can just keep his pace and he was doing
• 1:03:12
  really good. So I said I'm, I'm, I'm putting
• 1:03:15
  up Ramin, Bez and Jantonio with Mark being a A, I've always got
• 1:03:22
  to put my 4. You know that I don't want to
• 1:03:24
  hear. No, no, nobody say nothing.
• 1:03:26
  You say it's more victory, that's how it is.
• 1:03:29
  And we and we dropped a high score.
• 1:03:30
  So shout out to the poetry slam. Drop the high and the low.
• 1:03:39
  Keep the three in the world. OK, that's that's my count.
• 1:03:45
  All right, that's what's up. That's that's not bad at all.
• 1:03:47
  Let's talk about World Super bike before we get out of here,
• 1:03:49
  guys. Second round.
• 1:03:51
  I mean you know, rate. I mean, I guess I just had a
• 1:03:54
  race and and I'm not racing again with this club until June.
• 1:03:57
  So that's some months off. Don't like it.
• 1:04:00
  You know, Australian round was over a month ago for world super
• 1:04:03
  bike and you know now they're going to Portugal this weekend
• 1:04:07
  as well. Also, I have, you know, Moto GP
• 1:04:09
  and World Super Bike on the same weekend.
• 1:04:12
  You know, now I just got to watch more racing, you know, I
• 1:04:14
  mean stuff things. But what what do you expect to
• 1:04:17
  see? Is it going to be a Bulliga
• 1:04:19
  show? You think Luca Ika, Luca Ono
• 1:04:23
  might figure it out on the Ducati, You know the BMW guys,
• 1:04:28
  Oliveira and and Petrucci. You know, Jonathan Ray's coming
• 1:04:33
  back to fill in some Honda on the on the Honda.
• 1:04:39
  What are what are your thoughts, Smitty man?
• 1:04:40
  Which Johnny? Ray Man.
• 1:04:42
  You're looking forward to the World Super Bike Race.
• 1:04:44
  Sounds like Johnny. Ray on the Honda, yes.
• 1:04:46
  What? Listen, for the past 10 years,
• 1:04:50
  I've been waiting to see this shit right.
• 1:04:52
  All right, man, So what? He was on.
• 1:04:56
  He started on the Honda, didn't he?
• 1:04:57
  Yeah, yeah, he left like 10 years ago.
• 1:05:00
  Yeah, you. Know oh, it was over 10 years
• 1:05:02
  ago, been around 10 years. Ago.
• 1:05:03
  Back again, yeah. It was 10 years ago, no?
• 1:05:06
  He's back. He belongs.
• 1:05:08
  It ain't the same Honda. It ain't the same, Johnny Ray.
• 1:05:11
  Hey, he'll be on the podium, man.
• 1:05:14
  He's on the back podium. Is it safe to say the the the
• 1:05:24
  World Super bike Honda is a better bike than the Yamaha
• 1:05:27
  World super bike? Yes.
• 1:05:32
  They're still throwing parts at it.
• 1:05:34
  Hopefully everybody knows that they're still throwing parts at
• 1:05:36
  that thing. Which thing so.
• 1:05:37
  That that monster has not fully grown yet.
• 1:05:40
  Which one, the Honda or the? Yamaha, the Honda, the Honda,
• 1:05:44
  the Honda, they're still throwing parts of that puppy so
• 1:05:46
  that that bike is still being very much developed.
• 1:05:49
  So Yamaha, not to say that they're done, you know, they're
• 1:05:53
  trying to get aerodynamics and all that happy fun stuff sorted
• 1:05:58
  out, but it's not pushing any more power bike to bike.
• 1:06:03
  But Honda that's still is going to be pushing forward with a lot
• 1:06:06
  of development and hopefully with new, well, with good
• 1:06:10
  riders, not to say better riders, but with good riders.
• 1:06:13
  So that that thing's going to be definitely pushing forward.
• 1:06:16
  So Honda is definitely going to surpass Yamaha.
• 1:06:19
  Is it is it time? Is it is it time for Honda,
• 1:06:22
  Yamaha to have V fours in the world?
• 1:06:23
  Super bike. I don't.
• 1:06:29
  Know V4 supremacy? Let's go.
• 1:06:32
  I don't know if everybody heard about it but 10 car 10K just
• 1:06:36
  developed. I don't know if they're putting
• 1:06:37
  in mass production or not, but they just developed the cross
• 1:06:42
  playing crank for the R6. OK.
• 1:06:47
  I don't know what they plan on doing with it.
• 1:06:49
  I'm I'm so excited. Look at my face.
• 1:06:51
  I'm so excited. I'm kind of like, are you
• 1:06:53
  serious? The cross plane crank on AR-6.
• 1:06:56
  It's. Going to be called a 850R or
• 1:06:58
  R668. 80 like 880, but I mean dude that is so sick so I can't
• 1:07:06
  I can't wait to see what they do with this thing.
• 1:07:08
  Yeah, all. Right.
• 1:07:09
  What are your thoughts, Tyson on World Super Bike and what's
• 1:07:12
  going on? Ducati all the way.
• 1:07:16
  Ray had the chance. Like like this guy's thing
• 1:07:18
  getting on the podium. He's retired.
• 1:07:23
  It's probably going to be Bulliga.
• 1:07:25
  I mean, that's what it the only reason why Bulliga didn't win.
• 1:07:28
  He didn't win last year. It was top rack.
• 1:07:29
  Did you? Know it was top last race yeah,
• 1:07:31
  that's the only reason why he didn't.
• 1:07:32
  Win I was and that's what I was just going to say is like the
• 1:07:34
  only reason why he didn't win is top rack and now there's no
• 1:07:36
  longer top rack. So like I don't see any real
• 1:07:39
  reality of anybody else taking it from him unless he gets hurt.
• 1:07:42
  Obviously there's that chance, but yeah, it's good to hear
• 1:07:46
  Hondas actually throwing money at their bikes.
• 1:07:47
  I mean, they haven't touched their race bikes in 15 years.
• 1:07:52
  Well, I mean, did you, I don't know if you guys heard even in
• 1:07:55
  the US their their contingency, I mean, go buy a new Honda
• 1:07:58
  Smitty. Their contingencies is crazy
• 1:08:01
  that that they that they're giving out this this year for
• 1:08:04
  for racing. Yeah.
• 1:08:05
  But I'm not fast enough to win anything so don't matter.
• 1:08:12
  One step at a time, one step. I mean.
• 1:08:22
  It's. Like a twin, they got the 650
• 1:08:25
  twin or do some twin races, you know.
• 1:08:30
  What I might do is buy that new fire blade, right?
• 1:08:33
  Yeah, yeah. Put on my old body work and
• 1:08:36
  cheek. Come on man, you know don't.
• 1:08:40
  Mind that, don't mind that. Don't look at that VIN number.
• 1:08:42
  Don't worry about that. Don't look at the electronics.
• 1:08:49
  You know the bike is starting by itself and pulling into the grid
• 1:08:52
  by itself, right? 600.
• 1:08:59
  Yeah, I mean, but there's I, I don't know all the classes, but
• 1:09:03
  that was cool because like when I got my, my 22 KTMI got some
• 1:09:06
  contingency money from KTM when when they were given out.
• 1:09:09
  But I mean, you're right, if you're not winning, it's hard to
• 1:09:12
  have to fight keep having a new bike.
• 1:09:14
  And it's unfortunate that you have to have a new bike to get
• 1:09:16
  contingency because you know, it, it, it, it would help the
• 1:09:21
  you. I mean, it's kind of like saying
• 1:09:22
  you put the money out there, but most of the riders are not going
• 1:09:25
  to sign up to get the money because you know it it.
• 1:09:28
  So it's like, give it to other guys that got a 2 year old bike.
• 1:09:31
  I mean, I know with KT and they did for like 2 years.
• 1:09:33
  So it wasn't like a one year deal, but you know, give like a
• 1:09:36
  three-year deal or something like that that makes it worth it
• 1:09:39
  Because and then it's some guys or or women may say, all right,
• 1:09:41
  I'll keep this bike for three years.
• 1:09:44
  Yeah, we'll see. So Rex, let me ask you a
• 1:09:46
  question. The contingency money you got
• 1:09:48
  for your KTM, how much contingency money did you get?
• 1:09:50
  Can you disclose that? No, I'll say this.
• 1:09:54
  It, it's it I what was it? It was 500 for first place, 400
• 1:09:59
  for 2nd place and 300 for 3:50 for 300 for 3rd place.
• 1:10:02
  For each round. Each round, each class, each
• 1:10:05
  class. OK, yeah.
• 1:10:06
  So if you do six class in a weekend.
• 1:10:09
  Yes, yes, about to go there. So what do you have to do?
• 1:10:11
  Like 6 rounds or six races per weekend?
• 1:10:16
  Win everything to even at the end of the season, come close to
• 1:10:21
  retaining or getting back the money you spent or buying a
• 1:10:25
  brand new bike. It depends I mean like my RC390,
• 1:10:28
  whatever it's like 6 grand. So if you're talking and and and
• 1:10:32
  you know some people are signing up, you know you guys can
• 1:10:34
  contest attest to this. Some people sign up like for
• 1:10:36
  every damn race, right? So there's guys that are doing
• 1:10:39
  12 races. So if you're doing 12 races and
• 1:10:41
  you finish, if you're doing 10 races and you finish third place
• 1:10:44
  in every race, I mean so what's that 10 * 3?
• 1:10:47
  Is that three? That's 3000.
• 1:10:48
  Alright, you're right. So that's 3000 a weekend.
• 1:10:52
  Yeah, I mean, so I. Mean that's some good so yeah, I
• 1:10:55
  just want to find out because if it's something like that then
• 1:10:57
  yeah they should be able to extend that but like I said you
• 1:11:00
  know certain people will get. And if you're hungry, it's
• 1:11:02
  different clubs, right? Because this is what, you know,
• 1:11:04
  one of the things that Mesa was doing.
• 1:11:05
  I don't know if he's still doing that, but you just go.
• 1:11:08
  You just, you know, your zigzag. And Harry Picken.
• 1:11:11
  And you know, if they got enough riders in there to pay out, you
• 1:11:14
  race. If they don't, you go to sleep.
• 1:11:18
  That's that's what Lloyd was doing.
• 1:11:20
  He was doing that, Mesa was doing that, but he was only
• 1:11:24
  really racing in CCS and Azra. But Lloyd was doing CCS, Weirra
• 1:11:29
  and Azra as well as anything else that he could pretty much
• 1:11:32
  grab his endurance, his card with.
• 1:11:34
  So I didn't do Pan Am. That's the only thing he didn't
• 1:11:37
  do Pan Am. If you could be a fast person
• 1:11:40
  and then it's worth it because at least if you can get on a
• 1:11:42
  podium, at least you'll break even, you know what I'm saying?
• 1:11:47
  At least I mean, and, and if you're motivated enough and
• 1:11:50
  wanting to sell merch and do other things, you never know.
• 1:11:53
  But it's better than, you know, paying all the money and just
• 1:11:56
  driving back with the with the. Trophy and that's it.
• 1:12:00
  Yeah, trophy, and that's going. To be, if that you know what I'm
• 1:12:03
  saying, a. Little sheet metal plaque,
• 1:12:05
  right? Yeah.
• 1:12:06
  Yeah. There's $20,000 super bikes that
• 1:12:09
  people are buying. Like you're not making a dent in
• 1:12:13
  that bill. No, no, no.
• 1:12:14
  With contingencies. Yeah, yeah, no small bike for
• 1:12:17
  sure. I think the bigger bikes, you
• 1:12:19
  know, not worth it. You know, it, it is what it is,
• 1:12:24
  but at least it is there. I mean, I think if you can get
• 1:12:26
  away with, you know, again, it's, it's, it's a lot to a lot
• 1:12:30
  of you have to be healthy. Your truck got to be healthy.
• 1:12:33
  All the things got to go right. But if you want to race and, and
• 1:12:38
  you can at least break even or you, it, you know, it cost you,
• 1:12:41
  you, you, it only cost you 500 bucks to go racing.
• 1:12:44
  That's still not bad because man, heck, we, we're gas now.
• 1:12:48
  I'm sitting here like, how far do I want to drive, right?
• 1:12:53
  More racing because it's like I don't want to.
• 1:12:54
  I don't want to have a bigger gas bill than a than a race
• 1:12:57
  bill, you know, So correct. Yeah, yeah, I agree.
• 1:13:01
  I agree. But I want to jump in real quick
• 1:13:04
  and say Bulloga Show it that that's the rest of the season.
• 1:13:09
  It's going to be Bulloga Show, so whoever's going to get second
• 1:13:11
  and third. Besides, God bless Johnny.
• 1:13:15
  I don't think he's going to do too much this weekend.
• 1:13:18
  Hey, hey, hey, hey, Bullock is walking away with it.
• 1:13:27
  I think he's walking away with the championship.
• 1:13:29
  Easy done, said wrapping up. Sent it to his house.
• 1:13:33
  Second and third is really going to be a battle.
• 1:13:36
  I'm hoping that Bautista can at least challenge.
• 1:13:41
  I'm hoping he can if he doesn't do anything crazy like he's
• 1:13:44
  normally doing. And then third place, I'm really
• 1:13:51
  trying to say Luko Ono. I think he's going to battle it
• 1:13:54
  up there because if he gets a good drive and somebody, you
• 1:13:59
  know, rubs him the wrong way, I've seen him just kind of like,
• 1:14:01
  oh, really? And then he's checking out so.
• 1:14:04
  I agree. That's my point.
• 1:14:05
  I, I, I mean, it's not a lot of rounds compared to Moto GP, but
• 1:14:12
  I think that I think halfway through the season we should see
• 1:14:16
  Ikoluko doing really well. He's, he's, he's the former Moto
• 1:14:20
  GP rider. He was, he was nice in Moto 2.
• 1:14:24
  He was nice on the Honda. He was, he was nice on the
• 1:14:26
  Honda. I think Honda should have kept
• 1:14:27
  them. I don't know why maybe they
• 1:14:29
  wanted to leave, but I think Honda should have kept those two
• 1:14:31
  guys because they they were I mean, you know, Samcat and and
• 1:14:37
  Jake Dixon is going to have to be better right than than these
• 1:14:41
  two guys last year. And I don't know, you know, I
• 1:14:44
  you know, God bless Jake Dixon and Samcat, but I don't know if
• 1:14:48
  they're better riders than than Eco Lukwona and and and Chabi.
• 1:14:52
  So it'll be interesting to see what what this weekend looks
• 1:14:55
  like. I think we lost Jordan.
• 1:15:01
  I think I think, I think that's about it guys that anything that
• 1:15:04
  I missed that you guys want to talk about before we get out of
• 1:15:06
  here? I'm.
• 1:15:07
  Good Most. Of that OK, that's what's up man
• 1:15:13
  sorry, no, it's all good man. We bought the rap so you came
• 1:15:16
  back at at at at at the right time.
• 1:15:19
  So I do want to thank all you guys for coming on.
• 1:15:22
  I really appreciate it. My name is Rex 45.
• 1:15:24
  It's to be forever cool podcast podcast shout out to Jordan long
• 1:15:28
  Jordan long racing podcaster radio host and racer and model
• 1:15:34
  shout out to Smitty Smith shot racing shout out to Tyson man.
• 1:15:38
  I really appreciate you guys coming on.
• 1:15:40
  Peace later.