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B4evaKool "race a motorcycle" Podcast S2 Ep. 14 · B 4EVA Kool "Race A Motorcycle" Podcast

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  You're listening to the Be Forever Cool podcast.
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  My Name Is Rex 45. My name is TJ with two wheels
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  and coffee. What's going on, man?
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  How's it up in the bean? Right now we are under the 50°
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  mark, so you know, we got winter hats and some people still
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  wearing hoodies, but I got my winter cold out.
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  OK. All right.
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  All right. Which?
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  Is not here yet. But it's it's coming.
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  Yeah. Yeah, I.
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  Snow days. I got that, man, I I say again.
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  Now looking forward to no snow, man.
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  You know, like up here we fight for parking spots and when it's
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  a lot of snow, they shut down streets where you can't park,
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  you can't visit friends, right on main streets.
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  It's just it's a mess. I don't miss it.
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  That's all I have to say. I don't miss it one bit, my
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  friend, not one bit. But let's get into it, man.
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  You know, before we dive into the last weekend and testing
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  today and stuff like that, you know I want to ask you what did
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  you think about the, the new format with with with the Sprint
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  race, you know adding to Moto GP, you know for the first time
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  ever we know it's in World Super Bike, we know it's in Formula
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  One, not at every track at Formula One, but they definitely
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  do have track where they have this at that Sprint race.
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  So we we kind of get an idea where they got it from.
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  So what do you think about that or how you been enjoying it?
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  I mean like from from when I started watching Moto GP, all I
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  know is just the the Jeep, the full, the full race, you know,
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  20 plus laps and. You know, you just get make a
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  weekend out of it, so adding something to it obviously makes
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  it a lot more exciting. Me looking at ratings, I just
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  really like Moto GP more and I started watching World Super
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  Bike and had more races and you know, like Moto America as well,
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  you know, they they do a race Saturday and Sunday, they're
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  just and and Formula One as well.
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  So I think it was a great idea. As far as a a spectator, right?
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  Right. I don't know if they asked the
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  riders if they were OK with it, because, you know, that is a lot
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  of riding, you know, I'm sure they love riding.
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  I know they do, but, you know, they do.
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  Yeah. Yeah, yeah, you know, they.
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  Gotta have the mindset to to prepare their bodies for for 40
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  races, right? And especially if they're trying
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  to compete, great. So now, did you find it
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  exciting? Did you?
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  Did you? Did you now had to take time off
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  on Saturdays to watch those races 'cause now you just have
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  to pay attention to qualifying and stuff like that?
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  And I find it really exciting. I I try to pay attention to all.
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  So as the weekend approaches and I try to find time to watch, you
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  know all the practices and then Sprint.
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  You know, comes up quick and I find myself missing a few
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  videos. But I find it really exciting,
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  especially there's no half distance.
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  Nice quick race. It's just a good alley oop for
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  Sunday, but I think it's a good idea to keep it going.
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  I agree. I wasn't quite sure it was going
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  to be like on a Saturday at first.
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  But you know, after seeing it and kind of, you know, getting
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  past just qualifying and and and and looking at it, it's like I
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  kind of now thinking like okay, they should be more, you know,
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  I'm saying Model 3 should do this, Model 2 should do this
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  because you know I've been to three of three GP races in
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  person and you know Saturday, you know, and I and I got the,
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  the, you know, the Friday, the Saturday, I'm there for it all.
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  And you know outside you know Friday we're kind of like just a
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  handful of people coming through not a whole bunch and stuff.
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  Saturday had a little bit more mix but it wasn't like what
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  we're seeing now with the Sprint race.
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  So you know definitely for folks going to that's buying the whole
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  package and not just the race day before now they can go on
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  Saturday if you have the whole package now you can you can
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  enjoy yourself even more. So I hope they put you know they
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  do that for Moto 3 and and Moto 2 as well because you know it
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  it's it's more exciting and and the fact that they eliminated
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  you know FP4 for Moto GP. So the riders are not
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  necessarily spending more time setting up the bike which is a
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  plus and minus depending on the rider it seems like everybody's
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  going really fast there's a lot of lap records that's been set
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  this year so I don't think people have problem you know
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  with with with the time they have.
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  So it's definitely been fun and exciting man.
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  And and like I said, for all these, all all the folks that
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  get the get get their package for the whole weekend, now
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  Saturday is is is a lot more fun.
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  I mean, I've never been to a Moto GP race.
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  I'm definitely looking forward to at least going to Coda, you
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  know, watching them in Texas. And you know it's not, it's not
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  as packed crowd as you know Odello or or Benencia.
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  Vons Valencia. Valencia had over 100,000 people
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  there and you know, I think that is a not because it was the last
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  race in the what was at stake, but also because there was a
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  Sprint that was going on, right, mini GP going on and a big
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  motorcycle heads over there too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, they they, I
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  said a big motorcycle heads over there too.
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  So did. You did you see the the, the
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  bikes that pulled in the shot of all the bikes that were in the
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  parking lot? Yeah, yeah, Sia Bikes.
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  But I think it, I think Moto 2 or Moto Three, I think it was a
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  test run for the Sprint, which obviously we knew would turn out
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  great because if you go to a Moto GP weekend, like you can
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  enjoy a Saturday, you can enjoy a Friday or Sunday if you even
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  if you chose to go one day, you can still enjoy some type of
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  race and Friday is is very competitive with qualifying.
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  Practice it and stuff like that. So so I think Moto 2, Moto 3 is
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  a little left out. I think they should add
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  definitely a Sprint race for them, right it.
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  Doesn't probably, I don't know. Definitely got to be half
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  distance. Yeah.
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  I I I yeah, I think so. It it it.
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  I think so. It makes sense.
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  I mean, we see it in World Super Bike on Saturday and I mean they
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  got two races and they got a Sprint, right?
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  So I mean they got a lot of sea time on those bikes.
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  So definitely after you don't need much you just need more
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  entertainment on the Saturday because people, you're paying a
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  mint for these tickets. And not to say I was complaining
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  about the qualifying sessions and and FP3 and FP4 and stuff
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  like that but now you get the, you know you get the thrill and
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  I think the riders also get the thrill.
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  I mean and I and I think some of them get a, even a a set up for
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  Sunday what could happen. But I think it's it's always
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  better to go racing than to than to go set up.
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  You know, if they do add some spring races for those classes,
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  I wish they could have a second bike for one, but they would
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  have to pull something, so maybe they would.
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  Stretch the FP, the qualifying for Moto GP on a Friday right
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  Saturday morning. I mean, I give a little extra
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  time. I I yeah, I completely, I
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  completely agree. They would have to, yes.
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  They pulled MP4 to squeeze that in and.
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  Couple other things. So yeah no I think they would
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  have to definitely cut some stuff to to make it work out
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  from time management but also to give the riders enough time to
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  get set up on the bike and stuff like that and and and I assume
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  as the year as time go on it is going to get better.
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  It's going to get better for Moto G Moto GP for itself but
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  also if they were to introduce this in Moto 2 or Moto 3 it it's
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  it's going to continue to get better.
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  So I will say that's that's the cool part about the Sprint race
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  and and seeing that this year and seeing that format and and
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  it's you know all more motorcycle racing is always a
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  good thing. And I also think it it it kind
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  of makes sense because you don't want the Moto 2 and Moto 3 to be
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  washed out, you know what I mean?
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  Like you do come for the main event, but you still want to
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  have a nice show from the upcoming riders, yeah?
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  If everyone's coming to see the Sprint and just the the GP race
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  and and all you see is the Moto 2:00 and 3:00 on Sunday besides
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  the practice and I I think they need a little bit more got you.
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  When you say, when you say that you you're saying like you know
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  because they have the GP on on on Sunday as well.
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  So you saying that you know having the Moto 2 and Moto 3 on
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  Saturday for the for the lower classes is is is will be better?
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  Well, I mean like adding either. Switching one of them, or adding
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  a Sprint race for one of the classes, maybe Moto 2 and then
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  Moto 3. Maybe a year from now or
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  something, or two years from now, I guess.
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  I don't know how they're gonna squeeze it in, but I don't know.
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  Sometimes I will wake up and I'll watch the Sprint race the
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  Moto GP, and then I'll watch the Moto GP.
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  Full race the Grand Prix, right? And then I'll go back and watch
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  Moto 2 and Moto 3 if I have time.
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  Sometimes you don't have that much time to watch them unless
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  you, you know, always got the screen open.
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  But I don't know what you're talking about, man.
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  I mean, I I do watch all the races, but like, you know,
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  sometimes somebody at work and I I can't watch all of them like I
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  do the Moto. GP Right, right.
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  Well yeah it it's it's you know it is a commitment for sure to
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  to to to make yourself available and stuff like that and and and
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  I didn't you know watch them all like that at Once Upon a time as
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  well. So you know but yeah it it's
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  it's nice to be able to to you know have access to it.
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  I'm loving what they did with the website and just being able
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  to to to connect and stuff like that and and watch it and just
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  navigating through it. It's a lot easier than than
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  before. So I think Moto GP going forward
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  and they they will know better than you and I that I think it's
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  going to get. They're going to lean a lot more
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  on the technology side and we're going to see some really cool
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  things coming out I. Mean they updated the website,
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  you know this. It seems like it's definitely
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  improving. I mean for sure watching it, I
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  enjoyed my year watching these guys.
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  Crazy on these bikes, right? Oh yeah for sure.
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  So let's you know let's get into the to talk about you know Moto
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  3 and and and the rest of the the weekend and we'll touch into
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  the test in a little bit. So what do what do you think
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  about Moto 3 race you know what do you think about Mcdoin coming
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  out and and and and talking about Massey I should have you
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  know I I been a classier rider. What are your thoughts on that?
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  I mean, yeah, I mean, he's right.
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  He should be a classy rider. I mean, we all know we all saw
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  it, even if it he said it was accidental.
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  But that is got to win, fans Draymond Green in the making.
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  Yeah, I mean, that's not what the sport's about.
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  We don't want another rider. I mean, it's easy what you see
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  and then you can point fingers. At the end of the day, you don't
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  want there's someone to start like this, so right?
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  I don't think it was good for someone like him, an old vet, to
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  speak his mind. No, for sure.
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  I completely agree with that. And I think others are talking.
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  We're talking about it. I think as a athlete, you know,
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  I can. I'm not a I'm not a modal, I'm
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  not a world class athlete but I consider myself a athlete
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  nonetheless. You know we when I played ball
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  and and whatever tennis or whatever, whatever thing you
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  know, there's always integrity. There's always, you know,
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  ethics. You know what I'm saying?
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  You know there's always carrying yourself a certain way.
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  You know and you know for some folks they can cheat and and and
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  enjoy the win. I don't want to cheat and enjoy
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  the win. You know, I want to I want to
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  make sure that I I, I got the win on on my skill set and if
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  there's a better opponent out there I you know it's it sucks
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  for me but I I'm I'm I'm it's going to be you know fuel for
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  next season you know that's pretty much it for me.
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  I don't I don't. I so you know for him to do what
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  he did it's it's in the room. I mean they the Stewart saw it.
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  I don't think they knew how to handle it.
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  I think they felt like they had to do something, so that's what
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  they did. But I think in a situation like
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  that, I don't know if it would have made a difference.
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  I don't know what the worst penalty can be but you know I
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  think Once Upon a time in in Formula One you know he it's
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  it's his name is skipping it's off the tip of my tongue But
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  anyway there was there was there was a famous rider he died he he
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  died in a crash and it had yellow helmet like I can't even
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  think of his name right now and y'all can yell at me for that
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  but in one he in one race it was him and one other guy and he ran
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  his car he ran his car into the other guy and took the guy at
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  the race and then went on to to win the to win the title.
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  Sure, it's it's fear in in in the rules book, but in the rule
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  book. But at the same time, if you got
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  to take someone out like that to win, is it really a win?
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  I mean, you know what I'm saying?
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  Because then, you know, what's the level like do you, do you,
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  do you, you know, Nancy Kerrigan and and Harden and and take and
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  and try to go physically and try to hurt somebody.
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  You know, what's the next step? When you allow riders, when you
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  allow folks to do what what what Messi has done, because he
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  didn't do it to everyone. He did it to the person closest
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  to him to to to get in the way of the title.
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  So it that's a big difference you know what I'm saying It
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  would be one thing if he if he did it to to another rider
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  because he was just trying to get ahead and and the rider was
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  getting in his way and he did that a couple of times.
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  You gave him a conduct thing. OK.
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  But yeah, like this was the main person that was challenging him
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  for the to the title and and he wrote him and he wrote him out
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  like that a few times and then his teammate did the same thing.
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  Yeah, I mean, I mean it's it is very obvious.
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  I mean, I just don't know how that would sit well with you,
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  Cena. I can't believe I forgot I
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  forgot his name. Cena.
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  Yeah. Oh, Cena, I don't think I
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  remember that. I'm going to check that out.
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  But yeah, I don't know how that would sit well with you trying
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  to take advantage that way. I mean, I'm sure, yeah, one, one
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  block pass and then obviously, you know, when riders make a
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  mistake, they're honest with it. If they block pass you, they'll
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  they'll pass you and they throw an arm up and throw a leg up
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  real quick. So you know like OK, yeah, he he
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  no, no, he, yeah, yeah. He rode him out.
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  He rode him out. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  He put, he pushed him out. He pushed him out like that.
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  That was like that's not like, oh, I'm just going to slow.
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  I'm just going to get. He didn't make a pass.
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  He was already in front of him. Yeah.
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  So that that is just I don't know just not a not a honest way
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  to win. I just, I I I I don't I wouldn't
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  do that. I just, I just don't know how
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  you can. Yeah, just like I I just don't
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  know how the players do that. I know we mentioned or I
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  mentioned, I don't, I don't know who it was.
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  Well, who grabbed their brake lever, right, Exactly.
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  They exited the pit lane like I think it was, I think it was
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  Finardi, Finardi I believe or Manzi, I think he's one of those
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  guys and and they lost their license for I believe a year,
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  you know. You gotta some riders try to go
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  out onto the track and you know another team's going to come by.
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  And and surprisingly try to slow him down or or mess up his brake
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  lever or whatever, just have a disadvantage.
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  So he can have a disadvantage, right?
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  Yeah, like, no, that's that. That's, that's exactly that.
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  So that's unfortunate, but it was definitely cool to see
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  Mcdowan come out and say something about that and point
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  that out. I know the folks at Moto GP try
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  to enter. When they interviewed the team
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  owner, he tried to brush it off as, you know, just riding or
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  point fingers at. Well, other people did this and
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  that, you know, and that's not necessarily the way to go about
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  business. You can't when, when, when you
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  do something wrong, you can't sit here and try to point out
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  that someone else is doing something wrong, as if to say
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  there's nothing to say, 'cause it, Well, y'all, both wrong, but
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  either way, you're still wrong, You know, so is it.
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  You're just trying to bring other people into your, you
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  know, being wrong and, you know, call it out when you see it.
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  Don't. Don't necessarily use it as a
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  defense when when people are pointing out what you're doing.
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  Yeah, I think the situation is just lagging on.
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  I mean, they should have just said, yeah, we know what we did
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  wrong. We're going to address it.
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  Don't ask no more questions. Yeah.
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  And then, yeah, exactly, exactly.
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  That and then the story would be dead.
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  But they just letting us you know try to figure out why would
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  he would do that and why you still letting him or like know
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  right And and and and we remember that as as fans we we
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  remember the the Rossi or Lorenzo and Marquez and and
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  those and those titles were like you you remember you know when
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  when it when it's not when it doesn't look clean.
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  As a fan you remember that obviously as the person, the
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  writers, they definitely remember that or the ballplayers
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  or whatever sport you ran or whatever thing you win you.
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  You remember when the person you know did you dirty just to get
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  ahead and I don't think you ever get past that.
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  Like you know, I don't think you know Sasaki is going to get past
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  that ever. You know, he may still have
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  lost. He may still have lost in
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  Valencia. You know what I mean?
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  But like, you know it's just like come on bro, come on.
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  You know what you did and and and you have to be the bigger
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  person at this point to move beyond you know make yourself a
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  better person and just move beyond.
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  Because you you can't turn around and and and go attack
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  them or do anything to them, because at that point you know.
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  You know, we know how that goes, you know.
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  The second person is always one. It's going to get in trouble
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  exactly. And and kudos to Sasaki for
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  winning the race and and he had to fight for that race.
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  But man, the boy was on a mission.
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  Yeah, that that was. I didn't see the full race, but
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  I did see the winners. But yeah, that.
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  I mean that. That's a great end of the
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  season, yeah, for sure. And he moves the motor too.
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  Masia moves the motor too as well.
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  So I suspect you know if the universe is works the way you
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  know it works. You know, will will you know, I
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  think he'll get his, his retribution.
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  Saga continues, Saga continues. But yeah, so motorcycle racing
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  is cool, yeah, so definitely. Moto Three was very exciting,
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  you know. You know, Chad Dennis on Chu had
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  a chance to win the race and and he had to work for it, man.
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  It was pretty amazing, man. They you know it's like like the
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  whole you know Sunday Sunday was was one of the you know every
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  every race was was fun to watch and.
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  Being this year your favorite track, right.
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  You know, I'm a I'm a big fan of Valencia for sure.
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  Definitely. You know, Definitely.
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  Yeah. Valencia is one of my favorite
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  track for sure. I enjoy it on the Moto GP game
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  more than you know it is. It is.
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  It's a fun little track, man. It's not little, but it, you
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  know, it's fun. I mean, for them it takes them a
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  minute and 30 seconds roughly GP bikes to get around.
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  Minute 29, now it. Was a super short track or a
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  super long track. So I'm sure for for us regular
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  riders if we did it would be like almost 2 minutes.
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  But you know, I I I don't. I like it, 'cause it's a lot of
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  turns and it's, it's not too long of a track.
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  And looking at the the seating arrangement there, it must be
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  amazing that wherever you sit you can see the whole right?
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  Yeah, yeah. It was like a there was like a
• 20:30
  turn where they were riding up to another corner and you can
• 20:34
  see like the whole grandstand, like looking at you.
• 20:37
  It's like it must be fantastic to ride and all that here in the
• 20:42
  chairs. You could probably definitely
• 20:43
  hear all the fans in the middle of the helmet.
• 20:47
  Yeah, besides Austin, we're going to have to get you to over
• 20:52
  20s European tracks or one of these other tracks that got over
• 20:56
  100,000 people because man, it it is so amazing.
• 21:01
  Just a vibe that happens when it when it's that many people.
• 21:05
  So yeah, you know, we'll see what the future hold, man.
• 21:07
  But what do you think about Moto 2?
• 21:10
  Al, Al Dejir ran away with it. Four in a row.
• 21:14
  He's doing something only a few have done.
• 21:17
  The closest person was our our friend number.
• 21:19
  You know the first I won't say. I won't say to him because he's
• 21:24
  worked hard, but he has 15. Second place, Aaron Connett.
• 21:29
  And that's, that's my guy, Aaron Connett.
• 21:31
  I've been rooting for him all year, wishing that he'd get a
• 21:34
  number one, but he did not. He's Pedro Acosta.
• 21:39
  Put in a lot of work. He got his.
• 21:44
  He got his championship and then he kind of fell back a little
• 21:47
  bit, just, you know, expected but out of jail.
• 21:51
  That man is look at me now. That's basically we saying,
• 21:54
  somebody look at me, I'm on another level.
• 21:57
  No doubt he's. Been winning by by margins like
• 22:00
  not 2 seconds but maybe four or five seconds and four in a row.
• 22:05
  That's that's just. Way to end the year and he's had
• 22:08
  it you know. Yeah and he's had it in a from
• 22:10
  from when he was in the European series.
• 22:13
  I I think you know last year was unfortunate and I think at the
• 22:15
  end of this year it might have just taken him a while to get on
• 22:18
  the bike. But I think that if you know if
• 22:21
  Pedro was there next year I don't think he would have been
• 22:24
  able to see dude and and so but I think for Pedro I think he's
• 22:27
  fortunate to be to be in Moto GP but he going to have to look out
• 22:30
  because Aldo G is going to be there next year for sure he's
• 22:36
  going to be one of the few if because he's interested in the
• 22:39
  Moto GP. Last year was only one person
• 22:43
  that came up from Moto Two. This year it's only one person
• 22:46
  that came from Moto 2. So it's there's not there's not
• 22:49
  a lot of room in Moto GP for for for Moto 2 riders at the moment.
• 22:55
  So you know, you know that that's the part that's crazy.
• 22:59
  And and like I said, and you know, for Aaron Knett, the Jake
• 23:02
  Dixons, the, the Roberts, these other guys, they they got a lot
• 23:07
  of work to do for an an offseason, 'cause you know, they
• 23:11
  they're they're, they're going to be fighting for jobs at the
• 23:13
  end of next year for their job, the current job.
• 23:18
  Oh yeah, then there's, I mean, if you think the talent is.
• 23:23
  Going away, but it's going to be really strong where everyone's
• 23:28
  going to be around the same time, you know they're on the
• 23:31
  same CC bike, you know for Moto GP there was the top riders were
• 23:39
  maybe a second or two seconds faster than most.
• 23:42
  Now, now you got like 1012 riders are within the same
• 23:45
  second, exactly half a second and.
• 23:48
  Two pretty probably going to be really pretty similar to that.
• 23:53
  Even though Pedro cost is gone and like you said, not a lot of
• 23:56
  movement, so it's the same competition, right?
• 23:59
  I'm really, except for you know a couple of Moto 3 riders coming
• 24:03
  up. Yeah, so you know and it, it it
• 24:06
  pains me to see see him Lowe's go.
• 24:10
  He's out of Moto 2 moving over the world super bike.
• 24:14
  Definitely definitely going to miss him.
• 24:16
  He's he's been in the in the Moto GP in the Moto GP series
• 24:20
  for so long. He had a quick stint in a Moto
• 24:23
  G, Moto GP on Aprilia before the bike was what it was and and
• 24:28
  then it went back to Moto 2 and so you know that's going to be
• 24:31
  tough not tough I'm I'm happy that he's going on.
• 24:34
  He's in his 30s and he still gets to race on the world stage,
• 24:37
  so it's it's not tough for him, huh?
• 24:41
  His brother's over there, right? His brother's over there.
• 24:43
  And yeah, already Alex Lowe, he's already over there.
• 24:45
  So, you know, they'll get to travel together and and compete
• 24:48
  against one another. You know, Sam's going to be on a
• 24:50
  Ducati, so he's going, he's going to be on, he's on a ducat
• 24:53
  duck, so you know anyone? That's getting on a Ducati now
• 24:57
  is going to have a hope. It should have a good year
• 25:00
  should should have a good year definitely you know and and and
• 25:05
  some of these other writers are definitely going to step up I
• 25:08
  assume for next year. I Guru and and some Cat Santra
• 25:11
  and some of these guys they you know they're going to have to
• 25:14
  have that year to be able to push against you know Lopez and
• 25:19
  you know Furman Al Legere because they you know albolino
• 25:22
  because you know these guys with they they they want to go to
• 25:24
  Moto GP are relatively soon and and they kind of you know they
• 25:28
  they they're putting that they're putting their mark out
• 25:31
  there and. It's funny as I Igor like it's
• 25:35
  really good riding. I think he's really talented
• 25:37
  and. Just funny, they was talking
• 25:39
  about someone taking Taka's seat and I'm not sure if he'd
• 25:42
  probably be the only one, but two years ago he had a a really
• 25:47
  good season. But he crashed out I think in
• 25:50
  Valencia and and last year and last year he jacked him.
• 25:54
  Earlier this year, he jacked himself up so.
• 25:57
  Last year he jacked himself up and he didn't have a really good
• 26:00
  year this year, so I'm sure he's ready to come back strong,
• 26:05
  'cause I know he doesn't want to stay in Model 2, I'm sure.
• 26:08
  You know, talking. Yeah, these guys, do you want to
• 26:11
  go to Moto GP? No doubt.
• 26:14
  Look yeah. One other shout out is Ponds
• 26:18
  Racing is leaving Moto 2. So no Ponds raced and I believe
• 26:23
  over 40 something years in the Moto GP and guy was a a racer
• 26:28
  before he became A-Team owner. You know Aaron Connects moved
• 26:33
  over to. I forget which team it is.
• 26:35
  I think it's Fnatic or something like that.
• 26:36
  I think so. You know it it it you know it's
• 26:40
  it's history right. We talk I mean we know we're
• 26:42
  making history every day by the because the fact that we get
• 26:45
  another day. But you know when you when
• 26:48
  you've been able to stay in Moto GP as as long as they have and
• 26:52
  and win championships and win races and stuff like that,
• 26:55
  that's pretty amazing. That's some top writers that
• 26:59
  that have written for them. So we're definitely going to
• 27:03
  miss seeing that that font, those colors in Moto GP in in
• 27:09
  the in the future. Yeah, I mean it's hard to stay
• 27:14
  long in anything, especially now, now in this day and age
• 27:16
  where there's, you know, it's not just few things like for
• 27:22
  like Burger King, McDonald's, you know, there's every, there's
• 27:24
  just so much more to put to stay in the game that long.
• 27:30
  Yeah, I I haven't obviously been following it so long, but seeing
• 27:34
  or live that long, I've been alive that long.
• 27:39
  I haven't. I've already seen Suzuki pull
• 27:42
  out and you know there's other manufacturers that that are that
• 27:48
  all riders that are left and coaches that are left you know
• 27:53
  Oh yeah no yeah the game definitely changes and you know
• 27:57
  I I don't know what the the the average life is shelf life is of
• 28:01
  of folks but definitely you know when you when you're in when
• 28:05
  you're in the game for over any game for over 10 years.
• 28:08
  You know what I'm saying? You're you're definitely not the
• 28:10
  norm. You know, because a lot of
• 28:12
  people come and go and these in these and everything.
• 28:15
  So when you're in that that that long and and at this level
• 28:18
  you're definitely doing a good thing.
• 28:19
  So it is you know it will be sad to see.
• 28:23
  You know the beautiful thing about Moto GP you can go watch
• 28:27
  races so you can always learn about these these riders and
• 28:30
  these team owners and stuff like that because you know the the
• 28:35
  the journey is amazing. You know when you when you when
• 28:37
  you start looking back you know you see these these young kids
• 28:40
  and you can you know you see them grow up on on the stage and
• 28:43
  and it's pretty it's pretty cool to see.
• 28:45
  So it is, you know, I wouldn't say a sad day when you, you
• 28:49
  know, if you ever had that long of a jeopardy longevity, but you
• 28:55
  know. Look at Rossi exactly.
• 28:57
  I mean, the day that Rossi left the track, you know it, it was,
• 29:01
  it was crazy parties. Every race and I mean he's still
• 29:06
  in the game. So just imagine what he when
• 29:09
  he's finally done with racing which probably never.
• 29:12
  Well, exactly because he's he's racing cars now.
• 29:14
  I kind of feel that way. So you know you had a chance to
• 29:17
  watch the Sprint race on Saturday.
• 29:20
  You watched the full race on Sunday.
• 29:22
  We know what the, the, the results are.
• 29:25
  What do you what do you think about the Sprint?
• 29:28
  Were you yelling at the TV? Were you?
• 29:31
  You know, I mean, it wasn't it wasn't as early.
• 29:34
  But did you wake anyone up because you were yelling at
• 29:36
  except the TV? Maybe I was only one.
• 29:40
  No I was, I was I was I was excited.
• 29:45
  I wasn't as I mean like you could see the urgency in in in
• 29:49
  our team right? And he stood up.
• 29:52
  He stood up on Saturday. Yeah, he he definitely did.
• 29:56
  It was good to see like. Not PECO on pole.
• 29:59
  We're going to get to that. But it's good to see, you know
• 30:03
  Prolia, another manufacturer, reach reach the podium, right.
• 30:09
  But that was also a way to help Martine, you know get some
• 30:13
  points over PECO. So I think he did really well.
• 30:17
  He they they they were fighting a little bit.
• 30:19
  He was in front and and went behind him and and they were
• 30:22
  rubbing paint and Mark Marquez almost took off his shoulder.
• 30:27
  You got some battle scars, right?
• 30:29
  Right. Yes.
• 30:29
  This was, this was Saturday. Yeah.
• 30:30
  We don't even talk about Sunday yet.
• 30:31
  Yeah. But this was Saturday for sure.
• 30:33
  Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
• 30:35
  They rubbing, you know, rubbing his racing, as they say
• 30:40
  Saturday. That man, yeah.
• 30:43
  But it was a it was a good fight and I was excited for him for
• 30:48
  sure. But I always think when when he
• 30:51
  wins, he, I mean, you know, I know you're supposed to
• 30:53
  celebrate but. I don't know.
• 30:55
  I guess I'm more humble about things, right?
• 30:57
  Yeah, listen, we've talked about that on the show previously.
• 31:01
  Absolutely right. I, I, I I don't think he's gonna
• 31:06
  do it next year. I don't think he'll, I think
• 31:08
  next year he's he's gonna be definitely more in line with
• 31:12
  things. But you know those, you know you
• 31:15
  play basketball, you know when you get to follow shot or if you
• 31:18
  got an open shot, you know there there's an automatic, I got it.
• 31:23
  And you lose concentration and you don't get it.
• 31:25
  You know what I'm saying? Like when when that moment where
• 31:29
  you you, you start to act out of character, you tend to make
• 31:31
  mistakes. And if he was always showboating
• 31:34
  like that, and he's not, like, showboating is not the right
• 31:36
  word, but showing off a little bit.
• 31:39
  If he was always doing that, it'll be one thing.
• 31:42
  But now you're doing it, but you're doing it.
• 31:45
  But you ain't really dominating, you know what I'm saying?
• 31:48
  And as a matter of fact, you look at the Jordans, the Kobes,
• 31:51
  the Lebrons, like Rossi. I mean, Rossi talks a lot of
• 31:56
  trash, you know what I'm saying? But he, he backed it up, right?
• 32:00
  So it's like, if you're not backing it up like that, don't
• 32:03
  talk, don't do these things. Because again, we remember, we
• 32:06
  see it. You see, you know, you did it.
• 32:08
  You know, you choked. You got to live with that.
• 32:10
  If you never do it, you ain't got to worry about it.
• 32:12
  You know what I'm saying? You wearing a a Sprint and AGP
• 32:16
  back-to-back like 2, like four in a row like or like.
• 32:19
  Some of the outages aren't like. Don't just win spring races and
• 32:23
  mess up on the One, Yeah, so I don't ever think it's a good
• 32:26
  look to be cocky. Just to follow up on what we've
• 32:29
  just been talking about. You just get yourself in trouble
• 32:33
  and if you can't back it up. And he didn't back it up on
• 32:36
  Sunday. So what he did on Saturday, you
• 32:40
  know, I, you know, it's him. It's not me.
• 32:42
  I mean, I I don't do that stuff because I know I'm probably
• 32:45
  going to do what he did on Sunday.
• 32:46
  So I tend not to, you know, is, you know, when you were younger
• 32:49
  and you and you try to show off in front of somebody, whoever,
• 32:52
  usually it's a it's a girl, but whatever.
• 32:54
  And you try to wheelie on your bicycle or a cruise by on your
• 32:57
  car and run into a pole either in your bicycle or your car
• 33:00
  because I know people have done both.
• 33:02
  You're jacking yourself up when you're trying to show off.
• 33:05
  And if you're by yourself just trying to do something,
• 33:07
  generally you're not. You're you're locked in, you're
• 33:09
  focus and you're more successful.
• 33:11
  So you know, I've learned like showing off doesn't usually end
• 33:16
  well unless you are a elite person.
• 33:20
  And I think like Peco is more dialed in.
• 33:24
  He's been through this before already and I just think he
• 33:28
  understands the things that go wrong or what's needed over.
• 33:33
  Martine, which looks like he's just using more of skill versus
• 33:39
  versus experience. Yeah, experience and and and and
• 33:44
  feel. I mean like it's just a lot like
• 33:49
  I like I said, the Sprint is totally different from the Grand
• 33:52
  Prix as you see. I mean this is all new and I
• 33:55
  like how how it is laid out, but if I wanted a Sprint.
• 33:59
  And I'll just put two hands in the air.
• 34:01
  Say yes, I won. Exactly right.
• 34:04
  And I got one more race and I'll do that every single weekend.
• 34:09
  And if I won that race on Sunday, then you'll see me
• 34:13
  bugging out and going crazy, right?
• 34:15
  Exactly. Party.
• 34:17
  Party. Yep.
• 34:18
  Party. When when racing is over.
• 34:20
  And you, you know, you talked about Petco and I and I believe
• 34:22
  that, you know the Academy does a really good job keeping
• 34:28
  keeping these people locked in. And you know Rossy's has our
• 34:31
  access to all type of great people, great players, great
• 34:35
  athletes. So they all share information
• 34:38
  and stuff like that and they all get it.
• 34:39
  And I and I think next year you're going to see Martine less
• 34:43
  doing that type of thing and more just about the business and
• 34:48
  and so forth. So that that you know Sprint was
• 34:51
  very good. You know shout out to Digia
• 34:54
  who's continuously doing what he's doing and he's been able to
• 34:58
  secure that VR46 Academy seat which is dope because he
• 35:03
  shouldn't it should never been in question in the 1st place And
• 35:07
  you know you know I, I, you know it shouldn't happen in the 1st
• 35:12
  place because he didn't have enough time.
• 35:13
  And I'm. I'm glad that he was able to dig
• 35:15
  in deep and and overcome that because a lot of riders I think
• 35:20
  have not think we see that you know their job is up and they
• 35:23
  kind of just you know just bring it home.
• 35:26
  They don't sit here and go let me shoot for a ride next year.
• 35:29
  Maybe some do but it doesn't work out in their favor.
• 35:32
  Here's a situation where he did he got on the podium he got on
• 35:36
  the podium but to the point where you you're like you
• 35:38
  couldn't deny it. The dude had he he's he's you
• 35:41
  couldn't deny it. So I'm happy that Digia has a
• 35:44
  seat for next year. But let's talk about the the,
• 35:48
  the, the main race. You know, You know, is it Was it
• 35:53
  like Michael Jordan versus Kobe Bryant in the early days?
• 35:57
  Was it like Kobe Bryant versus LeBron James, the early days?
• 36:02
  You know how? You know how did how?
• 36:04
  Because dude, Before. Before the race started, I I I
• 36:09
  haven't been that excited in so long.
• 36:10
  I couldn't even like I I literally was just like I
• 36:13
  couldn't wait for the race to start.
• 36:14
  And even the first lap, you know, I'm just at, I'm like,
• 36:18
  what's going to happen? What's going to happen, you
• 36:19
  know, wishing I had like a crystal ball.
• 36:23
  I mean, the first couple corners, you always want to know
• 36:25
  what's going to happen if everyone stays up.
• 36:28
  I'm hoping everyone does, but it's always some something crazy
• 36:32
  if you had something crazy going on.
• 36:36
  You know, going into this race, I I thought this was like a
• 36:40
  championship. Like, all right, this is it.
• 36:42
  It's the last race of the year. Let me get my popcorn.
• 36:45
  Actually, I was getting my breakfast ready, you know?
• 36:47
  But you know, it was already disappointing that Maverick had
• 36:54
  a little incident on his warm up.
• 36:58
  I mean is that are they related to that?
• 37:00
  Go wrong, just give, give Pekko the pole.
• 37:03
  Like, OK, all right. So we're off to a great start
• 37:05
  because I was ruling for Martine.
• 37:09
  And yeah, so when the race started, I was like, all right,
• 37:12
  how's this turn 1 going to go? How's this turn 1-2 going to go?
• 37:15
  And it was, it was, it was very tight.
• 37:19
  Just how I expected is very interesting.
• 37:21
  And then you know if you if you all saw Martine was just a
• 37:25
  little overzealous though. Too early everything.
• 37:30
  No patience. Had plenty of time.
• 37:33
  Had plenty of time. Plenty of time, but I I know
• 37:37
  mentally like he's probably Pekko's in front is over, so I
• 37:41
  got to get in front of him as soon as possible, which makes
• 37:43
  sense. But I just think it was a little
• 37:45
  too early because Echo had to finish 5th or worse, right?
• 37:50
  You know? Actually he had to finish six I
• 37:52
  think for even him to win and and and I don't know, obviously
• 37:58
  we're not in there in their group, in their camp, so we
• 38:01
  don't know anything. But you know, in a
• 38:03
  mathematically in a situation like that, I would have, I would
• 38:07
  have hoped somebody would say, hey, just go have fun at that
• 38:11
  point, just go have fun. That's it just, you know, just
• 38:14
  ride and go have fun. Because even if you win, this
• 38:18
  dude still has to finish 5th and you have no control over that.
• 38:21
  So just go have fun, try to do your best, raise it.
• 38:24
  It wasn't, it'd be, you know, it was a situation where if if
• 38:27
  Martine was ahead and he needed to stretch out something, so you
• 38:31
  know to do that because really the onus, the pressure would
• 38:36
  have been on Pekko. In theory.
• 38:38
  Because if Martin was in first place and was able to ride his
• 38:42
  race, you know, then you know Pekko's going to have to make
• 38:46
  sure he stayed 5th, right? Just like just like in even in
• 38:50
  the Sprint race, did you gave him that right?
• 38:52
  Did you gave him that? You know what I'm saying?
• 38:54
  It's like I know about to get signed, so I ain't going to
• 38:57
  overtake you. But did you could have
• 38:58
  overtooken him in in the Sprint? He had the.
• 39:01
  Last corner, Yeah. You know what I'm saying.
• 39:03
  And and so, you know, it was one of those things where it's just
• 39:08
  like that. That's what I would have told
• 39:09
  him at that point because like I say with the numbers, just go,
• 39:12
  just go have fun. So like you mentioned, very
• 39:14
  aggressive in the beginning, more aggressive than he needed
• 39:17
  to be. You know he made the same
• 39:18
  mistake Pekko did, like with with Bazecki when when he got
• 39:23
  sucked in. Or Bazecki did with with with
• 39:25
  Pekko I should say, and got sucked in where?
• 39:27
  The experience comes into play like you, you know.
• 39:31
  If you're first of all, you know you're everything's going to
• 39:33
  heat up. If you're on on on someone's
• 39:35
  tail like that and you know. You kind of get a draft.
• 39:39
  So I don't understand why he would try to get so close so
• 39:44
  early. And and like I said before, like
• 39:48
  that happened to me before where you know I got ran off the track
• 39:53
  a little bit with my friend. You know, I'm just we're all
• 39:55
  doing this for fun and mentally I'm like I have to get back to
• 39:59
  where I was just at. I mean I was just in running
• 40:02
  third place and and I got pushed off.
• 40:06
  I didn't even see it coming and now I'm in seven and I try to
• 40:09
  fight as hard as I could. Get back to 3rd and everything
• 40:13
  was wild. My lines are different.
• 40:15
  I'm trying to pass people in ways that shouldn't happen and I
• 40:19
  was just being a little too aggressive and I bit the dust,
• 40:21
  you know? Yeah, I've I've seen it coming
• 40:25
  when when when he passed Peco and he tried to get back and was
• 40:28
  like like Martine is, he's got to lose it.
• 40:33
  Yeah. And now that was unfortunate and
• 40:35
  he took out Marquez and I mean Marquez is so lucky.
• 40:39
  He's, you know, lucky. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 40:43
  But just the way he landed just so lucky that he just, you know,
• 40:47
  he, he's all right. He was able to test.
• 40:49
  So he's all right. I mean he might be achy a little
• 40:51
  bit but just so lucky and you know and and I and I think
• 40:56
  Martin would have every rider wants to finish the race.
• 41:00
  You know what I mean? And because it's tough when you
• 41:01
  crash out. It's tough when you you, you
• 41:04
  know in that situation but like we said next year everybody
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  believes he will be more prepared more folk and I and I
• 41:13
  rarely say everybody because I don't know everybody but in this
• 41:18
  instance you know he has what it takes to to be a top rider
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  Martine. So I believe he's going to find
• 41:25
  the patience and he's going to do what he has to and next year
• 41:28
  he's going to be a more just like Pecko did.
• 41:29
  Pecko had to find patience too, and stuff like that and and you
• 41:33
  saw. That this year he was definitely
• 41:34
  more patient than last year as well.
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  So it's just it's just natural growth.
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  But it was very exciting to watch.
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  Like I said before, I'm very excited that this year didn't
• 41:43
  get the seat with VR46 and the fact that the guy can just come
• 41:47
  through and and run the way he he has been running next year
• 41:52
  the the, the Moto, the Ducati riders, I they're going to
• 42:00
  finish top 8. I'm going to say that for next
• 42:06
  season. I think next season they're
• 42:07
  going to be top eight. Who is?
• 42:10
  The Ducati riders? All, All of them.
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  Top eight. I'm going, I'm going on a
• 42:15
  record. Insane top 8?
• 42:17
  Yeah, we can put that on paper. I mean, it'll be hard to
• 42:20
  disagree. I mean, they have like so many
• 42:22
  bikes on the trade anyway and all the top riders.
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  The the, the weakest, great riders.
• 42:27
  We all great riders. Go ahead.
• 42:30
  Yeah, how can you argue Pekko? Number one nerder up is a
• 42:34
  Ducati. Think the run up for behind
• 42:38
  Martinez. Ducati.
• 42:40
  So we already got three, right? Yeah bro. 4th place I think was
• 42:45
  Jack Miller or or someone like that.
• 42:47
  Brad. Bendi.
• 42:47
  I believe Brad Bendi, yeah. But and then vinyl is, I
• 42:52
  believe, if I'm going off memory, but no.
• 42:56
  Yeah, a lot of Ducati. Oh, Zarco.
• 42:57
  I think Zarco is fifth. Sorry.
• 42:59
  Zarko was fifth, Elage was six and and and and Vinyadas was 7.
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  So, So you think as more of a deli is going Ducati and
• 43:08
  Marquez, you think there's going to be more Ducatis, but what
• 43:11
  about Zarko? Zarko is going to hold it down
• 43:13
  to tell you. He's a Honda man.
• 43:15
  He's a Honda, man, all right, He's going to, he's.
• 43:17
  Going to well so let let let's let's I, I and I'll tell you why
• 43:20
  I say that but let's let's let's I think we are we done with Moto
• 43:24
  GP race for Sunday did we get cover everything we needed to.
• 43:28
  We know the hoodoo whenever it is.
• 43:29
  It was awesome to see, awesome to see.
• 43:32
  I have one more thing to say about it, but it's a little off
• 43:34
  tougher. So I went to the end.
• 43:36
  I I will say this KTM like y'all boys need to get y'all itched
• 43:41
  together because y'all y'all tossed away one and two, tossed
• 43:47
  away one and two because it because Pekko gave him, Pekko
• 43:52
  gave him that. They gave gave gave, gave up.
• 43:54
  Like, yeah, go ahead. I ain't.
• 43:55
  I ain't taking that risk. Once he once he knew Martine was
• 44:00
  out of the race, Pekko literally switched Flip the switch, put it
• 44:06
  on pilot 3, slow burner and. And just let it go.
• 44:10
  That's it and let let a 3-4 riders by.
• 44:16
  They couldn't even hold. It and exactly, exactly,
• 44:20
  exactly, yo, I I hooked you up with the girl and everything.
• 44:24
  What happened? He like he still had to take it.
• 44:30
  Yeah. And I I I can't believe that.
• 44:33
  I can't believe that happened that that's that's another
• 44:37
  reason why I think when you said all the Ducatis.
• 44:41
  Yeah, I'll say top five, but I can't top eight as.
• 44:45
  Well I'll, I'll say top seven the the the only week so and I
• 44:48
  say all of the say because I I watched the practice session
• 44:52
  Mark Marquez, after 7 laps the man came in.
• 44:55
  He he listen, man he he he he's he's just like he did just a
• 45:02
  smile on his face. He just to say he's he's like
• 45:05
  this is what I've been missing and you know I think he's going
• 45:08
  to top he finished the day in top five.
• 45:11
  He needs to show more emotion. I mean, when he's when he's not
• 45:15
  in his suit, he's all giggles. Like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 45:18
  No, no. But I know, I know, I know.
• 45:22
  He wanted to smile away to the camera.
• 45:23
  Oh yeah, You know, he had a little smile, but he so yeah, so
• 45:27
  it's going to be Bob Marquez fighting, Peko fighting, Martin
• 45:31
  fighting, Bazeki fighting. Digi is going to be fighting.
• 45:37
  Who am I missing? Alex Marquez is probably going
• 45:39
  to be fighting. And that's six.
• 45:42
  What am I missing? So Morbidelli is the only person
• 45:45
  that might not, might, might not, might not be fighting.
• 45:48
  And Bastianini? Bastianini and Morbidelli are
• 45:55
  the two weakest, Weakest are Ducati riders right now.
• 46:00
  Think Bastianini is going to come back?
• 46:01
  Really. Strong yeah.
• 46:02
  Yeah I I do believe that too I do believe he I I do believe if
• 46:06
  he was healthy we would have been we would have been looking
• 46:10
  at. Bastianini, not in this order,
• 46:13
  but Bastianini, Bizzacki, Martin and and Bagnaya.
• 46:17
  If if if he was healthy this year he would have been wanted.
• 46:21
  He would have been up there in the in the Championship as well
• 46:23
  because he was definitely fast last year at the end of last
• 46:27
  year, so there's no reason to believe he wouldn't have been if
• 46:29
  he didn't Jack himself up several a couple of times.
• 46:33
  I think Bet Zeki and Morbideli to me would be the weakest out
• 46:37
  of all of. Them No, Bizzacki.
• 46:38
  Bizzacki was hurt. He like he's if he wasn't.
• 46:40
  If he wasn't hurt he he he would have finished higher in a
• 46:43
  championship if the collarbone that collarbone.
• 46:47
  Yeah, yeah. Well, that's what I mean.
• 46:50
  So like going. Into well he finished, he
• 46:52
  finished high today in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in
• 46:56
  the Sunday or in the in the practice.
• 46:58
  So he he was like, I think it was top three or top four, so.
• 47:01
  He he's already found some of them, did some hot laps but you
• 47:05
  know a lot of them were were testing on some things.
• 47:08
  It was good to see Mark jump on there and and I already do many
• 47:12
  in 30 seconds and pull out a 29. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 47:15
  So Corey Martin had a horrible start.
• 47:18
  He had two crashes, right? And I'm sure he was just ready
• 47:22
  to get his day over with. Yeah.
• 47:23
  Oh, for sure. Solid.
• 47:25
  Yep, it was good to see Pedro cost out there.
• 47:28
  You know he was sliding that bike sideways but to go back I
• 47:32
  to go back to the to the to the Ducati thing yeah I I believe
• 47:37
  Morbidelli but I think Bazeki is a is at from what he's shown.
• 47:42
  I'll put, I'll put Alex and and and Morbidelli closer together
• 47:47
  than than Bazecki and Morbidelli at this point is it is, is is is
• 47:52
  it will be my assess. For that, but nonetheless the
• 47:57
  he's like, you know, Pedro, unbelievable.
• 48:01
  He still got a lot, lot to learn.
• 48:03
  It's possible by the end of next season he could be a better
• 48:07
  rider than Fernandez on that bike.
• 48:10
  It's possible, you know, but we'll see because we'll see.
• 48:14
  But it is possible. So it's possible that I was, as
• 48:18
  I was saying, it's possible that Pedro might be ahead of
• 48:22
  Fernandez by the end of next season, just on height.
• 48:25
  He was riding today, but the guy looks like he enjoy riding.
• 48:29
  When you see his face he looks like Pedro, looks like he enjoys
• 48:33
  being out there not and not and not having the same pressure and
• 48:38
  and so that was that was interesting to see.
• 48:41
  But I do believe that the, you know, the KTMS, the Aprilias,
• 48:45
  the Yamahas, the Hondas, they don't have to get together and
• 48:50
  and work to beat these Ducatis or something because it's, you
• 48:54
  know, KTM is close, Aprilia's close, but it's going, they
• 48:59
  don't have to work real hard. Yamaha 's going to have to work
• 49:03
  real hard. And you know some of the issues
• 49:05
  is the amount of testing they can do as I think Crutchlow was
• 49:11
  saying that he was on a stock engine and Alex, Renz and Fabio,
• 49:19
  they had the new engine, right, They don't have enough.
• 49:22
  Seat time, yeah.