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An Aussie wins, Aprilia returns and Fabio's heartbreak: MotoGP Pit Talk · Pit Talk

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Speaker 1: Well, we swapped Ozzie flat Whites for a proper British
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Speaker 1: brew this weekend and witness history made heartbreak and a
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Speaker 1: whole lot of hard racing at the British Grand Prix.
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Speaker 1: Moto GP Pittook is brought to you by Shannon's Insurance.
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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Rinita Vmuellen, and adjoining me is Moto
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Speaker 1: GP's very own walking encyclopedia and a bloke who's probably
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Speaker 1: still recovering from a shock of sunshine at Silverstone on Sunday,
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Speaker 1: Matt Clayton.
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Speaker 2: Matt, we were talking off air and we're like, we have.
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Speaker 1: To hit record and get started, because can you believe
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Speaker 1: the highs and the lows at the British Grand Prix.
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Speaker 1: What a weekend for the West start of the Heizo
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Speaker 1: are Prillier Mmm.
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Speaker 3: Of all the things that we could have been talking
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Speaker 3: about to lead this podcast after where we left it
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Speaker 3: last week with turmoil at a Prillier and Joge Martin
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Speaker 3: wants to leave and are they going to let him leave?
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Speaker 3: And there's no future in this project, but you know
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Speaker 3: you had the random element of Silverstone we talked about
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Speaker 3: this last week. The previous ten installments of this Grand
1:02
Speaker 3: Prix had ten different winners. Let's just extend that to
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Speaker 3: eleven Grand Prix and eleven different winners because out of
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Speaker 3: absolutely nowhere, having finished in the top six once the
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Speaker 3: entire year, Marco Berseki wins his fourth Grand Prix. But
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Speaker 3: an amazing culmination of events, which we'll get into through
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Speaker 3: this podcast. But for a Prillia where you've got the
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Speaker 3: world champion that you moved heaven and earth to sign
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Speaker 3: last year, getting cold feet, not even having done one
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Speaker 3: race in the project, and now you can turn around
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Speaker 3: and say, by the way, this bike can win a
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Speaker 3: Grand Prix. So anytime you'd like to throw your leg
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Speaker 3: over one and not fall off, then be our guest.
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Speaker 3: But great news for Aprilia, fantastic for Bozeki. But how
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Speaker 3: we got there? It was a suitably wacky British Grand
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Speaker 3: Prix with so many variables. But I don't even know
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Speaker 3: where you're going to start. There's about one hundred different
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Speaker 3: options year I.
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Speaker 2: Want to start with.
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Speaker 1: And I don't want to take anything away from Marco
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Speaker 1: Bedzeki because you could clearly tell that he was on
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Speaker 1: fire from the first race start after the red flag
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Speaker 1: and on the second race start. But The thing that
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Speaker 1: caught my attention was Masimo Rivela and his comments to
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Speaker 1: the press after of hey, jo hey Martin, look at this,
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Speaker 1: our bite can win with all that off track drama
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Speaker 1: that we've had. And then Marco Bezeki goes and wins
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Speaker 1: and he's on fire and he had that helmet and
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Speaker 1: a mullet. On the weekend, it.
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Speaker 2: Just seemed like all the door opened up.
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Speaker 1: Lady Luck was on Marco's side, right, But like I said,
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Speaker 1: he was on fire. I don't know, if you're watching
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Speaker 1: the lap times, Mark, You're not Mark, you're Matt. But well,
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Speaker 1: he started tenth on the grid. I think at one
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Speaker 1: point on the first lap he was back down in
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Speaker 1: like nineteenth or something. Then next minute you see him,
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Speaker 1: he's like fifth or sixth, and he's second and he's
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Speaker 1: leading the Grand Prix. Whatever happened, whatever it was this
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Speaker 1: shift this weekend, because going into it it did really
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Speaker 1: look like it was Alex Marquez who was going to
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Speaker 1: be the favorite after the sprint win on Saturday.
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Speaker 2: Something clicked to micro Betzeki and he made it work.
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Speaker 3: I mean, look, Aprilia has got four around here. We
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Speaker 3: know that it's been a good track for them in
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Speaker 3: the past, Faverick Vinille's on the podium, Malesias Spargo won
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Speaker 3: a race there. So to see a Prillia being stronger
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Speaker 3: here than maybe anywhere for the rest of the season
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Speaker 3: so far, that wasn't the thing that surprised me. It
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Speaker 3: was more that it was Bazeki because he's been kind
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Speaker 3: of captain anonymous most of the time since he's been
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Speaker 3: at Aprillier. There's been so much discussion about the guy
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Speaker 3: who's supposed to be his teammate who hasn't been there.
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Speaker 3: And then early in the season, you remember the Aprillia
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Speaker 3: that was getting all the publicity was Agura because of
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Speaker 3: how awesome he was entire Land in his first race,
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Speaker 3: And so Marco's kind of existed under the raidar. He's
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Speaker 3: had a couple of races where he's been in okay
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Speaker 3: positions and he's run off into breaking zones and trundled
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Speaker 3: around at the back. But he's one of those guys
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Speaker 3: that we saw it in twenty twenty three when he
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Speaker 3: won those three Grand Prix and he was in the
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Speaker 3: thick of the championship fight till pretty late in the season.
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Speaker 3: His sweet Spots is sort of quite narrow, I reckon,
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Speaker 3: but when he gets in it, he is almost unbe
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Speaker 3: He just goes into this trance where he's just churning
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Speaker 3: out one lap after another after another. The most telling
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Speaker 3: sign to me about how good he was at Silverstone
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Speaker 3: was listening to Jean Zako afterwards he finished second, which
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Speaker 3: we'll get into, and Zarko's whole point was, I know
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Speaker 3: when Marco's in this sort of mood that it's almost
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Speaker 3: pointless fighting with him because you're not going to win
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Speaker 3: that fight. But so I elected just to try and
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Speaker 3: sit behind him and copy what he was doing, because
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Speaker 3: he was so fast, he was probably going to drag
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Speaker 3: me away from the others if I was able to
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Speaker 3: lock him behind him and just ride his lines. And
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Speaker 3: I thought that was really interesting from someone like Zarko,
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Speaker 3: who doesn't take defeat very easily or very well. But
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Speaker 3: he recognized, all right, I know when I'm beaten for
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Speaker 3: a win, but this guy's so good today with this
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Speaker 3: bike in this package, that he can actually help me
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Speaker 3: if I just play this smart here. And that's the
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Speaker 3: biggest sign of respect for a guy who is just
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Speaker 3: in that really narrow sweet spot but making everything work.
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Speaker 3: And you mentioned the sprint, like Buzeki was really good
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Speaker 3: in the sprint as well. He didn't get on the
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Speaker 3: podium there, but you could see that pace. It's like,
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Speaker 3: all right, how's this going to translate over a full
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Speaker 3: Grand Prix distance? Once we eventually got to a full
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Speaker 3: Grand Prix distance after the aborted start and all the
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Speaker 3: silliness on the first two laps, which we'll talk about,
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Speaker 3: the key thing for the whole weekend, and I wrote
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Speaker 3: a pretty significant piece of Fox Sports what is it
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Speaker 3: Tuesday morning Australian Time on you were there? It was
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Speaker 3: cold on Sunday, properly cold. I know it's ten days
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Speaker 3: before summer in the UK, but it was fifteen degree
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Speaker 3: ambient temperature. And the key point of the race was
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Speaker 3: there were eight riders who started on the soft front tire,
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Speaker 3: which you would never use a soft rount tire at
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Speaker 3: Silverston normally because the high speed corners had just chew
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Speaker 3: that thing up. The track temp was so low that
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Speaker 3: you needed the grip, and you look at the guys
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Speaker 3: who started on the soft front tire and where they
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Speaker 3: ended up. Jack Miller was kind of the pioneer and
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Speaker 3: a lot of guys followed what Jack did. But Zako
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Speaker 3: was on the soft front tire. He went from the
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Speaker 3: third row to the podium. Bazeki was on the soft
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Speaker 3: front tire. He went from the fourth row to win
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Speaker 3: the race. Quaaterero was on the off front tire and
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Speaker 3: he led the race until the bike packed up. Jack
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Speaker 3: obviously did well. There were preda. A Costa came through
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Speaker 3: from the fifth throw on that same tire, and you
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Speaker 3: saw the crashes at the start of the first race,
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Speaker 3: and even the underperformance by the deucaddies in particular, they
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Speaker 3: couldn't run that soft front because it was graining so badly.
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Speaker 3: They were kind of stuck with the medium front. Normally,
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Speaker 3: Silveston is a track where you need a strong front tire,
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Speaker 3: but it was so cold that there was no real
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Speaker 3: purchase from that medium tire. Have you ever seen a
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Speaker 3: scrappier race? For some of those decaddies, They were off
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Speaker 3: the track all over the place. Marquees was all over
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Speaker 3: the place, Bano I fell down to, Jane Antonio was nowhere,
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Speaker 3: Alex Marquez had the big crash at the start of
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Speaker 3: the first race. They had no grip and it was
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Speaker 3: just so bizarre seeing we've become so used to seeing
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Speaker 3: the Jacati carp and how good the ducaddies are in
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Speaker 3: this series. They look like sort of also ran for
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Speaker 3: most of the weekend, and it shows you how good
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Speaker 3: Marques's powers of recovery were that he was able to
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Speaker 3: finish on the podium. But this was a race for
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Speaker 3: everybody else, and the best of everybody else was and
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Speaker 3: Aprilia on this circle and Marco Bozeki in that sweet spot.
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Speaker 3: I got to say, it was quite nice seeing a
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Speaker 3: variety up the front because there was a time there
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Speaker 3: where I thought, huh, we may not even get a
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Speaker 3: du Catti on the podium, and you know, so that
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Speaker 3: made me think, how long has it been since we
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Speaker 3: haven't had a du caddie on the podium. So I
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Speaker 3: went digging and went digging and went more digging because
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Speaker 3: it had been so long. It was twenty twenty one,
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Speaker 3: that was the last time we had a Grand Prix
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Speaker 3: where there were no ducaddies on the podium. We just
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Speaker 3: about got it. But yeah, amazing Sunday. I've gone off
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Speaker 3: in eighty seven different directions there because I had so
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Speaker 3: much to say. But I don't know for you. Being
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Speaker 3: on the ground there, there was this this sense with
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Speaker 3: Bozeki that it kind of felt like it was his
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Speaker 3: destiny for the whole weekend. He just looked like a
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Speaker 3: race winner, didn't he From the moment the sprint started,
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Speaker 3: he looked like a guy who could win a Grand Prix.
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Speaker 3: And then he went and went and did it.
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Speaker 2: He just looked strong.
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Speaker 1: I don't know any other words to say, just strong
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Speaker 1: this weekend. And like you mentioned there with du caddies,
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Speaker 1: and it's something that I did want to bring up,
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Speaker 1: is Pekovanyaya looked weak this weekend. Marko Bitzeki looked strong.
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Speaker 1: And even when you was watching him in his pro
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Speaker 1: session debriefs and whatnot, there was just something there, like
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Speaker 1: a subtle confidence of maybe everything starting to align. And
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Speaker 1: I think all the off talk drama, he clearly wasn't
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Speaker 1: involved in it and was just pushing it to the side.
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Speaker 1: But going on track, it just felt comfortable. Then when
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Speaker 1: you, you know, bring up obviously alage having the wind there whatnot,
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Speaker 1: it seems to be it's a circuit that does obviously
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Speaker 1: suit the Aprilias. But talking about Sunday in particular, the
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Speaker 1: wind was really strong on Sunday, so they were actually
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Speaker 1: traveling a less speed. I did hear the stat and
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Speaker 1: you probably not, Matt. I'm not sure the exact speed
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Speaker 1: difference that they were traveling on the Sunday, but that
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Speaker 1: put everything into play as well, and I think that's
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Speaker 1: when we're starting to see the weaknesses in g K,
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Speaker 1: the weaknesses in Peco especially, And I know we want
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Speaker 1: to come onto that through because I need to talk
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Speaker 1: about Joan Zarco when you talk about Fabio.
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Speaker 2: Let's just.
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Speaker 1: So let's move on to Let's move on to Zako quickly.
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Speaker 1: Because Joan Zarco back to back prodiums with Honda, first
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Speaker 1: time since the whole Mark Marquez era, I'm assuming as well.
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Speaker 1: And then I'm sure you heard this about his post
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Speaker 1: race debrief, but he said that when they.
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Speaker 2: Did that first start he felt quite jumbled. I guess,
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Speaker 2: a bit like on edge.
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Speaker 1: That racey start allowed him to calm down. And then
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Speaker 1: I heard what you said about the Zecie I read
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Speaker 1: as well. He said that Jack Miller he just wanted
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Speaker 1: to get in with Jack because Jack could create his
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Speaker 1: own lines. He would stay behind and hopefully get out
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Speaker 1: to the front. So it seems like Joan Zarko is
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Speaker 1: really working hard now to be that top Honda rider.
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Speaker 1: We keep hearing rumors about him potentially going to HLC
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Speaker 1: and whatnot.
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Speaker 2: What was it about this weekend though?
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Speaker 1: For you, Matt, Why is Zarko now all of a
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Speaker 1: sudden closer to the front it is? Are they bringing
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Speaker 1: a lot more new development with them?
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Speaker 4: It's partly the development.
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Speaker 3: I think it's partly what he's doing with the motorbike
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Speaker 3: at the moment, because you see what the other guys
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Speaker 3: on the Hondas are doing, and you see flashes with Zako.
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Speaker 3: He's got this sort of very bizarre combination. He's almost
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Speaker 3: the fiercest guy in elbow to elbow combat, like you
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Speaker 3: know when you're in a fight with Johann Zako, because
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Speaker 3: those elbows are up and he's really really standing his ground.
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Speaker 3: But he's got this calmness about him at the moment
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Speaker 3: in that he can be quite emotional, and we saw
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Speaker 3: that earlier in his career when he was at Yamahara
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Speaker 3: and he was just I'm gooing hell for leather at
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Speaker 3: the starter races and to hell with the outcome, and
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Speaker 3: the outcome was usually him falling off, or when he
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Speaker 3: was with Katim, he got so inside his own head
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Speaker 3: with that that that thing was over in half a
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Speaker 3: season because it was such a disaster. Whether it's just
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Speaker 3: age or stage of his career or you know, you
10:48
Speaker 3: remember before he won an Australia in twenty twenty three,
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Speaker 3: it was always like, ah, he's the best rider never
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Speaker 3: to win a Grand Prix, the best rider never to
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Speaker 3: win a Grand Prix. So he got that monkey off
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Speaker 3: his back. He's just riding with a real sense of
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Speaker 3: calm at the moment. And look, we know that he
11:01
Speaker 3: wants a factory HRC, right. I mean, now it's become
11:04
Speaker 3: a seat that everyone wants all of a sudden. It was,
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Speaker 3: you know, a seat that everyone was running away from
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Speaker 3: about two years ago. But I think he is at
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Speaker 3: peace with whatever comes to pass here because he's in
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Speaker 3: a good place with Luceio on factory equipment at LCR.
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Speaker 3: And there's something about that smaller outfit and maybe his
11:21
Speaker 3: voice can be a little bit louder in an outfit
11:23
Speaker 3: like that because it's not as many people and not
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Speaker 3: as big, and I think he's quite relishing the role
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Speaker 3: of being a leader there. He's like the beacon for
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Speaker 3: them to follow, and you can see the way that
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Speaker 3: he's reacting to adversity. He's a lot more flatline than
11:38
Speaker 3: he used to be. He used to be super spiky emotionally.
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Speaker 3: You know, there's a calm to the way he's going
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Speaker 3: racing at the moment, so for him to have the
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Speaker 3: like you said, you know, I'm going to watch what
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Speaker 3: Jack's doing, and as I was saying before, I'm going
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Speaker 3: to sit behind Bazeki because he's going to toe me
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Speaker 3: away from these guys. There's a clarity of thought with
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Speaker 3: him in battle at the moment that maybe we haven't
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Speaker 3: seen previously. He was just outstanding and I think on
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Speaker 3: any other day we would be talking more about him,
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Speaker 3: but for the fact that, well, he won the previous
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Speaker 3: race in France, so we spent a lot of time
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Speaker 3: talking about him last week, and because what Bozeki had
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Speaker 3: done was so brilliant on that Aprilia. But it's no
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Speaker 3: less of a ride from Zako, just tremendous all weekend
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Speaker 3: and up to fifth in the World Championship. A Honda
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Speaker 3: rider is in the top five of the World Championship.
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Speaker 3: It's been a while since we said that.
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Speaker 1: It's been a long time since we six nice. How
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Speaker 1: cool the fact that we've started a majority of this
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Speaker 1: podcast talking about Aprillia, talking about young Psako on a Honda,
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Speaker 1: and now I'm going to go to Yamaha and talk
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Speaker 1: about Fabio Jack because it feels like all of last
12:40
Speaker 1: year with our Pittok pod, and so far this year
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Speaker 1: it was Mark and Peco, Mark and Peco, Juohe Martin.
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Speaker 1: Now we're actually bringing the rest of the field into
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Speaker 1: the mix, and.
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Speaker 2: It's the shaduff that we needed.
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Speaker 1: But the shakeup faber Corderraro did not need was that
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Speaker 1: absolute heartbreak of his rear ride high device getting stuck on.
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Speaker 2: You could see it.
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Speaker 1: I was sitting in the media center when the race
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Speaker 1: was going on. You could see everyone going, why is
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Speaker 1: he breaking so hard? I think his maggots and beggetts.
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Speaker 1: Why is he trying to like do like a front
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Speaker 1: end stoppy? You know, someone even said, I thought I
13:13
Speaker 1: saw a smoker lap earlier.
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Speaker 2: But to have that, I think it's a four point
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Speaker 2: five second.
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Speaker 1: Lead ahead of theirs, To be that close to taste
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Speaker 1: the victory and have to forfeit the win.
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Speaker 2: I was almost into the whole media center.
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Speaker 1: Everyone was just going Fabio, Fabio, poor Fabio. And then
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Speaker 1: he came up and did his post race debrief and
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Speaker 1: actually started crying in front of the raw emotion because
13:42
Speaker 1: we know that he is stuck with this manufacturer.
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Speaker 2: He believes in them.
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Speaker 1: Obviously this weekend they brought in some era upgrades that
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Speaker 1: we could really see was beneficial to both him and Jack.
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Speaker 2: But man for that victory to be so close.
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Speaker 3: Oh, when he can take the emotion out of this
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Speaker 3: and reflect on it, which you know is obviously going
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Speaker 3: to take days because it's been nearly three years since
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Speaker 3: you want a Grand Prix. When you can take the
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Speaker 3: emotion out of it and you can look at yourself
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Speaker 3: in the mirror and say I did everything right, and
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Speaker 3: I think that helps to take some of the sting
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Speaker 3: out of it, because in the end of the day
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Speaker 3: he was let down by his equipment with the failure
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Speaker 3: of the rear ride height device. Everything he could have
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Speaker 3: controlled he controlled absolutely brilliantly. Another just ridiculous pole position
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Speaker 3: on Saturday. And I know this is not what I
14:33
Speaker 3: was going to say I get paid the big Bucks for,
14:34
Speaker 3: or just so I get paid the Bucks for to
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Speaker 3: come up with words to describe things when they go. Well,
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Speaker 3: my reaction to Quaturero and Q two at the moment
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Speaker 3: is I just laugh a lot because it's just preposterous
14:44
Speaker 3: some of the stuff that he's doing on that bike
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Speaker 3: at the moment. There's no words that really describe it.
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Speaker 3: But we saw in the sprint the previous day. It's like, well,
14:50
Speaker 3: that's great, you can do that over one lap, but
14:52
Speaker 3: doing it over a half race distance is not tenable,
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Speaker 3: and certainly over a full race distance. But I think
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Speaker 3: there are a couple of things at play on Sunday.
15:01
Speaker 3: Being convinced to run the soft front was clearly the
15:03
Speaker 3: right decision. So if Jack Miller was the guy who
15:05
Speaker 3: convinced Fabio to go for that, then more cute os
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Speaker 3: to Jack with what he's doing.
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Speaker 4: There with Yamaha.
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Speaker 3: But because we're in that second start, and at the
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Speaker 3: beginning of that race, you had Alex Marquess who'd fallen
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Speaker 3: off in the first start before it was red flag,
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Speaker 3: Mark Marquess who'd falled off in the first start before
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Speaker 3: it was red flag. The other fast guys that came through,
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Speaker 3: like Betzeki and Zako were several rows behind. You could
15:27
Speaker 3: understand why maybe the ducaddies were a little bit cautious.
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Speaker 3: As much as murder GP riders get off the start
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Speaker 3: of the race, and Fabio's like the Yamaha works really
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Speaker 3: really well in clean air. These guys might be sick
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Speaker 3: and guessing themselves just a little bit after what happened
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Speaker 3: twenty minutes before. I'm going to just get out and
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Speaker 3: break these guys in the first few laps, and his
15:48
Speaker 3: first five laps were absolutely astonishing, while the ducaddies were
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Speaker 3: floundering around and Jack Miller's up in second place. There
15:54
Speaker 3: were two races going on. There was a couatarero race
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Speaker 3: by himself at the front, and then four and a
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Speaker 3: half seconds back there was Miller and everybody else. He
16:02
Speaker 3: had done all the hard work and he was basically
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Speaker 3: in cruise control from there. There was a couple of
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Speaker 3: laps there when Bizeki got up to second and you're going, okay,
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Speaker 3: like Bozeki's three tenths faster, is he starting to get
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Speaker 3: back in the mix, And Fabio just got that gap
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Speaker 3: up by four tenths just to prove that he had
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Speaker 3: plenty left in his pocket if he needed to deploy it.
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Speaker 3: So for him to get a DNF after such a
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Speaker 3: long victory drought in that manner, absolutely gutting for him.
16:27
Speaker 3: But like you said before, it's amazing we're having this
16:30
Speaker 3: conversation about Yamaha because ever since the end of twenty two,
16:35
Speaker 3: when he sort of fought the good fight but he
16:36
Speaker 3: was fighting a losing battle with Banyay for that year's
16:39
Speaker 3: title in twenty two, they've pretty much been nowhere in
16:42
Speaker 3: twenty three and four, and you know, you can start
16:46
Speaker 3: to not overrate what qua A already before. But there
16:50
Speaker 3: is the question a lot we haven't seen you upfront
16:52
Speaker 3: for a while. Are you super dependent on your equipment?
16:55
Speaker 3: They all are to a degree, but he is one
16:57
Speaker 3: of the absolute best guys on the grid. I'd go
17:00
Speaker 3: as far as saying the only rider I would take
17:02
Speaker 3: in a lottery in a draft over Fabio corceerro Be,
17:06
Speaker 3: Mark Markez I Reckon.
17:07
Speaker 4: He's the second best rider remote GP. Quite frankly, it's.
17:10
Speaker 3: A great reminder of his quality and as galling as
17:13
Speaker 3: that was for him to lose that win, I could
17:15
Speaker 3: see him winning a race before this season is out
17:17
Speaker 3: with the right set of circumstances and track and just
17:20
Speaker 3: that little bit of luck that deserted him. But talk
17:23
Speaker 3: about enhancing your reputation. He was absolutely brilliant and we've
17:27
Speaker 3: seen three saturdays.
17:28
Speaker 4: In a row where he's been on pole.
17:29
Speaker 3: But that was a win he should have had, and
17:31
Speaker 3: I do hope that twelfth twelfth win comes to him
17:34
Speaker 3: soon because he certainly deserves it.
17:36
Speaker 1: You're the statsman, Matt, so I was just thinking when
17:39
Speaker 1: you were talking with the lap times that that Zechi
17:42
Speaker 1: was doing while Fabia was still in the lead. If
17:45
Speaker 1: Fabio had managed to maintain not had that.
17:48
Speaker 2: Technical issue, would Betzeki have caught up to Fabio?
17:53
Speaker 1: Do you think with the laps time he was doing,
17:54
Speaker 1: only because I asked the extreme close up we saw
17:58
Speaker 1: of Zako's bike and how much that front tire was graining,
18:01
Speaker 1: like you mentioned, do you think that would have it
18:04
Speaker 1: would have stayed Fabio first, Marco then Zako or do
18:07
Speaker 1: you think that say would have put up to him.
18:10
Speaker 3: I think I think Kuato had so much of a
18:12
Speaker 3: gap at that point that it was up to four
18:14
Speaker 3: and a half seconds. I think he could have probably
18:17
Speaker 3: eased off, and that because there were six laps to
18:19
Speaker 3: go when he retireds on lap twelve, so he probably
18:24
Speaker 3: rolls to a two and a half to three second win.
18:27
Speaker 3: I don't think we would have got down to look
18:29
Speaker 3: Bazeki's brilliant on old tires. We've seen that before. But
18:32
Speaker 3: those couple of laps where Kuaturo realized the pace behind
18:35
Speaker 3: him was hiding up a little bit and it just
18:36
Speaker 3: instantly took three tenths off what he was doing. He
18:39
Speaker 3: had time and reserve there, so I don't think we
18:41
Speaker 3: would have got some amazing last lap showed, and I
18:43
Speaker 3: think he had them covered because of what he'd done in.
18:46
Speaker 4: The first five laps.
18:47
Speaker 3: I thought he would have had more in his pocket
18:49
Speaker 3: for the last five when you can start managing tyra
18:52
Speaker 3: and just not taking as much risk. The first five
18:54
Speaker 3: laps set him up for what should have been a
18:56
Speaker 3: pretty emphatic victory and just gutting that you didn't get it.
19:01
Speaker 1: Oh. I found really interesting this weekend and thinking about
19:05
Speaker 1: it so far this season, I really feel like Lady Luck, somehow,
19:09
Speaker 1: miraculously is on the Marquez brother's side. I think about
19:13
Speaker 1: the patch that if we didn't have that red flag
19:17
Speaker 1: with both Marque's brothers crashing out on that first lap
19:20
Speaker 1: during the original race start, that technically could have been
19:23
Speaker 1: marked the DNF of the season. But the fact that
19:27
Speaker 1: he got that red flag this weekend, he had that
19:29
Speaker 1: red flag encoder. It just seems that so as miraculously
19:33
Speaker 1: happening for the Marquez brothers.
19:35
Speaker 3: But you know what, like I mean, look to cover
19:38
Speaker 3: the red flag off It was completely appropriate because you
19:41
Speaker 3: had ad Catti on fire somewhere between the last two
19:44
Speaker 3: quarters and spewing all over.
19:45
Speaker 4: The track, so they had to red flag it.
19:47
Speaker 3: And you know, the rule is what it is if
19:48
Speaker 3: there's a red flag within the first three laps and
19:50
Speaker 3: everyone gets to restart. The Alex Marquez crash was cold,
19:54
Speaker 3: medium front tie and a front ride height device that
19:57
Speaker 3: didn't disengage going to the first corner, which is why
19:59
Speaker 3: he went down so rapidly. And then Mark's crash on
20:02
Speaker 3: lap two of the first race was he said he'd
20:04
Speaker 3: been super cautious through maggots and Becketts in the first lap,
20:07
Speaker 3: and then when he was in the lead on lap
20:08
Speaker 3: two he decided to push a little bit more and
20:10
Speaker 3: was literally blown halfway off the track by the wind
20:12
Speaker 3: because it was so gusting there and lost control there.
20:14
Speaker 3: And we're talking about Jucadi. Before you look at what
20:17
Speaker 3: a Ducaddi looks like relative to all the other motor
20:19
Speaker 3: GP bikes. There's aerodynamic winglets on winglets on winglets on
20:23
Speaker 3: those things. It looks like a cheese grater, there's so
20:25
Speaker 3: many bits in it. But on a really windy day
20:27
Speaker 3: like it was on Sunday, there's more surfaces for the
20:30
Speaker 3: winter hit on the doucaddy and it definitely affected the performance.
20:33
Speaker 3: You could see that was part of why they struggled relatively.
20:37
Speaker 4: But you know it was interesting.
20:39
Speaker 3: Mark was not happy after the race that he was
20:41
Speaker 3: very annoyed with himself for the mistake that he made
20:44
Speaker 3: in the first race, but he managed to regroup and
20:48
Speaker 3: make the best of a bad situation. He was down
20:49
Speaker 3: in tenth at one point on Sunday in that main
20:52
Speaker 3: race and just methodically worked his way back through, And
20:57
Speaker 3: you know, that was a day to that was a
21:00
Speaker 3: day to consolidate. And he's had his eyes on his
21:03
Speaker 3: brother Alex for a lot of these last few races.
21:06
Speaker 3: If I'm having a bad day, that's not great. But
21:08
Speaker 3: if I'm having a slightly less bad day than my
21:10
Speaker 3: brother who's behind me, then that's good because I'm accumulating points.
21:14
Speaker 3: And I'm always a believer that you win these World
21:17
Speaker 3: Championships on your worst days, not your best ones. If
21:20
Speaker 3: you can mitigate the pain of your bad days. If
21:23
Speaker 3: he's not had a good day and he's not happy
21:26
Speaker 3: with how he's ridden and the decisions he's made, and
21:28
Speaker 3: he's banked to podium and he's finished two places ahead
21:30
Speaker 3: of his main rival in the championship standings, that's a
21:33
Speaker 3: good day and you take that one and you move on.
21:36
Speaker 3: We know that Silveston's not a great circuit for him,
21:39
Speaker 3: and an interesting theory. I heard about that over the weekend,
21:42
Speaker 3: which makes complete sense. I'm not sure why I didn't
21:44
Speaker 3: think about it before. A lot of the high speed
21:47
Speaker 3: corners at Silverston are right handers, and we know Mark's
21:50
Speaker 3: awesome and left hand corners, and Mark slightly struggled more
21:53
Speaker 3: in these fast right handers ever since the fort shoulder
21:56
Speaker 3: surgeries on your right side, which quite frankly, you would
21:59
Speaker 3: struggle more in high speed right hand corners if you
22:01
Speaker 3: have had your right shoulder operated on four times. It's
22:04
Speaker 3: just not a track that suits his riding style, which
22:07
Speaker 3: is amazing to think for a guy as good as
22:09
Speaker 3: Mark is, so for him to get a podium out
22:11
Speaker 3: of a weekend where he clearly wasn't quite right. He
22:14
Speaker 3: got beaten in the sprint for the first time all year,
22:17
Speaker 3: and rode a bit of luck to get on the
22:18
Speaker 3: podium on Sunday. These are the days when you win
22:20
Speaker 3: a World championship, not the days when you're cruising around
22:22
Speaker 3: smashing everyone by ten seconds. It's making the best of
22:25
Speaker 3: the least and that was definitely an example of that.
22:30
Speaker 1: Did you hear the off track talk about Peko Vano
22:35
Speaker 1: and Mike Marquez and I don't know who said what,
22:38
Speaker 1: but apparently it was along the lines of, you know,
22:42
Speaker 1: you can't keep blaming the bike at some point, it's
22:44
Speaker 1: coming down to the writer. I feel like that marquees
22:47
Speaker 1: to Peco situation because you know, you're talking about making
22:50
Speaker 1: the best of the worst situations and Peko Vanak is
22:55
Speaker 1: on struggle Street at the.
22:56
Speaker 4: Moment, right, Yeah, yeah, he is.
22:58
Speaker 3: I mean we've talked about this before and that there's
23:00
Speaker 3: two really different approaches to try to achieve the same
23:03
Speaker 3: end here in that Peko's you know, you always call
23:05
Speaker 3: him the professor, and it's so right because he wants
23:08
Speaker 3: to understand everything first and then deploy it. And we've
23:12
Speaker 3: seen in the last couple of years that when he
23:14
Speaker 3: does understand everything perfectly and everything is just so for
23:18
Speaker 3: him in the way that he wants it. He can
23:20
Speaker 3: get himself into a zone where he's just about impossible
23:23
Speaker 3: to be unless he falls off, which he did last
23:25
Speaker 3: year and why what lost the World championship. He can
23:27
Speaker 3: get in those zones where he'll go to Asen or
23:30
Speaker 3: he'll go to some of these tracks where he's in
23:32
Speaker 3: his sweet spot and you just don't see him for
23:34
Speaker 3: the entire weekend. It's like bye bye p one and
23:36
Speaker 3: he just disappears. There's a bit of Johaler and so
23:38
Speaker 3: in the way that he goes about it and seat
23:40
Speaker 3: of you know, that real sort of win every race
23:41
Speaker 3: and the laboratory perfectly. Whereas Mark, let's be honest, a
23:45
Speaker 3: lot of those years at Honda, that bike wasn't the
23:47
Speaker 3: best or second best bike on the grid. But Mark's
23:49
Speaker 3: one of these guys who would just bend a bike
23:52
Speaker 3: to its will and it's just like, well, this isn't perfect,
23:55
Speaker 3: but I'm just going to manhandle this thing into a
23:57
Speaker 3: position it shouldn't be in. And to my mind, the
23:59
Speaker 3: biggest legacy of what Mark's done in his motor GP
24:01
Speaker 3: career not so much what he did at Honda. Look
24:05
Speaker 3: what happened to Honda when he was either injured or
24:07
Speaker 3: not there, or once he left, they were absolutely hopeless
24:10
Speaker 3: for years. Because he was so good. He masked a
24:14
Speaker 3: lot of the problems that bike had, and Honda could
24:16
Speaker 3: look at it and say, well, this thing's still winning races,
24:18
Speaker 3: whereas the probably the question was, well could any other
24:21
Speaker 3: rider win a race on this thing? So Mark is
24:23
Speaker 3: the guy who I reckon. Mark would be a terrible
24:26
Speaker 3: test rider or a terrible development rider, because you could
24:29
Speaker 3: give him a bike that was no good and you'll
24:30
Speaker 3: be like, and that's fine, it's fast. I could get
24:32
Speaker 3: around on this thing, not be just by riding around
24:36
Speaker 3: the problems or the deficiencies of a machine, whereas someone
24:38
Speaker 3: else will go, well it doesn't turn, and it doesn't
24:40
Speaker 3: do this, and it doesn't do that, where Mark's just like,
24:43
Speaker 3: I'll live with that. So you know, Mark on the
24:45
Speaker 3: best bike is dangerous. Mark on not the best bike
24:48
Speaker 3: is possibly even more dangerous, because that's when you see
24:50
Speaker 3: how good the guy is. So you've got Bagnaro Marquez
24:53
Speaker 3: approaching the same problem from two very very different directions.
24:58
Speaker 3: Peco's not the sort of guy who can just say,
25:00
Speaker 3: but I'm just going to ride this thing harder and
25:02
Speaker 3: live with the consequences. Peco needs to know why things
25:05
Speaker 3: happen and how they happen before he commits to doing them,
25:08
Speaker 3: whereas Mark's prepared to live more on his wits. And
25:11
Speaker 3: it's so interesting that I love a bit of motor
25:15
Speaker 3: GP body language. I'm a big fan of it because
25:17
Speaker 3: when you see it's not so much what people say,
25:20
Speaker 3: it's what they don't say, right, And you can see
25:23
Speaker 3: so much in the body language and these pressed dee
25:25
Speaker 3: briefings and everything else. You watch every little interaction in
25:28
Speaker 3: and angle, not so much the soundbites, but how they're
25:30
Speaker 3: saying them. You can learn so much about a way
25:33
Speaker 3: a writer goes about it by what they're not saying,
25:35
Speaker 3: which I know sounds a bit counterintuitive, but there's so
25:38
Speaker 3: much about the approach and the attitude of writers up
25:40
Speaker 3: and down the grid, and Mark and Pecco are at
25:42
Speaker 3: very opposite ends of the spectrum.
25:44
Speaker 4: There.
25:46
Speaker 2: On that note, I have.
25:48
Speaker 1: To bring up the whole alicious Bargero Morbidelli first lap
25:53
Speaker 1: slash that Morbidelli's blaming Aleish, saying he did it on purpose.
25:58
Speaker 1: I feel like this is a few day is obviously
26:00
Speaker 1: dating back years and years and years ago, but why
26:03
Speaker 1: is this still happening now? Talking about the body language,
26:06
Speaker 1: you could see these two just wanting to butt heads.
26:09
Speaker 3: The two of them walking out of the gravel trap
26:11
Speaker 3: together when they clearly would have wanted to be next
26:14
Speaker 3: to anybody else in the world except for the person
26:17
Speaker 3: they were walking next to, was high comedy because they
26:20
Speaker 3: covered it for it was so It was so so funny.
26:25
Speaker 3: And you love a good, long running grudge which you'd't
26:28
Speaker 3: even know where it has its genesis. This thin Morbidelli
26:31
Speaker 3: on Sunday brought up the fact that he thought that
26:33
Speaker 3: Elisia Spargo cost him the twenty twenty World Championship. That's
26:36
Speaker 3: the first time I've heard that one. We're going back
26:38
Speaker 3: five years saying that, oh he did something to me
26:40
Speaker 3: beside oh that year, and everyone's like, wow, you don't
26:43
Speaker 3: carry a grudge Morbidelli. I don't know whether you were
26:45
Speaker 3: at his press debrief on Sunday. He's talking about a
26:48
Speaker 3: Spargo and obviously he's a wild card at the moment,
26:51
Speaker 3: and Morbidelli said, well, he won't be here for the
26:53
Speaker 3: next race, so it's all good, and then just walked off.
26:56
Speaker 3: It was the It was the funniest way to end
26:58
Speaker 3: a press debrief.
26:59
Speaker 4: So those two definitely have some history.
27:01
Speaker 3: We remember the slapping incident in Guitar a few years
27:04
Speaker 3: ago which got Elash into a lot of trouble. They
27:06
Speaker 3: have formed, they have history, and it was one of
27:09
Speaker 3: those things on the first lap of that race where
27:10
Speaker 3: Alesha afterwards said that I actually breaked almost too early
27:14
Speaker 3: into that second last corner on the end of lap
27:16
Speaker 3: one because I didn't want to run up the back
27:18
Speaker 3: of someone or cause a problem, and then it ended
27:20
Speaker 3: up causing a problem. But those two are like magnets
27:23
Speaker 3: to each other where they're on the track, like you
27:24
Speaker 3: know they're going to come together at some point and
27:27
Speaker 3: get the pop called out and enjoy the fallout because
27:29
Speaker 3: it's difficult get.
27:31
Speaker 1: The popcorn out as well for that last lap. Speaking
27:34
Speaker 1: of Morbidelli, that battle with him in Mark, if there
27:36
Speaker 1: was anyone on the grid who was going to send
27:38
Speaker 1: it to Mark because he has nothing to lose, it
27:41
Speaker 1: was a Morbidali and you could see that I was
27:44
Speaker 1: sitting in the media center, like I said, and everyone
27:46
Speaker 1: was like, come on, Frankie, come on, Frankie, because you.
27:49
Speaker 2: Just know that he was just going to send it.
27:52
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was another guy who you know that restarted race.
27:56
Speaker 3: We're talking about the Marquez brothers before and the fact
27:59
Speaker 3: that Morbidelli he was off the bike and he's actually fractured.
28:02
Speaker 3: He's left foot I heard today as well in that
28:04
Speaker 3: accident before the right he's got a fracture in there,
28:06
Speaker 3: which is going to have to deal with the fact
28:07
Speaker 3: that he was almost getting a podium about an hour later.
28:10
Speaker 3: Was a pretty good outcome for him. But yeah, he
28:13
Speaker 3: certainly wasn't going to die wondering on that last quarter.
28:15
Speaker 3: He was going to send it and of course everyone
28:17
Speaker 3: in the media sent to knew, everyone watching on TV
28:19
Speaker 3: knew it, and Mark Marquez knew it as well. So
28:22
Speaker 3: I'm just going to slightly run you out onto the
28:24
Speaker 3: exit curb there and I only need to beat you
28:26
Speaker 3: by seventeen thousands, but that's fine. I'll take my podium trophy,
28:29
Speaker 3: thank you exactly.
28:31
Speaker 1: And obviously, being in an Aussie podcast, we have to
28:34
Speaker 1: talk about Jack Miller, because, like we mentioned earlier, at
28:38
Speaker 1: one point there I was messaging the guys at Fox
28:41
Speaker 1: Australia saying, oh my goodness, we might have an Aussie
28:44
Speaker 1: across all three podiums. Straight after the Motor two Prodium,
28:48
Speaker 1: which we'll talk about shortly. But Jack Miller, we spoke
28:51
Speaker 1: about the error upgrades a little bit, but Temmy because
28:55
Speaker 1: you wrote a fantastic piece on Jack, because the news
28:57
Speaker 1: broke about him doing the Suzuka for Yamaha, which is
29:02
Speaker 1: a prestigious event in its own What was with Jack?
29:06
Speaker 1: What was that that pace? Why did he drop down
29:09
Speaker 1: further in the race? Was it the tires in.
29:11
Speaker 4: The end a little bit.
29:13
Speaker 3: I mean, Jack is pretty hard on tires, as we know,
29:16
Speaker 3: relative to some of the other guys that were running
29:18
Speaker 3: the soft but he was still fourth with four laps
29:21
Speaker 3: to go, like he'd gotten shuffled down the pack a
29:22
Speaker 3: little bit more. Beidelli at Alberti about of the way
29:25
Speaker 3: he managed to recover from that and get back on
29:26
Speaker 3: his lines. And there's something about that Yamaha that he.
29:30
Speaker 4: Was saying afterwards.
29:31
Speaker 3: When it can run its lines and you can you're
29:33
Speaker 3: not having to really stop the bike to block, pass
29:37
Speaker 3: or defend when it runs its line smoothly, it's a
29:39
Speaker 3: really really effective bike. We saw that with Quaaterero upfront
29:42
Speaker 3: just doing the perfect race. I'm not sure that Yamaha
29:45
Speaker 3: is the greatest sort of bike in combat, if that
29:48
Speaker 3: makes sense, because it's you interrupt the flow of that
29:50
Speaker 3: bike and it's no wheredear as effective. But Jack had
29:52
Speaker 3: got himself back up to P four and then with
29:55
Speaker 3: about four laps to go he had that came slightly
29:57
Speaker 3: wide into T nine there at Cops and as he
30:00
Speaker 3: said afterwards, got out on all the dirty stuff on
30:02
Speaker 3: the outside, and then you know, Morbidelli got back past him,
30:04
Speaker 3: and then a cost that came back through while Jack
30:06
Speaker 3: was recovering from being out in the weeds a little bit.
30:09
Speaker 3: So that was probably the one that annoyed him the
30:11
Speaker 3: most because he finished seventh and probably should have finished
30:13
Speaker 3: fifth or sixth. But you've also got to take the
30:17
Speaker 3: fact that you know, he had that three full events
30:20
Speaker 3: without a score, you know, through Qatar and Spain and France,
30:23
Speaker 3: with some incredibly bad luck in that, and then obviously
30:26
Speaker 3: the mistake that he made in France had probably cost
30:28
Speaker 3: himself minimum podium possibly a win on the day that
30:31
Speaker 3: Zako won that race. So I think for him to
30:33
Speaker 3: score points in a sprint for the first time this year,
30:35
Speaker 3: and then to get a decent hall of points in
30:37
Speaker 3: a Grand Prix, I think that's a pretty good weekend
30:41
Speaker 3: given where things have been recently. But there were two
30:43
Speaker 3: things for me, and I wrote about this today. I
30:45
Speaker 3: think the fact that Yamaha have entrusted him to do
30:48
Speaker 3: the eight hour, like it's a big, prestigious honor for
30:51
Speaker 3: racing for a Japanese manufacturer in that event in Japan,
30:55
Speaker 3: which is such a massive deal. You have to remember
30:57
Speaker 3: Jack Miller doesn't have a contract with Yamaha for next year.
31:00
Speaker 3: But if you were ever wondering what Yamaha think of
31:02
Speaker 3: what he's doing behind the scenes and the impact that
31:04
Speaker 3: he has made, I would be stunned if he doesn't
31:07
Speaker 3: get a deal for next year. And I think being
31:09
Speaker 3: entrusted with something like the eight Hour in August is
31:11
Speaker 3: only proof of that. But I also I mentioned it
31:14
Speaker 3: earlier in the podcast, the fact that he'd gone out
31:16
Speaker 3: and done the sighting lap on the soft front and thought,
31:19
Speaker 3: I'm noticing something here and immediately went to the factory
31:22
Speaker 3: Yamaha box and grabbed rins and grab couatarra. You could
31:25
Speaker 3: see them talking, and I dare say Jack was saying, Look,
31:28
Speaker 3: with my experience around this place, I think I know
31:31
Speaker 3: how this is going to play out, and I'm not
31:32
Speaker 3: going to tell you what front tire to run, but
31:34
Speaker 3: this is what I'm running, and this is why I'm
31:36
Speaker 3: running it, And I think that shows you that there's
31:38
Speaker 3: a real team player aspect to what Jack is doing
31:40
Speaker 3: at the moment. I think he's doing things for the
31:43
Speaker 3: greater good of that brand, and he might not be
31:46
Speaker 3: getting their headlines for it or necessarily the points at
31:49
Speaker 3: the moment, but we can see what Fabio's doing. Jack's
31:51
Speaker 3: had a big role behind the scenes testing that bike.
31:53
Speaker 3: I think his impact there has been pretty significant, and
31:57
Speaker 3: it look It was nice to see him in the
31:59
Speaker 3: best positions he'd been in all season. Probably a little
32:03
Speaker 3: bit disappointed with himself that he probably didn't score a
32:05
Speaker 3: top five in that race, but it was nice to
32:08
Speaker 3: see him back up the front and old merit and
32:09
Speaker 3: it looked really good. So, you know, fingers crossed, that's
32:12
Speaker 3: the start of an upward trend for him because the
32:14
Speaker 3: previous few races, Yeah, he committed a few silly mistakes
32:17
Speaker 3: here and there, but Manny had some weird stuff happened
32:19
Speaker 3: to him like hereth and some other plot and some
32:20
Speaker 3: of the other Grand Prix that he had. So nice
32:23
Speaker 3: to see him back up there. But his impact there
32:25
Speaker 3: is pretty evident to me.
32:27
Speaker 1: He's interesting you pointing that out, and now we're taking
32:29
Speaker 1: the step back and having a look.
32:30
Speaker 2: You can really see Yamaha are working together.
32:33
Speaker 1: It's not so much like an individual like for example
32:36
Speaker 1: it was last year with Pramac, Jucaddy and Factory Jucatti.
32:39
Speaker 2: You see the.
32:40
Speaker 1: Yamaha group are working so strongly together, and I think
32:44
Speaker 1: that's what is helping them. Like you just said there,
32:47
Speaker 1: I think between Jack and Fabio, we're not seeing the
32:51
Speaker 1: necessarily the same stuff with Alex Frinz because we know
32:54
Speaker 1: Alex has those injuries and whatnot. And then we've got
32:56
Speaker 1: miguel O Lavera who's also just had a string of
32:59
Speaker 1: bad luck over it. But I think with what you're
33:04
Speaker 1: saying about Jack and what I'm hearing it, and I'm
33:06
Speaker 1: reading what you're writing as well, if Yama don't resign
33:10
Speaker 1: Jack for fromak Yabaha next year, it's going to be
33:15
Speaker 1: kind of turning heads. It's going to be a whole Hey, Martine,
33:17
Speaker 1: not getting the factory ride type of like why are
33:20
Speaker 1: you not keeping him here?
33:21
Speaker 2: Because we're seeing what he's doing and obviously.
33:23
Speaker 1: What they're bringing in this weekend though, with that new
33:26
Speaker 1: Arrow update that they had, you think that's what benefited them,
33:30
Speaker 1: because when I was talking to Jack on Thursday, he
33:32
Speaker 1: was saying, Oh, this is a track that he's confident at.
33:35
Speaker 2: Here, he feels comfortable here.
33:37
Speaker 1: Was that Errow that what what helped them? Or was
33:39
Speaker 1: it just the fact that you know, he was feeling
33:41
Speaker 1: strong here? We know Fabrio is coming off like a
33:44
Speaker 1: strong couple of races as well.
33:46
Speaker 3: Yeah, bit of bitter Colubu and bitter colar bloo with
33:49
Speaker 3: all this sort of I think the key part is
33:51
Speaker 3: you remember the day after her Reath they had the
33:53
Speaker 3: one day test there where they tried the new engine
33:56
Speaker 3: and a whole bunch of new Errow stuff. We were
33:58
Speaker 3: probably going to see what that could really do at Lamon,
34:01
Speaker 3: but it rained on the Sunday, so you know, all
34:03
Speaker 3: bets are off a little bit. We didn't really quite
34:04
Speaker 3: see the dry weather performance, and even Silveston to a
34:07
Speaker 3: degree because the weather was so weird on Sunday it
34:09
Speaker 3: was so cold and so blustery. Then you know, once
34:12
Speaker 3: we go to Aragon for the next round, I think
34:14
Speaker 3: that's where we're going to get a true representation of
34:18
Speaker 3: where the Yamaha has improved because you think of Aragon,
34:20
Speaker 3: it's got that massive long back straight, which in the
34:23
Speaker 3: past the Yamaha has just got their doors blown off
34:25
Speaker 3: going down that straight by they do caddies because they
34:27
Speaker 3: were fifteen twenty k hour slower. I'll be super curious
34:30
Speaker 3: to see the speed trap figures once we get to Aragon,
34:32
Speaker 3: because it's much more of a normal in inverted Commas
34:35
Speaker 3: circuit with the exception of that back straight, which is
34:37
Speaker 3: where they issued bleed lap time all the time. So
34:40
Speaker 3: we'll see if the new engine they've put in really
34:43
Speaker 3: is stronger on a track that really rewards that sort
34:45
Speaker 3: of thing. But I think you can see the state
34:48
Speaker 3: of Yamaha's progress by the fact that there were three
34:50
Speaker 3: of them in Q two, which is something we've not
34:52
Speaker 3: seen for a really, really long time. Jack was right
34:54
Speaker 3: up the front as early as Friday practice. He was
34:56
Speaker 3: third after Friday and Oliver still there's a bit of
34:59
Speaker 3: an asterisk because he's still not one hundred percent fit,
35:01
Speaker 3: we know that, but he was closer to those other
35:04
Speaker 3: guys than he's been.
35:05
Speaker 4: For a while.
35:06
Speaker 3: So you know, Yamaha have double the bikes of last
35:08
Speaker 3: year and they're operating really well as one entity rather
35:13
Speaker 3: than two teams, which you were talking about with Decadi
35:15
Speaker 3: last year. They feel really together for me, and having
35:19
Speaker 3: a couple of experienced guys in that second team once
35:21
Speaker 3: Olivera gets back up to speed helping to.
35:24
Speaker 4: Push the development along.
35:25
Speaker 3: It's a really good rider lineup because the youngest and
35:29
Speaker 3: most forceful of them is you know, the guy who's
35:32
Speaker 3: going to lead the project in terms of results, which
35:34
Speaker 3: is Quaerero. But you've got other guys behind the scenes
35:37
Speaker 3: that are making a real impact. And the other factor
35:39
Speaker 3: on Jack before he's had wrapped. The jackpart of this
35:41
Speaker 3: up is that I think the fact that you've got
35:44
Speaker 3: one more year of these rules in twenty six before
35:47
Speaker 3: you move into twenty seven and kind of the great
35:48
Speaker 3: unknown with the big reset, the fact you've got continuity
35:52
Speaker 3: and Yamaha's clearly made progress year on year. It would
35:56
Speaker 3: be stunning if they didn't keep Jack because I feel
35:59
Speaker 3: that he's doing everything he needs to do in terms
36:03
Speaker 3: of impact at that manufacturer. I mean, he scored less
36:05
Speaker 3: points at this time of the year than he'd scored
36:06
Speaker 3: at KTM last year, but the whole KTM thing last
36:08
Speaker 3: year felt that he was dead man walking, right. You
36:10
Speaker 3: kind of knew that he was out there, whereas I
36:13
Speaker 3: think here he's making a real impact. I don't think
36:15
Speaker 3: it's any surprise that that bike has been one of
36:16
Speaker 3: the big improvers of the year because he's doing what
36:19
Speaker 3: he needs to do.
36:20
Speaker 1: I can't wait for twenty seven to hurry up, because
36:23
Speaker 1: you think we were in twenty twenty seven right now,
36:25
Speaker 1: Fabrico Daura would have won that because there wouldn't have
36:30
Speaker 1: been the whole rhin eye devisol technology changes everything.
36:32
Speaker 4: So, like you said, that sounds like another podcast.
36:35
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, that's your job to write about all that
36:38
Speaker 2: text stuff about it.
36:40
Speaker 1: But oh man, can't wait to see Jack Miller on
36:44
Speaker 1: a podium this year, Ossie on a podium in Moto GP.
36:46
Speaker 1: But we had an Aussie on the podium in Moto
36:49
Speaker 1: too with his maiden Moto to Grand Prix victory. And
36:57
Speaker 1: I tell you what being there to witness that, to
37:00
Speaker 1: see him, to see his dad John O, them tears,
37:03
Speaker 1: the whole team, Wow, just wow, what it was.
37:08
Speaker 4: It was so good.
37:09
Speaker 3: I mean, I love the fact that it was the
37:11
Speaker 3: first race of the night as well, obviously because the
37:13
Speaker 3: program was slightly jumbled with the Motor GP being the
37:15
Speaker 3: middle race of the three. But to see the way
37:20
Speaker 3: Centner won that race, this is not you know, I
37:22
Speaker 3: heard it described as, you know, the Stephen Bradbury way
37:24
Speaker 3: for everyone to knock each other off and you know
37:26
Speaker 3: we're a gold medal. It's not how it quite worked
37:29
Speaker 3: because it was a strange Motor two race and that
37:31
Speaker 3: you don't often get big packs battling for the lead
37:34
Speaker 3: in Moto two like this, but at Silverston you do.
37:36
Speaker 3: It's just a nature of that particular track. And there
37:39
Speaker 3: were five of them in that pack for the entire race,
37:43
Speaker 3: and they each gave as good as they got. But
37:44
Speaker 3: you know, I just never led that race until the
37:46
Speaker 3: second last quarter. He certainly timed it right. But one
37:49
Speaker 3: of the things I loved about this was that he
37:52
Speaker 3: looked at the two guys that were ahead of him
37:54
Speaker 3: on the final lap. You've got Aaron Connett, and anyone
37:57
Speaker 3: who's got tattoos up to his jawline, he can probably
38:00
Speaker 3: tell the way he's going to fight in a last
38:02
Speaker 3: lab battle. There's a certain tell with a guy's eg
38:04
Speaker 3: with that situation. He's also an established guy who isn't
38:07
Speaker 3: going to be pushed around on the last lap, particularly
38:09
Speaker 3: when he's racing against a young kid that's come up
38:12
Speaker 3: from Moto III last year and is starting to pull
38:14
Speaker 3: up trees. And David Alonso, who we talked about Alonso
38:17
Speaker 3: last year. He's the next big Motor GP staff of mine.
38:19
Speaker 3: Once he gets himself in there, you knew there were
38:22
Speaker 3: going to be fireworks on that last lap because Connett
38:25
Speaker 3: was just not going to sit there and say, well
38:26
Speaker 3: after you to David Alonzo, it's like, you want to
38:29
Speaker 3: race at the front end Motor two in the last lap, Well,
38:31
Speaker 3: this is how this works. And I love the fact
38:34
Speaker 3: that Ags saw this was coming and positioned himself in
38:38
Speaker 3: the perfect place if it all went wrong, keyword being
38:42
Speaker 3: if he was there to sweep up and take the victory.
38:46
Speaker 3: It was brilliantly executed given what was on the line
38:49
Speaker 3: for him as a first time Grand Prix winner, and
38:51
Speaker 3: it happened so fast. And the funniest part about this,
38:54
Speaker 3: and you can take our listeners behind the curtain a
38:56
Speaker 3: little bit here because you're.
38:57
Speaker 4: On the ground.
38:58
Speaker 3: The Stilveston press room is in possibly the silliest place
39:01
Speaker 3: of any racetrack of the entire world, because it takes
39:03
Speaker 3: about one hundred years to get anywhere I remember going there.
39:06
Speaker 3: We couldn't actually see the circuit at one point. I
39:08
Speaker 3: don't know whether they fix that or not. It's still
39:09
Speaker 3: pretty hard to work out what's going on. But with
39:12
Speaker 3: all that excitement going on, there were plenty of Australians
39:14
Speaker 3: that were watching it happening in real time, but you
39:16
Speaker 3: weren't one of them.
39:18
Speaker 1: No, no, I was running down. I was saying to
39:21
Speaker 1: Matt that with our whole last lap, I'm thinking, oh
39:24
Speaker 1: Sin is probably going to get on.
39:25
Speaker 2: The podium, and I'm filming.
39:27
Speaker 1: Some vlogs and social content for Fox Motorsports. So let
39:30
Speaker 1: me head on down and catch center and park Ferme.
39:33
Speaker 1: And as I'm going down, like you said, you can't
39:35
Speaker 1: see what's happening in Philip Island, for example, as a
39:37
Speaker 1: track where you can see the racetrack from the media center,
39:42
Speaker 1: but Silverstone is not. And I'm running down and I
39:44
Speaker 1: can hear everyone like screaming and getting really excited.
39:47
Speaker 2: I could hear the grand stands off the main street.
39:50
Speaker 1: And I come on down and I look at the
39:52
Speaker 1: big screen and I see that Senter's one. So I've
39:54
Speaker 1: missed all the on track action from Cener getting into
39:57
Speaker 1: the lead. But all I was thinking the whole time
40:00
Speaker 1: was obviously Alonzo and Cannett, and we know what Alonso's like.
40:03
Speaker 1: But I'm also thinking of Marrera against Senna because those
40:06
Speaker 1: who have exchanged quite a lot, thinking back to Thailand
40:09
Speaker 1: in round one, and I know that they want to
40:12
Speaker 1: get their elbows out with each other. Shall we say,
40:14
Speaker 1: they're not afraid to send it to one another there, so,
40:18
Speaker 1: but watching just the raw emotion and when I spoke
40:22
Speaker 1: to Senna in the broadcast is set after for Fox Motorsport,
40:27
Speaker 1: I said, what was it like when you.
40:29
Speaker 2: Realized you had won? What was it like? And he
40:31
Speaker 2: said he just had to stop when he was in tears.
40:34
Speaker 2: And for those of you who.
40:35
Speaker 1: Know Sona, and he's quite a serious character, as we've
40:39
Speaker 1: spoken to him on the pod before, you know, he's
40:41
Speaker 1: very straightforward and very focused on what he wants. And
40:44
Speaker 1: for him to say that he's led out a bit
40:46
Speaker 1: of emotion is wow. Okay, you can see what this
40:50
Speaker 1: means to him. The whole team where there to celebrate,
40:52
Speaker 1: even his teammate Manu, who crashed out earlier in the race,
40:56
Speaker 1: to celebrate with him. So once again it's that camaraderie there.
41:00
Speaker 1: You can see them all working really together. But the
41:03
Speaker 1: center he's had, you know, multiple podiums already now we've seen,
41:07
Speaker 1: but now it's that victory. Okay, here's our hope for
41:10
Speaker 1: the next Aussie and somroto GP and if we can
41:13
Speaker 1: keep progressing on this trajectory, he's going to get there well.
41:16
Speaker 3: And you can understand why he reacted the way that
41:18
Speaker 3: he did afterwards because he led the race for about
41:21
Speaker 3: two and a half seconds, so there's a bit of
41:23
Speaker 3: process after the race because like, oh, I've just won
41:25
Speaker 3: by first grold breed. If you're ever got a win
41:27
Speaker 3: a first Grold prie, that'd be the way to do it.
41:29
Speaker 3: But I just am really impressed with the way he's
41:32
Speaker 3: going about it because it's not just this flash in
41:34
Speaker 3: the pan, like oh, he's on the podium. Like Philip
41:36
Speaker 3: Biol last year was amazing, but it was a bit
41:38
Speaker 3: of an outlier, let's be honest, and you know, because
41:41
Speaker 3: it came from kind of nowhere and he did. You know,
41:42
Speaker 3: he's very good all weekend there, but it wasn't like
41:44
Speaker 3: he was on this huge run of competing for podiums.
41:47
Speaker 3: You're almost surprised now when he's not up the front
41:49
Speaker 3: because it looks completely legit.
41:51
Speaker 4: But one thing I did love.
41:52
Speaker 3: I mean, this is one of the things I love
41:54
Speaker 3: about this championship in that the international nature of Moto GP.
41:57
Speaker 3: An Australian, a brazil and a Colombian on the podium.
42:02
Speaker 3: It sounds like the first line of a bad joke,
42:04
Speaker 3: doesn't it. An Australian, a Colombian and a Brazilian.
42:06
Speaker 4: Walk into a bar.
42:07
Speaker 3: But the three of them, you know, no Spanish Italian riders.
42:10
Speaker 4: You know. Jake Dixon wasn't there.
42:12
Speaker 3: He's normally so good at silver, so that it was
42:13
Speaker 3: just so bizarre to see those three flags going up
42:16
Speaker 3: behind the podium ceremony. But the best part about it
42:19
Speaker 3: was that the flag in the middle, the one that
42:20
Speaker 3: was the highest, was the Australian flag.
42:24
Speaker 1: And of course he did this showy on the podium
42:26
Speaker 1: which we had supposed the.
42:28
Speaker 2: Fox Motorsports Socials.
42:29
Speaker 1: That was a standard Australian little nod there. But I
42:33
Speaker 1: think routes to stend on his mad Moto IWO victory
42:37
Speaker 1: and obviously Moto three unfortunate events for our Aussie. Joel
42:42
Speaker 1: can also with that DNF Joel when I was talking
42:46
Speaker 1: to him on Thursday as well. He was saying he's
42:48
Speaker 1: feeling really confident the runs that he's been having so
42:51
Speaker 1: far this season. You know, he's just feeling out along
42:53
Speaker 1: with the bike, and this was a track that he
42:56
Speaker 1: felt really confident going into.
42:57
Speaker 2: And then we see that on Sundays.
43:00
Speaker 1: You know, like you said, you've got to take the
43:02
Speaker 1: positives from the vat and when you can. But Joel,
43:05
Speaker 1: he's on track and he's working hard to potentially get
43:10
Speaker 1: a higher championship position this year.
43:13
Speaker 3: Yeah, and crashing from the lead as well at the
43:14
Speaker 3: same quarter where Agis had gotten in front about ninety
43:17
Speaker 3: minutes before that. So I have all the places to
43:19
Speaker 3: do it. But you know, we talked about this last
43:21
Speaker 3: week after he'd led for so long at Lemont. There
43:24
Speaker 3: is going to be a Grand Prix win.
43:25
Speaker 4: For him this year.
43:26
Speaker 3: He's just been too good and too consistent and too
43:29
Speaker 3: fast to not have one before the end of this year.
43:32
Speaker 3: And it was still quite early in the race at Silverstone.
43:35
Speaker 3: We know that Motor three can be a complete fist
43:37
Speaker 3: fight for twenty laps there, so who knows where that
43:40
Speaker 3: would have ended up for him, But you can just
43:42
Speaker 3: see it like there's a confidence and a belief there
43:45
Speaker 3: now he knows he's legit at the front of that championship.
43:48
Speaker 3: Wouldn't surprise me at all if it happens in the
43:50
Speaker 3: next two or three rounds. So an unfortunate one. And
43:53
Speaker 3: what was weird about it too, is you sort of
43:55
Speaker 3: scratched your head. That's like, huh, when was the last
43:57
Speaker 3: time he was in a position of advantage and actually
44:00
Speaker 3: squad did it because it doesn't happen very often with
44:01
Speaker 3: Joel these days. He's like this super consistent performer. So unfortunate.
44:05
Speaker 3: I'm sure he was kicking himself because that's not one
44:09
Speaker 3: of those ones where it was someone else that took
44:11
Speaker 3: him out or nudged him off the track like it
44:12
Speaker 3: happened at Lamon at the end of that race.
44:14
Speaker 4: But it's coming. You can see that it's coming.
44:17
Speaker 3: It's just unfortunate that a track that he was super
44:20
Speaker 3: confident at that it didn't work out for him on Sunday.
44:22
Speaker 4: But I dare say that's not the last of him.
44:24
Speaker 3: The time we get to Aragon in a couple of weeks,
44:26
Speaker 3: he'll be right back where he's been all season.
44:28
Speaker 4: I think.
44:30
Speaker 1: And Jacob Rolston, he crossed the line in thirteenth. I
44:33
Speaker 1: believe the same position that he qualified in in Moto three.
44:37
Speaker 1: But if you assies, if you guys didn't watch the
44:40
Speaker 1: Moto three race, because I know it wasn't on at
44:42
Speaker 1: a friendly time zone, shall we say you.
44:45
Speaker 2: Need to go back and watch it.
44:46
Speaker 1: Because Ruwaida Rada one the three race from last place
44:52
Speaker 1: on the grid.
44:53
Speaker 3: That was only this, well, tell you someone who did
44:57
Speaker 3: believe it.
44:58
Speaker 4: Sitting in the.
44:59
Speaker 3: Wait to go into the press conference after because Moto
45:01
Speaker 3: GP was the middle of the three races, Mark Marquez
45:04
Speaker 3: is watching Moto three in the early laps on the
45:07
Speaker 3: monitor and says Ruada will win this after he'd started
45:11
Speaker 3: from last on the grid. So if Mark Marquez doesn't,
45:13
Speaker 3: you know, this whole motorcycle riding thing doesn't work out
45:15
Speaker 3: for Mark, we'll get a job as like a fortune
45:17
Speaker 3: teller or something, because that seems to be pretty good
45:18
Speaker 3: for him. But the fact the fact that he picked
45:22
Speaker 3: that so early, Ruaida is just on a different level
45:24
Speaker 3: in that championship this year, it's very rare to think
45:28
Speaker 3: of guys who can come from the very back or
45:30
Speaker 3: pit lane starts and actually winning that cat grig because
45:32
Speaker 3: it's so cutthroat, I mean, you think I remember Pedro
45:35
Speaker 3: Costa doing that in Qatar really early in his Moto
45:37
Speaker 3: three career. Came for the pitlane to win a race,
45:39
Speaker 3: So only the really good ones do that. We know
45:42
Speaker 3: he's with a good team there, but man from last
45:44
Speaker 3: on the grid to win. And this wasn't like Lemon
45:47
Speaker 3: where if he inherited a win because of some silliness
45:49
Speaker 3: on the final lap which included Joe kel So awesome performance,
45:53
Speaker 3: but yeah, Mark Marqus picked at about half an hour
45:55
Speaker 3: before it happened. So if he liked to send us
45:57
Speaker 3: this week's lottery numbers, then you might your co host
46:00
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46:05
Speaker 1: Hey, if you're getting some of those lottery numbers, I
46:07
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46:09
Speaker 4: I'll pass it on.
46:11
Speaker 1: Just give market As a call and ask the lottery numbers. Well, guys,
46:15
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