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MotoGP Round 1 reactions + Daytona 200 predictions in S6 Ep 13 · B 4EVA Kool "Race A Motorcycle" Podcast

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  Listen to the Be Perfect Cool podcast.
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  My name is Rex 45 and Moto GP has just started this weekend.
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  I got a little bit of feedback, but you guys can't hear.
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  But it's all good. We're going to have some fun
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  tonight because I'm excited. The first round is Thailand.
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  We got the guys in here to chop it up.
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  Maybe. You know, we got this game we're
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  playing and we got scores to discuss and see where we're
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  standing and stuff like that. I mean, for the most part, you
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  know, I think we we can all agree that, you know, I was
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  right and I'm always right. But we got to hear the guys and
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  let them, you know, confirm how right I was or not and hear
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  their sides of the story. My name is Rex 45.
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  I'm ready to get into this thing, TJ, man.
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  Welcome to the show, man. How you doing tonight man?
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  I'm doing good. I'm happy now man, it's still
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  cold up here. We should be melting snow soon,
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  hopefully in a couple weeks. But now that Moto GP is back,
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  I'm excited and just got to soak it all in from all the classes,
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  so ready to chop it up. Nice, nice man.
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  I'm, I'm excited too, man. And I was in Boston yesterday,
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  so I, I got to say I'm not excited about all the, the, the
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  snow, but it's good to know that it's melting and going away and
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  spring is around the corner. So I'm excited, man.
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  And I can't wait to dive into the show.
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  So we're going to keep it moving though.
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  Lewis, welcome to the show. How you doing tonight man?
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  Doing good, doing good here. And once again, one of the
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  crappiest hotels you can find. But that's Daytona.
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  That's Bike Week. That's the way it works.
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  Man, listen, I'm going to be in my trailer, so that's what my
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  hotel is going to look like. Although it's it's going to be
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  all mine. So you know, whatever stains are
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  there or not there, no one will know.
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  I do not want to turn a black light in here because I'll be
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  end up sleeping outside in the sidewalk, so I'm just going to
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  wrap myself in some towels that I brought and try not to really
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  touch anything in this room. We're going to talk about that
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  travel because it does get a little sketchy sometimes, man.
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  Yeah, I know you're ready to jump into the Moto GP talk, but
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  it doesn't feel good to have a Moto GP back, right?
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  It does, but if you know, we'll talk about it.
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  But I, you know, I am not a, a happy camper, a happy fan this
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  weekend. I think Moto GP with and if this
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  is the new direction of Moto GP, when we talk about it, Moto GP
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  is going to suck. Listen, man, all I got to say is
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  this. The rules are the rules.
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  The laws or the laws we stand with, the laws of the
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  organizations we're with, and as long as we're consistent, then
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  it's not a problem. But we're going to drive to it
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  more. Reese, man, I see you shaking
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  your head. You know what it is.
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  Come on, Reese, Come on, man, you already know you can't, you
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  can't be shaking your head 'cause you ain't got no choice.
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  You're bounded by rules. Good.
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  Not really. I mean, not really.
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  You're not bounded by rules. I mean, rules are rules.
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  But I mean, rules are made to be broken.
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  I mean, but then rules can favor one to another.
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  I mean, I agree, man. If if this is something that
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  they're going to say, I mean like, oh God, we're in trouble.
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  Yeah, yeah. You know, we're going to dive
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  into it because we've seen other leagues clean things up, for
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  lack of a better word. And again, as long as we're
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  consistent, I think I think it's OK.
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  And you know, that's it And we'll see as the season go and
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  we and we'll touch into it. But I think Mark knows the rules
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  and and I think the issue with Mark is just let me know sooner.
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  So I got a chance, but we'll dive into the how you doing,
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  man? I see you got them guns out.
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  What's going on, man? You going to the gun show?
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  No, I just left the gym to get here to get to the show.
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  I wish. Ain't no guns there.
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  Everything good over here, just sitting here and back home.
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  And. Head over there to meet Louis in
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  Daytona. No doubt we'll catch up with you
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  guys there too as well in a in a few days.
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  I fellas, man, I mean, you know, you know, I know a lot of other
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  people lose their ish over when other sports are coming around,
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  but us gasoline guys, 2 wheel guys, horsepower guys is nothing
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  like Moto GP. And you know, I think this round
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  is might be the first round in a long time that I can say I was
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  right. I'm just saying what's going on
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  fellas? What are your thoughts on the
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  overall weekend outside of the crashes and and I guess the
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  biggest thing is, is the is the Sprint race and the penalty on
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  Marquez. So, you know, let's talk about
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  how you guys feel about the penalties.
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  You agree, disagree. Why, why not?
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  And also, is it Was it worth the wait?
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  Start with TJ. It was definitely worth the wait
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  as far as that penalty. I mean, we can go back to, you
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  know, Rossi days, like, you know, those things got to slide.
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  You know, they fight all the way to the end.
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  I think Mark deserved that victory.
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  I mean, even after his victory lap, he rode past the stewards
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  and gave him a little clap just to see, like, the direction
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  where this is going. I mean, Mark always has
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  something up his sleeve. So yeah, he's going to have
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  something ready for the next race at this.
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  Something like this occurs again.
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  But I think he deserves that victory.
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  I don't think, you know, they should let him drop a position.
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  I mean, they did notify him a little late.
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  It's like the last lap. So I mean, it's just a it is a
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  it's a clean racing move. I think Pedro Acosta just kind
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  of reacted a little extra. You say, let me.
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  Let me let me correct you there and the other two gentlemen that
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  are going to come up after you both Marquez and Acosta both
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  said. They touch I.
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  Mean yeah, but they're they're all in line.
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  I mean he showed them the tire mark was ahead of them slightly,
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  you know, they wanted to get to that finish line.
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  So I mean, it's a tough decision, but you know, like
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  it's like you were mentioned, as long as they consistent, you
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  know, then hopefully it'll be better.
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  But I, I, I don't know, it was kind of sketchy now.
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  Yeah, I agree, man. Reese, man, let let's talk about
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  that. Like I said, they both said
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  they'd touch, you know, was it worth the wait watching it?
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  I are you going you're going to keep your Moto GP subscription?
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  Maybe, maybe not World Super bike, you know.
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  And what are your thoughts on on the Sprint and that decision to
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  tell Marquez to drop a position? I mean, rubbing is racing,
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  right? As we all say, rubbing is
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  racing. I mean, was it a clean pass?
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  Yes. Was it a hard pass?
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  A little bit, but it was still a pass.
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  I mean it was still a little bit in front of him when he got
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  past. I mean, both of them did say
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  they touch, but I mean, how many times do you see a rider touch?
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  I mean, you see him touch going into turn 1 numerous of times
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  when they, you know, off the start.
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  So I just think the penalty was a little harsh.
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  Now Marquez did say he didn't complain about getting the
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  penalty. He said, just let me know sooner
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  it will come to a decision quicker because if I had to drop
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  a position, not on the last lap, I can't win a race on the last
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  lap. If it if it happened closer.
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  I forget if it was the 4th, the 4th corner or fifth corner, but
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  it sounds like there was at least six corners.
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  They could have made a decision where if they say drop a
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  position, he probably could have dropped a position and still got
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  back in the race. So it didn't seem like he was,
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  he didn't seem like he was saying, hey, this is a weird
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  rule. It's just saying, hey, make a
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  decision sooner. So is this where Moto GP is
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  going where we see it in basketball, We see it in
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  football. We, we, we're, we're allowing
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  these guys to shoot the shot, catch the balls, finish the
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  corner. I mean, Mark is never going to
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  complain about a penalty. You mean he's going to take it
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  in stride and take it on the chant And he's he's 100% right.
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  I mean, you saw the past, so you could have let him know sooner
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  so he can actually drop and get, you know, regain or fight for
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  the position back again instead of waiting till the very end and
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  say, oh, you got to drop a position now.
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  It's too late. I have no chance.
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  I just got to finish it out or gain enough gap to where it
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  doesn't hurt. But is it is it something we're
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  going in? I, I truly hope not.
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  I hope not. And if it is, I mean we're in
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  trouble. Listen, man, all I all I got to
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  say is 2015 come to mind. Argentina, Rossi and Marquez.
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  I mean, you know, Robin is racing.
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  We're at a different time now in 2026.
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  Lewis Mann, you're the numbers guys.
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  It was it, it was an incident and they are rules.
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  If a guy, like I said in our comments section, if a guy in a
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  polo shirt in a air conditioned room that's not on the track is
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  going to decide the outcome of a race, I'm not going to watch
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  this shit anymore because rubbing is racing.
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  We all agree upon that. There's always going to be
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  contact. We've said multiple times on
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  this podcast and other places it's getting very difficult for
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  these bikes to pass because of all the arrow and everything
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  else. Unfortunately, passing and doing
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  these lunges, as long as they're controlled lunges, these lunges
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  are the only way to pass. You're not going to out
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  horsepower anybody anymore unless you come off the corner
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  and you're on somebody's rear tire and you get in their
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  slipstream. You still need to pass them on
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  the brakes. You're not just going to
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  outmotor somebody And you know, yeah, was it a hard pass?
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  It was a hard pass, but you know what?
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  You know what was a harder pass? Alex Marquez into Digia.
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  And they didn't make Alex Marquez drop, and that happened
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  pretty early in the race. So if you're going to make these
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  decisions, you need to make these decisions immediately.
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  I was going to say they might have implemented these rules
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  from Orbadilli and never think that it would have been Acosta
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  and Marquez and. And again, I understand the
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  rules, but there comes a certain point in the race where you need
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  to adjust your thinking. Because right now we've got the
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  rule that if I'm the last lap, the rider goes off the track
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  even a little bit, even a A something hair off the track and
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  you hit the paint outside of the track, you automatically have to
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  drop a spot. So I'm in first place by 15
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  seconds and I just take one corner and I had to change my
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  line because maybe I lose the front because the tires a little
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  worn and my front or rear tire touches the paint, just touches
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  it 15 seconds in front. I still have to drop a spot
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  because I'm not in control of the bike.
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  I've exceeded track limits, especially if they've already
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  warned me about exceeding track limits before.
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  But on the last lap, it's automatic.
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  You have to drop a spot. Some of these rules are in there
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  for a reason, but some of these rules need to have some
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  flexibility. I don't want to see again some
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  guy in a polo shirt that didn't put on a helmet hasn't been
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  sweating his balls off in 150,000° temperature.
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  Ten 10,000% humidity has not been involved in the whole race
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  yet. He determines the outcome of the
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  race with a bullshit call that they come late at that.
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  They could have again, they could have told Mark many, many
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  corners before this is what we decided we're going to do this.
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  But they wait until the point when they informed Mark when
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  Mark really can't even let Acosta pass him and then pass
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  him again to try to gain the lead.
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  So that's what Mark did in the last corner.
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  He let Acosta pass him in hopes to get a drive and out motor the
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  KTM to the line 'cause that was the only position.
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  That and the only time he had to do it.
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  So again, Simon crave for nice guy.
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  Everything else, he's not racing.
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  Well, he used to race and he's won.
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  And. And so, and he's the good guy.
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  You know. He's.
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  Not that guy right now. As the Stewart, he should know
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  when and when not to implement a rule.
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  Right, let let's let's let's let like Marquez did not argue about
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  the penalty. It's more or less when the
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  decision was made. So obviously they already know
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  what the rules are ahead of time and they all know it.
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  And and so he wasn't sitting here saying it's a bad rule.
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  So we have to go with what Marquez says.
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  US fans, we don't like it, right?
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  Because we let's, let's say what Acosta said, then what did
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  Acosta say? Acosta said.
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  I don't feel like a winner today.
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  Yeah, yeah. No doubt, no doubt, no doubt.
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  Of course, because you, that's what you're going to say.
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  But you know, he's going to get the winner's check.
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  But you know, has he won his first Moto GP race?
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  Yeah, he won his first Moto GP race with a giant asterisk next
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  to it. I I, I, I yeah, I completely
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  understand. Louis, you're frozen for some
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  reason, but we can hear your audio just perfectly fine.
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  There you go. You're good to go now.
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  No, I I I completely agree. But again, I'm on you guys side
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  as far as everything, but we have to keep in mind, let's see
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  if they'd be consistent because last year they was not
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  consistent at all. It seemed like, you know,
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  Mobanelli was the one that got all the penalties and no one
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  else did. But even this weekend, they
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  weren't consistent because Alex Marquez did the same exactly
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  that Dan Antonio did. He didn't get penalized and he
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  his ass into the third row of the stadium.
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  A lot of a lot of races are also decided towards the end.
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  I mean, I mean, not the last lap, but it could be, you know,
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  four or five laps to go where you got to make this move, you
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  know, to get ahead. And we've seen Mark do it a few
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  times and you will rub somebody at this point because you got to
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  outbreak them into a corner. That's basically how you make a
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  clean pass to get that drive. Like Lewis said, you're not
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  going to out motor them unless you know you want to Yamaha
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  that. That ain't going to get you down
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  the straight. But.
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  Right, Yeah, right. But that's double edged sword,
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  right, In a sense, because you know, we've seen this in the
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  Australian Open, Alcarez against, I forget who he was
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  playing, but he took a medical time out really just to rest.
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  And it's in the rule books. So it's one of those things like
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  if it's in the rule books, you can take advantage of it.
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  And Marquez, you know, these guys know the rules, you know
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  what I'm saying? They, they, they know what it is
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  and they're taking advantage of it.
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  And you know, we, we've seen it. We've seen Marquez do it last
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  year when he won the, the, was it the Austin GP?
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  When, when with the with, with if if not, but I guess the I
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  don't know X amount of riders come off, they have to red flag,
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  right? We saw it was so he knows what
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  he's doing, but it's just this is one of these moments where
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  it's him that got penalized versus the other riders and in
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  the and he's been getting away with it for a while.
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  But yeah, he he knows what he's doing.
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  So is he. Right, but are you going to
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  penalize the the side of race? Yeah, that's where it's at.
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  Like you decided a race on a penalty and then y'all we're
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  complaining there. The stewards are trying to say,
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  oh, we got to limit the power to bring the racer the racing
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  closer. So now you had a close race, but
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  now you just gave a penalty to decide it.
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  Why? Why did you do it?
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  Just let it go. Let me ask you guys this which
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  is worse, this penalty or vinyl is being penalized for tire
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  pressure? They both suck, OK.
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  For real, they both. I mean tire, tire pressure.
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  To me, tire pressure is not in the rider's control.
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  You know, I, I've looked, I've never seen, I've never seen a
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  Moto GP rider put a tire gauge to a bike.
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  I've never seen him turn a screw on a bike or not on a bike.
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  Nothing. What they can do is they can
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  manage the tire pressure by looking at their gauges, getting
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  out of the line, letting people pass them, getting behind bikes
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  to bring the pressure up because they bring the heat up, getting
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  up from behind a bike to getting bring the pressure down because
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  they're getting too much heat off a bike.
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  Like they can manage that part of it, but they're not
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  mechanics, they're not actually working on on the bike.
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  And, and and this rule is fine if you know, if it happens to
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  the guy in 7th place and the guy in 8th place on the last lap,
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  because that's not significantly changing the outcome of the race
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  on the podium. But to drop a guy from first
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  place to 2nd, not give him enough warning to be smart
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  enough, Cuz Marquez is smart enough to know if I get this
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  penalty now, I'm going to let Acosta pass me here and then I
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  have an opportunity to pass him back.
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  And, you know, we kind of can keep this battle going.
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  But it's also fair to say that if he didn't drop a position and
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  finish the race in front, the other penalty might have been
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  worse, right? It might have been a 10 second
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  penalty. Yeah.
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  And then he would have gone to like 5th place.
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  But again, if you're going to make these decisions, you got to
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  make them instantaneously. You got to make it within a
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  certain like there should be a a, there should be a shot clock.
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  There you go, penalty, fat clock.
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  The second penalty happens, the team hits a little button.
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  We want to review that penalty. And Simon Crafer has 25 seconds
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  on the shot clock to decide whether or not it's a penalty.
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  I mean, listen, it goes, it goes both ways because we have we
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  again, we can only speak of the past and today's race, but we
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  have had decisions where they may decide to make a decision
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  after the race. That's what it it, right?
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  It penalized for his next round. Right, exactly.
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  Yeah, penalizing lap penalty. Well, the other thing you got to
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  think about is the opposite side of that.
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  Let's say I'm on the losing side of a battle and I and somebody's
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  tipping it in front of me and I end up tipping into them and
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  making it seem like they pushed me off the line, right.
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  And now I finish in second, but because he pushed me, pushed me
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  off the line, or at least I made it seem like it pushed me of a
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  line. Now I get to win first even
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  though I'm 17 seconds behind. You know, listen guys, you know,
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  last year I felt like I was the only person that was on Ducati's
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  side. But it seemed like all you guys
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  are on Ducati's side this year. And I have to say, if Ducati
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  didn't drop the ball, Mark wouldn't have to take these
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  lunges to get in front of that KTM.
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  I mean, Ducati Ducati's gotten used to being the top dog and
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  they're not the top dog anymore, man, at least this weekend on
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  this track with the layout of the track, Apria and KTM had a
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  package at this track. Now let's see if they can bring
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  that package to Brazil and the US and to the other rounds.
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  And if they can, it's going to be a fun season of racing
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  because it's not going to be the Ducati Aprile show, the Ducati
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  Aprile KTM show. OK, all right, all right, so
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  let. Let we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll,
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  let's, let's run through it. TJ, you know, what are your
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  thoughts of the qualifying and, and the Sprint race?
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  We, and then we'll, we'll circle back around and then we'll talk
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  about the main GP. You know, we, we got out, we
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  have our picks and I will say only one person picked Acosta.
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  I wonder who that is? But you know, for some reason
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  that was the best pick. Numbers look good.
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  But what are you, what are your thoughts on on on qualifying?
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  You know, were you shocked to see what KTM and and Aprilia was
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  doing all for Aprilia? I mean this is a bad time for
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  Ducati for sure. I mean, practicing and
• 22:05
  qualifying was pretty interesting.
• 22:07
  Like a Prioria definitely stepped their game up.
• 22:11
  It's funny that I think they were like the only bike to to go
• 22:15
  down during the practice in qualifying and but they would
• 22:18
  still be able to pull out one of the best times and Bazecki
• 22:22
  setting the charge and Martine looked really good as well.
• 22:27
  Yeah. I mean like Bazecki for him to
• 22:33
  be like kind of the leader part of Australia.
• 22:36
  I mean, they, they are setting the tone right now where like if
• 22:41
  one or two of their riders don't do well, they have a backup
• 22:45
  where the other riders are also still going to do good enough
• 22:49
  where they can probably steal this constructive championship
• 22:52
  from Ducati and stuff like that. So that's a good start for them.
• 23:01
  And what are you guys are doing here?
• 23:06
  We go. Say that again.
• 23:09
  No, sorry. I was asking Reese.
• 23:11
  I don't know if he heard me. No.
• 23:14
  What are you? What are you?
• 23:15
  What are your thoughts? My thoughts on this, I mean, it
• 23:20
  was a good qualifying was good, you know what I mean?
• 23:23
  It was real good. Aprilia's taking it, you know,
• 23:30
  they're, they look really good. I mean, even though they did
• 23:33
  have some mishaps in the, you know, the qualifying and
• 23:36
  practice, but they look real good.
• 23:38
  I mean, they look strong. So they KTM look a little strong
• 23:41
  there. So I mean, it's still kind of
• 23:46
  hard to say in qualifying who's all going to be the the top dog
• 23:49
  because everybody's trying to qualify and practice and trying
• 23:52
  to figure out their setups and trying to figure out their
• 23:54
  right, their right way for the bike.
• 23:57
  So it's like I always take, I always take qualifying and
• 24:01
  practice with a fine comb. You know, because some people,
• 24:05
  you have some riders that are great qualifiers and not good
• 24:08
  race day riders, but you have some guys that are great race
• 24:11
  day riders and not good qualifiers.
• 24:15
  Yeah, I can see that. I mean, I wasn't, I was
• 24:18
  definitely rooting for Bez and, and, and and what he could do.
• 24:23
  I was surprised at the track house guys and what they were
• 24:27
  able to do. And also Martine, because we
• 24:30
  haven't really talked about Martine Martinez as a as a
• 24:32
  whole. You know, you look at Bez in
• 24:36
  the, in the, in the Sprint race, you know, he had to speed and
• 24:39
  crash out. You know, is, is it just because
• 24:44
  he's just new to the being upfront distracted?
• 24:49
  I don't think he's I don't think he's distracted.
• 24:51
  I think they're like if you looked in the race, everybody
• 24:53
  was, there was a couple guys having rear tire issues.
• 24:56
  So I mean, that could have been a play in the in the qualify in
• 24:59
  the Sprint race. Or maybe he was just overzealous
• 25:04
  and push a little too hard and over.
• 25:06
  You know it because it looked like he just had a little tuck
• 25:09
  and he just pushed a little too hard and just was going.
• 25:13
  So I mean, that could be the play.
• 25:14
  He's he's not saying that he's not used to it, but I just think
• 25:18
  he could have just been trying to, you know, it's always that
• 25:21
  case in point when you're trying to prove a point like, hey, I'm
• 25:23
  here, don't forget about me. And I still got this way of
• 25:26
  going. Right, right, man, Lewis with
• 25:30
  your thoughts on Aprilia and how they did, you know, a little bit
• 25:34
  on Bez crashing out on the Sprint race, you know, and, and
• 25:38
  touch on Ducati a little bit because I, I think you know,
• 25:42
  before the, the, the season started, I think the other
• 25:47
  manufacturers were thinking like, I hope we're close to
• 25:51
  Ducati. But I think after this weekend,
• 25:54
  and I know it's just one round, but you know, you know, if if
• 25:58
  you're everyone but Yamaha, you kind of have been like, we, we,
• 26:03
  we got something. No Aprilia.
• 26:06
  Aprilia picked up where they left off last year.
• 26:08
  I mean, last year they were on Ducati's ass.
• 26:11
  You know, like Bazecki finished super strong.
• 26:13
  He won a lot of races. Fernandez even won a race first
• 26:17
  race for the track house team, you know.
• 26:19
  But they finished last year strong.
• 26:21
  Considering all these situations they had, the turmoil that they
• 26:25
  had with Martine, not having a true second factory guy riding
• 26:29
  alongside Bez and I, you know, this is probably one of the
• 26:33
  reasons Aprilia signed Bez so quickly is whatever Bez did with
• 26:37
  the Aprilia team last year to develop the bike on his own and
• 26:41
  whatever the Aprilia team and engineers did, they went in the
• 26:45
  right direction Last year. They finished the year super
• 26:48
  strong and this year they picked up the ball right where they
• 26:50
  left off, if not a few steps further ahead.
• 26:53
  Because seeing how they were riding this this past weekend,
• 26:56
  even during the testing, like they've been consistently at the
• 27:01
  front. And it's not just Bez, you know,
• 27:04
  Agoura's right there, Fernandez is right there.
• 27:07
  Like everybody on Aprilia is right there.
• 27:10
  Even Martine coming back from injury and hasn't been riding,
• 27:13
  he's right there. You know, so the package that
• 27:14
  Aprilia has put together, I really think has either caught
• 27:19
  or exceeded the Ducati in certain areas.
• 27:22
  And now it's on par or even might be a little bit above
• 27:26
  where the Ducati is at. Because if you look at this
• 27:28
  weekend, Ducati wasn't in a great situation.
• 27:31
  Alex Marquez had his issues. Mark Marquez had his issues.
• 27:35
  Petco Bagnaya is already in mid season form, finishing in 9th
• 27:38
  place, like right where he belongs.
• 27:40
  So you know the factory team, half of the factory team is not
• 27:43
  doing well. Fermin Aldeguer is hurt, so he's
• 27:48
  not there. So this past weekend is probably
• 27:50
  a weekend that Ducati wants to put behind them as quickly as
• 27:53
  possible, move on to Brazil and hopefully, you know, start
• 27:56
  putting the pieces together. I don't think Ducati has fallen
• 27:58
  that far off. I think they had a really off
• 28:00
  weekend. They had some weird things
• 28:02
  happen. You know, I don't know if they
• 28:05
  bought, you know, leftover Marchesinis and they were made
• 28:08
  out of a, you know, Chinese instead of regular good forge
• 28:11
  metal. But you know, to hit a curb and
• 28:14
  have your ribbon and your tire flattened like that's never I've
• 28:19
  never seen that happen in at least world class racing you.
• 28:22
  That's something you see on a track day with like a a shitty
• 28:25
  pair of aluminum wheels, but not much the CDs.
• 28:28
  Yeah, so. Yeah, so I that Aprilia's
• 28:33
  catching up, KTM is the anomaly. I don't know if KTM is going to
• 28:37
  be able to hold this form at every track they go to.
• 28:40
  I think certain tracks help them.
• 28:42
  We're going to talk about KTM next and we'll jump into the GP
• 28:45
  as well. I will say this, listen man, at
• 28:48
  the end of the day, you know, 1 + 8 is 9 and 9 + 0 is 9.
• 28:56
  Both factory guys got 9 points for the weekend.
• 28:59
  I mean, you know, I'm just saying.
• 29:03
  One guy was fighting at the front and one guy was looking at
• 29:06
  rookies asses for most of the race.
• 29:08
  So there is a difference. 9 is 9 but 9 doesn't always equal 9.
• 29:13
  When? You finish, it does, but it
• 29:15
  might be ugly during the process.
• 29:19
  But let's talk about KTM guys. We'll start with TJ man, you
• 29:24
  know, I I chose the Costas my guy.
• 29:27
  You know, some people thought I just disliked Marquez that much
• 29:30
  that I didn't pick a brother to get on the podium this round,
• 29:36
  but Marquez and well, Mark Alec, well, Marquez got on the podium.
• 29:42
  You know, I I'll say this, TJ, I'm I'm just you know, I've
• 29:45
  been, I've been saying, you know, it's Lorenzo, the, you
• 29:50
  know, motorcycle racer whisperer and you know, we have been y'all
• 29:55
  is finished. I mean, this is this is this is
• 29:58
  this can't be credibility for your as a coach when you finish
• 30:03
  worse than how you started last year.
• 30:05
  What are your thoughts on KTM outside of Acosta?
• 30:08
  Acosta did every he did everything he did last year.
• 30:12
  He he just didn't crash last year, this year so far this
• 30:15
  year. Yeah, outside of Acosta, he's
• 30:18
  definitely growing up a lot smoother and then he's
• 30:20
  definitely in charge for a fight.
• 30:23
  And you know, I picked Maverick because, you know, I feel like
• 30:28
  when he starts the season, he he's very strong.
• 30:32
  He's always in the fight. Like, you know, he's won Grand
• 30:36
  Prix and you know, first race of the season.
• 30:39
  So I just took a gamble, but like finished last, like behind
• 30:43
  Top Rock. Not no disrespect to Top Rack,
• 30:46
  but behind Top Rack and the rookies and all that stuff like,
• 30:49
  and all the training you've done to start to see before the start
• 30:53
  of the season. Like I expected a lot more for
• 30:55
  the first race, especially to see what Acosta did.
• 30:59
  And you know, Bender, all those guys, you know, finished decent,
• 31:03
  you know, but he didn't show anything.
• 31:06
  And I don't know, maybe he's still in training.
• 31:08
  So hopefully he can turn it around.
• 31:12
  But yeah, I don't know. So with Maverick, he he shows up
• 31:15
  when he wants to. I got to correct you a little
• 31:17
  bit. He did finish in front of Top
• 31:19
  Rock in both races, 19th in the Sprint and let me see in the in
• 31:24
  the full race, which can't be a good look either. 19 in the
• 31:28
  Sprint and 16th in the GP race. So out of the points for sure,
• 31:36
  but but nonetheless, you know, Reese, man, I mean, you know, we
• 31:41
  see, we see KTM they they, it looks like they kind of lost
• 31:44
  some of the top speed. If you look at what Acosta is
• 31:49
  doing, look pretty unbelievable, but still kind of disappointing
• 31:54
  for those other guys because because when one guy's doing it,
• 31:58
  it's not enough. It's not enough data, right?
• 32:01
  No, it's not really. I mean, it's you still got data,
• 32:05
  you're trying to figure out what the top guy was doing and you're
• 32:08
  also trying to figure out what was the problem with the the
• 32:10
  other guys, why they were so far back and and see how we can
• 32:13
  blend it together and see where they were strong, a little
• 32:16
  stronger at. Because it at the end of the
• 32:18
  day, as fans or as anybody that's watching, you guys don't
• 32:22
  there's data and steps you don't see and certain the geometry
• 32:28
  don't see is some maybe this bike was better over here versus
• 32:30
  this bike is better over here turn 3 or 4.
• 32:33
  So you try to put everything together and see what it is and
• 32:36
  you don't we can't see see all that just by watching the race,
• 32:40
  even though, you know, you got Vinales finishing in 1619 and
• 32:45
  you know, you know, everybody else finishing, you know, down
• 32:48
  on points. So we don't see all of that.
• 32:51
  I mean, we just see a cost. Like that's all the the
• 32:53
  television was showing. But is is it a good look?
• 32:57
  I mean, it's still a strong look because Acosta was up there.
• 33:00
  And then you just got to figure out what was Acosta doing
• 33:03
  different versus everyone else. And then again, as we all say,
• 33:07
  this track kid favorite KTM, but can favor the riding style of
• 33:12
  Acosta. You know, we always got to look
• 33:14
  at their riding style too. Yeah, no doubt.
• 33:18
  I mean, it looks like Acosta got it figured out.
• 33:22
  Lewis, man, is it just when you when you sign, if the rumors are
• 33:25
  true, you sign a new contract, you just riding free and and he
• 33:28
  doesn't he that he doesn't have a worry in the world at the
• 33:31
  moment? Or is he just that much more
• 33:34
  motivated and he's, you know, doing a mark, mark as where I'm
• 33:39
  going to do my best on a, on a machine that's not necessarily
• 33:42
  the best machine? I think he's just helping raise
• 33:46
  his stock. You know, I mean, he's
• 33:48
  outperforming everybody else on the KTM.
• 33:50
  So it's doing two things. It's showing KTM who their top
• 33:53
  rider really is. Because I'm sure he took a lot
• 33:56
  of the offseason talk of Vigniales and what he's going to
• 33:59
  do and and so forth and so on. He probably took a lot of that,
• 34:02
  put it on his shoulders and say, well, I'm going to show KTM what
• 34:05
  I'm going to do without having Jorge Lorenzo training me.
• 34:09
  And I'm, I'm going to, I'm going to, the proof is going to be in
• 34:12
  the pudding on the track, not on social media post with Jorge
• 34:15
  Lorenzo. Right and and let me let me ask
• 34:18
  you this do do you fire Lorenzo after this round of your?
• 34:21
  Videos. Oh yeah, yeah, I fired, I fired
• 34:22
  his ass Saturday morning. I mean, this, this does not this
• 34:27
  does not help sell the Jorge Lorenzo school of crazy very
• 34:31
  well. So hopefully they can turn it
• 34:33
  around because I mean, if I hired Jorge Lorenzo and we did,
• 34:38
  you know, we did a weekend because Ajoria Lorenzo and Bez,
• 34:43
  I mean, Ajoria Lorenzo and Vinales put out a video before
• 34:48
  the weekend saying that, that you know, oh, we're going to see
• 34:52
  after this weekend if we're if I'm fired, it's like you might
• 34:55
  be fired, bro. I, I, I think so too, man.
• 35:00
  I, I think so too. I think it's, it's not a good
• 35:03
  look. I mean, you know, Vinales
• 35:05
  started off the season last year on a new, on his 3rd, 4th
• 35:10
  manufacturer in Moto GP and still did better than than this
• 35:15
  first round. You know, it, it, it's Ducati's
• 35:20
  not in the same situation as Yamaha.
• 35:23
  But you know, I've been saying this all season, since last all,
• 35:26
  all last season that they've been messing up.
• 35:29
  We see the struggles, you know, Marquez Ditton was not a rider
• 35:34
  that could just take his time and jump into first place like
• 35:38
  he did or, or whatever position he was trying to get last year.
• 35:41
  Even though it was his first year on the 25, he definitely
• 35:44
  was able to ride the bike more calmer and look like he will
• 35:49
  wanted to make decisions when he wanted to.
• 35:51
  This first race, he looked like he was riding like Quatararo
• 35:54
  last year. Just try and throw that bike
• 35:57
  anywhere he can just to get up in front, not anywhere, but
• 36:00
  throw the bike up in places where he probably knew he
• 36:02
  couldn't get to, but was was was forcing it.
• 36:05
  I mean, and I think that's the penalty that he got because he
• 36:08
  was forcing it, that kind of thing.
• 36:10
  We're in the past where last year he didn't have to force it.
• 36:13
  He was meticulous. He he jumped to the front of the
• 36:15
  race when he wanted to. He let his brother jump in front
• 36:18
  of him when he wanted to and still finished the race.
• 36:21
  So the problem with Ducati is it's the first round and we
• 36:26
  could talk about tracks and blah, blah blah, but it's not a
• 36:29
  good look when the guy who's an alien has to start riding like
• 36:33
  Quatro. What are your thoughts, TJI?
• 36:37
  Mean yeah, I mean, for one, I know he hasn't won at this
• 36:40
  track, so that's another thing like he's he's dominated pretty
• 36:44
  much every track except for this one reason 1.
• 36:47
  It's a lot of right hand turns. I mean, it's the left 2, but
• 36:52
  yeah, Mark will figure it out I think before Pekka will, but I
• 36:58
  think he was definitely riding my Quadra.
• 37:01
  That's a good reference there. But I think they'll figure it
• 37:05
  out. This is just, you know, the
• 37:06
  first round Gigi and all those guys that know that something
• 37:10
  that they sleep always so right. I'm not, I'm not, I'm not
• 37:13
  worried about Ducati, but I, I'm sure Aperia is definitely going
• 37:17
  to be a good challenge for them and they definitely going to
• 37:22
  need Mark to to help them so. I mean, listen, Reese, man, I
• 37:27
  mean, who's ducking the wrench when they get back into paddock,
• 37:29
  Paddock for this one Ran. I mean, with Ducati, you know,
• 37:32
  the blown tire, the jacked up rim, who's who's, who's ducking
• 37:35
  the wrench, that Mark has a stone thrown at him.
• 37:39
  I don't know who's ducking the range.
• 37:40
  I mean, maybe your manufacturer that, that rim as he went duck
• 37:43
  whoever made that rim that was a that was a defective rim there
• 37:47
  just hit a curb and bent that bad.
• 37:49
  That's right. And he said he started feeling
• 37:54
  it, but he didn't. He just said it was he was
• 37:56
  taking it as it was sliding and he was like, I just got to go
• 37:59
  for it. I'm used to it.
• 38:00
  So I got to go. But then it got worse and worse.
• 38:02
  So I mean there's nothing, nothing the mechanics did wrong.
• 38:07
  Somebody who whoever made that will that's who needs a duck and
• 38:10
  like that's, that's a problem there.
• 38:12
  But then we also got to look at it as I mean, you guys were
• 38:15
  talking about Ducati, but you also got to look at it like this
• 38:17
  too. Marks coming off an injury.
• 38:20
  So is his shoulder, is his shoulders at 100%?
• 38:25
  And if it is at 100%, does he have the strength still on that
• 38:28
  shoulder to actually do what he used to do?
• 38:30
  It's, it's not. And he said that in the press
• 38:32
  conference, in the post press conference or I saw it
• 38:36
  somewhere. It's not 100% and this.
• 38:38
  And he struggled in those corners where his right shoulder
• 38:42
  came into play. Right.
• 38:44
  So that's another thing you got to take in aspect it's, it's
• 38:46
  still a lot of force on his on your body and he's probably
• 38:50
  feeling that effect. And like you said, it's not
• 38:52
  100%. So there's things as any athlete
• 38:55
  or anybody knows, I think when I had my injuries, there are
• 38:57
  certain things when you are injured you can't do.
• 39:00
  Your body would just limit you like, yeah, I'm not going to do
• 39:02
  that. So there's certain things that
• 39:04
  he probably can and can do and it he it.
• 39:06
  So it may look like he's struggling, but he's not really.
• 39:09
  He just, he's not going to force it in there.
• 39:11
  Mark has gotten older and gotten smarter, so he's not going to
• 39:14
  take that much risk no more. Well, he will take the risk, but
• 39:17
  not risk of killing himself. Right, right.
• 39:20
  No, I I completely agree, which is the unfortunate side.
• 39:24
  No one, you know, you as a racer, I mean as a racer, as a
• 39:28
  mechanic, as a team owner. No one wants to forfeit a race
• 39:32
  or DNF because of a mechanical right or defective part.
• 39:36
  So nobody wants that. Lewis is the time to start for
• 39:40
  me to start selling my Volkswagen stock.
• 39:42
  What are you telling me, man? If you're Volkswagen stock, you
• 39:47
  know, did did Ducati have a rough weekend?
• 39:50
  Yes, they had a very rough weekend and they were due.
• 39:53
  I mean, they had 88. I think their streak ended at 88
• 39:56
  podiums runs. So that's a long, long streak.
• 40:00
  I think that's the new record. I think it exceeded Honda.
• 40:03
  Honda had the previous longest record of a podium streak.
• 40:07
  So I mean, it was bound to happen eventually.
• 40:09
  It just happened to happen the first weekend of 2026.
• 40:13
  You know, Marquez, like Reese was saying he is coming back
• 40:17
  from an injury. He's not at 100%.
• 40:19
  He said that, you know, very openly.
• 40:23
  He's going to go out there and he's going to ride his heart out
• 40:25
  every weekend. He's going to do everything he
• 40:27
  can. Had it not been for the penalty
• 40:31
  he would have had one win. Instead he got a second place
• 40:34
  and had it not been for a free rim accident he would have a
• 40:37
  third place. So you know, he would have got,
• 40:40
  I guess. He would have got Raoul.
• 40:42
  He would have. Got Raoul he.
• 40:44
  Wasn't getting Acosta so. No, he wasn't getting Acosta,
• 40:46
  but he would. But at least he would have got
• 40:48
  some points. He would have been, you know, he
• 40:50
  wouldn't be where he's at now on the points.
• 40:53
  And overall I think it was a positive weekend for him.
• 40:57
  If you look at where the points are right now, Costa's up there
• 41:00
  because he's the most consistent.
• 41:02
  Mazecki had a crash on Saturday, Mark had a crash on Sunday.
• 41:06
  Obviously Mark's crash, I mean Mark's mechanical on Sunday,
• 41:09
  cost more than Mazecki's crash on Saturday because it's half
• 41:12
  points in the Sprint. But I think they're going to go
• 41:15
  to Brazil and Ducati will regroup.
• 41:18
  Mark is going to continue to rehab and try to get in better
• 41:22
  shape. The sad part about it is you
• 41:24
  know you've got three races in less than 5 weeks and so it's
• 41:29
  not like Ducati and Mark are going to be able to do a whole
• 41:31
  lot of recouping in 2 1/2 weeks before Brazil and then another
• 41:35
  the following week. You go right to Coda.
• 41:38
  So they've got a very short period of time to do some stuff
• 41:40
  and then they've got a little bit of a break before they go
• 41:43
  start you during the European round.
• 41:44
  So Brazil is going to be a new track for everybody because
• 41:48
  nobody that's on the grid has ever raced at Brazil.
• 41:52
  Koda is going to be a good track for quite a few guys because
• 41:55
  quite a few guys shine at Koda. So it'll be a good competitive
• 41:58
  race and then we'll see what happens when we go back.
• 42:00
  But I don't think it's time for Ducati to throw up The, the,
• 42:04
  the, the, the, the, the bat signal.
• 42:06
  Like, you know, we need help. We're, you know, I there,
• 42:08
  there's plenty of guys there that know what they're doing and
• 42:11
  they're going to put the right pieces together and they're
• 42:13
  going to get the bike right up there competitive and at least
• 42:16
  the main guys are going to be back at the front.
• 42:19
  It's just they don't have that buffer that they had in the past
• 42:21
  where they were the best of the best.
• 42:24
  Now what else is catching up? Listen man, the only person
• 42:28
  that's feeling good is Furman because he's not there.
• 42:32
  Mobile Deli, Digia Pekko and and Perry Piero.
• 42:39
  What's his name? That was a Philip.
• 42:40
  Yeah, but he don't count. He don't count, but don't.
• 42:43
  Count like like. It's it's it's it's like, come
• 42:47
  on man. I mean, what do we what like
• 42:49
  Marquez is Quatar. I don't want to keep using this
• 42:51
  reference is Quatararo for Yamaha.
• 42:54
  Come on, Alex. I'm sorry, Alex Marquez is the
• 42:56
  other person I was trying to think of Alex had a horrible
• 42:59
  weekend as well. More or worse than Pekko because
• 43:01
  Alex is Pekko is in front of Alex some points.
• 43:04
  Yeah, I mean, again, it wasn't the best weekend for Ducati, but
• 43:07
  I I still don't think it's, you know, throw the baby out with
• 43:11
  the bathwater. I think it's sometimes you just
• 43:13
  have a bad weekend. You have a bad setup.
• 43:15
  The bike's not working, you know, before the next round.
• 43:19
  I wouldn't be surprised if they take some parts off of the 2024
• 43:22
  bike and mix it with the 2025 bike and try to find something
• 43:25
  that works a little bit better. Like they're not just going to
• 43:28
  sit back and, you know, take this as like, oh, this is a new
• 43:32
  bar. They're going to try to push the
• 43:33
  bar again. Listen, man, Marquez is Alex.
• 43:36
  I mean, Marc Marquez is already using the 24 arrow because of
• 43:40
  his physical lack of physical condition already.
• 43:44
  So I mean, how much more does he need to make it a 24 bike?
• 43:51
  But nonetheless, it it it it it's a issue, I think for Ducati
• 43:56
  because you got Aprilia, who's doing really well.
• 43:59
  First time that you got Aprilia had three wins in a row counting
• 44:03
  last the two last season season. And now you see what Raul is
• 44:07
  doing, you see what Iagura is doing and obviously Martine.
• 44:11
  Now we look at Martine. If is is is Martine back or is
• 44:15
  this just a fluke as well? Because I mean, listen, 4th
• 44:18
  place is like like three wins from Martine the way he looked
• 44:21
  this past weekend. What you guys thoughts on on how
• 44:24
  Martine did And we already talked about Aprilia about how
• 44:27
  Martine did as a bounce back TJ? I think he's he's he's done
• 44:33
  really well. I mean, you know, he's not in
• 44:36
  the media like he has been, you know, like he's a big story last
• 44:40
  year. And so he's kind of out of that
• 44:42
  kind of more focused on the season at hand.
• 44:45
  So he was injured previously for the testing and all that stuff.
• 44:49
  But I think he's good to go. This first race kind of
• 44:52
  definitely helped him out as a like a reference of like where
• 44:56
  he needs to be. I'm sure top 10 was, you know,
• 45:00
  like a, a base point and top five would be excellent where he
• 45:04
  is now. Like I think he's riding really
• 45:07
  well. So we'll see what what the
• 45:10
  second and third race has to offer, but I think he's sort of
• 45:15
  back, sure. OK.
• 45:17
  All right. What are your thoughts?
• 45:18
  Risa and Martine and I mean, you know, him and me are who, who
• 45:24
  unfortunately had mechanicals as well, but it's another guy that
• 45:27
  look really well, you know, you know, on, on a, on a bike
• 45:32
  outside of being on a Ducati. I mean Martin look real good.
• 45:37
  I mean he looks smooth. He look real good.
• 45:39
  I mean he looks strong. You know, we just I it'd be nice
• 45:43
  to see him keep it up in the next couple upcoming rounds, you
• 45:47
  know, see him not crash or hurt himself again.
• 45:51
  You know, so we all got to see what the the next couple of
• 45:54
  tracks or throughout the season, you know, how Aprilia takes to
• 45:57
  the tracks or how Martin even takes to certain tracks.
• 46:00
  I mean, like Lewis said, we're going to Brazil.
• 46:02
  You know, when Brazil comes up, no one's been there.
• 46:05
  So we got to see how everyone plays out.
• 46:08
  And then, you know, Koda is certain guys tracks.
• 46:12
  So I mean, there's there's different avenues and mirror
• 46:15
  look strong, except for that mechanical problem that I saw.
• 46:18
  I mean, he looked real strong. So that Honda looked strong.
• 46:21
  They looked like they were there out of the Japanese.
• 46:24
  They're one of the top ones. So I'm, you know, kudos to them.
• 46:28
  Right, right, right. Lewis Mann, what are you?
• 46:31
  What are your thoughts man? I mean, I because obviously
• 46:40
  he's, he's looking at, you know, where he's going to get signed
• 46:43
  for next year. So maybe he's trying to raise
• 46:45
  his stock and show up earlier that, you know, maybe he they
• 46:48
  should consider keeping him. I still don't think they're
• 46:50
  going to keep him. I think that the, the
• 46:54
  embarrassment of last year and the just the way he handled
• 46:56
  things, you know, I, I don't know much about that team, but
• 47:00
  in general, most teams don't like to be kind of dragged in
• 47:04
  front of the media and, and made to feel the way that they were
• 47:08
  made to feel and put in front of the media.
• 47:10
  But if he's a strong enough rider and he's competitive
• 47:13
  enough, maybe, maybe they'll consider keeping him.
• 47:16
  I don't know, but it's it's not hurting his stock to show that
• 47:20
  he's getting him back into shape, that he's in form and
• 47:23
  we'll see how it goes over the next couple of rounds.
• 47:25
  In the next couple of rounds. Is he going to be able to
• 47:27
  maintain the speed, maintain this form?
• 47:30
  I mean, finishing between Fernandez and Igura that are on
• 47:35
  satellite bikes and it's the same bike.
• 47:37
  It's probably not where you want to be.
• 47:39
  You want to be in front of the satellite bikes, but finishing
• 47:41
  sandwich between the two of them at least shows that you know how
• 47:44
  to ride the bike and that you're starting to adapt to the bike.
• 47:47
  And let's see how far he can get.
• 47:48
  You know, let's see if he can get back on the podium.
• 47:51
  Let's see if he can maybe get a win or two this year.
• 47:53
  I think his main job this year is to try to raise his stock
• 47:57
  again, because his stock took a huge hit last year.
• 48:00
  And if he's going to try to get a new contract, he wants to get
• 48:03
  paid either what he's getting paid or more.
• 48:06
  So he really needs to go out there and perform so that he can
• 48:09
  kind of go to other manufacturers.
• 48:10
  And hey, this is what I can do. This is what I can do, not what
• 48:14
  I did in the past, what I'm doing now.
• 48:16
  And if I'm doing this now, this is kind of what I believe I'm
• 48:19
  worth. And let's sit down and negotiate
• 48:21
  either with Aprilia or with somebody else.
• 48:23
  OK, all right. No doubt.
• 48:27
  Before I over, I ask, you know, is this is it?
• 48:31
  I mean, it's the first round, but it looks really crazy where
• 48:34
  Ducati hasn't been on on the podium in 88 races and stuff
• 48:40
  like that. But we'll, we'll, we'll push
• 48:41
  that a little bit further in the show.
• 48:44
  Let let let's talk about Yamaha. I mean, this is, I think this
• 48:49
  has got to be one of the worst outings that they've had.
• 48:52
  You know, Diego Marira finishing in front of top rack.
• 48:55
  So I, I can't feel good for a dude five years younger than you
• 48:59
  do to finishing, you know, 4 bikes in front of you, 5 bikes
• 49:03
  in front of you kind of thing. What's going on with Yamaha
• 49:06
  guys? I mean, is it just the first
• 49:09
  round? Are they going to figure it out
• 49:11
  or are they really in for another long season where at
• 49:16
  least, you know, Honda started figuring it out like 2 years
• 49:19
  ago. Last year they got on the podium
• 49:21
  several times and won some races.
• 49:23
  So at least you can say Honda is, is, is moving along further
• 49:28
  where Yaha really hasn't done much outside against some pole
• 49:32
  positions last year. What are your thoughts TJ and
• 49:34
  where Yamaha their first round and and being blue to you know,
• 49:40
  you know, I, I figured it was like 1617 eighteenth, 19th or
• 49:43
  something like that, which is ridiculous.
• 49:47
  Yeah, man, it's it is definitely not a good look.
• 49:49
  And they kind of said after testing that they just going to
• 49:53
  be in the back of the pack and there's no miracle, but they
• 49:58
  were all in the back of the pack.
• 50:00
  Not one of their bikes got into Q2.
• 50:03
  So, you know, they started all in the back of the pack.
• 50:06
  And usually you can fight through some guys with your
• 50:10
  skills, but they can't even do that.
• 50:12
  I mean, Fabio did the best he can out of all of them.
• 50:16
  But yeah, I mean, they were struggling to get anything out
• 50:20
  of the inline 4. And then you switch to the the
• 50:23
  V4 and then like, what do you do?
• 50:25
  Like they're going to develop late in the season possibly, but
• 50:29
  then we're going to a new season next year.
• 50:31
  So I think they're in trouble. No, I agree.
• 50:36
  I think so too. I mean, I mean, it's a bad look.
• 50:43
  This is my comment on Yamaha. I mean, you know, Lewis, man, I
• 50:56
  don't, I don't, I don't know. I mean, you know, we got to, we
• 50:58
  got to, I think there's something in recent applause.
• 51:01
  We got to, we got to pick them up.
• 51:08
  What's good, man? I mean it's, it's like, I mean I
• 51:13
  the only person I feel bad for is top rack.
• 51:16
  I mean, I feel bad for everybody because you know, Yamaha has
• 51:21
  been saying for several years, they're going to bring a new
• 51:23
  motor, they're going to do this, they're going to do that.
• 51:25
  They're going to, you know, we're going to evolve.
• 51:27
  We're going to be able to compete in the horsepower war
• 51:30
  and they're not doing it. They're not, you know, they're,
• 51:33
  they're they can't make a bike that that is competitive.
• 51:39
  It's it's just not happening for them.
• 51:41
  You know, you've got Jack Miller 15th in the spring.
• 51:45
  You've got Rin's 18th in the spring.
• 51:47
  You got Top Rack 20th in the Sprint.
• 51:49
  And yeah, Top Rack is a rookie. Well, you know who else is a
• 51:52
  rookie? Barrera, you know, and, and, and
• 51:57
  it just shows you that the Honda's a little bit better.
• 52:00
  And then you know, and then Cuadraro, I mean this weekend,
• 52:03
  obviously, you know, he had an issue and but even in this in
• 52:09
  the race itself, 17th place top rack, 15 place Rinz, 18th place
• 52:15
  Jack Miller, like Yamaha is the back marker now and I don't see
• 52:22
  them doing anything. I don't see this, this new V4
• 52:25
  motor. I don't know what direction they
• 52:28
  went with it. I don't know what they did.
• 52:30
  You know, I'm not one of their engineers, but whatever they
• 52:32
  did, it's wrong. It's not working.
• 52:34
  Whether it's the motor, the package, the length of the bike,
• 52:39
  dude, they, they need someone to come in there and write that
• 52:44
  shit. They need a really top notch
• 52:47
  crew chief. They need to kind of get rid of
• 52:49
  some people like they they it's time to make a major shake up at
• 52:52
  Yamaha because everything they're doing doesn't work.
• 52:55
  Say less man, say less. Reese, it's time for you to go
• 52:58
  to OGP. Yeah, I wish, man.
• 53:04
  Somebody, somebody is going there and clean house.
• 53:06
  Man, it's bad. It's time for you to throw some
• 53:09
  wrenches. Something needs to happen, man.
• 53:12
  It was, it was a little embarrassing, man, you know,
• 53:15
  beyond, you know, it was a little hurt.
• 53:17
  It was a little embarrassing. You know, I'm looking at the
• 53:19
  standings here, like Lewis said, I mean 14151718 place for the
• 53:24
  Yamaha guys in the race. And I mean you're sitting behind
• 53:27
  a rookie in 13 place. You know, you're sitting behind
• 53:31
  Honda, you're sitting behind more, you're sitting behind
• 53:34
  everybody. I mean, it was a little hurt.
• 53:36
  It was embarrassing. I, I mean, like, like Lewis even
• 53:40
  said, I mean, somebody that made that V4 some, some engineer,
• 53:44
  somebody that did it or whatever they did, they lost their way.
• 53:47
  They thought it was good and it, it doesn't work.
• 53:50
  And I, and I know the, from what I know from, you know, going
• 53:54
  over here and talking to, you know, like the guys in the, in
• 53:57
  corporate office, the Japanese guys are like they're old school
• 54:01
  and they're like, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
• 54:03
  And I was telling them, I told them a long time ago, like, yo,
• 54:06
  something's broke. Fix this damn shit.
• 54:08
  Something's broke. Because I mean, before, before
• 54:11
  Ducati was winning, they had a bike that was fast but couldn't
• 54:14
  turn. Before KTM was winning, they had
• 54:17
  a bike that was fast, that couldn't turn.
• 54:19
  Honda had a bike that was fast, that couldn't turn.
• 54:22
  So like, how do you not bring a bike that's fast, that can't
• 54:25
  turn for Yamaha? I mean they they they they like
• 54:28
  at least at least be second in the speed trap.
• 54:32
  And then they're not that's not even secondary speed trap.
• 54:35
  They're still slow. The chassis sucks.
• 54:37
  And I mean, I'm looking at something.
• 54:38
  Quattro all says he don't even think that they're going to.
• 54:41
  He was, you know, they're not even going to have a new package
• 54:43
  until, you know, I think Le Mans or something, or even after.
• 54:48
  Yeah. So he was like, maybe I was
• 54:51
  optimistic. Maybe I was too optimistic.
• 54:53
  So I mean, I like, I feel bad for all four of them and I
• 54:56
  definitely feel bad for Top Rank for coming over and thinking
• 54:59
  things are going to be better. But I, I just feel bad for that
• 55:02
  whole, the whole, all the guys over there.
• 55:05
  Something's not right and they need to be fixed quick because
• 55:07
  it's embarrassing. No, you know, it's embarrassing
• 55:12
  for Yamaha because of where they've been.
• 55:16
  Obviously we've seen KTM when a Prolia goes through that.
• 55:19
  We've seen Kawasaki and Moto GP go go through that as well.
• 55:22
  Ducati was at the back of the pile as well and stuff like
• 55:26
  that. But you know, for you, you know,
• 55:29
  when you think about Moto GP, you think of Yamaha, you think
• 55:32
  of Honda, right. You think that you do think of
• 55:34
  Suzuki the early days and stuff like that.
• 55:36
  But for where they are right now and and for them to let let as
• 55:41
  much times time has lapsed and not start to move forward.
• 55:47
  I mean, I, I, you know, and I'm a fan of V4 engines, right?
• 55:50
  So I'm not going to sit here and say it's the V4 engine, but like
• 55:55
  this, this can't be a good look. And and I mean, if you're
• 55:58
  Cuatroara, you know, if Honda's offering you a seat, you're
• 56:02
  going to take it. I mean, hell, if I, if I was
• 56:04
  cuatroara, I'll be going to Grassini at this point.
• 56:06
  You got a better shot. I mean they.
• 56:08
  'D have been better off just buying this old Suzuki packet.
• 56:11
  Like Lewis said a while ago, buying that old Suzuki motor and
• 56:14
  and use that as a platform, you'd have been better off
• 56:17
  buying that thing. Yeah, yeah, you know what I
• 56:20
  mean? So that that's pretty tough.
• 56:23
  Let's look at let's talk about Honda before we look at the
• 56:25
  points and get out of here, guys.
• 56:28
  You know, I think you know, Luca, I was hoping Luca Marina
• 56:32
  had a better, better outing than he did.
• 56:36
  Mayor had a really good outing, had mechanical, you know.
• 56:39
  What are your thoughts on on Honda, where they're at?
• 56:42
  It seems like KTM is is sitting here saying we going to be #3
• 56:50
  TJ. I think, I think Honda, Honda is
• 56:54
  stepping it up for sure. I feel like they were going to
• 56:56
  improve pretty fast. I'm just hoping mayor does not
• 57:00
  start with this, you know, P and FSI mean, obviously this wasn't
• 57:04
  his fault. I mean, he always seemed like he
• 57:07
  has that ballot behind him. So like he's doing really well.
• 57:12
  Look at Marini. I feel it's definitely going to
• 57:16
  do a lot better. I mean, he started OK and I
• 57:19
  think he finished with 10th in the Sprint and a little better
• 57:23
  in the GP and hopes a little better from Zarko.
• 57:28
  But Honda, is it going in the right direction for them to get
• 57:33
  past KTMI? Think it's possible, you know,
• 57:37
  but you know, the on the KTM side, Fasadini is going to have
• 57:42
  to step up instead and and help Acosta and hopefully Maverick.
• 57:46
  But I think Honda's going in the right direction, mirrors very
• 57:49
  smooth and hopefully you can just get more finishes.
• 57:54
  OK, OK, I, I, I, I agree. I hope it gets better.
• 57:58
  What are your thoughts, Reese? On our way.
• 58:00
  Where? Honda's Diego Marira, I mean,
• 58:04
  you know, this guy spent a couple of years in Moto 2.
• 58:07
  I mean, I know that Acosta has a better record than he has
• 58:11
  looking at Moto 3 and Moto 2 and stuff like that, but the guy
• 58:16
  doesn't look that slow for for rookie and Moto GP for his first
• 58:20
  round. What are your thoughts, Reese?
• 58:21
  No, I mean, looking here, I mean, he finished what, 13th in
• 58:25
  the the race and he finished 13th again in the Sprint.
• 58:30
  I mean, but for his his times, he's he's pretty quick.
• 58:35
  I mean, I give him a couple more rounds just to kind of get his
• 58:38
  head wrapped around it. You know, it's a little bit
• 58:40
  different ball game stepping up from the Moto 2 to the GP set
• 58:43
  round, you know, so I give him a little bit more time and I think
• 58:48
  he'll be right there in the mix and be a, you know, someone to
• 58:50
  be talking about coming down the line.
• 58:53
  So I mean, I definitely give the kids his flowers.
• 58:55
  You know, he's got something there.
• 58:59
  Yeah, I I agree. What what are your thoughts
• 59:01
  overall on what Honda is doing? Do we keep the guys for next
• 59:05
  year or do we sign slow people on Yamaha?
• 59:14
  I got to hear Lewis's. I mean, I mean, Moreira
• 59:20
  outperformed the OR the entire Yamaha squad.
• 59:23
  He in both races, in the Sprint and in the race he came out in
• 59:27
  front of all four Yamahas. Yeah.
• 59:30
  So as Yamaha, that's another punch in the eye is this kid
• 59:33
  who's only been racing his bike about a week and a half
• 59:37
  outperformed all four of our riders.
• 59:39
  So that's two things. One kid has talent. 2 Honda is
• 59:42
  way ahead of us 'cause this kid that literally just started last
• 59:45
  week outperformed our entire team in both races, the Sprint
• 59:49
  and the full race. And, and and you know, three
• 59:52
  time rural super bike champion, the one time Moto GP champion.
• 59:57
  Yeah, I mean, well, we we said a couple of weeks back, top rack
• 1:00:01
  is not going to come into Moto GP and set the world on fire,
• 1:00:05
  especially not on the Yamaha. And especially it's going to
• 1:00:07
  take them time to adapt to the bikes, the electronics and more
• 1:00:10
  than anything else, the tires, you know, these these tires that
• 1:00:13
  aren't working for him. And he's even said it that when
• 1:00:16
  he was behind Jack Miller into practice.
• 1:00:19
  As he was following him and he was seeing what Jack Miller was
• 1:00:22
  doing, you know, he's trying to adapt his riding style to
• 1:00:25
  maximize what the what the tires can do because he didn't think
• 1:00:28
  the tires can do what what needs to be done.
• 1:00:31
  Like he's starting to understand even in the one race he got to
• 1:00:34
  the end of the front straight and he was worried that he his
• 1:00:36
  brakes weren't hot enough to actually stop the bike.
• 1:00:40
  So, you know, it's a huge learning curve when you're
• 1:00:43
  coming from a super bike that has, you know, steel rotors to a
• 1:00:46
  Moto GP bike. But let me ask this though.
• 1:00:49
  I mean, Diego Maria is coming from, you know, Triumph engine
• 1:00:56
  Moto 2 Calyx, right? I mean are you trying to say the
• 1:01:00
  Moto 2 bike is more complicated than a world super bike?
• 1:01:04
  I think the Moto 2 bike makes adaptation to the Moto G Pipe B
• 1:01:08
  bike better than adaptation from a World Super bike to a Moto GP
• 1:01:12
  bike because you're, you're kind of being groomed into what Moto
• 1:01:16
  GP bikes are by being in Moto 3 and Moto two and you're in the
• 1:01:20
  paddock all the time. So you also have access to the
• 1:01:22
  Moto GP riders like Moreira has a really good relationship
• 1:01:25
  between with Alex Marquez and Mark Marquez and several other
• 1:01:29
  Spanish riders. Whereas if you come from the
• 1:01:32
  world super bike paddock, you know, nobody there is using
• 1:01:35
  carbon fiber disc brakes, nobody there is using ride height
• 1:01:38
  devices. Nobody's using this, Nobody's
• 1:01:40
  using that. You know, it's, it looks like a
• 1:01:42
  bike. It sounds like a bike, but it's
• 1:01:45
  a much different animal than a super bike.
• 1:01:49
  Definitely, definitely. Let's, let's, who do we talk
• 1:01:56
  about? We didn't talk about Rinz.
• 1:01:58
  We didn't talk about. No need to talk about him.
• 1:02:00
  We. Didn't talk about and we and we
• 1:02:03
  didn't talk about Benda, although Benda had a pretty good
• 1:02:05
  weekend and we didn't talk about MOBA Deli and Digia as well.
• 1:02:12
  These are all guys that you know is, you know, 1 foot in one foot
• 1:02:16
  out of Moto GP for the most part, right.
• 1:02:19
  Safe to say. What do these guys need to do
• 1:02:23
  for the next round? I mean, you mean you know, when
• 1:02:26
  Mobidelli finished 8th, did you finish 6th?
• 1:02:30
  So I think did you out of all of them is doing the best.
• 1:02:33
  But Zarko Mobidelli, Bender Bender also finished fairly
• 1:02:38
  well, but he last year is not enough. 11 round is not enough.
• 1:02:42
  I I, I mean the simplest win, but like, is it is it, you know,
• 1:02:46
  take the team out to dinner, take the team out to a poker
• 1:02:50
  game play we going swimming together.
• 1:02:53
  Like, you know, what are these guys got to do to to ensure that
• 1:02:57
  they have the best outcome to keep themselves into Moto GP?
• 1:03:01
  One word, consistency. Yeah, I was going to say the
• 1:03:05
  same thing. And then and also you got to
• 1:03:09
  have you got to have fun too. So like you was just mentioning
• 1:03:13
  like go out to a dinner or something.
• 1:03:15
  So I mean, I'm sure they do that, but you want to see
• 1:03:18
  improvement in your, your, your team in your package.
• 1:03:21
  And then that makes the the rider has more fun, you know
• 1:03:25
  what I'm saying? And when you're having more fun,
• 1:03:26
  you get sure, you get more better improvement.
• 1:03:29
  And then, you know, do something like go out to dinner and do fun
• 1:03:32
  things to take your mind off the race a little bit.
• 1:03:34
  But definitely more consistency and they're going to have to get
• 1:03:39
  more wins. I really thought did you was
• 1:03:40
  going to be up there from how we started in the practice and then
• 1:03:44
  qualifying news on the 2nd row. I know we got into that incident
• 1:03:49
  with Alex and I just kind of, you know, mess it up a little
• 1:03:54
  bit. He did finish pretty well
• 1:03:55
  though. But yeah, 6th and 8th, yeah.
• 1:03:58
  So, but that I just think that VR46 like more videlity stepping
• 1:04:03
  up a little bit, you know, it's the first race.
• 1:04:08
  It's it's the first race and a pretty wild.
• 1:04:11
  What are your thoughts, Reese And and and we'll move to the to
• 1:04:15
  Lewis and then we'll we'll bring up the the the scoring.
• 1:04:19
  I mean the same thing, just consistency, you know, show a
• 1:04:23
  level of, you know, will, you know, and not just kind of
• 1:04:28
  sitting back there and just, you know, you want to be up there in
• 1:04:31
  the in the fight, at least giving yourself an opportunity
• 1:04:34
  in the fight. And that's, you know, way back
• 1:04:36
  there and, you know, under the top ten, you know, you know,
• 1:04:40
  11th, 12:00 and all that. Or the same positions that you
• 1:04:44
  were the year before. You know, you want to show
• 1:04:46
  improvement. When you're not showing
• 1:04:47
  improvement, it's kind of a waste.
• 1:04:51
  You know, you're kind of just you're almost like holding up a
• 1:04:53
  seat. It's not, I mean, they needed,
• 1:04:56
  you know, show the improvement of I've been out here training,
• 1:05:00
  I'm getting better, I got faster and you know, everything else.
• 1:05:03
  But they're not showing that they're still in that kind of
• 1:05:05
  that same, they're in that same little era, that little, same
• 1:05:08
  little group. OK, I agree.
• 1:05:12
  I agree. What are your thoughts, Louis?
• 1:05:14
  I mean, they definitely need to do something to keep showing
• 1:05:18
  their value. But I think some like of the
• 1:05:23
  people that you mentioned, I think the one person that
• 1:05:26
  probably is most desperate to find a ride is probably going to
• 1:05:29
  be the Jan Antonio because if Luca.
• 1:05:32
  Yeah. Because if Luca Marini loses his
• 1:05:34
  spot on a Honda and can't find a ride somewhere else, he's going
• 1:05:40
  to end up back on AVR 46 because I can't see his brother not
• 1:05:43
  giving him a job. VR46 Academy and the Jan
• 1:05:50
  Antonio's not. Yeah, if the rumors are true,
• 1:05:52
  Morbideli might go to World Super Bike next year.
• 1:05:58
  We'll see. We'll see.
• 1:06:00
  But you know, if it came down to picking between the Dan Antonio
• 1:06:03
  and Morbideli and Rossi had to pick one, he's going to probably
• 1:06:08
  keep Morbideli because he is a official member of the VR46
• 1:06:11
  Academy and the Jan Antonio's not the Jan Antonio's on the
• 1:06:14
  outside looking in. And even though Rossi wants to
• 1:06:18
  keep an Italian right on the grid, he's got his brother.
• 1:06:20
  And if his brother can't find another ride, I got one right
• 1:06:23
  here in this yellow and black bike.
• 1:06:24
  I just got to get rid of this other.
• 1:06:26
  Dude, so it sounds like it sounds like you're saying did
• 1:06:30
  you is going to the factory Yamaha next year?
• 1:06:36
  He's going to have to go somewhere because again, if if
• 1:06:44
  Marini doesn't find a ride, the Jan Antonio's job is definitely
• 1:06:47
  at risk. Let's put.
• 1:06:48
  It that way. All right, No, I, I agree.
• 1:06:50
  I agree. I agree.
• 1:06:51
  I agree. Listen, man, it's, it's, it's,
• 1:06:53
  it's a cutthroat thing and you know, there's some points of
• 1:06:57
  nepotism. All right, guys, you know I, I
• 1:07:02
  go ahead. We got the Daytona this weekend.
• 1:07:04
  We going to make predictions for this weekend.
• 1:07:08
  No, we can. We'll, we'll we can in a second,
• 1:07:10
  you know, you know, you guys can see where things look right now.
• 1:07:16
  It's. Only it's round one SEC.
• 1:07:25
  You know, I'm just saying so it, it, it's, you know, we got a
• 1:07:30
  little bit of time, so we got a few weeks so we don't have to
• 1:07:32
  pick. So it'll give you some guide,
• 1:07:34
  some time do some research and and see if you guys I I don't
• 1:07:38
  like to talk trash, so I'll leave it there.
• 1:07:40
  It's. It's only round one.
• 1:07:44
  It's a little early to start talking to trash.
• 1:07:47
  I can't start unraveling the the the wire around the champagne
• 1:07:50
  bottle, no. Not yet, man.
• 1:07:55
  You ain't up by that much on me. No, I'm not.
• 1:08:00
  That's like, that's like Pedro thinking he going to win the
• 1:08:02
  championship already. Hold on, man, hold on.
• 1:08:06
  Hasn't. Really won a race?
• 1:08:08
  Technically this yet? Isn't isn't it?
• 1:08:12
  Isn't that the worst though, Right for Pedro, right to get
• 1:08:16
  that first one? That's like, man, that's not how
• 1:08:18
  you want to win it. And that's, that's the other
• 1:08:22
  thing is that he won. It is great.
• 1:08:25
  But again, man, to win with that asterisk, I, I, you know what, I
• 1:08:29
  think you're going to put a, a fire under him to, to legit win
• 1:08:33
  under his belt as quickly as possible to, to show people,
• 1:08:36
  hey, it's not a freak. You know, I've been racing for a
• 1:08:39
  while, you know, yeah, these other guys have gotten, you
• 1:08:42
  know, Furman's won and and all these other guys have won.
• 1:08:45
  But I'm still, I'm still in the rookie class.
• 1:08:48
  I'll say guys that have been GP less than five years.
• 1:08:51
  He's still the benchmark. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:08:54
  And, and you know, the crazy thing is when he said it today,
• 1:08:57
  he's like, I've only been here for three.
• 1:08:59
  This is my third year. Yeah, it's, it's like, yeah,
• 1:09:03
  that's right. It's like it's only been a
• 1:09:05
  couple of years. So you know what I'm saying for
• 1:09:08
  where he is And, and we and we can look at all these a lot of
• 1:09:10
  other riders. He's a lot further than, I mean,
• 1:09:14
  Miller coming in, Ren's coming in, Vanilla's coming.
• 1:09:17
  Every other rider outside of Marquez.
• 1:09:21
  Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
• 1:09:24
  You know, I mean how long? I mean, I want to save it, took
• 1:09:28
  Miller. I don't know how many years.
• 1:09:31
  He didn't do anything on the Honda, so he had to give out
• 1:09:33
  Honda, Honda so. Yeah, I haven't really did
• 1:09:39
  something on the to. To Miller, forever.
• 1:09:42
  He might have. Got a rain Yamaha?
• 1:09:43
  No, I think he might have got a rain race on the on the Honda.
• 1:09:46
  I think he might have got a a podium on the Honda in the rain
• 1:09:49
  race. Miller.
• 1:09:50
  I don't know what it was, but I know he did because one time he
• 1:09:52
  didn't go in and he was the only one on the grid.
• 1:09:55
  Yeah, yeah. And he no, no, no, he that was,
• 1:09:58
  that was in Germany, he still lost, even though he was the
• 1:10:01
  only one on the grid, he still got smoked.
• 1:10:07
  Yeah, we got to check now. So, yeah, so.
• 1:10:09
  You got to have me go do some research and check this out.
• 1:10:11
  I said right here, Jack Miller. But you know, it it, it's pretty
• 1:10:15
  impressive what what Acosta is doing.
• 1:10:20
  I mean, and I and I hope that Furman algae is probably the
• 1:10:24
  closest thing to Acosta. And and so if anybody, anybody
• 1:10:30
  can knock Acosta off, it would be Furman.
• 1:10:33
  I mean, Diego could do it too. But I think Furman did had a
• 1:10:36
  better motor two career than Diego even though he won the
• 1:10:40
  world title. He won his first race in 2016 in
• 1:10:45
  Asin in the range shortened race.
• 1:10:48
  On what kind of? On what?
• 1:10:49
  By On Mark VDS Honda. OK.
• 1:10:51
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so that was 2016 and Jack
• 1:10:55
  Miller joined Moto GP. 2013, I think he came in with Mark, yes.
• 1:11:02
  Let's see, Let's see. Join Moto GP, he's been there a
• 1:11:11
  long time. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:11:15
  He's. Been 2015. 2015, second year,
• 1:11:19
  yeah, Oh, second year, won a race.
• 1:11:20
  That's not bad. Active years 2015 to current.
• 1:11:23
  Yeah, 2013. Not at all.
• 1:11:27
  He got one before Costa got one. That's why they're keeping them.
• 1:11:32
  Stop. It stop it.
• 1:11:36
  All these wins got asterisks. Oh, rain, short and race.
• 1:11:39
  Acosta got a penalty to win the race.
• 1:11:41
  A lot of asterisks, man. No, let's see, Acosta.
• 1:11:44
  Acosta will get a legitimate win, a legitimate second win
• 1:11:48
  before Miller ever got a legitimate second win.
• 1:11:51
  So that's the only win that Miller has.
• 1:11:54
  I think he's got maybe like 6. OK, so he got a legitimate 1
• 1:11:57
  after that, but I know what you mean though not like you know,
• 1:12:00
  but you know, we you know, we we're not going to do that.
• 1:12:02
  We'll leave that for the other shows, man.
• 1:12:04
  Let we'll let them do all that. A win is a win and you show up,
• 1:12:08
  you hit the you hit a home run. That's what it is.
• 1:12:10
  I don't care what you took before you got here all.
• 1:12:14
  Right, so he's got 4 Moto GP wins in his illustrious 11 year
• 1:12:21
  career to this point. Listen man, that's more than me.
• 1:12:28
  Four Moto GP wins and six Moto three wins.
• 1:12:32
  Yeah, and he's skipped Moto 2, right?
• 1:12:36
  So yeah. Yeah, he.
• 1:12:40
  That's like Kevin Garnett, you know what I'm saying?
• 1:12:42
  And, and Kevin went into the Celtics.
• 1:12:46
  So you know how that go, you know, but no, that I, you know,
• 1:12:50
  I don't know if we'll still, we'll just, I guess we did see
• 1:12:52
  that with Darren Bender skipping Moto 2 and going and coming
• 1:12:57
  straight from Moto GP and it didn't work out for him and, and
• 1:13:01
  it barely worked out for Jack. But you know, I mean, I think
• 1:13:04
  Jack would probably say he had a amazing career, but if he
• 1:13:07
  probably stayed in Moto 21-A year, 2 year and came to Moto
• 1:13:10
  GP, he might have learned a couple of things and probably
• 1:13:13
  would have gotten a better seat than he got when he first came
• 1:13:16
  into Moto GP as well, so. Darren Mender is with us.
• 1:13:22
  Yes. And then I was going.
• 1:13:24
  To say Jack Miller won the the top top thing with the top rat
• 1:13:30
  they got to win this past weekend.
• 1:13:34
  Oh, do you see that? That.
• 1:13:36
  Three wheel that three wheel, yeah car, whatever they were.
• 1:13:40
  Yeah yeah. I'm sitting here like bro y'all
• 1:13:42
  ain't got any gloves on or helmet y'all are doing.
• 1:13:48
  I know what was going on playing.
• 1:13:49
  Yeah, I was. Just like man, I look kind of
• 1:13:52
  dangerous, but what else? We'll, we'll take it.
• 1:13:56
  All right, so let's do some predictions for Daytona 200.
• 1:14:02
  I'll see you guys there I think on Wednesday or Thursday.
• 1:14:06
  You know, I have no idea. I, I, I don't even know who to
• 1:14:08
  pick. So who has their first one?
• 1:14:13
  2-3 or what 3 riders are they picking?
• 1:14:18
  I mean Lewis. I got to see a list, but you
• 1:14:21
  know, so Brandon Posh, I'm sure he's going to be out there.
• 1:14:26
  Possibly Posh going to be out there.
• 1:14:29
  He's always a front runner. You.
• 1:14:31
  Know you going to do, Peter Hickman?
• 1:14:35
  Yeah, I mean, I don't know if my guy Josh Sharon is running, but
• 1:14:41
  he's one. Of the past.
• 1:14:42
  He's running. He's running.
• 1:14:43
  He's. Running in the past three years.
• 1:14:45
  So and then hopefully Escalante cannot run out of gas.
• 1:14:50
  Maybe he can possibly finish too.
• 1:14:52
  I mean like past 2 Daytona, 2 hundreds, he ran out of gas.
• 1:14:56
  It had to push the finish line. But I haven't seen a list.
• 1:15:00
  But that'll be my my 3 right there.
• 1:15:05
  OK, alright, I'll, I'll, you know, I'll go Hickman, I'll go
• 1:15:09
  Heron and and who? Who else is running it?
• 1:15:17
  I'll go Ella Drea. She's running youngest ever.
• 1:15:25
  Man, I got Heron Posh and then I got to go with the guy that
• 1:15:31
  Lewis hates, you know, Blake. I I hate a lot of people.
• 1:15:37
  Blake. No, no, Blake's my boy, man.
• 1:15:40
  You got to mixed up the the first guy you chose.
• 1:15:43
  That's the dude that I. Right, I have to go meet and
• 1:15:52
  greet and have a have a mediation.
• 1:15:56
  No, I actually saw him. I saw him yesterday at A at an
• 1:16:00
  at an orange cat event. Who?
• 1:16:03
  Josh. Oh, God.
• 1:16:07
  So you guys, you, you you nodded each other.
• 1:16:10
  Say what up? Nah.
• 1:16:12
  Nah. Gonna taste that man.
• 1:16:14
  He don't know me, I don't know him, and I'm cool with that.
• 1:16:17
  OK. All right.
• 1:16:20
  All right, I'll leave. It I'll leave it at that.
• 1:16:22
  For the hooligans, for the Hooligans race.
• 1:16:27
  Hooligans race is going to be interesting, man.
• 1:16:30
  Yeah, we just we. We just talking about the Super
• 1:16:31
  sport, man. Oh, just the Super sport.
• 1:16:33
  All right, So just the Super sport.
• 1:16:34
  I'm gonna, I'm going to put some money behind.
• 1:16:39
  I mean Escalante just because I really want to see Escalante
• 1:16:43
  win. He's been super competitive the
• 1:16:45
  last couple of years and he just hasn't been able to, he just
• 1:16:49
  hasn't been able to time that goddamn gas stop.
• 1:16:52
  We're at the right department. Last year, like, you know, Tyler
• 1:16:57
  Scott had a good run going until somebody, you know, nudged him
• 1:17:01
  into the grass racing incident. Whatever.
• 1:17:08
  Escalante probably first. I'm going to go with my boy
• 1:17:15
  Demario. I think, you know, the Mario,
• 1:17:20
  the Mario knows how to ride, man, and people are going to be
• 1:17:22
  surprised. I think he's going to show
• 1:17:24
  people pretty quickly how quickly he adapts to that super
• 1:17:27
  sport. So I'm going to go with Demario
• 1:17:30
  and then and then Blake that that would be my, my, my perfect
• 1:17:36
  top three. It would be Escalante, Demario
• 1:17:39
  and Blake and Blake and Escalante.
• 1:17:41
  I mean, Blake and Demario 2 and 3, three and two doesn't matter.
• 1:17:44
  Like that's those are the three guys I would like to see on the
• 1:17:47
  podium. Is Demario and shape though to
• 1:17:49
  run that long 200? Ed, bro Nah.
• 1:17:52
  He's he's, he's, he's in shape, bro.
• 1:17:55
  Trust me, he's in shape, kids ready to go.
• 1:17:59
  He's been doing a lot of, lot of training or this past winter he
• 1:18:03
  did a lot of racing. He's he can make it, man.
• 1:18:08
  Now, The thing is, of course, this is the one race where your
• 1:18:11
  team and the pit crew comes into play.
• 1:18:14
  I know the Ray Hall team's got a great pit crew, so between
• 1:18:18
  Demario and Kayla, I know they're going to have the right
• 1:18:20
  people there to support them. M4 usually has a good set up.
• 1:18:27
  You know, they just need the right gas canister because they
• 1:18:29
  keep misjudging the amount of fuel on the M4 Suzuki's for some
• 1:18:33
  reason. And then on the Yamaha side, I
• 1:18:37
  think Blake Davis is going to have everything that Yamaha
• 1:18:40
  could possibly throw at him because Yamaha wants to win
• 1:18:42
  that. Race, you know.
• 1:18:45
  And he's, he's, he, he's the Yamaha R9 guy that's flying the
• 1:18:49
  Yamaha flag. He's like the official blue crew
• 1:18:51
  rider for Yamaha in the in that series.
• 1:18:53
  So they're going to do everything they can to try to
• 1:18:55
  help him get on that podium. This what's up?
• 1:19:00
  I'm looking forward to it and I will see you guys either
• 1:19:04
  Wednesday or Thursday. I'm still working out my
• 1:19:05
  schedule. Definitely by Thursday.
• 1:19:08
  I'm excited to take in Daytona. It's been a little bit for me,
• 1:19:13
  so I'm very excited. This be for a cool podcast.
• 1:19:16
  My name is Rexy 45. I want to thank TJ with two
• 1:19:19
  wheels and coffee Reese from Attack Yamaha 3.
• 1:19:22
  Luis Ortega, the numbers guy. Peace.
• 1:19:26
  Peace.