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Can Bagnaia Bounce Back on Home Turf? Emilia-Romagna MotoGP Pit Talk · Pit Talk

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Speaker 1: Same track, different name.
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Speaker 2: Moto GP is back at Mazzano, but this time for
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Speaker 2: the Pramac sponsored Amelia Romana Grompri. I'm your host, Rinita Vmullen,
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Speaker 2: and joining us today is the man who cracks the
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Speaker 2: case on every Motor GP rumor, hunts down every headline
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Speaker 2: and leaves no pit lane stone unturned, our very own
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Speaker 2: Moto GP News detective Matt Clayton. Matt, I think we
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Speaker 2: have to start this podcast by talking about the whole
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Speaker 2: can of worms that has recently been reopened by Valentino
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Speaker 2: Rossi as cans.
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Speaker 3: Of worms go, Rnita, how big is this can at
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Speaker 3: this point because we've been opening and reopening and reopening
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Speaker 3: this can of worms for about nine years. But yes,
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Speaker 3: it wouldn't be a race at Massado without a Valentino
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Speaker 3: Rossi headline because it is in his backyard, and quite
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Speaker 3: often the headline with Valentino since twenty fifteen, anyway, has
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Speaker 3: involved Mark Barkez and here we go again. But perhaps
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Speaker 3: you can set the scene for people as to what's happened,
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Speaker 3: and then maybe I can weigh in with a few thoughts.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, So for those who don't know what's happened,
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Speaker 2: He's recently come on one of his Protegees podcast and
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Speaker 2: it is in Italian but you can listen to it
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Speaker 2: with English subtitles, and they've basically came on to talk
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Speaker 2: about his career so far. But obviously a huge part
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Speaker 2: of his career is that twenty to fifteen clash at
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Speaker 2: Sapaying with Mark Marquez where we don't.
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Speaker 1: Really know the outcome of it.
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Speaker 2: One side of it was Valentino Rossi kicked him or
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Speaker 2: pushed him.
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Speaker 1: The other side of.
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Speaker 2: It was Mark was there trying to basically just ruin
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Speaker 2: Valentino's whole chances of winning the Moto GP World Championship.
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Speaker 2: So this got brought up in conversation and by the
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Speaker 2: sounds of it, Valentino Rossi just hasn't let go. He
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Speaker 2: hasn't brushed that under the rug at all.
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Speaker 3: No, there's no building of bridges to get over things here,
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Speaker 3: are there. But it's interesting to meet Reneita that you know,
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Speaker 3: this is nothing new from Valentino in that I wrote
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Speaker 3: a piece for Fox Sports dot com dot AU that's
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Speaker 3: gone up for Wednesday Australian time and talking about he
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Speaker 3: sort of played all the hits because he's just doing
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Speaker 3: all the old Rossi favorites. With this particular topic, there's
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Speaker 3: nothing particularly new here.
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Speaker 2: What is new in.
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Speaker 3: The discussion of Malaysia twenty fifteen is who's won the
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Speaker 3: past two murder GP Grand Prix. Oh, yes, it's Mark Marquez.
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Speaker 3: So Mark for the first time in really since twenty
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Speaker 3: twenty one, when he won a couple of races when
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Speaker 3: he was still pretty beaten up, and really since twenty
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Speaker 3: nineteen when his last fully healthy season when he was
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Speaker 3: on the Honda. Mark's actually a legitimate threat to win
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Speaker 3: races again, and we've seen him get closer. In this
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Speaker 3: first year with Dicadi has been pretty prominent. He's been
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Speaker 3: up on podiums, but these past two Grand Prix he's won,
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Speaker 3: and I don't think he's He's mathematically in championship contention.
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Speaker 3: He needs a lot to go right. He's not probably
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Speaker 3: going to win the title this year. But Rossi is
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Speaker 3: going back into the past because of the future, and
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Speaker 3: the future is that he be Marquees, will be teammates
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Speaker 3: to Peco Banyaya Rossi protege on a factory Ducati in
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Speaker 3: the factory team for twenty twenty five. It's likely to
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Speaker 3: be the best bike on the grid and now we're
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Speaker 3: going to have this answer to You've got a six
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Speaker 3: time world champion coming in after one year getting his
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Speaker 3: feet wet on a twenty three Ducatti against a rider
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Speaker 3: who could be a three time consecutive Motor GP world
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Speaker 3: champion at the end of this season in Bannyaya. And
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Speaker 3: I don't know about you, but is there a little
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Speaker 3: paranoare here from Rossi in that maybe the star Rossi
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Speaker 3: protege is about to come up against a force of
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Speaker 3: nature that Marquees has won championships when he's not been
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Speaker 3: on the best bike in the past. If you put
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Speaker 3: him on the best bike, that's going to be super interesting.
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Speaker 3: But I thought the timing of all this, there's nothing
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Speaker 3: new in what Rossi said, and look, he answered a
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Speaker 3: question that he was asked, so that's completely fine. But
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Speaker 3: the timing of it was the curious thing for me
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Speaker 3: because Marques is going into the factory Ducati team to
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Speaker 3: try and win, which is something Rossi couldn't do for
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Speaker 3: those two years that he was there. And now granted
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Speaker 3: Ducatti was no we need the force then that it
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Speaker 3: is now he's going up against Valentino's star pupil from
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Speaker 3: the VR forty six Academy in Banyaya, and he's going
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Speaker 3: there with some momentum, So I didn't think that there
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Speaker 3: was anything new in what he said, but the timing
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Speaker 3: of it, particularly in between two Massano weekends. And what
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Speaker 3: about that reception that Marquees got on the podium after
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Speaker 3: Massano won. You trying to tell me that that's not
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Speaker 3: going to fire up the crowd to do something similar
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Speaker 3: this Sunday if Marquees is on the podium again, because
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Speaker 3: I think we know how that's.
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Speaker 2: Going to go, oh one hundred percent, and we know
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Speaker 2: that that feels the fire for Mark.
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Speaker 1: We know that he loves it.
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Speaker 2: But could this be Valentino just poking the bear, shall
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Speaker 2: we say? But also Valentino has been out of the
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Speaker 2: sport for so long as a racer, He's obviously still
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Speaker 2: huge part of Moto GP and Dawna loved to show
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Speaker 2: him on the broadcast how many all the time, and
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Speaker 2: you know, you still see the VR forty six merge,
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Speaker 2: You see that that fluror yellow forty six throughout the fans.
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Speaker 2: So we know that he's a big part of why
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Speaker 2: people do like Moto GP. But I just don't like
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Speaker 2: the fact when people are trying to turn people against
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Speaker 2: each other. I feel like there's no need for that,
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Speaker 2: especially if you're actually not racing anymore. Like you said,
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Speaker 2: it's been and Gorne. But Valentino's also had all these
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Speaker 2: feuds with Max Biaggi said a gym. And now in
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Speaker 2: the past, you know, and if we look at that
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Speaker 2: twenty fifteen season, so he can say that Mark Marquez.
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Speaker 1: Was trying to, I guess hurt his chances of winning.
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Speaker 2: But what about Andrea Ianoni who overtook overtake him A
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Speaker 2: Philip Island was that back in that year as well,
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Speaker 2: So why is he not all of.
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Speaker 1: A sudden coming into conversation.
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Speaker 3: It's interesting in that So to set the scene, they'd
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Speaker 3: had a couple of flashpoints during the start of the
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Speaker 3: year in twenty fifteen in Argentina, in Asen where they
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Speaker 3: had a couple of pretty contentious clashes in races. The
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Speaker 3: Australian Grand Prix of twenty fifteen is still one of
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Speaker 3: the best races in the history of the world championship,
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Speaker 3: absolutely all with Rossi marquees Lorenzo, so it was a
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Speaker 3: Rossi Lorenzo title fight. Marquez had crashed him many times
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Speaker 3: earlier in the season he was out of it, and
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Speaker 3: then you had that random Andrea Younoni weekend where he
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Speaker 3: was capable of actually running with those guys at the
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Speaker 3: front when he was going and remember that was the
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Speaker 3: famous race he had butted the seagull as well, if
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Speaker 3: you remember that vision from the Lookie Heights on the
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Speaker 3: first lap, but absolutely amazing brawl in that race. Rossi's
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Speaker 3: spin on the whole thing was that Marquees was playing
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Speaker 3: with him and playing with the field because he could
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Speaker 3: have gone one by ten seconds, and he was trying
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Speaker 3: to favor Jugey Lorenzo to win a world championship because
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Speaker 3: the Spaniards were teaming up against the Italians or something
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Speaker 3: or other. But it was always a really bizarre argument
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Speaker 3: to me for a couple of reasons, in that Marquez
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Speaker 3: won that Grand Prix, so if he was really helping
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Speaker 3: juge Lorenzo, he just took five points off him on
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Speaker 3: the last lap to go and win the Grand Prix.
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Speaker 3: So that didn't really stand up for me. And it
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Speaker 3: wasn't like Marquez and Lorenzo have been great mates because
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Speaker 3: they've had millions of flash points over their career. You
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Speaker 3: remember when Marques was at harath early on, and then
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Speaker 3: the other factor as well is that Rossie was off
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Speaker 3: the podium that day because andre Unoni overtook him on
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Speaker 3: the last lap. So absolutely amazing race. Kind of a
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Speaker 3: bizarre spin that Rossie put on it after Philip Island,
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Speaker 3: and then of course Malaysia was the next round and
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Speaker 3: we all knew what happened there. But you know when
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Speaker 3: you said that in your intro where you know Rossi
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Speaker 3: kicked or pushed Marquees off the bike, that is completely true,
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Speaker 3: and that Marquez was trying to mess up Rossi's race,
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Speaker 3: which is also completely true because of everything that had
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Speaker 3: happened during the season and then had built to a
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Speaker 3: boil at Philip Island. But the crazy part about this
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Speaker 3: is that I don't feel we've advanced the story along
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Speaker 3: because we could have had this conversation in November twenty
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Speaker 3: fifteen if we were doing a podcast there, which would
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Speaker 3: have been interesting. It's nothing's changed, but it's just the
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Speaker 3: timing of bringing this all up and the fact that
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Speaker 3: we're at Massano and Marquez is winning races again. That's
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Speaker 3: the curious part for me. What's interesting is I reckon
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Speaker 3: this puts Banyai in a really difficult position. And we're
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Speaker 3: just talking about this off air. Before banya was trying
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Speaker 3: this impossible needle. Now he's got to try and appease
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Speaker 3: his mentor and the guy who has helped him be
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Speaker 3: what he is in Motor GP and ROSSI. He's got
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Speaker 3: to keep the atmosphere in the Decady garage next year,
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Speaker 3: you know, safe and the way he wants it, because
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Speaker 3: we know he operates really well in that sort of environment.
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Speaker 3: And you don't need to fire Marquez up like you
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Speaker 3: were saying before, because the last thing you want to
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Speaker 3: do is poke the bear. We've seen what happens if
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Speaker 3: you poked the bear. Marquez wins. That's what happens. And
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Speaker 3: so it's a really difficult position for Bagnaia to be
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Speaker 3: in as much as anything else, because you know, he
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Speaker 3: came out and said when it was announced that Marquees
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Speaker 3: was going to be his teammate, he was quite frank
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Speaker 3: about it. He said it could be amazing or a disaster,
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Speaker 3: and he's completely right because it has the potential to
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Speaker 3: be one of those two extremes. But I think deep
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Speaker 3: down he'd like to control that on his terms, not
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Speaker 3: be answerable to something that happened well before he was
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Speaker 3: in Motor GP. So that's the tricky thing for me,
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Speaker 3: and that Rossi's comments might actually make it harder for
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Speaker 3: Bagnaya to succeed against this force of nature that's going
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Speaker 3: to be on the other side of the garage next year.
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Speaker 3: It's going to be awesome TV. We know that, and
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Speaker 3: it's going to be a fantastic fight because it's probably
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Speaker 3: still going to be the best bike in the field,
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Speaker 3: but it just adds another layer for Bannoa. It's going
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Speaker 3: to be hard enough as it is, and I think
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Speaker 3: it's just become a little bit harder, oh.
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Speaker 1: One hundred percent.
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Speaker 2: And just to add on to what you're saying, I
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Speaker 2: think for Peco, he also needs to trust in du
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Speaker 2: Canti because they've made this decision. It can't be in
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Speaker 2: the back of his mind thinking am I the second writer?
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Speaker 2: Or is Mark going to beat me? Or do I
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Speaker 2: need to keep Valentino happy? All these things that you said.
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Speaker 2: It's a lot of pressure on his shoulders already trying
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Speaker 2: to currently regain his World Championship status and take the
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Speaker 2: third title, and then next year trying to beat Mark
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Speaker 2: Marquez as well. That's a lot for a Moto GP
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Speaker 2: writer to handle, and you'd have.
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Speaker 3: To say a lot so far. He's actually handled the
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Speaker 3: challenges that have come to him in these past three
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Speaker 3: years really well. You remember, he was ninety one points
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Speaker 3: behind Fabio Guasurerara in twenty twenty two and came back
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Speaker 3: and won that championship. Last year's fight with Jorge Martin,
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Speaker 3: it was an intro to catty fight, but it was
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Speaker 3: clearly difficult, and you had Martin trying to prove that
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Speaker 3: he should have been the one on the sister bike
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Speaker 3: to Vanyara in Ae Bastianini. He felt jilted that he'd
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Speaker 3: been overlooked for twenty twenty three. So he've got all
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Speaker 3: this going on in the background. Banna has handled himself
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Speaker 3: really well in that regard, and you know, we've discussed
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Speaker 3: on this podcast numerous times. He's been so good this year.
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Speaker 3: When he's been good, He's already won as many races
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Speaker 3: this year as he won in his twenty two championship year,
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Speaker 3: and he's twenty three championship year. And if I was
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Speaker 3: a betting man, I'm still putting my money on him
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Speaker 3: for this season. I still think he'll win the title.
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Speaker 3: But man, it puts him under a lot of pressure
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Speaker 3: that he doesn't necessarily need to be on because, yeah,
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Speaker 3: he could be going into this new partnership next year
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Speaker 3: as a reigning three time world champion. That's not something
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Speaker 3: that many writers have done. And yet there's going to
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Speaker 3: be all these questions and all this discussion because of
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Speaker 3: the hornet's nest that's been stirred up again.
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Speaker 2: I guess the hard thing here, Matt is we do
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Speaker 2: see both sides of the story, and for us, we
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Speaker 2: do need to keep quite an open thought process about it.
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Speaker 2: We see Mark and where he's at now going through
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Speaker 2: the injury. Obviously, back to back wins with you, Caddie
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Speaker 2: for him is huge after what he's been through. But
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Speaker 2: also Valentino or Rossi, he is the legend, He's the
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Speaker 2: goat of Moto GP.
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Speaker 1: It's just so.
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Speaker 2: True he to be in a position where, like I
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Speaker 2: said earlier, Valentino, I feel like he's poking the bear.
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Speaker 1: But we don't want to see the crowd booing.
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Speaker 2: We don't want to see any negativity towards Mark Marquez.
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Speaker 2: But the rivalry because weird as it sounds, it's kind
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Speaker 2: of exciting because we don't really have it with anybody
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Speaker 2: else in the grid at the moment.
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Speaker 3: No, it does sort of hark back to just the
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Speaker 3: sheer presence that Rossie was for the majority of his
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Speaker 3: premier class career because he always had You mentioned Max
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Speaker 3: Biaggi and Sete Jibbinow and Casey Stoner. When Casey was there,
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Speaker 3: there was always an enemy for Valentino. It was great theater,
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Speaker 3: it was great TV. He was a brilliant writer, a
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Speaker 3: brilliant showman, absolutely fantastic for the global growth of the sport.
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Speaker 3: His impact is immeasurable, turning motor GP into what it
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Speaker 3: has over the course of his career. And then from
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Speaker 3: the marquers side, you look at what he did. He
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Speaker 3: redefined what we thought a young rider could do by
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Speaker 3: coming in and winning the world championship when he was
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Speaker 3: twenty years old. I think he's probably been more responsible
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Speaker 3: for changing the way motor GP bikes are ridden with
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Speaker 3: the way that he rides the bike on his elbow,
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Speaker 3: and we've seen the evolution of that over the years.
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Speaker 3: His ability to save crashes that other people would be
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Speaker 3: in the gravel trap with, and he's been a brilliant
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Speaker 3: champion for a long time. And then had this massive
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Speaker 3: career crossroads where he got injured and injured and injured,
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Speaker 3: and it completely changed the course of his career. So
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Speaker 3: you can acknowledge both sides of this argument have done
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Speaker 3: wonderful things for the sport. It's so polarizing. The Rossie
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Speaker 3: fans will hate the pro Marquees stuff, the Marques fans
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Speaker 3: will hate the pro Rossi stuff. It's just the way
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Speaker 3: that it goes. But from a journalistic perspective, generally we
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Speaker 3: cheer the story. What you cheer the narrative, because narrative
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Speaker 3: is interesting stories to tell, there's more depth in it.
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Speaker 3: You can bring a sense of inclusion to the fans
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Speaker 3: that are trying to understand how this all works. Generally speaking,
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Speaker 3: people in the press room, well they shouldn't if they're
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Speaker 3: actually being legitimate journalists. No one's taking sides here. The
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Speaker 3: only thing you should be cheering for is the actual story.
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Speaker 3: It's a big story. It's going to continue to be
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Speaker 3: a big story. And whatever happens with Marquees Bangnaia next year,
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Speaker 3: if Peko is able to see Mark Off in the
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Speaker 3: same team, on the same bike and win another title,
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Speaker 3: I think we will look back at his career at
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Speaker 3: the end of it really differently because he stared the
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Speaker 3: giant in the eye and beating him. If that's the case,
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Speaker 3: and then if Marquees is to go and complete this
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Speaker 3: amazing career redemption story by going to a factory that
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Speaker 3: he's not written for, forcing his way in there to
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Speaker 3: be fair, and then winning against the guy who's the
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Speaker 3: benchmark over the past three is that's also an amazing story.
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Speaker 3: So as far as I see it, Motor GP fans
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Speaker 3: can't lose with either outcome here because the narrative is fantastic.
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Speaker 3: The best bit is we get to sit back now
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Speaker 3: and rub our hands together and go, so how's this
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Speaker 3: going to play out? Because right now I couldn't tell you,
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Speaker 3: And that's the best bit.
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Speaker 2: Well, let's talk about Peko going into this weekend Mazano two.
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Speaker 2: From our previous pods, we know his home track is
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Speaker 2: super comfortable here and this weekend he's not necessarily coming
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Speaker 2: in injured like he was.
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Speaker 1: I say that air.
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Speaker 2: Quotes because we have no broken bones, but we know
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Speaker 2: there's some bruising and stuff. How do you think he's
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Speaker 2: going to go into this weekend? Do you think his
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Speaker 2: results last weekend? The weather was ify and after reading
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Speaker 2: what the weather's going to be like this weekend, it's
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Speaker 2: still going to be questionable. There's apparently insane rain in
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Speaker 2: Central Europe.
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Speaker 1: And stuff at the moment.
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Speaker 2: And I guess for Peco, is this a part where
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Speaker 2: he now needs to put his head down and just
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Speaker 2: focus on the racing to try and bag that secondry
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Speaker 2: third World Championship under his belt.
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Speaker 1: Is this the crucial time to do that?
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Speaker 3: This is a race where he needs to put a
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Speaker 3: marker in the ground for shore. By the way, I'm
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Speaker 3: just looking at the BBC's weather forecast for Bisano over
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Speaker 3: the weekend, one hundred to two hundred millimeters forecast a
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Speaker 3: Thursday in that region. So well boy, but look, this
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Speaker 3: is a big weekend for Banyai. He was able to
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Speaker 3: take second in the sprint and the Grand Prix at
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Speaker 3: Massano one, which was kind of a good save in
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Speaker 3: a lot of respects because he came to that race
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Speaker 3: pretty beaten up after the crash with Alex Marquez Aragon
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Speaker 3: the weekend before, which of course was all part of
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Speaker 3: the Rossi Marques conspiracy. Let's not go there. But it
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Speaker 3: was a good save for him because he was clearly
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Speaker 3: physically compromised, and it was made even better by the
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Speaker 3: fact that Jorge Martin hemorrhaged a whole heaper points in
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Speaker 3: the Grand Prix by that crazy flagged flag bike swap
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Speaker 3: that he decided to make that none of the other
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Speaker 3: front rothers bothered with. So Banya has seven points behind
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Speaker 3: the championship with seven rounds to go. He's still in
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Speaker 3: a pretty good position. But this is one of those
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Speaker 3: weekends where if the conditions are normal, and again using
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Speaker 3: your air quotes, if the conditions are normal and on
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Speaker 3: a normal weekend, I struggle to see anyone other than
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Speaker 3: perhaps one rider will get to laying a glove on
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Speaker 3: him at this particular track. But this is one where
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Speaker 3: he's expected to win, so he needs to convert on
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Speaker 3: this because there'll be other tracks as we go into
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Speaker 3: the flyways where Jorge Martin may be stronger, or maybe
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Speaker 3: it's someone outside of those top two who really shows
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Speaker 3: their hand on those weekends. This is a home round
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Speaker 3: you need to convert at home. It was a good
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Speaker 3: save for him last time, but he'll want more than
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Speaker 3: a couple of second places this time, and if the
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Speaker 3: Sunday race is dry, he's the guy that you would
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Speaker 3: expect to win, but he kind of needs to because Aragon,
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Speaker 3: whatever percentage fault you want to place on him for
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Speaker 3: that accent with Alex Marquerez, it was a big blow
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Speaker 3: because He've been on this enormous run. Martin's been unbelievably
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Speaker 3: consistent this year, which is not a sentence I can
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Speaker 3: believe that I'm saying after last year, but he's been
16:39
Speaker 3: the consistent one. Peco can't afford to just chuck points
16:42
Speaker 3: away and this is the one that he needs to get.
16:44
Speaker 2: I think, well, let's touch on Martine because you wrote
16:47
Speaker 2: a story earlier in the week for Fox Sports talking
16:49
Speaker 2: about how this is johe Martin's last chance at possibly
16:54
Speaker 2: taking a world title. We have this feeling that maybe
16:58
Speaker 2: moving to a Prillier going to be able to do
17:01
Speaker 2: that in the foreseable future, purely just because of where
17:03
Speaker 2: a Prillia is this year. But you know, never say never.
17:07
Speaker 2: How do you think Joe Martin is feeling going into
17:10
Speaker 2: this weekend? Made that terrible mistake rolled the dice didn't
17:13
Speaker 2: work out in his favor?
17:15
Speaker 1: Is he coming back for redemption this weekend?
17:17
Speaker 3: Very much so? And I think you don't often get
17:19
Speaker 3: the chance within the same season to make up for
17:21
Speaker 3: a huge mistake at the same track. You've normally got
17:23
Speaker 3: to wait twelve months to undo something that you've done wrong.
17:25
Speaker 3: So the fact that you know he put his hand
17:27
Speaker 3: up admitted that he made a mistake, it didn't cost
17:29
Speaker 3: him the championship lead because he had won the sprint
17:32
Speaker 3: the previous day. That's the key part. So he still
17:34
Speaker 3: has his nose in front. But having a redemptive story
17:38
Speaker 3: so soon after making a big stuff up is good
17:40
Speaker 3: for him. But I do think and I wasn't trying
17:43
Speaker 3: to be sort of overly pessimistic in this story that
17:45
Speaker 3: I'd written for Fox Sports, but you look at where
17:46
Speaker 3: a Prillier is at the moment, and they're actually going
17:49
Speaker 3: back was it probably has drop off over these last
17:51
Speaker 3: couple of rounds has been pretty alarming. And as good
17:55
Speaker 3: as Joge Martin is, I'm not sure that any rider
17:59
Speaker 3: could go on and a Prillier next year. Banyaya, Mark Marquez, Martin,
18:03
Speaker 3: none of these guys could go to a Prillier and
18:04
Speaker 3: suddenly make it a championship winning bike next year. I
18:07
Speaker 3: can't really see that happening. And so he had every
18:10
Speaker 3: justification to leave to Caaddy. I mean that overlooked him
18:12
Speaker 3: twice for the seat alongside Banyayra, and you can completely
18:16
Speaker 3: understand why he's gone. But until we get that regulation
18:21
Speaker 3: reset for twenty twenty seven, which is kind of an
18:24
Speaker 3: open open book, we don't really know how that's going
18:26
Speaker 3: to shake out yet because it's a big change to
18:28
Speaker 3: the category. But we're looking at engine freezers and a
18:31
Speaker 3: lot of rules staying in status for the next couple
18:34
Speaker 3: of years. It's really hard to see how a Prillier
18:36
Speaker 3: catches up given they're coming from so far back. So
18:39
Speaker 3: I don't want to say it's his last chance to
18:42
Speaker 3: win a world title, but it might be his best one.
18:45
Speaker 3: Given that he's twenty six. It's going to take a
18:47
Speaker 3: while at a Prillier. He needs to go in there
18:50
Speaker 3: and really take control of that a Prillier project because
18:52
Speaker 3: they've got virtually no continuity year on year. Only one
18:55
Speaker 3: of their four riders is coming back between twenty four
18:57
Speaker 3: and twenty five, in ral Fernandez, So it's his best chance.
19:01
Speaker 3: Might not be his last chance, but man, look seven
19:03
Speaker 3: point lead with seven rounds to go. He's in a
19:05
Speaker 3: better position than he was last year because he's more
19:08
Speaker 3: consistent this year, he's just not He's got to avoid
19:11
Speaker 3: the own goals like Massano won, because I still can't
19:15
Speaker 3: believe that he pulled in for a bike swap in
19:17
Speaker 3: that race, given that with a position of advantage in
19:19
Speaker 3: the championship, he was the person that needed just to
19:22
Speaker 3: sit there and let everyone else overreact, and he was
19:24
Speaker 3: the one that did the overreacting. So be interesting to
19:27
Speaker 3: see if it rains on Sunday, because he'll be the
19:29
Speaker 3: last guy that comes over a bike swap. This time,
19:30
Speaker 3: he's going to wait for everyone else to do it.
19:32
Speaker 2: I think this weekend will either see johe Martin just
19:36
Speaker 2: get out the front like he did in the sprint,
19:37
Speaker 2: or we'll just see him behind Peco the whole race
19:40
Speaker 2: trying to figure out what he's going to do next.
19:43
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm going to do what you do, and it's
19:45
Speaker 3: not if you do that from a position of championship advantage,
19:48
Speaker 3: then you just shadow the guy that's in front, and
19:50
Speaker 3: if you finish one place behind him, there's still a
19:52
Speaker 3: lot of championship to be played out. But I don't
19:54
Speaker 3: think he's going to go the Hail Mary. If it
19:56
Speaker 3: raiins this weekend, that's for sure.
19:58
Speaker 2: Let's talk about someone who is always on the podium
20:01
Speaker 2: at Mazzano Andeneia Bashanini.
20:05
Speaker 1: How do we think he's going to go in to
20:07
Speaker 1: this weekend?
20:08
Speaker 3: Do you remember I mentioned before the other rider I
20:10
Speaker 3: think they could win this weekend. I think it's an
20:12
Speaker 3: Aya And you absolutely hit it on the head there.
20:14
Speaker 3: He's raised four times in Modo GP. At Pasona, he's
20:17
Speaker 3: four and four in terms of podiums and he was
20:19
Speaker 3: putting a third string of Vincia Ducati on the podium
20:23
Speaker 3: back in his rookie year in twenty twenty one. So
20:25
Speaker 3: we know that he's literally from five minutes down the road.
20:28
Speaker 3: There's no exaggeration. He is literally from five minutes down
20:30
Speaker 3: the road to this circuit. It's very much his home track.
20:33
Speaker 3: He's incredibly good here. He wouldn't say it was a gamble,
20:37
Speaker 3: but he took a different tire option to the other
20:40
Speaker 3: three front running guys in the last race and it
20:42
Speaker 3: kind of bit him a little bit. But we know
20:44
Speaker 3: how good he is Layton races and if it's not
20:47
Speaker 3: Banyaira on the top step on Sunday, my money. And
20:50
Speaker 3: it's easy for me to say this because I'm probably
20:52
Speaker 3: not going to put any money on it, but my
20:54
Speaker 3: money would be on Bastianini because he's so good around
20:56
Speaker 3: there and he's worst. He's probably going to be on
20:59
Speaker 3: the poe him because we know the bike's good and
21:01
Speaker 3: we know how good he is there. But wouldn't surprise
21:03
Speaker 3: me if he has one of those Silverston weekends where
21:05
Speaker 3: if he qualifies in the top four, you know that
21:08
Speaker 3: he's going to be there in the last five laps.
21:10
Speaker 3: And look, it's got a great track record there, He's
21:13
Speaker 3: on a very very good bike and he should be
21:14
Speaker 3: pretty confident. So yeah, I think he's a genuine chance
21:17
Speaker 3: to win this weekend.
21:19
Speaker 2: Let's touch on qualifying real quick, because the last round
21:21
Speaker 2: of Massano, Mark Marquez got that terrible qualifying where he
21:25
Speaker 2: crashed and so it was p ninth on the grid.
21:27
Speaker 1: I believe memory he wants yes.
21:29
Speaker 2: Yes, So I wanted to ask you, do you think
21:31
Speaker 2: if Mark gets a better qualifying this weekend, he could
21:34
Speaker 2: be in contention for a podium if it was a
21:38
Speaker 2: dry race, not saying it's his magical mixed conditions. If
21:41
Speaker 2: it's a dry race, Mark gets a good qualifying, say
21:44
Speaker 2: front two rows, do you think he could be in
21:46
Speaker 2: contention for a.
21:47
Speaker 3: Podium, Yeah, very much so. I mean, I think that
21:49
Speaker 3: was the understated story of Massano one, in that he
21:52
Speaker 3: kind of got out of jail and crashed in qualifying,
21:54
Speaker 3: started on the third row, the conditions came to him,
21:57
Speaker 3: and as we know, when it's not quite wet or
21:59
Speaker 3: not quite dry, he's in a completely different league. So again,
22:03
Speaker 3: all eyes to the skies to see what's going on
22:05
Speaker 3: with the weather forecast. And also I'm sure we're going
22:07
Speaker 3: to touch on this. The earlier start on Sunday as well,
22:09
Speaker 3: could be interesting before the weather comes in. But in
22:12
Speaker 3: a normal dry weather race, if he wants to be
22:14
Speaker 3: on the podium, he's got to be in those first
22:16
Speaker 3: two rows, because I just don't think that GP twenty
22:19
Speaker 3: three is good enough even in his hands in a
22:22
Speaker 3: normal race for him to overcome a poor qualifying, So
22:25
Speaker 3: Q two super important for him. Got away with it
22:28
Speaker 3: last time because the conditions played in his favor. But
22:31
Speaker 3: I did have to go back and look when I
22:32
Speaker 3: was doing my preview for this that the last time
22:35
Speaker 3: he won three races in a row. Trivia question for
22:37
Speaker 3: everybody Thailand, Japan, Australia twenty and nineteen, so nearly tooking
22:43
Speaker 3: five calendar years, So that's what's at stake this weekend,
22:46
Speaker 3: and he'll need a lot of things to go right,
22:48
Speaker 3: but it's certainly not be on the realms of possibility.
22:51
Speaker 1: Before we move.
22:52
Speaker 2: On to what you just mentioned before about the timing
22:54
Speaker 2: change this weekend, I wanted to post you, could this
22:57
Speaker 2: be Frankie Moore Buterdally's best chances at a Motor GP
23:01
Speaker 2: podium this season? On the jew Caddie because it's his
23:04
Speaker 2: home race. Obviously, he was on the sprint podium last
23:07
Speaker 2: week and qualified on the front row as well. Could
23:12
Speaker 2: this be his best chance at a podium this season?
23:14
Speaker 3: Yeah? Absolutely. I stuck my neck out and said that
23:17
Speaker 3: he'd be on the podium last time, and I was
23:19
Speaker 3: sort of right because he was on the sprint podium
23:21
Speaker 3: at least. But he's been so anonymous for most of
23:24
Speaker 3: the rest of the season that you would never mention
23:26
Speaker 3: this sentence except for the fact that it's at Massano.
23:29
Speaker 3: Qualified really well last time, and we know he's particularly
23:32
Speaker 3: good at this circuit. So if he's going to get
23:35
Speaker 3: a podium this year, it's probably going to be here,
23:37
Speaker 3: given the flyaways are coming up, and I don't expect
23:40
Speaker 3: him to be anywhere near as prominent, but he's on
23:42
Speaker 3: the right bike, he's on a track that he knows
23:44
Speaker 3: extremely well and was about you. It was kind of nice,
23:47
Speaker 3: like refreshing to see him back up there again because
23:50
Speaker 3: it's been so long, and to add another rider into
23:53
Speaker 3: this mix where you know that Peco is going to
23:55
Speaker 3: be there, you know that Jorge Martin is going to
23:57
Speaker 3: be there, and a bas Junini. Most of the time,
24:00
Speaker 3: Mark Barcres, the same guys are kind of locking at
24:03
Speaker 3: the podium. It was kind of nice to see Morbidelli
24:05
Speaker 3: in there for a bit of a change. But if
24:07
Speaker 3: it wasn't at Bizaro, I'd say no chance. But the
24:10
Speaker 3: fact that it is, yeah, absolutely a very strong chance.
24:13
Speaker 2: Isn't it crazy that we're saying, you know, obviously Peco, Martin,
24:17
Speaker 2: Mark and Are they're the kind of guys who are
24:18
Speaker 2: always on the podium. But like you said, you see Frankie,
24:20
Speaker 2: you see Pedro Acosto on there, and it's exciting and
24:24
Speaker 2: we're seeing these changes come through, and that's what's keeping
24:27
Speaker 2: the championships so alive at the moment where it's not
24:29
Speaker 2: just being run away by.
24:31
Speaker 1: Peco or Johe MA team.
24:33
Speaker 3: No, not at all. That was one of the disappointments.
24:34
Speaker 3: I reckon Massano won and that Acosta was super feisty
24:38
Speaker 3: in those first few laps and then he came off
24:40
Speaker 3: I think Lat four and then obviously damaged bike. It rained.
24:43
Speaker 3: He made the bike swap because he had nothing to lose,
24:45
Speaker 3: But we never quite got to see how that race
24:48
Speaker 3: would have played out for him because he looked like
24:51
Speaker 3: he was on a bit of a charge there and
24:52
Speaker 3: things are starting to get a little bit better after
24:55
Speaker 3: that absolute disaster that was Austria for KTM. So yeah,
24:58
Speaker 3: it wouldn't surprise me to see a up there because
25:00
Speaker 3: we know he's going to be brave and yeah, him
25:03
Speaker 3: against five to caddies, he doesn't care. He will take
25:05
Speaker 3: them all on. So yeah, it be interesting to see
25:07
Speaker 3: if he can convert on the speed because I don't
25:09
Speaker 3: think the speed was in question last time, just a
25:12
Speaker 3: little bit too fast he broke some bits and then
25:14
Speaker 3: fell off, So perhaps a little bit of discretion in
25:17
Speaker 3: the earlier lapse and we'll see what happens later in
25:19
Speaker 3: the race.
25:20
Speaker 2: Well, we posted on the Fox Motorsports socials saying that
25:23
Speaker 2: Pedro in air quotes will want revenge at Mazano too,
25:26
Speaker 2: and even his team are saying that, you know, he
25:29
Speaker 2: had the speed, he had the confidence. Maybe a little
25:32
Speaker 2: bit too much confidence when things got a bit iffy there.
25:35
Speaker 2: But I think this weekend he's really going to try
25:38
Speaker 2: learn from his mistakes. But he's got the speed. We'll
25:41
Speaker 2: see him up the front and hopefully the other ktms
25:43
Speaker 2: with Brad Binder and Jack Miller as well. But this
25:46
Speaker 2: is a good segue into Jack Miller because we are
25:50
Speaker 2: hoping at the time of recording this, nothing's been officially
25:53
Speaker 2: announced that Jack will be moving over to my favorite team, Pramaha,
25:58
Speaker 2: my favorite thing to say. So it is being said
26:01
Speaker 2: that Pramak, who were sponsoring this event, they were going
26:04
Speaker 2: to spread out their announcements. Last weekend we had Miguel
26:06
Speaker 2: Olivera and hopefully Thursday at their team launch or press
26:11
Speaker 2: press duties on Thursday, we will see Jack Miller officially
26:15
Speaker 2: announce as the second writer at Pramak Yamaha for twenty
26:19
Speaker 2: twenty five.
26:20
Speaker 1: Matt, you're smiling away, go on.
26:22
Speaker 3: Say it's just it's seriously, it's the world's worst kept secret.
26:25
Speaker 3: This thing's has been bubbling around for a while. I
26:27
Speaker 3: can see it completely from Promac's point of view, in
26:30
Speaker 3: that why announce Olivera and Miller on the same weekend,
26:33
Speaker 3: because all you're doing is getting one bite at the
26:35
Speaker 3: publicity apple. You can spread it out over a couple
26:37
Speaker 3: of weekends, two races at Massano, which is a team's
26:40
Speaker 3: home track, and Pramak are sponsoring this particular race, the
26:43
Speaker 3: Amelia Romania GP, so it makes sense to have held it.
26:47
Speaker 3: But it'll get announced probably Thursday, Australian time, and people
26:52
Speaker 3: will go, oh, yeah, I knew about this already because
26:54
Speaker 3: it feels like we've been talking about.
26:55
Speaker 1: It for weeks.
26:55
Speaker 3: But what I'll be curious about is that the Olivera
26:59
Speaker 3: deal is too, and I'll be curious to see what
27:01
Speaker 3: Jack's deal is here because it makes sense to align
27:04
Speaker 3: these contracts to the end of the regulation cycle that
27:07
Speaker 3: we mentioned before, so we know Olivera is going to
27:09
Speaker 3: be there while we're still racing on thousand cc bikes.
27:13
Speaker 3: Will Jack's contract be equivalent or would they go for
27:16
Speaker 3: like a one plus one or something else, because they're
27:19
Speaker 3: clearly both being brought in because they're experienced and they
27:22
Speaker 3: can help bring the whole Yamaha project out of the doldrums,
27:25
Speaker 3: But are they going to value one of them more
27:28
Speaker 3: than the other. So if Jack gets a deal that's
27:30
Speaker 3: anything less than the deal that OLIVERA has got, we
27:33
Speaker 3: know which of the two of them is going to
27:35
Speaker 3: be on thinner ice, because you know they're both going
27:38
Speaker 3: to be in their thirties next year. You're not going
27:40
Speaker 3: to want to keep an older group of riders forever
27:43
Speaker 3: because in some ways you'll be responsible for your own demise.
27:46
Speaker 3: The better you make the bike, the more likely Yamahara
27:49
Speaker 3: to put some young guy on it, and either Olivera
27:52
Speaker 3: or Jack will be binned off, probably earlier than they
27:55
Speaker 3: would like to, So be curious to see the length
27:57
Speaker 3: of the Jack contract. But there's so many any arguments
28:01
Speaker 3: for having an experienced crew with these two guys available
28:05
Speaker 3: on that second team for Yamaha, because right now Yamaha
28:07
Speaker 3: need data because I've only had two bikes for the
28:10
Speaker 3: past couple of years, and they need people with experience
28:12
Speaker 3: of other manufacturers, And between Miller and Olivera, they've written
28:16
Speaker 3: for a free other manufacturer in the field, So it's
28:19
Speaker 3: a good fit. It's a good confluence of timing. There'll
28:21
Speaker 3: be plenty of debate as to whether Jack deserves to
28:25
Speaker 3: stay in after how bad this year has been, and
28:27
Speaker 3: we can you can sugarcoat Hervey you like, it's been
28:29
Speaker 3: a really really poor year for Jack and he'll be
28:31
Speaker 3: the first to admit that really he's not one. He's
28:34
Speaker 3: not one to bss in these sorts of situations. He
28:37
Speaker 3: knows that he would have liked it to have been better.
28:41
Speaker 3: He's got an extension to his career because he feels
28:43
Speaker 3: a job a job set that Yamaha need and also,
28:48
Speaker 3: you know, having the Australian passports a little bit part
28:50
Speaker 3: of that as well. But he's been given a lifeline.
28:53
Speaker 3: It's a good lifeline because his input will be really
28:56
Speaker 3: valued there and I'm very curious to see what he
29:00
Speaker 3: makes of it.
29:01
Speaker 2: I think from a fan perspective, Jack does bring a
29:04
Speaker 2: different kind of audience, and especially the Australian audience who
29:07
Speaker 2: love his I don't want to say Bogan, but you
29:11
Speaker 2: know when he has the mullet and he has the
29:12
Speaker 2: dirty mustache and people really like that and relate to
29:15
Speaker 2: him because he is just so down to earth.
29:17
Speaker 1: That's what I was thinking, down to earth he is.
29:20
Speaker 3: I got to say, he's got to be in a
29:22
Speaker 3: sport that's filled with a lot of characters that are
29:25
Speaker 3: trying to pretend that they're nice guys when they might
29:27
Speaker 3: not be. In a lot of respects. Jack is the
29:30
Speaker 3: single most authentic guy you could come across because where's
29:34
Speaker 3: he's hard on his sleeve, says what he thinks. Some
29:36
Speaker 3: people don't like it, some people do like it. But
29:39
Speaker 3: from a media point of view, Jack never ducks a
29:42
Speaker 3: question even if the answer is uncomfortable for him. And
29:45
Speaker 3: I think that's you know, and he's been like that
29:47
Speaker 3: since he was in Motor III. He's never really changed.
29:51
Speaker 3: It's just that the he's got a little bit older,
29:53
Speaker 3: and you know, life has changed around him, but he's
29:55
Speaker 3: still as authentic and blunt as he ever was. And
29:58
Speaker 3: I think the sport can be a little bit for
30:00
Speaker 3: Nila sometimes. And also when you're dealing with a lot
30:02
Speaker 3: of guys where English might be a second or third language.
30:05
Speaker 3: From the English language preys they love Jack. Where you
30:08
Speaker 3: go to Jack with an open mic and say, hey, Jack,
30:10
Speaker 3: what do you think about this? And he's going to
30:11
Speaker 3: have an opinion. You might not like the opinion, and
30:13
Speaker 3: some fans may or may not like what he has
30:15
Speaker 3: to say, but he has one, and you know, like
30:18
Speaker 3: I said, things can be a little bit vanilla. Sometimes
30:20
Speaker 3: he's the extra flavor in the ice cream feruza for
30:24
Speaker 3: all of us journalists. But we love talking to him.
30:26
Speaker 2: I also love his Spanglish accent that had come out
30:30
Speaker 2: as well. I think I'd always miss that if that
30:32
Speaker 2: wasn't in Moto GP.
30:34
Speaker 3: It's so funny. It was a couple of years ago
30:35
Speaker 3: at Philip Island where Peco looked at him and said,
30:38
Speaker 3: why do you speak differently when you're speaking to Australians
30:42
Speaker 3: that when you're speaking to us in the box, Because
30:43
Speaker 3: he's got these two various iterations of English. It's hilarious.
30:46
Speaker 3: But yeah, he knows he's doing it. I think he
30:48
Speaker 3: does it all purpose, but it is funny because he's
30:51
Speaker 3: Peers though at two and Peco was bagging him about
30:53
Speaker 3: it at the time.
30:54
Speaker 2: Well, let's move on, because we touched on it briefly
30:57
Speaker 2: that Moto GP has moved the schedule to an hour earlier,
31:03
Speaker 2: so where the Grand Prix would normally be at three pm,
31:06
Speaker 2: it is now at two pm.
31:08
Speaker 1: And there's been a whole cluster of reasons as to why.
31:11
Speaker 1: Some are saying it's because.
31:13
Speaker 2: F one's on at Singapore at the same time, so
31:15
Speaker 2: they've done that to separate it. I've also heard that
31:18
Speaker 2: it's because Well Superbikes is on at Cremona, which is
31:22
Speaker 2: just up the road, apparently in Italy, so they're trying
31:25
Speaker 2: to separate it. Matt, what's your take on on this
31:28
Speaker 2: timetable change?
31:30
Speaker 3: A bit of both. I think you don't want to
31:32
Speaker 3: direct clash with a Formula One event going back into
31:35
Speaker 3: Europe if you possibly can, because the Singapore GP is
31:38
Speaker 3: a night race, of course, but it goes back into
31:40
Speaker 3: Europe at two pm on a Sunday, so you want
31:43
Speaker 3: to try and avoid that wherever possible. And you have
31:46
Speaker 3: to remember we're only here in Masano this weekend because
31:48
Speaker 3: we were supposed to be in Kazakhstan and then we
31:50
Speaker 3: were supposed to be in India, and now we're having
31:52
Speaker 3: two races at the same track in a three week period.
31:55
Speaker 3: But that extra hour, where it's going to be an
31:58
Speaker 3: hour earlier, so nine pm Eastern for the Motor GP
32:01
Speaker 3: race here in Australia, that extra hour is going to
32:03
Speaker 3: be pretty critical because the following weekend, Motor GP is
32:07
Speaker 3: in Malaysia at Mandalika, and logistically This has actually become
32:11
Speaker 3: a really, really difficult turnaround now for Motor GP because
32:15
Speaker 3: they were going to be coming from Kazakhstan or India
32:17
Speaker 3: where it would have been easy to get all the
32:19
Speaker 3: freight out. And you know, it's twelve thousand k's between
32:23
Speaker 3: Massano and Mandaleka I was reading earlier this morning. It
32:25
Speaker 3: doesn't sound like much, but the Indonesian circuit's quite remote,
32:29
Speaker 3: and you've got to get the entire paddock packed up
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Speaker 3: and out of Messado on Sunday afternoon slash evening, so
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Speaker 3: you think about it. Motor GP race starts at one
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Speaker 3: pm local. Everyone they do the track, invasion of the podium,
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Speaker 3: everyone's out of there by three pm, and then there'll
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Speaker 3: be this race after the race where everyone's trying to
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Speaker 3: get things in packing crates. Because we're week one of
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Speaker 3: a three week triple header where we go Massano, Indonesia, Japan.
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Speaker 3: It's absolutely mad to try and get all this freight
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Speaker 3: around the world, three races in three weekends. So yeah,
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Speaker 3: that's part of it. But avoiding a direct clash with
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Speaker 3: the Cremona Superbikes as you mentioned, and also F one
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Speaker 3: in Singapore is part of it too. But certainly going
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Speaker 3: to make an early start for the Moto three boys
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Speaker 3: on Sunday morning in Italy. There might not be a
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Speaker 3: lot of track temperature for those guys, I would say, just.
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Speaker 2: Looking at the times, Yeah, sorry, I did get out
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Speaker 2: wrong earlier. So Moto three local time in Europe and Italy,
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Speaker 2: but too three go out at ten am, which is
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Speaker 2: kind of quite.
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Speaker 1: Early for those boys.
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Speaker 2: Moto GP warm ups on an eight forty am. That's
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Speaker 2: really early for Moto GP. But for those listening here
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Speaker 2: in Australia in AESD time, we've got Moto three on
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Speaker 2: at six pm, followed by Moto two at seven fifteen
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Speaker 2: and Moto GP on at a comfortable nine pm, which
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Speaker 2: I'm very much looking forward to not having to stay
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Speaker 2: up till all hours of the morning to watch Moto GP.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Look, it's a great time schedule for us. And
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Speaker 3: this is the part of the calendar that as an
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Speaker 3: Australian fan you love because we get afternoon races, you
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Speaker 3: get Indonesia, you get Japan obviously Australia coming up, and
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Speaker 3: then we've got Thailand and also Malaysia. So it goes
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Speaker 3: from being a trying to keep your eyes open late
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Speaker 3: on a Sunday Night Sport to being right in the
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Speaker 3: middle of the afternoon. It's almost like the Europeans have
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Speaker 3: it too easy for most of the rest of the year.
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Speaker 3: They have to get up, which is which always makes
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Speaker 3: me laugh because they complain about it so much. But
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Speaker 3: it's it's going to be fun for us. We've got
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Speaker 3: this great run of flyways coming up with Australia smack
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Speaker 3: bang in the middle of it.
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34:28
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34:32
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34:35
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34:39
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34:42
Speaker 2: Forward Slash Motorsport. But I think that pretty much pretty
34:47
Speaker 2: much wraps up all our Motor GP talk for the
34:50
Speaker 2: Mazzano too, Amelia Romana Grand Prix. But Matt Clayton and
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Speaker 2: myself Reneda Famulan, we're going to be back real soon
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Speaker 2: to talk more Moto GP Pittoc