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B4evaKool "race a motorcycle" Podcast S2 Ep. 10 · B 4EVA Kool "Race A Motorcycle" Podcast

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My name is Rex 45. You're listening to the Be
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Forever Cool podcast. My name is TJ with two wheels
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and coffee. What's going on, man?
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In Auto GP riding season it's all I can do.
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It's currently raining. The leaves are falling as the
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rain is going and. It's It's falling for real.
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It's falling into the winter. I'll.
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I'll know about that life right now, man, I don't know about
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that life right now. I I gotta say, I have.
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I had to stop looking at Boston weather last week because I
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realized it was messing with my psyche thinking that looking at
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the weather in Boston and thinking that's what it is
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outside and that's not what it is.
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It just had the interest to be like this is that's what they
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going through huh. Yeah, pretty much.
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It might it it might be that man.
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I don't know it might it might be that.
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But I'm, I'm. I'm.
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Still on the hoodie? You got a T-shirt on over there,
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you know? Yeah, T-shirt on, AC on.
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Oh man, so I I. Got I got the heat on, man.
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Listen, man, hey, there's there's room down here, man.
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So you know you can always make your way down.
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Sometime, you know, when I retire, I guess, well, I shoot,
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man, I wish I was retiring. But you know it is what it is.
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It's it's, I'll have to say this, it's nice to have warm
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weather because I'm definitely getting on my street bike more
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so that that that's exciting and I don't miss the cold.
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Yeah, I'm looking forward to it. I'm looking forward to it.
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It's coming soon, no doubt. So I mean, I I guess we should
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just jump right into it, man. I mean, you know.
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And to back races, you know, back-to-back races.
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What, what? What?
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What do you think you know what do you think about the Sprint?
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You know, you know, I mean even Moto Moto Three, it was
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incredible. You know you got a rookie
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winning the race. That's that's incredible.
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You know Moto 2 incredible Furman al the year you know this
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guy should have been doing what Pedro was doing last year and
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and he's just coming into his form the end of this year so you
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know but because in the in the in the European Championship
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that dude was the was a beast when Pedro was on Moto 3 winning
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that championship So I I don't know if the transition from the
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the the European Honda Motor 2 bike versus the Triumph Motor 2
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bike I I think it was a it was a bigger step for him than than
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Pedro coming from Moto 2 to Moto Moto 3 to Moto 2.
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Yeah, I mean you you definitely gotta make that smoother
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transition. But I think, I think he's, he's
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a good rider now. He deserved it, that's all.
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You know I'll be rooting for Aaron Kinett.
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And you know, he he didn't. I had luck.
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Aaron's he, he he blew it on me and P2 starting on the grid.
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So that would have been you know probably a a better fight to see
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at the end. Yeah, I I, you know, I don't,
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you know it. It's unfortunate for him because
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he's a talented dude and I he doesn't he doesn't do well at
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closing out races he's leading in or or when he's running out
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front. He doesn't like you know he he
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he should be on way more podiums than he's than he's think about
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the mond times he's crashed out you know it it it's it's just
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you know he should have way more podiums than than what he
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currently have. So I, I, I, you know, I think he
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needs to, you know, sit down with with with the likes of
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Rossi and somebody's experienced riders and just, you know, learn
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how to get your mind in a place where when you're in front, when
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you're running out of front, you can still stay calm because it
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seems like you know, he gets, I don't want to say excited
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because I don't know what it is, but he does something to cause
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him to crash. It's a really tough task, man.
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I'm sure. I mean leading, leading the
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front when it when you know there's a whole pack chasing
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you. Right.
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It's just a whole different beast.
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But you know, knowing that Pedro Acosta wasn't in the front, you
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know that would have been a better chance for him.
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You know, that's. So it's good.
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It's good that. Alex J got that win is, is, is
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the downside of not having mirrors.
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You can't see who's behind you. You just hear a buzzing sound or
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sounds, yeah? I I have a bad habit of peeking
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over my shoulder every now and then, yeah.
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But you know, it's that no mirrors.
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You know, you just once you hear a buzz coming, you know, you
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know someone's making a move. Yeah.
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No, it is. And you got to calm the voices
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in your head or in the helmet, I should say because you know,
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it's it's, it's it's it's hard up front.
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You know, it's hard up front. I've had, I have.
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I've been fortunate enough to lead a couple.
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But it's, you know, it's it's it's nice to to set somebody up
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from from behind and, you know, pass them, whether on the last
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lap or or whatever the case may be, Then then it is to stay out
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front for the whole thing. But that's where you want to be,
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'cause then you run your race. Yeah, I don't think I've ever.
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I mean I want a race, but it was obviously with other packs of
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bikes, so I never was in a single race lead in the pack.
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So that that hopefully one day. Hey listen man, you get a lap,
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you get 2 laps, it's great. And you know what I mean it's
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it's you know you know that that's all you can ask for.
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You never know because you know the fast guys that you know they
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run out front but that's a mental game to stay out front
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and and to keep that pace and like like or like Orge did
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right. It's you know he's he's you know
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that we're jumping around a little bit but you know I will
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say that like from a mental perspective he sorted it out and
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you know he was able to do that. So yeah man.
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So no, I I I do agree to go back to Moto 3 to you know to have
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these see these young rookies come out and and dominate.
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You know for a second. It it that that's pretty
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impressive because you got some guys that's been in Moto 3 for a
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little while now and you know they they didn't jump out front
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light and and weren't running out front like these these young
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kids. Yeah, I know it's impressive to
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see what these young kids got. You know those bikes look so
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light they throw them around and feel you just a little wind gusk
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and and can change the game with all these bikes.
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And it's crazy to see, you know, it's rude for a year you guys,
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since you mentioned that when we first started Dennis, Dennis,
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aren't you, we had pole position and he left for the first couple
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laps and then after that draft he jumped back to like 5th and
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6th. And you know, it's just kept
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rotating, but the way they can, you know, push those Moto 3
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bikes, especially at that age and, you know, not break loose.
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It's crazy. Yeah.
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It's it's it's very impressive at the talent level that these
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young kids are coming out and yeah David Alonzo you know
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rookie coming out of Columbia on the gas gas you know what I mean
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And you know pretty crazy you know and but I I it goes to say
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you know these kids that are coming up in the Cup Series and
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the level of of of the racing below Moto Moto 3 is is is way
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different today than ever before.
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Oh yeah, they're the, I mean, the amount of training they have
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to get to this point, it's crazy like, you know, coming up in
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Valencia's, they have the mini Cup Series, so there.
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There's so much young talent coming up at, you know.
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Very soon, right? Oh yeah, yeah, for sure.
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I mean the US is we're growing and and and it's a beautiful
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thing to see. And you know, I think you know,
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5 to 10 years from now, it'll be interesting to see the landscape
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of World Super Bike and and Moto GP.
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Yeah, I wonder if they have like a little a mini series for like,
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you know, World Super Bike and you know, we see it with the
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Motor America kids. You know, they got their little
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mini cups. They go around Oh yeah.
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I mean it's it's I think it's it's Moto.
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Yeah. Because you know shout out to
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Nathan Betancourt he's going over or I think he was over in
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Spain to to to run in in in in the in the in the series for all
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these riders. But no, that that series is is
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it's global and that's Moto GP that's doing it.
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That's those guys that are doing that like the Cup Series and my
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Cup Series might be wrong, I might not be.
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It might not be called the the the Cup Series but for the for
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the young kids and you know that's that they've you know it.
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It's like what you know European soccer has done or European
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football has done with with with their camps and stuff like that.
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These these kids now are, you know, they're they're very
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skillful at a young age. Yeah, watching these kids of,
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you know, hitting corners and apexes and dragging their knees
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and stuff, I'm just thinking of what their minds going through.
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Like, do they understand how we understand or they're just going
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through the motion, you know, Right.
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I think they understand. You know what I mean?
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I mean, I know, I know, they understand.
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But like, it's just, I don't know.
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It's just kind of impressive just to see like.
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They doing the exact same thing adults are doing, right?
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Yeah. No, that's was going to say, I
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mean, I think they they understand because, you know,
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folks are teaching them will they fully comprehend.
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That's a whole different story. They know that if if the bike
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feels like this, you do this, you do or you know what I'm
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saying, that type of thing. Do they fully understand the
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whole gravity of what they're doing?
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Probably not. Not even the least bit.
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You know what I'm saying? To be how young they are, 'cause
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even you know, not, you know, you know, I I had to, you know,
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remind my daughter the other day that like, you know, you're
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you're, you're 12 years old, swimming with, you know, high
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school kids. So you know, you're 3 seconds
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behind them, but like you're 12. So I don't, I don't think like
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young kids, they just competitive, right?
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They just they just want to go and and go, but they don't.
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I I think when they become adults, they'll fully understand
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what's going on. But no, they like they as far as
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the learning and and breaking and all that stuff, you know,
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they they just fearless with it. Yeah, they're very competitive
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and fearless, those 2GO hand to hand with these kids, yeah.
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Yeah, hopefully, yeah. Shout out to Nathan.
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I'm not sure if that series cup passed already.
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I don't know if they said it was in Valencia when they do it at
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the end of the year in November, I'm not 100% sure, right, Yeah.
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I know he's invited. Yeah, I know it was.
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I don't know if it was because World Super Bike just ended.
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So I don't think it's part of that.
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So it might be part of Moto GP. The last, the last round of the
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Moto GP calendar is is is what I'm thinking, which is pretty
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dope because you know these that that's the avenue that we need.
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I wish it was more, it was more, you know, you know, I wish was
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more government money going to funding you know, stuff like
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this. Because you know what I mean?
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It is families, it's a very expensive sport.
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But you know the US needs more representation in the world
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super bike and in, in Moto GP, right.
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And you know it it's very difficult for families to to to
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kind of, you know, racing is one of those, you know the it's
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probably more poor people that love racing but only the rich
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can really do it. Well you know what I'm saying?
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There is the rest of us, we're lucky forget it here and there.
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So that is the downside of the sport because it's it's it it
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you need so much capital. You know, it makes it very
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difficult and shout out to those families that you know that that
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stand behind their kids and and believe in what their kids are
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trying to do and and and put it up because you know at the end
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of the day you don't know where you're going to end up.
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But it it's, it's going to be a memory that you'll carry
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forever. Oh yeah, And I, I mean just
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being in the racing world now for, you know, since 2023 years
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myself and watching these kids grow from the three years I've
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been there and always seeing them happy, you know?
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I think it's great. So the parents definitely doing
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a good job keeping their head straight for sure, keeping them
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competitive and respectful, that'll take them a long way.
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And then like you said, we're room for the the US side to
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reach the board of the Professional.
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GP side of things definitely, definitely like like back in the
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80s and 90s, man and in early 2000s.
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You know, you know what I'm saying, you know, you know and
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you know obviously I'm not I'm not this diminishing what Nikki
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Hayden has done or anything like that.
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When I say early 2000s, you know, but you know we need, you
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know, we should have more people out there and you know the sport
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has taken a hit in the US and you know it, it's it's it's
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growing again. So that's the exciting part and
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you know the future is exciting and and and that's the that's
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that's the beautiful thing about motorcycle racing and and racing
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in general, because you know, not a lot of people like to race
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in the world, you know, but a bunch of us do.
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And the ones that do, We always think that everyone loves it
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too. Yeah, I was.
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Trying to show off our races and.
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Pictures and stuff, but no doubt.
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No doubt. So yeah.
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So let's keep it going with with Moto 2A.
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Little bit, you know what I'm saying?
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You know Jake Dixon has tough Tony Abelino.
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Tough run. It seems like Pedros is coasting
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away with it. But again I'll go back to
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Furman. I love what he's doing.
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I I I obviously I know he wish and his camp wish he was doing
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this sooner because to me I felt like he was the better of the
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two riders coming into the series as rookies he had some
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bad lucks and and we are where we are now so I hope he got to
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sort out sorted out because if he does I think only what Lopez
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maybe Viete for next year who who else could catch him if he's
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if he keeps riding like this and you know Aya guru.
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Aya Guru. I mean.
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Yeah, I go, I wish I had a better season.
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I know he's been injured. So yeah, I go definitely one.
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And I mean, if Eric Connect still around Eric Connect, sure.
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But it mean he still got a lot to learn.
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And I mean, we all do. But yeah, that means it's just
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me, a select few. I mean, there's always that one
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that, you know, probably jump from Moto 3 and and just gel
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right away. Yeah and figure it out whoever
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take you know faggio might yeah he you know he's he's up in
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there you know I so go ahead. Doesn't say so.
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Pedro leaving, right? So someone taking that KTMC
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dude. Yeah, that's that's.
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They get their full package Celestina, Viete and Dennis on
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Chu. So, so they get Pedro conscious
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package or are they going to, they get, they get, they get,
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they get, they get that that that team package it's not the
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right package that that's that. Team you know remember Gardner
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and and and Ramirez was was you know was there the the years
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before right. You know what I'm saying One and
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two and you know they they have a winning thing.
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Akiowa, Akiow. And so I I do, yeah, I didn't
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see, I didn't see you know Celestine getting going that
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way. Shout out to the the Academy for
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being able to pull that off because he has to be a front
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runner for the championship and you know and like I said Lopez
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Fuhrman yeah faggia can get up there you know I don't I didn't
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see Sergio Garcia you know he's running all right but he just
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he's still figuring it out so who knows the you know some cat
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and and I guru for sure right they they still going to be on
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those bikes next year Joe Roberts is going back to the
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American team that which is a good.
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Yeah, I forgot about that. You know I I think he has you
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know, I I he's missing the consistency.
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You know what I'm saying? And and.
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Jump in there Moto GP affected that well I I the tricky part is
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this because he had I believe he had the opportunity to go to
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that Aprilia but the end they thought the Aprilia was going to
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suck like every other year it did.
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Yeah but it didn't suck that year but he did He turned that
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bike down with a lot of other Moto 2 rides and I only know
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that because Alicia's when he won you know he talked about
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people not wanting to come to Aprilia.
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Ride is not wanting to come to Aprilia and so you know so it's
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good that he's still in Moto 2. Roberts.
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And you know it's tricky for it's tricky because none of the
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guys in Ducati is going to leave.
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None of the guys in KTM is going to want to leave.
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None of the guys in Aprilia is going to want to leave.
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So that leaves Yamaha and Honda. And if if if Ducati is in the
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top 10, how can you get rid of any of those riders, right?
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Because it's eight bikes and if you're in the top ten you can't
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really get rid of any of the riders.
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There's no real justification, right.
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Because you're and and so. Alicia KTM, You always got room
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for another person. Well, they betting the money on
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Acosta and they button their money on on on Fernandez now,
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right? So.
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Costa don't ride well. You never know, he might be a
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World Super Bike, so I think Alicia's done at the end of 2024
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and he might become a test rider probably for a pretty year.
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So Alicia's seat may open up but that could be Oliveira going to
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to the factory seat or they can pull someone up and and and
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Fernandez, Raul Fernandez he's riding well for his second year
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you know in well I think it's first year on April year second
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year in in in Moto GP right. So I I think he's, I think he's
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riding well. So you know so I don't think
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they're going to get rid of him. But at the end of 2024, I know
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we're jumping beyond 2023-2024 but we already know what that's
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going to look like. So yeah so the Moto 2 riders,
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it's going to be really hard to to say hey I deserve a spot.
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If if you're not out there dominating like what Pedro was
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doing it it's going to be really hard to say you you deserve a
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shot in Moto 2IN, Moto GP when you got these riders in Moto GP
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doing really well. I mean, you're talking about a
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second and a half from the from the bottom guy to the top guy,
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right? Yeah, there's.
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I mean, there's no marching forever.
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Yeah. Yeah, as you see.
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So you, you know what I'm saying?
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So, so with that said, you know, let's talk about the motor GP
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race, You know, what did you think?
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What did you think about the Sprint?
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You know the floor is yours. Well, I mean one thing I I must
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say that like we know these guys are fit.
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We know these guys are like incredible athletes, but to have
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this many races within a month span and having an added race at
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that, it's you know, it's pretty incredible to watch and
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especially the the front runners just consistently staying up
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front. With that being said, like
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Martine rode his ass off he he figured out the tire tire
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situation this time was going to have that again.
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So I wasn't really worried about the Sprint with him, but the the
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main race had me a little concerned.
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Yeah, no, I will say he, he definitely did figure out that
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like, you're not, you can't come out and bully people off the
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track. You're not going to come out
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here and just stretch people out.
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Like he crashed and then he beat the tire up doing that.
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He realized like you're going to have to go into this dogfight
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with these guys and that's how it's going to be.
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You're not going to be or or. Hey Lorenzo, out here.
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You all have my team. You going to be fighting with
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people you know what I'm saying? You're not just going to pull
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away like and and ride not to say he can't he you know next
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year he probably could do that. You feel what I'm saying.
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I'm not going to sit here and say he can't get there.
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He can't ride like Lorenzo when he's out front or like a Marquez
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when he's out front and and just and just and even like a PECO
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shows it a little bit out front. You know what I'm saying and and
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be able to manage the ties He he's still learning.
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And he's a young dude, but he definitely figured, like, OK,
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I'm going to have to have a dog fight with these guys at the
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end. And you know the cards the cards
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fell in his way. You know, I mean I mean you see
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he's stepping in the right direction.
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I mean you know everyone makes mistakes as you trying to get
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him proved to your best. And I think next year at
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upcoming years he'll he'll he and the front runner, he still
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has a chance this year. He still has a chance this year
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for sure. I think Peco is playing the
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conservative role. He he knows how many mistakes he
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made the last year at the beginning of the year, just
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running up front and literally crashing half of a season away
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up front. And it's amazing that he also
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won because he's always winning first.
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Yep. So he doesn't want to play that
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game this year with leading in points especially.
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So you can kind of tell Martine's aggression opposed to
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his. Yep.
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But he also wrote his ass off. Yeah, no, he definitely did.
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And you know, there's some fortune that has to happen there
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because you know. Brad, you know Brad.
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Come on, keep. Stay off the green at the last
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lap, bro. Stay off the green.
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You've got demoted so many times.
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Three times you got demoted for going for exceeding track
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limits, three times and I and I wanted Brad to win this race.
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Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Just because I know he's not
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fighting for anything. But, but, but he.
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He's another one who deserves you know, a fresh podium, not in
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the rain or you know or or you know a nice fought fight.
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But and and that would have, that would have put him back in
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his second now to change the points.
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Oh yeah. No, I I think as a rider you'd
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prefer to be out front and have a three second lead, right?
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But as a fan, it's better when it's a dogfight.
23:54
Oh yeah, this place is a dog play.
23:57
So like, Martine didn't leave for more than two seconds the
24:01
whole race. And I think Brad Bender was
24:05
probably .1, probably the whole race behind him.
24:08
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And overtake overtook a few
24:10
times, maybe LED a lap or two, but Martine just blocked past
24:16
his way back in. Yeah, hey listen man if if Pekko
24:20
that if that pass. Would have worked.
24:23
It would have been over. Oh yeah, it would have been over
24:27
if that pass would have been worked, Marty said.
24:29
Nope, you ain't getting by if Echo is waiting.
24:31
Yeah man. Listen, if he would have got
24:33
away with that bro, man, it would it like that would have
24:36
crushed that would crush Martine, that would have crushed
24:38
them like because because especially when you see the
24:41
replay you saw how fast, how can I shouldn't say fast.
24:44
You saw how quick he overtook both of them, real quick with
24:47
Brad or indefinitely and and got in front of Martine for a
24:51
second. Oh yeah, and it's crazy that
24:56
Martine and Brad was just running up front the whole race.
24:59
Yeah. And as mentioned, Petco
25:02
obviously was a six on the grid. But first couple laps he was, he
25:06
was chilling paint with a lot of riders and he had to find his
25:10
way through, you know, obviously playing conservative.
25:12
So he had to fight. He had to fight a long way.
25:15
Yeah, so you thinking, you thinking if he had a better
25:18
start and got a front quicker? It might have been a different
25:21
story, yeah, because he would have.
25:22
Listen, listen man, if you get a lot of riders will say if I had
25:26
one more lap, if I had one more lap.
25:31
I mean if they if if Peko and Brad Bender had one more lap,
25:34
Martine would probably be in 3rd.
25:36
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I I'll listen, man, I'm I'm.
25:41
Did you see, did you see that burst that Peko had like coming
25:45
into one of the last corners, like second or the last lap?
25:48
I don't know if you. Remember.
25:49
Yeah, that's what I'm talking about, that that, like how
25:51
quickly he he passed them real quick, right?
25:53
Yeah. Like what?
25:54
Like, oh, so yeah, that that was I I thought he had it.
25:58
I thought he was talking about. Oh, no, wait, that was that was,
26:01
that was, that was that was the last lap.
26:03
That was the last lap. I think he did that.
26:05
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
26:06
I placed him out when Brad been there trying to pass him and
26:09
then Pekko try to sneak up under as well.
26:11
Yeah, yeah. OK.
26:12
Yeah, I know it was. It was.
26:14
It was fun to watch. Like I said, it's better when
26:18
there's a dog fight than when it's just, you know, when when
26:22
the guys just running 3 seconds up.
26:24
As again, as the writer, you want to be up front.
26:26
But as a fan you you want to see mixing up and and and matching
26:30
up. You know, they they should just
26:31
put all the Ducatis on the grid. That's it.
26:33
It's all Ducatis. Let's see what happens.
26:38
I mean, they're going to have to change them like Moto 2.
26:41
At least make them look cool. Oh, for sure, For sure, right.
26:47
And you do see that in Motor 2, granted that I think that three
26:50
different frames out there. So I guess you get that
26:53
difference. But you know, you know what I
26:56
mean? But you see that with the same
26:58
engine and what's going on with these riders and again, those
27:01
riders, I mean between first and 22 is like a again minute and a
27:05
half. It's a minute, second and a
27:07
half, it's, it's, it's ridiculous.
27:09
So you know it's crazy to see what you know.
27:12
The Ducatis are doing and these riders are doing and I I, you
27:16
know, for Peco he has to win this year because next year it's
27:20
going to be ugly. It's going to be ugly.
27:23
I know he's playing, I know he's playing conservative, but I also
27:26
think he's nervous. Got to be.
27:29
That's me. Come on.
27:29
You got to be. Everyone's nervous out there,
27:34
but I think it's like he's almost sick.
27:37
Peco, No, I think the fact that he won the first one and I think
27:41
that he has Rossi in his corner and other people in his corner,
27:45
I think they're telling him to keep calm and hopefully he'll
27:49
put his trust in them. And and be calm.
27:52
And I think you saw that this past weekend even after the
27:54
Sprint, he didn't come out on Sunday being erratic or anything
27:57
like that. He kept his cool and the
27:59
universe gave him second place. Right.
28:01
And and so I think that because it could have been a lot worse.
28:05
For sure. Definitely could have been worse
28:06
than that and and Martine had to ride his ass off like you said
28:12
to get five more points than Peko.
28:14
So there's also, you know, I'm saying that like the pressure is
28:16
going to be on Martine because he's just like come on like, I
28:19
like. I was a beast and I I got five
28:22
points, so you know what I mean? So it it it's like, yeah, you as
28:27
Peco just just needs to be in second.
28:30
You know, if he's, if he's close to him for the rest of the
28:32
season, you know what would have got 18 points and and and three
28:36
rounds and and and. Yeah, and some of the long
28:40
rounds, some of the longer races, he's, you know, we'll see
28:43
Peco got. I don't think Peco can stay
28:45
conservative for for the for the for the rest of the races as you
28:49
as you were alluding to he's he's going to have yeah he's
28:52
going to have to come out here and be stuff and I I guess you
28:56
got to know when you don't have it you have to so maybe he knew
28:58
he didn't have it that round and and that and it's what it is and
29:02
and but you know he's going to have to come out and and and
29:05
step in somebody's chest. Another thing is they have some
29:09
fast tracks coming up, but he's going against Ducati's
29:13
competition, so we'll say they have for sale and this a Sepang,
29:19
those those tracks, the Ducati family.
29:21
And and I'll say this, it's crazy because I think Martine is
29:26
is from what I can tell is is lighter than Pekko, so he should
29:30
be able to manage the tire better, I don't think.
29:33
I don't know if he can be talking to Pedroza, but I'll be
29:37
or or he can definitely be talking to Alvaro.
29:39
Like he should be like picking Alvarez's brain.
29:42
Like, you know what I'm saying? Because, like, them dudes are
29:44
probably like close to the same height.
29:46
And if he figures out, when he figures out how to manage the
29:48
tire like Alvarez, it's going to be a long time coming before
29:53
somebody come in and and beat him just because of his weight
29:56
and and and his skill set. Yeah, that's a fun guy to watch
30:00
too. Shout out to Alba bounty step.
30:02
And went in two for two years in a row.
30:04
Two years in a row. You know what I'm saying?
30:06
And you know he made motorcycle, he went, he made the World Super
30:09
Bike a little bit, You know, not fun to watch a shout out to Top
30:14
Rock because he, he gave him a fight, he gave him a fight, he
30:18
gave him a fight like like nobody's business.
30:20
And he's the only one that gave him a fight.
30:23
So Top Rack was one that was talked about for like you know
30:28
that went to see a Moto GP and and and you know one of the top
30:33
dogs and Altissa just two years in a row on them.
30:37
And and Bautista will get another year right.
30:39
Because if unless top rock and figure out that BMW who's going
30:44
to beat who's going to beat them like like the the Pentagon is
30:48
getting better. So like who you know you know
30:53
Yamaha. Yeah.
30:54
Step up the game Cowie. Yeah, game got to step up Honda.
30:58
Yeah, I got to bring it. Yeah, Yamaha definitely has to
31:01
step up the game. Jumping back to GP, as you said,
31:04
Fabio, they don't make any changes.
31:06
He's going to have to make some decisions coming 2025 and keep
31:10
replaying that video. Yeah, I listen.
31:12
I don't know who's. I don't know who Fabio's going
31:14
to listen, who's seat he's going to take.
31:18
He can't. By that time he'll he'll find a
31:21
Ducati seat. Yeah, he going he going to start
31:24
his own own own own own own bike.
31:27
No, it it's unfortunate that this is happening It it's good
31:31
for Ducati. It's good to see all these
31:32
riders because Moto GP is is is the best it's been it's it's
31:37
really good to see like OK eight guys on a bike.
31:40
Look what happens, right. That's really dope to see it.
31:43
The disadvantage is that you know you see the Honda
31:47
suffering. You see the Yamaha suffering and
31:51
well there are only two that's really suffering, right?
31:53
But. You do see that so that that
31:55
that's kind of like if you're a fan of the Marquez or Joanne
31:59
Meyer, you know Fabio, I'm a fan of Frankie and you know to see
32:04
them guys struggling and you know that you know they got the
32:06
skill right. You know, you know what I'm
32:09
saying? You know if you got the the
32:10
merge, you know you believe in them.
32:12
But it's tough to see and but that's always been part of
32:15
motorcycle riding though, you know what I'm saying from the
32:17
from the beginning some people were just on Superior bikes.
32:22
So what do you think about Mark Marquez moving over to Ducati
32:26
and how do you think his test is going to go the day after the
32:31
season is over? To be honest, I think he can't
32:34
wait. I know he's super excited.
32:37
It's very seems like mellow about the situation, but I think
32:40
it's going to go well. I think once he figured it out,
32:45
he's going to be the man probably to beat, but I think
32:48
he's going to still continue his.
32:50
Is qualifying ways, I must say. When you say qualifying ways,
32:56
you mean chasing everybody, following everybody else around
32:59
looking for a toe? Oh yeah, I mean it's it's every,
33:02
every race and it's it affects other riders you can see even
33:06
though as you said before, they should just go on with it
33:09
because he doesn't matter. But you know, it does affect the
33:15
person that that is being told so.
33:18
Right. And we've seen that happen with
33:20
with with Miller, with Vinyales and you know, you see what's
33:25
going on with when he tried to jump on the back.
33:27
I think it was Pekko in the in the last round.
33:31
You know it it it, it's very difficult and I don't know if
33:33
they're going to put in rules to change that for next season.
33:37
I do think that he's probably going to adapt to the bike
33:40
fairly quickly because, you know, I think these last three
33:42
years for him was very frustrating.
33:45
And you know, he wants to feel good on the bike again.
33:50
So, you know, I I think he's going to, he's going to, you
33:52
know, adjust quickly, but what do you think?
33:54
Yeah, I think he just like you said, he wants a clean slate.
33:59
He's very frustrated with this Honda.
34:00
I feel like he's over it now that he has a new destination
34:05
coming soon. It's just a much better feeling.
34:09
So I think he will adjust very fast.
34:11
As you said, the qualifying times like I feel bad for Jack
34:15
Miller in Q1, where he didn't want to be followed by by Mark
34:19
Marquez and he happened to just be followed and Mark Marquez
34:23
went into Q2 and Jack Miller didn't.
34:26
So with the Ducati, they said the bike's going to be much
34:29
easier to handle probably for him and he have his breaking
34:33
ability, will probably match the bike.
34:35
So I think he'll adjust very fast, but again, I still think
34:40
he's going to. No, I don't know about right
34:44
away, but the testing I think will go well.
34:47
I know he's looking forward to that.
34:49
Yeah, I think that's going to be the big take away and
34:51
unfortunately they're not letting reporters in to watch
34:54
testing. So we I don't it's how much
34:57
information they provide to the public, which is unfortunate.
35:00
I get it, probably Moto GP want to, you know, take control of
35:03
the content that they're putting out, but that's going to be the
35:06
downside. That's just kind of like this is
35:07
going to happen and it's just going to be rumored until you
35:11
know, the the first round next year.
35:13
Yep. And that's what we had to go
35:15
through this pass offseason where they weren't allowing
35:19
reporters in for the first time. And you know, as fans, we're
35:23
interested in seeing, you know, results in and how writers feel
35:28
for the season. And now we got send.
35:31
Wait, like you said before round one, but hopefully I changed.
35:34
You might have to pay somebody to get a little sneak peek or.
35:37
Something we might we might show up man with some with some long
35:41
zoom cameras and you know see what we can get from from across
35:45
the way or binoculars or something.
35:47
Because that's I think you know round one.
35:51
It will probably want to be one of the.
35:53
Big as you know, online events, just to see what Mark Mark
35:58
Marquez does on that Ducati next season.
36:02
Yeah, and then the publicity he makes, you know, just being
36:05
haunted so, so long, it's just like a the same but new
36:10
beginning. Right.
36:11
Gonna be that much attention and you've got pager Acosta coming
36:15
up and I think Moto GPS gonna be on fire next year.
36:18
Yeah, no, definitely, definitely gonna be on fire.
36:20
We're still waiting to figure out what's going to happen to
36:22
Digin. Antonio I think he's going to
36:25
get that Mark Marquez seat. Zarko don't want to go anywhere
36:29
and it looks like Ika Lucuono is staying in the Super world super
36:34
bike side of things. So it looks like you know I'm
36:37
and I'm and I'm rooting for Digin Antonio because he is he's
36:42
a good rider and I just don't and and I think if Pedro wasn't
36:46
in the equation he would have stayed in Grassini.
36:50
Not Grassini he he well I mean. Yeah, if.
36:54
I I don't. I I don't.
36:55
I. Well, I guess.
36:56
He he probably still if Mark Marquez wanted to go to Grassini
36:58
he would have lost the seat anyway like that that I don't
37:01
see Grassini saying, hey we're not going to take Mark Mark
37:03
Marquez like it is. This is you know.
37:06
So how did that scenario play out?
37:08
Like didn't like the the seat freed up.
37:11
That allowed Mark in, right? Yeah, yeah, Yeah.
37:14
So and and the mark seeds freed up.
37:16
So I think Digit Antonio is going to get that.
37:19
But like I said, it'll be it'll be you know he's a good rider
37:22
and he's shown that he has the talent these last few rounds.
37:25
I I know he wished he would have shown it sooner because you know
37:30
he probably could have saved his seat.
37:32
But in this instance you know it is what it is.
37:34
But hopefully if it listen, if he goes over to Honda and Honda
37:38
swats their self in two years or three years, you know it could
37:43
be different from him for him, you know?
37:45
Yeah, that's true. So do you think that Mark would
37:47
have bullied him out of the seat, knowing that Mark wanted?
37:50
Out. Oh, that's what I mean.
37:52
That's what. That's what.
37:52
That's what happened, I mean. Oh, no.
37:55
I mean I thought, I thought it was like you know the seat was
37:59
available then the market was able to get into that.
38:03
I think if Marquez didn't want the Ducati seat, he would have
38:08
the Gian. Antonio would still be in Moto
38:10
Moto with the team. I I honestly believe that
38:12
because. You know, who would you have
38:14
taken? You know, Paul Espogro.
38:16
I mean you know, who would you have taken?
38:17
Because everyone else is staying in Moto GP, right.
38:20
It's it's only Degen Antonio is the only person that was getting
38:24
getting booted and Paul Espogro as well.
38:26
But he still got a contract. So you know he's a, he's a
38:29
backup writer so he's he's not booted, but he's, you know he's
38:33
on a bench and and so you know what I'm saying?
38:35
So you know what I mean? So I don't you know, he did get
38:38
booted because Mark Marquez wanted that seat.
38:42
Yeah, I mean, Mark's time was also coming to crunch.
38:46
You know, he had very limited choices at one point and then
38:50
the move was made, you know, so. So I didn't know if that was
38:54
like a a quick decision by Cassini to play.
38:58
All right. We got to take Mark.
38:59
And. Yeah, I I think they want to
39:00
win, you know what I'm saying? I think they want to win.
39:03
And you know, here's a chance for them to get a world title,
39:06
and this might be the best chance for them to get a world
39:08
title. Right and and and I mean think
39:12
about that because most riders like Bastianini they left to to
39:17
a a a a more prominent team for lack of a better word.
39:20
So honestly they they would they they're to feed a system
39:23
bringing guys in getting up to speed.
39:25
Once they start to show their talent then other teams are
39:28
snatching them up. So honestly, this year is is is
39:32
we'll give them the greatest chance to or next year we'll
39:34
give them the greatest chance to get a world title in the
39:37
Grassini. Yeah man, what a better way with
39:42
riding with your brother. Yeah, I mean, look, the I think
39:47
regardless if it wasn't his brother there, the Ducati
39:51
family, the riders realized that we're at, we're family and we're
39:55
all sharing information and it's all going to make us better.
39:58
So I think either way. And and Alex Marquez is not the
40:02
fastest guy out there. So, but I think either way it
40:05
would have been a good look for him because Ducati's figured it
40:07
out. Aprilia has figured it out where
40:10
they're all sharing data you know KTM, they're all figured it
40:13
out. So I I think either way
40:14
obviously it's nice when it's your brother because Y'all can
40:16
travel together and do everything together and and and
40:18
chop it up together like how it was when Alex was on the factory
40:22
team for a season, you know, so you know.
40:25
So that's that's going to be good for him, but it's going to
40:29
be how quickly he gets that he wrestles that Ducati, you know?
40:34
I mean, like we've seen the improvement from when his
40:38
brother jumped to Ducati right away, right away.
40:42
And because, you know, Alex wasn't really that strong on the
40:46
Honda before, you know, he was always crashing out like, you
40:51
know, all the Hondas do and it just.
40:53
Performance wasn't there. He would be in the front runner
40:56
occasionally, right? But right when he went to the
40:58
Ducati we see an improvement right away.
41:00
Too bad that he has rib injuries and a couple injuries going on
41:04
that had to pull out a few races, but that's something I
41:07
would say between Alex Marquez and Anaya Bastianini.
41:12
Those are the two guys that were injured that really didn't have
41:15
it. I mean I know they're both happy
41:16
to have, can't wait for 2023 to be over because you know going
41:20
into the season I I'm pretty sure neither would have one of
41:23
them thought they would be having the the the season they
41:25
had with the injuries and such and and injuries.
41:27
I mean this last bastion's injury, the last one was caused
41:30
by him but not the first one and and and Alex Marquez.
41:34
So you know those guys. I think if they were, if they
41:37
had a healthy season, it could have been it.
41:41
It could have been instead of just, you know, three guys
41:43
fighting for the championship, it could have been five guys
41:46
fighting for the championship. You know what I mean If if
41:50
because Mark Marquez was like, not Mark Alex when he came out,
41:54
he was doing all right. He still didn't figure things
41:56
out, but he was still pushing top 6 you know so and and he was
42:00
on a podium early. So that's that that that that's
42:04
the downside of those two guys getting injured because it could
42:06
have been a whole different, you know, series with if those two
42:10
guys were healthy. Oh yeah, and I was definitely
42:13
looking forward to Bassinini having a good season in this
42:16
past race. There was just another good
42:19
sight to see him in like the 20th place, you know, running
42:22
around the track, right? You know, just because of his
42:26
injury. So I'm just shooting for him to
42:28
have a better season next year. I mean, like I said, there's
42:31
there's so much talent coming out next year.
42:34
We still got a long way to go with this year, but next year
42:37
it's going to be a, it's going to be a it's.
42:40
Going to be a big one. So.
42:42
That it's not. No.
42:42
By long shot, yeah, no, it's not.
42:44
It's not over yet. So that's, that's the beautiful
42:46
part about it. I'm looking forward to that.
42:49
So yeah, so I mean you know, next round, would you, do you
42:52
have any predictions for the next round for motor GP?
42:59
You know I, I I'm I got a shoot from my my boy Harry my team OK
43:03
you know I I I he's on a he's on A roll.
43:06
I just want to see the see the challenge put on Petco.
43:09
Yeah. So no.
43:10
Doubt. I kind of like the challenge,
43:11
you know, like how we said sometimes the rounds.
43:17
You'll you'll be the champion before you know the season's
43:20
over. So like the it's still going so
43:23
I want to see. I want to see the challenge
43:25
still go maybe to the end of the season so to allow who's in 3rd
43:32
place. OK, yeah.
43:34
So he he's, I don't know how much fight he still has, how far
43:41
away, but you know if he does good these next couple races and
43:45
sprints. You know, it'll be a good end of
43:48
season, but I'm rooting for Jorge.
43:50
How about you you I'm rooting for Pekko, man.
43:53
I you know I'm rooting for the VR46 guys.
43:57
You know, I I not to say I'm not rooting for Martine because he's
44:01
definitely you know figured his way out and stuff like that.
44:04
But I was already rooting for Pekko from the beginning of the
44:06
year. So, you know, either way, I'm
44:09
not losing because of Ducati is going to win the title.
44:11
So I'm not, you know, you know, there's no, there's no loss.
44:14
I mean, Ducati is sitting here. Like, who can be mad at Ducati
44:17
right now? You know what I'm saying?
44:19
It's just kind of like, Oh yeah, you want Peco to win, but you're
44:22
not going to be sad if Martine won, right?
44:23
You still get a title. You know what I'm saying?
44:25
You know, it's like, so it's one of those things like they're
44:28
sitting here like we can't. Lose.
44:32
They're in a good position for for sure, I know they're.
44:37
Drowning and dreaming over the situation, their interest and
44:40
and and pure happiness. Either way they roll the dice.
44:44
Someone on their factory has a chance, no doubt.
44:47
No. But yeah, heco.
44:51
It's going to be good. Great to see what he has in him.
44:55
When it really comes down to it, right, like I said, I I think
44:58
he's probably conservative. But when it comes down to him,
45:01
not, he can't do that anymore, right?
45:03
It's going to be interesting, yeah.
45:05
No, I I agree like this. These next few rounds.
45:10
Peco has to turn into Valentino Rossi, He has to turn into
45:15
Michael Jordan, He has to turn into Kobe Bryant.
45:18
And I'm going to leave it there, right?
45:20
Because. Because that's what if he
45:22
doesn't turn into that, you know, there's a new, there's a
45:25
new sheriff in town. Yeah, he he needs to, he needs
45:28
to qualify. He needs to be Q2 row one.
45:32
Yeah, like he was four. You don't need the row two only
45:35
starting like you know, Q1. We can't.
45:38
He needs to just come out and just do it.
45:40
Yeah. And and and and you know, this
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is the thing. Like if he pulls it off, he's a
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legend. Like he's a legend if he pulls
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this off, you know what I'm saying?
45:49
You know, you know. Back-to-back and and fighting
45:52
against somebody who you know is going to be tough next year.
45:55
You know this this like you know I I think it's it's relatively
46:00
new. I don't even call it a rivalry
46:03
right. But it's relatively new, the
46:05
competition with these guys you know where with Valentino Rossi
46:09
and Mark Marquez and Lorenzo we had a lot of time to see those
46:13
guys riding and battle with one another.
46:15
But last weekend race it's going to go down one of the best races
46:19
in a long time. You know what I mean and and
46:21
when you when you look at it, when you watch what was going on
46:23
and so you know I I do believe that you know if if if Peko can
46:28
hold it together and and dominate these next few rounds
46:31
it doesn't matter what happens in 2024 or 25 or 26 or whatever.
46:35
You know what I'm saying obviously I'm sure he might want
46:37
to get more titles but like you know back-to-back you defended
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it. You defended it well.
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You didn't buckle under pressure like like 20/22/2022 in the
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beginning of the. Season 22 in the beginning of
46:49
the season and stuff like that. With all those crashes this
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year, you came out and did your thing.
46:53
I mean, obviously, you know, no one's going to have a perfect
46:55
season, so you are going to have crashes and and stuff like that,
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that high side by himself. You know, Ducati hasn't come out
47:02
and said it was a mechanical or anything like that, that high
47:05
if, if, if that high side didn't happen.
47:11
It would be different, right? It would have been different
47:13
because he had a few races where he was jacked up and he still
47:16
came out and did well, but he would have won that race and you
47:19
know the points would have been different right now.
47:22
So you know he still, he still got a ways to go.
47:25
But I do believe if he, if he, if he holds it down and and and
47:28
and comes out on top at the end of the season, you know, you
47:31
know they're going to be making the back Naya Ducati bike like
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they are. You know, for these other guys
47:37
that that got bikes out now. You know, I've never thought of
47:40
to that Sprint race that they discontinued and yeah.
47:46
That's, that's nine points on the table right there.
47:48
Yeah. Yeah.
47:50
So hopefully that doesn't come in bite.
47:52
Write them at the end. Well, because you know Maureen
47:56
Martinez, the pole master. Yeah, So like Hecko knows that.
48:02
And he already knows he has to come on strong.
48:04
He's got Martinez is trying to get that off.
48:07
You know, I do think that you know the strategy of you know
48:12
more figuring out the race distance then then where he
48:15
lines up in in the pole position or in the grid.
48:19
You know, I think it helps for the races because you see it in
48:22
the races, but he has to find some way to to, to give more
48:26
time to his disqualifying because he has to be in the
48:29
first, he has to be in the 1st 2 rows.
48:32
Yeah, definitely, definitely, Yeah.
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It's going to be, it's going to be.
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Understand where we headed next. We are flipped to the calendar.
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We're on our way to Malaysia. I like Malaysia.
48:51
That's another Ducati friendly track.
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Yeah, no, it is a, it is, it is. It's not a track that.
48:57
I don't really don't like. You just stick.
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Stick. A fork into the Hondas and stick
49:01
a fork into. The Yamaha?
49:03
Yeah, definitely. You look, you know, I wouldn't
49:07
rule Marquez and Cuatro out because they could be spoilers.
49:11
But yeah, no, it's going to be really hard.
49:13
I mean, you know, I think, you know, tracks that are shorter
49:16
with more turns, they got a better chance than than, than
49:19
tracks that got, you know, more straightaways, right?
49:22
Yeah, I mean, the only one they got left is Valencia.
49:24
Yeah, that's, that's probably, yeah.
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We're going to Qatar after Malaysia.
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Oh yeah, you know, Ducati, don't take that.
49:32
Oh yeah. I just remember when Suzuki was
49:35
around on Qatar that straight away that they were like
49:39
standing still versus Ducati. Oh yeah.
49:42
Yeah, and and it just, it was just.
49:44
You know they'll catch back up to him in the corners because
49:46
they're more corner friendly like the yamas.
49:49
But that straight away was definitely Ducati's territory,
49:52
no doubt. Well, there you have it folks.
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