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Portimão Power Play: Who’s Got the Momentum? MotoGP Pit Talk · Pit Talk

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Speaker 1: Before we begin this episode, we want to take a
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Speaker 1: moment to say that our thoughts are with the two
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Speaker 1: riders involved in that horrible accident during the sighting lap
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Speaker 1: of the Malaysia Grand Prix less than two weeks ago.
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Speaker 1: There has been positive news from both camps, with Noah
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Speaker 1: Dettwiler now stable and no longer critical and championship winner
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Speaker 1: Jose Antonio Ruwaider is returning to Spain for surgery. Motorcycling
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Speaker 1: is dangerous, and this is a sark reminder that every
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Speaker 1: time these riders are lining up for our entertainment, they're
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Speaker 1: putting everything on the line for the.
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Speaker 2: Sport that we love. With that in mind, we move
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Speaker 2: on to this week's show.
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Speaker 1: This episode of Pittook is sponsored by Shannon's Insurance. Joining me,
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Speaker 1: Rinita Vermuelin is a Fox Sports Moto GP editor. Matt
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Speaker 1: Clayton Matt, no fancy intros, no jokes this time, because
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Speaker 1: we have got so much to catch up on. We
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Speaker 1: were just saying we haven't done a pod since before
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Speaker 1: Philip Island, which feels like ages ago now, but the
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Speaker 1: fact that they're heading to the penultment round in Moto
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Speaker 1: GP in autermal and it's the one circuit where we
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Speaker 1: see motor GP bikes actually get air on track.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I love this place really. Thank you first for
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Speaker 3: the intro. I thought that was I completely co sign
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Speaker 3: everything else you said there. And horrible, horrible incident. We're
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Speaker 3: so fortunate that there was nothing worse. And it's not
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Speaker 3: to downplay the injuries that both det Weiler and Jose
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Speaker 3: Antonio away To had, but we're very thankful that both
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Speaker 3: of them are on the road to recovery. And yeah,
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Speaker 3: that reminder if we need it, that modus board is
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Speaker 3: dangerous and these guys are doing this for our entertainment.
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Speaker 3: But getting back to yeah, I mean, look, there's been
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Speaker 3: a fair bit that's happened. Obviously, Australia came and went
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Speaker 3: and the last round of the Flyaways with Malaysia and
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Speaker 3: here we are back in Europe for these final two rounds.
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Speaker 3: A lot of the big prizes have been ticked off
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Speaker 3: as we know. One thing that's not going to be
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Speaker 3: ticked off this weekend is sleep for Australian fans because Portugal,
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Speaker 3: for the uninitiated, is on GMT British time, So just
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Speaker 3: a little more of a kick where you don't need
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Speaker 3: it with the timeframe for this weekend, but we've got
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Speaker 3: an absolutely fantastic race track and I was talking to
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Speaker 3: someone earlier today that I'm not sure this is the
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Speaker 3: best racetrack in MotoGP. I still think that's either Philipylon
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Speaker 3: or Magello, depending on my mood on a daily basis,
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Speaker 3: but it's certainly the most interesting because seeing motor GP
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Speaker 3: bikes get airborne in twenty twenty five is pretty crazy.
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Speaker 2: Oh, it's so cool.
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Speaker 1: I posted on the Fox Sports socials a throwback to
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Speaker 1: Jack Miller and they said Chill Airtime or Miller Airlines.
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Speaker 2: I can't remember the tag, but it was.
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Speaker 1: It's very, very cool, and I love the fact that
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Speaker 1: you can tell the riders who do motocross in the
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Speaker 1: off season or in their spare time, because they really
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Speaker 1: have fun with this circuit. But I just want to
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Speaker 1: touch on the fact you said the schedule there. I
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Speaker 1: did have a quick look at that, and I just
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Speaker 1: wanted to let our listeners know it is a change
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Speaker 1: schedule this weekend, so it will be Sunday's a sprint.
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Speaker 2: Sorry, Saturdays sprint is.
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Speaker 1: On at the normal time, I believe, but for Sunday,
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Speaker 1: the schedule has changed. It's actually starting with Moto two,
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Speaker 1: then it goes to Moto GP and then the Motor
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Speaker 1: three race.
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Speaker 2: And I'm assuming they've done that.
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Speaker 1: To keep in line with the European timeline for viewers
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Speaker 1: tuning into the Motor GP race.
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Speaker 3: I'd love to think they were doing it for us
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Speaker 3: here in Australia Renata, but I don't really think that
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Speaker 3: was a primary consideration. But given the time of night,
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Speaker 3: I'll take a midnight Motor GP race start from a
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Speaker 3: two am Motor GP race start anytime. And we've got
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Speaker 3: two am for the sprint, so that's a bit grim
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Speaker 3: but it's all going to be made up for by
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Speaker 3: a super super cool racetrack. And you know, it's one
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Speaker 3: of those things that TV any circuit you've been to,
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Speaker 3: you know how this works. TV tends to flatten out
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Speaker 3: elevation and so if you see a track on TV
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Speaker 3: that looks as steep as portermow Is, and then you
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Speaker 3: think that looks step on TV, you can only imagine
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Speaker 3: what it's like for the riders when they're on these bikes.
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Speaker 3: And I did have a look at some track map
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Speaker 3: stats yesterday. I think that's between ten eleven and twelve
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Speaker 3: sixteen meter drop. That is serious, serious compression into the
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Speaker 3: bottom of that quarter. The bikes look amazing as they
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Speaker 3: all fan out down the hill, which I'm doing with
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Speaker 3: my hand, which is useless on an audio podcast, I realized.
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Speaker 3: But I do love the elevation change at this track,
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Speaker 3: and there are some pretty gnarly quarters, including the first
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Speaker 3: one quite frankly, and we was good, good racing here,
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Speaker 3: don't we?
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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I mean looking back previously, we've had Miguel
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Speaker 1: Lavera one here in twenty twenty, I believe, and it's
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Speaker 1: obviously his last home Grand Prix as well, so that's
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Speaker 1: going to be important for the Portugal writer. But Cordero's
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Speaker 1: won here twice before Banyaya won. Last year, our winner
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Speaker 1: was Joorge Martin. So Mark Marquez also isn't here, and
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Speaker 1: I believe this is one of the circuits he's also
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Speaker 1: never won at as well, so he's not ticking that
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Speaker 1: off this weekend. But that question that we keep asking
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Speaker 1: is who's it going to be now that Mark's out,
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Speaker 1: Martine's out, who is going to be? Can Pecco step
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Speaker 1: up or is this going to be Pedro Acosta's first
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Speaker 1: victory this weekend?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm glad you mentioned Acosta because it kind of
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Speaker 3: feels that one of the weird parts about this flyaway
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Speaker 3: part of the season that we've just been through is
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Speaker 3: that we had Fermineldegeer winner race for the first time.
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Speaker 3: We had Ralph Fernandez winner race for the first time,
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Speaker 3: and it's crazy to think that he's Eighteen of the
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Speaker 3: twenty two regulars in Moto GP now have won a
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Speaker 3: Premier class Grand Prix. We have never had a more
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Speaker 3: successful greed in the history of the World Championship. To
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Speaker 3: think there's only four riders of the current full timers
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Speaker 3: that haven't won a race, and one of those is
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Speaker 3: Pedro Acosta. You never would have believed in a million
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Speaker 3: years that of all the Spaniards in the Championship that
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Speaker 3: Aldegera Fernandez would have won a Grand Prix before a Costa.
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Speaker 3: So it feels that a Costa's kind of due and
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Speaker 3: he's been there or thereabouts. He's clearly taken that KATM
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Speaker 3: to a completely different level relative to the other guys
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Speaker 3: on the same bike. Maybe not sort of Quataterero Yamaha
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Speaker 3: esque dominance over the other riders in that brand, but
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Speaker 3: a cost has been awesome in the back half of
5:40
Speaker 3: this year, we are hearing a few rumblings that katm
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Speaker 3: are going through a little bit of downsizing and restructuring
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Speaker 3: and things again, So that makes me slightly nervous on
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Speaker 3: what we might be coming down the pipe for next year.
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Speaker 3: But it would feel right if he was to win
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Speaker 3: one of these last couple of rounds before this year,
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Speaker 3: because he's clearly been very, very good. Didn't get off
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Speaker 3: to a great start, but he's there or thereabouts at
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Speaker 3: the moment. But that stat, when I read that, you
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Speaker 3: had to sort of stop and think, oh my goodness,
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Speaker 3: eighteen of the twenty two regulars and now Premier Class
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Speaker 3: Grand Prix winners, and that shows you how fine the
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Speaker 3: margins are these days. You have that one wrong corner
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Speaker 3: in Q one or even Friday afternoon practice and then
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Speaker 3: you miss Q two. Then you're fighting through Q one
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Speaker 3: and you can go. You could be a second row
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Speaker 3: bike that qualifies on the second last row because it
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Speaker 3: is so compact right now. The margins have never been finer.
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Speaker 3: But I like the Acosta call. I think it's it
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Speaker 3: feels like it's overdue, and I don't know. Look, I
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Speaker 3: think fermin Aldegare is going to be a very good
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Speaker 3: Grand Prix. Rid. I would be pretty shocked if ralfren
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Speaker 3: And has ever won another Grand Prix. Am I allowed
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Speaker 3: to say that, I just did, but it seems wrong
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Speaker 3: to me that both those guys won a Premier class
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Speaker 3: Grand Prix before a Costa did so. Once he breaks
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Speaker 3: his duck, hopefully there's a few more to follow.
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Speaker 1: Thinking back, I just nearly like choked on my words
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Speaker 1: as I was trying to say, because thinking back to
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Speaker 1: when Pedro was coming up and it was like, he's
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Speaker 1: the next Mark Marquez, He's going to be wonders and
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Speaker 1: I think season opener that first year of his Grandfrix
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Speaker 1: was could.
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Speaker 2: Tie Ie I'm wrong?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and he was obviously on fire, like fighting for
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Speaker 1: podium position straight away. We're like, yeah, here he comes,
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Speaker 1: here he comes, and then all of a sudden, it's
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Speaker 1: just like out of nowhere.
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Speaker 2: But when we.
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Speaker 1: Caught up with him on Fox Sports talking to him
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Speaker 1: at Philip Island, you know, he even openly said he's like.
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Speaker 2: I am frustrated, and we were like.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we can see that westing at home watching you
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Speaker 1: you know. So I think that if he could get
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Speaker 1: that win this weekend, I think it would also help
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Speaker 1: him with his mindset of Okay, I can do this
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Speaker 1: with KTM. I wanted to progress with them and I
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Speaker 1: can do that win. But man, it's been a long
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Speaker 1: time coming.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it hasn't. It was sort of weird last year
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Speaker 3: and that it felt we had that amazing start with
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Speaker 3: those first three rounds. He's on the podium in Portugal
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Speaker 3: and also at Kota, and you know, we were talking
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Speaker 3: about it's the best three races since Mark Marquez's first
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Speaker 3: three or Jorge Lorenzo's first three. He's in that sort
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Speaker 3: of company. The season was still good, but you remember
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Speaker 3: had the pole position at Motigi and dropped the ball
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Speaker 3: both days in those races, and it kind of felt
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Speaker 3: like things stalled out a little bit started the season.
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Speaker 3: We know KTM was struggling a bit financially and there
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Speaker 3: was some offseason stuff going on with the Wider company,
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Speaker 3: so parts were slow to arrive for the race team
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Speaker 3: and what have you. But I look at a Costa
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Speaker 3: season this year, yes, with what he's done. Have a
8:19
Speaker 3: look at where Brad Binder is and as his teammate,
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Speaker 3: and that's the interesting one for me. Binda's just been
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Speaker 3: this ever present sort of top five, Top six guy
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Speaker 3: for the past three years clearly been KTM's best rider.
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Speaker 3: A Costas just quite frankly wiped the floor with Brad
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Speaker 3: Binder and the stat that makes anyone listening in South
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Speaker 3: Africa Grimace twenty to zero in qualifying for a Costa.
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Speaker 3: That is brutal. And we know that Brad Binder's not
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Speaker 3: an amazing one lap rider. He's a better race of
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Speaker 3: the year. Is a qualifier. But I would not have
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Speaker 3: picked that at the start of the season. I look
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Speaker 3: about you, but definitely not on my account.
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Speaker 1: Speaking of picking things at our Bengo card for twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty five, let's talk about the battle for third because
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Speaker 1: obviously Mark Mackayz wrapped that up in Japan last weekend.
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Speaker 1: In Malaysia, Alex Marquez wrapped up P two, so we
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Speaker 1: witness history. We've spoken about that before with the Marquees brothers.
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Speaker 2: But P three.
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Speaker 1: The battle for P three is dare I say heating
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Speaker 1: up because we've got Betzeki ahead of Peco Banoya and
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Speaker 1: then Pedro Acosta who took out twenty points from Peco
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Speaker 1: in Malaysia. Yeah, I mean I didn't expect to see
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Speaker 1: an Aprillier. I thought Peko Bana was going to be
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Speaker 1: fighting with Mark the whole season, but then the fact
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Speaker 1: of yeah, ben Zeki's up there, and then Pedro Costa
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Speaker 1: is right there and third, as you said, the strongest
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Speaker 1: KATM ahead of both the Prodomeina vir forty sixteen ferm.
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Speaker 1: Now to get that's big for KADM and big for
9:40
Speaker 1: a Prillier.
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Speaker 3: Yeah it is. And the thing I like about this
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Speaker 3: little battle within a battle for third place he is
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Speaker 3: You've got three different manufacturers in the mix, and I
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Speaker 3: think whoever ends up finishing third here it says a
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Speaker 3: lot about all three of them in that you know,
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Speaker 3: Berzeki's been thrust into this leadership role. I guess at
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Speaker 3: a Prillier that we weren't really counting on at the
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Speaker 3: start of the season. Thought he was not going to
10:01
Speaker 3: be a number two rider, but we certainly thought that
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Speaker 3: Joje Martin was going to be the leader on track
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Speaker 3: for that team. That's not happened because of a million injuries.
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Speaker 3: As we know, Martine's still out this weekend. So Bazeki's
10:10
Speaker 3: gone back to being maybe a better version of twenty
10:13
Speaker 3: twenty three Berzeki that we saw when he first emerged
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Speaker 3: as a race winner. Banyai is just this. There comes
10:19
Speaker 3: a point where you can only analyze what Peko is
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Speaker 3: doing so much. Mine general response to Peco being at
10:24
Speaker 3: one end of timesheets or the other is to kind
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Speaker 3: of throw my hands in the air and say, well sure,
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Speaker 3: because he looked absolutely amazing at times in Malaysia, and
10:32
Speaker 3: he was absolutely pu trud in Australia. Oh and he
10:35
Speaker 3: was absolutely awesome in Japan. So if weekend to weekend
10:39
Speaker 3: you never quite know what you're going to get. I
10:41
Speaker 3: think the worst thing is I think he never quite
10:43
Speaker 3: knows what he's going to get either. If he went
10:45
Speaker 3: out of one sprint in the Grand Prix in Portugal
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Speaker 3: this weekend, I wouldn't be surprised. If you've qualified on
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Speaker 3: the back rower finished last, I also wouldn't be surprised.
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Speaker 3: So he's clearly got the most potential upside. And then
10:55
Speaker 3: you've got a coster who's just been steadily building over
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Speaker 3: the back half of this year. But who ever finishes third,
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Speaker 3: if it's a Prillier, that's an amazing achievement for that team,
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Speaker 3: considering the guy they spent all the money on hasn't
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Speaker 3: been there. All year. If it's a coster, then you
11:08
Speaker 3: could say, well, you know, despite what Casey has been
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Speaker 3: going through, and the fact that he hasn't whatt a
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Speaker 3: race yet, he's just been there and there and there,
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Speaker 3: and to me, like third is almost like a bare
11:17
Speaker 3: minimum for Manyayra it should be third. He should have
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Speaker 3: been up there, closer to challenging maybe Alex, not so much. Mark.
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Speaker 3: The fact that it's got to the point where he's
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Speaker 3: in a fight for third shows you how tough being
11:26
Speaker 3: has been for Peco. But there's just been these occasional
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Speaker 3: reminders that, oh, yeah, Pecovanya is very good and when
11:32
Speaker 3: things are right, there's not been many of them, but
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Speaker 3: they're still there. So yeah, I mean, he could come
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Speaker 3: out and be really really strong on these last two
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Speaker 3: Grand Prix at least finished the season on the right note.
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Speaker 3: But I thought I understood what was going on with
11:44
Speaker 3: Peco for a while, and I'm not afraid to admit
11:46
Speaker 3: now I'm just completely confused at this point. He's a
11:49
Speaker 3: guy who just needs to hang his new calenderer for
11:51
Speaker 3: twenty twenty six and forget that twenty five ever existed,
11:53
Speaker 3: because it's been the seriously, the weirdest season. For a
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Speaker 3: guy who's been a multiple world champion, I just didn't
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Speaker 3: not imagine. So he's not this was possible for a
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Speaker 3: rider like him. So I'm confused. He's confused, everyone's confused.
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Speaker 3: But if you're asking me which of the three I
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Speaker 3: had the most faith in to finish third, I reckon
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Speaker 3: it's Marco'bozeki. But you might have a different view.
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Speaker 1: No, Look, to be fair, I think you're kind of
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Speaker 1: on the money there. And if I just bring up
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Speaker 1: those points again, so Betzeki is two ninety one and
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Speaker 1: Banya is two eighty six. Like I said, Pedro took
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Speaker 1: twenty points out from him last weekend. But thinking back
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Speaker 1: to the last year at Portomal, Mark Marquez took out
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Speaker 1: Peco Banyaya.
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Speaker 2: Do you remember that?
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Speaker 3: It is?
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Speaker 1: So I go, I wonder how much that plays on
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Speaker 1: his mind? Okay, Mark's not here, does he have a
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Speaker 1: point to prove? But then I also wonder because this
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Speaker 1: weekend and Valencia, we know that Mark Marquez isn't returning
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Speaker 1: for the twenty twenty five season and World super Bike
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Speaker 1: runner up Nicolo Bullaguy is stepping in to ride the
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Speaker 1: World Championship. Does Mesdici how much is that going to
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Speaker 1: take that that pressure off Pecko. Study can fight and
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Speaker 1: he can get his head back into the right place, because,
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Speaker 1: like you said, you're confused, he's confused, We're all confused, Peco.
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Speaker 1: What are you going to do this weekend? It can
13:11
Speaker 1: kind of go both ways.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, a little bit, and you know, we have to
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Speaker 3: caveat what happened in Malaysia by the fact that he
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Speaker 3: took pole after coming through Q one and was awesome
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Speaker 3: in the sprint. I was clearly going to finish on
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Speaker 3: the podium in the Grand Prix were it not for
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Speaker 3: that puncture. He didn't really have anything for Alex Marquez,
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Speaker 3: but he probably would have come on late in that
13:27
Speaker 3: race given he had the more durable tire. He just
13:29
Speaker 3: got unlucky with the puncture, so you know, the points
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Speaker 3: that he'd lost. He lost sixteen points probably for third
13:34
Speaker 3: place that day, So that was unfortunate, but it looked
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Speaker 3: much more convincing and the whole you know, yeah, he's
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Speaker 3: really good at Matigi, but that was a weird weekend
13:43
Speaker 3: Motegi because all eyes are on Mark and it was
13:45
Speaker 3: all about Mark just scoring the points that he needed
13:48
Speaker 3: to score the win the championship. So I wasn't even
13:50
Speaker 3: one hundred percent sure how hard Mark was going that weekend.
13:54
Speaker 3: Pecko was really good, but he's been good there before,
13:56
Speaker 3: but that was a bit of a well, there's extenuating
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Speaker 3: circumstances here at Malaysia. He was just good and so, yeah,
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Speaker 3: unfortunate with the puncture. Let's see if that carries on.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, super different track when you think of the
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Speaker 3: heat and the flowing nature of Sepang and how hard
14:11
Speaker 3: a couple of those breaking zones are there. But you know,
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Speaker 3: a real strong point of his Portermow's this kind of
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Speaker 3: one of one track. But you mentioned before about Mark
14:20
Speaker 3: and Peco running into each other. The weirdest thing about
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Speaker 3: Portermow this weekend. It was the second round of last year,
14:26
Speaker 3: it's the second last round of this year. There's been
14:29
Speaker 3: thirty eight Grand pre since we were last year. That's
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Speaker 3: a long long time. You mentioned Mark and Peko running
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Speaker 3: into each other at Portamow last year. They weren't even
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Speaker 3: scheduled to be twenty twenty five teammates at that point
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Speaker 3: because that was before everything got done at Migello mid season.
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Speaker 3: So it feels like we haven't been to portum Out forever.
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Speaker 3: Because the season of twenty twenty four was just beginning.
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Speaker 3: The last timey we were here it was Pedro Acosta's
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Speaker 3: second Grand Pre weekend. It feels like Pedro's been at
14:52
Speaker 3: this spot forever now, so it's pretty rare that we
14:55
Speaker 3: go back to a track. What would that be March
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Speaker 3: twenty twenty four to November twenty twenty five. I'm just
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Speaker 3: doing some quick mess here. It's like literally twenty months
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Speaker 3: between Grand Prix and the same track. It's pretty weird,
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Speaker 3: isn't it.
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Speaker 1: It does feel weird, and it does feel like we
15:08
Speaker 1: haven't been to portamow In forever. And same with Valencia
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Speaker 1: that's coming up as well because of last year. But
15:15
Speaker 1: you mentioned that I wanted to touch on this. You said,
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Speaker 1: so for Peco, he's going from a track that kind
15:21
Speaker 1: of suits him to something that's completely different. And last
15:24
Speaker 1: weekend we didn't see amazing results from the Aprillias after
15:28
Speaker 1: they had such a huge weekend in Australia. It makes
15:31
Speaker 1: me think the reverse and the flip, is this going
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Speaker 1: to be a track that is going to suit the
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Speaker 1: Aprelias and in particular Marco Betzeki.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, based on what we've seen this year, this is
15:40
Speaker 3: much more in a prillier track than Malaysia is. Malaysia's
15:43
Speaker 3: got a lot of big stops, as we know, and
15:45
Speaker 3: you know, we saw Bez quite frankly should have won
15:48
Speaker 3: the sprint and the Grand Prix in Australia. We know
15:50
Speaker 3: we had the double long lap based on what had
15:51
Speaker 3: happened in Indonesia, but he was awesome in Australia and
15:55
Speaker 3: portmow Is it's Portamou's not Philip Island, but it's certainly
15:58
Speaker 3: closer to Philip Island than it is to spag if
16:01
Speaker 3: you're going to put circuits to the in the same box,
16:03
Speaker 3: just because of the flowing nature of the place and
16:05
Speaker 3: the Aprilia, particularly in his hands at the back half
16:08
Speaker 3: of this year, has been really good. So it's one
16:11
Speaker 3: of the great sort of unknowns for this season now
16:13
Speaker 3: and we'll never know the answer to this, but the
16:16
Speaker 3: Aprillia is clearly a better bike right than it was
16:18
Speaker 3: at the start of the season. You do wonder what
16:20
Speaker 3: a fully fit, motivated, locked in Jorge Martine could have
16:23
Speaker 3: done on that bike, because there's nothing we've seen in
16:26
Speaker 3: Mazeki's past that makes me think that he's a writer.
16:29
Speaker 3: On the same level as the absolute A grade level
16:32
Speaker 3: of Martine when Martine's really good. I would have loved
16:34
Speaker 3: to have see Martine on this bike this year because
16:36
Speaker 3: aprily has been such a big improver this year. And yeah,
16:40
Speaker 3: maybe a bit of that is because KTM sort of
16:42
Speaker 3: fallen off a little bit because of the financial troubles
16:44
Speaker 3: and what have you, and you obviously got Hondre and
16:46
Speaker 3: Yamaha behind them in a different order to this year.
16:49
Speaker 3: But man, that Aprili is a better bike than it
16:51
Speaker 3: was at the start of this year. And it's just
16:53
Speaker 3: one of those great unknowns that the probably the best
16:55
Speaker 3: guy on that bike all we year has been sitting
16:57
Speaker 3: at home watching TV most of the years.
17:00
Speaker 1: Isn't it wild to think that we haven't seen Joje
17:03
Speaker 1: Martin like at all this year.
17:06
Speaker 2: And you look back at that Motor GP.
17:08
Speaker 1: They post a lot of social content and reposts a
17:11
Speaker 1: lot of last year's races in the build up to
17:13
Speaker 1: the current one, and like every race is Martin, Martin,
17:16
Speaker 1: Martin win, Martin Podium, something like that, and it's the
17:19
Speaker 1: fact that we haven't actually seen him this season at all.
17:22
Speaker 3: It's yeah, yeah, he's done of the forty possible starts
17:25
Speaker 3: he's done thirteen of them, and of course the last
17:27
Speaker 3: one of those he got to turn one and smashed
17:29
Speaker 3: into his own teammate, broke his own collar bone at motigue.
17:31
Speaker 3: But yeah, it is funny to think that you know
17:34
Speaker 3: a guy who was just so front and center last year.
17:36
Speaker 3: The thing I kept thinking about when we got to
17:38
Speaker 3: spang Do you remember how awesome the battle between Martin
17:42
Speaker 3: and Banyay was in Sepang last year? That was just
17:45
Speaker 3: absolutely gloves off. It's the best four or five laps
17:49
Speaker 3: of any Motor GP race I've seen for years because
17:52
Speaker 3: it was absolutely on between those two. And I've got
17:55
Speaker 3: a little bit of I've got a little bit nostalgic.
17:57
Speaker 3: I like feisty, combative Jollgey Martina. I missed him.
18:01
Speaker 1: No. I remember last year when we did the pod
18:04
Speaker 1: and I was going, if you're gonna.
18:05
Speaker 2: Watch one race, watch this race.
18:06
Speaker 1: I just remember saying that over and over again because
18:09
Speaker 1: it was phenomenal. It's like how we talk about Moto three,
18:12
Speaker 1: and I'm hoping that the rules in twenty twenty seven
18:14
Speaker 1: allow for more of those style battles, but that's for
18:18
Speaker 1: the future. This weekend is Porter malbo I heard this
18:21
Speaker 1: fact Matt and I know you're the satman, so I
18:23
Speaker 1: know you'll probably know this for our listeners. This is
18:27
Speaker 1: the longest calendar that they've ever had in Moto GP.
18:31
Speaker 1: In the history of the Grand Prix racing, they've never
18:33
Speaker 1: broken twenty Grand PRIs and this weekend is the twenty.
18:37
Speaker 2: First in the season.
18:38
Speaker 1: So history is going to be made this weekend in
18:41
Speaker 1: porter Mao.
18:42
Speaker 3: Sure is. We've never had a season longer than this,
18:44
Speaker 3: and we know why there's been there. Bruno came back
18:47
Speaker 3: in this year, Hungary came in for the first time,
18:49
Speaker 3: and I guess it's a good sign for the health
18:51
Speaker 3: of the sport where we have so many places that
18:53
Speaker 3: want to host Grand Prix, a lot of places now
18:55
Speaker 3: I've got super long contracts. I mean, I'm always one
18:59
Speaker 3: for more racing. Give it, give us more racing any
19:01
Speaker 3: day of the week. That's fine. You do wonder though,
19:04
Speaker 3: because a race weekend is not just a race weekend
19:07
Speaker 3: as we knew it from the past anymore. You've got
19:09
Speaker 3: double the amount of starts before because of the sprints, right,
19:13
Speaker 3: So I mentioned it had been thirty eight rounds since
19:15
Speaker 3: we last went to Portumour, or if you like, that's
19:18
Speaker 3: seventy six race starts if you're counting the sprints of
19:20
Speaker 3: the Grand Prix, so no wonder. It feels like it's
19:23
Speaker 3: been a long time since we've been a portum our
19:25
Speaker 3: and we just seem to have weekend after weekend now
19:28
Speaker 3: where I mean, how many times have we had like
19:30
Speaker 3: the full grid this year? It really hasn't happened. We
19:32
Speaker 3: know that Tech three is running Paula Spargo again this
19:35
Speaker 3: weekend because Maverick Vinalez is trying to make it back
19:38
Speaker 3: for Valencia for the season finale, which makes sense because
19:40
Speaker 3: there's the Test, you know, the first day of twenty
19:43
Speaker 3: twenty six, if you like, the two days after the
19:45
Speaker 3: Valencia GP. Martine's obviously had as well. Lorenzo Savadori is
19:48
Speaker 3: still in Martin trying to get back for the last round.
19:51
Speaker 3: So they're all trying to get back for the last
19:53
Speaker 3: round because they can then back to back twenty five
19:56
Speaker 3: bikes with what's coming up for next year at the
19:58
Speaker 3: Test after that. But it's kind of been a you know,
20:01
Speaker 3: it's been the walking worded for a lot of this year.
20:03
Speaker 3: We've had a lot of guys miss racers, which is
20:05
Speaker 3: a shame. With the longer calendar, and yeah, Mark Marquez's
20:08
Speaker 3: timing was pretty good because what in Japan And then yeah,
20:11
Speaker 3: we didn't really see him much after that, did we.
20:14
Speaker 2: No?
20:14
Speaker 1: I mean he said really well for that, I know
20:16
Speaker 1: that's not how he would have wanted his season to end.
20:18
Speaker 1: And I'm sure this would have been another race that
20:20
Speaker 1: he wanted to win on Hue next of ones that
20:23
Speaker 1: he hasn't. But you mentioned they're the tests and one
20:26
Speaker 1: thing I wanted to talk about and kind of tie
20:28
Speaker 1: in with an article that you wrote. So we know
20:30
Speaker 1: in Malaysia the V four was there again with Augusto Fernandez.
20:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we know that Fabric Cordurro is.
20:36
Speaker 1: He's very open with his opinions and his thoughts and
20:39
Speaker 1: the way that they're heading. Now, you wrote a really
20:41
Speaker 1: interesting article for Fox sports dot Com. Do au Ford
20:44
Speaker 1: slash Motorsport got to get that link in there, guys.
20:47
Speaker 1: But you're saying about Fabricrdurao and his decision because we
20:51
Speaker 1: know that his contractors up at the end of next year.
20:54
Speaker 1: It can change everything because if he decigns that he
20:58
Speaker 1: no longer believes in Yamahara what they're promising him, because
21:02
Speaker 1: in his words, it hasn't been delivered just yet with
21:05
Speaker 1: this new buik, and it's not going to help him
21:07
Speaker 1: win championships. He could be knocking on doors and being
21:11
Speaker 1: a former world champion, and we know he's one of
21:13
Speaker 1: the aliens that we have on the grid right now.
21:16
Speaker 1: It could really shake up everything for twenty twenty seven,
21:20
Speaker 1: not just with the rule regulations but the actual riders
21:23
Speaker 1: and the manufacturers.
21:24
Speaker 3: Yeah, and this is where this becomes so interesting. So
21:27
Speaker 3: for next season, I mean next season is kind of
21:30
Speaker 3: a bit of a holding pattern before twenty twenty seven,
21:33
Speaker 3: and there's only four riders on the twenty twenty six
21:36
Speaker 3: grid that have contracts that go into twenty twenty seven.
21:39
Speaker 3: So you've got this bizarre set of circumstances where eighteen
21:42
Speaker 3: of the twenty two riders are out of contract at
21:44
Speaker 3: the end of next year and the sport's effectively going
21:47
Speaker 3: into this heartbur set for twenty twenty seven. So all
21:50
Speaker 3: of these riders are trying to almost like see the
21:52
Speaker 3: future that at a crystal ball here it's like, where
21:55
Speaker 3: do I want to be in twenty twenty seven, because
21:57
Speaker 3: we've got this clean sheet of paper and I always
22:00
Speaker 3: look back at you know, I go to four wheel
22:02
Speaker 3: analogies here because I've spent so much time working in
22:04
Speaker 3: Formula one. The one that's pertinent to me is Lewis
22:08
Speaker 3: Hamilton left McLaren to go to Mercedes in twenty thirteen,
22:12
Speaker 3: which at the time seemed like absolute stupidity because Mercedes
22:15
Speaker 3: had done absolutely nothing and he'd been in his whole
22:17
Speaker 3: career at McLaren and he'd done really, really well. There.
22:19
Speaker 3: There was a massive rule reset for twenty fourteen, and
22:23
Speaker 3: once that rule reset hit, McLaren were basically nowhere until
22:27
Speaker 3: pretty much the last two seasons, and then he won
22:30
Speaker 3: six titles in seven years with Mercedes, who had won
22:32
Speaker 3: a thing before he got there. So he used that
22:35
Speaker 3: free agency. He obviously, you know, he bent on silver
22:38
Speaker 3: and it came up trumps for him and he had
22:40
Speaker 3: the power to do that as probably the best guy
22:42
Speaker 3: in the sport at the time. And so this is
22:44
Speaker 3: where Coaatearero sits for me. There's four other factories in
22:47
Speaker 3: motor GP. If he picks up the phone and calls
22:50
Speaker 3: any of those four factories, they're canceling everything and taking
22:53
Speaker 3: a meeting because he is you know, he's We've said
22:56
Speaker 3: this before. I think he's the second best rider in
22:57
Speaker 3: motor GP behind Mark, and he's considerably younger than Mark.
23:01
Speaker 3: Mark's gonna be thirty three next February, and you do
23:04
Speaker 3: wonder what there is left for Mark to achieve. And
23:06
Speaker 3: I get the sense Mark's not going to be a
23:08
Speaker 3: guy who hangs around until he's forties like Valentino did.
23:11
Speaker 3: I think Mark's going to be I'll get my titles
23:14
Speaker 3: and I'll prioritize my health. Maybe I can't see him
23:16
Speaker 3: hanging around for a massively long time second oldest rider
23:19
Speaker 3: on the grid. As it is, if you were to
23:22
Speaker 3: do the let's pick teams out of kids in the
23:24
Speaker 3: school yard type stuff when you were playing football or
23:26
Speaker 3: whatever as kids, Quaturro is the guy you want because
23:29
Speaker 3: he's won a world championship, he's super young, he's probably
23:33
Speaker 3: in the middle of his prime, and I know the
23:36
Speaker 3: Amaha has not been particularly good this year, but we've
23:38
Speaker 3: talked about this offline, like the fact that he's managed
23:40
Speaker 3: to get five pole positions on a bike that basically
23:42
Speaker 3: nobody else can ride. There comes a point with him
23:45
Speaker 3: where you can do all the stats of the analysis
23:47
Speaker 3: that you're like, or you can just sit on your
23:48
Speaker 3: couch and laugh. At the ability of a guy to
23:51
Speaker 3: ring an absolutely absurd lap time out of a bike
23:54
Speaker 3: that doesn't really have that performance in it. Now he
23:56
Speaker 3: regresses to the mean of the bike in the race,
23:59
Speaker 3: because you replicate over twenty five laps what you could
24:01
Speaker 3: do over one. Even though Yamaha has not been great
24:04
Speaker 3: this year, to my mind, I reckon he's gone up
24:07
Speaker 3: in the estimation of who's the best guys on the grid.
24:10
Speaker 3: So anyone's taking that phone call, and so you're looking
24:13
Speaker 3: at it from Quaaterero's point of view, he was at
24:15
Speaker 3: this crossroads a couple of years ago and decided to
24:17
Speaker 3: stay with Yamahat now they offered him an absolute wheelbarrow
24:21
Speaker 3: full of money, which was probably nice. That lovely pearl
24:23
Speaker 3: necklace that he rides around in there, he's probably got
24:24
Speaker 3: a few of those going on. You could afford a
24:26
Speaker 3: few of them. He's got some nice sports cars, all
24:28
Speaker 3: of that. That's all good, but you do wonder he's
24:32
Speaker 3: been super patient with them, and as he said, it
24:35
Speaker 3: hasn't been delivered. And the very fact that Yamaha is
24:39
Speaker 3: even bringing this V four to races and racing it
24:43
Speaker 3: with Augusto Fernandez, this is not a very Yamaha thing
24:46
Speaker 3: to do. They don't like bringing things that are a
24:48
Speaker 3: bit half cooked to the racetrack and run them in
24:50
Speaker 3: public because there's a very Japanese ethos with the way
24:53
Speaker 3: they work. You don't tend to put things out on
24:56
Speaker 3: the racetrack for public scrutiny unless they're completely ready. V
24:59
Speaker 3: four is not, but Fabio's agitating for it. He clearly
25:03
Speaker 3: wants some change, and so there comes a question for him,
25:07
Speaker 3: do I stick with these guys again because I did
25:10
Speaker 3: it two years ago and it hasn't really worked despite
25:12
Speaker 3: the fact my bank ballots looks a hell of a
25:14
Speaker 3: lot better. Or do I jump? And then the question
25:17
Speaker 3: is if he makes a decision to jump, then where
25:20
Speaker 3: do you go? Because yeah, Jukati's just been steamrolling everybody
25:24
Speaker 3: for the last couple of years. But a lot of
25:26
Speaker 3: the stuff that's made Ducati really good the last few years,
25:29
Speaker 3: all the aero stuff or the ride height devices, they're
25:31
Speaker 3: all banned for twenty twenty seven. So probably Ducatti's greatest
25:35
Speaker 3: strength this is being taken off the table, right, So
25:37
Speaker 3: that probably brings them back to the field a little bit.
25:40
Speaker 3: And if you're looking at the other manufacturers, could Apprillier
25:43
Speaker 3: afford someone like Fabio. Would you want it? Could you
25:47
Speaker 3: imagine a Quasheurero Juge Martine partnership, My god, that would
25:50
Speaker 3: be fireworks, and then the other ones And the other
25:53
Speaker 3: one's Honda, right, Honda's super interesting to me for any rider,
25:58
Speaker 3: but particularly someone of Fabio's quality. Honda don't have that
26:02
Speaker 3: a lister right now. You look at all the other manufacturers.
26:05
Speaker 3: Decadie's got mark Yamaha obviously has Fabia at the moment,
26:08
Speaker 3: Aprilia with a fully fit Juge Martine, He's there, KTM's
26:11
Speaker 3: got a Costa. They're the absolute top shelf guys. Honda
26:14
Speaker 3: doesn't have that guy right now. And given Honda's budget
26:20
Speaker 3: and their ability to throw so much resource at things,
26:24
Speaker 3: look at how much better Honda is this year than last.
26:27
Speaker 3: So much better this year than last. No, they're not
26:29
Speaker 3: winning anything, but their rate of improvement this year's been massive,
26:32
Speaker 3: and you can bet that every single rider is looking
26:35
Speaker 3: at Honda going hmm, okay, someone needs to be brave
26:39
Speaker 3: here and jump there. But then when do you do it? Like,
26:42
Speaker 3: do you jump and then you become the guy who
26:45
Speaker 3: sets it up for the next guy? You know? So
26:47
Speaker 3: maybe in twenty twenty eight when they're ready to start
26:48
Speaker 3: winning stuff, or do you get in on the ground
26:51
Speaker 3: floor here where they're not very good but they've got
26:53
Speaker 3: pedigree and they might come good in the future aka
26:56
Speaker 3: Lewis Hamilton mercedes that example that I mentioned before, and
26:59
Speaker 3: if you get your timing right, that can completely change
27:02
Speaker 3: the shape of your career. And for Katuro's twenty six,
27:05
Speaker 3: like he's so young still he's been around for so
27:07
Speaker 3: long as he came in so early and did so
27:09
Speaker 3: well so early. Is a big decision for him because
27:13
Speaker 3: if he's about the success and the results, the money's
27:17
Speaker 3: been taking care of himself. Everyone knows how good this
27:18
Speaker 3: guy is, so he's got a super big decision to make.
27:22
Speaker 3: And to my mind, once he decides what he's doing,
27:25
Speaker 3: then everyone else reacts to that. To me, he's like
27:28
Speaker 3: the cook in the bottle. Once he decides what he's
27:30
Speaker 3: going to do, then there's going to be this huge
27:32
Speaker 3: domino effect with other pieces scattering around. And he's already
27:36
Speaker 3: said Quaturo that I need to see something in the
27:38
Speaker 3: Sapang test next year in February. So that's a message
27:42
Speaker 3: to yamahas like you guys have got three months to
27:44
Speaker 3: show me something. Because if I turn up at Sipang
27:46
Speaker 3: and this V four isn't anywhere near where it needs
27:49
Speaker 3: to be or has no potential, then I'm clearly going
27:52
Speaker 3: to start looking elsewhere. So watch this space. And because
27:55
Speaker 3: I reckon, next year's rider market could go pretty crazy
27:57
Speaker 3: pretty early, and all depend on what he does.
28:00
Speaker 1: I think you mentioned that Honda, and the first thing
28:04
Speaker 1: that I thought of as you were talking about the
28:05
Speaker 1: Honda and not having the Star Rider and someone jumping
28:09
Speaker 1: at the bit is Dioga Morrera. Is that what they
28:12
Speaker 1: think they might see in him? Is he becoming the
28:15
Speaker 1: star writer?
28:16
Speaker 3: I reckon. The reason you employ someone like Marrera is
28:19
Speaker 3: he is he's your educated bet slash guess for maybe
28:25
Speaker 3: you know, a couple of years beyond that. He's still
28:27
Speaker 3: so young, right, They've got him on this quite long
28:29
Speaker 3: leash as far as the contract goes. He's got the
28:31
Speaker 3: longest contract major gip. Quite frankly, the reason you sign
28:34
Speaker 3: a guy like that so young, you put a heap
28:36
Speaker 3: of performance clauses in the contract. So he's going to
28:38
Speaker 3: be pretty cheap. There's going to be obviously a lot
28:40
Speaker 3: of bonuses and what have you. If he does well,
28:42
Speaker 3: but he, to me is the ideal guy to be
28:45
Speaker 3: the partner of the A lister, whoever that day lister is.
28:48
Speaker 3: He's almost like the second guy. So there becomes this
28:51
Speaker 3: like a passing of the torch with these things. If
28:54
Speaker 3: you flash forward to twenty twenty eight, twenty nine, or
28:57
Speaker 3: what have you, when Quatrero's approaching his thirties, Marera is
29:00
Speaker 3: super super young. If he's as good as we think
29:03
Speaker 3: he might be, then he might be ready to sort
29:05
Speaker 3: of morph into that team leader type role. I thought
29:08
Speaker 3: it was a really canny signing by Honda, because you
29:11
Speaker 3: get a guy who is from a very different part
29:13
Speaker 3: of the world, is clearly very quick. He might well
29:15
Speaker 3: come in too Moto GP as the Motor two champion
29:17
Speaker 3: based on how things work out. But he's young enough
29:20
Speaker 3: and cheap enough that you could afford to have him there.
29:22
Speaker 3: He can learn sort of under the radar a little bit,
29:24
Speaker 3: and then if Honda get their stuff sorted and they
29:27
Speaker 3: become pretty quite good, then he's an awesome position. But
29:30
Speaker 3: there's not going to be that much expectation on him
29:32
Speaker 3: next year or even twenty seven, like he gets so
29:34
Speaker 3: free swing, but any result he gets next year will
29:37
Speaker 3: be sort of, Oh that was nice. There's going to
29:39
Speaker 3: be no real pressure on him. I thought it was
29:41
Speaker 3: a really really clever signing because he's clearly like the
29:45
Speaker 3: next guy in that age generation. You get him locked up,
29:48
Speaker 3: now you've just got to go find the A lister
29:49
Speaker 3: and there's a few of them out there, and like
29:51
Speaker 3: I said, all of the A list guys for twenty
29:53
Speaker 3: seven are all out of contract.
29:57
Speaker 1: Wow, that's twenty seven. Like has it earlier on that?
30:00
Speaker 1: I've gone this weekend, Matt, because I mean we could
30:01
Speaker 1: talk that if buttson wins and I know you've got
30:03
Speaker 1: some really good articles on that, so do go and
30:05
Speaker 1: listen to Sorry, go and check those out listeners on
30:08
Speaker 1: Matt's articles. But this weekend the Portuguese Grand Prix, Matt,
30:11
Speaker 1: that all important question is who's going to be taking
30:15
Speaker 1: home the number one plate, Who's going to be standing
30:17
Speaker 1: on top of that step on the partium this weekend.
30:20
Speaker 3: I'm going to double down on what I said earlier
30:23
Speaker 3: in that I think that Marco Pozeki's going to finish
30:24
Speaker 3: third the World Championship, and I think he's going to
30:26
Speaker 3: take a big step towards finishing third in the world
30:28
Speaker 3: championship by winning this weekend. I reckon he wins. He
30:31
Speaker 3: wins the main race to sprint, wouldn't surprise me if
30:33
Speaker 3: A Costa won the sprint quite frankly, but I could
30:36
Speaker 3: see Bazeki Aprilia that combination being pretty awesome around Portermow.
30:41
Speaker 3: With the obvious caveat that if Peco Banyaya is in
30:44
Speaker 3: the top three after Friday practice, then you can everything
30:46
Speaker 3: I just said goes in the bin and then he
30:48
Speaker 3: probably wins by fifteen seconds or something. Who would know,
30:50
Speaker 3: But it feels like a bit of a bes weekend.
30:53
Speaker 3: They've got some nice momentum spank. It's a bit of
30:55
Speaker 3: a blit. But I don't know are you going to
30:57
Speaker 3: be are you following me here? Or are going to
30:59
Speaker 3: get brave go with someone else.
31:01
Speaker 2: I just have this feeling.
31:03
Speaker 1: I have this feeling is going to be Pedro a
31:05
Speaker 1: Costa this weekend. But everything that you said with the
31:07
Speaker 1: whole pego bagno, it literally depends on the first fifteen
31:10
Speaker 1: minutes of Friday black.
31:12
Speaker 2: Like I said, that can all go in the trash.
31:13
Speaker 2: But I just had this feeling of Pedro Acosta.
31:17
Speaker 1: I think that he has got the fire and the
31:19
Speaker 1: determination at the moment, and I think he will be
31:22
Speaker 1: focused on ticking that box for himself because everybody is
31:26
Speaker 1: talking now, Okay, he's the writer who hasn't won the
31:29
Speaker 1: Grand Prix. He's come in wonder Boy and not like
31:31
Speaker 1: we've spoken about a million times. I think for him
31:34
Speaker 1: and for himself, he needs to get it done. So
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Speaker 1: I think he's going to give it a red hot
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Speaker 1: crack this weekend. But yeah, a lot of listeners, we
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Speaker 1: could be all wrong and it's Pego Vagnaya who's on fire.
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Speaker 1: But actually, speaking of Peco, I don't know if you
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Speaker 1: heard this, Matt. His right eyed device wasn't working in Spain, Yes,
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Speaker 1: in the.
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Speaker 3: Spree, and he still wanted it anyway. So maybe just
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Speaker 3: getting a head start or the new rules for twenty
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Speaker 3: twenty seven, you just put right height devices on the
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Speaker 3: bike doesn't work and they did anyway, So maybe let's
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Speaker 3: say a taste of what's to come.
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Speaker 1: Maybe it is and maybe that's the secret sauce that
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Speaker 1: Peco is missing, and we will find out this weekend.
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Speaker 2: But that is all for our portmal.
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Speaker 1: episode of the podcast. And of course, like we said that,
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Speaker 1: the intro our thoughts are with Noah Dettweiler and Jose
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Speaker 1: Antonio Raueida on their speedy recoveries and hopefully we will
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Speaker 1: see them back on the grid real soon. But from
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Speaker 1: Matt Clayton and myself, that is all for Pit Talk
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Speaker 1: this episode.
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