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BritishGP Preview with Remy Gardner: MotoGP Pit Talk · Pit Talk

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Speaker 1: As Silverstone prepares to go retro for the Monster Energy
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Speaker 1: British Grand Prix, and we're thirty seven points up for grabs.
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Speaker 1: All eyes are back on our championship front runners at
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Speaker 1: Peko Vanyaya and Jorge Martin. I'm your host, Rinita Vanmullen,
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Speaker 1: and here to turn our pit talk into a podium
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Speaker 1: finish our Moto GP mastermind, Matt Clayton. Matt, Finally, Moto
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Speaker 1: GP is.
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Speaker 2: Back, Ronita, It's race week. We've been waiting far too
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Speaker 2: long to say it, but this is just the first
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Speaker 2: chapter of this fantastic end of the season. We've got
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Speaker 2: eleven more rounds still to go in a very very
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Speaker 2: short space of time, so we're not going to be
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Speaker 2: sick of saying this Race week before too much longer.
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Speaker 2: But as you say, we've got this really brilliantly poised
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Speaker 2: championship fight between Picko and Johey, and we're going for
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Speaker 2: a bit of a blast from the past this weekend
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Speaker 2: at Silvis.
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Speaker 1: Didn't we the retro round? I'm so excited. They haven't
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Speaker 1: done something like this in Moto GP. They do it
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Speaker 1: a lot in motocross and other championships, but I wanted
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Speaker 1: to ask you what, what manufacturer are you most excited
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Speaker 1: about seeing their retro livery.
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Speaker 2: I'm more I gotta say I'm expecting a few Valentino
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Speaker 2: Rossi tributes or a lot of yellow I'll say that now,
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Speaker 2: whether it's on the VR forty sixty caddies or whether
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Speaker 2: Yamaha go back to the Rossi era or not. But
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Speaker 2: I think there'll be some great liveries from there. But
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Speaker 2: to me, the interesting part about some of this is
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Speaker 2: that some of the most evocative liveries, or the ones
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Speaker 2: you really remember, are all cigarette advertising, let's be perfectly honest.
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Speaker 2: So how they're going to get around that and use
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Speaker 2: these old color schemes with a nod to the past
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Speaker 2: where you can't talk about tobacco advertising any well, that's
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Speaker 2: kind of really funny. But I reckon an old Kenny
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Speaker 2: Roberts retro livery might feature pretty strongly as well. But
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Speaker 2: I cannot wait for the reveal of this because I mean,
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Speaker 2: a it's awesome social media foers, so it's right in
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Speaker 2: your wheelhouse or this sort of stuff. But seeing that
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Speaker 2: starting shot of the bikes on the grid for Sunday,
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Speaker 2: and you'll be going, hang on, which one's this? And
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Speaker 2: is hang on, that's a decaddy what's going on here,
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Speaker 2: the unfamiliarity of the grid and seeing guys in different
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Speaker 2: different colors, it's going to be absolutely fantastic.
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Speaker 1: At the time of recording this, they haven't actually released
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Speaker 1: this weekend's livery that's happening today Thursday in England as
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Speaker 1: part of the Day of champions But for me, I
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Speaker 1: hope that the teams go all out as well. I
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Speaker 1: hope we see some retro team give maybe some like sideburns,
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Speaker 1: some CD mustaches, things like that, just to fit the theme.
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Speaker 1: But the Yamaha is the one that I'm most excited
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Speaker 1: about because I feel like over the years they've had
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Speaker 1: some really cool designs on the bike, like you mentioned Valentino,
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Speaker 1: thinking about the bumblebee, the yellow and the black, that's
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Speaker 1: the first of my mind.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, abolutely. It's funny too. With some of the
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Speaker 2: other manufacturers, I think there's fairly obvious ones, Like I
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Speaker 2: would be goldsmacked if one of the Aprilias doesn't look
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Speaker 2: like a Max Biagi Aprillia from back in the day.
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Speaker 2: That to me seems like an absolute monty to happen.
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Speaker 2: But Yamaha, You's got so many options. You just really
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Speaker 2: don't know, and even things like Ducati, we so associate
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Speaker 2: them with red. But then would about some silver, a
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Speaker 2: bit of a nod back to the superbike days, bit
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Speaker 2: of a Troy baylors liverybaps. I mean, who knows is
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Speaker 2: there's so many options and that's one of the things
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Speaker 2: that's going to be so great about this weekend.
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Speaker 1: I think that's really cool that you mentioned Troy Bayless.
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Speaker 1: And I'm just thinking about the article that you wrote
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Speaker 1: talking about Fabio Digiy Antonio and his node to Troy Bayless,
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Speaker 1: a story that I had no idea how this boy
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Speaker 1: from Rome fell in love with and Ozzy all the
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Speaker 1: way back when he was in there. It's a really
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Speaker 1: cool story. If you haven't checked it out, definitely head
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Speaker 1: to our website to read all about a Fabio Digi
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Speaker 1: Antonio's journey to the number forty nine? Shall we say?
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Speaker 1: But Matt, I wanted to ask you, we need to
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Speaker 1: get back to the racing. Hecho is on a run
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Speaker 1: back to back wins. Do you think that this weekend
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Speaker 1: he can make it five in a row?
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Speaker 2: Look, the form book would suggest yes, because ever since
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Speaker 2: he fell off on the last lap at Cashalodia in
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Speaker 2: the sprint. No one's really see which way he's gone.
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Speaker 2: He's been absolutely awesome since then, six out of seven
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Speaker 2: since then. Yes, profited a little bit from Juge Martin
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Speaker 2: making that terrible mistake right near the end at the
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Speaker 2: Saxon Ring, but renitda. The thing about Silverston that's so
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Speaker 2: bizarre is that you can kind of take the form
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Speaker 2: book or certainly momentum year on year and pretty much
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Speaker 2: throw it out the window. We've got this bizarre set
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Speaker 2: of circumstances where we've had nine different winners in nine
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Speaker 2: years at Silverston, we've had no repeat winners. It's one
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Speaker 2: of those races that just when you think you've got
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Speaker 2: a sus as to what's going to happen, something comes
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Speaker 2: out of the blue. And we saw it last year.
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Speaker 2: Pecko had that race absolutely in his keeping and it's
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Speaker 2: like Alasia Spargo is getting close here, Alasias Bargo is
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Speaker 2: getting very close here, and then eight quarters from the end,
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Speaker 2: on the last lap, he took the lead and won
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Speaker 2: the race. So look, you would have to suggest in
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Speaker 2: the form that he's in, he's on such a run
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Speaker 2: at the moment he's trying to become the first rider
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Speaker 2: to win five Grand Prina row in five years. So
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Speaker 2: it's been a long time since we've seen this. But
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Speaker 2: I kind of like a Prillier this weekend because I
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Speaker 2: think it's a circuit that really placed the strengths of
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Speaker 2: the RSGP. We know Alasia's been good there, Maverick Vignalez
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Speaker 2: has been very very good at Silverston over the journey's
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Speaker 2: been on the podium four times. Look, Maverick could be
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Speaker 2: absolutely amazing or nowhere. It's going to be one of
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Speaker 2: the two extremes because that's the way he tends to roll.
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Speaker 2: But if Pecko's going to have a challenger, I think
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Speaker 2: it's coming from a Prillier this weekend. And look, I
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Speaker 2: have a history on this side.
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Speaker 1: That's interesting for when I was like doing research earlier.
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Speaker 1: Today looking at Silverstone, you know, it's not one of
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Speaker 1: the most demanding tracks that we go to. It has
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Speaker 1: long straights, it has fast flowing corners. I instantly think
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Speaker 1: of Mark Marquez because I feel like this style of
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Speaker 1: circuit seems to suit him. And I was looking back
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Speaker 1: at at winners, like you said, there's nine but Mark Marquez,
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Speaker 1: Valentino Rossi and Juge Lorenzo are the most winningest riders
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Speaker 1: since Moto GP's returned to their circuit, and I was
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Speaker 1: curious thinking, could this be the weekend that maybe Mark
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Speaker 1: gets his final final first you caddy podium at Silverston? Potentially?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, look curious. I mean, I think of the eleven
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Speaker 2: rounds we've got left to go, this is probably not
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Speaker 2: one of the ones that would make my top three
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Speaker 2: E races. I think Mark can win for the rest
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Speaker 2: of the year. I think we've got a couple of
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Speaker 2: anti clockwise circuits coming up, including one a little bit
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Speaker 2: closer to my home than yours for Ronetta in a
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Speaker 2: few months time at Philip Island. But look, he's you know,
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Speaker 2: he's good. He's good everywhere, isn't he? But he's good
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Speaker 2: at Sylveston. You remember just about one that race cirl
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Speaker 2: was it probably four years ago now when Alex Rinn's
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Speaker 2: got him on the last corner when we're using the
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Speaker 2: old the old National stuff, it is straight there. So
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Speaker 2: he's certainly been close. He's he's had a few monumental
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Speaker 2: accidents here as well. But look interesting with Mark, I
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Speaker 2: think he the dynamic between him and what happens on
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Speaker 2: the juge Martin side for the rest of the season.
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Speaker 2: Of me is really interesting because you know, Martine set
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Speaker 2: himself in the lead up to Silveston that they're kind
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Speaker 2: of in their own little silo now at Pramac because
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Speaker 2: Julles off to Aprillier and Pramac's off to Yamaha, so
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Speaker 2: they're kind of operating in this bizarre circumstance for the
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Speaker 2: next eleven races where yeah, he's the championship contender, but
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Speaker 2: you have to wonder if he wants to win Vita
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Speaker 2: Catti and Dojakati. What a win for Pravak. You know,
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Speaker 2: it's this really strange situation where you've got Tea van
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Speaker 2: Ryder moving to new pastures. So I think you're seeing
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Speaker 2: Mark push forward. It wouldn't surprise me ifore Hay kind
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Speaker 2: of levels off a little bit, which is why I
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Speaker 2: think it's hard to look past Peco for the championship.
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Speaker 2: But you can never rule anything out with Mark. We
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Speaker 2: know how good he is on a Sunday, and I
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Speaker 2: guess if he's standing on the top step of the podium,
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Speaker 2: it would be rather bizarre if he was in a
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Speaker 2: different livery as well. For his first race, we did
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Speaker 2: Docadi because that will be one we'll look back in
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Speaker 2: ten years time ago he won wearing that that would
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Speaker 2: be a really really.
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Speaker 1: Strange one and hopefully hopefully with the full vintage get
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Speaker 1: up as well. But oh, that'd be brilliant. What about
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Speaker 1: the KTMS at this circuit, I was looking at the
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Speaker 1: weather forecast and it looks like it's going to be okay.
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Speaker 1: But we know it's England, so we know that weather
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Speaker 1: can change at any minute, and the race has been
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Speaker 1: canceled there in the past. You to the weather, but
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Speaker 1: what about the KTMS. How do you think we're going
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Speaker 1: to see Bradbinder and Pedro Costa go this weekend?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, those two words that never should be used together,
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Speaker 2: England and summer. But at the moment, like you say,
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Speaker 2: the forecast is fire, but let's check back in a
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Speaker 2: few days time. I certainly don't trust it. Look, Katm's
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Speaker 2: kind of feels they've hit a bit of a rut
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Speaker 2: of late in that we saw how good Pedro Acosta
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Speaker 2: was in the first part of the season, and I
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Speaker 2: don't necessarily think his level has dropped. I think there's
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Speaker 2: a bit of frustration with him in the last few races,
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Speaker 2: where he's maybe tried to override a bike that can't
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Speaker 2: be there. He's had a few crashes, which he certainly
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Speaker 2: wasn't doing at the start of the season. Brad Benn
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Speaker 2: is in an interesting spot because he's only two points
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Speaker 2: behind Pedro in the standings. But if you looked at
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Speaker 2: it by the number of you know, paulum inches as
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Speaker 2: they would say newspaper parlance, that the two riders have got,
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Speaker 2: it feels like a cost has just dwarfed every other
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Speaker 2: rider on a KTM this year. So Brad's kind of
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Speaker 2: flown a little bit under the radar. He's so good
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Speaker 2: last year that he set such a high standard that
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Speaker 2: it was probably unrealistic for him to be able to
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Speaker 2: continue to do that. But it wouldn't surprise me in
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Speaker 2: the slightest if KTM actually can get on terms with
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Speaker 2: definitely to Katty and probably are Prillia this weekend. Wouldn't
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Speaker 2: surprise me if he's a guy to get up the front.
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Speaker 2: But he's a guy who kind of needs a big
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Speaker 2: back end of the year because I know there are
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Speaker 2: separate teams at the moment, him and Pedro, but you
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Speaker 2: can't tell me that it's important for one to finish
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Speaker 2: in front of the other end of the championship next
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Speaker 2: year before they become teammates, because Pedro is going to
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Speaker 2: be going in there. The others have already won Grand Prix.
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Speaker 2: He hasn't yet, and yet's the operative word in that.
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Speaker 2: But if you go into a factory team alongside a
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Speaker 2: guy like Binder and you've beaten him in the Championship
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Speaker 2: as a rookie on a gas gas, you can't tell
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Speaker 2: me that's going to have some sort of carryover to
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Speaker 2: next year. So that's a little sort of battle within
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Speaker 2: a brand that I'm watching for the rest of the season.
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Speaker 2: I mean, look, neither of we're going to win the championship.
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Speaker 2: They could win a race potentially, But who's going to
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Speaker 2: be the top dog in that team next year? I
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Speaker 2: think this year will go a long way towards determining that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I can definitely see what you mean going into
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Speaker 1: next year being teammates, had you having that full factory
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Speaker 1: pressure as well, that's going to be a big adjustment
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Speaker 1: for him. Brad's obviously been in that team for a
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Speaker 1: few years now, he knows how it all works. I'm
9:54
Speaker 1: curious to see with next year. There's so many changes
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Speaker 1: as well. Happening obviously, Mark going to fact Caddy or
10:01
Speaker 1: Hate Martin going to a Prillier. So much changes, so
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Speaker 1: much is going to be happening on track and off
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Speaker 1: track that I just cannot wait to see. But I
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Speaker 1: want to ask you further down. We've covered most of
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Speaker 1: the European manufacturers. Now we've got a head to our
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Speaker 1: Yamaha and Honda counterparts in the Japanese Championship that's happening
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Speaker 1: further down the field. Out of those two manufacturers, do
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Speaker 1: you think we're going to see the Yamahas shine that
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Speaker 1: bit more this weekend? Heading into Silverstone.
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Speaker 2: I feel like I need some old school seventies binoculars
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Speaker 2: to see far down the grid where the Hondaga and
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Speaker 2: the Yamaha guys are. It's a long way back there
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Speaker 2: for most and let's be perfectly honest, but I think
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Speaker 2: if you're going to look at either of those two brands,
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Speaker 2: I still think they're starting from really low bases. It's
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Speaker 2: pretty clear Yamaha to me, they have a pathway to
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Speaker 2: get better, and it's just going to take them a really,
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Speaker 2: really long time to get there. But you suspect that
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Speaker 2: they know the way out and forward towards that. I'm
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Speaker 2: not sure Honda know the way out yet. I think
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Speaker 2: that's the difference between the two. I don't think they're
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Speaker 2: created equal in that sense. And to my mind, look,
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Speaker 2: we've seen since we did our last podcast, Shawi mers
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Speaker 2: Re signed with Repsol Honda A probably because the lack
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Speaker 2: of options anywhere else. Let's be perfectly honest, and when
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Speaker 2: you're a factory Honda rider, at least you have a
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Speaker 2: nice bank balance to pay for all the medical bills
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Speaker 2: that the bike's going to give you, and it spits
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Speaker 2: you off and pretty much most sessions you see the
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Speaker 2: graphic Juan Meir crash rider, Okay, it seems to come
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Speaker 2: up quite a bit. But of those two manufacturers, I
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Speaker 2: like the direction that Yamaha is heading in and I
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Speaker 2: think that having Fabio Guadauro there at least gives you
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Speaker 2: a benchmark to know that if the bike's good, he'll
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Speaker 2: be there. And I'm not sure he's going to be
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Speaker 2: a guy you're going to see sniffing around a podiums
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Speaker 2: for the rest of the year, but there'll be certain
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Speaker 2: days on certain tracks where you go Fabia's in the
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Speaker 2: top six and it'll be you know, it might not
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Speaker 2: even be for a full race. You could see him
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Speaker 2: like getting a top five finish in a sprint, perhaps
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Speaker 2: because it's half the distance and less time for things
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Speaker 2: to go wrong and so on and so forth. He
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Speaker 2: can maybe over right transcend the quality of the bike,
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Speaker 2: he could say, over a shorter distance. So I kind
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Speaker 2: of like the way they're going. I can see a
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Speaker 2: road back for them. But the Honda thing, Look, we
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Speaker 2: know that their rider lineup is probably going to stay
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Speaker 2: unchanged now from this year, which is crazy to think
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Speaker 2: because obviously Luca, Meridian, Jahanzako already on multi year contracts.
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Speaker 2: It looks like Takanakagami's probably going to stay by default
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Speaker 2: because Iogura is going to bob up elsewhere, which I'm
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Speaker 2: sure we'll talk about. But Fabio is the as and
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Speaker 2: the whole mr. He's the guy that can lead them
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Speaker 2: sort of, not maybe to the Promised Land, but certainly
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Speaker 2: out of the basement and this weekend. Look, it's a
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Speaker 2: fast flying track. He's been pretty good around there in
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Speaker 2: the past. But there's just so many decaddies on the grid,
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Speaker 2: Like you know, there's eight decaddies on the grid, and
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Speaker 2: do you trust the Yamaha to be capable of beating
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Speaker 2: more than one or two of them, it's hard to see.
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Speaker 2: So look, if he was to finish in the top
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Speaker 2: ten on Sunday, I think Yamaha would be pretty rapped.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely. I think Fabio he's having to override that
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Speaker 1: bike so much more then anyone would want to ride.
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Speaker 1: And he even admitted that in a recent interview. He
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Speaker 1: said that he's got the engine power there and that's
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Speaker 1: what they need. But everything that they had as a
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Speaker 1: positive before they upgraded that engine has lacked and now
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Speaker 1: they're having to figure out a way they can combine everything.
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Speaker 1: And we can see it. You can see in his
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Speaker 1: face when he takes that helmet off. He is drained.
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Speaker 1: He's exhausted because he's having to ride that bike like
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Speaker 1: no tomorrow. It's similar to how Mark Marquez had to
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Speaker 1: on that Honda for so many years. I think with
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Speaker 1: Yamaha they don't want to head in that same direction
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Speaker 1: that Honda have done, where they've kind of put everything
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Speaker 1: into Mark and to winning and developed the bike for him,
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Speaker 1: and I think Fabio's also realize that and the fact
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Speaker 1: that he's going, Okay, we need to work on these
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Speaker 1: but I also need the feedback from Calany, the feedback
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Speaker 1: from Alex and he's so excited to have Pramac Yamaha
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Speaker 1: as well. He goes it's going to be the same.
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Speaker 1: It's not a privateer satellite team. He wants it to
13:58
Speaker 1: be just as factory as he is. He can all
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Speaker 1: build and develop that bike together, so hopefully we will
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Speaker 1: see those Yamaha's closer to the front next year.
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Speaker 2: Well, and that point you mentioned about Mark is so
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Speaker 2: key to where Honda finds itself now because for so
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Speaker 2: many years, I'm not sure that was the best or
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Speaker 2: second best bike in Motor GP, but he made it
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Speaker 2: what it was. So at the end of the day
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Speaker 2: you could look at the standings and say, well, Hond's
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Speaker 2: still winning the championship, not realizing that he was the
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Speaker 2: one that was making the difference. And then once it
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Speaker 2: got to twenty twenty and Mark got hurt and he
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Speaker 2: was off the grid, Everyone's like, oh, so this is
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Speaker 2: where the Honda is. So for years, Mark had probably
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Speaker 2: masked a few of the problems that brand had. Now
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Speaker 2: that he's he was intermittently back between injuries. Now that
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Speaker 2: he's gone and you can see the whole that they're in.
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Speaker 2: They're sort of paying the price now for like twenty seventeen,
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Speaker 2: eighteen nineteen, where Mark was so good he was winning
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Speaker 2: everything anyway, even though the bike wasn't great. So if
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Speaker 2: Yamaha can avoid going down that path where the whole
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Speaker 2: things depended on one guy overachieving on its bike, then
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Speaker 2: that's a big tick for them, I.
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Speaker 1: Think, yeah, definitely. And then you can say is coming
15:00
Speaker 1: in in a few years everything's going to change anyway,
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Speaker 1: which I'm sure we will definitely discuss at a further
15:05
Speaker 1: point in time. But Matt, we have a very special
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Speaker 1: guest on this podcast today. We were so lucky to
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Speaker 1: catch up with the wild card for this weekend at Silverstone,
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Speaker 1: Remy Gardner, ahead of his yamahat Test team debut. So
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Speaker 1: he's not going to be writing the Monster Energy Yamaha
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Speaker 1: this weekend. He is replacing the injured test writer Cal
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Speaker 1: crutch Low. So let's hear from the Aussie and how
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Speaker 1: he's feeling being back in Moto GP. Remy, thank you
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Speaker 1: so much for taking this time to chat with us
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Speaker 1: at Fox Sports. And you are obviously back in Moto
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Speaker 1: GP this weekend, and we know Silverstone is a track
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Speaker 1: that holds fond memories for you, especially from that Moto
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Speaker 1: two win back in twenty twenty one. How are you
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Speaker 1: feeling coming into this weekend.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a track that you know, I've always liked
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Speaker 3: actually before that winning Silverston in twenty one. It was
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Speaker 3: actually the first track I ever made. It's part for
16:03
Speaker 3: May when I was racing Moto too, So yeah, it's
16:07
Speaker 3: a special place in my heart. Here. I actually put
16:09
Speaker 3: the mistral on the front row in the dry and
16:11
Speaker 3: nearly up qualified bang Yaya on the mistrail here, so
16:15
Speaker 3: I was I was pretty impressed with my performance.
16:18
Speaker 4: So yeah, it's a it's a.
16:21
Speaker 3: Track that you know, old special memories I actually had
16:23
Speaker 3: it was having a decent race with the gpbike in
16:25
Speaker 3: twenty two years as well, but we made an all
16:28
Speaker 3: tire choice unfortunately dropped like a stone towards the end.
16:30
Speaker 4: But no chip.
16:33
Speaker 3: It's a it's a track. I enjoy it and hopefully
16:35
Speaker 3: it can suit the.
16:36
Speaker 2: The Is that a real thing when you go back
16:40
Speaker 2: to a track where you've had some successive World championship
16:42
Speaker 2: Like when you walk through, you drive in through the
16:44
Speaker 2: you know, through the gates. Is that a real thing
16:45
Speaker 2: where you go oh yeah, Like, is it there's a
16:47
Speaker 2: good memory when I've left this place or is it
16:49
Speaker 2: just onto the next the whole time? Do you like
16:51
Speaker 2: look back at that sort of stuff?
16:53
Speaker 3: Uh, not not in that depth, to be honest, But
16:57
Speaker 3: I think it's all just kind of your you know, like, yeah,
17:00
Speaker 3: great fansic sex sex here. You know, hopefully it should
17:03
Speaker 3: be an easier weekend than normal.
17:05
Speaker 4: That's about it.
17:07
Speaker 1: Yeah, I wanted to ask you've obviously come from well
17:10
Speaker 1: two bikes that you're currently competing in over Intomoto GP.
17:14
Speaker 1: You did the last round at Saxon Ring with the
17:16
Speaker 1: Monster Energy team and now you're on the test team
17:19
Speaker 1: bike for Cal crutch Low. Mentally, how difficult or challenging
17:25
Speaker 1: is it to go from the super bike bike over
17:28
Speaker 1: Intomoto GP.
17:32
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean the superbike is completely different. I mean
17:35
Speaker 3: it's compared to the JP bike, so it's like starting
17:38
Speaker 3: from zero, you know. Yeah, tires are completely different. There's
17:43
Speaker 3: less power, a little bit heavy I think, but not
17:47
Speaker 3: that much. But yeah, just different riding style, completely different
17:51
Speaker 3: riding style, and obviously there's a lot more things to
17:54
Speaker 3: manage on a GP bike. You know, you have the
17:56
Speaker 3: right height controls, you have the start devices you have,
18:01
Speaker 3: you know, carmon brakes that need stay in temperature. The
18:03
Speaker 3: tires are more critical to temperature, so everything small stiff.
18:08
Speaker 4: There's a lot more more to manage with the GP bike.
18:12
Speaker 4: So yeah, honestly, it's kind of like starting from zero.
18:16
Speaker 3: Maybe a bit less starting from zero this time now
18:18
Speaker 3: that we got Saxon ring under our belt.
18:19
Speaker 4: But yeah, Saxon ring definitely got thrown in the deep.
18:22
Speaker 2: Bend well, and a weird one too with Saxon ring
18:25
Speaker 2: because well, if I understand correctly, you were out doing
18:28
Speaker 2: some motocross or something with Tito about when you got
18:31
Speaker 2: the call or thereabouts. But Saxon ring is not your
18:34
Speaker 2: standard circuit to come back and ride a motor GP
18:36
Speaker 2: bike when you haven't ridden one for the best part
18:38
Speaker 2: of two years, because there's nowhere quite like the Saxon ring.
18:40
Speaker 2: It's pretty much a one of one. So how deep
18:43
Speaker 2: into that weekend were you in Germany before you felt
18:45
Speaker 2: all right, I'm actually on top of this or did
18:47
Speaker 2: you never quite get to that point?
18:50
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, so I was out.
18:53
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was just I think, Yeah, I was riding
18:55
Speaker 3: motocross with Tito and we're having lunch down in Yibi
19:01
Speaker 3: next don or in Spain and.
19:03
Speaker 4: I watched on the GB. I watched the GB.
19:04
Speaker 3: I didn't even think anything of it, and got back
19:06
Speaker 3: home with washing the bike and had about twenty five
19:09
Speaker 3: missed calls and that was you know, part manager and
19:12
Speaker 3: pick up the phone idiot and he's like, you want
19:15
Speaker 3: to do this and I was like, yeah, I think
19:17
Speaker 3: it should be fun. So yeah, definitely didn't expect it, but.
19:23
Speaker 4: You know, I think.
19:24
Speaker 3: It ended a pretty pretty okay and the end, I
19:26
Speaker 3: think we did have a decent performance. And yeah, so
19:31
Speaker 3: I'm glad I did it. I'm to get them back again,
19:33
Speaker 3: so they can't be too unhappy happy with.
19:36
Speaker 1: Me exactly back again this weekend. But like I mentioned,
19:40
Speaker 1: you are filling in for injured Cal Crutch. They on
19:43
Speaker 1: the test team. With this weekend and the plan that
19:46
Speaker 1: you've got going ahead, how much of this weekend is
19:49
Speaker 1: testing parts and products for the factory riders.
19:54
Speaker 4: I know I'll have to be doing a little bit
19:56
Speaker 4: of testing this weekend.
19:57
Speaker 3: I don't exactually know what the plan is yet because
20:00
Speaker 3: I actually haven't had time to sit down in the case. Yeah,
20:03
Speaker 3: I've been flat out this morning, but yeah, I know,
20:06
Speaker 3: I know they already said to me that, yeah, okay,
20:08
Speaker 3: you know, we have other testing, so we have do
20:10
Speaker 3: have items to test.
20:12
Speaker 4: But for sure, and my mentality is, you know, I'm
20:14
Speaker 4: still here.
20:15
Speaker 3: I'm a racer, here to race and do the best
20:17
Speaker 3: of course, and do the best possible. So yeah, there's
20:21
Speaker 3: for sure it's not going to be easy to balance
20:23
Speaker 3: that race.
20:24
Speaker 4: We can test strategy, but.
20:26
Speaker 3: Hopefully you know, the guys can understand the racing mantality
20:29
Speaker 3: as well.
20:30
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I was going to ask you, actually, it
20:33
Speaker 2: had been what eighteen months near enough since you've ridden
20:36
Speaker 2: a motor GP bike since what Valencia twenty two until
20:39
Speaker 2: you get back on the bike at Saxon Ring. How
20:42
Speaker 2: much of the game moved on in those eight eight months,
20:44
Speaker 2: Because obviously you're, yeah, you park that thing at Valencia
20:46
Speaker 2: at the end of twenty two, you're probably not expecting
20:48
Speaker 2: to get back on emjor GP bikes. So when you
20:50
Speaker 2: do get back on one, were there things we're going, Oh,
20:53
Speaker 2: you know, this is really taking a step from what
20:55
Speaker 2: I was used to. Were there some things you really
20:56
Speaker 2: noticed have moved on?
21:00
Speaker 4: Honestly, I didn't feel like it was night and day
21:04
Speaker 4: for me. I mean, it kind of just shot like
21:06
Speaker 4: a GP bike.
21:06
Speaker 3: Again, definitely different than the KTM for better or worse
21:12
Speaker 3: in that respect, but yeah, definitely definitely felt like a
21:17
Speaker 3: GP bike. And you know what surprised me, to be honest,
21:21
Speaker 3: was the like, the amount.
21:22
Speaker 4: Of fast guys now.
21:24
Speaker 3: I mean, I mean there was many fast guys back
21:26
Speaker 3: when I was, you know, twenty two, but you know
21:29
Speaker 3: it's you know, if you're not if you're not absolutely
21:35
Speaker 3: pushing to the limit, he's just going to be dead last,
21:37
Speaker 3: n't you Like. It's just it's there's so many fast
21:41
Speaker 3: guys that you know, you just have to be so
21:44
Speaker 3: on it even do some sort of results. So, yeah,
21:48
Speaker 3: everyone's extremely fast. The manufacturers, there's a lot of fast
21:51
Speaker 3: manufacturers now, and yeah, it's incredible how father bikes have come.
21:56
Speaker 3: But I didn't feel like it was night and day
21:58
Speaker 3: speed wise. I think it's just kind of the level
22:03
Speaker 3: of everyone. Yeah, pretty impressive more than anything. Didn't surprise
22:09
Speaker 3: me because I know, but just impressive.
22:14
Speaker 1: This weekend at Silverstone is the seventy fifth anniversary. The
22:19
Speaker 1: celebration it's the Vintage Round, the Retro Round. At the
22:23
Speaker 1: time of recording this, we haven't seen any announcement of
22:27
Speaker 1: the liveries that we're going to see, So can you
22:29
Speaker 1: give us a little sneak peeker to what's happening on
22:32
Speaker 1: your bike this weekend?
22:34
Speaker 3: Not sure if I'm getting looked right now. I'm getting
22:38
Speaker 3: I'm getting looked right now. I don't think I can
22:40
Speaker 3: say anything, but I'd love to. I would love to,
22:43
Speaker 3: But I'm getting some pretty pretty mean stair doowns right now.
22:52
Speaker 2: But what's interesting. You want to make sure that you
22:58
Speaker 2: get another call up, really so, but we've been keep
23:00
Speaker 2: you on your best behavior. But just as a general concept,
23:03
Speaker 2: it really feels like this is resonated with a whole paddock,
23:06
Speaker 2: like everyone's got up for this. It's just one of
23:08
Speaker 2: those things that's come up at a particular time of year,
23:11
Speaker 2: and it feels like once one or two people or
23:13
Speaker 2: manufacturers committed, everyone's like, oh, we've got to do this too.
23:17
Speaker 2: And I guess the cool thing about this sport, and
23:18
Speaker 2: obviously you know it from a fan and being in
23:20
Speaker 2: a family and racing yourself, is there so much history
23:24
Speaker 2: and we're always moving on to the next season and
23:26
Speaker 2: the next thing. It's such a great thing for the
23:28
Speaker 2: sport to look back and celebrate its past because there's
23:31
Speaker 2: so many color schemes and styles and the way the
23:35
Speaker 2: racing looks. Now, I think that's the most exciting thing
23:38
Speaker 2: for all you guys to see what everyone else is doing.
23:41
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think.
23:43
Speaker 3: I mean when I heard it was happening, I was
23:45
Speaker 3: over the moon and that I could be joining this
23:48
Speaker 3: race to do it.
23:49
Speaker 4: So yeah.
23:50
Speaker 3: I also I've designed a special helmet as well from
23:54
Speaker 3: a past raider as well.
23:57
Speaker 4: I will say this is a Yamaha pass Raider. There
24:00
Speaker 4: you go, I'll give you that.
24:02
Speaker 2: No, Doney looks when you say that.
24:04
Speaker 3: No, I'll give you that. But and yeah, the letters
24:07
Speaker 3: are awesome. I mean, boots, everything just looks amazing. So yeah,
24:12
Speaker 3: I think it's really cool.
24:13
Speaker 4: I think.
24:15
Speaker 3: I think yea hopefully that all the teams were kind
24:17
Speaker 3: of on board with it because I think it's a
24:19
Speaker 3: really cool idea really cool concept. And you know, I
24:22
Speaker 3: like the classic stuff. I mean I just told you
24:24
Speaker 3: before about all my classic cars, so I don't actually
24:27
Speaker 3: have a new car, so yeah, I'm I'm the old school.
24:31
Speaker 3: I like old school stuff, so it's it's quite cool
24:33
Speaker 3: for me and that I can be joining me in
24:35
Speaker 3: this race when it's happening.
24:36
Speaker 1: Well, we were talking off camera earlier and were saying,
24:40
Speaker 1: you know, it would be cool if you had the sideburns.
24:43
Speaker 1: Is that what you call them, Matt, That the big
24:44
Speaker 1: big side burns, robbers, the big robbers poppers.
24:48
Speaker 3: Yeah.
24:49
Speaker 4: And the mullet, Yeah I had. I mean in Mizana.
24:52
Speaker 3: If you go and check photos from Hiszana this year,
24:55
Speaker 3: just the best mullet.
24:56
Speaker 4: Honestly, I was so proud of my mullet.
24:58
Speaker 2: It was sick.
24:59
Speaker 4: It was so long, black in the air. It was amazing.
25:03
Speaker 3: Yeah, the hairdresser cut a bit too much offen unfortunately,
25:06
Speaker 3: so yeah, it needs to go back.
25:09
Speaker 4: But my hair grows fast. You know, I think by
25:12
Speaker 4: the end of the year, I should have a decent molet.
25:14
Speaker 3: It again, the only thing I've got a wedding from
25:16
Speaker 3: like a very close family member, and I've been told
25:19
Speaker 3: that if I turn.
25:19
Speaker 4: Up with a mullet, I'll be basically kicked out.
25:22
Speaker 2: So that's what we've got photoshop for me. You'll be fine,
25:26
Speaker 2: just let just let it fly. But we're sort of
25:29
Speaker 2: talking about the retro side of things and sort of
25:32
Speaker 2: linking it back to where you are now. I'd be
25:33
Speaker 2: curious as to how you feel sort of the Motor
25:37
Speaker 2: GP paddock and the series feels of working in that
25:40
Speaker 2: environment compared to what you used to now in the
25:42
Speaker 2: day job at World Superbikes. Is there a significant difference
25:46
Speaker 2: between the two? I mean, we know Superbikes is generally
25:48
Speaker 2: a little bit more relaxed and probably less uptight than
25:50
Speaker 2: Motor GP is. But did you notice the difference between
25:53
Speaker 2: the two? And I guess there's an ancillary question to that.
25:56
Speaker 2: There's a lot of talker. Jack Miller may be ending
25:58
Speaker 2: up racing with you little bit more than he has
26:00
Speaker 2: this year in the short term future. So if Jack
26:04
Speaker 2: ends up in that superbike paddock, is that something that
26:06
Speaker 2: you could see him enjoying, because he strikes me as
26:09
Speaker 2: a guy who likes the racing more than the side
26:11
Speaker 2: show a lot of the time. It might be right
26:13
Speaker 2: up easally, Yeah, I mean the.
26:17
Speaker 3: Actual technical side and the sporting side is exactly the same.
26:24
Speaker 3: You know, inside the box. You know in the end
26:28
Speaker 3: you're there to do a job. You know you're still
26:29
Speaker 3: a professional rider and it's something you have to take serious.
26:32
Speaker 3: I mean, if you don't the levels so high now
26:34
Speaker 3: in superbikes, I mean the top ten are so fast now,
26:37
Speaker 3: you know, just if you're not.
26:39
Speaker 4: On top of your game, you're not taking it completely serious.
26:42
Speaker 4: You know you're going to be nowhere.
26:43
Speaker 3: So that from the sporting side of things, you have
26:46
Speaker 3: to be completely on it all the time and you
26:48
Speaker 3: have to be a professional rider and from Friday until
26:51
Speaker 3: Sunday give it your all. Otherwise, like I said, you
26:54
Speaker 3: can be nowhere. Let's see the media side and things
26:58
Speaker 3: like that. Yeah, definitely more chill, but for sure we
27:01
Speaker 3: still have some media obligations, which is all okay, and
27:04
Speaker 3: I think it's all part of the job. I think
27:06
Speaker 3: at this point in our careers, if we don't know
27:07
Speaker 3: how to manage that, you know, we shouldn't be here.
27:10
Speaker 4: So but yeah, I.
27:13
Speaker 3: Think, yeah, I'm not sure what's true or not about that.
27:16
Speaker 3: I haven't spoken to Jack, but yeah, I'm sure he'd
27:19
Speaker 3: enjoyed the bike. To actually ride the bike, it's actually
27:22
Speaker 3: quite fun.
27:24
Speaker 4: The Perellis are.
27:25
Speaker 3: Really forgiving, and the superbike moves around a lot more
27:28
Speaker 3: and it's actually really enjoyable and race as well. I mean,
27:33
Speaker 3: it's probably a bit easier to pass riders and have
27:37
Speaker 3: some nice battles on tracks.
27:38
Speaker 4: So as a.
27:39
Speaker 3: Racer it's definitely it's definitely a fun time on track,
27:42
Speaker 3: but yeah, we'll see. I mean I wish you know,
27:45
Speaker 3: the best of luck to Jack and search them for
27:47
Speaker 3: something for next year.
27:49
Speaker 2: While we're on that, I mean the rider market stuff.
27:52
Speaker 2: You would have been watching that from Afar this year.
27:54
Speaker 2: It was completely bonkers for about three weeks there, Like
27:57
Speaker 2: every time you look at your phones, I want to
27:59
Speaker 2: change to you or something was going on. It was
28:01
Speaker 2: completely mad, and obviously Jack got sort of caught out
28:04
Speaker 2: in the shuffle with all of that, with all the
28:05
Speaker 2: moving pieces. You've been in that KTM situation before, where
28:09
Speaker 2: you know, things that you thought were going to happen
28:11
Speaker 2: perhaps didn't. Do you perhaps sympathize a little bit with
28:13
Speaker 2: Jack's situation because one minute he was on a factory KTM,
28:17
Speaker 2: the next minute he was in line for a Tech
28:18
Speaker 2: three bike, and now he's still looking for a job
28:20
Speaker 2: two months later. I mean, you went through your own
28:23
Speaker 2: issues with that side of things with KTM. Did you
28:25
Speaker 2: sort of see any similarities there or feel any sympathy
28:27
Speaker 2: for him?
28:28
Speaker 3: I mean, after everything, after the years, you know, after let's.
28:32
Speaker 4: See the trend of what happens in KTM. I mean,
28:34
Speaker 4: that's you can't say it's surprising at all.
28:37
Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean I think for him as well,
28:42
Speaker 3: I think I wouldn't be completely surprised, you know, after
28:46
Speaker 3: you know, seeing a trend over five years of everything
28:48
Speaker 3: that's happened. So yeah, I mean, in the end, what
28:53
Speaker 3: can I say. He was in a factory team, I
28:55
Speaker 3: didn't he would make it that far. So he's done one.
28:58
Speaker 4: Better than me or ready.
29:00
Speaker 3: And and yeah, I mean he's had a great, great
29:03
Speaker 3: run already in MotoGP He's been around for ten years
29:06
Speaker 3: or something like nine years or something like that, so yeah,
29:09
Speaker 3: he's had he's had a great run. He's done an amazing,
29:12
Speaker 3: amazing career, had great results, and yeah, I think he
29:16
Speaker 3: could be proud of it if it does come to
29:18
Speaker 3: an end.
29:19
Speaker 4: But I'm not sure. I don't know what's going to happen.
29:21
Speaker 3: I'm not even in this paddock usually, so honestly, I
29:25
Speaker 3: don't even look at the I don't even look at
29:27
Speaker 3: the news anymore. Just I'm off riding motorbikes and duro
29:30
Speaker 3: or trials or whatever any we care.
29:34
Speaker 1: Well, let's bring it back to you. Then let's go
29:36
Speaker 1: back to Wilson. Wike's currently sitting P seven in at
29:39
Speaker 1: the championship. How do you feel the championship has been
29:42
Speaker 1: so far.
29:44
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think having a good having a good year.
29:47
Speaker 3: We're kind of fighting for that top five. We got
29:50
Speaker 3: Locker just in that top five. Unfortunately, I had a
29:53
Speaker 3: lot of bad luck in Australia in the first race,
29:56
Speaker 3: and yeah, we've only scored a small handful points unfortunately,
30:01
Speaker 3: and I think we had the potential to, you know,
30:03
Speaker 3: probably fight for the podium. So yeah, it was unfortunate
30:06
Speaker 3: there that we had a bit of a problem in
30:09
Speaker 3: Mommelo in the first race as well, and another bunch
30:11
Speaker 3: of points.
30:12
Speaker 4: But yeah, we've been hanging in there.
30:14
Speaker 3: We've been you know, climbing back and I think we've
30:17
Speaker 3: started the championship in tween twelve thirteen something like that,
30:20
Speaker 3: so yeah.
30:21
Speaker 4: We've been clawing back, and.
30:23
Speaker 3: Yeah, we managed to cloak the gap again in Moss
30:26
Speaker 3: and basically our our eyes are said on that on
30:29
Speaker 3: that top five position in the championship. It's not going
30:33
Speaker 3: to be easy for sure, but you know, hopefully we
30:35
Speaker 3: could keep it consistent and put in a good end
30:37
Speaker 3: of the year.
30:39
Speaker 2: Man, if only you could just go and go the
30:41
Speaker 2: hard reset button on Australia, I mean, you take that
30:43
Speaker 2: one out of the equation to the rest of it's
30:44
Speaker 2: been pretty much where you would want to be. I
30:46
Speaker 2: would say, but while we're talking about your current day
30:50
Speaker 2: job as opposed to your deputizing day job this weekend,
30:54
Speaker 2: I can't not ask you the top rack question because
30:57
Speaker 2: we've seen what he's doing at the moment. He's on
30:59
Speaker 2: a massive and you know, the marshal of the Margins
31:02
Speaker 2: and Victory have been absolutely crazy. There's been so much
31:04
Speaker 2: discussion on you know, would he go to BOT to GP,
31:07
Speaker 2: who would he go with? How well would he go there?
31:09
Speaker 2: You've raced against the guy now for a couple of years,
31:11
Speaker 2: and you also know what about a GP writer looks
31:13
Speaker 2: like because you were one and you are racing with
31:15
Speaker 2: them at the moment. Is he of a quality that
31:17
Speaker 2: he could do well in that series? And do you
31:20
Speaker 2: think it's going to happen or is it going to
31:22
Speaker 2: be something else that needs to happen to get him
31:24
Speaker 2: to go over because the talent's pretty undeniable.
31:27
Speaker 4: From where I was hitting, Yeah, I think for next year.
31:31
Speaker 3: I don't think so, because I think maybe I don't
31:34
Speaker 3: even know, but I've been told that BM came out
31:36
Speaker 3: and said no, he's going to stay with this one morning.
31:38
Speaker 3: I think even himself he said that, So I don't know,
31:42
Speaker 3: I don't Yeah, I don't know.
31:44
Speaker 4: I've been told that son. Don't take that my word
31:46
Speaker 4: on it as a writer. As his style right now,
31:55
Speaker 4: that style.
31:55
Speaker 3: In superbikes from R Mynergip wouldn't work, let's say. But
32:03
Speaker 3: I mean, obviously, i mean, look at the guy's talent.
32:05
Speaker 3: He's he's very talented, and I'm sure he can adapt
32:07
Speaker 3: and he'll be a fast rider on a GP bike
32:11
Speaker 3: I think, yeah, for sure. So maybe not gonna be overnight,
32:13
Speaker 3: but a bit of bit of testing and and a
32:16
Speaker 3: bit of experience and adaptation, I'm sure he could go
32:19
Speaker 3: pretty quick. Yeah, I mean, you know, look what he's
32:23
Speaker 3: doing on a superbike.
32:24
Speaker 4: Guys obviously no how to ride a motorcycle.
32:26
Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean, at the moment he's working with
32:29
Speaker 3: the BMW, it's it's working.
32:31
Speaker 4: Well, he's got the horsepower now that we wanted, always wanted,
32:34
Speaker 4: so yeah, it's it's definitely working.
32:38
Speaker 3: So at the moment, I'm just I'm actually beating his
32:43
Speaker 3: hisat times and things.
32:45
Speaker 4: Like that that he was sitting on the YMA, So
32:46
Speaker 4: I'm actually gotting faster than that. So I'm still here.
32:51
Speaker 4: I'm still here.
32:53
Speaker 3: Yeah, Unfortunately, everyone in superbikes has made a step and
32:56
Speaker 3: it doesn't seem like that anymore, you know, like we're
32:59
Speaker 3: actually that fast, you know, because you know, obviously the
33:02
Speaker 3: other manufacturers have made a big step this year and
33:05
Speaker 3: and they're on it. So yeah, at the moment, we're
33:10
Speaker 3: in our kind of own little race. But but yeah,
33:13
Speaker 3: we're trying to We're trying to do our best.
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Speaker 4: At what we've got.
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Speaker 1: Remie, I wanted to ask you, with these couple of
33:20
Speaker 1: filling rides that you've done with Yamaha Emoto GP, do
33:23
Speaker 1: you think it is kind of an audition process for
33:26
Speaker 1: you to come back or could we possibly see you
33:29
Speaker 1: back Emoto GP as a full time rider in the future.
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Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, I don't know.
33:35
Speaker 3: I haven't known any nothing's been tend to me, so
33:40
Speaker 3: you know, if you even know more, not more than me,
33:42
Speaker 3: But at the moment of the sist I think a
33:45
Speaker 3: filling ride to get a bit more data and and
33:48
Speaker 3: a bit more yeah, and maybe different comment from a
33:51
Speaker 3: different rider on the bike, to to try and move
33:53
Speaker 3: forward with maybe the bike in the project, which is
33:56
Speaker 3: you know, ultimately I think what what Yah Mahamed right now,
33:58
Speaker 3: and yeah, I mean, you never know, in the future
34:01
Speaker 3: that could be opportunities. And I'm still young, you know,
34:05
Speaker 3: still twenty six, and yeah I'm still fast. It looks
34:09
Speaker 3: like so yeah.
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Speaker 4: Hopefully, yeah, you never know.
34:13
Speaker 3: In the future, we'll see, but at the moment, there's nothing,
34:17
Speaker 3: nothing on the table.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, we're so excited to have you back in
34:22
Speaker 1: the Paddock on the grid again this weekend. It's so
34:25
Speaker 1: cool for us Aussies having two Aussies that we can support.
34:29
Speaker 1: We know all of Australia is behind you. Best of
34:32
Speaker 1: luck this weekend. We can't wait to see that unveiling
34:35
Speaker 1: of your retrolivery and also see you out on track.
34:38
Speaker 4: Yeah, me too, also, I can't wait. Thanks guys, appreciate it.
34:44
Speaker 1: Matt. What did you take from that chat with Remy?
34:49
Speaker 2: I don't know about you, Ranta, but it said to
34:51
Speaker 2: me like Remy's a guy who isn't necessarily mentally finished
34:55
Speaker 2: with Bono GP as he said, you know, I'm twenty six,
34:58
Speaker 2: I'm still fast, and that was quite interesting. So obviously
35:03
Speaker 2: there's still a bit of a flickering flame for him there.
35:06
Speaker 2: I mean, he was he left MotoGP pretty bitter at
35:09
Speaker 2: the end. Of twenty two. Things certainly didn't go the
35:12
Speaker 2: way he wants them to after the highs of winning
35:14
Speaker 2: that Motor two title in twenty one and the whole
35:17
Speaker 2: Motor GP experience and the experience with KTM certainly wasn't
35:20
Speaker 2: what he wanted. And I did about you, but I
35:22
Speaker 2: thought that was kind of interesting when we put it
35:25
Speaker 2: to him about Jack Miller's situation with KTM. Obviously Jack
35:28
Speaker 2: had said, you know, don't take any calls, don't sign anything.
35:30
Speaker 2: We've still got something for you, and then nothing happened.
35:33
Speaker 2: And the smile on Rebby's face and the comments that
35:36
Speaker 2: he made about that, it's like, yeah, this feels like
35:38
Speaker 2: a story I've read before. I don't know about you,
35:39
Speaker 2: but that's the way I saw it.
35:42
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, it was really interesting, and it's typical Rammy.
35:45
Speaker 1: He's cool as a cucumber, right, and it seems like
35:48
Speaker 1: he's back to himself. And when we did see him
35:50
Speaker 1: in that final year on the KTM, you could just
35:53
Speaker 1: see the frustration I'm going to call it frustration in
35:56
Speaker 1: his face. And now it seems like he's really enjoying
35:59
Speaker 1: Welsis and the relaxed part of the paddock and the calendar,
36:04
Speaker 1: but he's enjoying these film rides with Yamaha as.
36:07
Speaker 2: Well massively, so I think, you know, he's really landed
36:10
Speaker 2: in a good place. He's probably rediscovered his love for
36:13
Speaker 2: everything around racing, not just the racing again. But you
36:16
Speaker 2: know what I found really interesting was when we were
36:18
Speaker 2: talking about how the game has changed since twenty twenty two,
36:21
Speaker 2: and he just said, there's so many fast guys. And
36:24
Speaker 2: I think this every week when you look at Motor GP,
36:27
Speaker 2: if you're six and a half tenths off the pace,
36:28
Speaker 2: you're probably on the back row. I mean, the gap
36:30
Speaker 2: between first and last now and Motor GP is completely crazy.
36:34
Speaker 2: And that's why we're having this fantastic season because you've
36:37
Speaker 2: got really really high level riders on a field that's
36:40
Speaker 2: really concerting it over the years, and I guess that's
36:42
Speaker 2: why we love it exactly.
36:44
Speaker 1: Like talking about the current grid, you know, the Honda
36:47
Speaker 1: and the Yamahas, they are doing faster lap times this
36:50
Speaker 1: year than they are last year and they're still at
36:52
Speaker 1: the back. So that just shows you how much the Ducantes,
36:55
Speaker 1: if really the Ketms have also advanced compared to last season.
37:00
Speaker 1: You said, this year is so exciting in Moto GP
37:03
Speaker 1: and we just can't wait to get back on track
37:05
Speaker 1: this weekend at Silverston for the British Grand Prix. But
37:09
Speaker 1: I think that pretty much wraps up our chat about
37:13
Speaker 1: Moto GP pit talk for this episode. We will be
37:16
Speaker 1: back after the British Grand Prix to talk and hopefully
37:19
Speaker 1: see if any of our predictions came true about maybe
37:22
Speaker 1: Mark marc Has taking his victory or Peco taking his
37:25
Speaker 1: fifth win in a row. But don't forget, guys, that
37:28
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