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Motorcycle Championships around the world discussed in S5 Ep 25 · B 4EVA Kool "Race A Motorcycle" Podcast

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  Welcome back to another edition of the Be Forever Cool podcast.
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  My name is Rex 45. Tonight we got the real Luis
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  Ortega. We got Reese from Attack Yamaha
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  Performance. We got TJ from 2 Wheels and
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  Coffee. What's going on, fellas?
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  How's everyone doing? Let's start with TJ.
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  You know, got a whole week off of Reese and then you know,
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  refresh the September 1st. You know, it's still cool up
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  here. Something is over, like I said,
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  but I'm excited get back to watching Moto VP8 World Super
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  Bike and then following weak Moto America.
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  It's getting tight end of the year racing so looking forward
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  to it. Yeah, it's a lot cold up there,
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  man. I was just up there.
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  I just got back this morning and I had the heat on over the
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  weekend. I went to a, a, a a party for,
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  for some of the fellas I know. Shout out to the big D crew.
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  And you know, it was, it was chilly up in Boston, man.
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  I don't know what's going on, but it wasn't usually this cold,
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  that cold up there. But it was a little chilly, man.
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  So did you put the bike up yet? Are you?
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  Are you, are you going to wait it out?
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  Oh no, no, I, I ride until it gets at least 40° or you started
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  got to put on heated gear and stuff like that.
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  But you know, joyriding, let's say is not as much, you know,
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  can't, can't go joyriding. You know it's just A to B
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  really. Got you.
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  Is that is is joyriding a code for you?
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  You're working a lot. You know, I mean, you can't
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  really joyride on the streets, man, that now knowing the track
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  and stuff like that, like the ground's cold, you can't really
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  do much, you know, so. That's what's up, Reese, man,
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  what's going on? How you doing where you are in
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  the world? You know, you got a few zip
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  codes I think. Yeah, man, you know, out here in
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  Oregon heading down to Huntington Beach, but you know,
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  living the life, man. Can't complain.
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  Just finished testing so now they're in Podium Club so we're
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  good to go. I was going to say, I mean, you
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  know, if it was any other time in the year, you might be able
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  to say you can complain, but you you boys are you guys are you
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  guys are right there. So we're going to dive into it
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  and see how things are progressing.
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  There's a few more rounds left and and a lot of races actually.
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  So you know, we'll dive into that.
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  Lewis, what's good, man? How you doing man?
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  I'm good, I'm good. I'm here and also in California,
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  where Reese is headed. I'm here for a few days for work
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  and yeah, that's it here in another wonderful shitty motel
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  somewhere. Come on, man, as you know, isn't
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  that life just a wonderful, you know, And then I, I have you.
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  I mean, you must have gotten to the point where you forget which
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  room you're in, your room number, right?
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  Let's put it this way, I've traveled so much that I've been
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  in the same room multiple times in different states.
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  Like I've been doing the road thing for a long time, not just
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  in this industry, but in other industries.
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  And when you travel to similar cities, you if I go to a city
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  that I've never been to before, I book one night only at a hotel
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  just in case that hotel sucks. I don't have to stay there the
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  entire stay. And after that first night, if
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  it's good, then I'll book additional nights.
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  If not, I'll book one night at another hotel.
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  So these are the little things you learn as you live on the
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  road is you know how to find good places to stay, good places
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  to eat. So I have a map of like
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  everywhere I travel, like where I should stay.
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  OK, all right, So you know you got, do you have a guitar case
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  full with stickers on it? No, no, no, no, I don't.
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  I don't try to make it too obvious, but I got a lot of
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  miles on my American Airlines frequent flyer.
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  That's what's up, man. You know, we got we'll we'll
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  book a trip later this year somewhere.
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  I got some points too. Speaking of points and trips,
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  you know, between world super bike, Moto GP, Moto America and
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  I'm pretty sure there's a lot of other racing that are either
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  ending or coming close to the end of the season and stuff like
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  that. It's been a long time that Moto
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  GP, World Super Bike and World America, you know, been coming
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  down to the wire as far as the last few races and stuff like
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  that. So let's talk about Moto GP
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  first, because that's kind of and we talk about the Super
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  Sport classes as well, not just like the Super Bike class or the
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  GP class, you know as well. But let's talk about Moto GP
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  first, because it looks like Marquez, if he continues his
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  run, he could wrap it up as soon as Mezano.
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  Looking at the numbers is ridiculous.
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  You know, looking at that series, you know, I, I know I've
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  asked a bunch of times, but this is a show.
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  So I got to ask again just in case the people who have not
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  watched the show before. But is there any chance in in
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  hell that anybody can catch Marquez?
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  We'll start with DJ. Absolutely not.
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  Absolutely not. I mean, at this point, I mean
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  they had up until the summer break to, to try to get close to
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  try something. I mean, you can see the numbers
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  we we signed like he's gotten P1 or P2 in every session
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  throughout and there's no catching him.
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  Not at all. Yeah, I what are what are your
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  thoughts Reese? Any catching him?
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  Is it his to? I mean at this point I mean he
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  could probably take a few rounds off, at least 4 rounds off and
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  and probably still win. No, this, this is game over.
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  I mean, to be that far ahead in points and what is it?
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  I think he can have the most points in Moto GP history.
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  I mean, that's it's kind of game over.
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  I mean, what are we? What are we really watching in
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  second and third place now? Lewis man, does that make it
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  kind of not as fun to watch for the average, you know, fan?
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  I know we're going to watch because we, we, we, we like all
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  the technical stuff and all the stuff that most people don't see
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  and all that fun stuff, so. No, I don't think it makes it
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  less enjoyable for the fans because you got to remember
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  there's been other dominant riders throughout the years that
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  clinched the championship earlier in the season or
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  clinched the championship with three or four rounds to go.
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  And people still watch. There's still excitement and
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  watching racing, you know, in the actual event, in the actual
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  drama of of Q1Q2, the Sprint race, the actual race, there's
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  still a lot to see. I mean, you know, you watch
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  football games when teams are, you know, have no chance to go
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  into the playoffs. You still go to watch those same
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  football games even though they're irrelevant to the bigger
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  picture because as individual events, they're entertaining
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  events. Every single event is an
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  entertaining event for the people that are numbers watchers
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  that are just going to see who's going to win the championship.
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  Yeah, maybe for them it's not that exciting.
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  But I, I think as again, individual experiential events,
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  every single race is for me, very, very exciting because
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  there's, you know, every race has something on the line.
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  You or, you know, anytime you put your helmet on, whether it's
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  in Formula One or Moto GP or any type of Motorsports, you know,
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  anything had happened. And, and you watch for the drama
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  because anything can happen. You know, on any given day,
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  maybe somebody that nobody thought we could win a race,
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  could win a race. You know, if you didn't watch
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  that Austria race a couple years ago where Brad Bender won it on
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  slicks in the rain, you missed an incredible event and then you
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  kicked yourself in the ass for not watching.
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  I didn't watch it because I figured XYZ person was going to
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  win anyway, you know, So I, I think it, the viewership will
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  stay high, the drama will continue.
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  And I think now maybe people, at least on the Moto GP side will
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  switch over to looking at it as how many points can this guy
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  make? Because right now at the way
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  he's going with four rounds left, he'll, he'll beat the all
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  time points record with still 4 rounds left.
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  So he could pad that number. So now, you know, not only does
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  he win the championship, but maybe he sets a bar so high that
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  maybe nobody ever reaches that point again.
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  Because this level of dominance doesn't come by very often.
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  And if I look through the field, everybody that's currently in
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  the field, I don't see anybody in the field right now that's
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  ever going to be as dominant as Mark Marquette.
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  And I don't see anybody in Moto 2 right now that's ever going to
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  be as dominant as Mark Marques. I guess it's going to be a long
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  time before another Mark Marques or Alien comes along that can do
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  what he's doing. You know, this is like, this is
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  seriously other level. This is Michael Jordan at the
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  peak of his game. This is Tom Brady at the peak of
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  his game. These are all like the best
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  athletes in the world when they're at that point where they
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  seem unbeatable, like they, you know, auras around them.
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  It's like, holy shit, like this dude can't, he should be
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  crashing every corner, but he's winning every race.
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  Like how's he doing? So, yeah, Reese and and TJ, you
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  just heard what Lewis said about no one in the paddock.
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  What does a new era or new Marc Marquez look like?
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  Because, you know, Alonzo's looking good.
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  You know, you see Alda gear is looking good, Acosta, they're
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  looking good. These are all guys that have
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  some potential, you know. Do you guys agree with with what
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  Lewis is saying as far as it's going to be a long time or do
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  you see some of these guys, if they get the right one and two,
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  you know, three, you know, advice, they may be able to do
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  what Marquez is doing. I mean, I think Pedro Costa
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  probably be the closest one right now because if it's
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  driving focus, you just got to get, you know, past that the
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  skill level is that you know, to, you know, get more podiums
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  than dial down. But I think he'd probably be the
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  closest one. It's hard to say because, you
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  know, March and you know, like before Rossi, like they had a
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  little significance to them and like changing up things that
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  way, celebrations and all that good stuff.
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  So I don't see that in any of the riders really.
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  Sounds like Zarko when he does back flips.
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  So I mean, I'll say Pedro's probably the closest one out of
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  gear and all of them are still learning.
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  So yeah, it's like like Luce was saying this, this is something
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  that we ain't going to see in a long time.
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  I'm sure. You know, dominance like this,
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  unless, you know, Pekko can step it up a little bit because we
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  got 2 championships and he's still in the mix.
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  But yeah, I don't know. It's just going to be
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  interesting to see how many points Mark can come out with
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  and and set the bar high. And and and have a different
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  legacy than Rashi Gray. The next way.
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  That's what's up. What are your thoughts, Reese?
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  I mean, to be honest, I mean. I.
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  I don't think we'll see it in a long time.
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  I mean, you got to look at Marcus.
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  He has set the bar so high and he's like the last of the dying
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  breed of an alien as you used to call him.
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  So to have somebody like him come along, that's just once in
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  a blue moon. And I mean, normally when you
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  see that person coming along, you'll see it from Moto 3 to
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  Moto 2 to Moto GP. And I just don't see it coming
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  up just right now someone in his caliber or to his level to
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  actually do that. I mean, he has been in the era
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  of where the riders were dominant.
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  You have Rossi, Dolby, Pedrosa, you had the whole the whole gang
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  out there and he was out there with them.
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  So to to that level of his riding capability.
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  I don't think we'll see it for a long period of time.
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  I think it'll be another 10 plus years before we see it.
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  OK, all right, it seems like it, man.
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  I mean, only time will tell for these riders and stuff like
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  that. Let's jump into Moto 2GO ahead.
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  If Mark, if Mark were to run the table from here to the end of
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  the year, let's say you know everything.
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  The stars align and he sweeps the table from here to the end
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  of the year. 16 O wins. He'll end up with 751 points.
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  We won't see somebody hit 751 points again unless they go to a
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  three race weekend format and every race is worth 25 points
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  like that's that's how crazy it could be.
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  If he runs the table, man, if he runs the table from here now,
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  he'll have over 750 points. That's, that's, that's playing
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  the game on easy mode, You know, it's crazy.
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  Well, I, I hope there's some fighters out there in the Moto
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  GP paddock. I, I think they're, they're a
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  couple, but it's been looking like the Marquette show for sure
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  all year. Let's talk about Moto 2
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  championship. You got Gonzales, you got
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  Connett and Diego Mariro. Mariro, you know, I don't want
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  Jinx connect. I know TJ connects your boy.
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  I like him too. I wish he had more wins.
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  You know, he he's only had two win.
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  He had what, one win this year, which is, you know, plus because
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  he's usually coming in second, he's had he's gone to podium
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  five times. Gonzalez four wins, been on the
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  podium nine time. Maria, who's who's starting is
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  coming to his own right now. Could be the dark horse that
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  that steals it. Second year in in the Moto 2
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  paddock. Let's talk about that, that
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  championship. It's a lot closer, you know,
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  there's 8 rounds left. It's only there's no Sprint in
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  Moto 2. So 25 points, I believe is, is
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  is the top points that they can get.
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  So we got we got 200 points to give away.
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  How is it looking in, in, in in Moto 2?
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  And I feel like Gonzalez is for him to lose because he and he's
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  been, you know, doing having some mishap these last few
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  rounds and still on top. But for your thoughts, TJ?
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  Yeah, man, I I want to see Kinetz finally pull it off.
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  I mean, he's like the dark horse, you know?
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  I feel like everyone's always against him and.
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  It's. Unlucky as well.
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  Sometimes I don't understand where like the mistakes that
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  happened, but you also got to say that it's Moto 2, man.
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  Like they're like they're all on the same machine and and it's
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  like any given Sunday with with Moto 2.
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  But Gonzalez has been riding really well.
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  Yeah, what a third, third place and didn't finish in a third
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  place. But you know, Moreira is one
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  that, you know, looking out for as well because he's he's
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  creeping and he's not far behind.
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  So it's just really a toss up between these three.
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  It's going to be challenging, I'm sure.
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  I know as I get to the end. You can I'm sure that your your
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  your adrenaline and and like your focus, like everything gets
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  so tense that it's like you don't want to make a mistake and
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  it's easier to make a mistake at that point.
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  So it's going to be interesting in the last, but rooting for
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  Canadian. Oh yeah, I feel yeah, man, I'm
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  rooting for him as well. I think it's a it'll be a come
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  up for Maria Gonzalez. I mean, he did it in in Super
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  sport. He signed for another year in
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  Moto 2 and it, he seems like, you know, he, he wants to be
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  like Top Rock in a sense. What are your thoughts, Reese,
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  on on what's going on in Moto 2 and who has the most to lose out
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  of these three guys? I mean, Gonzalez has the most to
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  lose, I believe. I mean, he's there.
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  I mean, it's his to lose. I mean, he needs to just you're
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  pretty much just managing. That's what he needs to do is
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  just manage himself and manage the points more.
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  I mean, Morera, he's if he can get his his self together to
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  actually do what he do when he has the used tires, the worn
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  tires and do it in the beginning when the tires are new.
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  I mean, he's he's going to be a deadly person.
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  I mean, he's going to be something that will keep an eye
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  out for on the upcoming, but he's he they said he's better
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  when the tires are worn down, but if he could do that on new
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  tires, he'll be he'll be absolutely great.
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  And then with connect, I mean, TJI know that's your boy, but I
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  mean I'm looking at connect like a like a Venialis man for real,
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  like, you know, he's a hit or a miss.
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  He's he's. I was.
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  Going to talk about he don't he don't complain.
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  Remember. He don't complain he just may
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  hit your break break when you go by you.
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  So I mean, I, I like connect, but man, that boy is just he is
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  either hit or miss. He's like, Jesus Christ, man,
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  what are you doing? That's I like them, But I mean,
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  you got to be just I know that's what winning.
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  Winning is nothing but consistency.
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  If you can be consistent, consistently on the podium,
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  consistently in the top three, you have a more you have the
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  obligation to chance to win the championship.
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  But just falling back there to the to the jungle, as you call
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  it in the back, you, you don't have a, you don't have a chance.
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  Is, isn't he like the, I don't want to say the prototype writer
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  for what teams would want in the sense that he lays it on the
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  line 100% all the time. And maybe laying it on the line
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  100% all the time is not smart because sometimes you have to
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  make decisions. I mean, you know, isn't he the
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  kind of rider that most teams would want, though?
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  I mean, he is, he's he's what you want as you're going to lay
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  it out there on the line, you're going to put it out there on the
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  line. But then again, we're, you know,
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  as a team member myself, you know, I mean, the attitude, man,
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  that's just one thing. And then the stupidness that you
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  actually do that's going to hurt you.
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  It's all what you do on the outside too.
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  It's not just what you do on the track.
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  It's how you carry yourself on the outside and saying what we
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  have to carry ourselves. I mean, it's the way you carry
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  yourself when you're just out and about, you're just walking
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  around or you with the team. Yeah, OK.
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  I, that's, I, I'm hearing you, you hear all that, Lewis, what
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  are your thoughts, man? I, you know, it's, it's a close
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  race, you know, you know, I, you heard Reese say Gonzales has a
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  lot to lose, but I think Connett has the most, he's the, he's
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  the, he's been in Moto 2 the longest and has at least the
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  show for it. I mean, I think, I think they
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  both have a lot to lose. I mean, obviously Gonzales has
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  the the champ he has. I'm not going to say he has one
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  hand on the championship. He probably has like 2 fingers
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  on the championship right now because he's in the drop.
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  He's got the most wins, he's got the most wins, he's got the most
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  podiums. He tends to be a little bit more
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  consistent than Connect overall, especially over the last three
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  races, he's definitely been way more consistent than Connect.
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  They both had some DNFS in the last three races, but even
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  Moreira had ADNF in the last three races.
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  Right. But just to jump in, I think for
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  Gonzales his DNFS was more mechanical.
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  Yeah, no, it wasn't, it wasn't, it wasn't him crashing or
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  anything. It was mechanical.
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  So that's, but again, you win as a team, you lose as a team.
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  So whether you crash the bike or the bike blows up, it's the same
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  thing. Man is the DNF system goes in as
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  a DNF. So I think he probably has the
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  most to lose, but he also is in the best position.
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  He's in the lead already and he knows that he's got the speed to
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  be there. His stats already show it from
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  the first half of the year. And now that we're down to the
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  last eight races, I think he in the next couple of races will be
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  his moment to shine. Because if he can put that extra
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  pressure on the two guys behind him by just finishing in front
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  of them, he doesn't have to win. He just has to finish in front
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  of them. Keep that points gap alive.
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  That's all he has to do, you know, from here on out, he can
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  manage it. And this is where I think
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  Moreira is a little bit different than Connect.
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  Connect in that position will fold faster than a Chinese lady
• 20:26
  hocked up on all the coffee in the world because he starts to
• 20:32
  worry about winning when he should be worrying about
• 20:35
  bringing it home, bringing it home in front of the guy that
• 20:38
  you need to be. You know, put don't put yourself
• 20:41
  in a position where you're going to crash or you're going to be
• 20:43
  in a bad spot in the track. Get in the front, stay in front,
• 20:47
  manage to race, don't do anything stupid.
• 20:50
  And I think, you know, considering where Moreira's
• 20:53
  coming from, I think he has a really good attitude to do that.
• 20:56
  With that said, I think Moreira will finish ahead of connect at
• 21:00
  the end of this year. Gonzalez a win, but Moreira will
• 21:03
  finish in front of Connect only because Moreira's already coming
• 21:06
  off last year, a championship. He knows what it's like to lead
• 21:10
  at the front and be at the end of the season and manage those
• 21:14
  extra points and he's got nothing to lose.
• 21:17
  He's a rookie. Even we toss it down the road.
• 21:19
  You know what your rookie is supposed to do that the fact
• 21:22
  you're in 3rd place and you're only a few points behind a guy
• 21:24
  that's been in Moto 2 for like 17 years, like beat his ass.
• 21:29
  There's no reason why you can't beat him.
• 21:30
  You're only what, 6-7 points behind him at this point?
• 21:34
  6 points behind, dude. That's that's that's not even a
• 21:37
  podium. That's Connect finishing 12th
• 21:39
  and him finishing 7th. So yeah, I wasn't.
• 21:45
  Sure that Marrero was a rookie. I thought he was in the second
• 21:47
  year. But you, you might be.
• 21:48
  Yeah, he's a Rook. He's a, he's a Rook that's.
• 21:51
  He won the Moto 3 championship last year and moved up to Moto
• 21:54
  2. Yeah.
• 21:55
  So that's even pretty impressive to to be to be a rookie.
• 22:00
  I mean, 'cause I don't even think Pedro was fighting for the
• 22:03
  the championship in his at his rookie year like he did in the
• 22:06
  second year out of these three guys.
• 22:10
  And I'll put this all to you, Which one of these guys are
• 22:13
  taking their teammates to dinner and and bringing their bags just
• 22:18
  to help them out within the races for the next 8 rounds?
• 22:21
  Or is it all up to them to kind of bring it home on their own?
• 22:27
  No, you have to bring it home as a team.
• 22:29
  You know the mechanics, everybody, your data guy,
• 22:32
  everybody that's in that garage with you.
• 22:34
  Even though they're not riding the bike with you, they're a
• 22:37
  part of the bike with you. You know, the, the guy that's
• 22:40
  tuning the bike for you, your data guy, your chassis guy, All
• 22:43
  of these people are working to make sure that you're in the
• 22:45
  best position possible to win. Well, these three guys,
• 22:50
  honestly, I think Moreira is probably the most likely to be
• 22:53
  the most humble about it because he's in a position that he
• 22:57
  shouldn't be in. And I'm sure that the team
• 23:00
  helped him get in that position. You know, he's probably worked a
• 23:03
  lot by himself getting physically ready, getting
• 23:06
  mentally readily looking at tape, learning, understanding
• 23:09
  the data, the differences on a Moto 2 bike.
• 23:13
  And I'm sure the team has, you know, got people sitting with
• 23:15
  him constantly in between every session, going through every bit
• 23:18
  of data to see where he can find a couple of tents here and there
• 23:22
  and take a corner a little bit different.
• 23:23
  And I'm sure he's got a rider coach that's out of different
• 23:26
  corners, seeing how he's taking the line and helping them
• 23:28
  adjust. Like these guys at this level
• 23:31
  have a lot of people helping them and, and you have to be
• 23:34
  very grateful for everybody that helps you because the Moto GP
• 23:38
  paddock looks big from the outside, but from the inside,
• 23:41
  it's like the Moto America paddock.
• 23:43
  Everybody knows each other. And if you start coming across
• 23:48
  the wrong way, it just, it just decreases your, your stock.
• 23:53
  So these younger guys are always looking to be, to stay humble,
• 23:56
  stay hungry, but stay humble and stuff like that.
• 23:59
  At a certain point they lose their humbleness, some of them
• 24:02
  and become kind of Dicks. Pedro Acosta, for instance, like
• 24:05
  he's got a lot of dickishness to him, you know, I just hate to
• 24:09
  say it. He comes across that way a lot.
• 24:11
  You know, the way that he talks sometimes, the way he goes to
• 24:14
  the box sometimes and and loses his temper and this and that.
• 24:17
  I understand it's the heat of the moment.
• 24:19
  But you know, I look at that myself.
• 24:22
  If I went home and something happened and I walked in my
• 24:25
  house and I told my mom, man, fuck this.
• 24:27
  And before I'm throwing shit, I get that my ass beat.
• 24:30
  Right. But you know when, when you've
• 24:32
  been, when you've been winning your whole life, you don't know
• 24:35
  that other side. He says I haven't been winning.
• 24:42
  Rossi was the same way. Lorenzo was the same way.
• 24:48
  Everybody, everybody wants to win.
• 24:50
  But you know, you, you always have to keep your temper in
• 24:54
  check because you're not just working for this employer.
• 24:57
  You got to think about the next employer because there's no
• 25:00
  guarantee you're going to stay with this company for more than
• 25:02
  another year or when your contracts over, it might be over
• 25:04
  and you get labeled as that problem child.
• 25:07
  If you get labeled as that person that's difficult to work
• 25:10
  with, it becomes more difficult to find a job, even if you are
• 25:13
  the most talented rider in the world.
• 25:15
  There's a lot of talented riders sitting home right now.
• 25:17
  We'll talk about Andrea Yonone in a little bit, who's got all
• 25:21
  the talent in the world. One man is about to be forced
• 25:24
  into retirement. Why?
• 25:27
  He got a little bit too much dickness in him, yeah.
• 25:29
  There's some places he can go in a world or go ride if he wants
• 25:32
  they'll. He might be going to the baggage
• 25:33
  championship. That's that might be the only
• 25:36
  ride he gets and he can still make something from his name.
• 25:39
  But again, his reputation, the things that he's done, missing
• 25:42
  out on practices, you know, doing all these things that were
• 25:47
  detrimental to the teams he worked on, Dude, that's a lot of
• 25:50
  baggage to carry into your 30s. You know, it's not a lot when
• 25:53
  you're in your 20s and your fast, but when your 30s man,
• 25:57
  they just, I mean this is the Moto GP is the Leonard Leonardo
• 26:00
  DiCaprio racing man. Once you get a certain age, I
• 26:03
  got to move on to a new bitch that's younger.
• 26:07
  Yeah, there's some of that man. There's some of that.
• 26:09
  TJ, what are your thoughts on on?
• 26:12
  I know Lewis mentioned the team and everything like that.
• 26:15
  What about the other riders? Connett's teammate, Gonzales
• 26:18
  teammate, Marrero's teammate. You think they they, they're
• 26:20
  going to get in the the fight and get in the way of these guys
• 26:23
  and stuff like that? I do even have the pace to, to
• 26:26
  even be upfront to even, I mean, we Baltus, right, Because Baltus
• 26:30
  is probably the closest one. He's in fourth place.
• 26:32
  So Connett might have a little bit of help you.
• 26:36
  You think these his teammates are going to help out any?
• 26:40
  I mean, not really, I don't think so.
• 26:44
  I mean, I mean, lately we've just been seeing what Marrero, I
• 26:49
  mean, we've been seeing bolts up there, but his last last result
• 26:52
  was 12th and 7th. So I mean, I know Catalonia is a
• 26:58
  pretty fast track and it's I don't know, I don't think he's
• 27:04
  not getting much help for sure. But I know Anshu has had a good
• 27:10
  result this past couple and let's see if he had T But as far
• 27:16
  as the team mates trying to step in a way to get in in front of
• 27:19
  Gonzalez or murder, I don't see that.
• 27:23
  OK, All right, that's what's. Up all comes down to the the
• 27:25
  qualifying though, you know, so like that's that's they kind of
• 27:29
  hopefully just get out to a good start as a team.
• 27:31
  You have a good setup. I mean, sometimes the team don't
• 27:34
  have a good setup, but the rider is, you know, rise around it and
• 27:38
  still can get a good time. So hopefully they have a good
• 27:42
  setup to disappear. Does Canet have a teammate or
• 27:46
  he's on A1 by team? No, he has a teammate, Baltus.
• 27:50
  He's also on Fanatic Fantic as well.
• 27:53
  Barry Baltus. Oh, he is, Yeah, yeah.
• 27:55
  But then right behind him is Viente.
• 27:59
  Oh yeah, they're not on the same team.
• 28:00
  No, they're not on the same team.
• 28:02
  So yeah, I'll, I'll save the team question Reese when we
• 28:05
  start talking Moto America, because even even the thick of
• 28:08
  things, and I don't want you to double talk to yourself between
• 28:11
  Moto GP Moto America. But let me let let let let me
• 28:18
  ask this because you know, Lewis had brought up a good point
• 28:21
  about, you know, the the asshole nest of riders and addictness of
• 28:25
  riders and stuff like that. Maria on Connect, you know,
• 28:28
  they're similar in the sense that they, you know, they both
• 28:31
  will fight for position. They, they, they then they're
• 28:34
  not scared of the, the battle and stuff like that.
• 28:36
  But in history, throughout history of Connect, he's always
• 28:40
  been on the losing side of that when he tried to fight where
• 28:43
  Maria has always had the upper hand.
• 28:45
  Outside of that, you know, who do you think has the better
• 28:49
  chance? Or you just go to history?
• 28:58
  I mean, I'm going to have to go to morale.
• 28:59
  I didn't. Hear that question, he wants to
• 29:05
  know, is Connect going to fold like a cheap suit?
• 29:09
  My, my, my phone, my phone was exactly my phone was breaking up
• 29:13
  I missed. That I could have said it like
• 29:14
  that too connected hold like a cheap suit or you know, he he's
• 29:19
  going to be Rudy and bring and bring one home.
• 29:25
  I mean, I'm going to have to go on Marrera in that battle.
• 29:28
  I mean, Marrera, you know, like Lewis said, he's very humble.
• 29:32
  But Connect wants to win, which we all, everybody wants to win.
• 29:36
  But in the same sense, if you know that, hey, I need to bring
• 29:39
  the most points home, Connect doesn't understand that concept
• 29:42
  yet. You need to win.
• 29:44
  Yeah, you want to win. But if it's not today, the best
• 29:47
  sense is just to gain the most maximum points.
• 29:50
  You can not throw it down a down a chute and now you got to crash
• 29:55
  fast or a parts list going down, you know, and that's, that's
• 29:59
  Canet's problem. And then he just wants to win
• 30:01
  and he wants to push and bang up on people.
• 30:04
  And I'm like, no, that's not what you need to do.
• 30:06
  Just gain the most maximum points you can do your best
• 30:08
  effort and, and bring it home safe and sound where we can go
• 30:11
  home and gain the most points. And that's that's the best sense
• 30:14
  in that case. And I think Moreira has the
• 30:16
  better chance of that instead of Canet.
• 30:19
  Well, we're going to see man and we'll we'll circle back to this
• 30:22
  as this weekend is coming up in Cataluna.
• 30:24
  Let's jump over the world super bike because like I said,
• 30:26
  there's a lot of championships. We got to talk about super bike
• 30:31
  between Top Rock and and Bulaga. It doesn't seem like there's
• 30:35
  anyone else that may push up close to those guys in the
• 30:39
  championship, which is which is, you know, that's a whole
• 30:41
  different story. There's 4 rounds left of of
• 30:46
  World Super Bike, so it's getting close.
• 30:50
  What are your thoughts? You guys think that top rack and
• 30:52
  defend it? Do you think that Bulliger just
• 30:55
  need to just run his race and not worry about the championship
• 30:58
  this year? Because next year, and probably
• 31:01
  the next few years, it's it's, it's his to lose.
• 31:07
  No, I think, I think Buller going somewhere now, I mean, you
• 31:11
  know, to to beat someone who is the champ, that means a lot too.
• 31:15
  So he's he's definitely been trying.
• 31:18
  You can see it all year. He didn't want to go through any
• 31:23
  mistakes. When he did, he showed it.
• 31:26
  But I think he still wants to put in the fight to try to win
• 31:28
  the championship, which, you know, you just got to finish up
• 31:33
  on a top rack. That's all, which is not easy
• 31:36
  said and done. But I know once top rack goes to
• 31:40
  Moto GP, I'm sure it's all Booga show for for, you know, maybe a
• 31:45
  couple of years. We'll see.
• 31:46
  But I think he definitely wants to put the fight into the end of
• 31:51
  the season. He's only down a couple points
• 31:52
  anyway 20262826. 26 My bad. Yeah, 26.
• 32:02
  Yeah, you can pull it out. Yeah, I, I, I hope so.
• 32:06
  Reece, what are your thoughts there with Top Rock and and
• 32:09
  Bulaga? You know, it, it's, it feels
• 32:13
  like his top rocks to lose because he's been riding so well
• 32:16
  lately. The only thing I can see that
• 32:18
  can Jack him up was, you know, similar to last year when he got
• 32:21
  hurt and he had to recover. I really don't see I, you know,
• 32:25
  I don't know what the the 2026 Pentagon looks like, but it
• 32:28
  seems like the the 24 Pentagon is just a little bit not a full
• 32:34
  match to the BMW all the way top rack is riding it.
• 32:39
  Well, I mean, you got a thing. I mean top rack is a different
• 32:42
  kind of animal. I mean he can ride any bike to
• 32:45
  be on a limit. I mean, he's rode that that R1
• 32:48
  beyond his limit when he actually was on there.
• 32:52
  But besides Top rock having ADNF or something burying us out of
• 32:56
  his control of a, you know, you know, a malfunction or anything
• 32:59
  like that. I mean, it's top right to lose.
• 33:01
  But the same thing with TJ said, I think Bulliga wants to win and
• 33:05
  he wants to win now because that will solidify Bulliga's run.
• 33:11
  I mean, if you're if I'm playing against the best, I want to beat
• 33:15
  the best and right now Top Rock is the best.
• 33:18
  So if Top Rock leave and I win, does that really say that I'm
• 33:21
  the best? That just says I'm the best now.
• 33:24
  But I didn't beat the best. And that's where Bulliga might
• 33:27
  want to stand at. And he wants to beat the best to
• 33:30
  say I am the best. What are your what are your
• 33:34
  thoughts about that? Lewis is you think that you
• 33:37
  know, Bulliga is thinking that, which also, you know, maybe he's
• 33:41
  thinking next year if if he beat Top Rock, Top Rock this year,
• 33:45
  does that put a little bit of fear into the guys for next
• 33:47
  season and saying, hey, we don't stand a chance as well?
• 33:50
  Any thoughts on? Whether or not he beats top Rack
• 33:54
  or not, I mean, that fear is going to be there next year
• 33:56
  because his performance the last two years has just been on
• 33:59
  another planet. You know, the only person that's
• 34:02
  really given him any competition has been Top Rack.
• 34:05
  And last year, you know, he could have, he had as good an
• 34:09
  opportunity last year as he has this year to win the
• 34:11
  championship. He's only 26 points behind.
• 34:13
  And that's literally that's one race.
• 34:16
  You know, if he wins one race and Top Rack has ADNF, like now,
• 34:20
  they're down to a point difference with four races left.
• 34:25
  If he was to win every race and Top Rack came in second, Top
• 34:30
  Rack would still win the championship.
• 34:32
  But again, he's just got to go out there and ride the best he
• 34:34
  can as a competitor. I would think that top that he
• 34:38
  wants to be Top Rack while Top Rack still in World Super Bike.
• 34:42
  Like he doesn't want to wait till next year to win a
• 34:43
  championship. He wants to win a championship
• 34:46
  this year and he wants to beat Top Rag before he disappears.
• 34:50
  Because when top Rag is gone, like everybody else says, yeah,
• 34:53
  you're the champion, but you're the champion because the the the
• 34:57
  previous champion vacated the belt.
• 34:59
  You didn't beat him for the belt.
• 35:01
  And at the end of the day, your check still looks the same
• 35:04
  whether you beat the champ to become the champ or not.
• 35:07
  You're still going to get paid really well to be at the champ.
• 35:10
  But as a personal goal, I would think Nicola Buliga wants to be
• 35:16
  top rack before top rack goes away because looking at the rest
• 35:20
  of the field now, I hate to say it, I mean, he's not going to.
• 35:23
  He's probably going to be able to walk away with the
• 35:25
  championship next year. I don't see anybody moving to
• 35:28
  Mike or to a position that's going to be able to compete with
• 35:32
  him right off the bat. And if the new Ducati that
• 35:35
  they're going to race next year is even better than what he's
• 35:38
  racing and now and he's doing as good as he is doing now on this
• 35:41
  bike that maybe is slightly inferior to the BMW, then you
• 35:45
  know, he's going to pull a Marc Marquez in world super bike.
• 35:48
  He's you know, he's going to be the guy to beat every single
• 35:50
  weekend, every single every you know, he might run the table
• 35:53
  because he's not going to have anybody that's going to be
• 35:56
  competing. The closest guy to him this year
• 35:58
  is who Petrucci and Petrucci is 150 points behind him.
• 36:03
  You. Know he's going to be on a
• 36:05
  factory bike next year. He could be on 2 factory bikes.
• 36:08
  He's still, he's still going to be way back.
• 36:10
  There, he's still going to be way back there.
• 36:13
  Yeah, so I, I, I hope that it comes down to the wire.
• 36:18
  I hope Niccolo Bulaga is able to pull out one or two wins in the
• 36:21
  next couple of races, get that margin down and maybe take it
• 36:25
  down to like the last weekend of the year and actually have a
• 36:28
  shootout head to Like that's, you know, like for me, I love
• 36:36
  that. That's the, the poetic side of
• 36:38
  racing is, you know, you line up on that last, that last race of
• 36:43
  the year and let's say there's like a six point difference and
• 36:47
  you have to beat the guy. You have to beat him by at least
• 36:49
  two or three positions to make sure you clear that and you
• 36:52
  battle and, and you see who's the real champ, man.
• 36:55
  So I just hope Top Rag doesn't run away with it because then we
• 36:58
  got 2 runaways in one year and that does.
• 37:01
  Suck. That does that.
• 37:02
  That does suck. You know, you mentioned go
• 37:05
  ahead. Oh, sorry, I, I mean, I was
• 37:08
  going to say that last year Top Rat didn't race at this track
• 37:12
  because I think he was injured and Bulliger ran away with two
• 37:16
  races out of it. So he he's definitely got a an
• 37:21
  edge right now to take advantage.
• 37:23
  But, you know, we'll see how that goes.
• 37:27
  Right. You know, you mentioned
• 37:28
  something, Lewis, about, you know, Bulliger wanting to win
• 37:32
  this year and maybe have some regrets.
• 37:34
  You know what it is, What is it about?
• 37:36
  And I don't know if we can answer it in today's show or
• 37:38
  even in the future. What is about folks that you
• 37:41
  know, Jordan still think about the one championship he didn't
• 37:44
  win and rather be able to play that and have the six he have.
• 37:47
  Brady's thinking about the two that got away from him.
• 37:51
  You know, Rossi's thinking about 2015.
• 37:55
  You know, what is it with guys and, and, and Buluga hasn't
• 37:58
  lived that yet. He may if he doesn't win this
• 38:01
  year and win next year. What is it about people that you
• 38:04
  know, lose sleep over and and you talk about the checks.
• 38:08
  They're not struggling for money.
• 38:10
  So they got enough checks to be like, I shouldn't be sweating
• 38:12
  this, but what is it about like, you know, people that you know,
• 38:16
  hold on to the ones that the the losses that got away from them.
• 38:19
  Let's start with DJ. Let's.
• 38:24
  Start with DJ Give. Me a SEC.
• 38:27
  That's a talking. We don't.
• 38:29
  See it, man, we see. It, you know, because you, you
• 38:32
  look back at the, the what ifs like, like only if I did this
• 38:37
  one thing and this would have changed.
• 38:39
  And he started, you know, contemplating and doubting
• 38:43
  certain situations because you almost had it.
• 38:46
  Like, it's just going back to the Patriots.
• 38:49
  You know, when we lost to the Giants, you know, they threw a
• 38:53
  Hail Mary and it should have been batted down.
• 38:57
  And yeah, yeah, I I don't want to break up that second one.
• 39:01
  But there was one way they threw the Hail Mary.
• 39:03
  You know, it should have been batted down.
• 39:05
  He caught it on his neck. And it's just like, you know, if
• 39:07
  that catch didn't happen, you know, we would have had another,
• 39:11
  another ring, you know, So I always still think about that.
• 39:14
  It's just certain things where you just want perfection.
• 39:17
  You just want perfection, so. Or that year y'all lost to the
• 39:20
  Eagles, where we knocked y'all out.
• 39:23
  Oh yeah? How many?
• 39:25
  Minutes y'all got. Hey, we still put y'all on the
• 39:32
  shelf though. You did.
• 39:35
  You did, you know? We had to put y'all on the
• 39:37
  shelf. Not a lot of teams did.
• 39:39
  And I guess Rossi and and Marquez and these guys are
• 39:42
  saying and Jordan, not a lot of people have, but the ones that
• 39:45
  have, it still hurts. But you want to add anything to
• 39:48
  that Reese, you're, you're, you're, you're in the game still
• 39:50
  and, and stuff like that. So you know, is, is, is, do you
• 39:55
  have from memory one that that got away from you and and you
• 39:58
  know, you can lend a little bit how these guys feel with the
• 40:01
  ones that they've lost? One that got away from us, I
• 40:07
  say, and I can't remember what year that was.
• 40:09
  That was when Tony Elias took it.
• 40:12
  I mean, that got away from us a little bit.
• 40:16
  I mean, it's always that what if it's just like TJ said, it's
• 40:18
  that what if, you know, what if we did this a little better?
• 40:22
  What if we did that and we could have had it and we didn't crash
• 40:25
  here, didn't do that. So you're always going to live
• 40:27
  in that moment and say damn, we could have had this and
• 40:30
  solidified a certain, you know, aspect of where we're at.
• 40:33
  But yeah, I mean, after a while you kind of just move on and go
• 40:37
  on to the next one. But still, we're going to live
• 40:39
  in that in that era and still live in that life, you know,
• 40:43
  because you want to you want to you want to be the most dominant
• 40:47
  person or the dominant team in the fat eye.
• 40:48
  You want to be in that that era of greatness like Brady Jordan.
• 40:56
  You know, we want to be in that era of the greatest team, you
• 40:59
  know, when you look back at it so.
• 41:03
  Yeah, you want you, you want to, you want to go in battle with
• 41:05
  some gladiators. You don't want to win a war.
• 41:08
  And you know no one, there's no one else on the battlefield to
• 41:10
  oppose you. Numbers guy.
• 41:14
  I mean, you hear these two guys here, you know, you care about
• 41:18
  checking, you care about the overall.
• 41:20
  So is there, is there one, one trophy that gets away?
• 41:25
  As long as long as the checkers got all the commas in place,
• 41:28
  it's a It's a trophy. No, I mean, the the guys at the
• 41:33
  top of this sport are like any athlete at the top of their
• 41:36
  sport. They had to maintain this level
• 41:39
  of aggression and this level of competitiveness to to to be at
• 41:43
  the top of the sport. Because like any sport, if you
• 41:46
  really want to be the best of the sport, you got to wake up
• 41:49
  earlier than everybody else. You got to work harder than
• 41:51
  everybody else. You got to be mentally and
• 41:53
  physically better than everybody else.
• 41:55
  Like you got to push yourself that much further and, and these
• 41:59
  guys that are at the top that are really battling, you know,
• 42:02
  the guys like your Valentino Rossi's, your Jorge Lorenzo's,
• 42:05
  the guys that really put their stamp on any career, whether
• 42:08
  it's a motorcycle racing in football, like a Tom Brady in
• 42:11
  basketball, like a Michael Jordan, like a Magic Johnson, a
• 42:16
  Larry Bird, like competition is what they're all about.
• 42:20
  That competitiveness is what gets them up in the morning
• 42:24
  because money's not getting up in the morning because they got
• 42:27
  more money than they need. Fame is not getting them up
• 42:31
  because they're more famous than they're ever going to need.
• 42:34
  The only thing that gets them up is that juice, that fire to be
• 42:37
  better than the next person. If if an athlete loses that, and
• 42:41
  I feel that there's a lot of athletes that have lost that,
• 42:44
  that have become a complacent, like I'm the 7th place guy, so
• 42:47
  I'm just going to work as hard as a 7th place guy needs to be.
• 42:51
  But these guys at the top that stay at the top for years, not
• 42:55
  one or two years. Because you can have one or two
• 42:56
  years where you're just lucky and you end up a championship,
• 42:59
  Johann Meer. But then you don't ever do
• 43:01
  anything ever again, you know? Waiting for that.
• 43:08
  You ride around for your, your 6th, 7th place, you get your
• 43:12
  check, you create a nice little career for yourself.
• 43:14
  But these guys at the top, they're not worried about the
• 43:17
  career. They start worrying about, you
• 43:19
  know, they're worried about I got to win.
• 43:22
  Like for them, it's all about the win.
• 43:23
  They have the money, they have everything else, but they still
• 43:26
  get up at 5:00 in the morning. They still do their, you know,
• 43:29
  Pilates, they still go run that 3-4 miles.
• 43:32
  They still go ride that bike, you know, 100 miles in a day.
• 43:35
  They still do all these things because they just have that
• 43:37
  competitive negativeness that no money in the world can quench.
• 43:41
  I mean, to this day, Michael Jordan will will compete against
• 43:46
  anybody in golf and put big money down because he just wants
• 43:51
  that competition. He wants to prove like, hey, I'm
• 43:53
  still this competitive. Like there's not right now he's
• 43:55
  in a battle against NASCAR. I.
• 43:57
  Know. And honestly, I think he wants
• 44:00
  to win because he doesn't understand not winning.
• 44:04
  And that's the kind of mentality that these guys have at the very
• 44:06
  top. And, and it, it will eat Bulaga
• 44:11
  if he doesn't beat Top Rank, even if he becomes champion next
• 44:13
  year, it'll still eat him that for two years he couldn't beat
• 44:17
  this one guy when he was healthy, when he was, when he
• 44:26
  was, you know, at the top of his game, when this, that he still
• 44:29
  didn't beat this one guy. You know, this is, he's, this is
• 44:32
  that elusive, this is, you know, the, the, the, what's the,
• 44:35
  what's the Eleanor? This is his Eleanor.
• 44:38
  This is his GT500 that he can't seem to steal because something
• 44:42
  always happens. Hey, listen, we'll see because
• 44:46
  next year it might be a little bit crazy too because they'll be
• 44:48
  on a new bike. Well, let's jump into World
• 44:50
  Super Buffalo. It's a great white Buffalo.
• 44:55
  Sure is. Let's talk about world super
• 44:58
  sport before we get into Motor America.
• 45:01
  You know, Stefano Manzi and Canna chew can on chew can on
• 45:05
  choose is a surprise. I didn't I have to honestly say
• 45:08
  I didn't see him, you know, being the number two guy in the
• 45:12
  championship or Masia for that for that as well, because Masia
• 45:15
  is a rookie coming over from Moto 2 to to super sports.
• 45:20
  What you guys think? Is this a foregoing conclusion
• 45:22
  that Manzi Manzi seems like he's the bully in in super sport.
• 45:27
  I think he's a he just looks at people and they and they go the
• 45:30
  other way. You know, what are your thoughts
• 45:32
  on on on Manzi? You know, he's up at least by,
• 45:36
  you know, 60 points, give or take 59 points or something like
• 45:39
  that. You know, he just got to hold
• 45:41
  off these guys. But you know, Kat on Chu and
• 45:44
  Messi, these guys have been riding well lately.
• 45:48
  What are your thoughts? TJ yeah, I mean, I like Hand
• 45:51
  Untrue and Marcia, but you know, I haven't really been falling so
• 45:56
  much to the world super sport. But Manzi is one that I've been,
• 45:59
  I've been seeing holding his own and I think that he'll probably
• 46:04
  take it away. Being up almost 60 points, I
• 46:08
  feel like it's more manageable coming to this stage when you
• 46:11
  get closer to like the 2520 point raise and you worry about
• 46:15
  more mistakes and stuff like that.
• 46:17
  So and I feel like More unto A Messiah would try to bow for
• 46:22
  that second place, but I think he'll pull it off.
• 46:26
  It's definitely something to look forward to.
• 46:29
  I know there's a lot of racing this weekend, but I definitely
• 46:32
  want to watch all the classes because I know it's tight battle
• 46:35
  coming to the finish. So you got to see see all the
• 46:39
  camaraderie and all the battles and the fighting that goes on in
• 46:43
  inside the paddock and outsides. Yeah, Reece, it might.
• 46:47
  It'll be a win win for you got Yamaha boys.
• 46:50
  I mean, Manzi's been Manzi's been fighting against Bulaga a
• 46:55
  couple of years ago and then last year against Gonzalez.
• 46:58
  And Gonzalez has now moved over to Moto 2.
• 47:01
  And I mean, he may be kind of feeling like I wanted to beat
• 47:05
  Bulaga. I wanted to beat Gonzalez.
• 47:08
  And and now he's sitting here next to Cannon Chu sitting here
• 47:11
  like saying, man, I got to beat this guy.
• 47:13
  I mean, you know, Cannon is no slouch, but what are, what are,
• 47:16
  what are your thoughts with those two guys, the Yamaha boys?
• 47:21
  I mean, cans no salt. I mean, he's a he's a hell of a
• 47:23
  writer. I mean, Manzi just he's on a
• 47:26
  tear. He's on a different level.
• 47:27
  I think it's his to lose. I mean, it's nice to see the
• 47:30
  Yamahas up there and you know, there are nines and taking it
• 47:32
  away. I mean, they're taking it away
• 47:34
  in all the Super sport categories.
• 47:37
  So I mean, it's pretty nice to see that.
• 47:39
  And I just I think Manzi's actually going to take it.
• 47:41
  I mean, I'm, I'm looking forward to seeing Manzi up there, but
• 47:46
  can I mean, I think he's going to be a problem child for next
• 47:50
  year. I think he's going to I think
• 47:52
  he's actually going to be one of the top, top writers that go
• 47:55
  compete and I think he'll see him.
• 47:59
  I give it within the next year or so, not next year, but maybe
• 48:02
  after that. I give him see, you probably see
• 48:03
  him up there in the world super backstage.
• 48:06
  You you think Yamaha can call you up and and and and tell you
• 48:09
  to tell Ken on Chu that he has to take second place to Manzi?
• 48:17
  You think anyone can tell him there's a team order?
• 48:21
  I, I don't think there's no team order there.
• 48:23
  I think it's his day. Just don't take each other out.
• 48:26
  I think that's, I think that's the order.
• 48:28
  Just don't take each other out. Do what y'all do, but don't take
• 48:30
  each other out yet. Just just let's go.
• 48:33
  You know, because man, he's going the world super bike, so
• 48:35
  he's getting a bump, right? So for him, it's his only shot.
• 48:40
  I think and I think that's where we're going to see him shine at
• 48:42
  and see hopefully we can, you know, have some more competitive
• 48:45
  nature up there next year for us from the World Super Bike
• 48:48
  paddock, OK. All right, well, your thoughts,
• 48:50
  Lewis on on on the Super sport class and the Yamahas and should
• 48:54
  there be team order or is is can can can put up the kind of fight
• 49:00
  that he has to put up because he has to be ruthless to beat
• 49:03
  Manzi. No, he can't put up the kind of
• 49:06
  fight it takes. The the The thing is, Manzi is
• 49:09
  just a little bit more of a seasoned veteran and probably is
• 49:13
  a little bit more mentally strong, sly in the way he calls
• 49:17
  about his race craft. You know, Canon true is is, I'm
• 49:21
  not going to say he's young, but he's younger and he's still a
• 49:24
  very competitive guy coming from Moto 2.
• 49:26
  I mean, seeing the guys that are in the top, you know, of World
• 49:30
  Super Sport, knowing that some of these guys came from Moto 2
• 49:33
  just goes to show you the level of talent in Moto 2.
• 49:36
  The level of talent there is unbelievable.
• 49:39
  And when Stefano Manzi kind of moves up next year, I mean, it
• 49:43
  looks like Moto 2 riders that are moving from Moto 2 to World
• 49:46
  Super Bike are pretty much going to dominate World Super Bike,
• 49:49
  which is really wild to me. But again, it just shows the
• 49:53
  level of talent in Moto 2 that they can move over the World
• 49:56
  Super sport and kind of just, you know, be right at the tip of
• 49:59
  the sword, be in the top five, be in the top six in the first
• 50:02
  year that they're over here. I think I think Anshu will put
• 50:07
  up a good fight. And as long as Manzi keeps the
• 50:10
  rubber side down, I I think he's smart enough to manage his
• 50:14
  points lead and get through the finish line.
• 50:16
  So hopefully he stays healthy, he stays safe, nothing goes
• 50:19
  wrong and he'll move up to super bike.
• 50:23
  And then next year, Anchu and all these other young, you know,
• 50:26
  kids are going to are really going to put on a great show.
• 50:29
  I think super sport like Moto 2 is the most entertaining class
• 50:33
  to watch because this is where, you know, young boys are growing
• 50:37
  into men and growing men have to decide, you know, how far am I
• 50:42
  going to go with this? You know, can I get to the next
• 50:44
  level? And it's just such a great mix
• 50:47
  of talent to see some of these young guys actively competing
• 50:50
  with these guys that have been there for a while.
• 50:52
  And just, you know, No Fear and No Fear.
• 50:54
  Lots of talent ready to go, not coming with any excuses, just
• 50:58
  coming with, you know, piss and vinegar ready to fight.
• 51:01
  Yeah, you know, before we go into motor America, I will say
• 51:06
  it seems like, and you guys can kind of chime in, it seems like
• 51:09
  to me and I'll I'll pick on mayor since you brought up
• 51:13
  mayor, the mayor, the Quatararo. We'll we even we'll even throw
• 51:18
  it back Naya and these guys when they were they came out of Moto
• 51:21
  2 into Moto GP. The the the Moto 2 grid wasn't
• 51:25
  as hungry I think Will Grimy as it is today.
• 51:30
  Is that fair to say? It wasn't as deep.
• 51:34
  Right. Yeah.
• 51:37
  Yeah, Leah, now, now I feel that in the last maybe six years,
• 51:44
  probably six years, maybe maybe 7, just before COVID, it, it
• 51:49
  seems like Moto 2 got a lot more competitive because remember
• 51:52
  that they used to run on the CBR motor and it was, you know,
• 51:57
  pretty much a, a stock series. You couldn't mess with the ECU.
• 52:00
  It was a sealed motor. It was a sealed distance.
• 52:03
  And it's still the same. But I think in the last few
• 52:06
  years, especially with the change to the Triumph motor and
• 52:08
  they've got more torque and everything else, these guys are
• 52:12
  just becoming a lot more competitive.
• 52:13
  And the guys coming out of Moto 3, they're just coming out of
• 52:16
  Moto 3, like elbows as sharp as they can be ready to fight like
• 52:20
  it. I don't know.
• 52:21
  It's, I'm not going to say it's a little bit less courteous now,
• 52:26
  but it's definitely less courteous now.
• 52:30
  Like they they still think they're on Moto 3 bikes.
• 52:32
  Yeah, I I think these these young kids are testing big bike,
• 52:36
  big up street bikes that are modified obviously for the
• 52:38
  track, you know, so they're on 600 and thousands now.
• 52:41
  So when they jump on to Moto 2, they're not worried about the
• 52:44
  power. It's just, you know, suspension
• 52:47
  and you know, so OK, let's jump into Motor America.
• 52:54
  Reese, I mean this, I mean, you know, I hopefully you're not
• 52:56
  getting any Gray hairs from this or losing any sleep.
• 52:59
  You got 2 rounds, 5 races, you know, your, your, your rookie as
• 53:05
  far as the team is leading the championship close in the
• 53:09
  points. I mean, you know, which is
• 53:11
  pretty cool to see from a spectator standpoint, I have to
• 53:14
  say. You know, let's talk about, you
• 53:17
  know, what has it been like you guys just had test in a week
• 53:20
  ago. What, what's the, what's the,
• 53:22
  what's the team like these last few rounds?
• 53:25
  It's been a couple of weeks since we spoke last.
• 53:27
  So two weeks has passed, you know, have you lost like 510
• 53:31
  lbs? What's going on?
• 53:35
  No, you still got the pounds on there, but no, it's, it's, it is
• 53:39
  stressful. I mean, you know, we still going
• 53:41
  in with the same mentality. You know, we want to win.
• 53:44
  We're going there expecting the win.
• 53:46
  Of course we're going to horsepower.
• 53:48
  Everyone knows we're going to CODA and that's horsepower
• 53:52
  alley. But you know, we, we have our
• 53:55
  our ways and we have the, you know, the skill level where we
• 53:59
  can compete. And I mean, we're, we're looking
• 54:01
  to go to win or most likely, you know, still a round, then we go
• 54:06
  on a jersey where it's a little bit more suitable for us, I
• 54:10
  believe and see where we go at all.
• 54:15
  Right. Let me ask this, you know, at
• 54:17
  the beginning of the year after Herring came off his win and you
• 54:22
  know, the beginning of the year until now, do you guys, you
• 54:26
  know, feel like you're in the you're poised to steal one?
• 54:31
  Or do you feel like you guys, regardless of who won last year,
• 54:35
  you guys felt like you, you were there to you.
• 54:37
  We you had what it takes to to be where you are at right now.
• 54:41
  I mean, we always have, we, we always have that feeling, you
• 54:44
  know, to be where we're at nowadays.
• 54:46
  I mean, you know, not saying anything, but people was pretty
• 54:49
  much counting us out and we were like, don't, don't count us out.
• 54:52
  You know, I was like, that's one bad mood to actually do is to
• 54:56
  count that that team, our team out.
• 54:59
  I mean, we've, we've been together for quite a long time.
• 55:05
  And like Lewis said, it's not just a rider that's going to
• 55:07
  win, it's a team that wants to win as well.
• 55:10
  So and I mean, there's a lot of tricks that you can pull up your
• 55:13
  sleeve. And you know, we just go with
• 55:15
  our mindset saying, hey, we're going in here to win.
• 55:17
  We want to do our very best and be up there in the battle.
• 55:24
  You never know what can happen. You know, it is racing and you
• 55:28
  know, it can, you know, be anybody today.
• 55:31
  So that's what we want and we want to be up there in the
• 55:34
  battle, up there in the top three or, you know, top 4 or
• 55:37
  whatever it is up there in that front row, that front group of
• 55:39
  guys. I mean, we're going here to
• 55:41
  Dakota and you know, we're looking at expecting to either a
• 55:45
  win or, like I said, steal one. We're looking forward to it,
• 55:50
  man. We can't wait.
• 55:52
  TJ, you know. What are your thoughts on on the
• 55:54
  championship? It's really close.
• 55:56
  I, I, I know you're, you're, you're a Heron and a Cam Bobier
• 56:00
  guy, Yamaha guy. I mean, you know, you, you, you,
• 56:05
  you might have two different beers you're drinking at once,
• 56:06
  man. What are your thoughts on the
• 56:10
  championship? You know, coming.
• 56:11
  To an end. I mean, you know, I like, I like
• 56:17
  Josh Herring and he's fortunate that he had a little injury from
• 56:20
  his the last round, so I'm sure he'll be ready to go.
• 56:24
  But like I said, he's like a one man show out there.
• 56:28
  I heard he broke his leg in several places like Rossi did a
• 56:31
  few years back. I don't know what's going on
• 56:36
  over there, but can. You.
• 56:37
  Hear it? I just don't want to interrupt
• 56:40
  when my eyes roll. Goodnight TJ man, but.
• 56:47
  But you know, the the Yamaha camp man, you know, like Kanye
• 56:50
  is sitting in fourth right now and and Bobby found working his
• 56:54
  way up to take the lead in the championship.
• 56:56
  I feel like that team focus right now is is at a high
• 57:01
  intensity right now. So I feel like it starts with
• 57:05
  Reese to make sure I get them all there safe at the track and
• 57:08
  on time to get everyone's head together.
• 57:10
  But I think it's going to be a good weekend, you know, at a
• 57:14
  quarter to see what Bobby Paul can do out there.
• 57:18
  I know Bobby and BMW, he's going to put down a fight.
• 57:22
  So like he's going to be racing high intensity.
• 57:26
  So it could be anyone's day. But I'm sure Bobby can hold it
• 57:30
  off. All right, so we, we have to
• 57:33
  make sure nobody kidnapped Reese, right?
• 57:38
  The. Cartoon show that that I can't
• 57:41
  even remember that someone's always getting kidnapped.
• 57:44
  But what are your thoughts, Lewis, under where things are
• 57:48
  right now? I don't want to say it's Beavis
• 57:55
  a butt head or one of these. Nothing crazy, don't you worry.
• 58:05
  I, I, I find it really interesting that you find a
• 58:09
  fracture 3 weeks after you break something.
• 58:12
  You know, I'm not a orthopedist, but most X-rays will reveal a
• 58:17
  fracture in the first couple of X-rays, not 3 weeks later.
• 58:21
  And you know, there's a certain somebody, I'm not going to name
• 58:27
  him by name, that found a fracture 3 weeks later.
• 58:32
  And it, to me, it feels almost like setting up an excuse to
• 58:39
  make himself not accountable and also setting himself up to, to
• 58:43
  look like a superhero in case he wins.
• 58:46
  Because if you release something like that, that I fractured my
• 58:48
  leg 3 weeks later and then you go into a race and you win.
• 58:53
  Look at him. Josh is great.
• 58:55
  He, you know, he battled through the pain of a broken leg to win
• 58:58
  the race and blah, blah, blah. But if he loses, well, you
• 59:01
  understand, he's out there battling, but he's battling on a
• 59:03
  broken leg. Look, man, Rossi had a broken
• 59:05
  leg. That was a legit broken leg.
• 59:09
  Finding an X-ray 3 weeks later that says you have a fracture.
• 59:12
  I mean, all right, if you say so.
• 59:13
  But you know, unfortunately, Josh Herman has cried wolf too
• 59:17
  many times for me to take it seriously when he says something
• 59:20
  like that. So, you know, I, I, I'm not
• 59:23
  going to give him a pass on that.
• 59:25
  I thought you wasn't saying no names.
• 59:29
  I didn't say no last names. There's there's more than one
• 59:31
  Josh in the paddock. I didn't say it was Josh.
• 59:34
  There's more than one only. One only one Josh so super bike
• 59:37
  though. I didn't say you got a super
• 59:40
  bike. See, there you go.
• 59:41
  You're assuming. Why are you assuming?
• 59:44
  It could have been Josh from the Twins Cup, you know.
• 59:47
  But again, you know, like I but again, maybe it's mind games,
• 59:55
  maybe it's this, maybe it's that at the end of the day, you still
• 59:58
  got to go on a track. You got to prove it.
• 1:00:01
  You know, you got to race. If you got diarrhea, you got to
• 1:00:03
  race. If you got a stomachache, you
• 1:00:05
  got to race, you got a flu, you got to race.
• 1:00:06
  You know, there's been plenty of riders that have raced in
• 1:00:08
  adverse conditions and put everything they can into it and
• 1:00:12
  didn't do social media posts for two weeks or three weeks after
• 1:00:15
  an event and do all this other stuff and try to.
• 1:00:19
  Get the fans on their side because you know I'm injured on
• 1:00:22
  this and that you know, you weren't winning when your leg
• 1:00:25
  was good. If if your leg is actually
• 1:00:28
  fractured. So now that your legs fractured,
• 1:00:30
  you're going to do better. Or you just trying to set up
• 1:00:34
  excuses to either cover your, you know, the lack of your
• 1:00:37
  ability to bring it home after you kind of walking away with
• 1:00:40
  the championship. Or you're trying to make
• 1:00:43
  yourself set up so that if you do win the championship now you
• 1:00:46
  can kind of be like, yeah, I pushed through all this pain
• 1:00:48
  and, you know, all this struggle and all this effort.
• 1:00:53
  And you know, I, I give so much thanks to my team and my come on
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  bro, just go fucking race. Aren't they how superhero
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  superhero stories made? Here it is, you remember, back
• 1:01:05
  in the South. That's how villains are made.
• 1:01:09
  So the. Syndrome wasn't a superhero.
• 1:01:15
  Syndrome was bad guy. So the the cartoon was South
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  Park and. Who used to get kidnapped on?
• 1:01:26
  South I don't know, I think Kenny was always talking about
• 1:01:28
  somebody getting kidnapped, but you know what I can remember
• 1:01:31
  we're going to leave Reese out on this because he he's
• 1:01:35
  competing in the championship as a part of the team.
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  But let let let's ask TJ and Lewis.
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  I mean, you know what, how do you see it coming playing out
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  towards the end here? You know, you you got Cam in
• 1:01:51
  there. We got Herron that makes you
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  know he's what how healthy or not he is.
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  And you got Bobby Fong, who you know, seems to be at the right
• 1:01:59
  place at the right time. I mean, I think yes, it's tight.
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  Like I said, it might come down to Jersey, you know, and the
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  time's out. Last time I've been to Jersey,
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  you know, a couple of Yamahas in one man show.
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  It's going to be interesting to see who who can take Koda
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  because I would probably decide for sure, you know, who's going
• 1:02:28
  to win the series. But I think Bobby can hold it
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  off. You know, he's only up a couple
• 1:02:32
  points. Like I said that BMW got a lot
• 1:02:35
  of horsepower, you know, so see if they can hold off to BMW
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  basically just stay in front. But I feel like they're going to
• 1:02:45
  be on the podium for the Yamahas.
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  I feel it. OK, OK, yeah, I mean, I, I, I
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  feel like it's, it's going to be, you know, between the,
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  between the Yamahas and and and and the Ducati really, because,
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  you know, you know, Cam has just been up and down this this
• 1:03:03
  season, even though he's right there in the point.
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  It's, it's just, you know, he's he's kind of like a crash away
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  sometimes. What are your thoughts, Lewis?
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  I, I think it's, I think it's going to come down to the BMW
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  and the Yamaha. If, if Yamaha can leave CODA
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  with two good podiums, they don't have to win, just be on
• 1:03:24
  the podium, keep the points really close.
• 1:03:27
  I think the biggest competition right now or the biggest threat
• 1:03:31
  is definitely, definitely Beauvier at CODA.
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  He's going to have a huge horsepower advantage.
• 1:03:37
  And that is a fast track. That's like a horsepower track
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  that's very similar to like your Rd.
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  Atlanta's or these bigger tracks where horsepower does make a
• 1:03:44
  difference. But I think it'll come down to,
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  again, unless something crazy happens at Coda where there's
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  some DNFS or something like that, it'll come down to Jersey.
• 1:03:55
  And the great thing about Jersey is Jersey is not a horsepower
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  track. Jersey is a technique track.
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  Horsepower doesn't matter there because the fastest bikes to
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  ever go around that track have been in the low one 20s forever.
• 1:04:09
  You know, the tracks been open now I think 1617 years. 2008.
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  Yeah. So 17 years or 18 years later,
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  the fastest time is still the same fastest time from when the
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  from where the track almost opened.
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  So that lets you know that this nobody's going faster at this
• 1:04:28
  track. Nobody found a way to find
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  another second, second and a half of this track in almost 20
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  years. Why?
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  Because the track doesn't allow for it.
• 1:04:35
  It's not configured for that. It's configured for style, for
• 1:04:38
  technique, for corner entry, for speed.
• 1:04:40
  You know, it's not a horsepower track, so you take horsepower of
• 1:04:44
  the equation and now it just comes straight up to riders set
• 1:04:48
  up and determination. You know, again, Beauvier has
• 1:04:52
  won a lot of races at New Jersey.
• 1:04:54
  So I think he right now is the biggest threat to the Yamaha
• 1:04:59
  team because I mean, I remember when Beauvier was on a super
• 1:05:04
  sport bike. I'm not going to say a date
• 1:05:06
  because I already know I'm old enough, but he went out there
• 1:05:11
  and he set a lap time on a Super Sport that would have put him in
• 1:05:13
  3rd place on Super Bike that year on the grid.
• 1:05:18
  And this is years ago. Because, I mean, the Tommy
• 1:05:22
  Aquino was still racing. All these guys were still racing
• 1:05:25
  in Super Sport. This is a long time ago.
• 1:05:28
  And Cameron Boba had Yeah. And Cam Boba went down to
• 1:05:36
  breakfast and pretty much told all the YYES guys because this
• 1:05:41
  is when Yamaha had the YES teams and and what was the other one?
• 1:05:47
  Clark Racing was still the racing And he pretty much told
• 1:05:51
  them he's like, hey, I'm going to go out today and I'm going to
• 1:05:53
  set the fastest lap anybody has ever set on 600 this morning.
• 1:05:56
  So good luck. Keep him up with me now.
• 1:05:58
  He went out and he wiped the field with them the entire day.
• 1:06:01
  So the dudes had a lot of laps around Jersey and he knows how
• 1:06:05
  to get around there fast, man. So again, I think it's going to
• 1:06:09
  come down to Yamaha and BMWBMW has the edge of coda and then
• 1:06:14
  it's just going to be great and determination for Yamaha, BMW
• 1:06:17
  who wants it most of Jersey 0. Man, listen, go ahead.
• 1:06:23
  I got to say this. I mean, here we go.
• 1:06:26
  Yeah, I do. I mean, it's only a what, 17?
• 1:06:28
  We're up 17 points on Cameron in first.
• 1:06:31
  So like like Lewis said, I mean, I think like long as we get on
• 1:06:36
  the podium, you know, if Cam wins, then we take third both
• 1:06:41
  races, we'll still take the lead going to New Jersey.
• 1:06:44
  And that's where you want to be. You want to be able to take the
• 1:06:47
  lead or be maximize the most points you can you can have.
• 1:06:51
  And going in New Jersey is a the big monster, the triple header.
• 1:06:56
  And the one thing that comes in New Jersey that a lot of people
• 1:06:59
  forget is weather that rain is going to play a big factor if it
• 1:07:04
  does rain. And I could tell you this, so
• 1:07:07
  Yamahas are a weapon. When it comes to the wet,
• 1:07:11
  they're a weapon. You can ask JD that one and
• 1:07:14
  he'll tell you. So when it comes to the wet,
• 1:07:17
  that Yamaha is a weapon in the wet.
• 1:07:20
  And you know, so I mean, like Lewis said, it's going to come
• 1:07:25
  down to it. It's pretty much going to come
• 1:07:27
  down to Jersey's round to see where we're at.
• 1:07:29
  Like TJ and Lewis said, I mean, it's going to come down to
• 1:07:32
  Jersey so, but as long as we can stay right there coming into
• 1:07:37
  Coda, I think we'll be just fine.
• 1:07:41
  Nice. I'm looking forward to watching
• 1:07:43
  it. And you know, I, I, I, I may
• 1:07:46
  text you just to, you know, see if you're smiling.
• 1:07:49
  We'll see how we we'll see how it goes.
• 1:07:53
  I I try not to bother people when they're working because,
• 1:07:56
  you know, I know how that is. Let's talk about the Super sport
• 1:07:59
  class. You know, it's between PJ Jacobs
• 1:08:02
  and Matthew Schultz at the moment.
• 1:08:03
  Schultz is defending the title. P JS looking really good.
• 1:08:07
  You know, we're talking about 7 points difference there.
• 1:08:10
  I don't know if in in Jersey do Super Sport have three races or
• 1:08:15
  if it's just a super bike that does that.
• 1:08:17
  What are your thoughts about the Super Sport race?
• 1:08:19
  You know, a few rounds ago it was looking a lot closer than it
• 1:08:22
  is right now as far as more riders.
• 1:08:26
  You know, it's only two guys that are that are that are
• 1:08:28
  fighting for it, you know. What are your thoughts, TJ?
• 1:08:33
  You know, I've been around PJ Jacobson before, so I'd love to
• 1:08:36
  see him come back in and and, you know, take the lead and and
• 1:08:42
  win it for sure. I mean, I know skulls before has
• 1:08:46
  been trying for so long and he's always coming up short and now
• 1:08:51
  he's he's got a, you know, a championship.
• 1:08:55
  I know a lot of people have his day.
• 1:08:56
  It's about his attitude and stuff like that.
• 1:08:59
  But you know, I think he might hold it off, but I really hope
• 1:09:02
  DJ pulls it off. You know, I want to see that
• 1:09:05
  Ducati win it with the team that he's on with Kayla.
• 1:09:10
  So Apex. Reece, are you able to comment
• 1:09:15
  on Ducati in a nice way? I mean, you know.
• 1:09:22
  I mean, I can comment on a nice way.
• 1:09:23
  I mean, the bike is what it is. I mean, the bike is 1 hell of a
• 1:09:27
  bike. I mean, it's quick.
• 1:09:28
  I mean it has a lot of low end torque, a lot of grunt.
• 1:09:32
  But was that the way that Matthew's riding?
• 1:09:35
  I mean, I think he'll end up taking it.
• 1:09:37
  I mean, hopefully he can keep his head on his shoulders and
• 1:09:39
  and do well and not have any foreseen errors, malfunctions on
• 1:09:46
  a bike or ride a little bit above the limit, you know, and
• 1:09:51
  run off or kind of do anything crazy.
• 1:09:54
  But I think if he stays right there and I think if he keeps
• 1:09:56
  his head on his shoulder, that's awesome.
• 1:09:58
  I mean, I talked to Matt every race, every round.
• 1:10:00
  I'll I'll go up and talk to him and, you know, tell him to keep
• 1:10:04
  his head on his shoulder and usually does fine.
• 1:10:08
  But I think at the end, I think it's going to come down to a 2
• 1:10:12
  bike shootouts coming in New Jersey.
• 1:10:14
  It's a two round, I mean two race round at Jersey.
• 1:10:17
  I think it might come down to that and same thing as the Super
• 1:10:20
  bikes. So I'm looking forward to
• 1:10:23
  having, you know, being honest, I'm looking forward to a Yamaha
• 1:10:26
  running away with a double super bike, Super sport win.
• 1:10:31
  Yeah, I mean, you know, we, we'll, we'll be, we'll be out at
• 1:10:34
  the parade. It'll be a little wet though,
• 1:10:38
  sorry. I'm sorry, it's the only time we
• 1:10:42
  can have champagne, right? Right.
• 1:10:47
  What are your thoughts, Lewis on, on super sport?
• 1:10:50
  What's going on with Schultz and, and Jacobson?
• 1:10:52
  And and you know, to add to what Reese says about Schultz, I
• 1:10:55
  mean, he's he's the closest thing that's riding to like a
• 1:10:59
  Man Z or, or a top rock on a bike where he's been able to
• 1:11:03
  make that Yamaha do some things that the Yamaha riders.
• 1:11:06
  I mean, I know Blake is close, but Schultz is doing it a little
• 1:11:09
  different. Yeah, I think, I think this
• 1:11:12
  championship is going to go to Schultz.
• 1:11:14
  I think he's going to defend his championship.
• 1:11:16
  You know, he won it last year pretty, pretty resoundingly with
• 1:11:20
  some really great podiums. But I think this year he's got a
• 1:11:24
  little bit of extra fire under his belly to win another one.
• 1:11:27
  I think there's going to be some changes next year that's going
• 1:11:30
  to give him an opportunity to move back up into super bike.
• 1:11:32
  And I think he wants to cap off this part of his career in super
• 1:11:36
  sport with another championship. And I just think that he he can
• 1:11:42
  ride the wheels off the bike. You know, I've seen him riding
• 1:11:44
  that bike and I see him doing things on that bike that really
• 1:11:48
  are are special. That's what that's where I can
• 1:11:50
  put it. There's something special, and I
• 1:11:52
  think after the the last little blow up that him and PJ had, I
• 1:11:57
  think he's got even a little bit more fire in his belly to just
• 1:12:00
  beat P JS ass and and this is opportunity to kind of go out
• 1:12:05
  with a big Hey, you know what, you know, I know you got little
• 1:12:08
  man syndrome, but here you go. I just won another championship
• 1:12:12
  from you, being a bigger man physically and emotionally.
• 1:12:20
  Ruthless. Yo, Jesus.
• 1:12:22
  Yeah, if you don't want the fact, don't.
• 1:12:25
  Don't listen. Ruthless Joe.
• 1:12:30
  But it's true. You know, I think PJ really hurt
• 1:12:32
  himself with that little blow up he had.
• 1:12:34
  And, you know, and it just, you know, this is, this is the kind
• 1:12:37
  of thing that somebody like Matt will take as motivation to be
• 1:12:41
  like, you know what, now I even got more reason to beat your
• 1:12:44
  ass, you know, because I guarantee you when he does win
• 1:12:47
  that championship, he's going to definitely poke the bear a
• 1:12:50
  little bit on his way out the door.
• 1:12:53
  You know, so, so I, I honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if Blake
• 1:12:58
  really steps up this weekend at CODA and kind of steps in and,
• 1:13:02
  and even buffers between himself and PJ and, and Matt to even
• 1:13:07
  help Matt out a little bit. I wouldn't be surprised if the
• 1:13:10
  Strat team kind of, you know, gave Blake a little bit
• 1:13:14
  incentive to to slow PJ down and maybe leave Koda with the
• 1:13:18
  championship. Right, right.
• 1:13:21
  Yeah, I, I can see that. I mean, I, I think that's, that,
• 1:13:25
  I mean, I think Schultz has a better chance of having Davis
• 1:13:29
  help him out than the, the, the PJ Jacobs teammates because, you
• 1:13:34
  know, they just haven't been, you know, they're close to the
• 1:13:36
  front, but they haven't been out front like that.
• 1:13:39
  And you know, you know, Davis has shown that he can run out
• 1:13:42
  front. So at least he has a chance to,
• 1:13:44
  to get in the way. But if you can't get in the way,
• 1:13:46
  you can't help your teammate out at all.
• 1:13:48
  So I, I agree with you there. I mean, I, I think that, you
• 1:13:53
  know, it's, it's a good chance for, for the Yamaha boys to, to
• 1:13:56
  wrap it up sooner than later. Yeah, if PJ gets involved or he
• 1:14:00
  if he can stay in the mix, I seriously think that the the the
• 1:14:05
  Yamaha team will leave Koda, if not with the championship, with
• 1:14:09
  a pretty good lock on the championship.
• 1:14:11
  Maybe they only need one race at Jersey to like really put a
• 1:14:13
  stamp on it. It won't come down to the last
• 1:14:15
  race of the year. That's my feeling.
• 1:14:18
  That's what. That's what we'd like to hear,
• 1:14:20
  man. There's a few more rounds left.
• 1:14:22
  You know, we're already well past the hour and change marker.
• 1:14:26
  So I think we're going to wrap it and not talk about what's
• 1:14:28
  coming this weekend. We can, we can wrap up on Monday
• 1:14:31
  or or Wednesday if you guys are around for that.
• 1:14:34
  But I, you know, I want to thank you guys.
• 1:14:35
  This is very it's been very insight, insightful, you know,
• 1:14:40
  just talking about these championships because you know,
• 1:14:42
  it's it's crunch times and and I don't wish I kind of wish I was
• 1:14:45
  in your shoes race, but when the champagne is popping, not right
• 1:14:50
  now. It comes down.
• 1:14:56
  It's stressful, man. You know, because it, it, it,
• 1:15:00
  you know, I mean, I think the good thing for you guys is you
• 1:15:02
  guys have done it already and, and so you guys know what to
• 1:15:05
  expect. But you know, when, when, when
• 1:15:07
  teams are that close to it in the big one, man, I, I, I got to
• 1:15:10
  assume there's a lot less sleep happening and a lot more sweat
• 1:15:13
  happening. You you 100% right about that.
• 1:15:19
  So I want to you all right? Yeah, now for sure, man, It's
• 1:15:22
  wild. I want to thank you guys for
• 1:15:23
  coming on to tonight. I want to thanks to listeners
• 1:15:27
  for commenting and continue to like and subscribe and and shout
• 1:15:31
  us out on social media and all that fun stuff.
• 1:15:33
  We really appreciate it because without you guys we couldn't be
• 1:15:35
  doing it up here ourselves. We got Reese from Attack Yamaha,
• 1:15:39
  we got TJ from 2 Wheels and Coffee.
• 1:15:42
  We got the real Luis Ortega the numbers guy and does a whole
• 1:15:45
  bunch of other things as well. My name is Rex 45.
• 1:15:48
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• 1:15:50
  Peace. Peace.