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12 WINNERS IN 12 YEARS… SILVERSTONE DOES IT AGAIN! MotoGP Pit Talk · Pit Talk

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  Speaker 1: Well, they say, Silverstone writes its own script, and that's
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  Speaker 1: exactly what the British Grand Prix delivered. Twelve different winners
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  Speaker 1: in the last twelve from PRIs at Silverstone, and this
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  Speaker 1: time it was Raoul Fernandez who stole the show on
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  Speaker 1: Sunday and all the Prillier podium, a championship battle blown
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  Speaker 1: wide open, and a weekend that left you Caddie scratching
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  Speaker 1: their head with plenty of questions to answer.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back to Pit Talk.
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  Speaker 1: This episode is brought to you by Shannon's Insurance. I'm
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  Speaker 1: your host Rnita Vmullen. Joining me is Matt Clayton, the
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  Speaker 1: man who somehow managed to blend Oprah and Moto GP
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  Speaker 1: together in one weekend. Matt, I think that's going to
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  Speaker 1: be the highlight for me as you just saying you
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  Speaker 1: get a car and you get a win, and somehow
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  Speaker 1: Oprah is all involved.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not quite sure where that one came to it.
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  Speaker 4: And that's about as left field as some of my
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  Speaker 4: left field wrighting gets. But the good part about it
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  Speaker 4: was that I saw the opportunity for you get a win,
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  Speaker 4: you get a win, everyone gets a win, and someone
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  Speaker 4: else got a win because this is what Silverstone does.
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  Speaker 4: And what was weird when I was writing that you
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  Speaker 4: look through that list of eleven previous winners in eleven
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  Speaker 4: years before this past weekend, and you start automatically ruling
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  Speaker 4: people out. You're like, well, he can't win, he can't win,
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  Speaker 4: and he can't win, so who the hell can win?
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  Speaker 4: And the name that kept coming up is like, well,
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  Speaker 4: he's on a really, really good bike, So possibly one
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  Speaker 4: of the track house guys could be the person to
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  Speaker 4: extend the streak, but maybe not the track house guy
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  Speaker 4: we thought was going to extend the streak. But yeah,
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  Speaker 4: just another plot twist for MotoGP in twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 4: With our ten or maybe nine rounds remaining, we'll get
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  Speaker 4: to that, I'm sure in the next half an hour
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  Speaker 4: or so. But yeah, I mean, you were on the ground.
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  Speaker 4: Apart from the fact that the Silverstone grass looks very,
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  Speaker 4: very sad right now because it's just been torched by
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  Speaker 4: one of the hottest summers that anyone can ever remember
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  Speaker 4: in that part of the world, it is an amazing
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  Speaker 4: place to watch MotoGP bikes.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: You know, this track is so known for the fact
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  Speaker 1: that the riders have to have so much confidence to
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  Speaker 1: go into the corners, the changes of direction as well,
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  Speaker 1: and then you've got the high speed straight. So really
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  Speaker 1: it is a track that we can see those bikes unleash,
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  Speaker 1: like you said, but we knew naturally coming into this
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  Speaker 1: weekend it was going to suit one particular manufacturer and
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  Speaker 1: that was a Brillier and that was the outcome that
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  Speaker 1: we sought from the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: But like you said, it wasn't Raoul who.
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  Speaker 1: I was thinking going into this weekend was going to
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  Speaker 1: be the one to win. I mentioned earlier in our
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  Speaker 1: last part that we did with Michael Lamonado that I
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  Speaker 1: honestly thought, I agree, it was going to be the
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  Speaker 1: one to continue that momentum. And for me, the biggest
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  Speaker 1: shock was him crashing out of the race and tucking
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  Speaker 1: in the front, because it's a mistake. We haven't seen
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  Speaker 1: from him this season at all.
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  Speaker 4: No, No, he's just been completely lights out. He only
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  Speaker 4: had one DNF before Sunday at Silverston the whole year,
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  Speaker 4: and that was when the bike packed up at Kota,
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  Speaker 4: so it wasn't even a He does crash more than
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  Speaker 4: some people, obviously a lot less than other people like
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  Speaker 4: Zero and mih But anyway, that's another story, but he's
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  Speaker 4: not a guy who's prone to making mistakes. And you know,
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure we'll get to this a little bit later on,
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  Speaker 4: but it seemed that he and Martine, we saw what
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  Speaker 4: happened at the start when need of their rear ride
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  Speaker 4: devices launched unleashed into that first corner. They didn't really
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  Speaker 4: get to detach in the first corner. So it felt
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  Speaker 4: to me that they were both a little panicked at
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  Speaker 4: that point because they've lost their opportunity to dictate how
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  Speaker 4: the race was going, but maybe Agura more so, and
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  Speaker 4: it never really felt like he was coming back through
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  Speaker 4: like Martine seemed to be a lot more decisive getting
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  Speaker 4: back to where he eventually finished. Agura, you do wonder,
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  Speaker 4: like he's been so good this year that we sometimes
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  Speaker 4: forget that it's only second Motor GP season because he
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  Speaker 4: doesn't look like your standard second year rider. But you
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  Speaker 4: do wonder at a situation like that at Silveston, that's
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  Speaker 4: probably the first time something like that has happened, and
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  Speaker 4: certainly the first time something like that has happened when
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  Speaker 4: he's at a position on the front row to possibly
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  Speaker 4: win the race, and that's when that relative lack of inexperience,
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  Speaker 4: which is something we never talk about with him because
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  Speaker 4: he's just so polished. Maybe that played a little bit
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  Speaker 4: of a faculty because it felt like he was kind
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  Speaker 4: of overreaching a little bit to try and get back
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  Speaker 4: to the front. And it was a day where a
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  Speaker 4: lot of guys were crashing him and I think there
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  Speaker 4: were sevent d and f all crashes, which is highly unusual.
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  Speaker 4: He might have just been overreaching a little bit, and
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  Speaker 4: you know, longer term, maybe it's a good thing for him,
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  Speaker 4: but you know, short term, he handed Jaiy Martin a bit,
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  Speaker 4: a bit of a free kick for the weekend, and
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  Speaker 4: to my mind, I mean I wrote this on Sunday
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  Speaker 4: night after the race. Yes, Fernandez won the race. That's
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  Speaker 4: all great, second Grand Prix win and all of that.
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  Speaker 4: The biggest winner for me over the course of the
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  Speaker 4: weekend was Jege Martin because he came into that summer
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  Speaker 4: break almost saying I don't quite know how I'm leading
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  Speaker 4: the World championship here because I feel like I'm nowhere
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  Speaker 4: near the peak of my performance and it's more to
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  Speaker 4: do with what other people aren't doing. This is the
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  Speaker 4: sort of weekend where he won the sprint he did
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  Speaker 4: as good as he possibly could in the Grand Prix
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  Speaker 4: by recovering to second and on a weekend where the
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  Speaker 4: Decadees were really struggling and the Aprillius had their own
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  Speaker 4: issues some of the others, He's actually extended his championship
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  Speaker 4: league by quite a lot. And you know, this becomes
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  Speaker 4: a bats game at this point in that you know
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  Speaker 4: you can't sort of defend a thirty one point lead
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  Speaker 4: with ten rounds to go. But he's in a really
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  Speaker 4: really good position to be able to sort of minimize
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  Speaker 4: the damage at circuits where particularly Mark is going to
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  Speaker 4: be super super strong. What aarragon next might be one
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  Speaker 4: of those. Just a really good weekend for him, because
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  Speaker 4: I think he had a few doubts. It's like, well,
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  Speaker 4: I'm leading, but I know that I'm not quite my
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  Speaker 4: normal self. Just a really great week for him and
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  Speaker 4: probably the biggest winner of the whole weekend.
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  Speaker 2: I think exactly.
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  Speaker 1: And I think we could really see that from his
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  Speaker 1: body language and what he was communicating both on and
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  Speaker 1: off the bike. It seemed like even from the get
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  Speaker 1: go from Friday, he just looked comfortable. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what happened in that summer break and if something changed
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  Speaker 1: for him mentally, but even his quotes after it just
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  Speaker 1: seems like there's that confidence has jumped up a level now.
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  Speaker 1: And like you said, thirty one points to now Marco
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  Speaker 1: bed Zeki, who has also jumped back up over Ayagura
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  Speaker 1: Agora has jumped back down to third. I want to
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  Speaker 1: touch on Marco and the emotion that we saw from
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  Speaker 1: him this weekend, but I think it was a blend
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  Speaker 1: of emotions.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was ale of oh, I'm back.
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  Speaker 1: After the injury and everything, but I also think it's
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I can win this championship anymore
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  Speaker 1: in motion too.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a couple of bits in it. For me.
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  Speaker 4: I think there was relief because these past four races,
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  Speaker 4: like I mean, he had not scored a point in
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  Speaker 4: a Grand Prix since he won ut Majello, which is
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  Speaker 4: a crazy stat like he won four of the first
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  Speaker 4: seven races, and particularly at the start of the season
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  Speaker 4: on here, we were just saying, well, how much is
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  Speaker 4: this guy going to win the championship pot He just
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  Speaker 4: seems like just completely metronomic at this point, and then
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  Speaker 4: you know, Hungary was the race after that, and he
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  Speaker 4: got cleaned out at the first quart at a corner
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  Speaker 4: by his own teammates, and things just spiral from there.
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  Speaker 4: We had the incident with the marshal at Bruno, we
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  Speaker 4: had the massive crash early at Asen, and then we
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  Speaker 4: had Germany where he came off in qualifying and broke
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  Speaker 4: his collar bone. So the reaction for mine. At Silveston,
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  Speaker 4: he finished third in the sprint and.
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  Speaker 3: The Grand Prix.
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  Speaker 4: Part of it was relief because the longer that Grand
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  Speaker 4: Prix Sunday drought went on, like he knew it, we
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  Speaker 4: all knew it. It was something everyone was talking about. So
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  Speaker 4: it was part relief and it was also part of
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  Speaker 4: he knew he was going to have to really push
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  Speaker 4: the pain barrier this weekend because he just had the
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  Speaker 4: left collarbone done, had his knee operated on during the break.
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  Speaker 4: The first race was always going to be the hardest
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  Speaker 4: one back, and of all the tracks to come back
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  Speaker 4: to when you're not one hundred percent fit, there is
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  Speaker 4: no It's an unrelenting track, Silverstone like it finds you
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  Speaker 4: out if you're not right. And he was immediately quick
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  Speaker 4: on Friday and massively quick on Friday, but over one
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  Speaker 4: lap that looked fine. Seeing him after the sprint after
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  Speaker 4: ten laps, where he'd looked absolutely shattered afterwards and you know,
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  Speaker 4: very emotional because he'd gone through what he'd gone through.
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  Speaker 4: I just thought that that's hugely commendable that you've done that.
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  Speaker 4: How the hell are you going to do a Grand
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  Speaker 4: Prix tomorrow because you've got to do twice the distance
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  Speaker 4: and so this is one of those weekends he had
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  Speaker 4: to sort of almost commit to, Okay, this is going
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  Speaker 4: to be super uncomfortable. I just have to get through this.
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  Speaker 4: I've got another two weekends before Aragon, which I think
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  Speaker 4: is really critical that we're not just on that every
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  Speaker 4: other weekend cadence at the moment, which is huge for him.
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  Speaker 4: But it was just a really brave performance by a
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  Speaker 4: guy who was clearly underdone and it was just exhausting
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  Speaker 4: to even be on the bike litt alone at a
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  Speaker 4: high speed track like this. And yeah, it was a
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  Speaker 4: track where it really had an advantage. Like you said,
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  Speaker 4: but this might go down as one of those weekends
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  Speaker 4: that when it's all said and done at the end
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  Speaker 4: of the year, we'll be like, remember that weekend that
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  Speaker 4: Bears just gritted his teeth and got through Silverstone Because
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  Speaker 4: I tell you after Saturday, I just thought he's going
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  Speaker 4: to get halfway through the Grand Prix and just pull
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  Speaker 4: out because he's going to be in that much pain
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  Speaker 4: and just that uncomfortable. And you saw you would have
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  Speaker 4: seen this in the post race press conference afterwards. He
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  Speaker 4: had his leathers like half open and the world's biggest
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  Speaker 4: ice bag on his left shoulder, where everything was just
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  Speaker 4: aching and throbbing, which was actually really funny because of
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  Speaker 4: course they had the mic clipped into his leathers at
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  Speaker 4: the top, so every time he moved, about four hundred
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  Speaker 4: ice cubes moved with him, and so every ad that
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  Speaker 4: he gave was with all this ice just sloshing around
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  Speaker 4: in the background, which is actually quite funny. But he
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  Speaker 4: would he would he would have slept very very well
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  Speaker 4: on Sunday night.
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  Speaker 3: I'll say that.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you who wouldn't have slept very well Sunday night.
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  Speaker 1: And you could read that directly off his body language.
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  Speaker 1: Was Mark Marquez this weekend.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yep, Like you know with.
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  Speaker 1: Mark, it's one of those things is he's known as
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  Speaker 1: something we spoke about, he's known for being able to
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  Speaker 1: ride the bike in a way that even when things
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  Speaker 1: aren't working, for him, he can still manage. We did
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  Speaker 1: not see that this weekend at all.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, And it's funny, like it's a confluence of
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  Speaker 4: a few things. He's still I mean, he's nowhere near
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  Speaker 4: one hundred percent fit. He's the first to admit that.
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  Speaker 4: What was striking for me it was a weekend when
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  Speaker 4: Dukatti Ducatti just weren't very good at Silverstone, and Mark
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  Speaker 4: has never been particularly good there. He's won there once
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  Speaker 4: and that was in twenty fourteen where he just won everywhere.
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  Speaker 3: So it's almost like a bit of an outlier.
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  Speaker 4: He's not been very good there, and even on a
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  Speaker 4: weekend when Ducatti's not great, to see him as the
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  Speaker 4: third best to Caddie, Like, when do we ever say
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  Speaker 4: that he's the third best to Caddie Now? I was
• 9:58
  Speaker 4: not surprised to see Alex Marquez do quite well at
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  Speaker 4: Silverston because high speed, right handed tracks tend to be
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  Speaker 4: tracks where he's really really good. For whatever reason, you
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  Speaker 4: think how good he is at Catalougna. It's a similar
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  Speaker 4: sort of thing. Not as fast as Silveston, but it's
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  Speaker 4: a track with predominantly high speed corners.
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  Speaker 3: It turns right.
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  Speaker 4: Alex is really good at those sorts of circuits. Malaysia
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  Speaker 4: is another one. He's really really good at similar characteristics,
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  Speaker 4: so it's not really a Mark track, but to see
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  Speaker 4: him battling the way he was battling, I mean, I
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  Speaker 4: don't think Ducady is as far away from as Aprilia
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  Speaker 4: as it looked on the Silverston weekend. I think of
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  Speaker 4: all the tracks in the second half of the season,
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  Speaker 4: Silverston was going to be the one that played most
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  Speaker 4: to Aprilier's strengths and least to Doucadd's.
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  Speaker 3: So I think they're going to be a lot closer.
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  Speaker 4: We also know there's circuits coming up in the second
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  Speaker 4: half of the season where if Mark doesn't win both races,
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  Speaker 4: it'll be a surprise like Aragon coming up is a
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  Speaker 4: classic one for that. Philip Island will be similar to that.
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  Speaker 4: He's good at Valencia when he stays on. There's certain
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  Speaker 4: tracks coming in the back end that will really really
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  Speaker 4: suit him. What I reckon the margin does now is
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  Speaker 4: like his sort of margin for error is a lot
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  Speaker 4: less than it was now because we've got ten or
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  Speaker 4: nine races to go, which I keep saying, We're going
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  Speaker 4: to come back to it and remind me we have
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  Speaker 4: to come back to this. But he's playing. He's coming
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  Speaker 4: from a position of one not great weekend at a
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  Speaker 4: track where he's supposed to be really good. Let's just
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  Speaker 4: say he has a bit of a crap sprint in
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  Speaker 4: Aragon or something, or something happens on the first lap
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  Speaker 4: at Aragon and the Grand Prix, and he fights his
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  Speaker 4: way back and finishes fifth or something. He really now
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  Speaker 4: has to capitalize on these tracks that are his strong
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  Speaker 4: suits because he's swimming uphill now, and you know the
• 11:33
  Speaker 4: clock is ticking. We're more than past the halfway mark.
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  Speaker 4: I still have no doubt that of the guys that
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  Speaker 4: are behind, he's the person I have the most trust
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  Speaker 4: in that will come through.
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  Speaker 3: At the end.
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  Speaker 4: But it's not the times running out but the circuits
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  Speaker 4: where he's going to have his big advantage. He can't
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  Speaker 4: afford to sort of drop the ball on one of those.
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  Speaker 4: And this strikes me as being one of those championships
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  Speaker 4: that could really turn on one weekend that maybe he
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  Speaker 4: doesn't dominate it as he's supposed to do. Now I'm
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  Speaker 4: saying all of this. We went to Hungary, smashed everyone
• 12:00
  Speaker 4: at Hungry. We went to Saxon Ring. We know what
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  Speaker 4: happens at saxon Ry. So there's already been two opportunities
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  Speaker 4: this season where he was supposed to dominate and he
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  Speaker 4: has So that's interesting. But that's easier to do when
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  Speaker 4: you're not so far behind. It's a big gap now,
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  Speaker 4: and yeah, there's time, but you don't want to waste
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  Speaker 4: any of these weekends when you're good. But he was
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  Speaker 4: just a bit of an afterthought at Silvestone, like you
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  Speaker 4: just noticed him going backwards in the sprint and then
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  Speaker 4: the Grand Prix it looked like he was just trying
• 12:24
  Speaker 4: to survive to the end. And it was really tellygo
• 12:27
  Speaker 4: I thought in the closing laps where Fabio Digian Antonio,
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  Speaker 4: who is fantastic at qualifying and rubbish at first laps,
• 12:33
  Speaker 4: will give him praise and criticism of an equal measure.
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  Speaker 4: It was no surprise at all that Digia came back
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  Speaker 4: through on Mark at the end of the race, because
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  Speaker 4: digit is very good at the end of the races
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  Speaker 4: and Mark was just surviving at that point.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we saw it.
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  Speaker 1: We saw when the camera would pan back and you'd
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: see Mark, there were Digitia then in getting past and
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: then uh Peco on a st Pedro and you could
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: see Mark was I want to say, coasting the weird
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  Speaker 1: in this sound. He wasn't relaxing, he wasn't cruising, he
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: was coasting. He was managing the bike in the situation
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  Speaker 1: to just get it across the line and bank those
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  Speaker 1: points to what he could. So yeah, he's forty points
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  Speaker 1: behind Johe Martin fourth in the championship. One point behind
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  Speaker 1: him though, is Fabio digit Antonio. And this is the
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  Speaker 1: thing is like we're seeing not much consistency from Mark
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  Speaker 1: the EBB and the flow. One thing I feel like
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  Speaker 1: with Digia is he is there and thereabouts and he
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  Speaker 1: has been all so far this season. And I think
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: we're seeing more of that consistency from Martin with more
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  Speaker 1: wins a Gura, but the fact that Digi is still there.
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  Speaker 1: His fifth is one point behind Mark, He's four points
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  Speaker 1: behind Agura, who's in third. He's not out of this
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  Speaker 1: fight either by any means no, And.
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  Speaker 4: I feel with him like there's less variance with him,
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  Speaker 4: like you kind of know what Digit is going to do.
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  Speaker 4: And I think that's been the story of his season
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  Speaker 4: in that his race weekends follow a very very similar
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  Speaker 4: pattern that he's very quick on Friday he qualifies really
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  Speaker 4: well on Saturday. He's not particularly good off the line,
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  Speaker 4: and he's not super aggressive in first lap, so he
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  Speaker 4: always ends up to me like he's two or three
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  Speaker 4: places lower than he qualifies after the first lap of
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  Speaker 4: a sprint or a Grand Prix. But other than of
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  Speaker 4: the front running group, other than a Goura, I think
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  Speaker 4: he's the best guy in the last five laps of
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  Speaker 4: a race, and so that consistency with him. If he
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  Speaker 4: wins the World Championship, it's a long shot, right, but
• 14:17
  Speaker 4: it would rely on a lot more of other people
• 14:20
  Speaker 4: making eres or mistakes or having poor weekends. Because it
• 14:23
  Speaker 4: feels like he's always there, and so I feel he's
• 14:26
  Speaker 4: going to beat himself less than some of the other
• 14:28
  Speaker 4: guys will. There are reasons that the other guys will
• 14:30
  Speaker 4: beat themselves. We saw Berzek he do it for four
• 14:31
  Speaker 4: straight weekends. Mark to me wrote on the weekend like
• 14:35
  Speaker 4: a guy who knows the consequences of another accident and
• 14:37
  Speaker 4: he does not want to fall off again and hurt himself.
• 14:39
  Speaker 3: So there was a bit of that in there.
• 14:41
  Speaker 4: But I've been super impressed with did year this year
• 14:43
  Speaker 4: because I just think he's he's been underrated now for
• 14:46
  Speaker 4: quite a while, he's just a very very good Grand
• 14:48
  Speaker 4: Prix rider. Now is he a world championship material? Well,
• 14:51
  Speaker 4: I mean the points tally tells you that he's in
• 14:53
  Speaker 4: the mix. He's not someone I would think about as
• 14:55
  Speaker 4: being a murdor GP world champion, but there's just less
• 14:57
  Speaker 4: variance with him. I trust him more than of the others.
• 15:00
  Speaker 4: Maybe we could say, and this could be one of
• 15:02
  Speaker 4: those championships that is won by who makes the least mistakes.
• 15:06
  Speaker 4: And if you had to put down who makes the
• 15:07
  Speaker 4: least mistakes, it's probably dig you a first and I
• 15:09
  Speaker 4: grew a second in one of those two orders because
• 15:12
  Speaker 4: there's more variance with the others.
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: No, I think.
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: You're exactly right, and I think you know, did you Yeah?
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: I don't see him being that top name on the
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: top set, But I mean for him to get second
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: or third in the championship is not something for people
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: to rule out. And the fact of you know, okay,
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: we know he's on the factory bike, but he's on
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: the VR forty six machine. It's not Gukti corse like
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: to have all that playing into effect and to be
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: the du Caddi behind Mark Marquees and points or the
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: Duketti beating Mark marquees.
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: And races I think is phenomenal.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: But on the other hand, if we go to Mark's
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: future teammate, Pedro A Costa, a weekend of top five
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: and top six is for him.
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: I mean, what do you say about Pedro at the
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: moment rocking the mutton chops.
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's questionable, but I mean on track this weekend,
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: it's just this looks like he had this confidence, like
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: he felt like he could push and push the bike
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: in the way that he could ride it to get
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: closer to the front.
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: He's trying super hard with those mutton shops too. I
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: don't reckon he's probably had much of a crack at
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: them at the past. He's been growing those things over
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: a three weeks summer break and they were a bit
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: like they weren't the best.
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: Come on, Pedro, but.
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: You can't look. You can knock the facial hair. What
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: he does on that bike. It's funny and that you know,
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: this is effectively at a Prilier versus Dacaddi championship. And
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: then you look and you go, oh, there's Pedro Costa.
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: What's he doing here?
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: Sort of thing? But he does it so.
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: Regularly, and the quality of the guy, like we know
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: how feisty is right, we know that he will drag
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: a bike into a position that it probably shouldn't be in.
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: He also loves a fight during the race, and I
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: think that's one of the things I'm so looking forward
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: to next year is that he races a bit like
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: Mark to me, and so seeing the two of them
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: as teammates, if that decady is good, will be super
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: fun because it'll be really fierce. I mean the Thailand
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: at the Sprint at the start of the year. If
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: that's what it's going to be like where those two
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: are teammates, then absolute signed me up. But what a
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: cost is doing relative to what everyone else is doing
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: on a KTM right now is pretty astonishing. And I
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: think you know, you can find out a lot about
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: a rider when they're on a great bike, but I
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: think you find out more about a rider when they're
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: on a bike that's problematic, and that bike clearly is
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: he's leaving at the end of the year. We know
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: that it's still a bit of a travesty that he
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: hasn't won a grol brit because he's ctainly good enough
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: to and that'll get fixed next year, I'm sure. But
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: he's just the one guy each week where you just go, oh,
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: it's a brilliant versus Tocaddy and a Costa. It's almost
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: like he's his own brand right now. He's just dragging
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: that thing into places as no business being.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: I think you made a point there. I'm going to
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: use it to segue for a second. He said, you
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: can see when riders are riding a bike that they
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: like him riding a bike that they don't like, you know, Yeah, Fabio.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: Corderraro this weekend.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: God, I think he's just there just trying to ride around,
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: just trying to finish a race and you know, take
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: his paycheck and get ready for next year.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: I think he's so checked out.
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, completely, He's one of those guys. And we've all
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: worked with people like this, you know, in your hands.
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: You'd notice it when you're leaving an employer and you've
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: got to serve out you know, a month or two
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: months or three months or whatever. I mean, we've all
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: done jobs like that where we just sort of sit there,
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: tick the box, the days of the calider to tick by,
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: then you wave goodbye it and you leave the problem
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: is with Fabios that everyone gets to watch him do
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: it every second Sunday for ten more weekends, and it's
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: a bit sad really. I mean, I am really looking
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: forward to seeing him on a bike and seeing him
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: motivated next year and push him because we saw what
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: he did last year where he was just putting that
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: thing on pole like God only knows how with the
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: sort of laps only he could produce. He's very checked
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: out now and it's not surprising and he could almost
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: excuse it quite frankly. I mean, the the Amaha V
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: four thing. They're just cast a drift in this class
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: of one at the back where no one.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: Really wants to be.
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: And he has been there for a very long time.
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: He's been very very well paid to be there, let's
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: be honest. But in terms of the willingness to put
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: himself one hundred percent on the line now weekend by weekend,
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: that's not going to happen for the rest of the season.
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: There were a couple of races this year knew he
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: was going to get up for. He was always going
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: to get up for Lamon, for example. But this is
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: a guy who's just literally sitting in the corner he's
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: turning up at one minute to nine and he's leaving
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: at one minute past five, and he's just ticketing the
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: boxes and he's getting out of there at Valet's here,
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: And of all the people that are changing teams at
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: the end of the year, I reckon he will be
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: the happiest.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Oh no, exactly one hundred percent. I think we're seeing that.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: And you know, coming into this weekend, I was on
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: social media, how our motorsport chat is going off at
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: the moment? Let me close that one. The leading up
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: to Silverstone, everybody was replaying the heartbreak of when Fabio
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: was leading that race and you know, had that technical problem.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: And I often think for a writer, how does one
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: you know, take that info, push it to the back
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: of the brain or utilize it for motivation. I don't
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: think he did either this weekend, And you know what,
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: fair play to him at the moment. If that's if
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: that's the way that he wants to do it, then
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: that's finally he's focused on next year. But yeah, I
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: often think about going back to a track where you've
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: had such terrible memories, how do you overcome that? But
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: then I mean, if we were look at Yamaha from
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: the other side. Look at what Jack did on Friday
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: directing too. Q two was ninth qualified, eleventh, Like, he
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: is still pushing that bike from what we can see,
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: and trying to figure it out and ride it to
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: its capabilities and utilize its strength. And I mean, ultimately
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: he's still trying to figure out what he's doing for
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: the future. We've heard the talks about World Superbike and everything.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: So he's still riding for a ride and has his
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: career on the line. It just might not be a
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Moto GP.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: I mean, I've written a piece for the Fox Sports
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: website today that you may not have seen yet because
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: you've been a sleep computer and on the other side
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: of the world. But Jack in Friday practice, when he
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: got himself into Q two, that is the fastest lap
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: he has ever done on anything at Silverston in all
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: the years that he's been there. The fastest is the
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: fastest he's ever been on a Yamahavy for which admittedly
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: is not a very good motorcycle. It's the fastest he's
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: ever been at Silveston. So the fact that he got
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: into the top ten and then he came into his
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: Friday press debrief, looked at the time sheets and saw
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: that Marco Pizeki was one point two seconds faster in
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: first place on Friday, and he's like, you have got
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: to be kidding me, because Jack had sat there behind
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: the Marquez brothers had absolutely rung the neck of this thing.
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: It's the fastest he's ever been around Silveston on a
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: motor GP bike, which goes back to twenty fifteen, and
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: of all the bikes for it to be on that one,
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: you think he was on race winning decaddies back in
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: the day. He's never been faster around that track. And
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: then he gets to the end. It's like, oh my god,
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: I'm only eighthot what are we doing? But he is
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: extracting everything you could possibly extract out of it right now,
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: but the biggest problem at the moment, and you see
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: this in the races. It's great that he made Q
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: two's only Yamaha to get into Q two. Over the
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: course of the weekend, the longer the race, the more
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: they just sort of sink towards the back and you
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: see the signing tower and inevitably you'll have Jack and
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: together somewhere on the track. They'll be pretty close to
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: one another Alex Rins, which he wasn't upright because he
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: crashed out on that one is usually a few places
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: behind them, and then top rackers a few places behind them,
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: and they're in.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: This sort of class of one at the back.
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: But it's interesting where Jack it feels to me that,
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: I mean, look, nothing is official yet, nothing's been announced
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: us at time of recording, but I mean, he knows,
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: we all know this, we all know the score here.
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: As he said, I'm not naive I know what's going
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: on here, but I feel that, you know, he's kept
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: saying this year that I feel like I'm writing better
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: than ever, and it's interesting for this story that I did,
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: which you will read. I'm sure I think we've been
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: at eight tracks this year that we had been to
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: in what was his best Motor GP year, which is
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: twenty twenty one, when he finished fourth on the Ducaddi
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: won two Grand Prix that year. He's pretty much faster
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: at every single track in qualifying, and he's raced fastest
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: laps than he was in twenty twenty one on a
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: championship contending to Caddy, And so the narrative that Jack
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: Miller is slow, and that's why he's not going to
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: be a motor GP anymore is not correct, because he is.
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: You know, the stopwatch will tell you he's quick than ever.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: It does show you how far the game's moved on
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: and how far Yamaha is off the pace.
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: Right now.
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: He's doing better at some of these tracks than he
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: has ever done, but the game's moved on massively, and
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: so you know, he knows that the World Superbike paddocks
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: is likely. You know he's landing place for next year.
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: I think he's going to go there pretty motivated, and
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: I also think he's going to go there pretty confident,
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: because if it was a situation where his body was
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: broken and he wasn't quick, then maybe you'd have some doubts.
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: But you know, as he keeps saying, I'm riding better
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: than I ever have, and you know, maybe next season.
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: He's had an amazing run, clearly, but maybe next season
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: is a sort of motivation he needs, because it must
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: be pretty difficult turning up each weekend knowing that, you know,
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: if I pull the lap of my life out here,
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: I might manage to make you two. And that's as
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: good as it's.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: Going to get.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: I'm just looking while you're talking them. I was just
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: looking at the race times from Sunday's race.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: So if you go back to.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Seventh Mark Marquez nine and a half seconds behind, then
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: we go to eight twenty two seconds behind. Jack finished
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: twelfth twenty nine seconds behind. Okay, so he's a seven
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: seconds ish behind Brad Bender in eighth, But from him
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: to Paul Spargo, who finished thirteenth behind Jack, is forty
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: one seconds. So if you look at those times, Jack
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: is pushing hard, like you said, and he's hanging in there.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: I mean, if you look at the results, you go, oh, twelfth,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: he only scored three points.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: Blah blah blah blah blah.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: But the fact that there was such a big gap
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: from him to poll from twelve to thirteenth shows you
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: what he is trying to do on that Yamaha machine.
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: It's a bit what I was saying about Acosta before,
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: and that you can only really judge the quality of
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: how good a Costa is by whoever else is riding
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: that bike at the moment, because he's on a different
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: planet to anyone that's riding a KTM right now. The
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: Yamahas are on Jallohas are on the same planet. It's
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: just like Pluto or something as a planet that they
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: wanted to be on us too far away from this
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: the center of the action, and so what Jack's doing
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: relative to everyone else on the Yamaha a bit of
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: a dtuned Fabio. Sure, Jack is the second Yamahara in
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: the standings right now in the World Championship, it's just
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: unfortunate that means he's nineteenth. So it does show you
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: where things are at the moment. That bike has such
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: a low ceiling right now. Neither Jack nor Fabio nor
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: Alex Rides will be riding it next season, which they're
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: probably not too devastated about. But it feels to me
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: that Jack's doing about the best he can with what
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: he has. It's just that right now that means that
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: you're on a really good weekend making Q two and
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: you might scratch yourself a few points at the back
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: end of just outside the top ten, and that's about
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: as good as it gets.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Well, the person who didn't score a point this weekend
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: was Fabio Coodorro. Considering there's sixteen riders to finish and
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: we had seven DNFs, including a home hero. First time
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: there was a brit on the Meto GP calendar and
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: who knows how long you know how long cal crushlow.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: It was so devastating when the crowd heard him crash because.
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: The pictures here, the oh, I was like, I been
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: doing deflation, you know, I mean, it was really nice
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: to see the patriotsm of having a British writer at
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: the British Grand Prix.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Something we only really get to see normally was when
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Jake Dixon was the Motto two and I guess Scot
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: Ogden and Eddie o'sha Emoto three we haven't had when
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: was Col last at the British Grand Prix mat.
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: I'm guessing he'd be like he did a few fill
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: in rides, didn't he when like Davicioso was injured and
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: what have you? So he might have said one in there,
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: But the last hobby was full time was what eight
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: years ago? It has been a fair while on. Col's
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: job description on the weekend was see the checkered flag,
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: and I didn't manage to do that at either race.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: So yeah, no good, no good.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: But like we said, it was Ralph Fernandez who won
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: on Sunday and Johe Martin now has that thirty one
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: point lead in the championship.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm really looking forward to next year.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: But at the moment, but the way that the Motor
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: GP Championship is heating up and the fact that we've
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: still got these top I mean, you can almost class
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Ralph Fernanders is in that fine now points if he
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: can take sis, I mean, okay, who's going to win,
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: but who could be second or third in the championship.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: That's really exciting for me.
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: You know what, I'm getting vibes for here. I don't
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: think you've thought about this. I'm sort of getting a
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: little bit of early flashbacks of twenty twenty four going
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: on right now, when Jorge Martin won the championship for
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: Pramac dou Catti as they then were, and for most
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: of that season, I didn't feel like he was the
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: fastest rider. It felt like Peco Bagnaia was. And it
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: was a season where Bannai's repeated mistakes, particularly sprints, he
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: just kept crashing out and making mistakes. I wouldn't say that,
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: you know, Jorge Martin didn't sort of Stephen Bradbury's way
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: to the twenty twenty four World Championship, but he certainly
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: made fewer mistakes, and he just used that point scap
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: as almost like a bit of a cushion in that
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: he just you win when you can win, you bring
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: the bike home. If the best you can do is
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: you finish third, you finish third. It feels like he's
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: now in that sort of position to perhaps play twenty
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: twenty six a little bit like he played twenty twenty four.
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: To circle back to something you said probably fifteen minutes
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: ago that I wanted to just sort of alert our
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: readers to listeners to as well. Apparently he went back
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: to a bike setting from as far back as Lamont
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: in round five. I believe that was when he won
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: the sprint in the Grand Prix. You remember the race
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: after Lamon was Cattaloonna, where he spent most of the
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: weekend crashing and then shoving people in the pit box
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: and just being generally annoyed about life. They were making
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: a million and one changes to that bike to try
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: and get him on the same specification of bike that
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: Bezeki was on at that time, because Martine had missed
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: preseason testing and so he was.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: On like a D tuned version, if you like, for
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: one of a better term.
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: They were trying to get him up on the same equipment,
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: and he's one of those riders and there are guys
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: like this. To Jane, Antonio is one like this too.
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: It's like, let me get the bike where I want
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: it and let me live with it from there. Even
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: if there is something that theoretically you could put on
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: the bike that maybe gives me more performance, I want
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: to be confident with what it is that I am
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: riding and I will just go from there. So my
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: understanding is that they went back to over the break
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: they talked about it went back to a very sort
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: of lamong Ish setting on that bike, and he doesn't
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: want a whole lot change because he's now starting to
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: feel comfortable and that to me, I might be adding
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: one on one together and getting six hundred. I don't know,
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: but you add those two things together. That's very much
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: the Jue Martin twenty twenty four playbook. Give me a
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: bike I can ride that I'm confident in that I
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: know where the strengths and limitations of this thing are,
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: and I'm just going to methodically chip away at this
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: World championship. It's a proven formula because he's won a
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: championship doing it before, and I do wonder now that, yeah,
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: he does have a points gap, so you can afford
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: to look at it like that. I wonder if that's
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: the way he plays it. And the other thing that
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: I mentioned probably seventeen minutes ago that we probably need
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: to discuss because we keep saying there's ten races to go,
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: it's seeming more and more likely that there might be nine.
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: Because I don't think we'll be going to Qatar, and
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: I don't think we'll be replacing Qatar. That's the difference here.
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: We joked on this podcast with Mikeel the other week
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: about the bar Rat Grand Prix in Malaysia because that
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: is what has happened good Formula one. But my understanding
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: is that Motor GP's broadcast contracts can be satisfied with
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: twenty one Grand Prix, not twenty two. So if Katar
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: gets canceled, which I think is more likely than not,
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: given that Formula one is not racing in that region
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: this year, the World Adjarance Championship is and Qatar will
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: probably not be replaced if it gets canceled, which if
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: your juge Martin, and all of a sudden, there's thirty
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: seven fewer points for your rivals to catch up. That
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: is the greatest news of all type.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: So it's interesting you heard that.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: I heard a rumor on the weekend that they are
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: looking at doing a Malaysia doubleheader.
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: Okay, that's interesting.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, So I mean, like I said, it's just
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: a rumor, it's just Paddy talking.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: One thing about the Paddix is everybody loves to gossip.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: So I mean it could just be someone started something
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: and who knows. But like you say, if the broadcast
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: contracts aren't required to have the twenty one.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: Racist who a was I talking to? Who was I
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: talking to over the weekend? Someone said, oh, Bradley Smith.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: Someone said Bradley said, oh yeah, there's twenty one races
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: in the calendar, and he go, what do you know
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: about KATA being canceled? So I mean it is really
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: really interesting that that the moment. But can I just
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: take way back to Jorge as well for one second?
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Jappel Jack appleyard on the during Q two. He's held
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: on the broadcast. Look out for Joe Martine. He's running
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: the new arrow. Now it did the first stint come
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: back in switched arrow went back to the old one
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: for the second half. That's how he managed to put
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: on polse. I think you're on the money there. I
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: think with what you're saying is he's playing around a
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: little bit, But I think he is reverting back to
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: what he knows, what he's comfortable with and just riding
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: the bike without heat can manage to ride the bike.
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: And it's one of those things that for a rider
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: like him, if you have a poor race and your
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: performance is bad, or you have a crash or something,
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: if you've got something new on the bike, that becomes
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: one of those things like is it me? Is it
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: the bike? Is it something I've tried that was new?
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: Like you take one variable out of the equation, the
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: fewer variables he has in the equation for him is
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: better from a psychological point of view. So it's basically
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: it's me and this bike that I know. And so
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: when he was running for Promac to Catti, that thing
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: wasn't getting a whole heap of updates because they were
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: a satellite team as much as they were an official
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: satellite team. So he's used to dealing with what he
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: has and fine tuning that to a point where he
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: likes it, and you do wonder if that's the playbook
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: for him for the rest of the season, rather than
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: chasing theoretical performance that comes with possible downsides and just adds.
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: A little bit of doubt.
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: You do wonder if he's going to really drill down
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: on what it is that he knows. And it's a
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: different question if he's the one chasing people in the championship,
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: but right now he's the guy at the top, and
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: so he needs to take less risks than everybody else
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: because he's got this margin. I just think it's going
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: to be really interesting to see what he does and
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: then also what everyone else does in response to that,
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: because when you're needing to chase performance, you will take
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: more risk and that's just going to be a storyline
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: that I think comes to the form more and more
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: as these races tick down. Whether we get to twenty
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: one or twenty two, we don't know, but that's going
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: to be a more significant thing.
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: I think as we head towards.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: November, let's move on quickly to the remaining categories, and
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: we had three this weekend, so we will touch on
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: our Aussies. Let's go in a moto to Sena ageis
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: Senna fantastic Friday super Fast caught up with them that
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: evening and just said sorry. Going into Saturday, said that
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: he had some issues with his clutch that was making
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: let bike kind of in his terms, whoa whoa walk
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: into the.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: Corners, which was hilarious to hear, and then just just
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: struggled for the rest of the weekend.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: And I think there was just some technical issues. And
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: even in his post racer social media report basically said
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: the same thing. Just just struggled this weekend. And this
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: is where I think that with Senna is we're starting
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: to see that difference in what he needs to be
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: able to stay consistent to fight for that championship win.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: Is like little areas like this is where we're going
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: to see that downfall come through.
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it feels like small things have big consequences for
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: him at the moment.
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: That's probably the way I would describe it.
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: So yeah, I mean that was a It sounded like
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: it was a known problem from as far as Saturday.
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: I don't know how you're right whoa, whoa whoa in
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: a story, but that's another stuck after work that out.
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: It doesn't really translate to text, does it.
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: But yeah, it's it is interesting in that there have
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: been a couple of weekends this year where I mean
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: he's obviously been very quick, he's won races and what
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: have you, But the weekends where things have gone a
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: bit a bit of skew, they have gone pretty ascue
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: for him. So yeah, I mean, look a bit like
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: you're talking about with Couacerera before you come back to
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: a circuit where you have a memory, in Fabio's case,
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: a bad one, in Centa's case a very good one
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: from twenty twenty five. It was just one of those
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: ones that was magnified that he wasn't really in for
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: the fire. But the good news for him was that
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: at least he did not celebrate one lap too early
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: Anita mate.
• 34:47
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean he did do it all less Spargo
• 34:50
  Speaker 6: didn't he man, I mean, but so lucky who was
• 34:55
  Speaker 6: behind was a Goverao.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: The fact that like he didn't he missed him, he
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: didn't just.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: Woh, that was insane, absolutely insane, scary, It's scary. But yes, Senna,
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: he sits sixty one and a half points behind teammate
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: Manu Gonzales back in third in the Moto two championship,
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: So look like we.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: Still say there's ten or eleven or nine races left
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: in the calendar this y year, ten or nine, yeah, exactly.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: So I mean, you know, if Sena can keep that
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: consistency and whatnot, first, second, or third is definitely on
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: the cards for him in in the Championship, and you know,
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: there's still the rumors of him potentially moving up to
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: Moto GP next year. We don't know what the outcome
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: is yet for twenty twenty seven for him, but I
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: think the fact that he's top three in the World
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: Championship in Moto two and he's representing us in the
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: Australian flag is phenomenal that we've still got that that
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: there for Moto two and then moved down to Moto three.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: We've got Joel Kelso the same thing for Joel this weekend.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: He was like, you know, Silverstone's going to be interesting
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: home race for him and his team. When I spoke
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: to him Saturday morning. It's one of these things guys,
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: you just end up going for coffee and you just
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: happened to see these riders in the paddock, which is
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: so funny, and it's like, hey, how are you tell
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: us how's work? Been for you this weekend and when
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: Jolie he goes, you know, and qualifying wasn't the best.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: He was further down the field than he wanted to be.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: But what we see in Moto III with Kieleez crashing
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: out and whatnot, Joel was able to make his way
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: up and he got a top ten finished.
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: I think he was sixth in the end est.
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, rest of the year, best of the year. It's
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: one of those things. Well, to let you know how
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: the how the sausage is made. Here at Fox Sports,
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: I'm sitting there watching I'm watching the post race press
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: conference while Moto three is going on because of the
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: changing the schedule. So I've got a timing screen going
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: and I'm just seeing Joel's name go further and further up.
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: But I'm also transcribing the Bazechi Fernandez Martine press conference
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: at the same time, so I'm sort of like playing
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: to you two pianos at the same time, and neither
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: of them very well. And so I kept watching him
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: coming up and coming up, and then I got to
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: the end of the race. Of God, good lord, He's
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: finished sixth. That's fantastic. I still haven't seen the race.
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: I've still got to go back and watch it because
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: it's three days later and I've been trying to do
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: follow ups from Motor GP, but seeing him right up
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: towards the sharp end again, and my understanding was Moto
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: three was pretty manic and Moto two was probably the
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: best Motor two race of the year, So I'm glad
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: I got to see that one at least, but yet
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: really good result for him. It was sort of like
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: the reverse Senator a degree, wasn't it, because I think
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: Sena came in with high expectations and didn't get the result,
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: And I guess Joel's expectations weren't super super high and
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: he had the best Sundays at all year exactly.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: We spoke to him leading up into Silverstone and you know,
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: he said, it's a race that yeah, he felt confident
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: going in homegrownd Prix and everything for the team, like
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: we said, but he goes, you know, I'm fighting with
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: what I can with this Honda, and we're still building,
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: still developing the bike, and I think we're seeing that,
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: we're seeing that he's reaping the rewards for what he
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: has been able to put in, and like he said,
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: now he's like, Okay, I've put energy into the bike
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: and the development, but now it's time to put that
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: energy back into myself as a writer.
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: And he ultimately wants to.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: Win, and so you know, if he can continue this
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: momentum as we head to Aragon and tracks like that,
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: then for sure, I don't think there's a reason why
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: he can't be back up the front as he continues
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: on for the rest of the year.
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it feels to me he feels like a guy
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: who's going to have a much better second half than
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: the first half.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, And I think he's extremely aware of that.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: And I know we mentioned there was the three lower
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: categories this weekend. That's because the bag of World Cup
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: was on display as well. And we do have an
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: Ossie writing in that Archie McDonald. He managed to put
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: that Harley on poll and one race two Sunday afternoon
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: after Moto three. So even though it's a much shorter race,
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: totally different style to any of the Motor grumpries or
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: Motor two Moto three racing, it's still nice to have
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: an Ossie in the world World class that you know
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: they do some of the rounds they're going to tracks
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: that we are not used to seeing a Harley Davidson
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: on and he managed to do a lap time faster
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: than Scott Ogden who put the Moto three of the
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: CIP machine on pole. So it was an emotional race
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: for Archie if anyone did see that all over socials.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: But happy to see that Ossie flag on the top
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: step in in the bag.
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: Of World Cup and the contrast between those bikes and
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: the Motor three bikes and how they go about extracting
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: a lap time, it's just it's kind of comic or
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: when you look at what they look like side by
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: side to going at least things are the same race weekend.
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: But yeah, it's there's more than one way to get
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: a laptome out of a bike, and those two series
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: definitely prove that.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: It's one of those things I was thinking about when
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: I was there watching. I'm going imagine the bagger is
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: coming to Philip Island.
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: Audio same thing.
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: Would love it, would love it.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: It's great Like in Motor America, you know, the Baggers
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: is such a crowd drawer and I think in Australia
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: it would be the same thing. So there you go, SBK,
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: maybe that's your go to is to bring the bagger
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: to the bag of racing to Australia.
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: The challenge is on, absolutely.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: Challenges on, but we get two more weeks, so summer
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: break isn't quite over. We had a little detour a Silverstone,
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: but it is two weeks until Moto GP heads too, MotorLand,
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: Aragon and.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: Let's say Mark Marquez, Alex Marquez.
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: They kind of call it another lot of their home
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: races because you know it's Spain and it's.
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: The Marquez brothers.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: But we're going to head to Model and Aragon and
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: that famous brick wall in the background in two weeks time.
• 40:11
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• 40:14
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• 40:17
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• 40:20
  Speaker 2: Aragon say up today with.
• 40:21
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• 40:24
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• 40:28
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• 40:35
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• 40:38
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• 40:41
  Speaker 2: Actually listeners, make sure you do go to the YouTube.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: Because I caught up with Archie McDonald back in Acid
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: and I've got an interview with him and the team owner,
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: James from Joe Rascal Racing that you guys can check
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: out shortly as well. That is enough yapping from me
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: and Matt Clayton. We're going to be back real soon
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: with more motor GP pitsor