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Senna Agius Steals the Show in Jerez · Pit Talk

0:07
Speaker 1: Well, well, well, we told you Herrath would deliver, but
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Speaker 1: no one said it was going to be this unhinged.
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Speaker 1: We had magic at the front, we had drama and
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Speaker 1: the gravel and results that we weren't expecting because Hared
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Speaker 1: looked at everyone's race predictions, well Matt's race predictions, and
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Speaker 1: just said, you know what, lest of them straight in
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Speaker 1: the bin. But for our Aussies we had another reason
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Speaker 1: to celebrate, because honestly, this weekend had everything. Victory's drama, confusion,
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Speaker 1: co questionable choices, and boy do we have plenty to
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Speaker 1: talk about now. This episode of Pittook is brought to
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Speaker 1: you by Shunning's Insurance. I'm your host, Rneita vmullen, and
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Speaker 1: of course I'm joined by the voice of reason, or
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Speaker 1: at least someone who'll try to make sense of whatever
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Speaker 1: happened this weekend, mister Matt Clayton. Matt, Hello, and I
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Speaker 1: just want to say hello from Herath because I am
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Speaker 1: here Monday's test session and you guys can probably hear
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Speaker 1: the likes out on track behind me right now.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a bit more exciting than the backdrop that
1:04
Speaker 2: I've got here. After a very late night here in Melbourne,
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Speaker 2: after covering the first European round of the season. I'm
1:09
Speaker 2: a bit out of practice, but when you said voice
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Speaker 2: of reason, I thought you were going to say something
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Speaker 2: a little less complimentary, and I probably would have agreed
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Speaker 2: with you, because my crystal ball with what I predicted
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Speaker 2: was going to happen over the course of the weekend
1:20
Speaker 2: at her death, was pretty busted. By the end of
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Speaker 2: the weekend. I'm pretty sure I might have got Marco
1:25
Speaker 2: Berzeki in about the right spot, but everyone else probably
1:27
Speaker 2: in the wrong spot. So yeah, not my finest work.
1:30
Speaker 2: But to be fair to me and everybody else, we
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Speaker 2: had a guy who win a Grand Prix that hadn't
1:35
Speaker 2: really done anything in the opening three rounds of the year.
1:37
Speaker 2: And have we seen a crazier Motor Peace sprint? Because
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Speaker 2: I was thinking about you when that was going on
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Speaker 2: on Saturday night Australian time. That's one of those times
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Speaker 2: if you've been in a press room where everyone stops
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Speaker 2: analyzing and everyone's just giggling because it was just purely
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Speaker 2: ridiculous what was going on over those twelve laps.
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Speaker 3: I'm sure that was some fun.
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Speaker 1: It was a lot of fun. So for those watching
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Speaker 1: on YouTube right now, you'll see behind me, got a
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Speaker 1: Lorenzo and Mark Marque's backdrop here, and this is the
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Speaker 1: Media Center and what it's like here. But talking about
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Speaker 1: the Media Center and that Saturday sprint, you're exactly right.
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Speaker 1: Everyone stopped typing when the rain started coming down, and
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Speaker 1: we sat the crashes, and then we had the bike swap,
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Speaker 1: and then obviously we had all that drama with Mark
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Speaker 1: Marquez and the pit lane entry and whatnot, which I'm
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Speaker 1: sure we'll go to. But it went from hearing keyboards
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Speaker 1: typing to just what is going on and like everything erupting.
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Speaker 1: But the fact that the crowd, like the numbers here
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Speaker 1: which we saw on the broadcast, the amount of people
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Speaker 1: that come to this Grand Prix is like nothing I've
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Speaker 1: ever seen before. But the crowd had like garbage bags,
2:39
Speaker 1: like trash bags, arms cut out to try and stop
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Speaker 1: the rain, like the umbrellas, and they were living for it,
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Speaker 1: just as I'm sure all the Aussies were back home
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Speaker 1: watching it on TV because you couldn't have scripted it. Honestly,
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Speaker 1: coming into this weekend, I looked at the weather, I'm like, oh,
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be sunny and it's hot. This typical press
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Speaker 1: I mean, I know it's rained a few times in
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Speaker 1: the past, and then you come here and it's so
3:01
Speaker 1: much cooler than they expected. Like they're talking cooler temperatures
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Speaker 1: more like when roto to Moto three test here, which
3:08
Speaker 1: changes everything how the track feels. And then the Sunday's
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Speaker 1: race is sunny and hot, completely different to before. So
3:15
Speaker 1: it's just a weekend when we weren't expecting. But I
3:17
Speaker 1: think coming into the European races, it's a good way
3:21
Speaker 1: to start the season because we've already got this shakeup happening.
3:24
Speaker 1: We've got Puck Marquez crashing out of a Grand Prix again. Again,
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Speaker 1: that was not on your bingo card. That was not prediction.
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Speaker 2: And what was interesting was that he I like to
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Speaker 2: I love watching people's body language, and it's the things
3:39
Speaker 2: that some people don't say more than what they do.
3:41
Speaker 2: Sometimes it gives you a bit of an insight as
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Speaker 2: to how they're feeling about things. And you know, Market
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Speaker 2: obviously had the month off since Texas, and he came
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Speaker 2: into his press debrief on Thursday and showed everyone that
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Speaker 2: hillacious scar that he had on his arm from the
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Speaker 2: spill that he'd had at Cota. But there's been enough
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Speaker 2: time between Coder and her wrath, and you could tell
4:00
Speaker 2: he was sort of walking with that bit more of
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Speaker 2: a Mark swagger, like he sort of felt that he
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Speaker 2: was closer to being physically back. And then he goes
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Speaker 2: and takes pole and then he wins the sprint, which
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Speaker 2: is another soap opera in itself, and I was I
4:13
Speaker 2: was really surprised with the fact that he felt the
4:17
Speaker 2: need to push as hard as he did to crash
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Speaker 2: so early in the Grand Prix, when he admitted afterwards
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Speaker 2: that he didn't think he had anything for Alex over
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Speaker 2: the course of the weekend anyway. So this is one
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Speaker 2: of those weekends for Mark where okay, you might not
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Speaker 2: win the race, but you need to score some points
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Speaker 2: relative to Marco Bozeki because you look at the point
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Speaker 2: standings now he is a long long way behind. I
4:38
Speaker 2: know there's still eighteen rounds to go, but to think
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Speaker 2: he's more than an entire Grand Prix weekend's worth of
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Speaker 2: points now behind first place. If we go to Lemon
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Speaker 2: at the end of next week and he wins a
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Speaker 2: sprint in the Grand Prix and Berzeki doesn't score, he's
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Speaker 2: still behind Berzeki. The Championship. That's how far back Mark
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Speaker 2: is right now. And you know, physically he looks better,
4:57
Speaker 2: but he's still got one hundred percent back. So it's
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Speaker 2: a little bit. I thought this was the weekend he
5:03
Speaker 2: was going to come out and remind everyone, all right,
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Speaker 2: I'm Mark Marquez, like it's nice, you've all had your fun,
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Speaker 2: I'm going to be back, And it sort of half happened, like, yes,
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Speaker 2: he got pole, that was fine, and the sprint win
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Speaker 2: was he was lucky to crash where he crashed, but look,
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Speaker 2: he's still got it dart in the end where everyone
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Speaker 2: else made mistakes. But yeah, really surprised with what happened
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Speaker 2: in the Grand Prix. And you're never going to write
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Speaker 2: someone like markoff. He's too good obviously, and the pace
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Speaker 2: is still there, but the decade's not a fantastic bike
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Speaker 2: right now. He's not one hundred percent fit, and he's
5:33
Speaker 2: just got pretty much no momentum because he keeps throwing
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Speaker 2: himself down the road like he's having a lot of
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Speaker 2: crashes right now.
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Speaker 3: So yeah, super interesting.
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Speaker 2: Point of the championship because we were just talking about
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Speaker 2: this off air before we came on. It's been such
5:44
Speaker 2: a weird season that We've had these huge breaks right
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Speaker 2: between races, but now the pace starts to pick up
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Speaker 2: a bit. You look at what we've got. You know,
5:50
Speaker 2: Lamon and Catalonia is a back to back. Then there's
5:52
Speaker 2: a week off, then I think we go to Magello
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Speaker 2: after that. It's starting to really pick the pace up now,
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Speaker 2: and he can't afford too many more of these sort
6:01
Speaker 2: of ropie weekends because right now the Apulias is so
6:03
Speaker 2: super consistent. They don't look like they're going to beat themselves,
6:06
Speaker 2: do they.
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Speaker 1: No, exactly? And us the thing is like old track,
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Speaker 1: Like this is a track that every rider in this
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Speaker 1: paddick's done a bajillion laps on before, so they could
6:16
Speaker 1: literally ride this circuit with their eyes closed so they
6:18
Speaker 1: know in and out. So this is where you know, okay,
6:21
Speaker 1: this is where they're starting to make the changes within themselves,
6:24
Speaker 1: within their running soul or the finalizing the bike. It's
6:27
Speaker 1: these little key points. And then, like you said, Mark
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Speaker 1: has clearly been pushing this weekend because in Thursday's press conference,
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Speaker 1: Alex Marquez said, I've got nothing this weekend. I'm not
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Speaker 1: going to win. There's no way because he was last
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Speaker 1: year's winner. Right goes out and does it on Sunday,
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Speaker 1: and then you hear Mark all weekend being like Alex
6:47
Speaker 1: is clearly just stronger everywhere, which we saw there's parts
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Speaker 1: where Mark was fast and you managed to put that
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Speaker 1: lap in in the mixed conditions during qualifying on Saturday.
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Speaker 1: But we know that's one of his strengths as well,
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Speaker 1: him and Zako, that's why they were on the front row.
7:01
Speaker 1: But I think for Mark the crashes are starting to
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Speaker 1: play mentally. Now I heard a fact. Don't quote me
7:08
Speaker 1: entirely on it, but it's something like his biggest deficit
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Speaker 1: that he had in points when he won the championship
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Speaker 1: was thirty six.
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Speaker 3: I'll say something along those lines.
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Speaker 1: Yes, it is already forty something forty four. Yep, there
7:23
Speaker 1: you go. See you know, so this is this is
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Speaker 1: where the mental side of things is going to start
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Speaker 1: to come in, because this is the part of the
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Speaker 1: championship where he's meant to come back in and dominate
7:33
Speaker 1: because it's Mark Marquez.
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Speaker 2: Seeing it and the other aspect of this. Of course,
7:38
Speaker 2: that's the Mark side of the equation here. Marco Bozeki,
7:42
Speaker 2: this was like he was not going to win every
7:45
Speaker 2: race for the history of time. While he was in
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Speaker 2: murder GP. Let's be honest, do you feel like that?
7:48
Speaker 2: Because he won the last five and led every lap,
7:50
Speaker 2: of course, but you win championships on days like Sunday
7:54
Speaker 2: at Hares where whatever the best possible result you can get.
7:59
Speaker 2: If you can't win, that's the result you've.
8:01
Speaker 3: Got to get. And he didn't have anything.
8:03
Speaker 2: For Alex Marquez in the race, but he was better
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Speaker 2: than everybody else, So you've got this bizarre like Bozeki,
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Speaker 2: he won even though he lost on Sunday, and that
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Speaker 2: he actually increased his margin at the leader of the
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Speaker 2: championship despite not winning the race, So that shows you
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Speaker 2: where he is right now, Like even on the days
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Speaker 2: when he doesn't win, he's still banking a heap of
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Speaker 2: points over the course of these weekends, and he's actually
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Speaker 2: got a bigger lead after hereth than what he arrived.
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Speaker 1: With no exactly, and watching Marco over sect okay. One
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Speaker 1: thing for the listeners of people watching Matt talks about
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Speaker 1: body language and I'm starting to learn this and I'm
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Speaker 1: starting to watch everything. It was really interesting in the
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Speaker 1: press conference watching Marcro's body language because you could kind
8:44
Speaker 1: of tell that he was a bit disappointed in himself
8:46
Speaker 1: that he wasn't able, but he kept saying, you know here,
8:50
Speaker 1: it just wasn't entirely the case, like he couldn't put
8:53
Speaker 1: everything together. Mark and Alex got way really quickly. They
8:57
Speaker 1: had some tech troubles blah blah blah. But he's bodyling
9:00
Speaker 1: I thought was really interesting. I kind of thought in
9:04
Speaker 1: himself that he thought the winning streak was going to continue.
9:08
Speaker 1: Interesting sitting there, just the facial expressions.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I agree. I love priding myself as an
9:15
Speaker 2: amateur body language doctor. I think it's just super interesting
9:17
Speaker 2: because it's across every sport. There's some people that are
9:20
Speaker 2: so good at playing the body language game, and there's
9:22
Speaker 2: other people that are absolutely terrible at it. But this
9:24
Speaker 2: shows you the evolution of someone like Bez in that
9:27
Speaker 2: he now there's a proof of concept with him. It's like, oh, yeah,
9:30
Speaker 2: I am really quite good at this, and I can
9:32
Speaker 2: win motor GP races, and I can win successive races,
9:34
Speaker 2: and I can string these races together. But we talked
9:38
Speaker 2: a little bit before about the Aprillia again. Yes, a
9:41
Speaker 2: Ducati won of Grand Prix for the first time in
9:42
Speaker 2: a while. We had two Ducaddies on the podium. We
9:45
Speaker 2: still had four Aprilias in the top six. And you
9:48
Speaker 2: know that bike right now. It is the bike for
9:52
Speaker 2: all circuits, for all seasons, for all conditions. The dcady's
9:57
Speaker 2: got a lot of work to do here. This isn't
9:59
Speaker 2: just going to be one of these inevitable Oh well,
10:01
Speaker 2: apprilliable sort have come back to the field a little bit.
10:04
Speaker 2: Jucatti's got some issues. Clearly, Mark's not one hundred percent fit.
10:08
Speaker 2: Pekabanyaya looks like a guy who's going to work elsewhere
10:11
Speaker 2: next year. Spoiler alert, He's a man who's going to
10:13
Speaker 2: work elsewhere next year, so that's probably why he looks
10:15
Speaker 2: a little bit checked out right now. And if you
10:17
Speaker 2: looked at all the Jucatti writers, Aldergaret has been injured
10:20
Speaker 2: and he's still coming back. Alex has had one decent
10:22
Speaker 2: weekend out of four. If it wasn't for Fabio di
10:25
Speaker 2: jan Antonio right now, who's clearly Ducatti's best writer. The
10:30
Speaker 2: Ducatti thing's a bit messing, which is not something we've
10:32
Speaker 2: said about Ducatti very much in the last five years.
10:34
Speaker 1: Is it not exactly? It is clear as day. Even
10:39
Speaker 1: in the press conference yesterday, someone asked him, I can't
10:43
Speaker 1: remember the question exactly, but it's like, you know, you're
10:45
Speaker 1: clearly the strongest du Caddi writer at the moment. What's
10:48
Speaker 1: going on there? And he's like, I just seem to
10:51
Speaker 1: be making the most of the current situation. He's like,
10:54
Speaker 1: what I'm writing is no different to Alex remarks, It's
10:57
Speaker 1: all the same. I just make the most of it.
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Speaker 3: You know.
11:00
Speaker 2: What's really interesting something that I was told by someone
11:02
Speaker 2: that would know these things in the paddock is that
11:05
Speaker 2: Decatti's been bringing a lot of updates and variations on
11:09
Speaker 2: things and this part and that part and the other part,
11:11
Speaker 2: and everyone's trying this that and the next thing and
11:13
Speaker 2: dig you as one of these sorts of guys. It's like,
11:16
Speaker 2: just leave me with what I've got and allow me
11:18
Speaker 2: to really understand what it is that I've got around me,
11:22
Speaker 2: and then I will ride as a confident rider. And
11:25
Speaker 2: it's really interesting. He's probably making fewer changes than anyone
11:29
Speaker 2: else to his bike weekend to weekend right now, but
11:31
Speaker 2: it feels like he's the guy who's most consistent. And
11:34
Speaker 2: there might be a theme there, like maybe they're just
11:36
Speaker 2: trying to bring too much development to this bike too soon,
11:39
Speaker 2: whereas he's probably approaching it a bit more methodically, saying,
11:42
Speaker 2: let me understand what I've got, I'll maximize that, and
11:45
Speaker 2: then when I get to the point where I feel
11:47
Speaker 2: completely on top of that and I want to add
11:48
Speaker 2: something that might give me some more performance, then that's
11:51
Speaker 2: the time to do that.
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Speaker 3: I mean.
11:53
Speaker 2: The other thing with you you have to remember is
11:55
Speaker 2: that of all of those top lines you caddy guys,
11:57
Speaker 2: he doesn't officially know where he's going to be next
11:59
Speaker 2: year yet, so he is still he's still trying to
12:04
Speaker 2: prove that he deserves a good contract at a good
12:07
Speaker 2: team for twenty twenty seven. And there's nothing like the
12:11
Speaker 2: potential for being unemployed to unlock some good performwards in
12:14
Speaker 2: anybody in any walk of life. Anybody that's listening to
12:16
Speaker 2: this podcast is going, oh yeah, that probably sounds a
12:18
Speaker 2: bit like me.
12:18
Speaker 3: But Motor GP writers are no different.
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Speaker 1: No exactly, And there's something that they've been talking about
12:23
Speaker 1: a lot, and they keep going, I know, you guys
12:25
Speaker 1: want to know, and we want the answers to even
12:27
Speaker 1: like Yesie, he was quite open and just saying, I
12:30
Speaker 1: don't know yet, and once I know and I can
12:32
Speaker 1: tell you, I will tell you what.
12:33
Speaker 2: It can't something that was hilarious in the post race
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Speaker 2: press last night. I don't know if you were in
12:37
Speaker 2: there or not. We've not talked about this, but some
12:39
Speaker 2: one of the journalists asked Alex Marquez and Digia what
12:44
Speaker 2: it would be like if they were potentially going to
12:45
Speaker 2: be teammates at Katim next year, and they looked at
12:48
Speaker 2: each other as if to say, I don't want to
12:50
Speaker 2: go first?
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Speaker 3: Do you want to go first?
12:52
Speaker 2: And then they widen the shot and Marco Berzeki is
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Speaker 2: just giggling listening to these two trying not to actually
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Speaker 2: answer the question in the press conference, and everyone knows
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Speaker 2: what's going on here, but it was just a really
13:01
Speaker 2: funny piece of theater where Alex and Digia gave each
13:05
Speaker 2: other that looks like I don't want to say anything,
13:07
Speaker 2: Do you want to say something? And then Zeki's just
13:09
Speaker 2: like he's just shit stirring and he just wanted You
13:11
Speaker 2: just thought it was the funniest thigue of all time. So, yeah,
13:13
Speaker 2: the sooner we get this rider market stuff out of
13:15
Speaker 2: the open, the better, But it was it was just
13:17
Speaker 2: funny because there was a question and then there was
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Speaker 2: this painful silence afterwards, like I don't want to answer
13:21
Speaker 2: this first to you, it was very funny.
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Speaker 1: No, I wasn't there, and I did think it was
13:26
Speaker 1: quite funny, and it's kind of refreshing as well. It's like,
13:29
Speaker 1: you know, these guys are human being too, like this
13:31
Speaker 1: is their job, just like you know, we get to
13:34
Speaker 1: talk about Moto GP. They're the ones that are actually
13:36
Speaker 1: doing it for us.
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Speaker 3: Well.
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Speaker 2: And there was a bit I liked about Alex Marquez
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Speaker 2: too after the weekend, because he was asked about you know,
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Speaker 2: you were so pessimistic before the weekend. You didn't think
13:43
Speaker 2: you were going to do anything, and and he you know,
13:46
Speaker 2: normally someone will come up with, oh, well this changed
13:48
Speaker 2: and that change, and he sort of just shrugged his
13:50
Speaker 2: shoulders as I'm not one hundred percent sure what happened,
13:53
Speaker 2: Like he's obviously very glad that it happened, but he
13:55
Speaker 2: sort of said, oh, there's some sort of magic about
13:57
Speaker 2: this place. But he was almost as surprised with away
14:00
Speaker 2: his weekend and panned out as he was elated about it,
14:02
Speaker 2: because I didn't see this coming either, but I'm very
14:04
Speaker 2: happy that it's happened to me. So yeah, that human
14:07
Speaker 2: side sometimes it is nice when it comes out. And
14:09
Speaker 2: those three in the press conference together. That was a
14:11
Speaker 2: good combination.
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Speaker 1: Last night, I thought, no, no, it was. It was
14:15
Speaker 1: one thing I wanted to talk to you a little
14:17
Speaker 1: bit though about Matt is It felt like this weekend
14:19
Speaker 1: there was there was drama, but it was not like
14:23
Speaker 1: necessarily on track drama or like clashes. It was the
14:26
Speaker 1: fact that, you know, we had the front disc issue
14:29
Speaker 1: with Martin during Saturday Sprint where we saw it bright
14:32
Speaker 1: red like we do in Qatar when it's nighttime. Seeing
14:35
Speaker 1: that during the day was phenomenal. We had the tear
14:39
Speaker 1: off issue with Bez going under the rear wheel, just
14:42
Speaker 1: like you know Mark had it, Philip Islander. It just
14:44
Speaker 1: seems like there was just like little things like that,
14:46
Speaker 1: and the penalties this week as well. Yeah, yeah, what
14:51
Speaker 1: was your take on that? Because for me, I'm kind
14:53
Speaker 1: of going like, really is this stuff that they should
14:57
Speaker 1: be like like the teraroff and what not? Come on
14:59
Speaker 1: you guys, like we know there's like the communication between
15:01
Speaker 1: them where it's like you don't have why is that
15:03
Speaker 1: stuff happening?
15:04
Speaker 3: What it was weird?
15:05
Speaker 1: What is that?
15:06
Speaker 2: It was weird in that it felt like they're the
15:08
Speaker 2: sorts of problems that you get, like really early in
15:10
Speaker 2: the season whenever one's just a bit out of practice
15:12
Speaker 2: and you know, it felt like a round one sort
15:14
Speaker 2: of a thing. There were, you know, and just even
15:16
Speaker 2: procedural things like you know, Juan Mere riding back to
15:18
Speaker 2: the pits with half the bike falling off all over
15:20
Speaker 2: the track and getting long laps for that, and Frankie
15:22
Speaker 2: Morbidelly riding a smoking bike back to the pits, which
15:25
Speaker 2: wasn't well received and they had to delay the qualifying
15:28
Speaker 2: session because of potential oil on the track. And the
15:31
Speaker 2: most random one of all is that Jack Miller got
15:33
Speaker 2: a pit lane speeding penalty when he crashed and came
15:37
Speaker 2: in during the scream when it was raining. The reason
15:40
Speaker 2: he was speeding in pit lane is that the button
15:42
Speaker 2: to turn the pit lane speed limit or off he'd
15:44
Speaker 2: actually broken it when he crashed the bike in the
15:46
Speaker 2: sprint and couldn't actually activate the pit laid speed limit,
15:48
Speaker 2: and so that's why he got busted for.
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Speaker 3: Speeding in the pits.
15:50
Speaker 2: So it was one of those weekends where we had
15:54
Speaker 2: maybe a few more penalties than normal still penalties penalties
15:57
Speaker 2: every week of course, but they were just penalties for
15:59
Speaker 2: the as things and the tear off thing like I
16:03
Speaker 2: still I mean, you remember Mark Marquez winning the race
16:05
Speaker 2: at Philip Island in twenty what you said twenty four
16:08
Speaker 2: when he dropped to about tenth on the first corner
16:10
Speaker 2: because he spun the rear wheel up on a tear off.
16:12
Speaker 2: I do not understand how in twenty twenty six, with
16:16
Speaker 2: all the technology and the money and everything that goes
16:18
Speaker 2: into murdor GP, that we're still throwing bits of plastic
16:21
Speaker 2: on the grid before the race.
16:22
Speaker 3: What are we doing?
16:23
Speaker 2: Like, I know you can't exactly stick an astray on
16:25
Speaker 2: these things and just stick it in there and everyone's
16:26
Speaker 2: going to be fine. But do we just ban throwing
16:29
Speaker 2: tear offs on the grid at this point? Because Bes
16:31
Speaker 2: was crazily unlucky, Like you watch this thing just float
16:34
Speaker 2: through the air and attached to the front of his bike.
16:36
Speaker 2: But we can't be having these things spoiling people's races.
16:39
Speaker 2: It seems a bit silly, doesn't it.
16:41
Speaker 1: It is a little bit silly, and honestly, that's a
16:44
Speaker 1: lot of people have been talking about it. Here is
16:46
Speaker 1: the fact of you know, they'll put a fresh set
16:49
Speaker 1: on a fresh visor. I don't know if people know this.
16:51
Speaker 1: They have their helmets and whatnot prepped before each session,
16:54
Speaker 1: so they'll be a fresh stack of tearoff sitting on
16:56
Speaker 1: top of their visor. They'll put the helmet on for
16:58
Speaker 1: the first time. They'll right out of the box, out
17:01
Speaker 1: of the garage, down pit lane, they take one off
17:03
Speaker 1: straight away. It's it's yeah, I know, it's it's something
17:08
Speaker 1: that's been brought up because it's like, this is the
17:09
Speaker 1: second time it's happened. Marke did it to himself in
17:13
Speaker 1: Phillip Island, but this time it was another right, I
17:18
Speaker 1: can't Alex. It was one of the Alex's.
17:20
Speaker 2: It was Alex bark Yeah yeah there yeah, yeah, And
17:23
Speaker 2: so it's one of those things I reckon.
17:24
Speaker 3: They do it out of habit most of the time.
17:26
Speaker 2: It's almost like, oh yeah, because I always do this
17:28
Speaker 2: because there's so many of those visa tearoffs on there.
17:31
Speaker 2: What if you you know, what if there were only
17:32
Speaker 2: two you only had two visa tearoffs on there, and
17:34
Speaker 2: you had to be very very s because stupid thing
17:37
Speaker 2: is you tear one off at the start of the race.
17:38
Speaker 2: You've got a completely clear visor, give it two laps
17:41
Speaker 2: and that things got bugs and great and all sort
17:43
Speaker 2: of stuff all over it. Anyway, So I don't even
17:45
Speaker 2: know why we're doing it half the time. It's just
17:47
Speaker 2: out of habit more than anything else.
17:49
Speaker 1: I must admit, though, there's a lot of bugs here,
17:51
Speaker 1: which really surprised me, Like in this this area because
17:55
Speaker 1: literally where the circuit is is not that far from
17:57
Speaker 1: Hoeth City Center. It's like that's where we're saying, it's
18:01
Speaker 1: like fifteen minutes, but you're kind of in the side.
18:04
Speaker 1: There's a lot of trees and whatnot. There's a lot
18:06
Speaker 1: of bugs. I posted a video on the Fox Motorsports
18:08
Speaker 1: Socials of Center's bike in Park fer may Oh you
18:11
Speaker 1: can see the big bugs flatters of the So yeah, yeah,
18:16
Speaker 1: it makes sense as to why, but no, I completely
18:18
Speaker 1: get it. It's one of those things that, yeah, everyone's
18:21
Speaker 1: been talking about. So I'm curious to see if eventually
18:23
Speaker 1: something comes out about that, along with the whole markers
18:28
Speaker 1: Pit Lane entry. Yeah, because it seems like this kid
18:32
Speaker 1: just knows the rule book inside and out and is
18:35
Speaker 1: just going to find every loophole available. Right.
18:38
Speaker 2: The thing with Mark Marquez, he knows what the rule
18:41
Speaker 2: book says, he also knows what the rule book doesn't say,
18:44
Speaker 2: and it's one of those things that he is the
18:47
Speaker 2: master knowing where the gray areas are, so it's one
18:50
Speaker 2: of those things that he'd be, and he would have
18:52
Speaker 2: been that annoying sort of kid. It's like, we didn't
18:54
Speaker 2: say I couldn't do this. It's like, well, just because
18:56
Speaker 2: I didn't say you couldn't do it doesn't mean that
18:57
Speaker 2: you can. And he's just the master at find the
19:00
Speaker 2: gray areas with these things. And the thing that was
19:02
Speaker 2: so interesting about him falling off at the last quarter
19:05
Speaker 2: in the sprint was that he immediately assessed the situation
19:09
Speaker 2: and worked out what he was going to do. In
19:11
Speaker 2: that he didn't ignore the flag marshals. He very patiently
19:15
Speaker 2: waited for the entire field to go through that corner,
19:18
Speaker 2: so he wasn't going to block anybody or get in
19:20
Speaker 2: the way. You could see him looking waiting for the
19:23
Speaker 2: last bike once you know, he's like waiting for the
19:25
Speaker 2: pedestrian lights to go green or something. He waited for
19:27
Speaker 2: the last bike to come through and then rode in
19:30
Speaker 2: a straight line across the grass and into pit lane.
19:33
Speaker 2: And because it's Mark exercising the dark arts of knowing
19:36
Speaker 2: where the you know, the things that aren't said in
19:37
Speaker 2: the rule book, everyone jumped up and down, and my
19:39
Speaker 2: original when I saw it at the time, I thought, oh,
19:42
Speaker 2: I think that's a penalty. I'm not sure you're allowed
19:44
Speaker 2: to do that. But of course, the area in which
19:47
Speaker 2: the pit lane starts and you have to enter the
19:49
Speaker 2: pit lane is between the two sixty kilometer and hour
19:52
Speaker 2: boards as you crossed the line to enter the pit lane.
19:54
Speaker 2: And he entered the pit lane between those two boards
19:57
Speaker 2: just like everybody else would. He just didn't enter it
19:59
Speaker 2: at the beginning of the road leading into the pit lane.
20:02
Speaker 1: And so when you actually read by the grass, he did.
20:05
Speaker 2: Yeah, he just took the shortcut, but he was he
20:09
Speaker 2: didn't gain an advantage by cutting through the grass. In fact,
20:13
Speaker 2: he actually penalized himself a heap of time because he
20:15
Speaker 2: waited for everybody else to go through. And so that's
20:18
Speaker 2: just a classic case of him knowing, I know that
20:21
Speaker 2: the pit lane starts when you get to those two
20:23
Speaker 2: sixty k and hour boards and the white line that
20:25
Speaker 2: joins them, that's the beginning of pit lane. Incredibly clever
20:29
Speaker 2: and look at was that he admitted that he was
20:31
Speaker 2: very lucky that he crashed where he did, because that
20:34
Speaker 2: gave him the option to do that. If you crash
20:36
Speaker 2: at term one, You've got to drag a broken bike
20:39
Speaker 2: around on the wrong tires in the rain, and you're
20:41
Speaker 2: probably going to lose two minutes and that's the end
20:42
Speaker 2: of your race pretty much. So there was some luck there.
20:46
Speaker 2: But I love the I love the quick thinking, and
20:49
Speaker 2: he's just like, oh, I can do this. And then
20:51
Speaker 2: just when you did it and let everyone complain about it.
20:54
Speaker 2: So my initial thought was that, yeah, I don't think
20:57
Speaker 2: that looks right. But then when you actually read the
20:59
Speaker 2: rule book with what it says and more importantly what
21:01
Speaker 2: it does not say, he was a completely right, as
21:05
Speaker 2: he's been so many times in the past, and because
21:07
Speaker 2: it's Mark, and because he goes out there in those
21:09
Speaker 2: conditions and then he's back in the lead within three laps.
21:11
Speaker 3: Everyone complains about it, but in the end of the
21:14
Speaker 3: day it was very weird.
21:16
Speaker 2: It's not something that we're going to see again, and
21:18
Speaker 2: they'll probably fill in some of that gray in the
21:20
Speaker 2: rule book so he can't do it again. But the
21:23
Speaker 2: rules on the day that he did it, he was
21:24
Speaker 2: completely with these rights to do it, and that's why
21:26
Speaker 2: he won the race.
21:28
Speaker 1: I think we know this about Mark. He is always
21:31
Speaker 1: thinking two three steps ahead, no matter what is happening. Yeah,
21:35
Speaker 1: And that's kind of the difference that you do see
21:37
Speaker 1: between some of the writers is the writers who are
21:39
Speaker 1: very reactive to the moment of what is happening and
21:42
Speaker 1: the ones who are planning for every sort of scenario,
21:46
Speaker 1: not saying that's something Mark or to plan for, but
21:48
Speaker 1: when it started to happen, it's okay, I can do this,
21:51
Speaker 1: I can do I do this, blah blah blah. It's
21:53
Speaker 1: like already having the steps ahead. This is the difference
21:56
Speaker 1: I say. It's almost like a different stay between Mark
21:59
Speaker 1: and Fabio, like those sorts of people.
22:01
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, completely, And you know the two that the
22:04
Speaker 2: two people I always think about in situations like this.
22:06
Speaker 2: You remember the race at Cocher last year where Marcus
22:08
Speaker 2: bolted off the grid and everyone was watching him to
22:10
Speaker 2: see what he would do, and then they all just
22:12
Speaker 2: started running because Mark started running. It does show you
22:15
Speaker 2: the who's the puppet master here, who's pulling the strings?
22:18
Speaker 2: And the other one I remember last year was at
22:20
Speaker 2: Lemon when it started to rain and the weather was
22:23
Speaker 2: a bit crazy, and I remember market Puzeki saying after
22:26
Speaker 2: the race, the one guy who he was watching really
22:28
Speaker 2: closely was Jack Miller, because Jack is probably the best
22:33
Speaker 2: on the grid in determining when you can go out
22:37
Speaker 2: on slicks on a drying track. He'll make that call
22:40
Speaker 2: better than most people. So when you're having one of
22:42
Speaker 2: those random sessions where it's been raining but then it's
22:46
Speaker 2: starting to dry, Jack's usually the pioneer to go out
22:49
Speaker 2: on slick tires on a slightly wet track, and they're
22:51
Speaker 2: all watching him. It's like, well, if he thinks it's okay,
22:54
Speaker 2: then it's probably okay. Because Jack never goes too early
22:56
Speaker 2: with these sorts of things. It's just funny. In a
22:58
Speaker 2: sport of professionals and go that have been around all
23:00
Speaker 2: their lives, there's certain riders that other riders will watch
23:04
Speaker 2: to see what they're doing in certain situations. But yeah,
23:07
Speaker 2: Mark is just the master at this sort of stuff
23:09
Speaker 2: and watching him, I mean, you saw this from close
23:12
Speaker 2: quarters on the weekend, watching him ride in the wet
23:15
Speaker 2: when the conditions are changing corner by corner, lap by lap.
23:19
Speaker 2: His ability to find the limit and stay on it
23:21
Speaker 2: in that sort of situation where everyone else is just
23:23
Speaker 2: wide and falling off, and that's where you see the talent, right,
23:27
Speaker 2: It's just He's got this supernatural ability to corner by corner,
23:31
Speaker 2: be able to work it out where a lot of
23:33
Speaker 2: very very good guys just can't do that.
23:36
Speaker 1: Well, that's kind of what I was thinking was going
23:37
Speaker 1: to happen during Saturday's sprint, is when the rain conditions
23:41
Speaker 1: came in. I thought that Jack might have been able
23:44
Speaker 1: to capitalize on it a little bit more. I think
23:46
Speaker 1: he just pushed that little bit too hard, and obviously
23:48
Speaker 1: we saw the crash, we saw the frustration on the
23:50
Speaker 1: broadcast from him. But this was one of those moments
23:53
Speaker 1: almost like a La Mon last year, right, same thing,
23:56
Speaker 1: as like the weather's there, it's going to play into
23:58
Speaker 1: his hands. Similar sort of people, because we had Jack,
24:02
Speaker 1: David and Zaka on the front road capitalizing on it too.
24:05
Speaker 1: So that was a bit of heartbreak because there's another
24:07
Speaker 1: disappointing weekend for Jack once again. I meant just to
24:12
Speaker 1: let you know they're already before we jumped off of
24:16
Speaker 1: the pod, because the boys are out there. The boys,
24:18
Speaker 1: the motor GP's out there testing right now. As you
24:20
Speaker 1: guys can hear, Fabiocodaurro has already gone way quicker today
24:25
Speaker 1: than what he did yesterday. It's insane Yamaha or whatever.
24:29
Speaker 1: They're working on it. They're changing, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
24:33
Speaker 1: but yeah, back to Jack Miller, what was your thoughts
24:35
Speaker 1: for him this weekend? Because it's tricky, isn't it.
24:39
Speaker 2: Yeah, Look, it's been super tough, and I think that's
24:41
Speaker 2: where the frustration and the him punching the ground in
24:45
Speaker 2: the sprint after he'd come off. He knows that times
24:48
Speaker 2: are really tough right now. He knows that in a
24:50
Speaker 2: normal sprint or normal Grand Prix, the chances of any
24:53
Speaker 2: Yamaha scoring any points at all is going to be really,
24:56
Speaker 2: really tough. I mean, what are their riders scored? I
24:58
Speaker 2: think fourteen points between the four of them across the
25:01
Speaker 2: four round So yeah, Jack hasn't scored a point yet.
25:02
Speaker 2: But it's not like all the other three guys are
25:04
Speaker 2: scoring loads and loads of points right now. I think
25:06
Speaker 2: Kuaaterero was half a minute behind the winner and in
25:10
Speaker 2: fourteenth in the Grand Prix, and I remember he was
25:12
Speaker 2: on Poland on the podium at her Reth last year.
25:15
Speaker 2: So yeah, and look, it's super tough right now. I
25:18
Speaker 2: think his reaction was a lot more of you need
25:20
Speaker 2: special circumstances right now to be able to score a point.
25:24
Speaker 2: If you're on a Yamaha, there's not going to be
25:26
Speaker 2: too many special circumstances because you only get a certain
25:28
Speaker 2: amount of wet races and what have you. And that
25:30
Speaker 2: was one of those ones where when you're looking at
25:33
Speaker 2: the timing tower and looking at where he was on
25:35
Speaker 2: the track, I thought he might have finished somewhere between
25:38
Speaker 2: seventh and ninth in the sprint. And when you haven't
25:40
Speaker 2: scored a point all year, getting two or three points
25:43
Speaker 2: even in a crazy sprint like that, it just takes
25:45
Speaker 2: the pressure off a little bit. And I reckon that's
25:47
Speaker 2: a lot where the frustration came in, because you know,
25:50
Speaker 2: the chances in a normal dry weekend for Yamahas to
25:53
Speaker 2: score points right now is slim to none. And yeah,
25:57
Speaker 2: just one that went through his fingers.
25:58
Speaker 1: Unfortunately, I've mentioned a couple of times Zarko, and it's
26:02
Speaker 1: because I want to talk about him, because I think
26:06
Speaker 1: same thing. He capitalized on the crazy conditions on Saturday.
26:09
Speaker 1: He even said that he woke up we heard it
26:11
Speaker 1: was raining in the night and he was like, yeah,
26:13
Speaker 1: this is my time once again. I'm back. I'm back, guys.
26:16
Speaker 1: But I mean phenomenal to have LCR on the front row.
26:19
Speaker 1: I think he did well, especially in Sunday's race to
26:23
Speaker 1: hold off because you could see the difference in what
26:26
Speaker 1: the Hondas were able to do compared to a brilliant
26:29
Speaker 1: obviously Duke Caddy in that aspect, even though they were
26:32
Speaker 1: the strongest spike. But he was there and he was
26:35
Speaker 1: trying the whole bron Frie So I mean, kudos to
26:39
Speaker 1: Zako this weekend. I think he made the most of
26:41
Speaker 1: the conditions and for me, he was one of the
26:43
Speaker 1: people I was really excited to see to be able
26:46
Speaker 1: to achieve the results that he did this weekend.
26:48
Speaker 3: Yeah, completely.
26:49
Speaker 2: I mean the fact that he had those two trackhouts
26:51
Speaker 2: Aprilias behind him until really the last couple of laps
26:53
Speaker 2: of the race, and I agree were just doing as usual.
26:56
Speaker 2: Oh I've got ten types more group than everybody else
26:58
Speaker 2: in the last five laps and coming forwards at the
26:59
Speaker 2: end of the race. But for Zarko to be in
27:01
Speaker 2: a position where he had those two behind him for
27:03
Speaker 2: a fair while, huge kudos because none of the other
27:06
Speaker 2: Hondas were particularly anywhere and Zarko is one of those
27:09
Speaker 2: guys that, yeah, when a door does crack open like that,
27:12
Speaker 2: for a bit of an unusual result. I mean, we
27:15
Speaker 2: saw it last year with Lamon, which is still one
27:17
Speaker 2: of the one of the great nights of watching Moto GP.
27:20
Speaker 2: That was just phenomenal that night watching that. But yeah, yeah, look,
27:24
Speaker 2: no great surprise with him. He's very good in those
27:26
Speaker 2: sorts of conditions. But he's also a guy that doesn't
27:28
Speaker 2: let an opportunity, let that go. And yeah, I mean
27:31
Speaker 2: we're off to Lamon next and if anyone's going to
27:33
Speaker 2: be doing a rain dance after what happened last year,
27:35
Speaker 2: I think it's him.
27:37
Speaker 1: I definitely I think so too. Somoto GP went wild, crazy, wonderful,
27:42
Speaker 1: full of emotion, full of everything, and yeah, great tick
27:46
Speaker 1: the box. We didn't know what was going to happen
27:48
Speaker 1: this weekend and we got the answers. But the reason
27:52
Speaker 1: that we're so excited, the reason that over the moon
27:55
Speaker 1: and we're so happy, we have to talk about it.
27:57
Speaker 1: Sena age years. He is back on the back to
28:00
Speaker 1: back wins. First person to do that since Ramy and
28:03
Speaker 1: two thousand and twenty twenty one.
28:05
Speaker 2: First Doz you to do it? Yeah, first Ozz you
28:07
Speaker 2: to do it in five years? And what's interesting to
28:09
Speaker 2: me with this is that and because he he's big
28:13
Speaker 2: on details. I wrote about this for Fox Sports today
28:15
Speaker 2: Monday in Australia. Every time he's won a race in
28:19
Speaker 2: the past twelve months and he's now won four of them,
28:22
Speaker 2: the race after he's won a race previously, he's not
28:25
Speaker 2: gone very well and he's very aware of that. Like
28:28
Speaker 2: he think won that crazy last lap at Silverston last year,
28:31
Speaker 2: didn't do it, was okay in Aragon the next round,
28:34
Speaker 2: but certainly qualified really poorly. Philip Island last year was
28:37
Speaker 2: as dominant of a victory as we've seen in Moto
28:39
Speaker 2: iiO in the history of that category, and then was
28:42
Speaker 2: nowhere in Malaysia the next round. So this is one
28:45
Speaker 2: of those ones. Yes, he won at Cota. You know,
28:48
Speaker 2: we talked about it. He was on Motor Racing three
28:50
Speaker 2: sixty last week talking about it. What was he going
28:54
Speaker 2: to do for an encore this time because that's the
28:56
Speaker 2: next step of the evolution for him, right And what
28:59
Speaker 2: was so impressed for me? Well, there were a couple
29:01
Speaker 2: of things with him this weekend. You would have seen
29:03
Speaker 2: this on Friday, he was just head and shoulders faster
29:06
Speaker 2: than everybody else. He broke the motor two lap record
29:08
Speaker 2: at he wrath. His long run pace was awesome and
29:12
Speaker 2: he's like, all right, this looks like a Grand Prix
29:14
Speaker 2: that he can realistically win. Bit of a surprise that
29:17
Speaker 2: he qualified off the front row but didn't let it
29:19
Speaker 2: deter him. He was up the front from the very
29:21
Speaker 2: beginning in the race. But watching that race, it was
29:25
Speaker 2: really one of those. It was Sena, Manu Gonzalez and
29:29
Speaker 2: the man with the best accent in the motor GP
29:31
Speaker 2: pad Colic Vaya had broken away in a three rider
29:34
Speaker 2: group at the front and you could see that Senna
29:37
Speaker 2: was sort of itchy to get to the front and
29:38
Speaker 2: set his pace, and he got there, I think lap
29:41
Speaker 2: five or so, it's like, all right, he's going to
29:43
Speaker 2: go now, and he couldn't break the two of them.
29:46
Speaker 2: And it's one of those things where this is the
29:48
Speaker 2: maturity of cener ageus now in that there's plan A
29:51
Speaker 2: and Plan A didn't necessarily work and he wasn't where
29:54
Speaker 2: he needed to be, so he did the very very
29:56
Speaker 2: clever thing is I'm just going to sit here and
29:57
Speaker 2: buy my time a little bit, and I'm going to
30:00
Speaker 2: gave some tire and I'm going to watch what the
30:01
Speaker 2: others are going to do and then I'm going to
30:04
Speaker 2: go again. He didn't get flustered because Plan A didn't
30:07
Speaker 2: work and he wasn't able to show his pace. And
30:10
Speaker 2: the really impressive thing for me once he got to
30:13
Speaker 2: the front, I think there were seven laps to go.
30:15
Speaker 2: Those last seven laps, I think the time difference between
30:18
Speaker 2: his best and his worst lap was less than three
30:20
Speaker 2: tenths of a second. And that's with fading tires and
30:23
Speaker 2: you've got pressure behind you, you've got a Spanish rider
30:25
Speaker 2: behind you, it's your teammate were in Spain. How cool
30:29
Speaker 2: he was and how composed he was. If you know,
30:32
Speaker 2: he made a couple of minimal, minimal mistakes that were
30:36
Speaker 2: almost imperceptible. I loved how composed he was. And this
30:41
Speaker 2: is all part of the evolution right in that I
30:42
Speaker 2: don't think anyone questions that he doesn't have the speed.
30:46
Speaker 2: He clearly has the speed. But being able to have
30:49
Speaker 2: a good result one round after he'd had a good
30:51
Speaker 2: result is something he had not done before. So that's
30:54
Speaker 2: another box that he's ticked. And man, the timing of this,
30:58
Speaker 2: like to win back to back races, to be the
30:59
Speaker 2: first Australian to do it in five years, to be
31:02
Speaker 2: second in the Moto two Championship after not scoring in
31:05
Speaker 2: the first two rounds, like he's putting himself in a really,
31:08
Speaker 2: really good position. And you just look at the role
31:11
Speaker 2: call of Moto two champions over the years since that
31:13
Speaker 2: category started in twenty ten, every single one of them's
31:16
Speaker 2: ended up in Motor GP. And some of them, some
31:18
Speaker 2: of them have had short careers like Remy Gardner. Some
31:21
Speaker 2: of them have had really really long and successful careers,
31:23
Speaker 2: but they've all got there. And to my mind, this
31:26
Speaker 2: is one of those things now where you know, we
31:28
Speaker 2: were joking offline on Sunday, and I'm not speaking out
31:32
Speaker 2: of school here, where I said, do we need to
31:34
Speaker 2: start getting the promotional posters ready for Adelaide with center
31:36
Speaker 2: AG's face on it, because the longer this goes and
31:40
Speaker 2: the longer the right at market remains pretty stalled out.
31:43
Speaker 2: Right now, we know that they've been talking to a
31:47
Speaker 2: couple of different manufacturers and all he can do right
31:50
Speaker 2: now is keep doing what he is doing. He's making
31:53
Speaker 2: a huge impression. There's clearly evolution there. I know you
31:58
Speaker 2: spoke to him after the race last night. The thing
31:59
Speaker 2: that I loved about the conversation that you have with
32:01
Speaker 2: in which you can you can see on Fox sports
32:03
Speaker 2: dot com dot au is. He was clearly buzzing that
32:06
Speaker 2: he won. But there's this great combination right now. He's
32:10
Speaker 2: very confident, but he's very calm at the same time
32:12
Speaker 2: in that nothing that he's doing is really surprising right now.
32:16
Speaker 2: And I just loved how like control he expects of
32:19
Speaker 2: this of himself now, doesn't he.
32:22
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, exactly, So it's I'll take it, take everyone back.
32:26
Speaker 1: So Friday, running into him having a catch up, I
32:30
Speaker 1: was just asking, like, how is it, and he's like, yeah, no,
32:32
Speaker 1: I feel really good, you know, because we know he
32:34
Speaker 1: was fastest in them in the morning's session. Everything like that.
32:38
Speaker 1: Sunday comes, like you said, qualifying, he's on the second
32:40
Speaker 1: row and i'ment, oh, it's really interesting. And I ran
32:43
Speaker 1: into his dad, Johnno, and I said, what's happening like?
32:46
Speaker 1: Because we know here this sort of track, the cooler
32:49
Speaker 1: the conditions are, the more grippy of the circi is.
32:52
Speaker 1: That's why in Moto three Moto two they test here
32:54
Speaker 1: in the winter because kind of the understanding is is
32:57
Speaker 1: if you'll get your bike set up well here, Okay
33:01
Speaker 1: doesn't have the top speed but because it's so kind
33:04
Speaker 1: of fast flowing, technical, heartbreaking. Like if you can get
33:06
Speaker 1: everything set up here in those tricky conditions where it's grippy,
33:10
Speaker 1: then for the rest of the year and all the
33:12
Speaker 1: other tracks you go to, you're going to have like
33:13
Speaker 1: a good understanding. Ye So Johnnah goes, yeah, no, like
33:17
Speaker 1: he's got everything's there. His biggest trouble was the pirellis
33:21
Speaker 1: weren't holding heat, and because there's so many right handers
33:23
Speaker 1: and they go into the left, that's where he was weak.
33:25
Speaker 1: So hence why the qualifying didn't work to how it was.
33:29
Speaker 1: Then we saw Sunday were warmer temperatures yea, And actually
33:35
Speaker 1: our Olbos called me and I said, you know what
33:37
Speaker 1: I reckon? Center's on here because what you mean? I said,
33:40
Speaker 1: today's so much warmer than yesterday. And I know one
33:43
Speaker 1: said that he struggled with heat and those tires. I
33:46
Speaker 1: think he's got his bike dialed in. That's fine. We
33:49
Speaker 1: know this track because he does a lot of track
33:51
Speaker 1: days here as well. I think having that condition is
33:54
Speaker 1: going to play to his advantage. And Troopy told like,
33:58
Speaker 1: that's exactly what happened. But yeah, chatting to him after
34:01
Speaker 1: in the motor GP broadcast is set and you guys
34:04
Speaker 1: can yet, like Matt said, you can read Math's article,
34:06
Speaker 1: you can watch some of the clips. I'll post them
34:08
Speaker 1: on the socials at Fox Motorsport. And he said to me,
34:12
Speaker 1: and I thought this was really interesting. He said, the
34:16
Speaker 1: team are starting to understand what I'm communicating and I thought, Ah,
34:21
Speaker 1: that's it now, Now what his feedback is on track
34:25
Speaker 1: on the bike, They're able to now make those changes
34:28
Speaker 1: and that's that winning formula. That's that harmony that they
34:31
Speaker 1: needed to be able to blend everything together. I think
34:35
Speaker 1: the start of the year, we know that there was
34:37
Speaker 1: you know, the death and the team and there was
34:38
Speaker 1: a lot of emotional stuff going on there with regards
34:42
Speaker 1: to that, so totally fair. Now they're working together. He's
34:46
Speaker 1: got the new head mechanic, he's got that connection and
34:50
Speaker 1: I think him also as a writer, he's growing and progressing.
34:54
Speaker 1: Now he can communicate better, he can give that better feedback.
34:58
Speaker 1: That creates that harmony, and this is the results that
35:02
Speaker 1: we're seeing. That's what they need and that's what you
35:04
Speaker 1: need to win championships here well.
35:06
Speaker 2: And this is the thing we love about this result
35:07
Speaker 2: in that when he's won races in the past, we're like,
35:10
Speaker 2: oh wow, that's amazing because it was a bit of
35:12
Speaker 2: an outlier, where now it's like he expects to do well.
35:15
Speaker 2: We expect him to do well because we've seen it.
35:17
Speaker 2: There's proof of context concept right now, so it feels sustainable.
35:21
Speaker 2: The thing I was going to mention now right so
35:23
Speaker 2: he's won four Moto two races. You almost couldn't win
35:27
Speaker 2: four races. More differently, had that ridiculous last corner at
35:30
Speaker 2: Silvestone where he played clever and got through the other
35:32
Speaker 2: guys in that full rider fight, just destroyed everybody at
35:35
Speaker 2: Phillip Island, So that becomes a race of concentration more
35:38
Speaker 2: than anything else because it was him versus himself for
35:41
Speaker 2: most of that race, Like could he keep the pace up?
35:43
Speaker 2: You look at what happened at Kota where short race
35:47
Speaker 2: ten laps that have been red flagged, he had Celestinovieti
35:49
Speaker 2: all over him. That was a real sense of holding
35:52
Speaker 2: your nerve. The Herreth win was the type of win
35:55
Speaker 2: he hadn't had yet in that it was very tactical
35:58
Speaker 2: and that he knew that he had the pace. When
36:00
Speaker 2: do I deploy it? And what's my plan? B if
36:03
Speaker 2: plan A doesn't work like this is that sort of
36:05
Speaker 2: mature race win that he hadn't had yet in the
36:09
Speaker 2: World Championship. So you look at those four wins, you
36:11
Speaker 2: couldn't have four victories that have been taken more differently
36:13
Speaker 2: than that. There's not too many other ways you can
36:16
Speaker 2: win races in the World Championship. He's done all of
36:19
Speaker 2: them pretty much now to get to four race wins.
36:21
Speaker 2: But the fact that he was able to back up
36:23
Speaker 2: a win with another really really strong result one round later,
36:27
Speaker 2: it certainly bodes well for the rest of this season.
36:30
Speaker 3: And if you're an.
36:30
Speaker 2: Australian fan, or you're someone that's followed Center the whole
36:33
Speaker 2: way through, or you just like seeing a young Australian
36:35
Speaker 2: maker splash on a World Motorsport.
36:37
Speaker 3: Stage, this feels pretty real now.
36:40
Speaker 2: And I'd almost go as far as saying that this
36:44
Speaker 2: he feels more to me like a motor GP writer
36:46
Speaker 2: than I think we've ever considered him at this point.
36:49
Speaker 2: The only question now is not if he makes it,
36:51
Speaker 2: it's when he makes it. Because I think he's going
36:52
Speaker 2: to get there. The question for me is what year
36:55
Speaker 2: is that going to happen? And with the way the
36:58
Speaker 2: rider market's still in a bit of a mess right now,
37:00
Speaker 2: and there's people that are helping and hurting their cause
37:03
Speaker 2: in equal measure week by week while this drags on,
37:05
Speaker 2: He's putting himself in a great position.
37:08
Speaker 1: I mean one hundred percent, and ultimately West we're at
37:12
Speaker 1: a really lucky position having Jack Emoto GP Center, Emoto
37:15
Speaker 1: two and Joel and Moto three. We've got Aussie across
37:17
Speaker 1: all all the classes. If Santa does step up for us,
37:22
Speaker 1: god can, Let's let's have Jack and Senai Emoto GP.
37:25
Speaker 1: Let's have two Ossies there because it's been a long time.
37:27
Speaker 1: I think it was the last. Like Chris and Casey back.
37:29
Speaker 2: In the day, Remy had that one season. Remember so
37:32
Speaker 2: Remy was there with Jack in twenty two and he
37:34
Speaker 2: had that one season with the KTM. But it was
37:36
Speaker 2: interesting listening to Sena speak last week, where you know
37:40
Speaker 2: a lot of people won't know that behind the scenes,
37:42
Speaker 2: Jack has been incredibly supportive of being able to pass
37:47
Speaker 2: on the wisdom that comes with big a twelve year
37:49
Speaker 2: Moto GP vet like Jack is these days. You know, Jack,
37:51
Speaker 2: at the end of the day is a guy who
37:53
Speaker 2: wants to see more Australian succeed on the on the
37:55
Speaker 2: global stage. He's had a good run out it himself.
37:57
Speaker 2: He's always been pretty supportive of the Australian guy's coming sure,
38:00
Speaker 2: whether it's Joel or Senna or Remy or anyone that's
38:02
Speaker 2: come through really and it was interesting Senna said like
38:05
Speaker 2: he would love to be on the grid with Jack
38:07
Speaker 2: at the same time. And of course the other thing
38:09
Speaker 2: we've got to think about for twenty twenty seven is Adelaide.
38:11
Speaker 2: It's going to be probably the last round of the season.
38:13
Speaker 2: Can you imagine having too as he's on the grid
38:16
Speaker 2: in Adelaide for the very first race there. That would
38:18
Speaker 2: be massive, wouldn't it.
38:20
Speaker 1: It's funny as I saw a social media post come
38:23
Speaker 1: out from Moto GP's official account and it was like
38:26
Speaker 1: where the writers are from. They did like a little
38:28
Speaker 1: graph and it was like, you know, one South African,
38:30
Speaker 1: one Australian, one Japanese and then it was like the
38:33
Speaker 1: Spanish and the Italians. So he got the rest of it.
38:36
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, if we can have Senna and Jack
38:38
Speaker 1: in there, cool, we've grouped up from two. It's like
38:41
Speaker 1: this is what we need. Well yeah, But then there's
38:43
Speaker 1: the other side of the things where we've got Joel
38:46
Speaker 1: in Moto three, and I want to touch on this
38:48
Speaker 1: a little bit because we know this year he's moved
38:51
Speaker 1: into a new manufacturer and a new team. He's trying
38:54
Speaker 1: to bring them up. We've spoken to him. You guys
38:57
Speaker 1: can go and check out the interviews if you haven't yet.
38:59
Speaker 1: He wants to get into Moto two. He's been in
39:02
Speaker 1: Moto three for so long now, but he is trying
39:05
Speaker 1: to get there, and he's trying to write a new manufacturer,
39:08
Speaker 1: bring up a team, lift them up. He's putting in
39:11
Speaker 1: the work. Okay, we're four rounds in, but the results
39:15
Speaker 1: just aren't there. And I'm starting to now go, what's
39:18
Speaker 1: it going to take for Joel to be able to
39:20
Speaker 1: do that, to bring the results to then have that
39:22
Speaker 1: door open so we can get that Moto two ride
39:25
Speaker 1: that he wants so bad.
39:27
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's another guy who I reckon. You know, you
39:30
Speaker 2: mentioned new team, new manufacturer, a new situation, and yeah,
39:33
Speaker 2: you don't want to be stuck in a category for
39:35
Speaker 2: too long.
39:35
Speaker 3: You know.
39:36
Speaker 2: You see guys that end up being like Moto two
39:38
Speaker 2: lifers as well, they never quite get through to Motor GP.
39:40
Speaker 3: And Joel's been in Moto three.
39:41
Speaker 2: Now for quite a while, he's a guy who needs
39:44
Speaker 2: to have that one big result, like a podium that
39:48
Speaker 2: no one saw coming, or just have a really strong
39:50
Speaker 2: result when perhaps we don't expect it, and that's one
39:53
Speaker 2: of those things he needs to be an opportunist this year,
39:55
Speaker 2: I think, because on pure pace alone in a normal condition,
40:00
Speaker 2: normal dry weather race, like, certainly right now, he's not
40:02
Speaker 2: going to be fighting towards the front. He starts races
40:05
Speaker 2: quite well, as we know, but he's been a little
40:07
Speaker 2: bit of an afterthought so far this year. I don't
40:09
Speaker 2: think he's writing any worse than any normal years. I
40:10
Speaker 2: think he's writing pretty high standard right now, but he
40:14
Speaker 2: doesn't really have the tools to fight with. So he's
40:16
Speaker 2: in a bit of a situation where, yeah, maybe he
40:18
Speaker 2: does need that one outlier result that we don't see
40:20
Speaker 2: coming and you look up and go, wow, he's like
40:22
Speaker 2: just missed the podium or he's qualified on the front
40:24
Speaker 2: row or something, just to remind people who he is
40:27
Speaker 2: and that the.
40:27
Speaker 3: Quality that he's there.
40:28
Speaker 2: But you're right in that you don't want to get
40:32
Speaker 2: stuck to you, And it kind of feels like this
40:34
Speaker 2: year is that he's had some success in Motor three obviously,
40:37
Speaker 2: but this feels like the year that it needs to
40:41
Speaker 2: happen if he's going to take that next step, because
40:43
Speaker 2: Moto two doesn't wait for you forever, and it feels
40:47
Speaker 2: that for his career to kick on, this ideally is
40:50
Speaker 2: his last year of Motor three.
40:53
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it's unfortunate. I mean I feel like Australia
40:58
Speaker 1: as a country, we do get behind our right and
41:00
Speaker 1: we do support them and that's something that we try
41:02
Speaker 1: and do here at Fox Sports as well as to
41:04
Speaker 1: promote our boys because we're so proud of everything that
41:07
Speaker 1: we're doing. I just want to touch on. Okay, so
41:09
Speaker 1: broto GP. We have broto GP Moto two, proto three,
41:12
Speaker 1: but we also have the Rebel Rookies Cup and they've
41:15
Speaker 1: got the Harley Davidson Cup Challenger. I can't remember what
41:19
Speaker 1: it's called right now, but we have a we have
41:21
Speaker 1: an assie in every category across these classes, which is
41:25
Speaker 1: phenomenal because this week.
41:26
Speaker 2: When you saw you saw the baggers this weekend, did you.
41:29
Speaker 1: No Baggers were in Coder So we had Archie McDonald there. Yeah,
41:34
Speaker 1: and this weekme the Rebel Rookies Cart. This was their
41:36
Speaker 1: first round it's their twentieth season, which is phenomenal. It's crazy,
41:41
Speaker 1: but there's Archie Smith Schmidt there, so we've got yeah,
41:44
Speaker 1: Archie McDonald, Archie Smith, Joel in Moto three Center and
41:48
Speaker 1: Moto two, Jack Miller in Moroto GP. I feel like
41:51
Speaker 1: Ozsie motorsport is coming back. Ossie races in the top
41:55
Speaker 1: tiers classes of motorsport and motorcycle racing is coming back.
41:58
Speaker 1: It's something to be proud of.
41:59
Speaker 2: Well, it's just so, you know, to have Australian representation
42:02
Speaker 2: in every single class. You know, I think some people
42:05
Speaker 2: may be underestimate just how difficult that is, Like it's
42:07
Speaker 2: difficult to even get there a litt alone to stay there,
42:10
Speaker 2: and when you dig into the backstories of you know,
42:13
Speaker 2: Senna's got an interesting backstory, The Jack Miller backstory we
42:16
Speaker 2: were a bit more familiar with. But it's so unlikely
42:18
Speaker 2: that it even got there in the first place. It's
42:20
Speaker 2: so difficult for Australians to get to the World Championship
42:22
Speaker 2: and stay there. So that's why we like to celebrate
42:25
Speaker 2: the successes that these guys have because they do it
42:28
Speaker 2: arguably tougher than anyone to even get there in the
42:30
Speaker 2: first place. I think we're all aware down here and
42:32
Speaker 2: obviously you understanding how this all works. Just to be
42:35
Speaker 2: able to get to the World Championship and maybe you know,
42:38
Speaker 2: maybe your more general sort of sporting audience, we need
42:41
Speaker 2: to maybe do a little bit better job of just
42:43
Speaker 2: educating people. Ask to just how tough it is.
42:46
Speaker 1: No exactly, and that's that's what we're trying to do.
42:48
Speaker 1: We're just trying to promote proto GP in Australia and
42:50
Speaker 1: get more fans involved. And I think Adelaide we'll do
42:53
Speaker 1: that the street circuit. I know it's controversial, but I
42:56
Speaker 1: think having that then to be from a lot of
42:58
Speaker 1: the people here inside the paddock come up and ask
43:00
Speaker 1: me what's Adelaide like as the city, what's it like?
43:03
Speaker 1: And I say to them, I've been there for the
43:04
Speaker 1: Supercars Grand Final. It's a blast pub on the corner
43:09
Speaker 1: near the park. Keep tell anyone you need to go
43:12
Speaker 1: to that pub on the corner after the race, like
43:14
Speaker 1: that's the place to go. But it's phenomenal being here.
43:18
Speaker 1: European Grand Prize is nothing like if you've been a
43:23
Speaker 1: Philip Island. It's completely different here.
43:25
Speaker 3: I need to ask you a question.
43:26
Speaker 2: I need to ask you a question at the fans
43:28
Speaker 2: we always see every year where they have the vision
43:31
Speaker 2: of everyone arriving on the hill before the sun comes
43:34
Speaker 2: up on race day.
43:35
Speaker 3: They're all there at six am or what have you.
43:37
Speaker 2: What time did you get to the circuit on race
43:39
Speaker 2: day and how long did it take you to get there?
43:41
Speaker 2: And was the atmosphere just absolutely buzzing at some ridiculous
43:45
Speaker 2: o'clock in the morning.
43:46
Speaker 1: One percent. So we left our house at six fifteen.
43:50
Speaker 1: Took us fifteen minutes to get hair because we were
43:52
Speaker 1: so early. But in Queensland you can lane filter and
43:57
Speaker 1: in Harrath you can clearly lane filter on your bike
44:00
Speaker 1: as well. Because this was just bikes coming in and out.
44:03
Speaker 1: Everyone was telling me you need to just try and
44:06
Speaker 1: get out to the car park to see the amount
44:08
Speaker 1: of bikes here. It's insane. But the sun doesn't come
44:11
Speaker 1: up here till like seven point thirty, like a little
44:14
Speaker 1: bit later. And so from the media center where I
44:17
Speaker 1: am right now, literally if I was to walk out
44:19
Speaker 1: the door just behind there, you can see that iconic
44:22
Speaker 1: hill where it lit up. There's neon signs there that
44:25
Speaker 1: says this is harass yeah, and you could see just
44:29
Speaker 1: the crowd rolling in. Now there's this story from the
44:32
Speaker 1: previous circuit commentator who is a singer, a flamenco, something
44:37
Speaker 1: to do with this area and that type of thing.
44:39
Speaker 1: Apparently he used to for years play this iconic song
44:45
Speaker 1: from Pink Floyd. I can't remember the title of it now,
44:48
Speaker 1: but it's this really eerie like intro and he used
44:51
Speaker 1: to play it as the crowd would come in over
44:54
Speaker 1: the hill. They tortures. Now they got the torches on
44:57
Speaker 1: their phones and you would have seen that footage on
44:59
Speaker 1: Motor Socials where they're playing it. We were still on
45:03
Speaker 1: the balcony here with a bunch of photographers, videographers, social
45:06
Speaker 1: media people from the paddy just watching it and it
45:10
Speaker 1: was incredible scenes the passion here. There's something like two
45:14
Speaker 1: hundred and forty nine thousand fans.
45:16
Speaker 3: For the weekend at NAZA.
45:19
Speaker 1: It's phenomenal. Like they love Loto GP here, they love
45:24
Speaker 1: the sport and if we can bring that energy, we
45:27
Speaker 1: can bring those vibes todue like a racing in Australia.
45:31
Speaker 1: Proto GPS going to kick off and I can't wait.
45:34
Speaker 1: I'm so here for it.
45:35
Speaker 2: There's two things in every Motor GP calendar that they're
45:38
Speaker 2: not old because I am and I've seen all these
45:40
Speaker 2: things a million times. But the shot of the hillside
45:43
Speaker 2: at Herreth on race morning is one of those things
45:44
Speaker 2: that makes me feel super happy that I work in
45:46
Speaker 2: this sport and the other one for me and we're
45:48
Speaker 2: going to see it in two weeks time. Is the
45:50
Speaker 2: French national anthem on the Main Strait before the race
45:54
Speaker 2: at Lamar, where they just kill the music and the
45:57
Speaker 2: crowd sings it and you've got a couple one hundred
45:59
Speaker 2: thous and very very patriotic French people. It's probably raining
46:02
Speaker 2: and it's probably cold, and they full throatedly seeing that
46:06
Speaker 2: thing like it's never been sung before and it's complete,
46:09
Speaker 2: like raising the hero in your arms. It's awesome to hear.
46:13
Speaker 2: I remember to talking to your brother Chris about this
46:15
Speaker 2: back in the day and he said, like it was
46:17
Speaker 2: everyone that went there for that race, like, oh yeah,
46:19
Speaker 2: this is just a highlight watching this crowd get into
46:21
Speaker 2: this national anthem, like this is like one of the
46:23
Speaker 2: signature things of that particular race. So yeah, in two
46:26
Speaker 2: weeks time we get another great iconic motor GP crowd,
46:29
Speaker 2: don't we It's.
46:30
Speaker 1: Funny that you mentioned that I thought, I'll bring this up.
46:33
Speaker 1: So Thursday, are driving in. I've never been to harath before,
46:36
Speaker 1: and there's actually a lot of MotoGP tracks I'd never
46:38
Speaker 1: been to because when Chris was racing, I was a
46:40
Speaker 1: teenager and long story shots. So I'm driving into the
46:44
Speaker 1: track and he goes to me. He goes, there's not
46:46
Speaker 1: many tracks I remember outside of actually riding them, because
46:52
Speaker 1: if anyone knows races or knows athletes, they are just
46:55
Speaker 1: like a horse with the things on. They are just
46:57
Speaker 1: so good just on what they're doing. Yeah, exactly, he
47:00
Speaker 1: goes three tracks. I remember Areth the crowd phenomenal Lemon,
47:06
Speaker 1: like you said, because they're so passionate, and he's like, Magello,
47:09
Speaker 1: you're in the Tuscan Hills like there's nothing like it.
47:11
Speaker 1: And obviously Philip Island the home Grand Prix. But he goes,
47:14
Speaker 1: he's like that, you just wait, wait for Sunday, and yeah,
47:18
Speaker 1: I don't even think that the TV would have done
47:20
Speaker 1: it justice. It's it's so cool. So come on, Australia,
47:23
Speaker 1: we need to bring that to Phillip Island this year,
47:25
Speaker 1: and then we need to bring that to Adelaide next year.
47:27
Speaker 3: We sure do.
47:28
Speaker 2: I remember I remember him telling me once the first
47:30
Speaker 2: year that he was at Magello in motor GP he
47:32
Speaker 2: made the great mistake of parking his motor home too
47:34
Speaker 2: close to Valentino's and so you got much sleep that weekend.
47:38
Speaker 2: He was a bit of a bit of a rookie
47:39
Speaker 2: mistake by Chris, and I think he learned his lesson
47:41
Speaker 2: the next year. Park it is slightly quiet a spot, yeah.
47:45
Speaker 1: I mean, luckily Valentino's not here anymore for that, Yeah, exactly,
47:48
Speaker 1: same thing probably happens to Marx as well. But Matt,
47:51
Speaker 1: I feel like we've pretty much wrapped up the chaotic
47:54
Speaker 1: weekend that was the Spanish Grand Prix here in harath Like.
47:57
Speaker 3: It was a big one, that's for sure.
48:00
Speaker 1: It was a big one. It was chaos, and I
48:02
Speaker 1: think Lamon is going to be just as much. Hopefully
48:04
Speaker 1: the weather holds out. Hopefully the weather doesn't hold out
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