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Horsepower Rodeo at COTA: MotoGP Pit Talk · Pit Talk

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Speaker 1: Well, they say everything is bigger in Texas, and this
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Speaker 1: weekend approved it. It wasn't just about who made it, though,
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Speaker 1: it was about who didn't. We had mistakes, drama, and
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Speaker 1: big names throwing away serious points. Cooda delivered chaos, comebacks
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Speaker 1: and a race that's already shaking up the championship. So
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Speaker 1: this episode of Pit Talk is brought to you by
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Speaker 1: Shannon's Insurance. I'm your host Rnita van Mulan, and joining
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Speaker 1: me is the man whose voice graces us every Murder
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Speaker 1: two and three practice and qualifying. It's mister Kiko Giles. Kiko,
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Speaker 1: welcome to Fox Sports Pit Talk.
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Speaker 2: Thank you for having me. You must be low on
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Speaker 2: the VIP list this week if I'm making an appearance, definitely,
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Speaker 2: as everyone will be able to see face for commentary.
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Speaker 1: I love that that's like your opening line, as you're
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Speaker 1: always like.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I might get it, may as well get it
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Speaker 2: in before anyone else does.
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Speaker 1: So we all know that Matt Clayton isn't here this weekend.
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Speaker 1: He is off in Adelaide on some other little side
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Speaker 1: quest with regards to basketball, something that I have no
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Speaker 1: idea about because I'm really interested in Moto GP and
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Speaker 1: that's exactly what we're here to talk about. So, Kiko,
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Speaker 1: we were both in Coder this weekend and ultimately going
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Speaker 1: in I think everybody was the same It's going to
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Speaker 1: be a Mark Marquez dominated weekend and that is not
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Speaker 1: what we saw. We saw Prillier strong once again. We
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Speaker 1: saw Joge Martin win a sprint, which was a phenomenal comeback,
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Speaker 1: especially after that celebration really turned into a crash down
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Speaker 1: the back straight. What was your key takeaways from this
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Speaker 1: weekend Encoder in Moto GP.
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Speaker 2: I've got to say we have got a proper championship
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Speaker 2: on this year, haven't we. I mean, it couldn't be
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Speaker 2: more different to the opening three Grand Prix of twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty five, when we had Mark Marqueyres, Alex Marquez and
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Speaker 2: Peco Vannai in some way, shape or form on what
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Speaker 2: felt like every single podium. Actually it was coded. It
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Speaker 2: was different because Mark crashed out the lead and we
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Speaker 2: had Fabio jan Antonio on the podium. But this year,
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Speaker 2: where do you start? It felt like we'd had an
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Speaker 2: entire year of action by the first sprint of the year,
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Speaker 2: massive call for Simon Kraifar to make But now in Kota.
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Speaker 2: I mean it was a case of and this was
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Speaker 2: a question I put to Mark Marquez at the end
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Speaker 2: of Sunday, is that if it didn't work here, where
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Speaker 2: is it going to work? And now are you more
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Speaker 2: concerned me befoward? Now he betted that one off, as
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Speaker 2: you expect from an eight time world champion and someone
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Speaker 2: who's very eloquent and dealing at dealing with the press.
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Speaker 2: But that is the next question. If it isn't working
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Speaker 2: at Cota, a track where Mark has had a flawless
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Speaker 2: record in terms of seven wins eight poles, I mean,
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Speaker 2: he didn't even make the podium. So you've got to
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Speaker 2: say Mark Marquez is probably in a little bit more
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Speaker 2: trouble than he would have anticipated him being in at
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Speaker 2: the start of this year. Now, whether that means that's
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Speaker 2: going to translate all the way through the season, I
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Speaker 2: doubt it. I'm exactly. I'm absolutely sure Mark's going to
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Speaker 2: come back in herres and just reminding opposition who is
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Speaker 2: world champion. But Dukati as well are struggling and we
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Speaker 2: had that amazing eighty eight Grand Prix streak with them
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Speaker 2: on the podium and that came to an end last year.
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Speaker 2: I think, and now we've had three very very strong
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Speaker 2: Grand Prix at the start of this year from a Prillier.
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Speaker 2: When Jiukati looks at them, testing like okay, Mark's going
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Speaker 2: to be maybe at the front, but not by the
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Speaker 2: same margin, it's actually turned out and a Prillier one
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Speaker 2: two in the Championship after three rounds. I think, if
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Speaker 2: I've got to be honest, that's probably my biggest takeaway.
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Speaker 2: Bez has obviously been flawless. You mentioned Jorge Martin in
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Speaker 2: the sprint was on the floor. I wouldn't say flawless
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Speaker 2: because he did wheel himself into the ground down the
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Speaker 2: back straight, but i Agura in the Grand Prix, Ralph
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Speaker 2: Fernandez has had a podium already this year in Thailand.
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Speaker 2: I've got to say, no one saw this coming. And Jucati,
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Speaker 2: I know they have all the fire power in the world.
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Speaker 2: Back in Bologna, they've got Mark Marquez on their bike.
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Speaker 2: Peco's a double world champion. Deja Antonio, in all credit
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Speaker 2: to him, is seemingly hooking it up over one lap.
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Speaker 2: But they will be looking at a Prillier thinking, okay,
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Speaker 2: hats off, we got to get a we gotta get
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Speaker 2: a wriggle on here and the comeback will start when
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Speaker 2: we get into your proper And what a way to
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Speaker 2: get into your at proper than Hares.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, I'm so excited for that, and I
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Speaker 1: think that's everybody's been saying it all. Yeah, we need
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Speaker 1: the first two tracks are going to be more suited
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Speaker 1: to the Prilliers because of the herd attires, et cetera, etcetera.
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Speaker 1: We knew that, but this weekend, like I said earlier,
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Speaker 1: I genuinely thought everyone who'd asked me. We even had
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Speaker 1: it on the podcast. Me and Matt were saying, Mark Marquez,
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Speaker 1: this will be the weekend that we see him. It's
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Speaker 1: hard to not expect to see that come back from him.
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Speaker 1: I don't know about you, but I was. When I'd
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Speaker 1: seen Mark walking to like the media SCRAMs or to
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Speaker 1: do his debriefs or whatnot. He didn't look like his
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Speaker 1: usual self. And we know he had that massive crash
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Speaker 1: on the weekends. We know that injury maybe flared up.
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Speaker 1: You could see him with the bandages and whatnot on
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Speaker 1: his arm, but in his face, in his body language,
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Speaker 1: it almost looked like he was just defeated and deflated.
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Speaker 1: The whole weekend.
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Speaker 2: I think the thing with Mark is it's important to
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Speaker 2: know massive crash on Friday at Kota, a really unusual
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Speaker 2: crash as well over at turn Tent that would have
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Speaker 2: probably caught him by surprise as much as it would
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Speaker 2: have shook him up actually having the crash. But he
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Speaker 2: is coming back from a massive injury from last year
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Speaker 2: when he collided with Marco Bozeki over in Indonesia, so well,
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Speaker 2: rather Buzeki collided with Mark in Indonesia. But where I'm
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Speaker 2: going with that is I think that there's probably a
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Speaker 2: little bit more to this than we're perhaps letting on.
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Speaker 2: We saw Mark. I think he had three crashes in
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Speaker 2: the Burram test. It was either two or three, and
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Speaker 2: they were all very very similar, very very early into
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Speaker 2: the corner that he didn't even make the apex in
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Speaker 2: any of them. So I think, yeah, it was three
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Speaker 2: because last corner turned four or five and then turned
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Speaker 2: three and they were all the same. So there's obviously
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Speaker 2: the GP twenty six, and this just reiterates how good
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Speaker 2: the GP twenty four was. Remember last year the GP
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Speaker 2: twenty five really through PECO. The GP twenty six seems
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Speaker 2: to be an evolution and Mark has said, and he's
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Speaker 2: obviously going to say this because he's not gonna throw
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Speaker 2: Juctti under a bus. And Jucati have improved, but everyone
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Speaker 2: else has improved as well, and that's why I think
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Speaker 2: everyone's so surprised at Brilliant, because they've just stolen a
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Speaker 2: march towards the end of last year and also started
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Speaker 2: this year. But yeah, you're right, Mark, when I spoke
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Speaker 2: to him, he wasn't I wouldn't say he was frosty
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Speaker 2: because he wasn't frosty. He answered every question that I
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Speaker 2: put to him. But you could just tell that there's
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Speaker 2: a lot of head scratching to be done there in
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Speaker 2: Ducati and likewise on the other side of the box
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Speaker 2: as well, Peco. I mean, Sunday was not how he
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Speaker 2: would have imagined Cosa to unfold that, having been so
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Speaker 2: competitive there last year, dry or wet really so, I mean,
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Speaker 2: if it wasn't for Fabia de jan Antonio, we probably
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Speaker 2: would be speaking about Jucati as a wider topic, being
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Speaker 2: in a lot more trouble than they'd have liked to been.
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Speaker 2: Whereas I am convinced that this this three week break
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Speaker 2: or four weekends off is going to be a blessing
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Speaker 2: in disguise for Mark because it means that he's actually
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Speaker 2: got time to recover Kata. Obviously being postponed not what
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Speaker 2: anyone wanted, but it is going to help help mart
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Speaker 2: Marquez because he is coming in off that injury and
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Speaker 2: he's just picked up with you know, whether it was
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Speaker 2: an injury or not, he would have picked something up
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Speaker 2: in that massive crash over at Turn ten this weekend.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, deflated, I don't know, dejected for sure, and
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Speaker 2: in need of a comeback certainly.
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Speaker 1: What's your what's said on Pecker is a we Is
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Speaker 1: he making those steps? Is he making that improvement that
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Speaker 1: I guess was needed from last year, or is it
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Speaker 1: we're seeing I guess him level up because we're seeing
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Speaker 1: majority of the rest of the jucaddies kind of in
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Speaker 1: the same level playing field at the moment.
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Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't think Paco knows, I'll be honest,
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Speaker 2: I don't think Peco's known since last year what exactly.
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Speaker 2: He's obviously not got a feeling with the bike. He
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Speaker 2: just can't get into a rhythm with the bike. Then
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Speaker 2: he goes and does what he did in Japan last year.
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Speaker 2: But now it seems like Jucati are just not where
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Speaker 2: they want to be because they're trying to perfect a
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Speaker 2: package that was already so good from the GP twenty
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Speaker 2: four and maybe they've gone down a rabbit hole with
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Speaker 2: Mark and unfortunately they're just not finding a way. I mean,
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Speaker 2: Pecko's tenth in the Championship sunnings after three Grand Prix.
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Speaker 2: Can you believe that? I mean, he was a Grand
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Speaker 2: Prix winner after three Grand Prix last year. He's a
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Speaker 2: double world champion. Peco doesn't lose his talent overnight, that's
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Speaker 2: for certain. And he did have flashes of brilliance. I
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Speaker 2: mean we saw in the sprints, for example in kot
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Speaker 2: he looked like he had the job done. Just he
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Speaker 2: went with the wrong time. Martin outsmarted him. My map
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Speaker 2: from and Martin got him on the last lap, but
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Speaker 2: one lap shorts that Peco would have been your sprint winner.
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Speaker 2: But tenth in the Championship sendings, He's behind ral Fernandez,
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Speaker 2: Luca Marini ay Agura. It's yeah, what I would.
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Speaker 1: Say, a worry, worry, Okay, I like it.
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Speaker 2: I'm going to go out on that one. Let me
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Speaker 2: just check exactly where he's in the standing, because I
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Speaker 2: think I may have just been reading off the Grand
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Speaker 2: Prix results, but I'm not sure they're too different actually
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Speaker 2: from what we saw in the Grand Prix. Peco at
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Speaker 2: the moment, okay, yeah, he's just why he's two points
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Speaker 2: out of Luca Marini, but that's courtesy of his sprint.
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Speaker 2: At the weekend he is behind Agura. So touch on.
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Speaker 1: I let's touch on because I feel like that was
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Speaker 1: like the comeback ride of the century with regards to
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Speaker 1: a Priier, the first time a Japanese rider would have
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Speaker 1: been on, et cetera. Except there's like so much stuff
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Speaker 1: and the heart break, the heartbreak that we know there
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Speaker 1: was the engine troubles and whatnot causing him that early retirement.
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Speaker 1: But from Friday onwards, it just seems like a switch
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Speaker 1: had clicked for I and he was just fast. He
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Speaker 1: was confident and off he went.
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Speaker 2: It's been quick since the start of the season. That's
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Speaker 2: been the impressive thing. I think for a Prettiers, they've
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Speaker 2: had all four biked four in the top five. Don't
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Speaker 2: forget in the first go on period of the year.
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Speaker 2: Over in Brewer. I think for Eye it's such a
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Speaker 2: shame because I think there were points last year a
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Speaker 2: lot of big crashes, a couple of injuries along the way.
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Speaker 2: There were points of is he going to cut the
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Speaker 2: mustard e mortorgy picked? For sure? Now you can see
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Speaker 2: in the opening three go on pre eye when he's
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Speaker 2: on form and got a bike and a package that
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Speaker 2: works with him. Yes he can. Such a shame that
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Speaker 2: we never got to see the first a Prillia one
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Speaker 2: two three lockout. But there is some solace from all
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Speaker 2: of it is that we know IgA now has arrived.
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Speaker 2: So when you look at that, you've got to think, well, okay,
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Speaker 2: I Agua seventh in the championship standings. He really never
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Speaker 2: got to those heights last year. Very solid start to
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Speaker 2: twenty five in Thailand, but he's been consistent and it
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Speaker 2: wasn't through a crash. It was a DNF, a technical DNF,
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Speaker 2: so heartbreak for I. He did set the fastest lap
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Speaker 2: of the Grand Prix, which I was doing a little
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Speaker 2: bit of stat attack yesterday for an arc. All we've
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Speaker 2: got coming up on the motorgp dot com is that
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Speaker 2: that was the first Japanese order to set the fastest
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Speaker 2: lap since two thousand and four Makoto Tamada. Back then,
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Speaker 2: even before your brother was in moter GP. I think
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Speaker 2: he was probably winning races in World Superbike with Honda then.
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Speaker 2: But on top of that, you know you've got Ayagura,
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Speaker 2: who's coming good. Ralph Fernandez is let's say Plateau. The
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Speaker 2: last couple of GPS, he's not been as impressive, but
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Speaker 2: Prillier are just killing it at the minute. I mean,
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Speaker 2: no one would have seen this coming. I think. The
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Speaker 2: other thing for I is it's going to be interesting
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Speaker 2: when we get to Europe Perez lamon these tracks that
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Speaker 2: he's known, his stole, the tracks that everybody knows historically.
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Speaker 2: Let's see exactly where the competition stacks up. Are we
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Speaker 2: going to be expecting him to chase podiums in her
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Speaker 2: eth Let's be honest, it's unlikely because we know Mark's
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Speaker 2: in the comeback, Paco is going to be competitive, Alex
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Speaker 2: Marquez will be there, Bears Joorge, so there's a good mix.
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Speaker 2: But top six is top eights, yeah, I think so.
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Speaker 1: And do you think I will win a Grand Prix
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Speaker 1: this year than in Motor GP?
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Speaker 2: Big big ask big ask Emoto GP at a minute
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Speaker 2: when the rider has won all three Grand Prix is
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Speaker 2: one of the last five going back to last year
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Speaker 2: and led one hundred and twenty one laps in a row.
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Speaker 2: So even just the leader Lafumotor GP is quite hard.
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Speaker 2: That is obviously all going to run out. I mean
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Speaker 2: I cannot see Bez doing the business all the way
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Speaker 2: through the year like that kind of dominance is we're
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Speaker 2: going to win a Grand Prix. He's going to get podiums.
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Speaker 2: But I think to win a Grand Prix on pace,
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Speaker 2: I mean you can never write off in a weather
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Speaker 2: Grand Prix or in a Grand Prix with a couple
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Speaker 2: of incidents along the way, But on pace, I don't know. Podiums, yes,
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Speaker 2: Grand Prix win juries out on that one. Sorry. So
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Speaker 2: anyone who's a big Igura fan listening.
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Speaker 1: In, I love that you were just giving us like
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Speaker 1: the Mark marquers answers of like dodging.
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Speaker 2: Dodging the answer he's trained me.
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Speaker 1: Well, how funny was the fact that digit is like
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Speaker 1: fully fanboying over I Agrea though all we can I
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Speaker 1: know you've seen the comments.
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Speaker 2: On social right fantastic. I'm a big fan. I can
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Speaker 2: imagine he wasn't it turned twelve when and I put
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Speaker 2: the move on him. But I mean everyone's a fan
13:40
Speaker 2: of I. I mean, I'm fortunate enough that I do
13:43
Speaker 2: have quite a lot of contact time with the riders
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Speaker 2: across all classes, and I also get to enjoy the
13:48
Speaker 2: grid experience for the Instagram lives with GP. And there
13:51
Speaker 2: was one I think it was over in Brazil. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: it would have been in Gyana. And he's there on
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Speaker 2: the grid and he's yawning. It's like he's staying awake.
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Speaker 2: I just love his approach to life is just very relaxed,
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Speaker 2: very chill. He doesn't give you a lot, he doesn't
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Speaker 2: throw you a lot of headlines, but he is a
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Speaker 2: very very quirky and quiet character. And yeah, I like I.
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Speaker 2: I'm a big fan. I I wholly agree with Fabio
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Speaker 2: de jan Antonio big fan of I.
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Speaker 1: And let's say, a big fan of Aprillia at the moment.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, bet Zeki, Jorge Martin okay, I think massimok
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Speaker 1: came out and said that Aprillia has the best bike
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Speaker 1: at the moment. That's clear. We can see that. What
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Speaker 1: is up with bet Zechi though, what's happening between Saturday
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Speaker 1: and Sunday? Where is what is going on with him? There?
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Speaker 1: Is it the pressure of a sprint and then he
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Speaker 1: just has to get that out of the way to
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Speaker 1: then for a Sunday to then go and win.
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Speaker 2: I don't know, I really don't know. It could be
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Speaker 2: you know, tires, fuel load, It could be something that
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Speaker 2: he's just not comfortable with it. The start of the
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Speaker 2: Grand of the start of the sprints, I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I mean we often see the sprint is a little
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Speaker 2: bit different anyway to the Grand Prix. But for whatever reason,
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Speaker 2: I think back a couple of years, well we all
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Speaker 2: last year, a couple of years before that, Peco likewise
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Speaker 2: in the sprint, just not getting the feeling. We have
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Speaker 2: seen titles lost because of poor sprint. Peko is the
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Speaker 2: example of that in twenty twenty four, Yes, when Jem
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Speaker 2: Martine won it. I think Jem Martine all year won
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Speaker 2: three Grand Prix, but it was Pekko's DNFs in the
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Speaker 2: sprints or poor performances in the sprints and Jhey Martine
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Speaker 2: winning sprints that saw that happen. Now, it's so early
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Speaker 2: in the season, we can't put anything concrete on Bez
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Speaker 2: just yet. But I think what's worse is they are
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Speaker 2: mistakes that shouldn't happen because there's not really any pressure.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you saw Bez's reaction on Saturday. It was
15:55
Speaker 2: he couldn't believe it as much as everyone else couldn't
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Speaker 2: believe it, because, I mean, look how tight the title
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Speaker 2: race is now. There's only a few points in between
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Speaker 2: the top two and Bez. Unfortunately for him, it was
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Speaker 2: Juway Martin who took the honors and then followed him
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Speaker 2: home on Sunday. So Martine's right in this race at
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Speaker 2: the moment. But no, I don't know really what's going
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Speaker 2: on with Bez in on Sprint Saturday. It could be
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Speaker 2: something qualifying because he's not you know, Okay, he got
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Speaker 2: on the front row with Grid the last two pre
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Speaker 2: year to start from fourth on Sunday and Coosa. But
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Speaker 2: maybe it's a matter of he just needs to prove
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Speaker 2: that he's fast on a Saturday. No idea, that would
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Speaker 2: be speculation. The main thing is he's dropping points where
16:41
Speaker 2: there's fewer points to drop. If he was doing it
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Speaker 2: on Sundays, then it'd be like, what are you doing.
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Speaker 2: There's a phrase you can make a fast rider stop cushing,
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Speaker 2: but you can't make a slow rider fast. Bez isn't
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Speaker 2: doing enough cushing to warrant that at the minute. But
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Speaker 2: if he crashes out of another sprint, let's saying the
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Speaker 2: next two or three go on per weekend. There's going
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Speaker 2: to be questions asked from Pallabnora, from Massimo Rivela, and
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Speaker 2: from the entire crew, because there's going to be big
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Speaker 2: points being dropped, particularly in the case that we have
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Speaker 2: a fast and competitive and championship contending Jojem Martin chopping
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Speaker 2: at his ankles.
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Speaker 1: There's literally the next thing I was going to say.
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Speaker 1: With Joge Martin now on the uprise, it's like cool,
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Speaker 1: We're finally getting to see what he can actually do
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Speaker 1: on the aprillion rather than from unfortunately a hospital bed
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Speaker 1: or whatnot that we saw last year. I mean, amidst
17:30
Speaker 1: everything that we know, there's the rumors of he's going
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Speaker 1: to change manufacturers. There was all that drama last year,
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Speaker 1: and then you see this escalation of just euphoria coming
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Speaker 1: from him for the fact of he's actually done it.
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Speaker 1: He's got on wan to sprint, he's back on the
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Speaker 1: program music actually on the front of the leading pack.
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Speaker 1: Is this Jjem Martin now is he going to be
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Speaker 1: really that one to put it to Macrobedzechi And is
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Speaker 1: this where we could see the cracks start to form
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Speaker 1: with Macrobedzeki.
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Speaker 2: Oh don't know about cracks. I think for Johey Martin, firstly,
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Speaker 2: what a story it is after everything he went through
18:08
Speaker 2: last year. He did what fourteen laps pre season testing
18:12
Speaker 2: in Malaysia, he didn't come back till Katar, then he
18:14
Speaker 2: was out injured in Silbreno. Then he picks up another
18:17
Speaker 2: one I think in Japan. So you know, Jogem Martin's
18:20
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five was just a disaster. So for him
18:24
Speaker 2: to come back and be this competitive straight away is
18:28
Speaker 2: actually quite remarkable. But he is a world champion. This
18:32
Speaker 2: is what world champions do. They come back, They bite
18:34
Speaker 2: the bullet, they go through the ar times and they
18:36
Speaker 2: come back a lot of times stronger. Look at Mark
18:38
Speaker 2: last year. What I do think is Jogey Martin probably
18:45
Speaker 2: when he's fully fit, because he's still not fully fit,
18:47
Speaker 2: he's still having to undergo I mean we saw him
18:50
Speaker 2: testing he had to miss the first test of the
18:52
Speaker 2: year due to surgery. When he is absolutely fully fit
18:57
Speaker 2: and coming up to tracks where he's been rapid in
18:59
Speaker 2: the past. Thinking in her Earth, but particularly Lamont, I
19:05
Speaker 2: can really really see Jim Martin given Marcobedzaki a hard time.
19:10
Speaker 2: Now new thing for a Prillier will be how they
19:13
Speaker 2: manage that situation. Don't forget they signed Jogem Martin as
19:16
Speaker 2: the number one rider. Marco Beedzeki is your championship leader
19:20
Speaker 2: and was your standout at Prillier last year. You can
19:25
Speaker 2: you say that he was the number one rider last year?
19:27
Speaker 2: Of course you can. He was the number one rider.
19:29
Speaker 2: He took over the reigns in a Prillier's development. But
19:33
Speaker 2: number one is a fluid thing. You can be number
19:36
Speaker 2: one one year, not number one the next year. And
19:38
Speaker 2: Johem Martine is not going to want to be playing
19:42
Speaker 2: second field to someone who he's beaten him out at
19:45
Speaker 2: three beating him Otor two has a world title over
19:48
Speaker 2: in Motor GP, and he's now sharing the camp with
19:51
Speaker 2: in a Prillier. And this is really the first time
19:53
Speaker 2: we see them as teammates competitive teammates, So that is
19:57
Speaker 2: going to be an interesting dynamic and how a Prillier
19:59
Speaker 2: managed that situation. But prilly have never had to manage
20:01
Speaker 2: this situation before, They've never really had two riders. It
20:05
Speaker 2: could easily in six months time be the only two
20:09
Speaker 2: that are fighting for the title. If Jucati can't sort
20:11
Speaker 2: out whatever problems they're having, I think it'd be unfair
20:14
Speaker 2: to discount Pedro a Costa entirely. But is the case
20:17
Speaker 2: im a consistent package. Not sure. He's the only one
20:19
Speaker 2: at the minute who seems able to be able to
20:22
Speaker 2: do anything, with the exception of an Airbash Union who
20:25
Speaker 2: turned up for one weekend in Cota, which I'm absolutely
20:28
Speaker 2: delighted for, but with a Prillier, they've clearly got the
20:31
Speaker 2: best bike Jujima ten. It will be a great story
20:36
Speaker 2: if he can take it to Marco Bedzeki. But he's
20:39
Speaker 2: got to win on Sunday first, and once he does,
20:41
Speaker 2: then we'll see some fireworks.
20:44
Speaker 1: You mentioned Pedro Acosta there, and I'm really glad you did,
20:47
Speaker 1: because there was a fun stat that came up on
20:50
Speaker 1: the broadcast on Sunday was a Pedro Acosta's e called
20:54
Speaker 1: Colin Edwards. With the amount of podiums and non wins
20:58
Speaker 1: in real GP career, I mean, I can't believe that
21:01
Speaker 1: Pedro okay third in the championship currently. You know, he's
21:04
Speaker 1: been on the podium multiple times this year. It's almost
21:08
Speaker 1: like we're seeing like a reminiscence of Mark at Fonda
21:11
Speaker 1: where it's Pedro is able to ride the bike and
21:13
Speaker 1: then the rest are struggling and finding that. But I mean,
21:17
Speaker 1: just the fact that he still hasn't won a Grand
21:19
Speaker 1: Prix is bananas, right, It's crazy.
21:22
Speaker 2: I know, I can imagine he really really thanked my
21:26
Speaker 2: colleagues in the IPF for that one. So just highlighting
21:30
Speaker 2: the fact that he's still not won a Grand Prix
21:32
Speaker 2: and the fact that now he's tied with Colin ed
21:34
Speaker 2: was the most is it most podiums without a Grand
21:36
Speaker 2: Prix win. That's the start, isn't it. So Pedro's going
21:40
Speaker 2: to win one. I mean where I don't know, you
21:43
Speaker 2: could argue that, yes he's won a sprint, we don't
21:45
Speaker 2: class that as a Grand Prix victory. And would you
21:47
Speaker 2: have won the sprint if Mark wasn't told to bail
21:49
Speaker 2: out at the last corner, No, because that Mark duffed
21:53
Speaker 2: him up the lap before. But Petro's going to win one.
21:56
Speaker 2: We just don't know where. We know. The ACM is
21:58
Speaker 2: quick actually in Barcelona, owns a bit more back to
22:01
Speaker 2: its usual slot this year in May. But Pedro is
22:04
Speaker 2: going to win one. But until he does, the question
22:07
Speaker 2: is always going to be, How can you consider him
22:10
Speaker 2: a championship contender if he's not won to go on prix. Pedro,
22:13
Speaker 2: I know, will consider himself a championship contender, and he is.
22:17
Speaker 2: The point is, the question is asked, well, until you've
22:19
Speaker 2: won to goand prix, how can you be? But then again,
22:23
Speaker 2: Bes has obviously got mistakes in him. We've seen enough
22:25
Speaker 2: of that. Jorge Martin hasn't won a Grand Prix in
22:28
Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. Yet he hasn't won one since twenty
22:32
Speaker 2: twenty four. Obviously, he hasn't won one in his time
22:34
Speaker 2: in a prillier, so Acosta is a kind of in
22:35
Speaker 2: the same boat. The problem is that a costa you
22:37
Speaker 2: always feel because he is so far as you say,
22:40
Speaker 2: n he's so far ahead of the other ktms. It's
22:44
Speaker 2: like he's always about ten meters away from losing the front.
22:48
Speaker 2: He's on the limit with that machine. He's doing absolutely
22:52
Speaker 2: everything in his power to get that machine to work
22:55
Speaker 2: for him, and it still doesn't get him to go
22:58
Speaker 2: on pre win because the package is that ahead of him,
23:00
Speaker 2: just got that bit more bit more performance, and until
23:04
Speaker 2: Pedro is able to you know, I won't say dominate
23:07
Speaker 2: a Grand Prix, but winner Grand Prix with a little
23:11
Speaker 2: bit of margin and look comfortable doing so you've got
23:14
Speaker 2: to ask how long can he stay in the title
23:17
Speaker 2: race because you need to be winning. That's the main
23:20
Speaker 2: thing which.
23:21
Speaker 1: I think is insane. For the fact that the rumors
23:23
Speaker 1: are circling that Pedro is going to go and team
23:26
Speaker 1: up with Mark Marquez at fast if Mark's going to resign.
23:29
Speaker 1: I mean, this is the other thing that's coming up now,
23:31
Speaker 1: is he going to is the injuries, et cetera, et cetera. Yeah,
23:35
Speaker 1: I think the fact that okay, yeah, Pedro's now in
23:38
Speaker 1: his third season of Moto GP, right fourth the third season,
23:42
Speaker 1: hasn't won the Grand Prix and he's going to go
23:44
Speaker 1: to what at the beginning of the year was arguably
23:48
Speaker 1: their best team in the in the whole series is insane.
23:53
Speaker 1: There's clearly something about Pedro that obviously people are saying
23:57
Speaker 1: and now we as fans are getting to see because
23:59
Speaker 1: this is Pedro riding, like you said, the absolute wheels
24:03
Speaker 1: off that katm like Fabiau has done in the past
24:06
Speaker 1: with the Yamaha, like Mark did in the past with
24:08
Speaker 1: the Honda. Right, do you think all that's silly seasoned?
24:12
Speaker 1: Stuff's gonna come for soon, and do you think Mark's
24:15
Speaker 1: gonna re sign? What's your goal with that? Because now
24:17
Speaker 1: I'm starting to hear whispers of like a maybe maybe not.
24:22
Speaker 2: I love being in the paddock because you hear a
24:24
Speaker 2: new rumor every day and it's not me making him up.
24:27
Speaker 2: I don't need to make any more rubbish up and
24:30
Speaker 2: get away with enough of that on the on commentary,
24:34
Speaker 2: I don't know, you know, I wonder what Pedro's thinking.
24:37
Speaker 2: If it is let's put a big if caveat on this,
24:40
Speaker 2: if it is to be believed, and he is signing
24:42
Speaker 2: off to Jukti, what's he thinking seeing the Ducati boys
24:45
Speaker 2: struggle and I struggle. I mean, Pedro's ahead of him,
24:50
Speaker 2: what's he thinking, Because for sure it's not gonna be.
24:54
Speaker 2: He's not gonna be. I don't think he's gonna be
24:56
Speaker 2: doubting his own ability because he's showing us what he's
24:59
Speaker 2: able to do. It's like Fabrio, we know how good
25:02
Speaker 2: Fabrio is, and top Rack, we know how good top
25:04
Speaker 2: Breck can and will eventually be, but they've just not
25:06
Speaker 2: got the packages at the minute. But with Pedro, he's
25:09
Speaker 2: probably fancying his chances to go in and ruffle feathers.
25:11
Speaker 2: If Mark signs, I think Mark's gonna sign. I mean,
25:15
Speaker 2: Mark says he's only interested in signing if he's one
25:18
Speaker 2: hundred percent fit, If he's one hundred percent fit with himself,
25:23
Speaker 2: fit with the bike. He's already achieved the one thing
25:27
Speaker 2: he wanted to post twenty twenty Hareth injury, winning another
25:31
Speaker 2: world title. He did that last year, so he hasn't
25:34
Speaker 2: got and I don't think Mark's the kind of person
25:36
Speaker 2: who will be chasing money. I mean, he had a
25:38
Speaker 2: good stint at Honda, big contracts a Honda. Of course,
25:41
Speaker 2: he was on a four year deal before it all
25:43
Speaker 2: went wrong. You know, he had to come kind of
25:46
Speaker 2: come back with a tail between his legs to an
25:48
Speaker 2: independent team, to Grissini and Jucatty. Obviously he would have
25:53
Speaker 2: got a good salary and a good wage and a
25:55
Speaker 2: good bonus out of them last year. But Mark's not
25:58
Speaker 2: one who strikes me is chasing money. He is not
26:02
Speaker 2: one that I see. He wants to be on a
26:04
Speaker 2: competitive bike. That's why he jumps it from a very
26:06
Speaker 2: cushty Honda job and a very very happy relationship with Honda.
26:11
Speaker 2: It all ended very very friendly and amicably and whatever.
26:17
Speaker 2: I don't see Mark as being someone who's going to
26:20
Speaker 2: be chasing dollar. However, I do see Mark because he
26:25
Speaker 2: can't help himself, as we saw on Saturday, want to
26:28
Speaker 2: be competitive. And if he's on a ducat do you
26:31
Speaker 2: think he's going to allow if Pedro does come in,
26:34
Speaker 2: He's going to allow Pedro just to come in and
26:36
Speaker 2: rule the roost. Absolutely not. Mark's gonna be absolutely on
26:39
Speaker 2: the ragged edge to beat Pedro. That's why we like
26:43
Speaker 2: Mark because he is human and when the red bisk
26:45
Speaker 2: comes down, he goes and does something a bit crazy,
26:48
Speaker 2: and sometimes he gets away with it, and sometimes he
26:50
Speaker 2: doesn't get away with it. But I do think Mark'd
26:52
Speaker 2: in the resign and I do think it's going to
26:54
Speaker 2: be for a couple of years. But that is a
26:59
Speaker 2: thought that is not a confirmation. And as you say,
27:02
Speaker 2: there are whispers in the paddock that maybe it's all
27:05
Speaker 2: being reconsidered at least because of where is the ducatiat
27:09
Speaker 2: at the moment. And obviously the REGs change, so it's
27:12
Speaker 2: not that important about this year's bike evolving into next.
27:15
Speaker 2: But you know, Mark is also obviously not one hundred
27:19
Speaker 2: percent fit, and that's the big caveat. When he's one
27:22
Speaker 2: hundred percent fit, he'll sign it was Saturday.
27:25
Speaker 1: I just you just spark this thought on my mind.
27:28
Speaker 1: It was Saturday, Mark pushing to yes, Yeah, okay, I
27:35
Speaker 1: did with them, did you? Yeah? Exactly. I didn't know
27:38
Speaker 1: if it was like a him trying to grow not
27:42
Speaker 1: I know what I can do here. I need to
27:44
Speaker 1: get to the front, or I need to do it,
27:46
Speaker 1: or if it was just a silly mistake that caught
27:49
Speaker 1: him out like what we saw on Friday.
27:51
Speaker 2: Well, he said in his debriefs that it was a
27:53
Speaker 2: three bike slipstream that dragged him down into the breaking
27:57
Speaker 2: area way too fast. Had to commit, didn't anticipated da
28:01
Speaker 2: da da. Now I'm not a rider, so I can't
28:04
Speaker 2: comment on that. We have to take what Mark says
28:07
Speaker 2: is true. And I'm sure there was an element of
28:09
Speaker 2: he got sucked in, But you're telling me that there
28:12
Speaker 2: was absolutely zero percent of that move that stemmed from
28:16
Speaker 2: what did you perfectly put on him? He out Mark
28:19
Speaker 2: Marquez Mark Marquees in the opening sector turned seven up
28:24
Speaker 2: through eight, And I said this to a load to
28:27
Speaker 2: all our colleagues, to Jack, Appyard, Matt but et cetera.
28:30
Speaker 2: In the in the Media Center after. For me, it
28:32
Speaker 2: wasn't so much of the move that turned seven passes
28:35
Speaker 2: is on it is possible. For me, it was the
28:39
Speaker 2: line he took into tournate. He just got that bike
28:41
Speaker 2: stood up just enough just to close the door and
28:45
Speaker 2: stop Mark having a punch straight back at Tournay. And
28:49
Speaker 2: then obviously Mark isn't going to sit there. I mean
28:52
Speaker 2: he came from a long way back. It's got to
28:53
Speaker 2: be said. He came from a long way back at
28:55
Speaker 2: turn twelve and you kind of got the impression that
28:59
Speaker 2: this is going to run and wide. But Mark just
29:01
Speaker 2: can't help himself. That's why we like him. It's why
29:04
Speaker 2: I'm a bit of a fan of Mark Marquez for that,
29:07
Speaker 2: because he just shows that he cannot just accept being defeated,
29:12
Speaker 2: not against someone on the same bike. I mean, if
29:15
Speaker 2: the package isn't working, at least if it's not working
29:17
Speaker 2: for everyone, he'll still grind the RESULTO. But yeah, there
29:21
Speaker 2: was that was an interesting talking point. And yeah, obviously
29:24
Speaker 2: it kind of ruined Mark Sunday because Mark's pace when
29:27
Speaker 2: he drop when he cause he had to do the
29:28
Speaker 2: long lap. When he took the long lap, he was
29:31
Speaker 2: seven seconds behind bets Now a few laps later he
29:34
Speaker 2: was seven seconds behind Bets. His pace was I wouldn't
29:37
Speaker 2: say exactly the same as Bess, but it was in
29:39
Speaker 2: and around the ballpark of Beds. Mark would have been
29:41
Speaker 2: on the podium. This is something he was saying to
29:43
Speaker 2: me on Sunday. But obviously passing at Cota, as Mark showed,
29:48
Speaker 2: isn't easy. You do get it wrong and it kind
29:50
Speaker 2: of messes up a next round of corners. But he
29:53
Speaker 2: did well. I mean he came back for what was
29:54
Speaker 2: it fifth at the end I think he was so,
29:57
Speaker 2: you know, a top five still is not bad. He
30:00
Speaker 2: wasn't top to Cati those on as went to Digitya,
30:02
Speaker 2: but yeah, you know Mark top five at Cota, he
30:05
Speaker 2: would have been won in an eighth.
30:06
Speaker 1: Win, I mean yeah, top five at Koda and then
30:09
Speaker 1: right behind him and a Bashanini from where.
30:14
Speaker 2: Where from where where's this come from? I mean, Gunta
30:18
Speaker 2: Stein has been at the last few Grand Prix. I
30:19
Speaker 2: think he was in Thailand. He's done the first three
30:21
Speaker 2: I think, so maybe there's been a bit of pressure
30:24
Speaker 2: from an AA at four an AA to actually grind
30:27
Speaker 2: out a result. But yeah, again just a ne A
30:29
Speaker 2: Basciardini thinks. I mean, it seems that one weekend he's there,
30:33
Speaker 2: one at weekend he's not. Remember last year in Bruno
30:36
Speaker 2: he was right there, and then in Catalouonya he was
30:39
Speaker 2: right there, and then he was right there again in Cota.
30:42
Speaker 2: I mean it's just I mean, I like it. I
30:46
Speaker 2: think he's a quality rider, but he is so up
30:50
Speaker 2: and down.
30:51
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah literally, I mean we know his teammate Maverick
30:55
Speaker 1: Vignalez to sit this one out. He's had a big
30:57
Speaker 1: chunk of metal pulled out of his shoulder, which you
31:00
Speaker 1: can go and see on social media if you want
31:03
Speaker 1: to see that. I'm not saying we have to feel
31:07
Speaker 1: free to now before we move on to our Aussies
31:10
Speaker 1: in the lower categories, and we just want to say
31:12
Speaker 1: so top rack rads get lit. We know that you're
31:15
Speaker 1: a big fan of top rack. We've seen that on
31:17
Speaker 1: the Instagram lives and whatnot. Yeah, hot performing Yamaha this weekend.
31:22
Speaker 1: How cool.
31:23
Speaker 2: I've got to say. You know top Rac fifteenth, I mean,
31:27
Speaker 2: he I know. I'm fortunate enough that I've worked with
31:30
Speaker 2: top Pack long enough that I have quite a good
31:32
Speaker 2: relationship with him. I've been in supervites for anyone who's
31:35
Speaker 2: been not following super bhytes. So I know top Rack
31:37
Speaker 2: since twenty eighty and he will hate the fact that
31:42
Speaker 2: he is having to not only look all the way
31:45
Speaker 2: down the order, but he's not going to be competitive
31:47
Speaker 2: because the Yamaha. And this is not a fault of Yamaha,
31:50
Speaker 2: it is a philosophical change. They are not going to
31:54
Speaker 2: be competitive. They know that they're doing the hard yards
31:57
Speaker 2: now to get research and data and all the things
32:00
Speaker 2: if they need for the twenty twenty seven res. Now
32:03
Speaker 2: some of that needs to be a V four engine
32:05
Speaker 2: and now to develop one. So okay, fair enough. Top
32:08
Speaker 2: Breck still jumped ship to Motor GP because he knows
32:10
Speaker 2: he can do it on a competitive bike. He's not
32:13
Speaker 2: on one, but he's still grinding out results. And I've
32:15
Speaker 2: got to say I was speaking with a few guys
32:18
Speaker 2: at the end of Sunday about this. Top Brack has
32:20
Speaker 2: no business being ahead of Fabio Classaro, who you know,
32:24
Speaker 2: at one point this year in Brazil looked like, surely,
32:29
Speaker 2: how is Fabio doing this? Getting it on the second
32:31
Speaker 2: earlder grid to front of the second earl of grid
32:32
Speaker 2: stick in the sprint. I think in Gooyani, I'm fairly sure.
32:37
Speaker 2: Fabia would have rolled out of it towards the end
32:39
Speaker 2: of the Grand Prix, but Topreck was right there all
32:41
Speaker 2: the way through. I was keeping it on his gap.
32:42
Speaker 2: It was about three tenths, four tenths. Never really much
32:45
Speaker 2: more top Breck when he was sixteenth, up to Fabio
32:48
Speaker 2: Klasavara in fifteenth. But I mean first points in Motor GP, well,
32:52
Speaker 2: first points for top Brack in Motor GP. Fantastic result
32:56
Speaker 2: at a track he's never ridden. He did a few
32:58
Speaker 2: BMW track days or track laps there on a track
33:02
Speaker 2: day last year. Top job. He's in a team that
33:06
Speaker 2: it's not the factory team, but okay, they've won titles whatever.
33:10
Speaker 2: He was behind Jack Miller. Sorry to all the Australians
33:13
Speaker 2: listening to this, but would you have expected him to
33:15
Speaker 2: be ahead of Jack Miller after three Grand Prix? Probably not.
33:18
Speaker 2: And the other thing with top Rack is obviously is
33:22
Speaker 2: still adapting to the Mitchellands. He will love Perelli when
33:25
Speaker 2: they come back in next year or coming next year.
33:27
Speaker 2: He's getting back on them because he has real feel
33:30
Speaker 2: with the Perellis. But he's never ridden a V four
33:33
Speaker 2: in anything. I mean, will super bits. It's only Ducattie
33:37
Speaker 2: that run a V four Yamaha run across playing crank
33:39
Speaker 2: in line for BMW. It's an in line four Honda.
33:42
Speaker 2: It's an inline four Kawazakibimoto, it's an inline for so
33:45
Speaker 2: top Rack's having to know now this V four engine
33:47
Speaker 2: actually handles where its characteristics are lying and the strengths
33:53
Speaker 2: and weaknesses. Have said V four all the time trying
33:56
Speaker 2: to develop one with Yamaha. So fair play to top Brack.
34:00
Speaker 2: I mean, he's he's such a such a good guy.
34:05
Speaker 2: As you know, I'm a big fan. But I'm a
34:07
Speaker 2: big fan not because of his achievements. I'm a big
34:09
Speaker 2: fan of the person of top Brack. He's very humble,
34:12
Speaker 2: very real, and there were a lot of happy faces.
34:14
Speaker 2: I think have you seen the video He's coming down
34:17
Speaker 2: pitt Lane after the Grand Prix and just Pranrak had delighted.
34:21
Speaker 2: I mean the top of the Amaha in his third
34:24
Speaker 2: Grand Prix, big big result for top Bracker. Now he
34:27
Speaker 2: gets the tracks, what he actually knows. I mean HERETHI
34:29
Speaker 2: knows Barcelona, he knows where else we go after that?
34:32
Speaker 2: Asen he knows, he'll know Balaton, he won't know Magello,
34:35
Speaker 2: he won't know Lamon, but he might have even been
34:38
Speaker 2: there for Red Bull Rookies because of course he did
34:39
Speaker 2: Red Bull Rookies, but that was back in twenty thirteen.
34:42
Speaker 2: These are tracks he's not been at regularly. Let's say,
34:44
Speaker 2: similar to Cota, but yeah fair fair dues to top rack,
34:49
Speaker 2: and of course he's also not just doing it with
34:51
Speaker 2: a whole new team. It is an entire entirely new
34:54
Speaker 2: team because he's not with his Creuchie film Marrion. Phil's
34:57
Speaker 2: obviously working with Brad Binder at the minute, so lots
35:00
Speaker 2: to get used to for top rack and three Grand
35:03
Speaker 2: Prix in top Yamaha. Yeah impressive.
35:07
Speaker 1: No, you're so right. I didn't even think of that.
35:09
Speaker 1: But the fact of yeah, diego ok. He's in MotoGP
35:12
Speaker 1: as a rookie, but he's ridden all these tracks apart
35:14
Speaker 1: from Guenna, where everybody had never been before. That's so
35:18
Speaker 1: true about top rack that the first three of the
35:20
Speaker 1: season he's also never ridden on a race bike as such.
35:25
Speaker 2: No, he would have done Buri Ram for a couple
35:27
Speaker 2: of years, but only a couple and this was top
35:30
Speaker 2: rack in his infancy when he was learning, so I
35:33
Speaker 2: would still count it. But it is obviously it's not
35:35
Speaker 2: going to be an Assen where he's come every year
35:38
Speaker 2: for the last seven, eight, nine, ten years. But you know,
35:43
Speaker 2: the other thing is versus Diogo Mara. We know Diego's
35:46
Speaker 2: levels just as high and can be just as high.
35:49
Speaker 2: But Yoga's on a Honda. The Honda was on the
35:51
Speaker 2: podium at times last year. Joe Anzarka is Make one
35:54
Speaker 2: and iffy French Grand Prix, but still was on the
35:56
Speaker 2: podium in normal dry Grand Prix or chasing podiums in
35:59
Speaker 2: normal dragon On pri too. So Marera's on a package
36:03
Speaker 2: that does work. We know the Yamaha is definitely the
36:06
Speaker 2: fifth manufacturer at the moment, and that's normal. They have
36:10
Speaker 2: had to change in entire philosophy. I'm not running Yamaha down,
36:13
Speaker 2: but top Brack knows that he's not going to be competitive,
36:16
Speaker 2: but he's still ahead of the other Yamahas. That's impressive.
36:20
Speaker 1: I'm so glad you just mentioned Honor because I thought, oh,
36:21
Speaker 1: let me just look at their results real quick. Luca
36:24
Speaker 1: Marine is in two top tens this weekend though.
36:26
Speaker 2: Fantastic from Luca. But the other side of the box,
36:29
Speaker 2: you and me again, I mean what I had a
36:33
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, I did chat with him. It was
36:35
Speaker 2: me he was chatting with him. And it's just like
36:37
Speaker 2: with this bike, there is no warning when you're on
36:40
Speaker 2: the limit. But you know he's going for top five,
36:43
Speaker 2: top sixes. But another crash, I mean jo and me
36:48
Speaker 2: is he's desperate to get to the end of He's
36:51
Speaker 2: desperate to see a check of flag. It this way,
36:53
Speaker 2: but he's desperate to show that he can be that
36:56
Speaker 2: top six sideer for Honda. But he can't be throwing
37:01
Speaker 2: Grand Prix away like that. And I think when we
37:03
Speaker 2: get to Harres and once now we get into stable Europe,
37:07
Speaker 2: let's say we will see a few a bit better
37:12
Speaker 2: performance from Joanne and he will get to the check
37:14
Speaker 2: in flag Worth noticing in Buriram wasn't his fault, you know,
37:18
Speaker 2: the tire delaminated or destroyed itself. But Guyana and Kota
37:24
Speaker 2: two big mistakes.
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Speaker 1: For those listening, go and check out Matt's article on
37:29
Speaker 1: Fox sports dot com dot au Ford Slash e Mootorsport
37:31
Speaker 1: because he touches on a section in his latest pit
37:35
Speaker 1: talk called Crash Magnet. So go and read that all
37:39
Speaker 1: about Juan Meal, which I was like, that's a very
37:42
Speaker 1: relevant title and there's a bunch of other stuff in
37:44
Speaker 1: there that Matt has got from the latest goss from
37:48
Speaker 1: the Moto GP paddock. But let's move on to our
37:52
Speaker 1: assis Inmoto, to our assie. Shall we say our race
37:55
Speaker 1: winner in one? We're only in one Senna agis waw
38:01
Speaker 1: I said, So we always mentioned it in here that
38:04
Speaker 1: me and Matt we're always talking throughout the weekend. And
38:07
Speaker 1: I said to Matt Friday, I said, Senna's going to
38:10
Speaker 1: be on for a podium this weekend. And it was
38:13
Speaker 1: like Saturday afternoon after qualifying, Matt GRoWES, I think you're
38:17
Speaker 1: right here. There's just something this weekend.
38:20
Speaker 2: I know.
38:20
Speaker 1: We went and spoke to his dad, Johnno, and Johno's
38:23
Speaker 1: like something's clicked for him here where last year even
38:27
Speaker 1: Senn was like I was terrible, and then all of
38:30
Speaker 1: a sudden, something's changed. Okay, let's recap THO Moto too.
38:34
Speaker 1: To start with, I was standing right in front of
38:38
Speaker 1: where Sen was taking off. To me, it looked like
38:40
Speaker 1: he jumped the start because I saw him shake his
38:42
Speaker 1: head and then we saw that massive crash that happened,
38:47
Speaker 1: Like what in the name of God was going on
38:51
Speaker 1: with that? Then we had the race restart, and then
38:55
Speaker 1: all of a sudden Senna made his way through. We
38:57
Speaker 1: saw that epic battle that he had with v I believe,
39:01
Speaker 1: and it just seems like he was just cau as
39:04
Speaker 1: a qcmbar so in control and just wrote the thing
39:07
Speaker 1: to the finish line. What was your take from Senna
39:10
Speaker 1: this weekend?
39:11
Speaker 2: Really impressive and I think, do you know what? This
39:15
Speaker 2: is something we spoke about with johno is dad was
39:18
Speaker 2: that Guyana was hard. It was hard for a lot
39:21
Speaker 2: of reasons for the team because obviously Sender was one
39:24
Speaker 2: of his main mechanics. Robbie lunar day in an RTA
39:27
Speaker 2: in between Thailand and Brazil, so they were a man
39:30
Speaker 2: down the paddocks, a man down. This is never a
39:32
Speaker 2: nice feeling. This is something I spoke about on commentary
39:35
Speaker 2: over in Guyana, and I think Senna was just so
39:39
Speaker 2: maybe distracted, but he didn't want to admit it, or
39:41
Speaker 2: he didn't even realize himself, but there was something missing,
39:45
Speaker 2: you know. And then he turns up in Austin and
39:48
Speaker 2: I've got to say, from the restart, I think he
39:51
Speaker 2: was always going to win, that there was no way
39:54
Speaker 2: Senna was going to settle for P two and Chellastine Oviet.
39:58
Speaker 2: It was a very very classy rye, a very classy celebration.
40:02
Speaker 2: But this is what we know senecn do. He can
40:04
Speaker 2: win it at a canter up the front. He can
40:07
Speaker 2: win it in a head to head battle with other riders.
40:10
Speaker 2: We saw that at Silver Soon last year. The dominance
40:12
Speaker 2: was in Australia and now he had to grind the
40:15
Speaker 2: results out. But again I think he was always on
40:17
Speaker 2: for that victory from the restart. What a win. And
40:22
Speaker 2: you've got to say, if Sene can actually be consistent,
40:26
Speaker 2: this is one big thing that Senna's had a problem
40:28
Speaker 2: with over in twenty twenty five is he's very up
40:31
Speaker 2: and down. If he can be consistent, I'll tell you
40:34
Speaker 2: what Senna's got, the pace that can go all the
40:36
Speaker 2: way in this championship. We saw I think it was
40:39
Speaker 2: Manu Gonzalez last year sixty n f's or six race
40:44
Speaker 2: weekends without points. Consistency is massive in Moto too. Diogo
40:50
Speaker 2: Marera not as inconsistent but was good at the end
40:53
Speaker 2: of the season. If Senna does the donkey work early
40:56
Speaker 2: on and can just hold a steady top four, top
40:59
Speaker 2: three pain right the way through the season, Sena's going
41:02
Speaker 2: to be there at the end and that's massive for
41:05
Speaker 2: you guys, particularly because you know obviously Jack Miller he's
41:08
Speaker 2: only on a one year deal of his contracts up
41:11
Speaker 2: anyway at the end of this year like most riders,
41:14
Speaker 2: and you guys have got Adelaide, you know you're going
41:16
Speaker 2: to need a fast Australian because you get the feeling
41:19
Speaker 2: that even if Jack was to stay in Moso GP
41:22
Speaker 2: with the Pramac team on a V four Yamaha, it's
41:25
Speaker 2: still not going to be competitive. Whereas Sena, whether he
41:28
Speaker 2: moves up to Motor GP, stays in Motor too, you
41:31
Speaker 2: can guarantee that when we get down to Adelaide for
41:33
Speaker 2: the first time, he's going to be bringing in fans
41:36
Speaker 2: and he'll probably be pretty quick. So big big year
41:40
Speaker 2: for Cener this and for us as Motor GP to
41:44
Speaker 2: have a fast Australian coming through. It's very, very exciting.
41:48
Speaker 2: But top job from Sener and great family, great Day's,
41:52
Speaker 2: dad's brilliant. Couldn't be happy for them, no, I mean.
41:55
Speaker 1: Like we're biased. We love our Ossie's senner Joel. Last
41:59
Speaker 1: year we had like we're big fans and we love
42:01
Speaker 1: promoting them. I think the thing with Center, I don't know.
42:04
Speaker 1: I spoke to him after Thailand before Brazil, and to
42:10
Speaker 1: me he just seems like not egotistically, but he's like
42:15
Speaker 1: I've got this, like like the confidence is there. Yeah,
42:18
Speaker 1: and so I think I know he he wants to
42:21
Speaker 1: go to Moto GP. That's clear as day, and he
42:23
Speaker 1: is our next Ossie, hopeful to make that step up.
42:27
Speaker 1: But I think this is his chance to really prove
42:30
Speaker 1: himself now and he's had a decent start considering the circumstances.
42:36
Speaker 1: I spoke to him after his win, which you guys
42:38
Speaker 1: can see on Fox sports dot Com to au for
42:41
Speaker 1: Slush Motorsport on our YouTube channel at Fox Motorsport as well,
42:45
Speaker 1: and you can see the emotion behind his eyes. And yeah,
42:47
Speaker 1: he even admitted in Brazil like he wasn't there. Totally understandable,
42:52
Speaker 1: totally understandable. But this weekend he's like I'm back, I'm
42:56
Speaker 1: ready to go, And now that we head into Europe,
42:59
Speaker 1: he's the same thing. It seems like all these flyaways
43:01
Speaker 1: it's like a little bit hit and miss, who can
43:03
Speaker 1: do what and where As soon as they get back
43:05
Speaker 1: to Europe, it's like, no, these are the tracks that
43:07
Speaker 1: we know, we've done a million laps off we go.
43:09
Speaker 2: The thing with the flyways, it's almost getting through them.
43:12
Speaker 2: You know, you turn up to Brazil and I think
43:17
Speaker 2: for everyone it was let's get through Brazil. We knew
43:19
Speaker 2: it was going to be one of those weekends where
43:21
Speaker 2: there's going to be a couple of red flags, a
43:23
Speaker 2: couple of sessions delayed. We knew that was going to
43:25
Speaker 2: happen because that generally happens at every single new track
43:29
Speaker 2: that we go to, not because of a problem, but
43:31
Speaker 2: because there are operational things that need ironing out. We've
43:34
Speaker 2: had it in Cota, we had it in Mandalika. I
43:37
Speaker 2: think the only one we didn't have actually was ballot
43:39
Speaker 2: on last year, and that's a normal thing. That's a
43:42
Speaker 2: very very normal thing. Formula one have the same thing
43:46
Speaker 2: then Coda. It can be difficult, it's bumpy, it can
43:51
Speaker 2: be raining. The surface is baked so much throughout the
43:55
Speaker 2: year because of the heat that any rain just sits
43:58
Speaker 2: there and it can be really really difficult. That's what
44:00
Speaker 2: happened last year with Motor two, Yes, Motor too and
44:04
Speaker 2: Motor GP. And we we know that that. As I said,
44:09
Speaker 2: the track is a bit bumpy. Now those bumps have
44:12
Speaker 2: caught out a lot of riders, mainly Mark Marquez. He
44:15
Speaker 2: crashed on Friday on a bump, so you know, Cocer
44:19
Speaker 2: can be tricky. But Harrath starts. They taught of Europe
44:23
Speaker 2: and Senna knows her f from his motor to European days.
44:26
Speaker 2: He knows lamar He's been here now for two years,
44:29
Speaker 2: so he knows all the tracks were come into. He'll
44:32
Speaker 2: knows some better than others. He's got happy memories of
44:34
Speaker 2: memories of Aragon. So he won the title back in
44:37
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three. So yeah, no doubt that if Sene
44:43
Speaker 2: can be consistent and be fast, he will grind out
44:46
Speaker 2: a results. Because he's not really a crasher either, Senate.
44:49
Speaker 2: He doesn't really throw it at the fence too much,
44:51
Speaker 2: so you know, whereas other riders, you know, maybe not crushers,
44:55
Speaker 2: but are a little bit more up and down. If
44:57
Speaker 2: Senec can iron out that that fact so of inconsistency,
45:01
Speaker 2: I think he'll be I think something could be right
45:04
Speaker 2: in here. I hope.
45:05
Speaker 1: So I thought we want the Aussies up front. Let's
45:07
Speaker 1: just touch on that that crash though that happened in
45:10
Speaker 1: Moto true, what was the outcome with that because we
45:14
Speaker 1: were watching it and it's like did he get break fade? Like,
45:17
Speaker 1: what on earth happened? Did he get sucked in?
45:20
Speaker 2: I think what's happened is he's gone to make up.
45:22
Speaker 2: I think he was past it. Well talking about Alberto Ferrandez,
45:25
Speaker 2: not the original turn one incident with Joe Roberts and
45:29
Speaker 2: Danny Holgado. So the big one turned ten, sorry it
45:33
Speaker 2: turn eleven? What I am I think has happened? I
45:36
Speaker 2: think it was Sergio Garcia was ahead of him and
45:38
Speaker 2: Ferrandez has just lost it on the breaks, but he's
45:40
Speaker 2: trying to make the pass. That combined is he's had
45:43
Speaker 2: to go offline and then it's into all the bumps
45:46
Speaker 2: from the Formula one guys when they're ripped, like where
45:48
Speaker 2: all the tracks rippling up, and he just comes in
45:52
Speaker 2: with such a closing speed. He's not intended to do that.
45:54
Speaker 2: I wouldn't say it was reckless, say, but it's a
45:59
Speaker 2: mistake that really you shouldn't be making. He is a rookie.
46:02
Speaker 2: We have to give him some leniency, I suppose, but
46:06
Speaker 2: a terrible accident and I think we all held our breath.
46:10
Speaker 2: Then what happened after his anghelper Chaos has been nailed
46:14
Speaker 2: by the bike and he's been Thankfully he's okay. We've
46:18
Speaker 2: seen the post on Instagram that he's in the hospital.
46:20
Speaker 2: He's got a broken femur, but far from ideal. We
46:25
Speaker 2: all held our breath. Thankfully everyone was okay, and actually,
46:28
Speaker 2: besides pecare Us and Randez, everyone made the restart. The
46:34
Speaker 2: seven riders involved in it made the five that didn't
46:38
Speaker 2: get hurt too much, Alberzo Farrande's helper Carous, the two
46:41
Speaker 2: big casualties. Everyone else made the restart, so no I was.
46:46
Speaker 2: I was happy to see everyone relatively okay. The thing is,
46:50
Speaker 2: we haven't had a penalty outcome yet, because I think
46:54
Speaker 2: it'll be a Thursday or Wednesday conversation at the track
46:57
Speaker 2: in herress when everything's kind of a bit more quiet
47:02
Speaker 2: and down, and I will be interested to see what
47:04
Speaker 2: the penalty is. As far as I'm aware, Alberto Ferandez
47:08
Speaker 2: hasn't done anything in the past, so judge on this
47:12
Speaker 2: sliding scale that Simon crayfar the fi Emotor g B
47:15
Speaker 2: Steward uses, it is technically a first offense. Whether it's
47:19
Speaker 2: going to be punished as a first offense, I don't know.
47:23
Speaker 2: I would imagine at least a long that penalty. I'm
47:28
Speaker 2: looking more towards a double long that penalty, but I'm
47:31
Speaker 2: not motor GP stewards, so that's not for me to speculate.
47:34
Speaker 2: But we will get the penalty when we get say
47:36
Speaker 2: I'm to here, there will be something for sure.
47:39
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I mean definitely, like there has to be
47:42
Speaker 1: because that was just insane. But like you say, you've
47:45
Speaker 1: gotta kind of take it with a grain of stot
47:46
Speaker 1: because it is a rookie. You know, there is that there.
47:49
Speaker 1: But it was not good. Nonetheless, it was not good
47:52
Speaker 1: and unfortunately, you know, the delays and whatnot. But the
47:56
Speaker 1: outcome in the end for us, credible center on the podium,
47:59
Speaker 1: incredible to see. Couldn't even do a shoey though, because
48:02
Speaker 1: he's under the age of twenty one, sorry, going to
48:04
Speaker 1: celebrate with any of the bubbles on the podium. And
48:08
Speaker 1: then let's quickly move on to RODO three. Just to
48:10
Speaker 1: talk about Joel Kelso, a tricky weekend for him. Okay,
48:14
Speaker 1: another DNF. I want to know your thoughts away from
48:17
Speaker 1: this weekend, away from the results there, how are you
48:20
Speaker 1: seeing Joel go on the Honda the new manufacturing, new
48:23
Speaker 1: team for this year.
48:25
Speaker 2: I think it is as we expected. I mean, Michael Labberty,
48:30
Speaker 2: great guy, I know him well. But the team in
48:35
Speaker 2: their own words, know that Joel Kelso is a coup
48:38
Speaker 2: for them in twenty twenty six. Joel has got off
48:43
Speaker 2: the level of MTA machine that has already had pole positions,
48:47
Speaker 2: been on multiple podiums over the years, had Grand pre
48:50
Speaker 2: win so there's no doubt that Joel has stepped down
48:54
Speaker 2: in terms of the ranking in the teams. But actually
48:58
Speaker 2: he's ground out some decent results points in the opening
49:00
Speaker 2: too Grand Prix the season and obviously just pushing a
49:03
Speaker 2: bit too much in Cota, but that has actually helped
49:06
Speaker 2: the team a little bit move up because Eddie has
49:08
Speaker 2: been in the points the other side of the box.
49:10
Speaker 2: Eddie's been in the points every Grand Prix, so I
49:14
Speaker 2: think let's see when we get to Hares. That's where
49:16
Speaker 2: Joel was really quick last year, was in that podium battle. Likewise,
49:19
Speaker 2: la Mont's straight after that, so I think the next
49:22
Speaker 2: couple of Grand Pries will be a bit friendlier for Joel.
49:25
Speaker 2: But we also know the Honda is something I've spoken
49:28
Speaker 2: about a lot in Motor three commns is that the
49:31
Speaker 2: Honda just isn't quite there on out and out pace.
49:35
Speaker 2: How many times last year did we see David Almanza
49:38
Speaker 2: fast on Friday, fast on Saturday, but can't hook it
49:41
Speaker 2: up on a Sunday. And it took until the last
49:43
Speaker 2: three grand period a year for Honda to win a
49:45
Speaker 2: Grand Prix and it was tired for us, a slightly
49:49
Speaker 2: dodgy reduced Grand Prix, difficult situation over in Sapang. And
49:54
Speaker 2: now John Fernandez winning in Valencia where all the riders
49:58
Speaker 2: know it's the one place that probably the risers can
50:01
Speaker 2: make a bit more of the difference. Having said that,
50:04
Speaker 2: just to talk about Layerpard again in some good light,
50:07
Speaker 2: Guido Phoenix, fantastic result for Guido who right plagues the
50:11
Speaker 2: right time. Let the two casey young boys that Carfe
50:14
Speaker 2: and Peroni, I think it was yeah, because Kiz is back.
50:18
Speaker 2: It was carf in for only battle it out in
50:20
Speaker 2: the last three or four corners and then like a
50:22
Speaker 2: rat offer drain five gets it to the line and
50:25
Speaker 2: takes victory and holds off Kiles. So Honda in one
50:28
Speaker 2: breath obviously not the most competitive package because Peenie was
50:32
Speaker 2: the only Honda doing anything there, but got a grand
50:35
Speaker 2: ple we win, So a win's a win, doesn't matter
50:38
Speaker 2: how you get there, so which is encouraging as well
50:41
Speaker 2: for the other Honda teams. Just to bring it back
50:42
Speaker 2: to Joel, there other hundred teams will see that and
50:45
Speaker 2: be like, Okay, when the situation and the stars align
50:48
Speaker 2: and the planet's aligned and the situation falls, we can
50:51
Speaker 2: be there. Maybe it's not for the win all the time,
50:52
Speaker 2: but a podium, a top five, the top five for
50:54
Speaker 2: them Love's team would be an absolutely brilliant result. So
50:58
Speaker 2: I'm confident when we get to her Rest, particularly Joel,
51:00
Speaker 2: I think it'll be way more up towards the top ten.
51:05
Speaker 1: On this pod. And something that we always promote on
51:08
Speaker 1: Fox Sports is tune into Moto three because Ya, Moto
51:11
Speaker 1: GP's great. We love the spectacle, we love the pack.
51:13
Speaker 1: Moto three racing is on the edge of your seat
51:16
Speaker 1: the whole time. That final lap was bananas. It was
51:20
Speaker 1: just crazy, wasn't it in the final few corners edge
51:24
Speaker 1: of your seat or behind the sofa.
51:26
Speaker 2: I'm not sure because I was looking at it thinking,
51:29
Speaker 2: surely these guys aren't all getting to the finish, but
51:31
Speaker 2: they did. Moto three never fails to deliver this year,
51:34
Speaker 2: you could you could argue it's actually been a bit tame.
51:38
Speaker 2: We had the opening too Grand Prix, David Almans obviously
51:41
Speaker 2: duffing up Kiles in Thailand joint closest finish of all
51:45
Speaker 2: time in the class three thousands to a second, and
51:48
Speaker 2: that went to the last corner. Guyana probably would have
51:51
Speaker 2: had something similar, but we never know because al Manza
51:54
Speaker 2: high sighted himself out the front door halfway through the
51:57
Speaker 2: Grand Prix, and then on the restart because there was
51:59
Speaker 2: an a red flag, we had Keiles go off and
52:02
Speaker 2: clear off. So it has been a bit tame, but
52:06
Speaker 2: it definitely made up for it in Koda. But Code
52:07
Speaker 2: is a great track. It was I think it was
52:09
Speaker 2: mart Marquez in the press conference on Thursday said you
52:11
Speaker 2: need three or four different riding styles to get around
52:14
Speaker 2: this track. It's so vast. It has so many different characteristics.
52:17
Speaker 2: The opening sector is fast and flowing, and you've got
52:20
Speaker 2: hard stopping, really tight twisty corners in that third sector
52:24
Speaker 2: and then a really fast and flowing but not S's
52:27
Speaker 2: style enter the lap. So you've got to ride it
52:30
Speaker 2: in three or four different ways, and generally tracks like
52:33
Speaker 2: that do give good racing and the last cornering Coda,
52:38
Speaker 2: it's just slightly uphill so you can really run it
52:40
Speaker 2: up the inside. And that's what we got as a
52:43
Speaker 2: fantastic track. And in Moto three perfect Herreth. Don't forget
52:48
Speaker 2: last corner in Herth always a bit tasty. Moto three
52:51
Speaker 2: is not an exception.
52:53
Speaker 1: I love that You're just like trying to get everyone
52:55
Speaker 1: to tune into her Reth. You're like, yeah, this is great,
52:57
Speaker 1: we love it. Not for me.
52:59
Speaker 2: I don't do the ily, do the practicing, qualifying.
53:04
Speaker 1: I just realized I didn't even think we had another
53:07
Speaker 1: Houdi on the podium this weekend. Your debut as well
53:10
Speaker 1: in the Harley Davidson Bagger World Cup. Archie McDonald on
53:15
Speaker 1: it is just looking at these bikes right around a
53:18
Speaker 1: race track is hilarious.
53:20
Speaker 2: It's so cool.
53:21
Speaker 1: It's so American, but it's just hilarious. But awesome result
53:24
Speaker 1: from Archie. Over the weekend. He was on the podium
53:27
Speaker 1: multiple times, but he won a race. Right. How did
53:30
Speaker 1: you think the Baggers went for their first weekend out
53:33
Speaker 1: at Koda?
53:34
Speaker 2: Do you know what, there's a phrase you only need
53:36
Speaker 2: two riders to have a good race. We know the
53:39
Speaker 2: grid is nine and perhaps that's a bit lower than
53:42
Speaker 2: what everyone wanted and what we anticipate for the future.
53:45
Speaker 2: But the racing was brilliant. We had a bit of
53:47
Speaker 2: drama in race one. Eric Bernardo qushed out the lead
53:50
Speaker 2: mad Dog taking up the honors in race one, and
53:54
Speaker 2: in the Race two mad Dog during on the wasp
53:57
Speaker 2: was what I said, because he didn't realize he had
53:59
Speaker 2: to do along that penalty and was quickly shifted out
54:03
Speaker 2: of P two in part fer way to P three,
54:06
Speaker 2: but he put a last corner pass on oscu Utiers.
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Speaker 2: As fans, and we are fans. We might be professionals,
54:11
Speaker 2: but we are big fans from young ages. We love
54:15
Speaker 2: to see a last corner shoot out and we got one.
54:17
Speaker 2: So I think the Baggers over like overall good success,
54:22
Speaker 2: good support. The teams are interesting, riders have got personality,
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Speaker 2: particularly Archie, so I think we're in for a really,
54:30
Speaker 2: really good season. Gotta wait a little while till they're
54:32
Speaker 2: back out there. I think it's migello. Can you imagine
54:35
Speaker 2: seeing those things roll around the Tuscan Hills. It's going
54:37
Speaker 2: to be brilliant.
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Speaker 1: The sound of them, just like roaring through the mountainside
54:41
Speaker 1: that's gonna be.
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Speaker 2: It's gonna sound like someone with a chainsaw, you know, Magello,
54:45
Speaker 2: they've got all the lunatics that stay overnight with chainsaws
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Speaker 2: going all night. That's what they're going to sound like.
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Speaker 2: But it's going to be on the track. It's going
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Speaker 2: to be brilliant.
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Speaker 1: We can't wait. Honestly, if you guys haven't gone and
54:55
Speaker 1: checked out the bag as well cut you can watch
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Speaker 1: the highlights there on.
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Speaker 2: KO and if I it can, just to boost you
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Speaker 2: guys a little bit. I think mad Dog is leading
55:04
Speaker 2: the championship forty one points, so you have got an
55:06
Speaker 2: Australian championship leader at the moment. Senna's sixth I think
55:10
Speaker 2: at the minute, ahead of David Alonso, who's your pre
55:14
Speaker 2: pre season favorite in Moto too, So Senna's ahead of
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Speaker 2: him at the moment. But there's a good time to
55:19
Speaker 2: be in as at the minute, isn't it.
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Speaker 1: I know we've got Ozzie's in all the classes, which
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Speaker 1: is fantastic and that's something that I was talking to
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Speaker 1: MC doing a few weeks ago about is just how
55:27
Speaker 1: important it is for us to have to continue to
55:29
Speaker 1: have the Aussie's coming through and a new Championship, like
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Speaker 1: the bag is. To have Archie there, who's we know
55:35
Speaker 1: he's done ASBK. We know he's done the European Championships
55:37
Speaker 1: as well. To see him take the lead take the
55:40
Speaker 1: flag for us in this one is phenomenal.
55:43
Speaker 2: And also over in the world super white paddock, you know,
55:47
Speaker 2: and you could do with Remy Gardener finding something with
55:49
Speaker 2: Yamaha in general finding something. But Oli Bayless on the podium,
55:52
Speaker 2: already on the triumph in super sport, so you know
55:55
Speaker 2: there's a little bit of yeah, there's something to look
55:58
Speaker 2: out for in every class and that's really good because
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Speaker 2: as a brit we don't have a lot at the moment,
56:02
Speaker 2: not in Grand Prix. Scott Ogden obviously regularly up inside
56:07
Speaker 2: the top ten, but then it does dry out a
56:09
Speaker 2: little bit. And obviously over in superbikes, Sam Loo's Alex
56:12
Speaker 2: Low's doing the business. But Jake Dixon, well we haven't
56:17
Speaker 2: seen Jake Dixon yet, have we, because he's out with
56:19
Speaker 2: a done, he's done his wrist. But when he is back,
56:22
Speaker 2: I'm sure Jake's and to be there. But Emojip motor too.
56:26
Speaker 2: We are lacking the British flag a little bit.
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Speaker 1: So so you're welcome to represent the Aussie one.
56:31
Speaker 2: Then well, to be fair, we have got a British
56:33
Speaker 2: flag on your flag, so I suppose we're not lacking
56:36
Speaker 2: too much. But there on this podcast exactly quickly pedaling
56:42
Speaker 2: back on that, got to say, enjoy the success. Well
56:47
Speaker 2: you can.
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Speaker 1: Oh, we'll take it. We'll take it, and I know
56:50
Speaker 1: you are right Keeker. That's enough. We've chatted everything from Corodar,
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Speaker 1: So thank you so much for joining.
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Speaker 2: Me on more to welcome any time.
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