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Pecco Bagnaia's HUGE Crash & Marc Marquez Masterclass: MotoGP Pit Talk · Pit Talk

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Speaker 1: Mark Marquez is back to his winning ways in Moto GP,
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Speaker 1: absolutely owning the Aragon grompri in the Spanish Desert, but
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Speaker 1: his victory celebration got a bit upstaged by a wild
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Speaker 1: family affair. His brother Alex Marquez took out Peco Banyaya,
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Speaker 1: the championship leader, in a crazy crash could have been
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Speaker 1: straight out of a Wild West movie. I'm your host,
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Speaker 1: Rinita Vmulin, and alongside me is my partner in crime,
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Speaker 1: the sharp shooting legend of Modorspot Media. Matt Clayton. Matt,
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Speaker 1: We've got a lot to cover in this episode, but
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Speaker 1: it's hard not to talk about the eight time world
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Speaker 1: champion Mark Marquez, who was finally returned to the top
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Speaker 1: step of the podium after a saggering one thousand and
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Speaker 1: forty three days Bruneta.
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Speaker 2: I felt that I wrote one thousand and forty three
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Speaker 2: about one thousand and forty three times yesterday and the
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Speaker 2: wash up of Aragon, But it was great to see him.
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Speaker 2: It was kind of nostalgic to see him just completely
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Speaker 2: boss a wish Hendroom start to finish like he did,
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Speaker 2: and it was funny watching the race on Sunday. Yes,
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Speaker 2: he'd already won the sprint on Saturday, but it was
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Speaker 2: sort of strangely unemotional for a guy that hasn't won
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Speaker 2: and over three years, because it just seems so inevitable
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Speaker 2: from the moment that we got on track at Aragon
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Speaker 2: on Friday, and there are a lot of circumstances leading
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Speaker 2: to that that will probably get to But I don't
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Speaker 2: know about you, but I quite enjoyed the nostalgic factor
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Speaker 2: of watching him just make everyone else look a little
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Speaker 2: bit silly for a weekend. It was like the old days,
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Speaker 2: was it?
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Speaker 1: It was like the old days, And like you said,
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Speaker 1: we kind of knew it was coming. And the lead
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Speaker 1: up there's been a lead up to the Wraith in
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Speaker 1: America coda. Then there was Saxon Ring and we're like, okay,
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Speaker 1: come on, Mark, you have to have a win soon Aragon.
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Speaker 1: Calling into this weekend, I thought, you know, maybe the
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Speaker 1: circuit and the resurfacing wasn't going to suit him. Straight
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Speaker 1: from the gate, go fastest and Friday Fastest on Saturday
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Speaker 1: qualifies on poll Win's the sprint, wins the Grand Prix.
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Speaker 1: It's a Mark Marquez masterclass.
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Speaker 2: Well, and what was really interesting afterwards was he was discussing.
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Speaker 2: He was asked about why he was able to be
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Speaker 2: so strong this particular weekend, and he didn't talk about
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Speaker 2: the pace, He didn't talk about the left handed nature
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Speaker 2: of the track, which we know he's so good on
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Speaker 2: the anti clockwise track. The word that he used was adaptability,
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Speaker 2: in that he adapts faster to changing conditions better than
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Speaker 2: anybody else on the grid. And what was so weird
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Speaker 2: about this weekend is that, Yeah, we had the new
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Speaker 2: track surface that you were talking about before, so nobody
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Speaker 2: quite knew how that was going to play out, and
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Speaker 2: you could see it on the TV shot how dark
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Speaker 2: that surface was. You could see how new it was.
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Speaker 2: But effectively we had a new track for three straight
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Speaker 2: days because it kind of rub it in a little
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Speaker 2: bit on Friday, massive thunderstorm Friday night washed it clean,
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Speaker 2: so he had a really green track on Saturday. We
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Speaker 2: saw what he did on Saturday. The pole margin eighteenth
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Speaker 2: or point eight four zero as the biggest pole margin
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Speaker 2: in the dry for thirteen years, so shows you how
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Speaker 2: dominant he was. He wins a sprint and then it
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Speaker 2: rains again on Saturday night, so it washes the track
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Speaker 2: clean again for Sunday. So each day. It was almost
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Speaker 2: every lap for every rider was how much grip do
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Speaker 2: I have here? And how far off line can I go?
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Speaker 2: In conditions are super sketchy like that. You add that
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Speaker 2: to a track where he's had great success and where
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Speaker 2: he's clearly very very confident. He's the greatest improviser on
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Speaker 2: the grid, and I think we've got three totally different
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Speaker 2: days Friday, Saturday, Sunday. He proved how adaptable he was,
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Speaker 2: and that's why he was so dominant.
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Speaker 3: Oh, you're exactly right there.
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Speaker 1: A lot of the other writers were complaining about grit
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Speaker 1: constantly all weekend, and we could see it as we'll
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Speaker 1: get into with Peco Bannaya, just not having any confidence
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Speaker 1: at all. But like you said, Marquez, the lack of
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Speaker 1: grip almost suited him. It felt like he could maybe
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Speaker 1: go back a little bit to the way that he
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Speaker 1: write or rode the Repsol Honda, but put that in
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Speaker 1: the Ducatte style and he could blend the two almost seamlessly.
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Speaker 1: So really, the conditions just matched up perfectly for Mark
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Speaker 1: to have the weekend that he wanted and I felt
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Speaker 1: like he needed as well.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, a little bit. I think, you know, the longer
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Speaker 2: this wind drought went on particularly, I mean, no one
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Speaker 2: expected him to win on a Honda after how Paul,
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Speaker 2: that bike's been for a few years, and you know,
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Speaker 2: he spent the best part of three years physically and
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Speaker 2: capable of winning, which makes those three wins that he
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Speaker 2: had in twenty one even crazier when you think about it.
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Speaker 2: But I think the pressure and everyone kept mentioning that
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Speaker 2: oney forty three days or whatever it was, week by week,
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Speaker 2: you could sense there was a burden there. And what
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Speaker 2: was really interesting after he won that sprint was he
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Speaker 2: looked more stressed than he looked happy in a lot
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Speaker 2: of respects because there was now you're expected to go
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Speaker 2: and win the Grand Prix, and that was like, all right,
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Speaker 2: that's a little bit of pressure. But I think the
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Speaker 2: way he celebrated after winning on Sunday, I had to
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Speaker 2: remind myself as like, have you just want to race
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Speaker 2: here or have you actually won the World Championship, because
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Speaker 2: that's the sort of the intensity of that celebration was
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Speaker 2: like we've seen him do when he's won titles in
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Speaker 2: the past, And it was interesting afterwards he said that
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Speaker 2: he felt that he'd lost several kilos and that's just
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Speaker 2: the monkey on the back of this drought going on
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Speaker 2: year after year after year, and all the doubts that
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Speaker 2: he would have had. It feels like he's back, and
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Speaker 2: I think mentally this win's worth way more than the
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Speaker 2: win and the twenty five points, because now that he's
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Speaker 2: broken through this sort of glass ceiling that was above
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Speaker 2: his head, it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if
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Speaker 2: he runs off some wins now. Now, I don't think
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Speaker 2: he's going to win the championship. He said that he
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Speaker 2: probably isn't a championship contender, but I certainly can think
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Speaker 2: he's going to shape the way the rest of the
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Speaker 2: season goes now because we know it's probably between Banyar
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Speaker 2: and Martin. But if Marquez is up there winning more
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Speaker 2: than occasional races, I'm going to say this right now.
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Speaker 2: By the way, if he doesn't win at Philip Island,
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Speaker 2: it's because he hasn't finished. I can only see white
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Speaker 2: outcome for him at Phlip Island. He's either gonna win
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Speaker 2: it or he's going to DNF because I think another
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Speaker 2: left handed circuit that's not going to punish that GP
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Speaker 2: twenty three is right in his wheelhouse. But I don't
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Speaker 2: think that's the only race he's going to win for
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Speaker 2: the rest of the year. I can absolutely see him
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Speaker 2: shaping the rest of this championship.
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Speaker 1: I you just look the words out of my mouth.
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Speaker 1: I completely agree. I think now that he's got that
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Speaker 1: first win under his belt, there's that confidence and that
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Speaker 1: sense of Okay, I can do this again, and now
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Speaker 1: we're going to see the full markers back.
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Speaker 3: Not that we have.
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Speaker 2: Well, we've just been in the last five minutes to
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Speaker 2: try to come up with an eloquent way to describe
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Speaker 2: what he did. I might just quote Jack Biller here
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Speaker 2: and bleep out one of the obscenities. Jack was asked
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Speaker 2: after the race about Marquez and said Mark put on
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Speaker 2: an effing clinic in Jack's own typically sort of Australian style.
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Speaker 2: So I don't think any of his rivals were particularly
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Speaker 2: surprised by what he did, but seeing it when you
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Speaker 2: haven't seen it for a while and seeing it be
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Speaker 2: that dominant, I think his peers were pretty impressed. And yeah,
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Speaker 2: there was a lot of there was a lot of
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Speaker 2: motion coming out in that celebration. It was nice to see.
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Speaker 1: It was nice to see and really cool for Grassini
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Speaker 1: as well.
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Speaker 3: To have that win.
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Speaker 1: You know, they took on Mark equally Mark took on
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Speaker 1: them as well. For them to stand on the top
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Speaker 1: step of the podium. Together with the weekend that was
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Speaker 1: full of highs for Mark and lows for Alex Marquez,
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Speaker 1: I think it was a nice balance. But we're going
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Speaker 1: to get to that much a later in the episode.
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Speaker 3: I want to talk about.
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Speaker 1: Jorge Martin this weekend because Okay, the Mark saw the limelight.
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Speaker 1: You know, you can see on the Fox socials we
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Speaker 1: posted about how consistent he was during the race with
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Speaker 1: his lap times, how is strong all weekend, but Jojey
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Speaker 1: Martin also looked super just stable, strong, consistent apart from
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Speaker 1: that one crash on Saturday and Q two I believe
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Speaker 1: poem Martin was there as well.
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Speaker 2: This has been the story of the second half of
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Speaker 2: his year. We keep going back to the fact he
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Speaker 2: hasn't won a race now, hasn't won a Sunday race
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Speaker 2: since Lomol in round five, So it's quite a long
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Speaker 2: time over the context of the last two or three
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Speaker 2: seasons when he's been a consistent race winner. But he's
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Speaker 2: always doing the best he can on the day. If
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Speaker 2: he can't win, and he just keeps finishing second, whether
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Speaker 2: it's to Peco or to Mark this weekend. You combine
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Speaker 2: that with an absolute shock of for Banyai, which we'll
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Speaker 2: get to. But Martin's always there, and that's nineteen out
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Speaker 2: of twenty four starts this year he's finished on the podium.
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Speaker 2: So he's just always there. He's always there. He's always there,
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Speaker 2: and I think that's part of the evolution of him
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Speaker 2: this year in that it kind of felt last year
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Speaker 2: that if he couldn't win, it almost not prefer to crash,
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Speaker 2: but he'd crash trying to win. And I think this
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Speaker 2: year he's probably learned to keep his power to dry
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Speaker 2: a little bit more and say, Okay, I can't catch
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Speaker 2: Mark this weekend, but someone needs to finish second, and
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Speaker 2: that someone needs to be me, and that's why he's
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Speaker 2: in this position of advantage in the championship. So, yes,
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Speaker 2: he didn't win the spread, he didn't win the Grand Prix,
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Speaker 2: and it was an awesome story that, you know, for
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Speaker 2: Marquez after what he's been through, that he won. But
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Speaker 2: you'd almost argue that Martine was the biggest winner over
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Speaker 2: the weekend in terms of the course of the season,
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Speaker 2: because he did exactly what was on offer and that's
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Speaker 2: why he's in the lead now, oh.
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Speaker 1: One hundred percent. He needed to be ahead of Peco.
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Speaker 1: He knew that coming to the weekend Friday for everybody
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Speaker 1: was a game of what ifs because they didn't know
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Speaker 1: what the track was going to be, like, what the
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Speaker 1: weather was doing, everything. But as it progressed, like you said,
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Speaker 1: Mark was going to be in front, that was clear
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Speaker 1: or hey just had to be behind Mark and Peco
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Speaker 1: had to be behind him, and that seemed to work
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Speaker 1: out for him. I think that he kind of ebbs
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Speaker 1: and flows right, and we spoke about it a little
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Speaker 1: bit in our preview to the weekend. He posted on
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Speaker 1: social media saying that he felt real fresh, his batteries
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Speaker 1: were recharged coming in. I think now because the next
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Speaker 1: two races are essentially on Peco Bannyaya's home soil. It's
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Speaker 1: it's Massano, It's a track that he knows like the
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Speaker 1: back of the hand. For him being ahead of Peco
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Speaker 1: Banyaya going into those two back to backs I think
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Speaker 1: was a big game changer and what Jorge Martin needed
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Speaker 1: to go into those weekends as well.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, completely agree, because you know these are the equivalent
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Speaker 2: of sort of two away fixtures coming up. Now, if
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Speaker 2: you've got to talk about it and say if like
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Speaker 2: a football parlance, I guess because back to back races
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Speaker 2: at Massano. Once that second race was announced there, I
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Speaker 2: think our immediate reaction was all, like, this is really
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Speaker 2: big for Banyaya in terms of the World Championship because
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Speaker 2: it's another free hit for him at home. We know
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Speaker 2: how good he is at Massano. Now, look, Joge Martin
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Speaker 2: won the sprint and the Grand Prix at Massano last year.
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Speaker 2: I don't like to put asterisks on things, but Banyai
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Speaker 2: was so beeping up after he'd had that massive high
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Speaker 2: sight on the first lap at Catalonia the week before that.
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Speaker 2: He was super compromised and Martine had a bit of
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Speaker 2: a free hit with that one. But it was so
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Speaker 2: important that Martin was able to take some sort of
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Speaker 2: advantage out of Aragon because these next two races, for me,
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Speaker 2: it's almost like a guy playing defense for two races
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Speaker 2: in that there's so much more to lose than there
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Speaker 2: is to gain, but he's now doing that defensive position
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Speaker 2: from a strength of advantage. Super super important for Aragon
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Speaker 2: and just a really mature weekend for him, where you know,
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Speaker 2: we saw how sketchy it was, it was very very
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Speaker 2: easy to throw it down the road. He did exactly
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Speaker 2: what he needed to do.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, talking about throwing it down the road, I want
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Speaker 1: to talk about Peko Banyaya, not that crash a shout,
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Speaker 1: but his starts this weekend, his stars. Like I said earlier,
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Speaker 1: he had no confidence and you could clearly see that
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Speaker 1: and he just didn't look very happy at all all weekend.
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Speaker 3: But I can't believe.
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Speaker 1: That in both the sprint and the main Grand Prix,
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Speaker 1: how sketchy his starts were and how well he saved
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Speaker 1: those and that there wasn't a crash.
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Speaker 2: Amazing. One of those weeks where you almost wish you
11:01
Speaker 2: didn't qualify on the front row because he qualified third,
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Speaker 2: and it was interesting qualifying set up for me. There
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Speaker 2: were three guys that had their weekends completely determined by
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Speaker 2: where they qualified. Juge Martine was off the front row.
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Speaker 2: It's not something we say very often. He was fourth
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Speaker 2: on the grid, but he was on the racing line
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Speaker 2: that had been cleaned up. And I put air quotes
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Speaker 2: around this because the track was so dirty. Banion started
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Speaker 2: on the front row, but he was right up against
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Speaker 2: the pitwall there in P three, which is the side
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Speaker 2: of the track that no one ever rides on, let's
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Speaker 2: be honest. And so both of his starts it was
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Speaker 2: like he was starting in the wet and everyone else
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Speaker 2: was starting in the dry, and I think he went
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Speaker 2: more sideways than he went forward on both starts. So
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Speaker 2: qualifying third actually hurt him in some respects. And he
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Speaker 2: was able to show some pretty decent pace in the
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Speaker 2: Grand Prix before the incident, which we'll get to, but
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Speaker 2: the sprint he was kind of nowhere. I mean, he
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Speaker 2: tried alled around finishing ninth in the sprint, and without
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Speaker 2: being too unkind to Jack Millie, you know you've had
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Speaker 2: a bit of a shocker when you've scored as many
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Speaker 2: points on the weekend as Jack has when you're Peko Vnel,
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Speaker 2: because Jack scored one pointed Aragon and that's all Peco
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Speaker 2: left with as well. But it interesting after the sprint,
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Speaker 2: the he was pretty clear that he was unhappy with
12:05
Speaker 2: Michelin without actually naming Michelin, because he said, well, you know,
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Speaker 2: my team did everything right. I did everything right and
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Speaker 2: sort of left the sentence hanging there because he wasn't
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Speaker 2: particularly happy with the tires. But his whole weekend really
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Speaker 2: was defined by where he qualified, because quite frankly, he
12:19
Speaker 2: would have been better off qualifying fourth or fifth or seventh,
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Speaker 2: because he probably would have got off to a better
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Speaker 2: start in both races, and then both races completely changed
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Speaker 2: because anyone in those spots up against the pit wall
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Speaker 2: three six, nine, twelve going back, they just couldn't get
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Speaker 2: off the line because it was so so dirty and
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Speaker 2: greasy out there, and that's ultimately what cost him.
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Speaker 1: So an interesting start that I found out Peko's third
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Speaker 1: crash in his sixth DNF this year, where in I
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Speaker 1: think it was twenty twenty one, he was finding Fabio
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Speaker 1: Corderrero for the championship and he'd only had five DNFs,
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Speaker 1: So I think at this point of the year to
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Speaker 1: have six, that's a big thing for Peco the professor.
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Speaker 1: And you know, I think having starts like this, not
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Speaker 1: having confidence for someone who is so cool, calm and
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Speaker 1: collected all the time.
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Speaker 3: I think he got under his skin a bit this weekend.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, completely agree. He strikes me as someone who likes
13:15
Speaker 2: things to be just right, Like he's probably going someone
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Speaker 2: who's like, you know, putting the chairs tucking him under
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Speaker 2: the table. So they're all that completely right eggles like
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Speaker 2: everything has to be completely right for him, and when
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Speaker 2: things get a bit off, like we said in the
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Speaker 2: sprint with the with the tire thing, there's almost like
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Speaker 2: a not a sense of injustice, but he's almost he's
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Speaker 2: so principled about everything that everything has to be right
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Speaker 2: and just so for him to be in his sweet spot.
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Speaker 2: He's very woh Lorenzo in that respect, in that he's
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Speaker 2: just completely metronomic. And we've seen various races this year
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Speaker 2: that once he gets out front, he's basically impossible to
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Speaker 2: beat because he just keeps churning laps out time after
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Speaker 2: time because he's in control of the situation. Where we
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Speaker 2: talked about Marquez being this great improvisational writer, I think
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Speaker 2: Peco is someone who knows what he sweet spot is,
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Speaker 2: tries to get into it, and knows that he's kind
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Speaker 2: of unbeatable when he gets there. So the whole weekend
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Speaker 2: everything felt a little bit chaotic, like Friday practice wasn't great.
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Speaker 2: He managed to get himself into Q two, but it
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Speaker 2: never felt like he was under control the entire weekend
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Speaker 2: and was fighting against things that are going wrong. And
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Speaker 2: you know, maybe what we saw in those two races
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Speaker 2: was a result of that. But is it interesting you
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Speaker 2: mentioned with the DNFs we were having this same conversation
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Speaker 2: last year in Motor GP circles that Martin was the
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Speaker 2: one who was losing the championship by throwing points away.
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Speaker 2: You think at the amount of points he chucked away
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Speaker 2: last year with needless crashes from positions of advantage. It's
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Speaker 2: almost like they've done a role reversal this year and
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Speaker 2: Peco's turned into Joge Martin and vice versa, isn't it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're exactly right. It does kind of feel like
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Speaker 1: that with Joja Martin just being a little bit more consistent,
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Speaker 1: comfortable in the situations. But like we said before, we've
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Speaker 1: got Mazano coming up back to back, so that could
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Speaker 1: completely change everything. One thing I did find interesting this weekend,
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Speaker 1: and I asked you this question in our previews, where
15:00
Speaker 1: do you think the ktms were going to be, and
15:01
Speaker 1: we're like, na, ktms are not going to do very well.
15:04
Speaker 1: That's talk about Pedro Acosta, because he really surprised me
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Speaker 1: this weekend and when I was researching and figuring out
15:13
Speaker 1: what was different, he actually said that he went back
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Speaker 1: to the standard settings. There was a while where he
15:18
Speaker 1: was changing the settings so much and that just felt
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Speaker 1: like you couldn't connect with the bike and gel with it.
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Speaker 1: He said, he went back to the standard settings and
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Speaker 1: just worked on himself. And we've seen a whole new
15:29
Speaker 1: Pedro a Costa this weekend.
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Speaker 2: The new Pedro Acosta was a bit like the old
15:33
Speaker 2: Pedro Acosta that we saw at the start of the
15:35
Speaker 2: season where we had those two podiums in Portugal in
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Speaker 2: the America's right at the start of the year. And
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Speaker 2: what you said then about maybe going back to basics
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Speaker 2: and working on yourself rather than just throwing things at
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Speaker 2: the wall with the bike and hoping that some of
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Speaker 2: them stick. I think that's part of the the evolution
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Speaker 2: of him as a writer. You know, we forget sometimes
15:51
Speaker 2: the guy's twenty years old because of how good he is.
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Speaker 2: But I mentioned before about qualifying defining certain riders weekends,
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Speaker 2: and he was one because he had to come through
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Speaker 2: Q one and that kind of made his weekend because
16:03
Speaker 2: he got to experience the track conditions through Q one,
16:06
Speaker 2: got through that and then was able to be in
16:09
Speaker 2: Q two and qualify second. And I think having those
16:11
Speaker 2: laps in Q one under his belt really unlocked the
16:14
Speaker 2: confidence that enabled him to put it on the front
16:17
Speaker 2: row where there were some guys in Q two that
16:18
Speaker 2: were still trying to find where the track was. He
16:21
Speaker 2: knew by that stage because he got through Q one,
16:23
Speaker 2: qualify second, put yourself in a position of advantage. Now,
16:27
Speaker 2: he wouldn't have finished on the podium if it wasn't
16:28
Speaker 2: for what happened with Banyora and Alex Marquez on Sunday.
16:32
Speaker 2: But to grab two podiums out of a weekend which
16:34
Speaker 2: came two weeks after the worst weekend of his season
16:38
Speaker 2: at Austria was pretty horrible and he was pretty down
16:40
Speaker 2: on himself about it. But yeah, you know, you're right.
16:43
Speaker 2: He was the shining light of the riders on the
16:45
Speaker 2: RC sixteen. Brad Binda had a pretty strong weekend all
16:47
Speaker 2: things considered, but a Costa was really good on that bike.
16:51
Speaker 2: And we mentioned before about the adaptability. We forget because
16:54
Speaker 2: he's the only rookie in Motor GP. He's coming with
16:57
Speaker 2: less data than any of these other riders at any
17:00
Speaker 2: of these tracks, even ones we haven't been to, like
17:02
Speaker 2: Aragon since twenty two. When you get a hard reset
17:06
Speaker 2: of a track three straight days. It actually helps what
17:09
Speaker 2: it mitigates the lack of experience that a Costa has
17:12
Speaker 2: on motor GP machinery at a new circuit to me,
17:15
Speaker 2: so that kind of played into his favor as well
17:17
Speaker 2: in that he's probably more in the Marquees camp of
17:19
Speaker 2: being an improviser. The fact that the track had a
17:22
Speaker 2: hard reset for three straight days actually really helped him.
17:24
Speaker 2: But without coming through Q one and being on that
17:27
Speaker 2: front row, that's a totally different weekend. So you know,
17:30
Speaker 2: a not so great Friday probably unlocked a good Saturday
17:32
Speaker 2: and Sunday for him.
17:33
Speaker 3: I think yeah.
17:34
Speaker 1: And like you said, well, Brad Bendo, obviously Jack Miller
17:37
Speaker 1: had a decent race, which we'll touch on shortly, but
17:40
Speaker 1: alluding back to the preview episode, I honestly thought that
17:43
Speaker 1: the apriliers would be really strong here this weekend. I
17:48
Speaker 1: talk about Maverick and Elish because you need to take
17:52
Speaker 1: this away from me, Matt, because I don't even know
17:54
Speaker 1: where to start with those boys.
17:57
Speaker 2: Well, we both had an absolute shocker because I think we
18:00
Speaker 2: had Alasias Bargo on the sprint podium, so they didn't
18:02
Speaker 2: go so well, did it. But Alasias Bargo's main contribution
18:06
Speaker 2: of the weekend was completely stuffing up the start of
18:08
Speaker 2: the sprint and cannoning into Fabio de jan Antonio at
18:11
Speaker 2: turn one and knocking himself to the ground and being
18:13
Speaker 2: out after one corner. So our predictions A crystal Ball
18:16
Speaker 2: needs needs to recharge. I think it's not going so well.
18:19
Speaker 2: But they were horrible at Prillia the entire weekend. Cor
18:23
Speaker 2: fid okay. Both the track house guys were up in
18:26
Speaker 2: Q two, so that was pretty decent. But Maverick just
18:29
Speaker 2: had one of those weekends where he didn't have the grip,
18:32
Speaker 2: that he didn't have the confidence and he did have
18:34
Speaker 2: the pace, and then on Sunday he basically parked the
18:36
Speaker 2: bike after trumbling around at the very back and said
18:38
Speaker 2: that he couldn't do any more with it. One of
18:41
Speaker 2: those weekends where he just got in his own head
18:42
Speaker 2: a little bit and look Alaish tries because Alas always tries.
18:46
Speaker 2: He tried pretty hard in the in the race itself
18:48
Speaker 2: and did okay, but they just had absolutely no front
18:51
Speaker 2: feeling the entire weekend, and we thought Aprillia would probably
18:55
Speaker 2: be better than KTM in that battle of best for
18:57
Speaker 2: the rest, So yeah, fair to say we got that
18:59
Speaker 2: one wrong, and one of those weekends for a prillier
19:01
Speaker 2: where you just flush it and move on, because everything
19:04
Speaker 2: that conspired could conspire against them did and yeah, they
19:08
Speaker 2: were just completely anonymous the whole weekend. Miguel Olivera was
19:11
Speaker 2: pretty quick out of the four A priliers, but then
19:13
Speaker 2: he was on the ground after one lap in the
19:15
Speaker 2: main race, so he would have featured probably in the
19:18
Speaker 2: back end of the top ten somewhere, but the rest
19:21
Speaker 2: of them were pretty much nowhere in the sprint through.
19:24
Speaker 1: What I found fascinating was the first four or five riders.
19:28
Speaker 1: I think we're all on satellite teams. There was no
19:31
Speaker 1: factory writer. Was the truckhouse Boys? One of them featured
19:36
Speaker 1: in that as well, didn't they In the spring?
19:38
Speaker 2: Well, Oliver and ralpher Anders were both pretty decent in
19:41
Speaker 2: the spread. Oliver it was much better towards the front.
19:43
Speaker 2: So yeah, that is interesting, isn't it the satellite thing,
19:46
Speaker 2: because that's not something that we normally say. And there
19:48
Speaker 2: were circumstances there with Banyai having a bit of a
19:52
Speaker 2: chakra in the spring, Bastianini qualifying so far down and
19:54
Speaker 2: having to fight his way through. But yeah, it was
19:57
Speaker 2: a strange one, but yeah, jeez, what a forgettable week
20:00
Speaker 2: that was for a Prillia. That's one of those ones
20:01
Speaker 2: that there's not a lot of analysis needed for a Prillia.
20:04
Speaker 2: He just shrunk his shoulders and say, let's just never
20:06
Speaker 2: do that again and move to Massano.
20:08
Speaker 3: You mentioned Bashinini there.
20:10
Speaker 1: Let's just touch on that really quickly because coming from
20:13
Speaker 1: he won here on the Christini he beat Peco Vannaya
20:17
Speaker 1: back in twenty twenty two and they were last there, right.
20:20
Speaker 1: I honestly thought this weekend, being on the factory bike,
20:23
Speaker 1: he was going to come in full of confidence.
20:25
Speaker 3: And be a lot stronger.
20:26
Speaker 1: But it seems like and everybody knows, is Abashanini kind
20:30
Speaker 1: of similar to Marrick Vinalez.
20:32
Speaker 3: He just ebbs and flows.
20:33
Speaker 1: We'll see him super strong one weekend, then another weekend
20:36
Speaker 1: he's down the back of the field, and that just
20:38
Speaker 1: seems to be I guess a weakness of his and
20:42
Speaker 1: why he hasn't been able to retain that factory seat
20:44
Speaker 1: for next year.
20:46
Speaker 2: Yeah, the gradient of the Bashiinidi rollercoaster, it's not quite
20:49
Speaker 2: as steep as a video as well, Let's be honest,
20:51
Speaker 2: but the problem with an AA was, Well, it's two things.
20:54
Speaker 2: He's not great in terms of qualifying, and he gives
20:58
Speaker 2: himself too much to do on Sundays and to an extent, Saturdays,
21:02
Speaker 2: because he's often starting further back than he should be
21:04
Speaker 2: on the machinery that he's on. But he's also pretty
21:06
Speaker 2: unlucky to try and get into Q two. On Friday,
21:08
Speaker 2: he was on a lap that probably would have got
21:10
Speaker 2: him in there, and then Jack Miller crash at the
21:11
Speaker 2: last corner. Yellow flags had to have bought the lap,
21:14
Speaker 2: didn't get a chance for another one, so he's buried
21:16
Speaker 2: back in the mid pack. And he came forward in
21:18
Speaker 2: both races because that's what Bastianini does. But yeah, another
21:22
Speaker 2: one of those weekends that had he manage to qualify
21:24
Speaker 2: even if he'd been on the first three rows. I
21:26
Speaker 2: think he's probably pushing up towards the podium spots, but
21:29
Speaker 2: gave himself too much to do. Fridays are definitely an
21:32
Speaker 2: issue for him. But yeah, he was on the roller coaster,
21:35
Speaker 2: but not quite the Maverick roller coaster. Miss Maverick is
21:38
Speaker 2: his own roller coaster at this point.
21:41
Speaker 1: All right, guys, now we're going to get to the
21:43
Speaker 1: juicy business. Let's talk about that crash between a Peko
21:47
Speaker 1: Vanyaya and Alex market that is totally divining the whole
21:51
Speaker 1: Moto GP community at the moment, Matt. Was Pecko just
21:56
Speaker 1: being too optimistic trying to overtake Alex when he was wide?
22:00
Speaker 1: Was Alex bining off more than he could chew? Were
22:03
Speaker 1: trying to battle with Peco?
22:04
Speaker 3: Or was it just a racing incident?
22:09
Speaker 2: Boy, Let's just say that I have watched this video
22:12
Speaker 2: probably seventy five times at this point, maybe give or
22:14
Speaker 2: take about twenty five. It is probably overstating it a
22:16
Speaker 2: little bit because my initial reaction, I don't know about yours,
22:20
Speaker 2: was I threw my hands up and thought, Alex Marquez,
22:23
Speaker 2: what are you doing in this incident? And let's just
22:26
Speaker 2: say also that Peco was really lucky that he wasn't
22:29
Speaker 2: more edged after he got trapped under a bike and
22:32
Speaker 2: dragged off the track into the gravel, which that transition
22:35
Speaker 2: is always horrible, and he was stuck under the bike,
22:37
Speaker 2: so he was lucky that he wasn't more hurt. It's
22:39
Speaker 2: obviously hurt his championship position, which we'll talk about. But
22:42
Speaker 2: my initial reaction was, what are you doing Alex? Marquez.
22:45
Speaker 2: This was absolutely nuts. This is an avoidable accident. And
22:49
Speaker 2: having watched it more and more so, Alex Marquez goes
22:52
Speaker 2: deep into turn twelve. He didn't run off the track,
22:54
Speaker 2: which I think is key. He's not just joined from
22:56
Speaker 2: off the track and crazily taken bag Vanyayra out here.
23:00
Speaker 2: He's run wide rather than completely off the track. So
23:03
Speaker 2: to my mind, it seemed it's more careless than it
23:07
Speaker 2: is dirty, if that makes sense. And there's a delineation
23:09
Speaker 2: between those two things. And I'm looking at from Banyai's
23:13
Speaker 2: point of view. Yes, he took his normal racing line,
23:17
Speaker 2: but I also thought he was so much faster than
23:20
Speaker 2: Alex Marquez. At this point, there's still six laps left,
23:23
Speaker 2: so this is not a last lap maneuver where you
23:25
Speaker 2: need to take that racing line or this might be
23:27
Speaker 2: your last chance. There was an inevitability for me that
23:31
Speaker 2: Banyai was going to overtake Alex Marquez at some point,
23:33
Speaker 2: and it probably would have been down the back straight
23:35
Speaker 2: within the next lap or two, and the consequences of
23:39
Speaker 2: that is that he's thrown away sixteen points. It was
23:43
Speaker 2: a pretty sure fire sixteen points. He wasn't going to
23:45
Speaker 2: catch Martine in second. He had too much pace for
23:48
Speaker 2: Alex Marquez and Brad Bender and that group behind him.
23:51
Speaker 2: So if we're going to carve up a bit of
23:54
Speaker 2: blame pie here, I love a bit of blame pie.
23:56
Speaker 2: He'll get used to this. It's not one hundred percent
23:59
Speaker 2: on Alex Marker, as I probably thought it was when
24:01
Speaker 2: I first saw it. It's maybe sixty five thirty five.
24:05
Speaker 2: I just thought it was a little needless by Banal
24:08
Speaker 2: to put himself in that position because he didn't have
24:11
Speaker 2: to take that much risk. He was clearly the faster
24:13
Speaker 2: of the two, and at some point he was going
24:16
Speaker 2: to pass him because there were enough laps left to
24:18
Speaker 2: do it. And I think Alex Marquez was more more
24:22
Speaker 2: careless than dirty. But you know, there was a bit
24:25
Speaker 2: of discretion that probably needed to be taken there because
24:28
Speaker 2: he's in a battle. He knows he's in a battle
24:30
Speaker 2: with a guy. To take the line that he took,
24:32
Speaker 2: knowing Banya is going to sweep into that next right hand.
24:34
Speaker 2: It was just a little bit on the careless side.
24:36
Speaker 2: But as I said before, I reckon Peco's super lucky
24:40
Speaker 2: that he didn't get a finger caught under a bike
24:42
Speaker 2: and break a finger or do something to his elbow,
24:44
Speaker 2: because that when you've got a one hundred and sixty
24:46
Speaker 2: kilo bike on top of you and you're skidding through
24:48
Speaker 2: the gravel trap that can go anyway, You've got no
24:51
Speaker 2: way of deciding how you roll or fall in that situation.
24:54
Speaker 2: So you know, it's lucky that he's okay about it.
24:57
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's fair to say that social media got
24:59
Speaker 2: lit up a a bit on Sunday night and all
25:01
Speaker 2: through Monday here in Australia. And just to remind you,
25:04
Speaker 2: Pecko Beano is a Valentino Rossi protege. So let's just
25:07
Speaker 2: bring up Marquez Rossie Malaysia twenty and fifteen all over again.
25:10
Speaker 2: And let's just bring that little one out because it's
25:12
Speaker 2: only been nine years. We haven't talked about it for
25:13
Speaker 2: a while, have we.
25:15
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, I'm going to be a bit controversial
25:18
Speaker 1: here and I'm going to disagree with you. I actually think, yeah,
25:22
Speaker 1: I know, let's do it. I actually think I actually
25:25
Speaker 1: think Pecko is that fault for this one.
25:27
Speaker 3: I think it's a okay, it's my thoughts. Peco overtook Alex.
25:33
Speaker 1: He knew Alex was there right in his post race interview.
25:37
Speaker 1: He's saying, but Alex was going at the throttle and
25:41
Speaker 1: I couldn't see him.
25:43
Speaker 3: You just passed him.
25:45
Speaker 1: You knew he was right there, Kay, he ran wide,
25:48
Speaker 1: But what is someone going to do when they run
25:49
Speaker 1: wide and they're going to come back in. I think that, yeah,
25:53
Speaker 1: you were faster, but at the same time you you
25:58
Speaker 1: weren't necessarily on the racing line either. I think that
26:04
Speaker 1: Peco was visibly frustrated from the start. He's taking that
26:07
Speaker 1: aggression out. Then this happened. He didn't want to let go.
26:12
Speaker 1: Alex didn't want to let go. That then I just
26:15
Speaker 1: call it a racing incident. But at the same time,
26:17
Speaker 1: I still think Pecko was the one who kind of
26:21
Speaker 1: caused it.
26:22
Speaker 2: Go on that well, yeah, well, I do agree with
26:25
Speaker 2: what you just said then. In it strikes me that
26:27
Speaker 2: this was an accident that Pecko could have chosen to avoid,
26:30
Speaker 2: if that makes sense, because maybe there was an inevita,
26:33
Speaker 2: there was an inevitability of them coming together. And this
26:36
Speaker 2: goes back to what I was saying before about his
26:37
Speaker 2: sort of sense of injustice and being principled and what
26:40
Speaker 2: have you. It's like, no, I'm going to take more
26:41
Speaker 2: normal racing line here without potentially considering the consequences of
26:46
Speaker 2: an accident between the two of them. Now we're talking
26:48
Speaker 2: about milliseconds and making decisions. But what you just said
26:52
Speaker 2: before that perhaps he was there was a bit of
26:54
Speaker 2: embedded frustration about the poor start and the way the
26:56
Speaker 2: weekend had gone out of his control. But look, Marquez
27:00
Speaker 2: himself in a position to have the accident, but Peco
27:02
Speaker 2: decided to not back out of having an accident. But
27:05
Speaker 2: I think he could have made maybe a more sensible decision,
27:08
Speaker 2: And I just keep coming back to six laps left.
27:11
Speaker 2: There was plenty of time to make that position and
27:15
Speaker 2: just bank those shore fire sixteen points, which would have
27:17
Speaker 2: been a pretty good salvage job from a pretty ropye weekend.
27:20
Speaker 2: And here we have a situation now where it would
27:23
Speaker 2: have been a seven point championship lead for Juorge Martinez
27:26
Speaker 2: now twenty three. It's pretty significant. So yeah, it looks
27:30
Speaker 2: certainly an interesting certainly an interesting decision by Peco. Certainly
27:35
Speaker 2: some good social media fighter for everybody, but this one's
27:38
Speaker 2: going to run and run. But apparently they did have
27:39
Speaker 2: a meeting behind closed doors Alex Marquez and Peco on
27:43
Speaker 2: Sunday night with Atney cameras president and put their point
27:45
Speaker 2: of view across. So I dare say, once we get
27:47
Speaker 2: to Massano, they'll probably try and bury this and just
27:49
Speaker 2: move on. But certainly costly for Peco.
27:52
Speaker 1: Definitely costly for Peco.
27:54
Speaker 3: I think that.
27:57
Speaker 1: It kind of divided also the hole Reta GYP, because
28:00
Speaker 1: a lot of the Italians didn't want to disagree with
28:04
Speaker 1: Peco and what he was saying. And then we had
28:08
Speaker 1: non Italians such as Pedro a Costa or Jack Miller,
28:11
Speaker 1: who has a longstanding history with the Marcus brothers, shall
28:15
Speaker 1: we say, who was very open about his thoughts. So
28:19
Speaker 1: it's interesting how everybody's kind of giving their opinion on
28:23
Speaker 1: it as well. And like we said, we don't know
28:26
Speaker 1: what happened at the end. There was a discussion obviously
28:29
Speaker 1: with the FAM shows where Alex Marquez said he could
28:32
Speaker 1: see and Peco Banya is like, how could you not see?
28:35
Speaker 1: But yeah, there was that discussion behind closed doors. We
28:37
Speaker 1: don't know the outcome of it. I think we're never
28:40
Speaker 1: going to know the outcome of it. They're just gonna
28:42
Speaker 1: brush it under the rug, move on and head to Mazzano.
28:45
Speaker 1: But yet, like you said, it was still crazy scary
28:49
Speaker 1: for Peco to get stuck under both bikes and then
28:52
Speaker 1: walk away with literally what he said was a saw
28:54
Speaker 1: neck and a sore shoulder where nothing was broken, nothing
28:58
Speaker 1: was damaged, and he could get up straight off. You
29:00
Speaker 1: don't see those crashes like that too often, and you
29:02
Speaker 1: don't want to see those crashes like that at all.
29:06
Speaker 2: Nah, definitely not. And I think, isn't it funny how
29:08
Speaker 2: I don't know who's the big winner and loser out
29:10
Speaker 2: of this, but let's tip our cap to the stewards here,
29:12
Speaker 2: because I didn't mind the fact that they were going
29:14
Speaker 2: to give someone a long lap penalty or a three
29:16
Speaker 2: place screen drop or something for Messano, because they came
29:19
Speaker 2: to the odeological decision and just described it as a
29:21
Speaker 2: racing incident and moved on. And I don't like racing
29:24
Speaker 2: incident as a descriptor to me. I think it gets
29:27
Speaker 2: used a lot of the time when no one can
29:28
Speaker 2: actually decide what the punishment should be, so everyone just
29:30
Speaker 2: shrugs their shoulders and goes racing incident and we just
29:33
Speaker 2: move on. I'm kind of glad that neither of them
29:36
Speaker 2: have been punished for this, because, yeah, it was really unfortunate,
29:39
Speaker 2: but it also means we rule a line under it
29:40
Speaker 2: and we just get on with it from here. We're
29:42
Speaker 2: not going to be talking about it. Well, we'll be
29:44
Speaker 2: talking about it on Thursday, let's be honest. But once
29:46
Speaker 2: we get on track at Massano on Friday and then
29:48
Speaker 2: perhaps we can just concentrate on the racing.
29:50
Speaker 1: Yes, So this weekend some writers who I thought did
29:55
Speaker 1: really well. Alice Rinn's nine on the Yamaha.
29:58
Speaker 3: That's fantastic.
30:00
Speaker 1: Alex Rinns, who's had such a terrible few years and
30:03
Speaker 1: trying to gel with that Yamaha, I think cool to
30:05
Speaker 1: see him in the top ten.
30:07
Speaker 2: Yeah, very much.
30:08
Speaker 1: So.
30:08
Speaker 2: It was one of those ones that was concentrating so
30:10
Speaker 2: much on Marques and the celebrations and Peco and Alex
30:14
Speaker 2: Marquez and what have you, that I looked at the
30:15
Speaker 2: standings about the result about fifteen minutes after the race
30:18
Speaker 2: and went well, Alex Rinn's got Jack Miller on the
30:20
Speaker 2: last slat for ninth and seeing a Yamaha in the
30:23
Speaker 2: top ten it was a bit like watching Fabio do
30:25
Speaker 2: so well in the sprint on Saturday. It's weird seeing
30:29
Speaker 2: a Yamaha up in the top ten. You almost have
30:31
Speaker 2: to do this double take and go, what there's not
30:33
Speaker 2: eight decaddies and then perhaps a KTM and in the
30:35
Speaker 2: top ten. So great weekend for him. We know how
30:38
Speaker 2: good Alex Rince is because we saw it towards the
30:40
Speaker 2: end of the Suzuki tenure. He's been so injured for
30:43
Speaker 2: the best part of two years that we've kind of
30:44
Speaker 2: forgotten how good the guy is. So a weekend of
30:47
Speaker 2: progress for each rider on different days for Yamaha, but
30:51
Speaker 2: nice to see him back up there.
30:52
Speaker 1: And Takanakagami p. Eleven on the Itametsu Honda recently announced
30:59
Speaker 1: that he's going to tire did that after we recorded
31:02
Speaker 1: our pod. Thanks Taker, But I think that it's really
31:05
Speaker 1: good for him to I get you know, the Hondas
31:09
Speaker 1: are struggling. We all know that for him to be
31:13
Speaker 1: almost in the top ten is a phenomenal result for
31:17
Speaker 1: heading into the remainder of the season.
31:19
Speaker 2: Yeah, not a bad weekend for Honda as far as
31:21
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four weekends go. We had Zako was fantastic
31:24
Speaker 2: on Friday, directly into Q two, highest qualification for a
31:27
Speaker 2: Honda all season. Even Jan Mier managed to score some
31:30
Speaker 2: points on Sunday, so it was a little bit of
31:33
Speaker 2: a better weekend, but good result for attacker. He's been
31:35
Speaker 2: quite decent the last couple of races actually, but maybe
31:38
Speaker 2: a little bit of the pressure off that he knows
31:40
Speaker 2: that things are coming to an end at the end
31:42
Speaker 2: of this season, and he's hugely important for that project
31:45
Speaker 2: going forward because we know how experience the guy is.
31:47
Speaker 2: He'll do a lot of his work behind the scenes
31:49
Speaker 2: next year. They're still at the foot of a very
31:52
Speaker 2: very steep mountain looking up, wondering how they get to
31:54
Speaker 2: the top. But certainly a good weekend for him, and yeah,
31:58
Speaker 2: maybe there'll be a few more before the end of
31:59
Speaker 2: the season now that he knows he's only got eight
32:01
Speaker 2: rounds to do.
32:02
Speaker 1: Exactly, and as always, we've got to touch on our Aussies.
32:06
Speaker 1: Jack Miller across the line in P. Ten, but that
32:09
Speaker 1: high oppression fringement meant he got relegated back to P. Fifteen.
32:15
Speaker 1: Unfortunate for Jack Miller because it was strong for him
32:19
Speaker 1: to be up there. I mean, obviously the crashes out
32:21
Speaker 1: helped him, but P. Ten to cross the line, that's
32:24
Speaker 1: pretty good.
32:25
Speaker 2: Yeah, LOK tenth would have been his second top ten
32:28
Speaker 2: of the season had that held, and he was as
32:31
Speaker 2: he always is when it's very, very sketchy conditions. He
32:33
Speaker 2: was pretty good at points over the course of the
32:35
Speaker 2: ARA Gold weekend. He was one of those guys that
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Speaker 2: probably would have preferred for it just a pretty sketchy
32:40
Speaker 2: because a bit like Marcus, he gets up to speed
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Speaker 2: so quickly when the track's very uncertain. There were points
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Speaker 2: of the weekend that looked pretty decent for Jack, So
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Speaker 2: fifteenth on paper doesn't sound great. He got it was
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Speaker 2: unlucky to get devoted so far with that sixteen second
32:53
Speaker 2: time penalty, but it was better. But he'll certainly want more,
32:56
Speaker 2: and I think the gap to his teammate Brad Pinner
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Speaker 2: was probably the more alarming thing. But look, we know
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Speaker 2: with Massano coming up, and we'll talk about that on
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Speaker 2: our preview episode later in the week. He's super super
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Speaker 2: quick at Pisano, always has been. He's brilliant qualifying there.
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Speaker 2: So maybe there's some better times ahead for Jack after
33:13
Speaker 2: what happened to Aragon.
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Speaker 1: Ozzie Center Aegis in Moto two got sixteenth, which I
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Speaker 1: thought was good. He wasn't super strong this weekend, but
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Speaker 1: just outside of the points, I think it's still a
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Speaker 1: learning year for him. In Moto two, so he's had
33:30
Speaker 1: his highs, he's had his lows this season. I think
33:32
Speaker 1: going into Mazzano he's been doing testing at a lot
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Speaker 1: of Italian tracks, so I think for him going into
33:38
Speaker 1: this weekend coming will be it will be a lot stronger.
33:42
Speaker 3: Also in Moto.
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Speaker 1: Three, our Aussie's Joel Kelso P five started on the
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Speaker 1: green and P five got up to second and then
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Speaker 1: back to P five and then Jacob Rulstone twenty first
33:53
Speaker 1: for the weekend after that crazy high side.
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Speaker 3: That he had during I think it was Q two.
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Speaker 3: I don't know how he walked away from that one either.
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Speaker 1: He did say he is feeling pretty battered and bruised
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Speaker 1: after that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a nasty one right at the start
34:08
Speaker 2: of Q two on his first lapper. Is what are
34:10
Speaker 2: those ones that you pull yourself back from the screen
34:11
Speaker 2: to go? That's going to hurt. So, yeah, disappointing weekend
34:15
Speaker 2: for him. He's sort of lost he's momentum a little bit.
34:18
Speaker 2: He's only he's got four points in the last five
34:19
Speaker 2: races now, so hopefully things get back on track for Jacob.
34:23
Speaker 2: He's falling to fifteenth in the World Championship, but Kelso's race again.
34:27
Speaker 2: Just you know, it's becoming pretty routine for Joel to
34:30
Speaker 2: qualify incredibly well. Sometimes he fades a fair bit back
34:33
Speaker 2: for where he's qualified, so to start finish fifth bit
34:37
Speaker 2: lonely in a bit of a strange race where I
34:38
Speaker 2: think the Moto three guys had the worst of the
34:41
Speaker 2: track conditions on Sunday because it was still a bit
34:43
Speaker 2: damp in parts, but match Diseason best from Portugal and
34:46
Speaker 2: her wrath with finishing fifth and he was pretty strong,
34:49
Speaker 2: and yeah, center ageous. I think the thing for Center
34:52
Speaker 2: on the weekend qualifying is twenty fourth on the grid.
34:54
Speaker 2: And it was a weird weekend for Moto two because
34:56
Speaker 2: we saw Sergio Ghuslia, the championship leader, have an absolute
35:00
Speaker 2: shaker and was right down on the back. So it
35:01
Speaker 2: was one of those strange weekends for Moto two. He
35:04
Speaker 2: moved forward in the race, but as you said, just
35:06
Speaker 2: outside about half a second outside the point, so did
35:09
Speaker 2: reasonably well from where he started, but his weekend was
35:12
Speaker 2: kind of defined by what happened on Saturday.
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Speaker 1: I think, well, guys, that's all the time we have
35:17
Speaker 1: for Mono GP pit Hook, But like we said, we're
35:20
Speaker 1: going to be back later. This week to preview, and
35:23
Speaker 1: Matt has challenged me to say this the Grand Primo
35:27
Speaker 1: Red Bull di San Marino Adela Riviera di Rimini at
35:30
Speaker 1: World Circuit Marco Simoncelli.
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Speaker 3: I did it.
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Speaker 2: Want that the accent though, I want the accent for
35:36
Speaker 2: next time. And it's a good job that we've got
35:38
Speaker 2: an extended time on this podcast, because that's allast the
35:40
Speaker 2: episode right there. You could just say the name of
35:42
Speaker 2: the event of where it is, and that's all we've
35:44
Speaker 2: got time for this week. So well done. I expect
35:46
Speaker 2: the Italian accent will be better by the end of
35:48
Speaker 2: the week though.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll work on it for you guys, but don't forget.
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