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Speaker 1: A Frenchman has won the French Grand Prix for the

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Speaker 1: first time and can you believe it's seventy one years,

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Speaker 1: the last time being nineteen fifty four. But the headlines

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Speaker 1: don't stop there. We had crashes, long lap penalties, last

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Speaker 1: minute bike swaps. It was absolute mayhem, to put it

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Speaker 1: kindly or politely in Lamon, and it all unfolded in

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Speaker 1: front of a record breaking crowd of three hundred and

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Speaker 1: eleven thousand screaming fans. The rain may have fallen, but

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Speaker 1: this French Grand Prix was anything but predictable. It defied expectations,

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Speaker 1: shattered records and delivered a storyline no one could have

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Speaker 1: written better. This was a Moto GP race for the ages.

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Speaker 1: But guys, welcome back to Pit Talk podcast, brought to

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Speaker 1: you by Shannons. I'm your host Rinita vmullin, and joining

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Speaker 1: me as always is Fox Motorsport editor Matt Clayton. Matt,

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Speaker 1: no funny intros this time, because the race gave us

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Speaker 1: everything and more. My first question to you, have you

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Speaker 1: caught your breath after that absolutely chaotic race.

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Speaker 2: If this podcast was an emoji, it would literally just

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Speaker 2: be the shoulder shrug, hands up emoji, like what an

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Speaker 2: earth did we just watch on Sunday night here in Australia.

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Speaker 2: And we're going to delve into a million things in

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Speaker 2: this podcast today, but I've got to say, when a

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Speaker 2: nea Pastinini has had twice the number of long lap

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Speaker 2: wouldn't whatevery grand prix to be like this, but my goodness,

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Speaker 2: there was that much going on. And the thing we

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Speaker 2: Spain had ten of those. Last night's race had one

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Speaker 2: hundred and sixty individual directions from race direction during the race,

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Speaker 2: because every two seconds there was something completely nutty happening.

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Speaker 2: And if we scratched five percent of the next however

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Speaker 2: doing well. Because I don't even know where we start

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking let's start back Saturday before the sprint. Let's

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Speaker 1: go to qualifying. Because Fabio Correro managed to pull out

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Speaker 1: you thought Mark Marquez He's going to be on fire,

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Speaker 1: I was when you talked about the backflip just then.

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Speaker 2: joins the Picicati Circuit. So there's two different types of

429
00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:10,359
Speaker 2: Ashfeldt on that corner at Recordermont, and so when you

430
00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:13,040
Speaker 2: can see that corner when it's semi wet, it's like

431
00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:15,639
Speaker 2: it's got a sheen on it. It's a totally different

432
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Speaker 2: surface at that corner. Fabio Coaateurero was saying after his

433
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Speaker 2: crash that he felt that it was excessively bumpy there.

434
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Speaker 2: But it's more slick than bumpy, I would say, and

435
00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:27,520
Speaker 2: it's a bit of a change of surface. Jack basically

436
00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:30,000
Speaker 2: had a high side with the bike completely upright and

437
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Speaker 2: went completely over. You saw Brad Bnder's accident and even

438
00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:36,040
Speaker 2: Coaateurero's accident there there was no warning. They were just

439
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Speaker 2: on the floor. And that turning point at Recorder Mot,

440
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Speaker 2: the connection where it joins the circuit LASA, that's where

441
00:20:42,359 --> 00:20:44,480
Speaker 2: the change of surface is. So you add a heap

442
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Speaker 2: of water onto there. And obviously there'd been no wet

443
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Speaker 2: running all weekend and you know, we know that circuit

444
00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:53,720
Speaker 2: gets used for sports car racing. It's probably the most

445
00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:56,399
Speaker 2: unique corner on the circuit because it's the one that

446
00:20:56,520 --> 00:20:59,280
Speaker 2: joins the twenty four hour track and it caught them

447
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Speaker 2: out and there were a couple other guys that went

448
00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:03,840
Speaker 2: down there too, so it was a confluence of yeah,

449
00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:06,560
Speaker 2: it's raining a bit more, but it was super treacherous

450
00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:09,640
Speaker 2: through there. And Zako said afterwards because obviously he had

451
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Speaker 2: seen what had happened to Jack, because Jack was in

452
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Speaker 2: front of him, you could see how easily he was

453
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Speaker 2: being super easy and cautious at that particular corner, because

454
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Speaker 2: that was the one that was like riding the tightrope.

455
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Speaker 2: In those weather conditions. You could take more risks on

456
00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:26,240
Speaker 2: other quarners, but that one he was just rolling through

457
00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:29,760
Speaker 2: there and taking no risks at all because three guys

458
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Speaker 2: ahead of him had gone down and they'd shown him

459
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Speaker 2: what not to do. So yeah, at about eleven pm

460
00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:37,760
Speaker 2: on a Sunday night, the old high school French came

461
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Speaker 2: in handy because I was thinking about that, and I thought, so,

462
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Speaker 2: this is why your name corners, Michael laminat as, Oh,

463
00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:44,600
Speaker 2: we don't name them after numbers, so we need to

464
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Speaker 2: find out these six so I win that particular battle.

465
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Speaker 2: That's not for debate, but I just thought it was

466
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Speaker 2: interesting that, Yeah, there is a change of surface at

467
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Speaker 2: that corner, and it caught a few of them out,

468
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Speaker 2: and unfortunately for Rossie fans Jack was one of the

469
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Speaker 2: biggest casualties.

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Speaker 1: That actually makes a lot of sense now you say that,

471
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Speaker 1: and as to why it does catch a lot of

472
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Speaker 1: the riders out there, Matt, I want to ask you

473
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Speaker 1: for me. If I was to go back to lapse two,

474
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Speaker 1: lap three, looking at that gap that Fabio Corderao had

475
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Speaker 1: and then even him when he took the first long

476
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Speaker 1: lap penalty. Out of all those riders, I'm thinking Fabio's

477
00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:23,640
Speaker 1: got a good chance here at getting on the podium

478
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Speaker 1: at his home Grand Prix with if the weather had stayed.

479
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Speaker 1: Looking back at Friday, do you think tire degregation would

480
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Speaker 1: have come into play with the Yamahas or do you

481
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Speaker 1: think that it was because of the longer distance?

482
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Speaker 2: YEA, interesting because so the sprint was though using a

483
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Speaker 2: softer compound in the sprint, it was obviously way hotter atout,

484
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Speaker 2: pushing way harder because it's half the distance and we

485
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Speaker 2: saw the back half of the sprint. Fabio had nothing

486
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Speaker 2: left to fight with. He'd gone out too hard, too soon.

487
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Speaker 2: And how much of that is just the adrenaline of

488
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Speaker 2: home crowd and wondering how fai he could push as

489
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Speaker 2: softer tire and that sort of thing. No one was racing.

490
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Speaker 2: That tire hadn't been dry on the Sunday anyway, so

491
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Speaker 2: I think he was less likely to come into as

492
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Speaker 2: big of a problem as he did in sprint, but

493
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Speaker 2: he's probably still more likely to come into more problems

494
00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:11,080
Speaker 2: and say they docaddies at this particular track. So look,

495
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Speaker 2: I don't think he wins the race. I could have

496
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Speaker 2: absolutely seen him finishing behind the two Marquez brothers, probably

497
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Speaker 2: probably third, which you know he would have absolutely signed

498
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Speaker 2: up for given the way things have been going. He

499
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Speaker 2: obviously had that great race at Herrez to get on

500
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Speaker 2: the podium there, but I thought third fourth Aldegaer was

501
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Speaker 2: sort of the outlier there. But I also wonder about

502
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Speaker 2: Aldegare's tire management over a full Grand Prix distance over

503
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Speaker 2: a sprint not so much of an issue. That's one

504
00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:37,880
Speaker 2: of those tires of the black art of murder GP.

505
00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:39,639
Speaker 2: You need to have the experience to know how to

506
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Speaker 2: manage them, and he has an entire catalog of what

507
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Speaker 2: five races a murder GP experience, so he's still agreed

508
00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:47,760
Speaker 2: in that regard. But I think he's probably finishing on

509
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Speaker 2: the podium in a normal race using air quotes, but yeah,

510
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Speaker 2: this was not a normal race.

511
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Speaker 1: So anything far from a normal race. I was just

512
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Speaker 1: looking on the foxmitter Sport Twitter and lapse seven looks

513
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Speaker 1: about when Alex and Mark came back into what their

514
00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:08,280
Speaker 1: bikes over. How's that for timing, Because by the time

515
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Speaker 1: they get back out, they're only like fifth or sixth

516
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Speaker 1: or seventh, right, so they've dropped down from leading the race.

517
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Speaker 1: Then rookie Aldiger stayed out there on his slicks and

518
00:24:17,280 --> 00:24:19,760
Speaker 1: doing his long laps and trying to live as long

519
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Speaker 1: as he can out there. But it's looking like the

520
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Speaker 1: Marcus brothers, and you can see Alex is just following

521
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Speaker 1: Mark with everything that he's doing. Right, He's like, yeah,

522
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Speaker 1: I'm not going to let him get away this time.

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Speaker 2: It's so funny. The two of them are like circling

524
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Speaker 2: each other. And it's funny anyway as his hack pic,

525
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Speaker 2: but it's even funnier because they're related. Because if anyone

526
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Speaker 2: knows what the other one's thinking, it to be those two.

527
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Speaker 2: So neither of them is going to give an inch.

528
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Speaker 2: And they are racist. It's not that they're ignoring the

529
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Speaker 2: other twenty guys, but they've absolutely got eyes locked on

530
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Speaker 2: each other. And yeah, because Mark had won the sprint

531
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Speaker 2: on the Saturday, hed taken the lead of the World

532
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Speaker 2: Championship again, and those two were determined if they were

533
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Speaker 2: both going out, they were going out together. They were

534
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Speaker 2: going to do the same thing. But I think what's

535
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Speaker 2: super interesting, and I've just got this up on the

536
00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:04,879
Speaker 2: screen next to me, is that, obviously, Alex Marquez's season

537
00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:09,520
Speaker 2: has been built on being incredibly consistent and not making mistakes,

538
00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:12,880
Speaker 2: and on Sunday in the Grand Prix, finally he made

539
00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:14,919
Speaker 2: a mistake. He made two of them because he crashed

540
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Speaker 2: once at turn three and then again at turn eleven.

541
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Speaker 2: That was just a really strange, wet weather bike. I

542
00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:22,879
Speaker 2: don't even think you know how that thing dropped him

543
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Speaker 2: on the ground. But what's so interesting is that we've

544
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Speaker 2: talked a lot this year about Mark throwing points away,

545
00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:31,440
Speaker 2: crash from the lead at Cota, crashed from what were

546
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Speaker 2: probably going to be a podium at her Wrath, before

547
00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:37,000
Speaker 2: he launched that ridiculous comeback. This might be the race

548
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Speaker 2: that we look back at at the end of the

549
00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:41,960
Speaker 2: year and go, okay, this is where he took a

550
00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:44,280
Speaker 2: lead and was never headed again after that. Because he's

551
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Speaker 2: now got a twenty two point championship lead. It's the

552
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Speaker 2: biggest championship lead he's had all season. What was really

553
00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:52,040
Speaker 2: key about this and I'm going to write about this

554
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Speaker 2: later in the week when my fingers work again. I'm

555
00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:56,200
Speaker 2: not sure when that's going to be. But the other

556
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Speaker 2: five guys in the standings behind Mark coming into the

557
00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:04,080
Speaker 2: weekend combined scored fewer points the marketed for the entire

558
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Speaker 2: weekend at La mal to a point where Peca Bannay

559
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Speaker 2: has had his first zero point weekend since the sprint

560
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Speaker 2: era began. So he didn't score a single point in

561
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Speaker 2: the sprints. He crashed in scoring the Grand Prix because

562
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Speaker 2: he finished sixteenth, he was the last classified finisher. So

563
00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:19,720
Speaker 2: if you look at the other guys on that list,

564
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Speaker 2: I'm just doing a quick bit of mats in my

565
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Speaker 2: head here, seventeen eight. So the other five guys on

566
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Speaker 2: the list scored twenty seven points between them, So that's

567
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Speaker 2: Alex Marquez, Baannai, Morbidelli, the jan Antonio and Couacharero scored

568
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Speaker 2: twenty seven points between them for the weekend, and Mark

569
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Speaker 2: scored thirty two by himself. So that's why Mark's got

570
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Speaker 2: this twenty two point championship lead. Now that's decisive for

571
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Speaker 2: me because it feels like he's made his mistakes. He'll

572
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Speaker 2: make more mistakes, but Alex has almost had to be

573
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Speaker 2: perfect to stay with him, and to expect perfection out

574
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Speaker 2: of a guy for twenty two rounds is not realistic.

575
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Speaker 2: And these are the sorts of races that trip you up.

576
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Speaker 2: So I don't know about you. But how interesting was

577
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Speaker 2: Mark after the race where he had said, if I

578
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Speaker 2: hadn't crashed at her Wrath last time out, eighty percent

579
00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:06,160
Speaker 2: chance I crashed today because I probably go for too much.

580
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Speaker 2: And in the fact that he admitted it, he said,

581
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Speaker 2: I know myself and I know that I would have

582
00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:12,159
Speaker 2: probably overreached and gold for it. And he said it

583
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Speaker 2: with a smile on his face, which you can do

584
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Speaker 2: when you've had such a decisive championship weekend like that.

585
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Speaker 2: But it's interesting that even two weeks later he was thinking,

586
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Speaker 2: don't do what you did at Herath, don't do what

587
00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:24,719
Speaker 2: you did at he Wrath, just telling himself, settle for second,

588
00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:28,120
Speaker 2: take the points, and it's funny to think that it's

589
00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:31,000
Speaker 2: a race. He was beaten by twenty seconds by jo Hanzako,

590
00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:33,680
Speaker 2: Yet those twenty points that he picked up on Sunday.

591
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:36,520
Speaker 2: They could prove to be pretty significant as we move

592
00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:39,680
Speaker 2: forward now because he's now got this buffer. The pace

593
00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:41,520
Speaker 2: suggests he should have a buffer, but now he's got

594
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Speaker 2: the points to prove it.

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Speaker 1: I think what you were just saying then about Mark's mentality,

596
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Speaker 1: I was watching the race thinking the same thing, because

597
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Speaker 1: for him, this is my thoughts on him, is if

598
00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:54,439
Speaker 1: he knows someone's in a head and he's comfortable, and

599
00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:56,760
Speaker 1: we know Mark can ride to pretty much any condition,

600
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Speaker 1: he's going to chase that person. But I think this

601
00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:02,440
Speaker 1: year so far we're in round six, but I think

602
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:05,159
Speaker 1: he's learned a lot of valuable life lessons when it

603
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:09,600
Speaker 1: comes to racing and pushing himself that far forward to

604
00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:12,159
Speaker 1: make those silly mistakes, and I don't think he wanted

605
00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:14,840
Speaker 1: to make those silly mistakes. I'm curious to see if

606
00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:18,199
Speaker 1: on his lap board, his pit board there was anything

607
00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:22,119
Speaker 1: about Banyaya out or anything silly like that, you know,

608
00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:26,400
Speaker 1: to not egg him on, is what I'm trying to say,

609
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:28,120
Speaker 1: as I'm wondering how much that was there.

610
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Speaker 2: But he's also learned the hard way that these are

611
00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:34,160
Speaker 2: the days when you bank the points that are there.

612
00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:36,360
Speaker 2: These are the days that you win world championships. They're

613
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:38,000
Speaker 2: not the days you get the headlines for, and the

614
00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:40,080
Speaker 2: highlights for, and the big bucks for. These are the

615
00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:43,520
Speaker 2: days that you win world championships where your bain rivals

616
00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:45,840
Speaker 2: have dropped the ball, or they've had a technical difficulty,

617
00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:48,640
Speaker 2: or something's gone wrong. You take the best of what

618
00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:51,600
Speaker 2: is available to you, and you do not let that go,

619
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Speaker 2: because all these points count for what they count for.

620
00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:56,320
Speaker 2: And he said after he came back out after he'd

621
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Speaker 2: made his last bike swap, Zacho was about eight seconds

622
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:01,480
Speaker 2: up the road, and he said, I was taking like

623
00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:04,680
Speaker 2: point three here, point five there. But the amount of

624
00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:07,200
Speaker 2: risk I was going to have to take to be

625
00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:09,440
Speaker 2: able to overcome a gap like that. Now, in the dry,

626
00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:11,160
Speaker 2: he would have won one hundred percent, gone for it,

627
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:14,160
Speaker 2: there's no doubt. But there was too much peril in

628
00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:16,280
Speaker 2: the if you're trying to turn that point three point

629
00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:19,240
Speaker 2: five into point seven point eight. Yeah, there were a

630
00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:21,120
Speaker 2: number of laps to go. He had the laps left

631
00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:22,600
Speaker 2: to catch him, but the amount of risk he was

632
00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:24,520
Speaker 2: going to have to take to do it. There comes

633
00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:28,360
Speaker 2: a risk reward ratio there, and do you take a

634
00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:31,120
Speaker 2: stab at trying to overcome a deficit that's too much

635
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:32,880
Speaker 2: for the sake of five war points, or do you

636
00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:34,520
Speaker 2: bank the twenty points and get out of there with

637
00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:38,560
Speaker 2: a significant lead, and you know, the ball's absolutely back

638
00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:41,760
Speaker 2: in his court. Because the only reason that Alex Marquez

639
00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:43,800
Speaker 2: as good as he has been was in the Championship

640
00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:46,640
Speaker 2: League going into Lemon was because market allowed it to

641
00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:49,760
Speaker 2: happen by making mistakes. And so these are the days

642
00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:51,480
Speaker 2: you bank the points and you move on and you

643
00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:52,480
Speaker 2: lift to five another day.

644
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:55,320
Speaker 1: I want to talk about Miguel Lavera really quickly because

645
00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:57,560
Speaker 1: when they were bringing up the tire choices on the

646
00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:00,960
Speaker 1: side of the screen, correct if I'm wrong, but did

647
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:04,200
Speaker 1: majority of the guys on wets have the soft rare

648
00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:07,120
Speaker 1: great and Miguel was on the medium rare? So is

649
00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:09,440
Speaker 1: that why he dropped back so quickly? Just couldn't maintain

650
00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:10,520
Speaker 1: the heat in the time.

651
00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:12,480
Speaker 2: I think it was a bit of that. I mean,

652
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:14,960
Speaker 2: I think he's nowhere near fully fit. It's the first

653
00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:17,440
Speaker 2: time he's been back since Argentina. He's had that shoulder

654
00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:20,800
Speaker 2: ligament issue, so he was nowhere near sort of Miguel

655
00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:22,960
Speaker 2: or are apace. All weekend he is down the back,

656
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:25,600
Speaker 2: and that was one of those ones that perhaps the

657
00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:27,240
Speaker 2: soft was on a bit more of a knife edge,

658
00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:29,240
Speaker 2: or you had to push it a lot harder to

659
00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:32,200
Speaker 2: keep it in the temperature window. So perhaps he offered

660
00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:35,320
Speaker 2: for opted for a bit of safety there. I mean,

661
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:37,280
Speaker 2: he's not going into that race thinking that he's going

662
00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:39,680
Speaker 2: to be fighting for You know, if he made the

663
00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:42,000
Speaker 2: top ten, he would have been ecstatic. And here we are,

664
00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:43,600
Speaker 2: what you know, eight laps from the end of his

665
00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:47,160
Speaker 2: second because everyone else has made mistakes and they've done

666
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:50,200
Speaker 2: bike swaps, and he's up there going for a great result.

667
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:52,840
Speaker 2: And he slid down to seventh, though some faster guys

668
00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:54,560
Speaker 2: came past, but he was still on for a great result.

669
00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:56,880
Speaker 2: You'll never guess what corner he crashed at though, the

670
00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:59,960
Speaker 2: last corner. So both Pramat Gamahas were in the skin

671
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:02,240
Speaker 2: at the final court. Another guy to go down on

672
00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:05,360
Speaker 2: that changing surface that we talked about. But man, if

673
00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:07,640
Speaker 2: you're Pramak, you must be looking at that saying we

674
00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:10,720
Speaker 2: could have had a win in a top five. You know,

675
00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:12,760
Speaker 2: things are gone well and at worst we might have

676
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:15,240
Speaker 2: had a podium and another top ten. And you leave

677
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:18,480
Speaker 2: there with nothing and it's not because you know, they

678
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:20,720
Speaker 2: actually made the correct call. They had both their riders

679
00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:22,520
Speaker 2: on the right tires at the right time. They were

680
00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:25,960
Speaker 2: really happy with their strategy. Some days these things, you

681
00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:28,239
Speaker 2: can make every right decision and it still doesn't come

682
00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:30,560
Speaker 2: up for you, and Oliver was part of that. And

683
00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:34,680
Speaker 2: a really difficult weekend for them. But as you mentioned before,

684
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:38,080
Speaker 2: Yamaha's been good. They're coming. It's pretty clear that they're

685
00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:40,080
Speaker 2: making a lot of progress. But I just didn't get

686
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:41,520
Speaker 2: the results that they probably should have.

687
00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:44,880
Speaker 1: That high side when I saw that for mcguil, felt

688
00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:46,320
Speaker 1: that in my bones that one.

689
00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:50,000
Speaker 2: Well, when you know guys come off a dislicated shoulder

690
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:51,880
Speaker 2: as well, you're just thinking where you're going to land,

691
00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:53,560
Speaker 2: because when you're in the air like that, that's just

692
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:55,680
Speaker 2: a total lottery. So yeah, I did WinCE a little

693
00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:57,400
Speaker 2: bit as he was in the air. I grew yeah

694
00:31:57,920 --> 00:31:58,480
Speaker 2: looking at.

695
00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:00,920
Speaker 1: The results, So yes, Johann Zark was a first ahead

696
00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:03,880
Speaker 1: of Mirk Marquez and Ferman Aldiger did the double back

697
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:06,880
Speaker 1: to back podiums for the rookie like we said, But

698
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:09,760
Speaker 1: then I was quite shocked at this's Pedro Acosta fourth,

699
00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:13,400
Speaker 1: Maverick Vinalez fifth. So now Vignalez is still kind of

700
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:15,960
Speaker 1: leading the way, but Pedro Ocosta's gone. Move over, Vannialez.

701
00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:18,320
Speaker 1: I'm the main dog here at KTM, and I'm going

702
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:22,080
Speaker 1: to take home the first KTM physician for me. Looking

703
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:24,800
Speaker 1: at that, I think that's the confidence that boost that

704
00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:28,000
Speaker 1: he needs. Because we've said it so many times. You

705
00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:30,800
Speaker 1: can just tell that a Costa is not happy. I

706
00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:32,720
Speaker 1: remember everything.

707
00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:34,680
Speaker 2: Definitely needed it. It was a result that he's been

708
00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:37,200
Speaker 2: being for for a while. It was a good result

709
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:38,880
Speaker 2: on a difficult day where a lot of things could

710
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:40,480
Speaker 2: have gone wrong. We know he was coming in off

711
00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:43,280
Speaker 2: arm pump surgery after the previous race at Heretz. So

712
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:46,040
Speaker 2: to score your best Grand Prix result of the season again,

713
00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:49,120
Speaker 2: when you're nowhere, you're fully right. And I mean, let's

714
00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:52,280
Speaker 2: face it, since Katar Vignalez has been clearly the best

715
00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:55,600
Speaker 2: of the KTM riders, we're now talking about super consistent

716
00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:58,080
Speaker 2: Maverick Vinales just top five every weekend. I mean, I'm

717
00:32:58,120 --> 00:32:59,760
Speaker 2: still waiting for the bubble to burst on that one.

718
00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:02,240
Speaker 2: But that three straight weekends that he's put this together now,

719
00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:05,280
Speaker 2: so I think once it's nice and nice and second

720
00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:07,320
Speaker 2: is a coincidence and the third weekend I guess it's

721
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:09,160
Speaker 2: a trend now, so this is just what Maverick is.

722
00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:13,120
Speaker 2: But good weekend for a cost of for sure. But yeah,

723
00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:16,160
Speaker 2: a few extenuating circumstances, but I think you'll be pleased

724
00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:17,800
Speaker 2: to get out of there with some good points and

725
00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:20,480
Speaker 2: not hurt himself because you know, those extra two weeks

726
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:22,680
Speaker 2: between now and Silver Study's gonna heal quite a lot.

727
00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:25,280
Speaker 1: I think, you know, even just talking about this race

728
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:29,400
Speaker 1: and then when Chris was on and talking about his race. Okay,

729
00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:32,280
Speaker 1: so it's about luck, but it's also about the skill

730
00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:35,480
Speaker 1: and just staying on the bike right. So clearly, you know,

731
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:37,920
Speaker 1: circumstances come into play with your results or when you

732
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:39,800
Speaker 1: go in to swap your bikes or whatnot, but you

733
00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:42,360
Speaker 1: also have to stay on the bike to finish the

734
00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:43,360
Speaker 1: race well.

735
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:45,840
Speaker 2: And what was interesting, like listening to Zarko afterwards, he

736
00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:47,520
Speaker 2: was saying where it was so hard is that he

737
00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:50,200
Speaker 2: was in the lead on lap eight. There's eighteen laps

738
00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:53,560
Speaker 2: to go. He knows he's got a significant advantage. And

739
00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:57,680
Speaker 2: it's on days like that where you lose your focus

740
00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:00,760
Speaker 2: by one percent and you go slot off light, or

741
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:02,720
Speaker 2: you touch a white line or you clip a curb

742
00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:05,320
Speaker 2: and you saw during the race Luccio Chechanel I was

743
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:08,480
Speaker 2: over the pit walls like just chill out, like calm down.

744
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:11,239
Speaker 2: And I think Zarko was of a mind that I

745
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:13,239
Speaker 2: feel like I'm under control here. If I am going

746
00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:15,720
Speaker 2: to start deliberately slowing down because I've got a buffer,

747
00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:17,200
Speaker 2: that's where I'm going to get out of the zone

748
00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:19,160
Speaker 2: and I'm going to make a mistake. So I think

749
00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:21,560
Speaker 2: he was being super cautious at the last corner, like

750
00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:24,560
Speaker 2: I mentioned, but for him, because he had no one

751
00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:27,320
Speaker 2: behind him, there wasn't anyone pushing him. This is a

752
00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:29,759
Speaker 2: victory that had to come to him. He wasn't going

753
00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:32,080
Speaker 2: out to get it. And that's where it's so different

754
00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:34,239
Speaker 2: from that Australia twenty twenty three win because I think

755
00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:35,920
Speaker 2: he was fourth going into the last lap of that

756
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:38,080
Speaker 2: race and then made that really ballsy pass of Juge

757
00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:40,760
Speaker 2: Martin to take the lead. Martin was like the carrot

758
00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:43,400
Speaker 2: that day. He was pursuing that to get to the victory.

759
00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:45,840
Speaker 2: Didn't have time to really think about strategy catch the

760
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:48,839
Speaker 2: guy in front yesterday. The only thing he had was time.

761
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:51,480
Speaker 2: They would have been the longest eighteen laps of his

762
00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:54,600
Speaker 2: life with that crowd, and he could hear the noise

763
00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:57,279
Speaker 2: and see the French flags flying and every lap is

764
00:34:57,280 --> 00:34:59,040
Speaker 2: it raining a bit more? Is it raining a bit less?

765
00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:01,400
Speaker 2: You can almost have two much time to think, so

766
00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:05,719
Speaker 2: mentally for him to hold his nerve, there's a lot

767
00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:07,400
Speaker 2: of pressure, like it's yeah, of course, it's pressure when

768
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:09,279
Speaker 2: you've got someone on your back wheel. It's also a

769
00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:10,719
Speaker 2: lot of pressure when you've got too much time to

770
00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:13,759
Speaker 2: think writing one of these things. And let's face that,

771
00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:16,760
Speaker 2: not many races play out like Lamon did on Sunday,

772
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:19,160
Speaker 2: so it's an unusual situation for these guys. They're not

773
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:21,960
Speaker 2: accustomed to this, and it's when you've got time to

774
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:24,200
Speaker 2: think that it's almost more dangerous than when you squabbly

775
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:25,640
Speaker 2: get a pack of three or four other guys.

776
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:28,680
Speaker 1: He said that in the park for my interview, or

777
00:35:28,719 --> 00:35:30,520
Speaker 1: maybe it was even in that the little room that

778
00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:32,919
Speaker 1: they go into before the podium that he goes. Those

779
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:35,960
Speaker 1: last three laps took so long, and it's already a

780
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:39,720
Speaker 1: long lap time here in Lamn. You can just imagine

781
00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:43,400
Speaker 1: if he thought about something else for a split second

782
00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:45,680
Speaker 1: in those conditions, like you said, you run over a

783
00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:48,399
Speaker 1: white line, hit the ripple strip, there goes your chance

784
00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:51,080
Speaker 1: at winning. But for him to go those last three

785
00:35:51,120 --> 00:35:54,479
Speaker 1: laps were so long and they going bloody fast around

786
00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:54,879
Speaker 1: that track.

787
00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:56,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just had to find the quote so I've

788
00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:58,680
Speaker 2: used at the sport. I couldn't remember exactly what it was,

789
00:35:58,719 --> 00:36:01,320
Speaker 2: but he said sometimes you need to go and catch

790
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:04,440
Speaker 2: a victory. Today I had to wait for it, and

791
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:08,279
Speaker 2: I love that. It's the most Arco quote of all time.

792
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:10,040
Speaker 2: But you can see exactly what he was saying because

793
00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:11,640
Speaker 2: at Philip Island a couple of years ago, it's like

794
00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:13,239
Speaker 2: you've got to go and get this thing and take

795
00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:16,040
Speaker 2: it off somebody else whereas on Sunday La morn like

796
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:18,600
Speaker 2: it was his to lose, and sometimes that's that's even

797
00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:20,120
Speaker 2: worse than having somebody to go chase.

798
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:23,560
Speaker 1: I'm just looking at the results from from the race

799
00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:26,759
Speaker 1: and so the crashed riders. Should we go through those?

800
00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:30,719
Speaker 1: So not finish, not finished first lap Juan Mia unfortunately,

801
00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:33,759
Speaker 1: like you said, possible broken hand. We obviously do not

802
00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:35,960
Speaker 1: want that. We want him to be racing, but that's

803
00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:40,279
Speaker 1: just unfortunately a typical juanmir To situation to be in.

804
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:44,160
Speaker 1: Moving on, then we had Fabrio Cordero, Jack Miller, Brad Binda,

805
00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:48,480
Speaker 1: Miguel Olivera, Alex Marquez, they are all the not classified.

806
00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:52,560
Speaker 1: Then you go to sixteenth place, Peco Banyaya. Now we

807
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:56,560
Speaker 1: mentioned him obviously crashing. How was it when he came

808
00:36:56,680 --> 00:36:59,000
Speaker 1: back into the pits to try and swap his bike

809
00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:02,160
Speaker 1: and the mechanics, they're like, mate, you've got no bike

810
00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:04,960
Speaker 1: to swap to. What are you going to do? You

811
00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:06,959
Speaker 1: have to just try and finish. And it's a shame

812
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:11,080
Speaker 1: that he's only finished sixty one place earlier. But the

813
00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:13,239
Speaker 1: gap obviously is I'm just trying to see if I

814
00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:16,239
Speaker 1: can find that here. It's not saying they're Morbidelli Bazeki.

815
00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:18,440
Speaker 1: Then it starts to go through. But if you look

816
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:22,040
Speaker 1: at your top ten, both track House riders managed to

817
00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:24,320
Speaker 1: go into that top ten this weekend, and I think

818
00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:27,359
Speaker 1: for those guys, they're a new team and MERITOGP in

819
00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:31,080
Speaker 1: this situation. Probably a lot of the mechanics, like the

820
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:33,920
Speaker 1: decisions that they're having to make, the pressure that they're

821
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:36,479
Speaker 1: under with bringing the riders in, what tied to choose,

822
00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:39,279
Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera. Raoul you said off air, but

823
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:43,880
Speaker 1: seventh place, okay, he was seventy seconds behind you on Zaco.

824
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:45,799
Speaker 1: He's still finished in that top ten.

825
00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:48,000
Speaker 2: And it's just the thing. You look at that list

826
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:50,080
Speaker 2: of guys that you reeled off that didn't finish the race,

827
00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 2: and then some guys that did like best, the best

828
00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:55,400
Speaker 2: you knowed. He had four long lap penalties and crash twice.

829
00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:57,800
Speaker 2: I mean that's like a half a season for most people,

830
00:37:58,080 --> 00:37:59,840
Speaker 2: and so it was three points, and he still got

831
00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:01,960
Speaker 2: three points. And there's all this nonsense going on elsewhere,

832
00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:05,200
Speaker 2: but this was a day where if you are on

833
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:07,760
Speaker 2: a not so great bike or you're having a difficult season,

834
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:11,839
Speaker 2: you look through these results. Takannakagami, as a wild card

835
00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:14,440
Speaker 2: for Honda, finished sixth. It's the best result he's had

836
00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:17,080
Speaker 2: since twenty twenty one. He was another guy on the

837
00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:20,759
Speaker 2: wet weather tires and he just circulated and circulated and circulated,

838
00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:23,000
Speaker 2: and he finished a minute behind Zako, and he banked

839
00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:26,160
Speaker 2: a massive amount of points. You mentioned the track house guys.

840
00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:31,520
Speaker 2: Lorenzo Savadora career best result finished nights on Juge Martin's bike,

841
00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:33,560
Speaker 2: because obviously juj is still out injured, so this was

842
00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:37,280
Speaker 2: another day where guys down the back had a chance

843
00:38:37,360 --> 00:38:40,040
Speaker 2: to make their mark best result of the season for Fernandez,

844
00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:42,239
Speaker 2: as you mentioned, this was a day that was all

845
00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:45,560
Speaker 2: about keeping your head and staying in the game. And

846
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:47,759
Speaker 2: what was interesting for me is that you've got all

847
00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:50,560
Speaker 2: these really experienced guys who've won Grand Prix who were

848
00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:54,080
Speaker 2: just Binder had multiple crashes before he finished Bashtyin and

849
00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:55,759
Speaker 2: he went down a couple of times. More Bdelli went

850
00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:57,440
Speaker 2: down a couple of times. And then you've got fermin

851
00:38:57,480 --> 00:39:01,080
Speaker 2: Aldegerre and he sticks Grand Prix that was didn't put

852
00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:03,120
Speaker 2: a foot roll of finished third. And then you've got

853
00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:05,959
Speaker 2: Takannaka Army who hasn't raced since the end of last year,

854
00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:08,120
Speaker 2: and of all the races to make a wild card.

855
00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:10,000
Speaker 2: In my goodness, he would have slept well last night

856
00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:12,960
Speaker 2: and here he is scoring his best result for five years.

857
00:39:12,960 --> 00:39:16,239
Speaker 2: So it was we'll look at this top ten at

858
00:39:16,239 --> 00:39:17,560
Speaker 2: the end of the season and then we'll go, oh

859
00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:19,120
Speaker 2: my god, that happened. It's going to be one of

860
00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:22,560
Speaker 2: those races because everywhere you looked it was complete mayhem.

861
00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:26,560
Speaker 2: But it was fantastic TV. It was very very difficult.

862
00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:27,759
Speaker 2: I'm not going to lie for me to get my

863
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:31,359
Speaker 2: head around and try and like, how do I encapsulate

864
00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:33,879
Speaker 2: what happened in a story here. I could have written

865
00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:35,200
Speaker 2: a story for each of the twenty two of them,

866
00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:37,719
Speaker 2: because it was that much going on. But these are

867
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:40,480
Speaker 2: the nights when you love this gig because you love

868
00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:42,759
Speaker 2: being able to absorb all this and then try to

869
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:44,279
Speaker 2: make sense of it. But this is going to be

870
00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:46,120
Speaker 2: a Grand Prix that I know. We've got another race

871
00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 2: in two weeks time, but I think we'll be talking

872
00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:49,640
Speaker 2: about it pretty much every day between now and then.

873
00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:51,480
Speaker 1: Oh and this is going to be Grand Prix that

874
00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:54,839
Speaker 1: six in Zarco's mind forever. He is never going to

875
00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:58,200
Speaker 1: forget that feeling of winning in front of his home crowd.

876
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:01,479
Speaker 1: So that what do you mind to wrap some Moto

877
00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:03,399
Speaker 1: GP as best as we can match? You have any

878
00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:06,760
Speaker 1: more fun facts for our friends here who are curious

879
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:12,480
Speaker 1: about Mojipi, Because you are the statman, the scatman, the statman, I'll.

880
00:40:12,320 --> 00:40:14,400
Speaker 2: Be anything at this point. If it involved coffee, I'm

881
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:17,279
Speaker 2: probably up for it. But there was the thing that

882
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:20,640
Speaker 2: was amazing for me is that you know the thoughts

883
00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:23,400
Speaker 2: of Ducatti not winning a Grand Prix based on what

884
00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:25,479
Speaker 2: we've seen in the past twelve months. At the moment,

885
00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:27,760
Speaker 2: it's like, well, if there's sixty caddies, they're probably finishing.

886
00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:29,640
Speaker 2: Five of them are probably finishing in the top six.

887
00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:33,520
Speaker 2: The fact that you had Honda, who previously held this

888
00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:36,480
Speaker 2: record of twenty two straight wins, being the manufacturer to

889
00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:38,400
Speaker 2: beat Dicadi. You wouldn't have thought it was going to

890
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:39,960
Speaker 2: be a Honda that was going to win this streak.

891
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:42,600
Speaker 2: But there's so much going on in this race. It

892
00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:44,400
Speaker 2: was Zarko's one hundred and fiftieth start, it was a

893
00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:47,760
Speaker 2: landmark start for him. You mentioned before, you know, first

894
00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:51,160
Speaker 2: Frenchman to win a Grand Prix at home since nineteen

895
00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:54,640
Speaker 2: fifty four. There's just so much going on. And then

896
00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:57,440
Speaker 2: I think the key one you mentioned that weekend crowd

897
00:40:57,800 --> 00:41:00,000
Speaker 2: three hundred and eleven thousand or something over the course.

898
00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:02,360
Speaker 1: So the weekend eleven thousand.

899
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:06,160
Speaker 2: That's absolutely awesome. And there was an one thing that

900
00:41:06,239 --> 00:41:08,320
Speaker 2: Motor GP's doing a fantastic job off at the moment

901
00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:11,200
Speaker 2: is the who was flying the drone around the start

902
00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:13,480
Speaker 2: finish straight at these circuit hat tip to you, sir

903
00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:17,040
Speaker 2: or Abdam, whoever you are, because in encapsulating what that

904
00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:19,520
Speaker 2: crowd was like last night and that drone's just hovering

905
00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:21,560
Speaker 2: over the top of the start finished straight before the race,

906
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:25,080
Speaker 2: and it was you could not see a spare place

907
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:28,120
Speaker 2: seat up against a fence where there could be another person.

908
00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:32,680
Speaker 2: That thing was just absolutely rammed with people. And full

909
00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:34,600
Speaker 2: credit to the promoters and everyone that turned up there.

910
00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:36,640
Speaker 2: And if you bought a ticket for the French Grand Prix,

911
00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:38,160
Speaker 2: I think you'd be looking to get your next year's

912
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:40,920
Speaker 2: ticket pretty quick, smart, because that was a pretty awesome

913
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:41,600
Speaker 2: sporting theater.

914
00:41:42,680 --> 00:41:45,120
Speaker 1: Guys, if you've watched the French Grand Prix once, go

915
00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:47,200
Speaker 1: back and watch it again. I did it just before

916
00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:50,360
Speaker 1: we came on here to chat at Motor GP, purely

917
00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:53,640
Speaker 1: just to try and dissect and see what I missed

918
00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:56,719
Speaker 1: last night, because at one point you're watching one thing,

919
00:41:56,719 --> 00:41:58,720
Speaker 1: you're seeing the replay in the corner of the screen

920
00:41:58,719 --> 00:42:02,160
Speaker 1: where someone else's you're hearing about writers coming in, who's

921
00:42:02,160 --> 00:42:07,160
Speaker 1: getting extra long lap penalties like Bashiani. That first third,

922
00:42:07,239 --> 00:42:10,719
Speaker 1: even halfway through that race, it was insane and I

923
00:42:10,760 --> 00:42:13,600
Speaker 1: think one of the best motor GIP races. It kept

924
00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:15,600
Speaker 1: me on the edge of the seat the whole entire

925
00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:16,680
Speaker 1: time so well.

926
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:18,960
Speaker 2: And yeah, and there's also that point where I don't

927
00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:20,680
Speaker 2: know whether you do this as well, I've got the life.

928
00:42:20,719 --> 00:42:22,480
Speaker 2: I've got sort of mission control happening here with all

929
00:42:22,520 --> 00:42:24,840
Speaker 2: the screens and what have you. The life timing is

930
00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:27,640
Speaker 2: always slightly ahead of the TV pictures, so if you

931
00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:29,880
Speaker 2: don't want to spoil, don't look at your lifetiming and

932
00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:31,960
Speaker 2: then look at the TV pictures go oh, no, someone's

933
00:42:31,960 --> 00:42:33,680
Speaker 2: tumbling down the order, which is what I did when

934
00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:36,560
Speaker 2: Jack went out. Unfortunately, I saw his name tumbling down

935
00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:38,560
Speaker 2: the sheet and went, oh, no, don't tell me he's

936
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:41,799
Speaker 2: gone off. That thing was It was like a like

937
00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:43,799
Speaker 2: a slot machine in a casino last night. There were

938
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:45,879
Speaker 2: just naves going up and down, and it was all

939
00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:47,759
Speaker 2: over the place. You know, someone's in for a long

940
00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:50,200
Speaker 2: lap penalty, someone's doing a bike swap. There were several

941
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:53,759
Speaker 2: points in that race where I thought, how many long

942
00:42:53,840 --> 00:42:56,520
Speaker 2: laps has this guy done? Has this guy pitted? What

943
00:42:56,640 --> 00:42:58,880
Speaker 2: tires is he on? It was complete chaos trying to

944
00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:00,880
Speaker 2: keep up with it. That was the first sort of

945
00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:03,480
Speaker 2: eight to ten laps, and then the last fifteen laps

946
00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:07,160
Speaker 2: was is Zarko going to hold his nerve here? Because

947
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:10,239
Speaker 2: that was the story. It was not particularly close in

948
00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:12,520
Speaker 2: terms of will to will, but jeez, it was tense

949
00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:15,359
Speaker 2: because a he's not a guy who wins gron Prix

950
00:43:15,480 --> 00:43:18,320
Speaker 2: very often, but b because it was home and history

951
00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:20,040
Speaker 2: and how emotional it was going to be, so it

952
00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:22,960
Speaker 2: was super tense to watch. But yeah, if we're going

953
00:43:23,040 --> 00:43:24,640
Speaker 2: to do this every second or third race, it's going

954
00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:26,080
Speaker 2: to take years off my life. But I think I'll

955
00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:27,160
Speaker 2: enjoy it, so signed me up.

956
00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:29,440
Speaker 1: That's one was just thinking. I'm like, you know, we've

957
00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:32,399
Speaker 1: spoke about this race, has been forty five minutes or so,

958
00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:35,239
Speaker 1: There's still so much that we could talk. But I go,

959
00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:37,960
Speaker 1: you just got to watch it. You just got to

960
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:40,040
Speaker 1: watch it and then possibly watch it again, maybe a

961
00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:43,040
Speaker 1: third time, just to try and dissect everything. As a

962
00:43:43,080 --> 00:43:46,440
Speaker 1: fan though, watching the international broadcast with Matt Burton Lewis Studby,

963
00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:49,800
Speaker 1: I loved when they had Bradley Smith on this weekend.

964
00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:53,560
Speaker 1: For me, sitting there reminded me of Simon Crafer. But Bradley,

965
00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:56,560
Speaker 1: you know, he did fairly well in mitogp won races

966
00:43:56,600 --> 00:43:58,799
Speaker 1: in the law classes. Now he's doing very very well

967
00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:02,960
Speaker 1: on that Holly Davids and Baggers Championship. But hearing him,

968
00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:07,400
Speaker 1: hearing him talk about what's happening on track for me

969
00:44:07,600 --> 00:44:10,840
Speaker 1: was really really good at a clear, clearer understanding. But

970
00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:13,279
Speaker 1: one thing I loved was when they were getting ready,

971
00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:15,839
Speaker 1: I think for the when they finally decided to start

972
00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:19,000
Speaker 1: the race. After the red flag, Radley Smith goes, I'm

973
00:44:19,080 --> 00:44:21,759
Speaker 1: nervous and I'm not even racing out there, so could

974
00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:25,400
Speaker 1: you imagine just the feeling of what is going to

975
00:44:25,480 --> 00:44:28,480
Speaker 1: happen at the start? And then Joan Zarco wins well.

976
00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:30,400
Speaker 2: And he's been in races like that too, where you

977
00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:32,400
Speaker 2: have to make all these decisions on the fly and

978
00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:34,200
Speaker 2: they can make or break your race, you know, quarter

979
00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:36,960
Speaker 2: by corner, lap by lap, So he was nervous for

980
00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:39,160
Speaker 2: everybody else, but probably quite relieved that he got to

981
00:44:39,239 --> 00:44:41,120
Speaker 2: sit and talk about it rather than actually have to

982
00:44:41,160 --> 00:44:43,680
Speaker 2: execute it. And that's these riders make, you know, pretty

983
00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:45,719
Speaker 2: frustrated spectators a lot of the time, as you know,

984
00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:48,800
Speaker 2: having a brother as one. But I'm sure Chris was

985
00:44:48,840 --> 00:44:51,200
Speaker 2: watching that race last night sort of with his rider's

986
00:44:51,239 --> 00:44:53,359
Speaker 2: eye on, but thinking, thank goodness, I'm not out they're

987
00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:56,319
Speaker 2: having to do this, because that was a stressful night

988
00:44:56,320 --> 00:44:58,480
Speaker 2: for everyone watching Littlelone participating.

989
00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:03,480
Speaker 1: Then there's rewind the clock Moto two dry race. Sena

990
00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:07,520
Speaker 1: agis struggled. He struggled all weekend and he had not

991
00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:09,960
Speaker 1: the best qualifying I think he was fourteenth, and I

992
00:45:09,960 --> 00:45:16,280
Speaker 1: think he ended similar position off memory fourteenth. Senna's having

993
00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:19,400
Speaker 1: a really interesting season. He's having very high highs, but

994
00:45:19,440 --> 00:45:22,320
Speaker 1: then he's having these I want to say low lows.

995
00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:25,680
Speaker 1: You know, it is still only his second year, but

996
00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:28,120
Speaker 1: it was a dry tracker track that he'srased at before

997
00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:33,200
Speaker 1: considering his teammate Manu Gonzales Pol won the race. You know,

998
00:45:33,320 --> 00:45:38,080
Speaker 1: he's consistently well. I'm wondering if it's just this missing

999
00:45:38,120 --> 00:45:39,920
Speaker 1: piece And it's so easy for me to say, sitting

1000
00:45:39,920 --> 00:45:41,840
Speaker 1: here on my sofa, you know, talking about that, but

1001
00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:44,840
Speaker 1: what is that missing piece for Senna to progressively be

1002
00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:46,799
Speaker 1: closer to the front. So he is fighting with the

1003
00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:49,600
Speaker 1: likes of Manu and Jake Dixon and those guys who

1004
00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:50,680
Speaker 1: were fighting for the championship.

1005
00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:53,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think to be honest, it's kind of normal

1006
00:45:53,640 --> 00:45:56,320
Speaker 2: of a young writer who's in a fairly early stage

1007
00:45:56,360 --> 00:45:59,200
Speaker 2: of his World championship journey in that you can see

1008
00:45:59,239 --> 00:46:01,160
Speaker 2: the talent when he gets on the podium, which he's

1009
00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:03,359
Speaker 2: done several times now. So the good weekends are very

1010
00:46:03,440 --> 00:46:05,759
Speaker 2: very good, but there's a spikiness to the result curve.

1011
00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:08,719
Speaker 2: At the moment, it's not you'd like to have less

1012
00:46:08,719 --> 00:46:10,479
Speaker 2: spikes and more of a flat line on that curve,

1013
00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:13,360
Speaker 2: But I think that's something that will come with age

1014
00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:15,640
Speaker 2: and experience and having to go through weekends like that.

1015
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:18,680
Speaker 2: There's some weekends where you know, you look at Murdo

1016
00:46:18,719 --> 00:46:21,759
Speaker 2: GP how many times last year was pecab Annoor absolutely

1017
00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:24,240
Speaker 2: nowhere on a Friday and you're like, oh, he's in trouble.

1018
00:46:24,440 --> 00:46:26,880
Speaker 2: But he had the experience and the confidence and the

1019
00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:31,600
Speaker 2: know how and the data bank to call upon where

1020
00:46:31,640 --> 00:46:34,440
Speaker 2: he could engineer himself out of a difficult position. And

1021
00:46:34,480 --> 00:46:35,800
Speaker 2: this is so by the time you get to Sunday,

1022
00:46:35,800 --> 00:46:38,520
Speaker 2: he's ready to go. Sen is so young and so

1023
00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:41,520
Speaker 2: early in his World Championship journey that the talent's there

1024
00:46:41,520 --> 00:46:44,040
Speaker 2: and the speeds there, but you can't fast track that

1025
00:46:44,120 --> 00:46:47,040
Speaker 2: experience card, right, So that's something that he will get

1026
00:46:47,120 --> 00:46:50,080
Speaker 2: over time. So maybe this is his destiny this year.

1027
00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:53,080
Speaker 2: The bike is good, there'll be weekends where he's clearly

1028
00:46:53,160 --> 00:46:54,800
Speaker 2: very good, and there'll be other weekends where he's a

1029
00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:58,239
Speaker 2: bit anonymous, and that will probably flatten out over time.

1030
00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:01,000
Speaker 2: So I guess we've enjoyed some the highs. This weekend

1031
00:47:01,040 --> 00:47:02,560
Speaker 2: was probably one that you just sort of shrug your

1032
00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:04,680
Speaker 2: shoulders and move on, learn from it and try and

1033
00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:07,200
Speaker 2: you know, get better the next time this presents itself.

1034
00:47:07,239 --> 00:47:09,160
Speaker 2: But I also don't think we're going to start seeing

1035
00:47:09,239 --> 00:47:11,319
Speaker 2: him fighting for fourteenth most weeks. I think we'll see

1036
00:47:11,400 --> 00:47:13,480
Speaker 2: him back up the front before too long, and.

1037
00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:16,480
Speaker 1: That's what we want as Ossie fans. But I tell you,

1038
00:47:16,680 --> 00:47:20,560
Speaker 1: Moto three, if I was on the edge of my seat,

1039
00:47:20,640 --> 00:47:25,080
Speaker 1: my poor neighbors were just probably going, what is she watching?

1040
00:47:25,160 --> 00:47:27,280
Speaker 1: Because them going, God, Joe, come.

1041
00:47:27,120 --> 00:47:29,759
Speaker 3: On, Joe, you can do this, Joe, hold on to it.

1042
00:47:30,600 --> 00:47:35,200
Speaker 3: He was so close, I'm talking, so bloody bloody close

1043
00:47:35,400 --> 00:47:39,560
Speaker 3: to getting that first ever Moto Iree victory. And we

1044
00:47:39,560 --> 00:47:41,759
Speaker 3: were talking in our group chat afterwards, and you send

1045
00:47:41,800 --> 00:47:44,160
Speaker 3: me a message going, we knew Munyo's was going to

1046
00:47:44,239 --> 00:47:46,120
Speaker 3: do that. We knew he was going to try and

1047
00:47:46,160 --> 00:47:46,719
Speaker 3: go for the win.

1048
00:47:47,200 --> 00:47:50,919
Speaker 1: I mean obviously relegated that Munos was cross the line

1049
00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:53,920
Speaker 1: and relegated down to third, which meant Kelso second, and

1050
00:47:53,960 --> 00:47:57,839
Speaker 1: then Ruaida, who right place, right time, just sitting at

1051
00:47:57,840 --> 00:48:02,200
Speaker 1: that bag, managed to take better the last corner as well.

1052
00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:04,320
Speaker 1: That last corner that we've talked so much about.

1053
00:48:04,560 --> 00:48:09,000
Speaker 2: Ye the Stephen Bradbury approach by Rueda, who just sit

1054
00:48:09,040 --> 00:48:10,680
Speaker 2: there and let everyone else wipe each other out. But

1055
00:48:11,160 --> 00:48:13,840
Speaker 2: it's funny. I was the opposite to you, and I

1056
00:48:13,920 --> 00:48:16,160
Speaker 2: was really you know, I loved the way Joel raced

1057
00:48:16,239 --> 00:48:17,680
Speaker 2: last night, and this is the sort of race we've

1058
00:48:17,680 --> 00:48:19,799
Speaker 2: been wanting from him. Get to the front, boss the race,

1059
00:48:20,040 --> 00:48:22,719
Speaker 2: take control, split the pack. There's only three of them

1060
00:48:22,719 --> 00:48:26,400
Speaker 2: at the end the last five laps. I was a

1061
00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:28,200
Speaker 2: bit different to you, and then I'm going, all right,

1062
00:48:28,239 --> 00:48:30,120
Speaker 2: so when is Munyo's just going to ride into the

1063
00:48:30,160 --> 00:48:32,040
Speaker 2: side of him? Because you know it's going to happen,

1064
00:48:32,080 --> 00:48:35,120
Speaker 2: because that's the way he races. That's what his reputation is.

1065
00:48:35,440 --> 00:48:37,160
Speaker 2: If it had been anyone else that was behind him,

1066
00:48:37,160 --> 00:48:39,160
Speaker 2: I'd be like, all right, this will be curious. I

1067
00:48:39,200 --> 00:48:41,960
Speaker 2: wonder how this is going to go. And the only

1068
00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:44,759
Speaker 2: mystery in the last lap with Muna's was he going

1069
00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:47,319
Speaker 2: to take Joel and himself out or just himself out

1070
00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:49,080
Speaker 2: or just Joel out? Because you knew it was coming.

1071
00:48:49,520 --> 00:48:51,840
Speaker 2: And if you're Ruaida, this is where he played that

1072
00:48:51,920 --> 00:48:54,239
Speaker 2: super smart. This is why he's leading that Championship was like,

1073
00:48:54,320 --> 00:48:56,000
Speaker 2: I could go and fight these guys to the win,

1074
00:48:56,360 --> 00:48:58,640
Speaker 2: but I might not have to. I'll just sit here

1075
00:48:58,680 --> 00:49:01,879
Speaker 2: at a respectable distance. I've got a championship lead here,

1076
00:49:01,880 --> 00:49:04,160
Speaker 2: and if something goes on in front, which given the

1077
00:49:04,239 --> 00:49:05,799
Speaker 2: nature of one of the two people in those two

1078
00:49:05,840 --> 00:49:07,840
Speaker 2: at the front, there's a fair chance that's going to happen,

1079
00:49:08,160 --> 00:49:09,839
Speaker 2: I'll just sit here and sail through. And I think

1080
00:49:09,840 --> 00:49:12,440
Speaker 2: he led the entire race for one corner and that's

1081
00:49:12,480 --> 00:49:14,600
Speaker 2: how you end up with twenty five World Championship points.

1082
00:49:14,640 --> 00:49:17,840
Speaker 2: But I don't know what Joel was like behind the scenes,

1083
00:49:17,880 --> 00:49:21,799
Speaker 2: but great a for diplomacy. I thought he handled that

1084
00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:26,080
Speaker 2: incredibly well given the circumstances. But I think that's all

1085
00:49:26,080 --> 00:49:29,080
Speaker 2: part of the evolution of Joel in that in the past,

1086
00:49:29,120 --> 00:49:31,279
Speaker 2: if he was having a result like this, it'll be like, well,

1087
00:49:31,280 --> 00:49:32,640
Speaker 2: how long is it going to be until I'm back

1088
00:49:32,680 --> 00:49:34,719
Speaker 2: up there again? Because they weren't the norm for him.

1089
00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:37,279
Speaker 2: This is just what he does now, and so this

1090
00:49:37,320 --> 00:49:39,680
Speaker 2: is why he's going so well in the Championship. That

1091
00:49:39,760 --> 00:49:41,879
Speaker 2: first wins coming, it's going to happen this year. There's

1092
00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:44,120
Speaker 2: probably going to be a few of them. He just

1093
00:49:44,200 --> 00:49:46,799
Speaker 2: had the great misfortune of having the one guy that

1094
00:49:46,880 --> 00:49:48,960
Speaker 2: you do not want behind you in that situation on

1095
00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:52,960
Speaker 2: the last lap. And I don't know, I don't like

1096
00:49:53,080 --> 00:49:55,600
Speaker 2: races being decided by stuff on the last lap that

1097
00:49:55,640 --> 00:49:57,960
Speaker 2: you wouldn't get away within the other laps. And the

1098
00:49:57,960 --> 00:50:00,000
Speaker 2: fact that he had to drop one position. Okay, cool

1099
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:02,880
Speaker 2: still didn't win the race. I'm wondering what the penalty

1100
00:50:02,920 --> 00:50:05,160
Speaker 2: is if Joel isn't skillful enough to stay on the

1101
00:50:05,160 --> 00:50:08,120
Speaker 2: bike and he falls off, So does Munos get a

1102
00:50:08,120 --> 00:50:10,600
Speaker 2: long lap for the next race? Like how we adjudicating this.

1103
00:50:11,400 --> 00:50:13,000
Speaker 2: It was the fact that Joel actually managed to keep

1104
00:50:13,040 --> 00:50:14,960
Speaker 2: going across the line in third place that meant the

1105
00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:17,480
Speaker 2: penalty was probably less than it could have been because

1106
00:50:17,560 --> 00:50:19,480
Speaker 2: that's not a racing move, Like I'm all for a

1107
00:50:19,480 --> 00:50:22,319
Speaker 2: bit of hard racing, but the inevitability of him doing

1108
00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:24,920
Speaker 2: something dumb like that in the last corner you could

1109
00:50:24,960 --> 00:50:26,279
Speaker 2: see it coming five laps away.

1110
00:50:27,239 --> 00:50:30,040
Speaker 1: I was so hoping though, when Munia's were await or

1111
00:50:30,040 --> 00:50:33,080
Speaker 1: we're battling out, that they would just keep messing around

1112
00:50:33,120 --> 00:50:35,160
Speaker 1: with each other and that would allow Joel to break away.

1113
00:50:35,200 --> 00:50:37,680
Speaker 1: That's what I was screaming at the TV to happen.

1114
00:50:38,480 --> 00:50:40,600
Speaker 1: But yeah, like you said in the group Chatty, it's

1115
00:50:40,760 --> 00:50:43,360
Speaker 1: just with him with Munio's being there, we knew it

1116
00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:46,000
Speaker 1: was going to happen. Like you said, Joel in Park

1117
00:50:46,080 --> 00:50:49,880
Speaker 1: fir May afterwards. For me, same thing I thought. Okay, Joel,

1118
00:50:49,880 --> 00:50:51,960
Speaker 1: two point five is here and he's here to stay.

1119
00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:54,320
Speaker 1: We're seeing that with six rounds in and he's consistently

1120
00:50:54,320 --> 00:50:57,720
Speaker 1: been up the front. But we've seen it before. Consistency

1121
00:50:57,840 --> 00:51:01,279
Speaker 1: is what wins championships. Okay, we know he's fighting. I

1122
00:51:01,320 --> 00:51:03,200
Speaker 1: think is he correct if for wrong? Is he third

1123
00:51:03,239 --> 00:51:05,920
Speaker 1: in the championship at the third I believe yes, yeah,

1124
00:51:05,960 --> 00:51:08,360
Speaker 1: Look there's still only two places ahead of him to

1125
00:51:08,400 --> 00:51:10,719
Speaker 1: take that title and we're only six rounds in, and

1126
00:51:10,800 --> 00:51:12,440
Speaker 1: like you said, that first win's going to come. We

1127
00:51:12,520 --> 00:51:14,640
Speaker 1: know it, Joel. We believe in you that first win's

1128
00:51:14,680 --> 00:51:16,799
Speaker 1: going to come. But then we go further down the

1129
00:51:16,840 --> 00:51:19,640
Speaker 1: field and our other Aussie Jacob Rlstone, he had another

1130
00:51:19,719 --> 00:51:24,680
Speaker 1: tough weekend P thirteen Cross the Line, Jacob. I know

1131
00:51:24,719 --> 00:51:26,920
Speaker 1: he's coming back from that serious injury that he had

1132
00:51:26,920 --> 00:51:29,040
Speaker 1: in the off season, but what's it going to take

1133
00:51:29,040 --> 00:51:31,640
Speaker 1: for him to get closer to the front because okay, yeah,

1134
00:51:31,719 --> 00:51:36,799
Speaker 1: his teammate was tenth, so three places ahead, but the

1135
00:51:36,840 --> 00:51:39,600
Speaker 1: Red Bulls, like last year, these guys were closer to the.

1136
00:51:39,520 --> 00:51:42,160
Speaker 2: Front, right, Yeah, definitely. I mean I still think there's

1137
00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:44,200
Speaker 2: a degree of him being a bit undercooked. I mean,

1138
00:51:44,200 --> 00:51:46,239
Speaker 2: when you come back from the accident that he'd had,

1139
00:51:46,239 --> 00:51:48,600
Speaker 2: he missed all the preseason, he missed those first few rounds.

1140
00:51:48,640 --> 00:51:51,759
Speaker 2: He's kind of at about round two mode right now,

1141
00:51:51,800 --> 00:51:55,080
Speaker 2: not round six. So I think if we're still seeing

1142
00:51:55,120 --> 00:51:57,520
Speaker 2: these results by mid season and a bit longer once

1143
00:51:57,560 --> 00:52:01,320
Speaker 2: he's got his race fitness back and everything's back to normal,

1144
00:52:01,360 --> 00:52:03,920
Speaker 2: and that's probably a little bit more concerning, But I

1145
00:52:03,960 --> 00:52:05,680
Speaker 2: do think he is going to get better. There is

1146
00:52:05,680 --> 00:52:08,319
Speaker 2: a degree of russ And the Moto three is just brutal, right,

1147
00:52:08,360 --> 00:52:12,080
Speaker 2: Like it's so so cutthroat, and if you're that little

1148
00:52:12,120 --> 00:52:14,080
Speaker 2: bit off in that pack with all these guys on

1149
00:52:14,120 --> 00:52:16,960
Speaker 2: fairly equal bikes and they're all young and crazy and fearless,

1150
00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:19,080
Speaker 2: like you're going to be taking advantage of if you're

1151
00:52:19,080 --> 00:52:21,040
Speaker 2: not one hundred percent there. And I just think that's

1152
00:52:21,040 --> 00:52:23,359
Speaker 2: where he's at at the moment. But yeah, I think

1153
00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:25,399
Speaker 2: I'm sure he'll be just disappointed with that, But he's

1154
00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:27,400
Speaker 2: kind of still playing himself back in a little bit.

1155
00:52:27,480 --> 00:52:30,080
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, no, I get what you're saying. I

1156
00:52:30,120 --> 00:52:32,040
Speaker 1: wish we were seeing more ossies closer to the run,

1157
00:52:32,120 --> 00:52:35,120
Speaker 1: but he's so exciting having kelso they're flying the flag

1158
00:52:35,120 --> 00:52:37,600
Speaker 1: for us at the moment. So that pretty much rounds

1159
00:52:37,600 --> 00:52:40,399
Speaker 1: out Motor GP motor to a Moto three before they

1160
00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:43,239
Speaker 1: head to Silverstone. But then let's go back to Moto

1161
00:52:43,280 --> 00:52:46,719
Speaker 1: GP really quickly because Fabio Cordoraro has been handed a

1162
00:52:46,760 --> 00:52:50,520
Speaker 1: penalty for Silverstone FP one where he has to sit

1163
00:52:50,560 --> 00:52:53,480
Speaker 1: out the first ten minutes and pay a two thousand

1164
00:52:53,560 --> 00:52:57,720
Speaker 1: euro fine for aggression. I'm going to say aggression towards

1165
00:52:57,719 --> 00:53:00,359
Speaker 1: the marshals and not complying with them during his Moto

1166
00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:05,439
Speaker 1: GP crash. Yeah, tell me the last time detention has

1167
00:53:05,480 --> 00:53:07,280
Speaker 1: been handed to at GP rider.

1168
00:53:07,800 --> 00:53:09,160
Speaker 2: When I read that as well, it's like you have

1169
00:53:09,160 --> 00:53:10,880
Speaker 2: to sit in the naughty corner with your hands in

1170
00:53:10,880 --> 00:53:13,080
Speaker 2: your head for ten minutes or something. It's a bizarre one, isn't.

1171
00:53:13,080 --> 00:53:15,040
Speaker 2: It's like, we know you'd like to go ride your bike,

1172
00:53:15,120 --> 00:53:17,040
Speaker 2: so we're taking all your toys away from you so

1173
00:53:17,160 --> 00:53:20,520
Speaker 2: you can't. It's a bizarre punishment because two thousand euro

1174
00:53:20,600 --> 00:53:23,080
Speaker 2: for a motor GP writer. That's kind of tip money.

1175
00:53:23,080 --> 00:53:25,719
Speaker 2: That's not that exciting. But yeah, the fact that we're

1176
00:53:25,719 --> 00:53:27,799
Speaker 2: not letting you ride your bike for ten minutes because

1177
00:53:27,840 --> 00:53:31,360
Speaker 2: you've been misbehaving. But if anyone's seen the video, I

1178
00:53:31,400 --> 00:53:33,480
Speaker 2: think there needed to be something because he was clearly

1179
00:53:33,480 --> 00:53:35,480
Speaker 2: trying to drag a broken bike back onto the track

1180
00:53:35,520 --> 00:53:38,359
Speaker 2: and keep riding it. The bike was gone at that point,

1181
00:53:38,400 --> 00:53:41,880
Speaker 2: the race was over. He was not following the instructions

1182
00:53:41,880 --> 00:53:45,759
Speaker 2: of the marshalls. There's a safety respect danger element to that, yes,

1183
00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:47,680
Speaker 2: And I can understand that he was worked up and

1184
00:53:47,719 --> 00:53:49,480
Speaker 2: he was at home and he was frustrated and all

1185
00:53:49,520 --> 00:53:53,640
Speaker 2: of that. But I think once the red mist calms

1186
00:53:53,640 --> 00:53:56,280
Speaker 2: down a little bit, I think you'll probably regret that one.

1187
00:53:56,840 --> 00:53:59,200
Speaker 2: It's understandable in the moment, but it's probably one he

1188
00:53:59,239 --> 00:54:01,799
Speaker 2: will live to regret. Yeah, strange punishment, not one that

1189
00:54:01,880 --> 00:54:04,000
Speaker 2: I was not one that I'm particularly familiar with, I

1190
00:54:04,080 --> 00:54:06,160
Speaker 2: must say, But it's kind of weird that you have

1191
00:54:06,239 --> 00:54:08,600
Speaker 2: this five second moment of rage and then two weeks

1192
00:54:08,680 --> 00:54:11,560
Speaker 2: later you have to go sit out and watch all

1193
00:54:11,600 --> 00:54:13,480
Speaker 2: your colleagues right around for a bit. But of course,

1194
00:54:13,520 --> 00:54:15,360
Speaker 2: the other penalty that came out after the race just

1195
00:54:15,440 --> 00:54:18,040
Speaker 2: for anyone playing long lap penalty. Bingo here at home

1196
00:54:18,320 --> 00:54:20,399
Speaker 2: and they have ash and he's got another long lap

1197
00:54:20,440 --> 00:54:23,719
Speaker 2: penalty because he skittled Pecobanyaya, and he served two long

1198
00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:26,239
Speaker 2: laps for changing his bike before the start of the race.

1199
00:54:26,239 --> 00:54:28,480
Speaker 2: He did another two long laps for speeding in the

1200
00:54:28,520 --> 00:54:32,839
Speaker 2: pit lane, so he'll be up to five thousand long

1201
00:54:32,920 --> 00:54:35,040
Speaker 2: lap penalties or something by the time we get to Silverston,

1202
00:54:35,120 --> 00:54:37,440
Speaker 2: so he'll almost do another full race distance just by

1203
00:54:37,480 --> 00:54:40,359
Speaker 2: going through the long lap penalty loop. I think I.

1204
00:54:40,320 --> 00:54:42,640
Speaker 1: Can't wait for Silverstone. It's going to be interesting, especially

1205
00:54:42,680 --> 00:54:46,160
Speaker 1: after this weekend, just to see what happens and who

1206
00:54:46,200 --> 00:54:48,560
Speaker 1: comes out on top. But we've only got two weeks

1207
00:54:48,560 --> 00:54:50,680
Speaker 1: to wait for the next Moto GP. In the meantime,

1208
00:54:50,840 --> 00:54:53,080
Speaker 1: F one is back on this weekend, Matt, you'll be

1209
00:54:53,120 --> 00:54:56,239
Speaker 1: covering that one with our colleague Michael Lamonado, who you

1210
00:54:56,280 --> 00:54:58,239
Speaker 1: gave a shout out to earlier in the pod. So

1211
00:54:58,680 --> 00:55:00,840
Speaker 1: you guys can get prep for a another weekend of

1212
00:55:00,920 --> 00:55:03,520
Speaker 1: racing here on Fox Sports. But if you want to

1213
00:55:03,560 --> 00:55:05,920
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1215
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1219
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