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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Pit Talk, brought to you by Shannon's.

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Speaker 1: On today's episode, Formula One resumes with the Las Vegas

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Speaker 1: Grand Prix this weekend, the first race of the final

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Speaker 1: triple header to end the season and decide the world championship,

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Speaker 1: and we look back on the Mona GP season and

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Speaker 1: ahead to the first ever Supercars Grand Final. My name's

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Speaker 1: Michael Lamonato. It's great to have your company and the

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Speaker 1: company of my co host. He knows the best way

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Speaker 1: to achieve team unity is to throw as many people

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Speaker 1: under the bus as possible. It's Matt Clayton.

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Speaker 2: You only throw them under the bus, Michael, if you're

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Speaker 2: going to put the bus and reverse and have another

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Speaker 2: crack and go backwards over them after you have to

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Speaker 2: throw them under. But yes, we love a good bit

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Speaker 2: of blood letting and Ferrari, Ferrari, I'll give them this.

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Speaker 2: They're consistent if nothing else. But yeah, this was the

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Speaker 2: story that absolutely everybody saw coming, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: Yes, predictable, but probably in all the worst ways, particularly

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Speaker 1: if you have any kind of interest in Ferrari being successful.

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Speaker 1: Because that's where we're starting this weekend's podcast. We will

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Speaker 1: get into some of the questions out of the Las

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Speaker 1: Vegas pri and those other items. But the story of

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Speaker 1: this fortnight off, the weekend off in the Formula one

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Speaker 1: world before we head to that final tripleheader, was Ferrari

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Speaker 1: chairman John Elkin appearing to throw his drivers under the bus,

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Speaker 1: along with us some unnamed others who are, in his words,

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Speaker 1: not up to par. These are quotes he gave to

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Speaker 1: the Italian media at an unrelated press event, so are

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Speaker 1: completely off the cuff. We can only assume this is

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Speaker 1: what he really thinks. And I'm going to read you

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Speaker 1: some quotes to launch this one off, and you can

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Speaker 1: tell me how many of these you think. Tally with reality,

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Speaker 1: we can say that our mechanics are winning the championship

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Speaker 1: with their performance and everything they've done on the pit stops.

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Speaker 1: If we look at our engineers, there's no doubt the

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Speaker 1: car has improved. If we look at the rest, it's

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Speaker 1: not up to par. We certainly have drivers for whom

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Speaker 1: it's important to focus on driving and talk less. I

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Speaker 1: will note here that in only a few hours after

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Speaker 1: these comments came to like Charlotte Claire posted something on

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Speaker 1: social media in which he said only unity can help

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Speaker 1: us turn that situation around and Hamilton said, I back

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Speaker 1: my team, I back myself. I will not give up,

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Speaker 1: not now, not then, not ever. Sounds a bit like

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Speaker 1: a children's nursery rhyme. Actually, I really like that, some

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Speaker 1: strange commentary from a Ferrari chairman at a time the

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Speaker 1: team is under pressure to actually win a race this

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Speaker 1: season and of course to get the rules right next

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Speaker 1: to you in twenty twenty six, to suddenly and somewhat

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Speaker 1: inexplicably start blaming people for the team's underperformance.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it's always the It's the old football sack, the

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Speaker 2: manager routie, isn't it when things aren't going very very well.

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Speaker 2: But you know when you mentioned before that, you know

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Speaker 2: Hamilton and Leclair have been instructed to focus on driving

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Speaker 2: and talk less like Charlotte Clare has been at Ferrari

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Speaker 2: for a long time now, are there any words left?

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Speaker 2: Probably run out of things to say at this point.

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Speaker 2: He's been there for so long, and you know it

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Speaker 2: always ends up seeing it being a different journey to

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Speaker 2: the same outcome, doesn't it with someone like him? But

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Speaker 2: I just I sigh here in exasperation. Also because this

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Speaker 2: feels like a story as old as time. Does any

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Speaker 2: of this help and it's just no. And I think

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Speaker 2: maybe the contrast between this not being very helpful, and

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Speaker 2: then we talked about this last week because of what

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Speaker 2: fourth in the constructor's standings, which you know doesn't sound

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Speaker 2: great in and of itself, but you look at me

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Speaker 2: in context. They're behind a team that sometimes forgets that

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Speaker 2: it has a second car in Formula one in Red Bull.

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Speaker 2: This is how bad it's got. And if you were

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Speaker 2: this driver lineup is as good, if not better, than

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Speaker 2: So the mechanics are doing a great job. That's ononderfully.

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Speaker 2: You keep the soldiers on the shop floor happy, well,

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Speaker 2: that sort of thing, that's fine. Is it really a

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Speaker 2: like this pointing the finger at a time where unity,

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Speaker 2: as Charlott clur said, is required, is a very Ferrari

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Speaker 2: thing to do and not particularly helpful. And from your

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Speaker 1: Ferrari, Yeah, one hundred percent. But it's just confusing that

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Speaker 1: we're not confusing. It's completely predictable, isn't it, As you've

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Speaker 1: cars squalor and the Grand Prix, and then it was

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Speaker 1: sort of in that after that first quarter of the season,

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Speaker 1: let's say that speculation really mounted in the Italian media

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Speaker 1: that Frederic Vassu was going to be replaced. That normally

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Speaker 1: comes from it as much as there telling me that

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Speaker 1: loves a good rumor story. When they all come out

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Speaker 1: or not. Turns out he then re signed his contract,

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Speaker 1: but now the chairman after saying he fully backed the

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Speaker 1: way that fred Vassis set up the team and everything well, actually, well,

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Speaker 1: maybe it's the drivers the problem. It's all just a

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Speaker 1: little bit unnecessarily chaotic in a year in which, okay,

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Speaker 1: the disappointment is palpable. This is a team that expected

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Speaker 1: to contend for titles this year after falling only fourteen

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Speaker 1: points short of the Constructors Championship last year. But it's

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Speaker 1: more important, argue than ever ever, to focus not simply

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Speaker 1: because of the year has been disappointing, but because next

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Speaker 1: year the rule changes are a massive opportunity to get

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Speaker 1: to maybe another half decade of not winning titles. We

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Speaker 1: don't know how the new rules are going to go

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Speaker 1: in sense of development and all that kind of thing,

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Speaker 1: but it's important to hit the ground running, particularly for Ferrari,

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Speaker 1: and to have this off track nonsense happening can only

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the next year thing you mentioned is the key

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Speaker 2: point here, because anyone other than the team that's been

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Speaker 2: I A. McLaren, everyone else should be looking at next

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Speaker 2: pecking order is in Formula one that just a continual

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Speaker 2: renewal of previous season's rules, and you get these incremental

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Speaker 2: The pecking order of Formula one can change dramatically. I mean,

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Speaker 2: I always go back to twenty fourteen when you think

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Speaker 2: The last thing you need going into an opportunity like this,

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Speaker 2: you need is distractions and disunity and just throwing unnecessary

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Speaker 2: next year, you don't see that same amount of chaos

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Speaker 2: being created unnecessarily. Now you can have some hard conversations

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Speaker 2: also not the Ferrari way, And this is the crazy part.

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Speaker 2: For me is if history is any guide, this is

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Speaker 2: where we're approaching historical levels of title droughts for both

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Speaker 2: thing that you should be doing internally ahead of such

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Speaker 2: a big opportunity for next year. It would be bad

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Speaker 2: enough at any time. It's certainly not a great look

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Speaker 2: now when to me twenty twenty six is for anyone

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Speaker 2: If we get this right, we can go on a run,

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Speaker 2: because history has taught us that it's just the wrong

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, this is the longest constructors Championship drought, as

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Speaker 1: you said in prior's history, not quite the longest driver's

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Speaker 1: title drought, but with any more interventions perhaps they can

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Speaker 1: I note that John Elkin also was saying this in

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Speaker 1: direct parallel to Ferrari's World Endurance Championship team, which one

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Speaker 1: One is that the Ferrari factory team there is operated

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Speaker 1: which I think could be relevant. But also World Endurance

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Speaker 1: If we want to draw that direct parallel.

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Speaker 2: Well, perhaps they need some help to mitigate some of

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Speaker 2: the self inflicted wounds that they seem to create on

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Speaker 2: Maybe that's what they're angling for here. But I think

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Speaker 2: the frustrating part about this from a media point of

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Speaker 2: it feels they are lacking in nothing in terms of

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Speaker 2: of themselves, not because of any other external factor. And it's,

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Speaker 2: like I said, it's a story as old as time,

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Speaker 2: and you can, yeah, you can roll your eyes and say,

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Speaker 2: of course Ferrari. It's immensely frustrating because you know there's

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Speaker 2: a better place if they are good, and they are

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Speaker 2: fighting for something meaningful. You can pick your favorite football league,

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Speaker 2: or you know, I always think of like the New

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Speaker 2: York Knicks in the NBA when they're good, like the

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Speaker 2: American basket was so much better, when the biggest media

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Speaker 2: the ingredients are there for them to be good except themselves,

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Speaker 2: and they just get in their own way all the time.

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Speaker 2: And I just you know, I'm a bit of a

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Speaker 2: you need unity and pushing forward is like, we've got this.

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Speaker 2: But what were they sixth and seventh in the Grand

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Speaker 2: Prix last year and never really factored into it. And yeah,

435
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Speaker 2: we've got such a limited database of information with Vegas

436
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Speaker 2: because he's so new that it's hard to imagine there's

437
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Speaker 2: going to be a dramatic turnaround on that front. So

438
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Speaker 2: I'm all for a bit of chaos because we want

439
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Speaker 2: this to stay live for as long as we possibly can.

440
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Speaker 2: But it's who gets in the mix potentially between the

441
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Speaker 2: two McClaren drivers and what order those McClaren drivers are in.

442
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Speaker 2: That's the really interesting part of this weekend, I.

443
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Speaker 1: Think, particularly when you consider I think a couple of things.

444
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Speaker 1: One is the chance of a safety car here, which

445
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Speaker 1: you'd have to think is pretty high considering that the

446
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Speaker 1: nature of the circuit. But also we've seen, as only

447
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Speaker 1: his last week, that you don't have to qualify that

448
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Speaker 1: far down the grid for incidents to affect your race.

449
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Speaker 1: Oscopiastri obviously his race completely undone by an incident while

450
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Speaker 1: battling for a spot on the podium, so not even

451
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Speaker 1: very low at all. He qualified only on the second row,

452
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Speaker 1: So you don't have to qualify that far down. If

453
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Speaker 1: we're working with the assumption that McLaren won't be as

454
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Speaker 1: potent as usual for your race to be heavily compromised

455
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Speaker 1: and only by strategy, but perhaps by incidents. The first

456
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Speaker 1: turn in Vegas, Okay, there's a lot of wall right

457
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Speaker 1: right out the outside, but we see cars go off

458
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Speaker 1: there regularly, particularly given the temperatures, cold, ties and breaks,

459
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Speaker 1: all that kind of thing at the start, So there's

460
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Speaker 1: a pretty high potential for chaos. Having said all that,

461
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Speaker 1: just because the first two races are very interesting, I

462
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Speaker 1: feel like every race is due a bad one, Like

463
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Speaker 1: I think back to Aservaijan. Well, it was due a

464
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Speaker 1: bad one straight off the bat and then the good

465
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Speaker 1: races came. I certainly hope that's not the case, but

466
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Speaker 1: it should be interesting nonetheless, because I think, as you said,

467
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Speaker 1: the form guide doesn't feel like it really applies here.

468
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Speaker 2: Yeah, a little bit. It's a bit of an outlawer.

469
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Speaker 2: And the safety card thing you just said, then that's

470
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Speaker 2: super real that you look down the list of entrance

471
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Speaker 2: for this weekend and we could probably have a discussion

472
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Speaker 2: about this off there. But I could give you three

473
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Speaker 2: people right now who are most likely to create a

474
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Speaker 2: safety car over the course of the weekend. I mean

475
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Speaker 2: and it might not necessarily could get a poorly time

476
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Speaker 2: red flag in qualifying, it's got potential for that too.

477
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Speaker 2: So it's not just in Sunday's race. It's what happens

478
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Speaker 2: through the rest of the weekend. Are people taking gred

479
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Speaker 2: penalties for new gearboxes and other such and what happens

480
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Speaker 2: at crucial points of qualifying because qualifying has is a

481
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Speaker 2: chance that qualifying could be pretty chaotic here because people

482
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Speaker 2: are pushing so hard. I think if that the last

483
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Speaker 2: corner coming off the strait, I think as we're even

484
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Speaker 2: coming on to the big straight where colpinto bindit in

485
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Speaker 2: the Williams and shifted one of the barriers, that was

486
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Speaker 2: a lengthy delay. So there are a lot of tripwise

487
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Speaker 2: around this place, and you add cold temperatures and some

488
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Speaker 2: curb writing and yeah, lookout.

489
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Speaker 1: A great thing is though, that at three pm Eastern

490
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Speaker 1: daylight time, we can afford lengthy delays for a nice change.

491
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Speaker 2: Bring on the delays water time. They can have eleven

492
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Speaker 2: red flags and the lights can go out and they

493
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Speaker 2: can fill in potholes or whatever they want to do.

494
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Speaker 2: At Las Vegas we've seen that in the past. Bring

495
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Speaker 2: it on, because Australia will still be awake wonderful times.

496
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Speaker 1: Absolutely. Let's move out a Move of the week brought

497
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Speaker 1: to you by Shannon's. We had two categories in action

498
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Speaker 1: over the weekend, both Murdo GP and Supercars. We will

499
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Speaker 1: get into them in a little bit more detail in

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Speaker 1: a moment, but Matt, I caught your e this week move.

501
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Speaker 2: Of the Week. I'm actually going to be partially sensible here,

502
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Speaker 2: which I know is unlike me in this particular segment,

503
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Speaker 2: but I'm going to take you to the second last

504
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Speaker 2: lap of the Motor GP season in Valencia last weekend.

505
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Speaker 2: Notable because on that lap Ducatti's Fabio de jan Antonio

506
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Speaker 2: took third place off Katm's Pedro Acosta and held that

507
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Speaker 2: place to the check and flag. That's the eighty eighth

508
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Speaker 2: straight Grand Prix, Michael, that a Ducati has been on

509
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Speaker 2: the podium. If you can believe that, it extends the

510
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Speaker 2: all time Moto GP record that goes back to the

511
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty one British Grand Prix, and so de jan

512
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Speaker 2: Antonio getting third on that penultimate lap of the season

513
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Speaker 2: preserve that record. And it was in interesting in that well,

514
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Speaker 2: two things. I mean, that's nearly what's over four years.

515
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Speaker 2: That's wild for a brand to have a bike on

516
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Speaker 2: the podium and every Grand Prix for eighty eight straight races.

517
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Speaker 2: But it also shows you how hard it is for

518
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Speaker 2: someone like Ducatti. When Mark Marquez a sidelined as he

519
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Speaker 2: was this weekend, you know, Alex Marquez was a bit

520
00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:20,040
Speaker 2: lost in the race, had some entire life issues. Yet

521
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Speaker 2: another Peco DNF just pour out another had hardly a

522
00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:26,280
Speaker 2: drink for Peco because he probably needs one at this point.

523
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Speaker 2: But it shows you that Katti can be vulnerable. And

524
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Speaker 2: the fact it took until a pass for the last

525
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Speaker 2: podium place on the second last lap of the season

526
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Speaker 2: for that record to be preserved, I thought was noteworthy.

527
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Speaker 2: But while we're on the Mark Marquez thing, by the way,

528
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Speaker 2: this is a trivia question for you. We had twenty

529
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Speaker 2: two rounds in Motor GP this year, twenty two full

530
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Speaker 2: time riders. How many rounds do you think that we

531
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Speaker 2: had the entire grid for the season fit and racing?

532
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Speaker 1: Good question. That is a great question, I'm going to say,

533
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Speaker 1: because we've had especially because I think of Juge Martin

534
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Speaker 1: who didn't turn up until quite late in the year,

535
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Speaker 1: I reckon it's going to be like three.

536
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Speaker 2: Okay, once if you can believe that I.

537
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Speaker 1: Thought I was low.

538
00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:11,479
Speaker 2: So once in twenty two rounds this year it was

539
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Speaker 2: it was the Grand Prix of Catalunya in round fifteen.

540
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Speaker 2: Did we have all twenty two regular full time riders

541
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Speaker 2: start the Grand Prix on the Sunday one in twenty

542
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Speaker 2: two rounds? Soay Motor GP longer seasons, not Horay Motor

543
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Speaker 2: GP longer seasons. One time, if you can believe.

544
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Speaker 1: That, good year for the on track medical team, which

545
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Speaker 1: is not indeed, yes, remarkable always good year for that.

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Speaker 2: Well. I've got move of the Week into useless trivia here,

547
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Speaker 2: so you can choose to one or both of these,

548
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Speaker 2: but I should probably ask you what your move of

549
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Speaker 2: the week is, and I'm suspecting it's going to have

550
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Speaker 2: two more wheels in mine.

551
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Speaker 1: Yes, So I regret that I didn't bring any fun

552
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Speaker 1: trivia for you. Set the bar high for this one.

553
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Speaker 1: Shannon's will be very pleased. I'm going to go with

554
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Speaker 1: almost a little bit of a left field Matt Clayton

555
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Speaker 1: style move because it's not one, it's twenty seven moves,

556
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Speaker 1: it's Will Brow. I'm going to go I give pick

557
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Speaker 1: my favorite on though it's will brew move on ryan

558
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Speaker 1: Wood on Saturday afternoon in Sandown obviously Sandown five hundred

559
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Speaker 1: to claim a second place as it was behind when

560
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Speaker 1: it has most it that was up from fifteenth on

561
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Speaker 1: the grid, remarkable, fifteenth on the grid where he qualified

562
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Speaker 1: when we assumed, because he started this weekend, we're going

563
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Speaker 1: to get in the Supercars final system in just a moment.

564
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Speaker 1: Started this weekend outside the top four, and only the

565
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Speaker 1: four progressed to the Grand Final. So qualifying fifteenth right there,

566
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Speaker 1: then you were mentally riding him off as a championship defense.

567
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Speaker 1: Recovered to second, remarkable, then qualified seventeenth on Sunday, made

568
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Speaker 1: fundamentally the same problem, which was he watched the end

569
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Speaker 1: of Q two from his garage, never a great place

570
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Speaker 1: to be finished back on the podium a double he

571
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Speaker 1: was the only triple eight driver to score a double podium.

572
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Speaker 1: Just fuck qualifying there and despite brock Feeni continuing to

573
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Speaker 1: lead that the championship table, the race pace was on

574
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Speaker 1: another planet. This wasn't a These weren't results that were

575
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Speaker 1: born of you know, even though it was a bit

576
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Speaker 1: wet and dry on on Sunday, that were born of

577
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Speaker 1: you know, whacky. Weren't even any safety guards in fact

578
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Speaker 1: in the web on Sunday. No, no whacky results, just

579
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Speaker 1: very fast. He is a very fast driver. Made twenty

580
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Speaker 1: seven passes, got two podiums. He's through to the Grand Final,

581
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Speaker 1: not even in fourth, in third place. Just a remarkable

582
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Speaker 1: weekend for him and I think maybe we will reflect

583
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Speaker 1: just in time for his title defense. Just an incredible performance.

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Speaker 2: Twenty seven moves of the week. That's the highest ub

585
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Speaker 2: we've had in this category. For that is extraordinary because

586
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Speaker 2: it's such a Sena. Is not the easiest track for

587
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Speaker 2: these things to pass mus be perfectly honest, even if

588
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Speaker 2: you've got a car advantage, So to do it twice

589
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Speaker 2: in twenty four hours is pretty impressive. So I only

590
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Speaker 2: have one move of the week. I think your twenty

591
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Speaker 2: seven tops MNE in terms of number and quality. But yeah,

592
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Speaker 2: that is quite a remarkable turnaround. Considering again, dire it

593
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Speaker 2: looked well.

594
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Speaker 1: Let's go back to Motor GP though in interested versus

595
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Speaker 1: expert final time this year, I suppose because it was

596
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Speaker 1: the final race of Moto GP for the season. We

597
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Speaker 1: are in that final month of motor racing pretty much

598
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Speaker 1: unless him by the one of those random off season categories.

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Speaker 1: Final race of the we don't have as you mentioned,

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Speaker 1: most of the full time riders or many of the

601
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Speaker 1: full time riders were not there, but was beginning to

602
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Speaker 1: look a little bit regular. I suppose for Bacco Betzeki,

603
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Speaker 1: who scored his second straight Grand Prix victory again in

604
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Speaker 1: quite comfortable, dominating fashion. What was your take on this

605
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Speaker 1: this final weekend of racing, and I suppose a little

606
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Speaker 1: bit of the season overall.

607
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Speaker 2: Yeah, super interesting that so Buzeki wins in Valencia, led

608
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Speaker 2: every lap from pole, as he had done in Portermow

609
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Speaker 2: the previous week seven days previously, and it just underlines

610
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Speaker 2: how much Aprilia has improved this season. It's the most

611
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Speaker 2: successful season they've ever had. It's the first time of

612
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Speaker 2: the one back to back Grand Prix they finished one

613
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Speaker 2: two in this race at Valencia, with Ralphernandez, the Australian

614
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Speaker 2: Grand Prix winner, finishing six tenths of a second behind Betzeki.

615
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Speaker 2: And the interesting part for me is that you know,

616
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Speaker 2: we mentioned before that Mark Marquez has been out and

617
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Speaker 2: it's the last four rounds have been pretty interesting where

618
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Speaker 2: you see the reliance that Decati has on the biggest

619
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Speaker 2: difference maker in the sport. But it also shows that

620
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Speaker 2: I don't think there's any doubt now that the Aprilia

621
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Speaker 2: is the second best bike on the grid, and you

622
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Speaker 2: look at the turmoil that Aprili has gone through this season.

623
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Speaker 2: They spent a lot of money signing Jorge Martin after

624
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Speaker 2: he basically just cracked THEU SADS and left your canty,

625
00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:18,359
Speaker 2: which was understandable to go to a Prillier and the

626
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Speaker 2: guy they spent all the money on and they had

627
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Speaker 2: all the high hopes for has basically not featured at

628
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Speaker 2: all because he did seven Grand Prix for the entire year,

629
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Speaker 2: because he just lurched from one injury to the next.

630
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Speaker 2: The Bozeki things interesting for me because we saw a

631
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Speaker 2: bit of this in twenty twenty three. He won three

632
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Speaker 2: Grand Prix that year's third in the championship. Last year

633
00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:37,760
Speaker 2: he was twelve. He was just kind of not really

634
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Speaker 2: out the races. Last year he was signed with a

635
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:43,680
Speaker 2: Prillier very much to be their second rider. I don't

636
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Speaker 2: even think he was their second or third choice. They

637
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:49,560
Speaker 2: wanted Maverick Vinalez to stay. They probably wanted an Italian

638
00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:52,480
Speaker 2: on the second seat. In Abasien. He was possibly going there,

639
00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:56,120
Speaker 2: Bazeki was kind of a consolation prize. And while we're

640
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Speaker 2: talking stats, hit for you this back half of the season,

641
00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:02,440
Speaker 2: so two round season, the final eleven rounds of the

642
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Speaker 2: season after the German Grand Prix in July, Berzeki was

643
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Speaker 2: the highest point scorer in the back half of the

644
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Speaker 2: season out of anyone on the entire grid. Now, the

645
00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:12,480
Speaker 2: astor Is scare courses that Mark Marquez missed the final

646
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Speaker 2: four rounds, but over the last eleven rounds of the season,

647
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Speaker 2: Berzeki two hundred and twenty three points, second rider in

648
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Speaker 2: that category. Interestingly enough, also not a Ducati Pedro Acosta

649
00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:24,080
Speaker 2: two hundred and eight points on a KTM in those

650
00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:26,960
Speaker 2: final eleven rounds, Alex Marquez two hundred and six just

651
00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:29,719
Speaker 2: behind on a Ducati Mark Marquez two hundred and one

652
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:31,960
Speaker 2: points and missed the last four Grand Prix of the year.

653
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:34,560
Speaker 2: So I mean, does that stat change if Mark is

654
00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:37,280
Speaker 2: upright for the final four? Yeah, probably does. But it

655
00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:40,440
Speaker 2: shows you that in a championship that Ducati's won again,

656
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:43,760
Speaker 2: Aprili has made massive steps forward and a Costa is

657
00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:46,600
Speaker 2: just proving to be this enormous and difference maker on

658
00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:48,920
Speaker 2: a bike that nobody else really seems to be able

659
00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:52,520
Speaker 2: to ride at the moment, so really interesting into the season.

660
00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:56,440
Speaker 2: Also a couple of little shout outs Jack Miller fifth

661
00:29:56,440 --> 00:29:58,320
Speaker 2: top ten finish of the season. He was ninth in

662
00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:01,920
Speaker 2: the race, qualified on third rowing. It's really quite solid.

663
00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:04,680
Speaker 2: You look at jack season and the points in the

664
00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:08,400
Speaker 2: championship finishing position don't look great relative to his previous seasons.

665
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:10,800
Speaker 2: But I think he you know, he proved himself to

666
00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:13,240
Speaker 2: be the second best Yamaha rider all year. He secured

667
00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:16,120
Speaker 2: a contract for twenty twenty six, and we know Yamaha

668
00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:18,080
Speaker 2: is moving to that V four engine for next year.

669
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Speaker 2: And Jack spent all but this year riding V fours

670
00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:23,920
Speaker 2: for Honda and Decatti and Katim beforehand. So Jack's a

671
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:28,000
Speaker 2: hugely valuable asset there. And then in the wacky races

672
00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:30,960
Speaker 2: corner of interested versus expert this week, which I've just invented,

673
00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:34,320
Speaker 2: can we talk about Franco Morbidelli. Oh, please, Franko Morbidelli.

674
00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:37,680
Speaker 2: He usually dawdles on the racing line or hits people

675
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:39,880
Speaker 2: during races, but he was actually able to do something

676
00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:43,160
Speaker 2: even he'd never done before, pulling into his grid spot

677
00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:46,080
Speaker 2: before the Grand Prix on Sunday, got distracted or something

678
00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:49,280
Speaker 2: and ran into the back of Honda's Aleisha Spargaro, who

679
00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:52,600
Speaker 2: was stationary on the grid awaiting the start. If anyone

680
00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:56,200
Speaker 2: that follows murdor GP knows that the Morbidelli Aspargaro beef

681
00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:58,880
Speaker 2: is one of sports more underrated ones because it's got many,

682
00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:02,000
Speaker 2: many chapters. The worst part for Morbidelli he falls off

683
00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:05,200
Speaker 2: his own bike and breaks his left hand at about

684
00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:07,360
Speaker 2: two kilometers an hour and the bike falls on top

685
00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:10,960
Speaker 2: of him. He's now out of the postseason test in Valencia,

686
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:14,200
Speaker 2: which is happening Tuesday Australian time, because he's broken his

687
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:17,000
Speaker 2: own hand in a two kilometer an hour accident and

688
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:19,600
Speaker 2: now can't test the twenty twenty six bike. And that

689
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:22,360
Speaker 2: is the most Franco Morbidelli story that I could possibly

690
00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:24,560
Speaker 2: come up with to sum up the season. One of

691
00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:26,640
Speaker 2: the weirdest things I think I've seen in about twenty

692
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:29,720
Speaker 2: odd years of Motor GP, and certainly the slow speed crash.

693
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:32,840
Speaker 2: But yeah, of all the things we're going to remember Valencia,

694
00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:35,360
Speaker 2: for a guy falling off his own bike on the grid,

695
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:37,480
Speaker 2: breaking his own hand is going to be right up there.

696
00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:40,360
Speaker 1: A remarkable way to end the season, not with a bang,

697
00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:43,040
Speaker 1: but with a crunch. I suppose just to crash.

698
00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:46,320
Speaker 2: Well, and just a pathetically slow one at that. But yeah,

699
00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 2: probably no such a grid silliness at Sandown, but I

700
00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:52,280
Speaker 2: must have been when we approach interested versus expert. I

701
00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:54,120
Speaker 2: thought to myself, I wonder what the weather was like

702
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:56,520
Speaker 2: in Sandown. Then I remembered it was Sandown in Melbourne

703
00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:58,400
Speaker 2: in November. So it's going to rain at some point,

704
00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:00,680
Speaker 2: it's just a matter of when. But you mentioned the

705
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:06,200
Speaker 2: Will Brown entry into the Grand Finalists before. What I'm

706
00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:07,920
Speaker 2: interested in is this, three of the names that are

707
00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:09,520
Speaker 2: in the Grand Final for Adelaide that I would have

708
00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:12,160
Speaker 2: predicted before the season and one that I absolutely would

709
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:12,600
Speaker 2: not have.

710
00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:15,640
Speaker 1: Yes, and this is the most interesting part. And I

711
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:18,239
Speaker 1: feel like, if you are Supercars, you are getting one

712
00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:21,480
Speaker 1: hundred percent what you wanted out of this final. Absolutely

713
00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:24,640
Speaker 1: it is delivering precisely what you wanted. Not only because

714
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:27,280
Speaker 1: we've had some really great jeopardy over the last two

715
00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:29,920
Speaker 1: rounds on the Gold Coast and Sanddown, will Brown being

716
00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:32,480
Speaker 1: a great example of having to get into that final four,

717
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:36,840
Speaker 1: but you've got three drivers who absolutely you would expect

718
00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:38,920
Speaker 1: to be there and have been standout performers for the

719
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,360
Speaker 1: year or late in the year. In brock Feene, unsurprisingly

720
00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:44,760
Speaker 1: he top the title standings chas mostts. Really strong late

721
00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:46,920
Speaker 1: finish really just in the finals has got him into

722
00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:49,480
Speaker 1: second place. In fact, he was briefly in top spot

723
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:51,960
Speaker 1: on Saturday night after winning that race, and then Will

724
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:55,320
Speaker 1: brown sneaking into third. Fourth though, is the rookie Kai

725
00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:59,280
Speaker 1: Allen from Grove not his teammate Matt Paine who ended

726
00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:02,400
Speaker 1: the Guess what we call the regular season the home

727
00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:04,960
Speaker 1: and away season doesn't make any sense. In second is

728
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:08,760
Speaker 1: the championship standings. He's out. He's out of the finals,

729
00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:12,080
Speaker 1: somewhat controversially after a variety or one class anyway, with

730
00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:14,520
Speaker 1: Cam Borders who's also out, another driver you might have

731
00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:18,040
Speaker 1: expected to have taken that fourth place if not Matt Payne.

732
00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:23,080
Speaker 1: So we've got this tremendous random element in the Grand Final.

733
00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:25,360
Speaker 1: And the beauty, of course is when you crunch up

734
00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:27,640
Speaker 1: all the points, as they do at every finals round,

735
00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:30,800
Speaker 1: you close up all the drivers. Kaion's only fifty points

736
00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:33,440
Speaker 1: off the title lead, and we've got three races in Adelaide,

737
00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:35,640
Speaker 1: which is in a fortnight so not this weekend, but

738
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:39,640
Speaker 1: the next. That's entirely achievable if you know, only needs

739
00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:42,000
Speaker 1: one weird result to happen to some of the other

740
00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:44,240
Speaker 1: finalists and he wins, and suddenly he's going to be

741
00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:46,760
Speaker 1: the favorite to be the champion out of nowhere in

742
00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:50,200
Speaker 1: his rookie season. And he has had a great rookie season.

743
00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:52,000
Speaker 1: It is worth saying he's really come on the second

744
00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:53,680
Speaker 1: half of the year. Now, you know, I love a spreadsheet.

745
00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:55,840
Speaker 1: I've been keeping my Supercar stat sheet up to date.

746
00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:58,360
Speaker 2: Spreadsheet World Champion. You are unofficially but.

747
00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:01,200
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, even in the finals format, people will have

748
00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:03,560
Speaker 1: been wondering, and they will wonder at the end of

749
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:05,720
Speaker 1: Adelaide no matter who wins the title. Okay, brock Phenie

750
00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:07,720
Speaker 1: wins the title, it's going to be pretty easy to say, well,

751
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:10,200
Speaker 1: he would have won it in the normal format anyway, presumably,

752
00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:13,120
Speaker 1: although I will point out, considering how strong an ending

753
00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:14,840
Speaker 1: chas Moster's had to the season, if we were to

754
00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:17,560
Speaker 1: have regular points, he would be less than one hundred

755
00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:19,840
Speaker 1: points off the leads. Okay, a little bit distant, but

756
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:24,440
Speaker 1: very much still within the possibility of pinching it. In Adelaide,

757
00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:26,680
Speaker 1: it wouldn't be super comfortable for Phoenie, but you know,

758
00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:28,919
Speaker 1: if he wins the title, we can say he's done

759
00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:31,919
Speaker 1: it old way in the new way. This is the standings.

760
00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:35,840
Speaker 1: If we had normal points, it would be Phoene mostered

761
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:39,719
Speaker 1: and Brown, so exactly as has happened. So that sort

762
00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:42,440
Speaker 1: of immediately eliminates anyone who'd be saying, wow, it's all

763
00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:46,400
Speaker 1: artificial finals whatever, even if the points are closer. Unsurprisingly

764
00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:48,680
Speaker 1: it's then Matt Paine, who would have been in the

765
00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:52,120
Speaker 1: top four under the normal points. But then it's Kai Allen,

766
00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:57,280
Speaker 1: so he's only moved up one place in the finals. Whatever.

767
00:34:57,480 --> 00:34:59,200
Speaker 1: To call it the way we're doing the finals format

768
00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:02,160
Speaker 1: and eliminations, that's how strong an end of the year.

769
00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:04,560
Speaker 1: He's had a guy who only just snuck in. As

770
00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:06,640
Speaker 1: we talked, I guess two months ago now whenever it

771
00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:09,480
Speaker 1: was about as we went from Baptist into the finals

772
00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:11,840
Speaker 1: and he just got into the ten. He would have

773
00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:15,960
Speaker 1: been on merit fifth in the standings and potentially could

774
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:17,680
Speaker 1: have finished fourth on merit as well in the finals.

775
00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:19,560
Speaker 1: He's now got a chance to win the championship. So

776
00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:22,120
Speaker 1: this isn't as as much as it's very much random

777
00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:23,640
Speaker 1: if you'd looked even only a couple of months ago

778
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:25,960
Speaker 1: and Certney at the start of the season, he's there.

779
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:28,880
Speaker 1: I'm willing to say pretty much just basically on season

780
00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:30,520
Speaker 1: long merit, he's in that conversation.

781
00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:33,399
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, And I think the reason we perhaps pause

782
00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:34,840
Speaker 2: at that is at the start of the season, we

783
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:36,920
Speaker 2: wouldn't have necessarily thought he'd be one of the four

784
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:39,840
Speaker 2: that's still alive at this point. But you mentioned it before,

785
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:41,920
Speaker 2: like if you were setting up a new format and

786
00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:44,879
Speaker 2: you wanted to script what you wanted for these final four,

787
00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:48,919
Speaker 2: the Grand Final with the final four drivers, it's absolutely

788
00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:52,279
Speaker 2: perfect because you've got guys with championship pedigree, You've got

789
00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:54,360
Speaker 2: someone in Moster who's come along really, really strong, and

790
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:56,799
Speaker 2: then you've got this I don't want to use wildcards.

791
00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:58,279
Speaker 2: That makes it sound like it's a bit fluky, but

792
00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:01,160
Speaker 2: certainly not someone that expected. We expected to be there.

793
00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:04,800
Speaker 2: And they all have an equal opportunity for the biggest

794
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:07,120
Speaker 2: prize in the last round, and you know that there's

795
00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:09,440
Speaker 2: going to be peril and all sorts of silliness and

796
00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:12,400
Speaker 2: controversy and everything else. It's perfectly set up. But I

797
00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:14,160
Speaker 2: like the mix of the drivers that are in this

798
00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:16,239
Speaker 2: because at the end of the day, we say this

799
00:36:16,239 --> 00:36:19,000
Speaker 2: all the time, we cheer the narrative here. Whoever wins

800
00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:21,160
Speaker 2: out of this four it's a good story, right, it

801
00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:23,000
Speaker 2: doesn't matter because in terms of where they've come from

802
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:27,360
Speaker 2: late season resurgence, you know, defending champion really digging his

803
00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:29,920
Speaker 2: heels in with Sander and then someone who perhaps we

804
00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:31,800
Speaker 2: wouldn't have seen coming at the start of the season.

805
00:36:32,239 --> 00:36:34,920
Speaker 2: Four really good storylines. So yeah, it's going to be

806
00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 2: super intriguing. And if you were going to draw up

807
00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:38,480
Speaker 2: an idea way to finish this season, it would look

808
00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:39,000
Speaker 2: a bit like this.

809
00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:41,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've just gone back through my trustee spreadsheet. Kay

810
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,600
Speaker 1: Allen finished in Bathurst, so this is when the finals,

811
00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:48,440
Speaker 1: the finalists were decided. He finished tenth. You've got into

812
00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:52,000
Speaker 1: the finals by three points, three points away from missing

813
00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:53,920
Speaker 1: the top ten completely and here he is with a

814
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:57,239
Speaker 1: shot at winning the championship in the Grand Final. It

815
00:36:57,320 --> 00:36:59,280
Speaker 1: is remarkable. I just want to take you very quickly

816
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:01,920
Speaker 1: through those finalists and what I thought was interesting this weekend,

817
00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:04,719
Speaker 1: well we talked about Ky Allen. Remarkable, he capitalized on

818
00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:07,600
Speaker 1: some bad luck from Matt Pain, just great results. He's

819
00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:10,200
Speaker 1: increasingly just his fall in the last couple of months.

820
00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:13,600
Speaker 1: He is just constantly there. Shows very astute for Grove

821
00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:15,880
Speaker 1: to have pinched him. I suppose from Dick Johnson Racing's

822
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:20,319
Speaker 1: junior driver program for this year. Chasmstad though, is the

823
00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:23,080
Speaker 1: one I think is really interesting. He's clearly defining peaking

824
00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:25,239
Speaker 1: at the right time. He really only started winning in

825
00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:27,080
Speaker 1: a big way since we turned up to the finals.

826
00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:30,040
Speaker 1: He third winning a row was Saturday and Sandown, which

827
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:31,759
Speaker 1: meant he knew he was going to the Grand Final

828
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:34,239
Speaker 1: regardless of what happened on Sunday. That's how the rules work.

829
00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:36,640
Speaker 1: I thought it was really interesting hearing him speak after

830
00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:38,920
Speaker 1: the race. As he said they then used Sunday to

831
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:42,480
Speaker 1: test some things for Adelaide, so essentially had a day's

832
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:45,200
Speaker 1: head start if you like, on the Grand Final, had

833
00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:47,360
Speaker 1: good pace, was a little bit unlucky with the switch

834
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:50,000
Speaker 1: from drives to wets because his poor old team at

835
00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:52,040
Speaker 1: bryan Wood, who did help him to victory on Saturday,

836
00:37:52,239 --> 00:37:54,080
Speaker 1: had a pit stop problem. He was stuck in the

837
00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:57,080
Speaker 1: pit box, couldn't pit could moster it. But that doesn't matter.

838
00:37:57,160 --> 00:37:58,560
Speaker 1: He was in the Grand Final anyway. He's going to

839
00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:01,000
Speaker 1: start second. He's only how many points. Is he going

840
00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 1: to start behind it's only twenty five points. I think

841
00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:06,839
Speaker 1: it is behind. No twenty points. I think you behind

842
00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:09,480
Speaker 1: brock FENNI. Brock Feennie though he's back to he's winning ways.

843
00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:12,239
Speaker 1: He hasn't won since Ipswitch, which was before even the Enduro's.

844
00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:14,560
Speaker 1: He's won again. He's won from pole, so it looks

845
00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:18,399
Speaker 1: like standard brock Feenie issued twenty twenty five. That's good

846
00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:20,719
Speaker 1: obviously for him coming into the Grand Final because he

847
00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:22,759
Speaker 1: needed that little No one say he's been out of form,

848
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:24,880
Speaker 1: but just needed that little bit of momentum to charge

849
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:27,200
Speaker 1: in there. And then we've already talked about Will Brown.

850
00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:29,719
Speaker 1: I mean he he could also argue he's peaking at

851
00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:32,160
Speaker 1: the right time, just not in qualifying. The race pace

852
00:38:32,239 --> 00:38:34,480
Speaker 1: is clearly there would be harder, I guess, as hard

853
00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:35,759
Speaker 1: as it is to pass a sand down, but it's

854
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:38,720
Speaker 1: pretty difficult on the street circuit like Adelaide, much riskier

855
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:40,560
Speaker 1: anyway if you want to pull off moves like that.

856
00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:43,720
Speaker 1: But if he can sort out his qualifying you would

857
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:47,320
Speaker 1: almost notwithstanding the thirty five points is to brock Finil,

858
00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:50,040
Speaker 1: that's not very much. Is it almost call him to favorite?

859
00:38:50,080 --> 00:38:51,480
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think we've got quite a few

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Speaker 1: contenders for favorite, so it's really well set up. You know,

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Speaker 1: if anyone was skeptical about the Grand Final format, where

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Speaker 1: you're entitled to be, obviously because it is a change.

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Speaker 1: But the outcome we've got, I think is simultaneously the

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Speaker 1: jeopardy you'd want from this kind of format as well

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Speaker 1: as being pretty representative of the form drivers at this

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Speaker 1: point in the year.

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Speaker 2: Well, and you can make a case for all four

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Speaker 2: and that's the beauty of all of these. You didn't

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Speaker 2: want it to be a situation where you're like, well,

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Speaker 2: it's probably one of two guys, and now the guys

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Speaker 2: are kind of making up the numbers. The evolving nature

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Speaker 2: of Adelaide's interesting too, because you mentioned the three races,

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Speaker 2: all of these predictions and where's this going to go

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Speaker 2: in points gap? This is going to be something that

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Speaker 2: shifts over the course of the event, which makes it

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Speaker 2: really interesting as well. So you know what happens early

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Speaker 2: in the weekend, how does that change what each driver

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Speaker 2: needs to get out of the subsequent races. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 2: like I said, if you're going to come up with

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Speaker 2: a new format, you'd be pretty happy with the way

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Speaker 2: it's come.

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Speaker 1: Out, absolutely right. So the Grand Final is in a

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks. But before we get to the Grand Final, obviously,

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Speaker 1: is this weekend's Las Vegas Grand Prix. And of course

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Speaker 1: the crystal ball, brought to you by Complete Home Filtration,

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Speaker 1: doesn't have to be about this weekend's the race. Of course,

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Speaker 1: there's still a few weeks of racing to go. But Matt,

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Speaker 1: what's the crystal ball telling you?

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Speaker 2: Crystal ball's telling me that daytime Formula one is a

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Speaker 2: great thing. Actually, don't need a crystal ball to tell

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Speaker 2: me that it is a wonderful, wonderful thing. We mentioned

892
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Speaker 2: before how this is the least predictable of the three

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Speaker 2: Grand Prix we've got left to confirm a Formula One

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Speaker 2: champion this year. So my crystal ball is telling me

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Speaker 2: that we're going to have three different teams each have

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Speaker 2: one driver on the podium this weekend.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I like it.

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Speaker 2: And the reason I'm saying, and let's be honest, if

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Speaker 2: you're choosing three team, there's going to be three teams

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Speaker 2: out of four teams because the four teams that are

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Speaker 2: clearly and that's at a category A of the championship

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Speaker 2: I'm still thinking that Ferrari is going to have a

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Speaker 2: driver on the podium this weekend, which is probably against

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Speaker 2: the run of play, and certainly in obate. John elkn

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Speaker 2: will be pleased about that. I think I think Ferrari

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Speaker 2: is going to be that we're gonna have a Ferrari

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Speaker 2: driver on the podium. Now, you mentioned the Lewis Hamilton

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Speaker 2: podium draft. Wouldn't that be quite something? But I'm going

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Speaker 2: to basically say one of those top four teams is

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Speaker 2: not going to have a driver on the podium this weekend.

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Speaker 2: And if the team that's not represented on the podium,

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Speaker 2: if we don't see McLaren up there, or we don't

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Speaker 2: see Max Bastappen up there, I won't mention Red Bulls

914
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Speaker 2: other driver because we don't care they don't either. If

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Speaker 2: it's a McLaren or a red Ball that misses out

916
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Speaker 2: on the podium, doesn't that shape what's going to come

917
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Speaker 2: for Qatar and Abi Dhabi coming up after that? But

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Speaker 2: your that's quite a sensible crystal ball by my standards.

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Speaker 2: I'm wondering if you're going to go a little.

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Speaker 1: Bit whack you well. I like to think that I've

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Speaker 1: put some have I really put any sort of rational

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Speaker 1: effort into my chrystal. I've certainly made them genuinely, but

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Speaker 1: have I thought deeply about them before? Not always? Sometimes,

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Speaker 1: but not always. And I can't believe I'm going to

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Speaker 1: say this about this week's crystal Ball, but I had

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Speaker 1: a dream yesterday that Lando Norris has one more DNF

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Speaker 1: in him. Oh boy, I'm not going to say when

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Speaker 1: it's going to happen. Doesn't have to, it doesn't have

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Speaker 1: to be this weekend. It may not happen at all.

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Speaker 1: It was just a dream. But this is my crystal ball,

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Speaker 1: is that Lando Norris's title campaign has one more DNF

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Speaker 1: in it. I wasn't the dream wasn't clear on the circumstances.

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Speaker 1: It was a very messy race. The track it's unfamiliar

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Speaker 1: to me, right, But that's that's my prediction, is that

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Speaker 1: there's one more twist and it's going to be another

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Speaker 1: failure to finish.

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Speaker 2: Did your dream have a sad Sky Sports commentary soundtrack

938
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Speaker 2: and perhaps some violin explaining, because if it was that,

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Speaker 2: I'm on board with this.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, because in my dream, I'd switch to

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Speaker 1: the F one TV commentary feed, as you can do on.

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Speaker 2: You don't need a crystal borderside whether that's a good

943
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Speaker 2: idea or not. But I'm super interested in this because

944
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Speaker 2: it does show that at the end of a season

945
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Speaker 2: where you've done about forty million races, give or take,

946
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Speaker 2: you're a little bit delirious at this point in November.

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Speaker 2: So I do like the fact that work is invading

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Speaker 2: your subconscious in the rare time that a relatively new

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Speaker 2: father gets to sleep. But yeah, I'm more interested in

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Speaker 2: the soundtrack, and there's just a bit of oh dear

951
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Speaker 2: going on in the background when it all goes pair

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Speaker 2: shape for our Lando. So yeah, super interesting. And if

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Speaker 2: that happens, then I'm going to be mining whatever else

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Speaker 2: you dream and perhaps go to toab or something because

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Speaker 2: there could be something in that.

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Speaker 1: It will be very interesting. I'm more invested than usual

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Speaker 1: in the outcome of the next But that's all the time.

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Speaker 1: weekend is the Las Vegas Grand Prix. You'll like this, Matt.

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Speaker 1: The antipenultimate round of the Formula One season.

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Speaker 2: Oh, very good.

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Speaker 1: Qualifying is at a very comfortable three pm on Saturday,

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Speaker 1: and the race also at three pm on Sunday. That's

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