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Speaker 1: Shuie's wildlife and a start line burnout. How else do

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Speaker 1: we describe the Australian Grand Prix at Philip Island. Well,

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Speaker 1: i'm your host, Rinita Vanmullen, and of course we have

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Speaker 1: our very own Moto GP Dundee Matt Clayton, Matt, how

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Speaker 1: are ya? How was your Philip Island Moto GP experience?

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Speaker 2: It's funny, Brude, when you go through that intro, it

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Speaker 2: suddenly struck me that there were about fifteen completely bizarre

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Speaker 2: It was a pretty memorable one and in the end

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Speaker 2: the start line burnout that you were referring to actually

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Speaker 2: set the scene for a pretty fun race in the end,

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Speaker 2: because certainly in live and things on Sunday. But all

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Speaker 2: in all, a very very good Australian Grand Prix. But

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Speaker 2: what do you expect when you've got one of the best,

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Speaker 1: In the world.

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Speaker 2: It's always a pleasure to be down there, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: It's hard to not want to start talking about Mark

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Speaker 1: Let's build everything up for everyone. So we got on

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Speaker 1: the ground on Wednesday and it was sunny. It was beautiful,

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Speaker 1: Everybody was out and about. It was exciting. But what

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Speaker 1: But all those fans, we were sat in the media center,

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Speaker 2: Sure was the absolute best fans. And the thing is,

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Speaker 2: if you've been to Philip Island more than once, you

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Speaker 2: So I went from having my head burnt on Thursday

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Speaker 2: but that's my problem. But it's always a mixed bag

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Speaker 2: everyone went out there like it was the first lapse

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Speaker 2: and then we actually got a sprint away on the Saturday,

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Speaker 2: get the full box of weather down at Phillip Isolon.

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Speaker 2: We wouldn't have it any other way. And I do

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Speaker 2: And it could also rain a lot, so that's the

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Speaker 1: Well, we got the full weather experience, but Jack Miller

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Speaker 1: Poor Jack, he did not have a great weekend, Diddy.

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Speaker 2: Only Jack could have a weekend like this. And it's

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Speaker 2: my goodness, like if you're playing Jack Miller Catastrophe bingo,

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Speaker 1: My favorite quote from him on the weekend was, I

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Speaker 2: But only Jack would come up with something like that,

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Speaker 2: completely fine, Jack, I think you did a fantastic job

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Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about other happy riders on track and

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Speaker 1: I'm going to start with Jorge Martin. He was our

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Speaker 1: Oh you could see it on track even on Saturday afternoon.

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Speaker 1: Us having to get to experience it this year. And

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Speaker 2: to think of too many that have been better than that.

434
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Speaker 2: But look awesome, writer, fantastic at Philip Land absolutely rubbish

435
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Speaker 2: at reading the wind because if you look at where

436
00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:11,160
Speaker 2: the wind was going, it was going to know from

437
00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:13,199
Speaker 2: left to right on your TV screen. He threw the

438
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Speaker 2: tear off directly into the wind. That was his first mistake.

439
00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:19,480
Speaker 2: But the chances of that thing lodging underneath his rear

440
00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:23,320
Speaker 2: wheel a million to one, and he knew where it

441
00:20:23,359 --> 00:20:25,600
Speaker 2: had gone, and he was in this conundrum where I've

442
00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:27,639
Speaker 2: got to sleep the right height device of watching the

443
00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:30,000
Speaker 2: lights is everyone on the green. He's trying to work

444
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Speaker 2: out whether he kick this thing out of the way.

445
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Speaker 2: So he kind of knew what was going to happen

446
00:20:33,520 --> 00:20:36,680
Speaker 2: before the start, and afterwards he was saying he knew

447
00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:38,879
Speaker 2: it was bad, but he didn't know where he was.

448
00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:40,439
Speaker 2: And he got to turn one and he looked up

449
00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:42,600
Speaker 2: and he saw I was with Luca Marini and I

450
00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:44,920
Speaker 2: was with two yamahas. It's like, well, this isn't good

451
00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:46,959
Speaker 2: because if I'm down with these guys, I am a

452
00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:50,320
Speaker 2: long way down the pack. And then within what six

453
00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:53,240
Speaker 2: laps he was back in the podium fight and had

454
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Speaker 2: to use a heap of tire to get back into

455
00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:57,439
Speaker 2: that and figured he just had to deal with it

456
00:20:57,520 --> 00:21:01,080
Speaker 2: later in the race. So look, just an absolute masterclass.

457
00:21:01,119 --> 00:21:03,120
Speaker 2: We know how good he is there. I mean, he's

458
00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:05,640
Speaker 2: won there multiple times before, but if all the winds

459
00:21:05,720 --> 00:21:07,679
Speaker 2: he's had there and it's been a pretty special circuit

460
00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:11,200
Speaker 2: for him over the years. That was quite something because

461
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Speaker 2: I wasn't surprised that he won based on how good

462
00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:16,080
Speaker 2: he is there. I was super surprised that he won

463
00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:19,600
Speaker 2: in that way. But yeah, just a brilliant ride by

464
00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:23,560
Speaker 2: a brilliant rider. And look, Joge Martine was right at

465
00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:24,800
Speaker 2: the end of the race and that he said, well,

466
00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:26,600
Speaker 2: Mark didn't have anything to lose, so he could be

467
00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:28,600
Speaker 2: super aggressive with me and I had to think of

468
00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:30,960
Speaker 2: the championship a little bit, which is correct, But I

469
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Speaker 2: don't think there was any denying Mark on the weekend.

470
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Speaker 2: It was just an awesome performance.

471
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Speaker 1: Oh, hands down, it was an incredible race to watch

472
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Speaker 1: and like you just mentioned the tires there. Coming into

473
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Speaker 1: this weekend, we weren't sure what was going to happen

474
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Speaker 1: because the track had recently been resurfaced, and we knew

475
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Speaker 1: earlier in the year the superbikes they had to have

476
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Speaker 1: that mandatory pit stop because of the tire just chewing

477
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Speaker 1: through tires and everything. And then you hear Mark who

478
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Speaker 1: comes from all the way back to take the victory,

479
00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:01,159
Speaker 1: and you're thinking, well, it's a lot o races, twenty

480
00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:03,359
Speaker 1: seven laps the Australian Grand Prix and the lap time's

481
00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:06,639
Speaker 1: not short by any means, So how much was he

482
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Speaker 1: just going for it and maybe not even thinking about

483
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Speaker 1: the tire wear and tear.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think he would have been so shocked by

485
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Speaker 2: what happened off the line that all the pre race

486
00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:17,760
Speaker 2: plans pretty much went out the window, because there's no

487
00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:20,439
Speaker 2: point sitting in conserving tire for late in the race.

488
00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:23,200
Speaker 2: When you're sitting down in eighth, ninth, tenth. He knew

489
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Speaker 2: he had to get back towards the front as quickly

490
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Speaker 2: as he could, but he also knew that would come

491
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Speaker 2: at a price because he would not have the optimal

492
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Speaker 2: level of tile left for the end of the race,

493
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Speaker 2: So I think all the best laid plans that he

494
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Speaker 2: had before the race pretty much went out the window.

495
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Speaker 2: But I've written this before several times this year. I

496
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Speaker 2: think he's the best improviser on the grid and that

497
00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:45,080
Speaker 2: when things aren't going right, he just finds a way

498
00:22:45,359 --> 00:22:48,399
Speaker 2: because that's what he does. And you know, if anyone

499
00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:51,000
Speaker 2: was going to extract themselves from a situation like that,

500
00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:53,280
Speaker 2: it was going to be that rider on that circuit,

501
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Speaker 2: and certainly one of his more memorable wins anywhere, I would.

502
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Speaker 1: Think, well, let's talk about memorial podiums and memorable wins.

503
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Speaker 1: Up next, we have got joining us on the pod

504
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Speaker 1: is after his maiden World Championship podium position Moto two

505
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Speaker 1: writer Ozzie Who hero superstar Sena Ageous joining us. So,

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Speaker 1: guys stay tuned for exclusive chat with Sena Ageus. Alrighty,

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Speaker 1: Sena Ageus, fresh from your Australian home Grand Prix and

508
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Speaker 1: your first ever World Championship podium, how are you feeling?

509
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Speaker 1: But also has it sunk in yet that you have

510
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Speaker 1: still on a podium in a Moto too World Championship race?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, only just recently, like the last couple

512
00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:46,040
Speaker 4: of days. I think it's just because there's another race

513
00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:47,879
Speaker 4: coming up and you kind of don't want to forget

514
00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:50,720
Speaker 4: the last fun type thing, so everything needs to start

515
00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:52,960
Speaker 4: rolling forward and you just need to focus to try.

516
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Speaker 3: And do it again.

517
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Speaker 4: But I definitely didn't sink in the day after the race,

518
00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,720
Speaker 4: even so, it wasn't until I actually just got home

519
00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:03,439
Speaker 4: on Monday night and when my family rolled in from driving,

520
00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:04,880
Speaker 4: we all sat down and rewatched it.

521
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Speaker 3: So yeah, that was probably when it sunk in.

522
00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:09,359
Speaker 2: That was going to be my next question because I

523
00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:12,800
Speaker 2: wondered how many times you had rewatched it, because to

524
00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:15,040
Speaker 2: take you behind the curtain a little bit. Once you

525
00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:18,919
Speaker 2: got up to third, once Alonso Lopez had crashed, it

526
00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:20,600
Speaker 2: was a little bit too far away from you to

527
00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:23,080
Speaker 2: see what was going on. But Aldegare and Connett were

528
00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:25,120
Speaker 2: carving lubs out of each other on the last lap,

529
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Speaker 2: and we're all thinking it was going to be the

530
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Speaker 2: old Stephen Bradbury think where these two were going to

531
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Speaker 2: take each other off her two quarters from home. So

532
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Speaker 2: you had all the Spanish journals in the media center like, oh,

533
00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:35,000
Speaker 2: these guys are going to take each other out, and

534
00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:36,880
Speaker 2: all the Australians are like, go take each other out

535
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Speaker 2: have you fantastic? It was such a funny scene to

536
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Speaker 2: see what was going on. But I did want to

537
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Speaker 2: ask you about crossing the line. I love asking this

538
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Speaker 2: question of athletes when they've achieved like an amazing thing

539
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Speaker 2: in their career. You've got all this adrenaline, you realize

540
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Speaker 2: you're on the podium. What are you thinking, Like, what's

541
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Speaker 2: going through your head? Are you thinking of random people

542
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Speaker 2: that helped you along the way, or you think your

543
00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:03,760
Speaker 2: family or sacrifice that you know your folks made, or

544
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Speaker 2: something like this, This huge amount of emotion going through

545
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Speaker 2: your head take us on the in lap.

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Speaker 4: Honestly, I actually couldn't wait to get into park family

547
00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:16,440
Speaker 4: to see what my old man would say. Honestly, that's

548
00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:18,560
Speaker 4: actually probably one of the first things I thought of.

549
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Speaker 3: So family comes straight to mine.

550
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Speaker 4: And then I looked to my right and then all

551
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Speaker 4: the guys coming out of turn one like over the fence,

552
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Speaker 4: like throwing their shirts around and stuff. So it was like,

553
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Speaker 4: oh my god, like everyone's going to be so happy.

554
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Speaker 4: And then I just actually was just thinking a lot

555
00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:36,520
Speaker 4: about family. But whatever what was going on punching and

556
00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:38,639
Speaker 4: throwing things out of the line was just whatever was

557
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Speaker 4: happening in my body.

558
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Speaker 3: Nothing was you know, I just couldn't really believe it.

559
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Speaker 4: I was just checking the screen to make sure it

560
00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:45,840
Speaker 4: was all good, you know what I mean, nothing had changed,

561
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Speaker 4: so no, it was whatever was going at the minute.

562
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Speaker 4: But for sure, first thing was on my mind was

563
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Speaker 4: to see what my career had to say.

564
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Speaker 2: And also I mean, look, I know you know this

565
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Speaker 2: because you know how the sport works. But we were

566
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Speaker 2: just discussing before you came on the list of Ossie

567
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Speaker 2: Ride who've been on their home Grand Prix podium, Stoner, Gardner, Dowan, Miller, Vermuller,

568
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Speaker 2: not you, Ranita, the other Mula and West, Arthur's sisters,

569
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Speaker 2: Joel Kelso and now you. It's a pretty amazing group

570
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Speaker 2: to be part of after your not even full first

571
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Speaker 2: World Championship season. I mean that's something you'll never ever

572
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Speaker 2: forget to be part of that crew.

573
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Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure.

574
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Speaker 4: And it's actually cool that guys like Ant and Arthur

575
00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:29,000
Speaker 4: pulled one off as well. There's like a fair list

576
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Speaker 4: of us as well that have had some success down

577
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Speaker 4: at the Island. So that poster who I'm not sure

578
00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:36,360
Speaker 4: who made that thing on social media with like all

579
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Speaker 4: the photos of it that was sick.

580
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Speaker 3: That was a cool photo. So yeah, they told me

581
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Speaker 3: that in the broadcast.

582
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Speaker 4: I said as well, and I was like, yeah, I'm

583
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Speaker 4: pretty pretty proud to join the crew.

584
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah.

585
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Speaker 1: Talk us through the weekend back to the start, heading

586
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Speaker 1: into your first home Grand Prix. Was it did it

587
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Speaker 1: feel different for you? Were you more excited or did

588
00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:56,720
Speaker 1: it feel more stressful because you had a lot of

589
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Speaker 1: your friends and family there who have supported you for

590
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Speaker 1: so long? Does it feel like maybe you had a

591
00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:04,160
Speaker 1: bit more pressure to have to perform this weekend?

592
00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:08,800
Speaker 4: Honestly, I learned so much at the island because it

593
00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:14,800
Speaker 4: was the most time I've spent not doing my job ever,

594
00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:18,840
Speaker 4: so like, I did not I didn't see my guys

595
00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:22,560
Speaker 4: until about midday. I quickly popped in the box at

596
00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:25,479
Speaker 4: about six o'clock in the evening most days just to

597
00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:27,959
Speaker 4: do like a little debrief of the day. Other than that,

598
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Speaker 4: I was doing events so like, and I felt at

599
00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:33,720
Speaker 4: the most ad ease of all the GP events I've done,

600
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Speaker 4: So like, when I look at it, do I maybe

601
00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:38,480
Speaker 4: overcomplicate the ones that are not as hyped up, like

602
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:41,320
Speaker 4: because you're in a like obviously these overseas races, I

603
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:42,920
Speaker 4: got nothing to do with the country or anything that

604
00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:45,400
Speaker 4: I'm racing, and I've just in with my guys or

605
00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:48,160
Speaker 4: looking at my looking at the timesheeting all the data

606
00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:50,199
Speaker 4: you can get from the PDF, so you're always just

607
00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:52,040
Speaker 4: in the racing mode and you don't really switch off.

608
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Speaker 3: We're in for the violin. I was doing some of

609
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:53,800
Speaker 3: the other things.

610
00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:56,320
Speaker 4: I kind of forgot about what was happening, and for me,

611
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Speaker 4: it comes with way less stress, so like I'm actually

612
00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:01,159
Speaker 4: kind of just looking at that we can go okay,

613
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:03,520
Speaker 4: like there's a couple of interesting things. So I just

614
00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:05,879
Speaker 4: had so much going on that it I just forgot

615
00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:08,280
Speaker 4: if I had a bad session or honestly, I had

616
00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:09,400
Speaker 4: good I was had good.

617
00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:10,359
Speaker 3: Speed all weekend, which helps.

618
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Speaker 4: If I was not competitive, then of course I'd be

619
00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:15,880
Speaker 4: like being a bit worried, But no, I just had

620
00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:16,879
Speaker 4: some other things going on.

621
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Speaker 3: But strangely enough brought a sense of calmness.

622
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Speaker 4: Especially because all the pr eventually doing with the people,

623
00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:25,040
Speaker 4: you know, all the people or the fans are Australians,

624
00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:29,240
Speaker 4: or even the homecoming right on Thursday, seeing so many

625
00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:31,520
Speaker 4: fans over at scen Remo. It's just it was just

626
00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:34,520
Speaker 4: an amazing experience for me. So yeah, come with a

627
00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:35,480
Speaker 4: new sense of calmness.

628
00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:38,760
Speaker 2: I guess, well, in so much positivity as well, like, yeah,

629
00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:41,120
Speaker 2: you're busy, but it's all positive busy.

630
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:42,440
Speaker 3: And you know, it gives you a.

631
00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:44,200
Speaker 2: Bit of a boost of energy as well. But that'll

632
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:46,680
Speaker 2: be interesting actually, because you're in a pretty busy time

633
00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:48,480
Speaker 2: of the season right now with this triple header. But

634
00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:50,680
Speaker 2: maybe at the end of it you might sort of

635
00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:52,760
Speaker 2: turn around and look back and go, you know, maybe

636
00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:54,920
Speaker 2: I might overthink some aspects of the weekend.

637
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:56,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, I have changed.

638
00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:59,120
Speaker 2: The way that you work. But on that overthinking part,

639
00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:01,440
Speaker 2: what was into just about the race was that you

640
00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:04,239
Speaker 2: got up to fourth about halfway through, once you got

641
00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:07,840
Speaker 2: past a Gura and obviously he's got bigger things on

642
00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:09,640
Speaker 2: his plate at the moment, where he's got a championship

643
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:11,800
Speaker 2: to try and win, and so you're in this kind

644
00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:14,720
Speaker 2: of weird race where it was you versus the track

645
00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:18,400
Speaker 2: and not necessarily going super well to will with guys,

646
00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:21,080
Speaker 2: and the podium was ahead of you, but it wasn't

647
00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:23,760
Speaker 2: quite there. So when you've got more time to think

648
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:25,640
Speaker 2: in that situation, you just got to get your head down,

649
00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:29,600
Speaker 2: I'm assuming, but did you see that you were getting

650
00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:32,800
Speaker 2: towards Alonzo Lopez at that point because the gap did

651
00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:35,280
Speaker 2: come down pretty significantly, but he needed to help you

652
00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:37,400
Speaker 2: to get on the podium. Talk us through that last

653
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:38,800
Speaker 2: sort of third of the race because you were kind

654
00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:40,520
Speaker 2: of racing by yourself to a degree there.

655
00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:45,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was just when I passed a Gura finally

656
00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:47,760
Speaker 4: got past him, I was like, Okay, you're going to

657
00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:49,600
Speaker 4: be pushing your own wind. There's definitely going to be

658
00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:51,800
Speaker 4: a train behind you, so just you cannot make mistakes.

659
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:53,960
Speaker 4: And of course on the first couple ups breaking and

660
00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:56,600
Speaker 4: to all the hairpins as you're hitting the apex, you

661
00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:58,480
Speaker 4: can hear the other guys getting on the throttle, like

662
00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:00,880
Speaker 4: in your peripheral areas, I'm lucky. Okay, everyone's still there.

663
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:03,360
Speaker 4: Everyone's still there and just trying to not make mistakes.

664
00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:06,480
Speaker 4: But I was thinking that. I was like, I looked

665
00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:08,880
Speaker 4: at the lap times we were doing, and the lap

666
00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:11,240
Speaker 4: time the guest lap time that we had in our

667
00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:13,920
Speaker 4: plan of what we needed to achieve to not destroy

668
00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:16,680
Speaker 4: the tire was way slower than what we did. So

669
00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:19,360
Speaker 4: I was behind I doing lap times going like I

670
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:21,160
Speaker 4: feel like this is easy, but I'm scared.

671
00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:22,920
Speaker 3: Is this like it?

672
00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:25,360
Speaker 4: I'm scared because am I destroying the tire without me

673
00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:27,400
Speaker 4: even knowing it. So when I passed him, I'm like,

674
00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:29,240
Speaker 4: just try and keep it, And then I just kept

675
00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:31,480
Speaker 4: doing faster lap times and then I'm on board, I'm

676
00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:34,240
Speaker 4: growing a gap and I'm like, tire still feels okay,

677
00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:36,280
Speaker 4: because you've got to remember we had no dry time,

678
00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:38,400
Speaker 4: so and Perelli were saying to us there will be

679
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:40,760
Speaker 4: a massive problem. Like Perelli, we even, I think at

680
00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:43,120
Speaker 4: one point even thinking about just making everyone run the

681
00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:46,960
Speaker 4: hard tire mandatory because everyone's quality tires started eating themselves

682
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:50,640
Speaker 4: in a couple of laps. So in our team especially,

683
00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:54,000
Speaker 4: we were so worried, and we had like an ideal

684
00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:56,840
Speaker 4: lap time that we wanted to achieve consistently that would

685
00:30:56,840 --> 00:30:59,640
Speaker 4: be safe for the tire and when we'll wait under that.

686
00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:01,040
Speaker 3: I was so worried. So when I just I just

687
00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:01,560
Speaker 3: run with it.

688
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:03,960
Speaker 4: I like my first line lap when I was in

689
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:06,920
Speaker 4: front of a girl pushed my wind catching Alonso, it

690
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:09,000
Speaker 4: was like four tenths quicker than I did all raised

691
00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:10,760
Speaker 4: and then the next that was the same lap time,

692
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:12,800
Speaker 4: same lap time, same lat time. So I'm like, okay,

693
00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:15,720
Speaker 4: that's it, You've gone that's it, Like, I can't think

694
00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:17,560
Speaker 4: about saving the tie now because I'm not going to

695
00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:19,640
Speaker 4: catch him, and then they're just going to start catching

696
00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:20,000
Speaker 4: me again.

697
00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:21,400
Speaker 3: So I kind of just went at one point and

698
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:23,719
Speaker 3: said this is this will is what it will be.

699
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:26,200
Speaker 4: And yeah, I kept that thirty one, three, thirty one

700
00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:29,000
Speaker 4: and four going to the end, and I was catching Alonso,

701
00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:30,280
Speaker 4: but I couldn't quite.

702
00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:32,760
Speaker 3: I could see he'd react because you could see his

703
00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:35,480
Speaker 3: margin shrinking, which put pressure on him.

704
00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:37,800
Speaker 4: But there was at some point there where he reacted

705
00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:39,400
Speaker 4: and I was only pulling two or three tenths a lap,

706
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:40,840
Speaker 4: so the gap kind of comes stale.

707
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:42,520
Speaker 3: And then when he went down, I'm.

708
00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:45,560
Speaker 4: Like, okay, just don't don't crash this motorile, Like I

709
00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:48,600
Speaker 4: do not fuck this up. So that's that's really what happened.

710
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:51,280
Speaker 4: But it was it was quite a strange race.

711
00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:54,000
Speaker 3: Sorry, I just.

712
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:56,480
Speaker 1: Can't believe that you've just sworn on the Fox Sports podcast,

713
00:31:56,520 --> 00:32:01,760
Speaker 1: so we'll happen to bleep that out. But Okay, this weekend,

714
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:06,840
Speaker 1: you had a really cool special livery or you're honoring someone.

715
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:09,240
Speaker 1: Can you tell us a little bit about that design

716
00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:11,280
Speaker 1: and the process of coming up with that This for

717
00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:12,640
Speaker 1: the Australian Grand Prix.

718
00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:16,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, like when the helmet my helmet company

719
00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:20,600
Speaker 4: or sponsor, Elis two said to me like they really

720
00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:23,280
Speaker 4: wanted me because I didn't actually have a plan to

721
00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:26,080
Speaker 4: do anything special. Honestly, we had so little time during

722
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:28,280
Speaker 4: the year to think about it. So when they said, oh,

723
00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:30,240
Speaker 4: we're gonna you have to do it for us, it's

724
00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:31,960
Speaker 4: good for marketing, blah blah blah, and I said, Okay,

725
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:34,200
Speaker 4: I'm not passing up that opportunity. So when I got

726
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:36,680
Speaker 4: the opportunity to do it, I was just was, honestly

727
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:38,120
Speaker 4: in my own thoughts for a couple of weeks, I

728
00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:40,840
Speaker 4: couldn't think of something to do as silly as it sounds, like,

729
00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:43,080
Speaker 4: I'm proud to be Aussie, but I didn't want to

730
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:45,800
Speaker 4: just slap something so boring the Australian on my helmet,

731
00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:48,560
Speaker 4: like the flag or whatever. And one animal in the

732
00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:50,320
Speaker 4: end is exactly what happened.

733
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:51,680
Speaker 3: But a bit of a different way.

734
00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:56,000
Speaker 4: So I kind of just thought, Okay, what's cool about

735
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:57,800
Speaker 4: Philip Bail And the first thing that come to mind

736
00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:00,400
Speaker 4: was watching Casey right there, So I'm like, okay, I

737
00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:02,960
Speaker 4: met Casey last year. I have a bit of a

738
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:05,479
Speaker 4: relationship with him a small friendship. So I was like,

739
00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:07,720
Speaker 4: you know what, let's pick one of my favorite moments,

740
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:09,840
Speaker 4: which was that Chacaddy two thousand and nine era that

741
00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:11,920
Speaker 4: all those colors and vibes of that one off and

742
00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:15,320
Speaker 4: I said, okay, let's see if he's keen. So I

743
00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:18,360
Speaker 4: got the permission to take his boots and gloves and

744
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:22,440
Speaker 4: we actually created that helmet together. He was quite busy

745
00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:25,600
Speaker 4: organizing I think his stuff Ikma and stuff like that

746
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:27,200
Speaker 4: that he's doing it they on that beata, so he

747
00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:29,960
Speaker 4: was quite busy, so I couldn't really design the whole

748
00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:32,480
Speaker 4: thing with him, but I had many sketches and templates

749
00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:35,520
Speaker 4: drown and we would just send things fire what's up

750
00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:37,760
Speaker 4: through over to him and Andrew and they would tell

751
00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:39,720
Speaker 4: me what they did and didn't like, and we ended

752
00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:42,080
Speaker 4: up coming out with what we had on Saturday. So

753
00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:44,960
Speaker 4: it come out unreal and I think everybody loved it.

754
00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:47,280
Speaker 2: Well, if you're going to do a tribute to any

755
00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:49,480
Speaker 2: Australian writer of Philippil and you picked the right one

756
00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:52,240
Speaker 2: because he didn't tend to finish it at the other

757
00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:54,880
Speaker 2: the first in that place. But Cent, I'm conscious of

758
00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:56,360
Speaker 2: your time, so I'm going to sleep one more in

759
00:33:56,400 --> 00:34:00,000
Speaker 2: before Ronita raps this. But the twenty four hours after

760
00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:02,560
Speaker 2: you get your first World Championship podium, I didn't even

761
00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:04,560
Speaker 2: want to know how many texts and messages and what

762
00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:07,760
Speaker 2: have you got? But who was that person that came

763
00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:10,279
Speaker 2: to you or messaged you or got in touch with

764
00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:12,320
Speaker 2: the family where you just think, I can't believe this

765
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:14,759
Speaker 2: is actually happening, because I'm sure pretty much everyone in

766
00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:16,440
Speaker 2: your contact list has got in touch with you in

767
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:17,280
Speaker 2: the past four days.

768
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:21,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, you just come in just getting a small

769
00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:24,719
Speaker 4: message from Casey, especially saying that he is happy for

770
00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:27,120
Speaker 4: me and stuff like that. So that was something's something cool,

771
00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:30,080
Speaker 4: especially with running the kit that we did. So he's

772
00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:33,960
Speaker 4: probably the probably the best message I've received, But equally

773
00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:37,200
Speaker 4: as much just my following and my friends, a lot

774
00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:39,719
Speaker 4: of like school friends and stuff like that, Guys that

775
00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:42,399
Speaker 4: don't normally get to raise me, or people like one

776
00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:43,920
Speaker 4: of people that went down to the island that have

777
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:46,200
Speaker 4: never seen me race before, people like that, seeing them

778
00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:50,719
Speaker 4: so happy, and yeah, just my normal people just being

779
00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:52,040
Speaker 4: so excited for me.

780
00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:53,520
Speaker 3: Especially it's just.

781
00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:56,200
Speaker 4: Really cool that I was already stoked that people that

782
00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:58,040
Speaker 4: don't get to see me overseas. Got to be there

783
00:34:58,080 --> 00:35:00,400
Speaker 4: and then to be there on that weekend was just

784
00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:02,640
Speaker 4: like a bit of a fairy tale ending. Other than

785
00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:05,240
Speaker 4: getting the win, that was quite special.

786
00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:06,799
Speaker 3: All right.

787
00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:09,680
Speaker 1: So you're in the middle now of a triple header.

788
00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:13,560
Speaker 1: You're in Thailand currently. How are you feeling going into

789
00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:15,640
Speaker 1: this Grand Prix and I guess the rest of the year.

790
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:17,680
Speaker 1: Are you feeling more confident now you've kind of got

791
00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:20,400
Speaker 1: that podium under your belt? And is this a circuit

792
00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:22,760
Speaker 1: I guess that you like? Or have you ridden here before?

793
00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:27,560
Speaker 3: I wrote here six six years ago the Asia Talent Cup.

794
00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:31,239
Speaker 4: Same with Qatar, but I'm just referencing it to then

795
00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:33,520
Speaker 4: because this year in Qatar, I started from zero. I

796
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:36,160
Speaker 4: don't didn't remember nothing, and okay, this track's a lot

797
00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:38,480
Speaker 4: more simple than that place. But I've been in the

798
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:41,520
Speaker 4: country before, I've ridden around the track, but this machine

799
00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:45,200
Speaker 4: is so different. So just have to just start again

800
00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:46,960
Speaker 4: on Friday, more or lesson so where we are, but

801
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:52,280
Speaker 4: just hoping that you know, we've gone from having really

802
00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:54,279
Speaker 4: good speed and such a great feeling on the bike

803
00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:56,920
Speaker 4: and then he had a really tough round in Japan

804
00:35:57,040 --> 00:35:58,480
Speaker 4: and then all of a sudden we're on the podium,

805
00:35:58,520 --> 00:36:02,120
Speaker 4: it's been lumpy, and like, deep down, I've just hoped

806
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:04,560
Speaker 4: that we've learned something in these last three weeks have

807
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:07,200
Speaker 4: been really important. We've just felt amazing on the bike,

808
00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:09,600
Speaker 4: and we felt totally terrible on the bike, so we've

809
00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:11,360
Speaker 4: done it, been doing a lot of analyzing. We're just

810
00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:13,799
Speaker 4: not going with the wind like I. As much as

811
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:16,520
Speaker 4: I loved being on the podium, it's such a mad

812
00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:19,040
Speaker 4: turnaround from how I felt in the bike seven days prior.

813
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:21,160
Speaker 4: So there's a lot of learning going on at the moment.

814
00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:23,680
Speaker 4: So I think we just need to find really learn

815
00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:26,480
Speaker 4: what's working and what's not, and trying to find trends

816
00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:29,120
Speaker 4: in different circuits and settings and try and find something

817
00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:31,040
Speaker 4: that's more stable for the last half of the year

818
00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:33,440
Speaker 4: because I've shown that if it comes together for me

819
00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:37,279
Speaker 4: that I can perform. So yeah, I'm just hoping to

820
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:38,480
Speaker 4: just try and be consistent.

821
00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:38,719
Speaker 3: Now.

822
00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:41,960
Speaker 1: Awesome, well, Santa, We wish you all the best of

823
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:43,719
Speaker 1: the remainder of the season. Thank you so much for

824
00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:46,960
Speaker 1: jumping on the pod, and we can't wait to see

825
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:50,040
Speaker 1: you hopefully take that w this weekend or in the

826
00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:51,760
Speaker 1: remainder of the twenty twenty four season.

827
00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:54,440
Speaker 3: Thanks guys.

828
00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:58,600
Speaker 1: Well, Matt, that was a really interesting interview. It's so

829
00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:01,839
Speaker 1: funny hearing it from a different point of view. Is

830
00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:06,320
Speaker 1: some writers, I guess, are really excited and exuberant and

831
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:08,719
Speaker 1: maybe feel like a home grownd Prix is almost a

832
00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:12,200
Speaker 1: little bit more stressful for them than a European race.

833
00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:14,840
Speaker 1: But by the sounds like it, he's just super calm

834
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:16,399
Speaker 1: and casual all weekend, right.

835
00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:20,440
Speaker 2: It's interesting what pressure does to athletes in their home

836
00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:23,040
Speaker 2: Grand Prix or event or whatever it might be. When

837
00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:25,239
Speaker 2: you're on an international stage. You know, tennis players playing

838
00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:27,239
Speaker 2: in the Australian Open that are Australians, all that sort

839
00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:30,040
Speaker 2: of thing. Pressure can be a privilege, it could also

840
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:32,719
Speaker 2: be a burden for some people. And you look at

841
00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:35,919
Speaker 2: the way some of the Ossie guys in the World

842
00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:38,400
Speaker 2: Championship handle the pressure of racing at home. They do

843
00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:40,440
Speaker 2: see it as a privilege. We were talking before about

844
00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:43,440
Speaker 2: just how available Jack Millery is and trying to be

845
00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:45,480
Speaker 2: everything for the fans, and you know, obviously Chris was

846
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:46,959
Speaker 2: really good at that when he was in the game

847
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:50,000
Speaker 2: as well. So it's just cool to it's just cool

848
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:52,600
Speaker 2: to see that that pressure brings out the best in people.

849
00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:54,799
Speaker 2: And you know, the last two years at philip Island

850
00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:57,440
Speaker 2: we've had two ossies take their first World Championship podiums,

851
00:37:57,440 --> 00:37:59,719
Speaker 2: with Joel Kelso at now center, so I guess it's

852
00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:01,080
Speaker 2: working pretty well for those guys.

853
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:04,279
Speaker 1: Well, let's talk on Moto three as well. So, like

854
00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:07,120
Speaker 1: you said, Joel Kelso last year had a super awesome

855
00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:09,800
Speaker 1: race and this weekend, even in the race he was

856
00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:12,200
Speaker 1: leading for multiple laps. But it seems like we're seeing

857
00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:15,080
Speaker 1: a very similar story with Joel. Right, he's strong at

858
00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 1: the beginning of the race and then something happens and

859
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:21,200
Speaker 1: he just seems to drop back. What's your take on

860
00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:21,960
Speaker 1: his weekend?

861
00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:24,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, this was a bit of a different one I

862
00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:26,840
Speaker 2: think for Joel, and it sometimes it's a performance issue

863
00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:28,640
Speaker 2: later in the race and just can't quite hang with

864
00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:31,080
Speaker 2: that front pack. But he got sat up pretty severely

865
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:33,600
Speaker 2: at turned two about halfway through the race. And you

866
00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:35,600
Speaker 2: know what Moto three's like at philip Iland, Like, if

867
00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 2: you get out of the pack at Philipilo, it's super

868
00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:41,560
Speaker 2: hard to catch up because most philip Ilo Motor three

869
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:43,960
Speaker 2: races tend to be a huge pack disputing things over

870
00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:46,239
Speaker 2: on the last lap. So unfortunate for Joel that he

871
00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:49,040
Speaker 2: got pushed back. But one thing we did see was

872
00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:52,920
Speaker 2: all the hype about David Alonzo. It's pretty justified because

873
00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:55,239
Speaker 2: he won a Motor three race. You don't see Motor

874
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:57,879
Speaker 2: three races one like that at Philip Island and he

875
00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:02,720
Speaker 2: was absolutely awesome on Sunday and to equal that Rossi

876
00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:05,920
Speaker 2: record from nineteen ninety seven eleven wins in a single

877
00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:08,640
Speaker 2: season in a category as crazyly tight as that is,

878
00:39:09,239 --> 00:39:12,759
Speaker 2: he's the next guy like, he's clearly got it. And

879
00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:15,600
Speaker 2: the post race celebration with his head taped up like

880
00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:19,200
Speaker 2: Valentino in nineteen ninety seven was gold. That was absolutely fantastic.

881
00:39:19,239 --> 00:39:21,600
Speaker 2: So he's got a good sense of humor too. The

882
00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:24,080
Speaker 2: celebrations are becoming better and better by the race. I think.

883
00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:27,080
Speaker 1: I think it's something that we're all excited about with

884
00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:29,319
Speaker 1: him moving up and progressing, as we haven't seen a

885
00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:33,040
Speaker 1: character like Valentino until Pedro started to make his way through,

886
00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:35,400
Speaker 1: and we don't really have that Inmoto GP. So to

887
00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:38,920
Speaker 1: see David Alonzo, I guess replicating that and speaking to

888
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:41,160
Speaker 1: him on the weekend talking about, you know, when he

889
00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:44,239
Speaker 1: won the championship or even like his post ray celebrations

890
00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:47,839
Speaker 1: on the Uni cycle. It's so exciting and it's nice

891
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:49,960
Speaker 1: to have a character back in the sport because it

892
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:52,640
Speaker 1: helps the storyline. It helps everybody kind of get to

893
00:39:52,680 --> 00:39:54,160
Speaker 1: know who that person is, right.

894
00:39:54,719 --> 00:39:56,600
Speaker 2: Well, he's got the combination of the character and the

895
00:39:56,640 --> 00:39:58,799
Speaker 2: talent right and some people have got too much of

896
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:00,680
Speaker 2: one and not enough of the other. He's clearly got

897
00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:03,560
Speaker 2: it both. And Moto two, as Senna knows, could be

898
00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:05,480
Speaker 2: a bit of a jungle for guys coming up from

899
00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:07,319
Speaker 2: Moto three. You see if you guys flame out when

900
00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:10,839
Speaker 2: they get there, but I'd be very surprised if he does.

901
00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:15,160
Speaker 2: He looks like a Motor GP front runner in waiting.

902
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:18,000
Speaker 2: He's so young still, and you know, I think you

903
00:40:18,040 --> 00:40:20,719
Speaker 2: look at the way he rides too. His whole advantage

904
00:40:20,719 --> 00:40:22,799
Speaker 2: of the guys in Moto three is late breaking and

905
00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:24,080
Speaker 2: that's only going to help you when he gets to

906
00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:26,280
Speaker 2: the bigger bikes and the heavier bikes, Like he's clearly

907
00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:28,320
Speaker 2: got something. So looking forward to see where.

908
00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:31,040
Speaker 1: He goes, and also looking forward to seeing how Jacob

909
00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:33,919
Speaker 1: Wilstone does for the remainder of the season. Obviously next year,

910
00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:38,160
Speaker 1: but Matt having his grandma on the grid wasn't that

911
00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:39,240
Speaker 1: just so sweet?

912
00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:41,279
Speaker 2: I knew you were going to go there. That was

913
00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:43,560
Speaker 2: so cool. I hadn't realized it at the time. I

914
00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:45,279
Speaker 2: sort of saw the grid and went, Okay, I'm not

915
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:46,920
Speaker 2: sure who that is, but that's fine. I'm sure we'll

916
00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:48,600
Speaker 2: find out. But you love that, didn't you?

917
00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:49,279
Speaker 3: I did.

918
00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:52,000
Speaker 1: It's so nice just to see, like obviously talking with

919
00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:54,399
Speaker 1: Senna having his whole family there, Jack had his whole

920
00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:57,960
Speaker 1: family there, and obviously Jacob and Joel same thing. And

921
00:40:58,040 --> 00:41:00,560
Speaker 1: it's a big deal for these guys, especially your first

922
00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:03,560
Speaker 1: home Grand Prix, and obviously his grandparents must have been

923
00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:06,400
Speaker 1: a huge, I guess guiding role in his life. So

924
00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:08,520
Speaker 1: to have that, I feel like he's a way to

925
00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:10,319
Speaker 1: give back and to say thank you. It was really

926
00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:13,239
Speaker 1: really nice. Even though he didn't have the qualifying that

927
00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:16,080
Speaker 1: he needed, didn't necessarily get the results that I guess

928
00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:17,759
Speaker 1: he was hoping for. I think it was still a

929
00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:21,000
Speaker 1: positive takeaway for Jacob this weekend.

930
00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:23,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, agree, I think. You know, he had a couple

931
00:41:23,239 --> 00:41:25,759
Speaker 2: of pretty rough ones outside the points coming into Australia,

932
00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:28,280
Speaker 2: so to you know, never even been to an Australian

933
00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:30,480
Speaker 2: Grand Prix before a little one competing one. So to

934
00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:33,320
Speaker 2: have a better weekend, be around family, say thanks to

935
00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:35,040
Speaker 2: some people that got in there in the first place.

936
00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:38,359
Speaker 2: So some good memories from him and hopefully that means

937
00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:40,239
Speaker 2: that Thailand this weekend is a little bit better.

938
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:44,680
Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about Thailand, and let's bring Senna back

939
00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:47,399
Speaker 1: into the chat to talk all about his first Tai

940
00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:50,239
Speaker 1: Grand Prix. Actually, to be honest, he hasn't actually left

941
00:41:50,239 --> 00:41:52,400
Speaker 1: the chat. He's just been sitting quietly in the corner.

942
00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:54,479
Speaker 1: But we can bring him back on now. So sona

943
00:41:54,680 --> 00:41:58,319
Speaker 1: come back in talk to us TI Grand Prix. So

944
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:01,080
Speaker 1: looking at the Brembo report, it's a little bit of

945
00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:03,560
Speaker 1: a harder breaking for the Moto GP guys, Is it

946
00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:05,200
Speaker 1: the same for you in Moto two?

947
00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:08,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, ninety nine percent. Sure.

948
00:42:08,520 --> 00:42:11,120
Speaker 4: We will go from the three oh five to the

949
00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:14,040
Speaker 4: three fifteen discs. We will put the air ducks back on,

950
00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:16,320
Speaker 4: stuff like that, just to try and get some breaking

951
00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:21,480
Speaker 4: stability going on, especially with the heat different like Japan,

952
00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:23,520
Speaker 4: we have to in Australia we want run big breaks,

953
00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:27,160
Speaker 4: but because of the temperature it's not so bad where

954
00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:29,560
Speaker 4: I think it's even a bit more crucial with all

955
00:42:29,640 --> 00:42:34,200
Speaker 4: the temperature, especially flip breakthrough and stuff like that, So yeah,

956
00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:35,960
Speaker 4: I didn't really know what to expect. We have some

957
00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:39,359
Speaker 4: more standardized tires in the allocation, especially for Moto two.

958
00:42:40,040 --> 00:42:41,640
Speaker 4: The tires that we were on last week were like

959
00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:45,080
Speaker 4: tires we've never even we've never even written on spun

960
00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:47,279
Speaker 4: laps on before. So we have some more standard tiers

961
00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:49,320
Speaker 4: back in the allocation, which is a bit more familiar,

962
00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:50,520
Speaker 4: and back to.

963
00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:53,040
Speaker 3: A super hot track surface like we.

964
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:55,719
Speaker 4: Had in Indonesia, so in these Asian countries, So yeah,

965
00:42:55,719 --> 00:42:56,600
Speaker 4: I'm looking forward to it.

966
00:42:58,480 --> 00:43:00,840
Speaker 2: How much do you have to modify your center for

967
00:43:00,880 --> 00:43:02,839
Speaker 2: a place like this because we know the ambient there's

968
00:43:03,080 --> 00:43:05,200
Speaker 2: super super hot, and the way that track is like

969
00:43:05,239 --> 00:43:07,680
Speaker 2: you were saying, like you know a lot of really

970
00:43:07,680 --> 00:43:11,080
Speaker 2: heart breaking, it's pretty physically taxing one. So what do

971
00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:13,200
Speaker 2: you have to do to sort of modify you or

972
00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:16,439
Speaker 2: you prepare for Sunday because that's doing forty five minutes

973
00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:18,279
Speaker 2: on a track like that, particularly if you're at a pack,

974
00:43:18,440 --> 00:43:19,799
Speaker 2: that's no picnic, is it.

975
00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:25,239
Speaker 4: I started heat training, adding heat training adaptation training to

976
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:29,120
Speaker 4: my program about a month before Indonesia, so three sessions

977
00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:31,879
Speaker 4: a week, and that was they were just trip fed

978
00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:33,200
Speaker 4: into my normal program.

979
00:43:33,239 --> 00:43:34,600
Speaker 3: So of an evening before dinner.

980
00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:38,920
Speaker 4: I would, yeah, get put my Heat Act session in there,

981
00:43:38,920 --> 00:43:42,000
Speaker 4: which would just consist of like a refined space with

982
00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:44,680
Speaker 4: a humidifier and replicate dry or wet heat.

983
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:47,160
Speaker 3: So I've done a little bit of both.

984
00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:49,680
Speaker 4: So you do one where you're sweating and stuff like that,

985
00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:51,400
Speaker 4: or you do one where you make the room like

986
00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:53,200
Speaker 4: really dry or like like you know what I mean,

987
00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:56,400
Speaker 4: like jungly steamy, or make it just barren hot. So

988
00:43:56,920 --> 00:44:00,040
Speaker 4: like for example, Aragon was just sun hot, like no,

989
00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:03,319
Speaker 4: not humidity, but just playing somewhere these Asian countries, it's

990
00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:07,239
Speaker 4: like a it's different. So I personally just do it

991
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:10,120
Speaker 4: for peace of mind, just to see me getting physically fitter.

992
00:44:10,440 --> 00:44:12,759
Speaker 4: And at the beginning you are terrible, Like you think

993
00:44:12,800 --> 00:44:14,400
Speaker 4: you're a fit guy, but you put yourself in a

994
00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:18,759
Speaker 4: respined space with that heat, your efficiency sucks. So once

995
00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:20,439
Speaker 4: you start that, it's a big slap in the face.

996
00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:22,719
Speaker 4: But if you can just feel ten percent better on

997
00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:25,880
Speaker 4: that in those letters on Sunday, then it's so much easier.

998
00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:27,759
Speaker 4: So yeah, I've been doing that for a while now,

999
00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:29,759
Speaker 4: so it's important. You can't really just do it. Oh

1000
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:31,600
Speaker 4: there's a heat a hot race coming up.

1001
00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:31,960
Speaker 3: Next week.

1002
00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:34,600
Speaker 4: Let's just try and do something stupid or use the

1003
00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:36,719
Speaker 4: sauna or something like that. It's a bit more complicated

1004
00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:38,799
Speaker 4: if you want to take it seriously. But I don't

1005
00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:40,400
Speaker 4: know if all writers do, but I certainly do.

1006
00:44:41,280 --> 00:44:43,040
Speaker 1: It's funny you said that. I was just thinking back

1007
00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:45,440
Speaker 1: to when Chris was racing and he would always come

1008
00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:49,680
Speaker 1: back to Australia before the Asian rounds. And where we

1009
00:44:49,719 --> 00:44:51,960
Speaker 1: live on the Sunshine Coast is very tropical climate. It's

1010
00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:53,840
Speaker 1: a very humid and my brother used to go running

1011
00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:55,600
Speaker 1: in the middle of the day, the hottest part of

1012
00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:58,799
Speaker 1: the day for that reason, that exact reason, purely just

1013
00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:01,000
Speaker 1: to get your body more A client matized and used

1014
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:06,280
Speaker 1: to it. So it's interesting, how I guess for an athlete,

1015
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:08,120
Speaker 1: you think, like you said, you think you're at a

1016
00:45:08,120 --> 00:45:10,759
Speaker 1: certain level, but then you change conditions, you change something else,

1017
00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:13,120
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, you could be completely elsewhere.

1018
00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:16,719
Speaker 1: But let's also talk about Moto GP this weekend. So

1019
00:45:16,719 --> 00:45:19,120
Speaker 1: that's obviously what we're previewing, because you're obviously going to

1020
00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:21,320
Speaker 1: take the w So that's fine, We've got you covered.

1021
00:45:21,560 --> 00:45:25,040
Speaker 1: But what about Moto GP. Do you think Mark Marquez

1022
00:45:25,120 --> 00:45:28,120
Speaker 1: is going to continue his solid run, or do you

1023
00:45:28,160 --> 00:45:30,759
Speaker 1: think that Jugey and Peco are going to maybe get

1024
00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:33,560
Speaker 1: back a bit closer to the title fight but have

1025
00:45:33,680 --> 00:45:38,600
Speaker 1: a little bit more of a reserve race on them.

1026
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:41,080
Speaker 4: I think it's going to be between Mark and Peco

1027
00:45:41,160 --> 00:45:43,920
Speaker 4: this weekend. They are probably the two best breakers on

1028
00:45:43,960 --> 00:45:48,080
Speaker 4: the calend on on the in motor GP. Peko's unbelievable

1029
00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:50,319
Speaker 4: on corner entry and Mark looks stronger than every one

1030
00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:54,640
Speaker 4: quarter entry. So I believe it'll be between them two

1031
00:45:54,719 --> 00:45:57,799
Speaker 4: this weekend. Mark stun some incredible races here on even

1032
00:45:57,880 --> 00:46:02,200
Speaker 4: uncompetitive machinery, let's say so, Yeah, I believe Mark.

1033
00:46:03,120 --> 00:46:04,920
Speaker 3: My money's back on Mark. I think he's got the

1034
00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:05,600
Speaker 3: taste for it now.

1035
00:46:05,640 --> 00:46:09,719
Speaker 4: I think he's hungry, so yeah, I think you know,

1036
00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:12,480
Speaker 4: Peko's still obviously got got the championship in mind and

1037
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:13,000
Speaker 4: stuff like that.

1038
00:46:13,160 --> 00:46:14,799
Speaker 3: So with my team, so I.

1039
00:46:14,719 --> 00:46:17,000
Speaker 4: Think there's pressure in all different ways on each of

1040
00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:20,799
Speaker 4: them in a sense, So I'll put my money on Mark.

1041
00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:24,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting the thing you just mentioned about Peko

1042
00:46:24,560 --> 00:46:26,799
Speaker 2: there is kind of why I think this might be

1043
00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:28,759
Speaker 2: a Peco weekend just the nature of the track. You

1044
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:31,279
Speaker 2: look back at the super heartbreaking tracks have had this year,

1045
00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:33,160
Speaker 2: like he was awesome at Austria, like you just made

1046
00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:36,040
Speaker 2: everyone look ridiculous at the Red Bull Ring, and Japan.

1047
00:46:36,239 --> 00:46:38,920
Speaker 2: He was pretty impressive in Japan as well as a

1048
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:42,200
Speaker 2: type of circuit with those big stops that tends to

1049
00:46:42,239 --> 00:46:44,560
Speaker 2: suit him. But like you, sen Center, he's got this

1050
00:46:44,680 --> 00:46:47,279
Speaker 2: sort of you know, there's this pressure really starting to

1051
00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:50,160
Speaker 2: build now because we've only got three rounds left and

1052
00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:52,560
Speaker 2: you can't just say, you know, I can just match

1053
00:46:52,640 --> 00:46:55,280
Speaker 2: Martin this weekend. I can pick up more points next weekend.

1054
00:46:55,719 --> 00:46:57,560
Speaker 2: Very soon, there's not going to be a next weekend,

1055
00:46:57,719 --> 00:46:59,520
Speaker 2: so you know, the pressure is really starting to ramp

1056
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:03,160
Speaker 2: up for him. But if I was putting not Sentner's

1057
00:47:03,280 --> 00:47:05,799
Speaker 2: hefty salary, but maybe you're very meager one really, So

1058
00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:07,600
Speaker 2: if I was putting some money on anyone for the weekend,

1059
00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:08,560
Speaker 2: I might stick it on Pecker.

1060
00:47:08,600 --> 00:47:11,759
Speaker 1: I think stick it on Pecker. That's interesting. We were

1061
00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:13,759
Speaker 1: looking at the results just before we jumped on and

1062
00:47:13,840 --> 00:47:16,080
Speaker 1: I saw last year Brad Binda was third. So do

1063
00:47:16,120 --> 00:47:18,600
Speaker 1: you think maybe we could see a Brad or Pedro

1064
00:47:18,719 --> 00:47:21,600
Speaker 1: if he's fit enough to ride match? Do you think

1065
00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:23,360
Speaker 1: we could see a KTM closer to the front or

1066
00:47:23,400 --> 00:47:25,520
Speaker 1: is it just going to bed Caddy dominant once again.

1067
00:47:26,320 --> 00:47:28,720
Speaker 2: I think, I don't know, I know what you think, Cener,

1068
00:47:28,719 --> 00:47:30,799
Speaker 2: but it's a track that might lend itself more to

1069
00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:32,279
Speaker 2: the kt in because they tend to be a bit

1070
00:47:32,280 --> 00:47:34,480
Speaker 2: better with these straight line breaking tracks, don't they.

1071
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:36,719
Speaker 3: I would love for Brad to clean up.

1072
00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:39,800
Speaker 4: I'd love to I would give anything to see Brad

1073
00:47:40,280 --> 00:47:43,040
Speaker 4: just have a massive weekend for himself, get another feature

1074
00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:44,600
Speaker 4: race victory and stuff like that for him.

1075
00:47:44,640 --> 00:47:47,080
Speaker 3: You know, the dedication he puts in.

1076
00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:52,520
Speaker 4: And to try and build a manufacturer and raise the

1077
00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:57,240
Speaker 4: manufacturer level from just his import is obviously a massive

1078
00:47:57,280 --> 00:47:59,560
Speaker 4: task what him and doing, and of course Pedro what

1079
00:47:59,600 --> 00:48:01,840
Speaker 4: Pedro's saying that he wants to bring Katim to the

1080
00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:05,040
Speaker 4: top in the future. So I think, I like, I

1081
00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:08,359
Speaker 4: know Brad more than the writers we just mentioned, so

1082
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Speaker 4: to see a little bit more behind the scenes, or

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Speaker 4: know a little bit more about what's happening on his side,

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Speaker 4: I just have a lot a lot more they info

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Speaker 4: and what and where they are at the moment, and

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Speaker 4: I think, of course they need it and.

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Speaker 3: He deserves it.

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Speaker 4: So I hope he has a result at the end

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Speaker 4: of the year that will be massive for them, but

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Speaker 4: Chickatti's Ciacaddi and Peco's Pecker and the track nature, I

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Speaker 4: just think that they I just suppear at the moment,

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Speaker 4: which is totally okay because you know, Chickatti were never

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Speaker 4: always in this position and now they've done such a

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Speaker 4: great job to have such competitive bikes across the different

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Speaker 4: satellite teams as well. So I hope for their sake

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Speaker 4: that they can be up there. But I think those

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Speaker 4: three names that we saw last week out the front

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Speaker 4: are just this year is just they're the benchmark.

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Speaker 1: Well, either way, I think we're going to be set

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Speaker 1: in for another weekend of awesome racing. So SOMMA, thank

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Speaker 1: you once again for joining us on the Fox Podcast.

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Speaker 1: Matt as always lovely having you alongside me. But for

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Speaker 1: everybody listening, this has been your Australian Grand Prix and

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