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Speaker 1: The pressure is on full boil as MotoGP continues to

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Speaker 1: spice things up. The championship battle is now only separated

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Speaker 1: by seventeen points, with the hashtag rematch becoming the main

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Speaker 1: ingredients in our recipe for a Moto GP champion.

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Speaker 2: Thailand was all about.

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Speaker 1: The battle of the brave. But will Malaysia bring the

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Speaker 1: heat or be the calm before the final storm? As

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Speaker 1: the writer's head just to paying, every point is served

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Speaker 1: hot and every move is.

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Speaker 2: A dash of daring.

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Speaker 1: Can the current leader hold their nerve or all the

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Speaker 1: challenges cook up a surprise? I'm your host, Rineita Vmullen,

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Speaker 1: and joining me is the man that has the insider edge,

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Speaker 1: like a perfectly balanced Ty Curry, bold, sharp and never dull.

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Speaker 1: Matt Clayton, Matt Thailand, Bean and Gorne. And I know

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Speaker 1: we're obviously going to talk about the championship contenders and

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Speaker 1: the fight and everything, but let's talk about that weekend.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about the drama, the excitement that was Moto.

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Speaker 3: GP to a t ah Look, sure was Renado. Look firstly,

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Speaker 3: love the intro because it's made me feel really hungry

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Speaker 3: for all that talk of food. But look, Thailand was

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Speaker 3: I love it when it gets to this time of

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Speaker 3: it just magnifies everything that little bit more. There's an

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Speaker 3: You've got this intra du Catti battle where Ducati can't lose,

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Speaker 3: So throw a wet race into the mix. And we

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Speaker 3: I mean, it was super, super fun, great time slot

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Speaker 3: for Australian audiences. And here we arrive at Sapaang with

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Speaker 3: our first match point for Juge Martin again in a

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Speaker 1: I say, well, let's talk about you caddy because Saturday's

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Speaker 1: I'm going has that ever happened before where the entire

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Speaker 3: It's amazing to me that, given how good Ducaddi's been

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Speaker 3: But it has been a Ducati Championship this year. But

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Speaker 3: full credit to Ducadi in some ways in that they

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Speaker 3: If you're scanning down the list and you're trying to

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Speaker 3: in Malaysia. I think it's unlikely, but it's possible. How's

433
00:19:55,320 --> 00:19:58,399
Speaker 3: that going to change the approach? Because there's two schools

434
00:19:58,440 --> 00:20:01,440
Speaker 3: of thought here, Right, you can go even more aggressive

435
00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:03,320
Speaker 3: because it's like, well, if I make a mistake here,

436
00:20:03,359 --> 00:20:05,800
Speaker 3: it's not going to cost me the title. I can

437
00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:08,000
Speaker 3: absolutely go for it. I've got two match points here,

438
00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:10,679
Speaker 3: Let's have a massive swing at the first one and

439
00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:13,840
Speaker 3: see what happens. But then if it comes down to

440
00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:16,920
Speaker 3: the last race and that GAP's a little bit smaller.

441
00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:19,960
Speaker 3: Then how do you stay true to yourself and be

442
00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:23,400
Speaker 3: aggressive balancing that with but I don't have any room

443
00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:27,440
Speaker 3: to maneuver now. So psychologically these next three weeks are

444
00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:30,800
Speaker 3: so interesting for him because Banya I can say, well,

445
00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:32,480
Speaker 3: I know how to win World Championships. I've done it

446
00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:35,600
Speaker 3: twice already. One year I was chasing Quatrero down. The

447
00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:39,080
Speaker 3: other year I had the advantage. Martine probably thinks he's

448
00:20:39,119 --> 00:20:40,439
Speaker 3: got the speed to do it, and he's certainly got

449
00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:44,800
Speaker 3: the points advantage. But until you've done it, it's not real, right,

450
00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:47,920
Speaker 3: And so can you back yourself and stay true to

451
00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:50,359
Speaker 3: your instincts when there's that much on the line. I

452
00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:52,800
Speaker 3: think this weekend you'll be mega aggressive. A'ts the paying

453
00:20:52,840 --> 00:20:55,679
Speaker 3: again because you get two swings at this If it

454
00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:59,720
Speaker 3: comes down to the last round. Oh boy. Psychologically, I've

455
00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:01,440
Speaker 3: got no doubt the guy's fast enough to win a

456
00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:04,359
Speaker 3: World championship. But what's going through his head that's going

457
00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:05,800
Speaker 3: to be the super interesting bit.

458
00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:08,680
Speaker 1: And then just thinking about about what we were talking

459
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Speaker 1: about Peco earlier and how he doesn't like where there's

460
00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:14,280
Speaker 1: variables in a race we can We're in Malaysia, we're

461
00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:17,199
Speaker 1: in Asia where there can be storms and whatnot in

462
00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:20,440
Speaker 1: the afternoon it's hot. Valencia, I feel like is more

463
00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:23,520
Speaker 1: of a circuit that suits Peco's style because he generally

464
00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:26,200
Speaker 1: knows what he's going to get there. Malaysia we don't know.

465
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Speaker 1: So this is where I feel like Joge could be

466
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Speaker 1: a lot.

467
00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:30,520
Speaker 2: Stronger this weekend than Peco.

468
00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:32,760
Speaker 3: Well, and also because he's got less to lose, you know,

469
00:21:32,840 --> 00:21:35,080
Speaker 3: bang your eyes on the tightrope now in that Yeah,

470
00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:37,679
Speaker 3: he's seventeen points behind, so it's going to take a

471
00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:39,840
Speaker 3: lot for Martin to win the title this weekend, but

472
00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:42,480
Speaker 3: he mathematically can do it, where Peco has to force

473
00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:45,159
Speaker 3: it to a fine round. And so yeah, I mean

474
00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:47,080
Speaker 3: you don't need to watch if you go to Kuala Lumpu,

475
00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:48,680
Speaker 3: you can just sort of look up at the sky

476
00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:50,879
Speaker 3: and see the sky's darkening. Oh it's about four o'clock

477
00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:53,399
Speaker 3: he comes to Thunderstork. It's the way it works up there.

478
00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:58,239
Speaker 3: So yeah, like I mean, it's there's so much of

479
00:21:58,280 --> 00:22:00,560
Speaker 3: this is going to be played between in the years

480
00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:02,880
Speaker 3: of these two riders, as much as there is between

481
00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:05,040
Speaker 3: the lines of the racetrack, because I think each of

482
00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:07,840
Speaker 3: them have different strengths. That's what makes this so interesting. Yeah,

483
00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:10,400
Speaker 3: they're on the same bike, but they approach it from

484
00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:14,280
Speaker 3: such different angles, And it's who can be truest to

485
00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:17,439
Speaker 3: themselves over the course of the next two weekends, but

486
00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:20,240
Speaker 3: who's the person that can adapt to a changing situation?

487
00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:23,440
Speaker 3: And I still I know about you. I still feel

488
00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:26,880
Speaker 3: this is a championship that Martin is going to win

489
00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:29,239
Speaker 3: or lose more than Peco wins. And I know that

490
00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:31,960
Speaker 3: sounds like semantics, but don't you agree. I think there's

491
00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:35,200
Speaker 3: a psychological element to the whole Joge Martin experience where

492
00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:38,000
Speaker 3: we might look back at this championship and say, how

493
00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:41,080
Speaker 3: did this guy lose this? If he doesn't win it?

494
00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:45,000
Speaker 3: Whereas you know Banyai, I think there's less variability in

495
00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:47,960
Speaker 3: the way Banyai operates. Martin can go out and win

496
00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:50,160
Speaker 3: this thing, but equally he could also throw at the bin.

497
00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:51,879
Speaker 3: And I think that's what's going to be so interesting

498
00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:53,040
Speaker 3: about these next two weeks.

499
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Speaker 1: But also is this Juai Martin's last chance at a

500
00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:01,080
Speaker 1: World Championships title fight for a couple of years. We

501
00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:03,040
Speaker 1: don't know how that progress with a Prillia is going

502
00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:05,200
Speaker 1: to be right, but he is going to a Prillier.

503
00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:07,760
Speaker 2: He's not sticking on a Ducatti who has just one

504
00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:09,040
Speaker 2: the last multiple years.

505
00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:11,600
Speaker 1: So yeah, there's a lot more weighing on his shoulders

506
00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:13,240
Speaker 1: with that, as he could be going to a bike

507
00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:16,880
Speaker 1: where he is inconsistently up the front in the following seasons.

508
00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:19,439
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely right. I mean this might not be his

509
00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:21,240
Speaker 3: best chance, it might be his last, and you don't

510
00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:23,600
Speaker 3: want to be super peessivistic for a Prillier. But we

511
00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:26,400
Speaker 3: don't get a rule change in Motor GP until twenty

512
00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:30,000
Speaker 3: twenty seven. So given the advantage that Ducati has over

513
00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:33,879
Speaker 3: everybody else, who's to say that they won't retain that

514
00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:36,480
Speaker 3: advantage or similar for the next couple of seasons. And

515
00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:39,639
Speaker 3: Martine's off to a Prillier now, for all his talent

516
00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:41,280
Speaker 3: and the goodwill in the world, we know where a

517
00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:43,280
Speaker 3: Prillier are at the moment. On a good day, they're

518
00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:45,560
Speaker 3: fighting for a top six in a Grand Prix. Now,

519
00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:48,919
Speaker 3: I think Martine's a considerable step above Averrikvidyalez and Alaisha

520
00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:51,560
Speaker 3: Spago and the track house guys when they're not injured

521
00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:55,280
Speaker 3: or falling off. So yeah, he'll drag a Prillier closer

522
00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:58,560
Speaker 3: to the front. But there's very different than building a

523
00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:01,439
Speaker 3: championship campaign where you ending ninety percent of it on

524
00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:03,679
Speaker 3: the podium because you're on an awesome bike doing a

525
00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:06,200
Speaker 3: fantastic job with it. So that's another one of these

526
00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:08,320
Speaker 3: little subplots that I was talking about before, in that

527
00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:10,960
Speaker 3: you know, this might be his best chance, but also

528
00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,840
Speaker 3: in the foreseeable future might be his last chance. And

529
00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:16,679
Speaker 3: that's just another thing to add to this mix that

530
00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:18,960
Speaker 3: I don't about you. I can't wait for these last

531
00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:21,680
Speaker 3: two races because we're going to learn so much about

532
00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:23,760
Speaker 3: each of these guys. I don't think we're going to

533
00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:26,080
Speaker 3: learn whether they can ride motorcycles well or not, because

534
00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:29,080
Speaker 3: the standard is so high with these guys. And Banyai

535
00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:33,480
Speaker 3: said this on Sunday, like the ability to get the

536
00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:36,560
Speaker 3: performances out of this amazing bike at this level has

537
00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:41,000
Speaker 3: been brilliant the entire season. But psychologically this becomes super

538
00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:44,320
Speaker 3: interesting from here. And when you've got someone as mischievous

539
00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:46,800
Speaker 3: as Mark Market is sticking his nose into proceedings as well,

540
00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:48,520
Speaker 3: it just makes it even more interesting, doesn't it.

541
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Speaker 1: Talking about mischievous little rascals, Let's talk about patri or Corossa.

542
00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:56,040
Speaker 2: That's a good little segue into.

543
00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:57,080
Speaker 3: That fantastic segue.

544
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Speaker 1: I think that this weekend was awesome to see Costa

545
00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:02,400
Speaker 1: winning in the wet And there was a big deal

546
00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:06,000
Speaker 1: made on online about how Mark Marquees was sorry he

547
00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:07,320
Speaker 1: didn't win on the wet he was on the podium

548
00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:09,920
Speaker 1: third place, but how Mark Marquees was on the podium

549
00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:12,600
Speaker 1: in the wet in his rookie year as well. And

550
00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:14,480
Speaker 1: this is the question I want to post to you now, Matt.

551
00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:18,000
Speaker 1: Do you think Pedro LaCosta still has that chance to

552
00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:20,800
Speaker 1: win a race in his rookie year or is it

553
00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:24,280
Speaker 1: purely this is just a Peco and Mark Joe Martin

554
00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:26,080
Speaker 1: or Mark Marquez situation.

555
00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:28,840
Speaker 3: Where yeah, yeah, it's hard, isn't it. I mean, I

556
00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:31,000
Speaker 3: think it's the latter. I'd I'd be shocked if a

557
00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:33,359
Speaker 3: katm was able to win these last couple of races.

558
00:25:33,359 --> 00:25:37,399
Speaker 3: But I don't think that's a blight necessarily on a Costa,

559
00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:40,199
Speaker 3: because we've seen what he's done as a rookie. You know,

560
00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:42,840
Speaker 3: this guy's so good that we do sometimes forget that

561
00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:45,520
Speaker 3: he is twenty years old. He's got so little running

562
00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:48,280
Speaker 3: in wet conditions, and you know, he just come off

563
00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:51,280
Speaker 3: Japan where he had two DNFs and then Australia where

564
00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:53,960
Speaker 3: he crashed in his sprint and we talked about how

565
00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:57,040
Speaker 3: awful that shoulder is injury was Phoebe Philip either than

566
00:25:57,040 --> 00:25:59,400
Speaker 3: I'm rubbing my shoulders thinking about it because it's making

567
00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:02,600
Speaker 3: mind sore thinking about it. He comes out after not

568
00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:06,120
Speaker 3: such great qualifying and gets on the podium and he's

569
00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:09,479
Speaker 3: first wet motor GP Grand Prix race, like unbelievable and

570
00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:12,359
Speaker 3: also not surprising because we know how good this kid is.

571
00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:17,080
Speaker 3: But Jizy handled it well. But in terms of your question, look,

572
00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:19,879
Speaker 3: there'd have to be some super craziness with like a

573
00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:22,080
Speaker 3: guy taking each other out at the front tour, just

574
00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:25,080
Speaker 3: like the mother of all thunderstorms at Malaysia, which is possible.

575
00:26:25,359 --> 00:26:27,640
Speaker 3: But I find it hard to think he could win

576
00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:29,440
Speaker 3: a race as a rookie. But I don't think that's

577
00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:32,040
Speaker 3: any blight necessarily on how good he's been this year,

578
00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:34,840
Speaker 3: because he's probably going to finish as the best non

579
00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:38,199
Speaker 3: decatty rider in a championship, him or Brad Binder. In

580
00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:40,800
Speaker 3: a season where Dukatti has won every race but one,

581
00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:44,920
Speaker 3: it's been a phenomenal rookie season. I love the fact

582
00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:46,760
Speaker 3: that he handled the conditions so well, and there's a

583
00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:49,040
Speaker 3: fair bit of grit in there as well, because you know,

584
00:26:49,119 --> 00:26:51,639
Speaker 3: it was eight days before that Grand Prix that he

585
00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:54,840
Speaker 3: really hurt himself at Philip Island and he's back on

586
00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:57,080
Speaker 3: a circuit he's not ridden a Motor GP bike on

587
00:26:57,080 --> 00:26:58,960
Speaker 3: on a bike that's not really a front running bike,

588
00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:01,639
Speaker 3: and then char un through and won a podium in

589
00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:03,600
Speaker 3: those last couple of laps. I mean, it's been one

590
00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:05,639
Speaker 3: of the better rookie seasons we've seen for a while,

591
00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:07,560
Speaker 3: and that was just another feather in his cap.

592
00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:09,800
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, I agree with you.

593
00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:11,600
Speaker 1: I'm excited to see him next year, where I feel

594
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:13,439
Speaker 1: like he's got that year under his belt and he's

595
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:16,000
Speaker 1: going to be a comfortably he's on. He's the factory rider,

596
00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:19,480
Speaker 1: working alongside the factory, understanding the bike, developing that a

597
00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:21,480
Speaker 1: lot more. I think next year is going to be

598
00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:25,720
Speaker 1: that pieced of resistance on his stepping stone into Moto GP.

599
00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:29,800
Speaker 1: But before we move on to our Malaysia preview, we

600
00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:31,640
Speaker 1: have to talk about the lower categories.

601
00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:33,680
Speaker 2: N Less obviously talk about Moto two.

602
00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:38,280
Speaker 1: Iagua finally wrapped up that Moto two championship and in

603
00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:41,119
Speaker 1: my opinion well deserved. We're talking about consistency earlier with

604
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:44,760
Speaker 1: Johe Martin. I feel like I is also just consistency

605
00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:48,120
Speaker 1: is king every weekend he is there or thereabouts right.

606
00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:51,560
Speaker 3: Oh yeah. Massive props to to Burner GPS social media.

607
00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:56,080
Speaker 3: I came, I saw I conquered, very good, very impressed

608
00:27:56,119 --> 00:27:59,040
Speaker 3: with that on Sunday. But that look, he's been just

609
00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:02,160
Speaker 3: so he's always there and I don't know if he's

610
00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:05,280
Speaker 3: the outright fastest guy I Motor two and he's led

611
00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:07,680
Speaker 3: a very limited number of laps for guards White a

612
00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:10,159
Speaker 3: World championship. But that was a series this year. That

613
00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:12,760
Speaker 3: was a category this year where it was crying out

614
00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:14,359
Speaker 3: for an adult in the room to step up and

615
00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:16,760
Speaker 3: actually take control of it, because you'd have guys winning

616
00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:18,800
Speaker 3: races and then you wouldn't see them for three weeks,

617
00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:20,840
Speaker 3: and you know, there was a points like, oh, geez,

618
00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:22,960
Speaker 3: Jake Dixon's going. Well, then you go, oh, Jake Dixon

619
00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:25,439
Speaker 3: hasn't scored for five straight weekends. And it was one

620
00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:28,840
Speaker 3: of those really weird seasons where Agura was the constant.

621
00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:32,120
Speaker 3: Other guys would come in star for a couple of races, disappear,

622
00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:34,560
Speaker 3: someone else will come in do the same thing. He

623
00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:38,880
Speaker 3: was always there and it's a really methodical way of

624
00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:42,560
Speaker 3: working that He's going to a factory that is going

625
00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:46,000
Speaker 3: to need some calm heads, because that's a really interesting

626
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,760
Speaker 3: and prilier lineup next year where you've got Martine Betzekia,

627
00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:52,560
Speaker 3: ral Fernandez with Agura, so a lot of unproven guys,

628
00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:54,880
Speaker 3: a lot of guys who don't know that machinery. I

629
00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:57,000
Speaker 3: think he's going to be a pretty solid motor GP

630
00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:59,360
Speaker 3: rider because I think he's going to be he's fast

631
00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:02,200
Speaker 3: enough to bet, but I think he's methodical enough to

632
00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:05,520
Speaker 3: maybe not get spooked early on in his career. It's like,

633
00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:08,360
Speaker 3: oh boy, then a bit off the back here. He'll

634
00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:10,800
Speaker 3: be a guy that the difference between March next year

635
00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:14,400
Speaker 3: and November you'll see a really distinct curve with him.

636
00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:15,680
Speaker 3: He strikes me as a guy who might be a

637
00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:17,560
Speaker 3: bit slow to the boil, but I think he's going

638
00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:19,840
Speaker 3: to be pretty effective as a motor GP rider because

639
00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:23,479
Speaker 3: he methodically works his way through situations. And I mean

640
00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:26,320
Speaker 3: even that race on Sunday at Breram was much the

641
00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:28,560
Speaker 3: same thing. He got to the position he needed to

642
00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:31,680
Speaker 3: get to. He doesn't beat himself and he just methodically

643
00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:35,120
Speaker 3: goes about his business so very well deserved title, And

644
00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:37,400
Speaker 3: isn't it funny, like, of all the categories this year,

645
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:40,240
Speaker 3: it's Motor GP the one that is undecided where we've

646
00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:43,080
Speaker 3: had this super predictable year, whereas Tocati's winning everything, but

647
00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:45,160
Speaker 3: we still don't have a champion yet. Yeah, in the

648
00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:48,280
Speaker 3: other two categories we have world champions. And I don't

649
00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:50,000
Speaker 3: know whether this is on your run sheet, but I

650
00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:52,320
Speaker 3: just want to slightly go off tangent here and talk

651
00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:55,160
Speaker 3: about other categories because David Alonso I think we've got

652
00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:58,280
Speaker 3: to talk about that, because he won his twelfth race

653
00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:01,920
Speaker 3: for the season in Time Island and broke that absolutely

654
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:05,720
Speaker 3: crazy Valentino Rossi record that's been going since nineteen ninety seven.

655
00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:09,880
Speaker 3: Anytime you're breaking Valentino Rossi records when you're eighteen years

656
00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:13,080
Speaker 3: old at Boatsworld, is that well?

657
00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:17,160
Speaker 1: Hashtag baby goat is what is trending from Donner and

658
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:20,520
Speaker 1: Moto GP, And as weird as it sounds, it is

659
00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:24,640
Speaker 1: so accurate because I think we're witnessing greatness in someone

660
00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:26,520
Speaker 1: and it's so easy to just jump on that Highe

661
00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:29,200
Speaker 1: train when you see someone who's dominated all year and

662
00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:31,360
Speaker 1: who knows he might go to Moto two and be nowhere,

663
00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:34,400
Speaker 1: But I just have a feeling he's the Pedrocossa, He's

664
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:36,800
Speaker 1: the Mark muk As, he is a Valentino Rossi. He's

665
00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:41,640
Speaker 1: this talent that just seems to handle situations really well

666
00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:44,880
Speaker 1: for someone who's so young. So watching his journey this

667
00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:46,240
Speaker 1: year incredible.

668
00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:48,800
Speaker 2: You see why he is world champion because those proto

669
00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:49,520
Speaker 2: three races.

670
00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:51,200
Speaker 1: We talk about it all the time, how it is

671
00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:54,080
Speaker 1: some of the best racings. Those guys are going at

672
00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:58,040
Speaker 1: it for the entire race, non stop, the battles, the passes,

673
00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:01,920
Speaker 1: same thing, consistency. He has been there or there about

674
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:04,560
Speaker 1: all year and handled everything with grace.

675
00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:08,400
Speaker 3: My unintentional comedy moment of the entire weekend. I'm not

676
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:11,800
Speaker 3: sure if you caught this. So it's Moto three qualifying

677
00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:14,280
Speaker 3: and everyone's waiting for him to go out to do

678
00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 3: his lap in Q two because they all got to

679
00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:18,000
Speaker 3: follow him. So he pulled out of the pit box

680
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:21,080
Speaker 3: and saw there were literally twelve guys looking at him

681
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:23,160
Speaker 3: waiting to go out to get a toe. So he

682
00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:24,840
Speaker 3: sat there and sat there because he had a decent

683
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:28,200
Speaker 3: grid position, and then deliberately went out to do the

684
00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:31,040
Speaker 3: outlap before the final lap, knowing that the checkered flag

685
00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:33,320
Speaker 3: was going to fall before anyone started their final lap.

686
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:35,080
Speaker 3: So it's like, cool, you could all sit behind me

687
00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:37,080
Speaker 3: and I'll tell you around, and none of you get

688
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:38,560
Speaker 3: to do a lap at the end because the checkered

689
00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:42,680
Speaker 3: flag's already fallen. And I love the fact that he's

690
00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:44,560
Speaker 3: recognized it and gone, all right, then you guys can

691
00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:46,320
Speaker 3: have some of this, And so we ended up with

692
00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:48,800
Speaker 3: Joel Kelso and Pole, which is awesome for Australia. But

693
00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:50,880
Speaker 3: there were ten guys who never got a lap in

694
00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:52,280
Speaker 3: at the end of Q two and then all looked

695
00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:54,720
Speaker 3: at each other and gesticulated and waved at each other,

696
00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 3: and Alonso's just grinning under his helmet, saying, well, that'll

697
00:31:57,760 --> 00:31:59,400
Speaker 3: teach you to sit in the pits and wait for

698
00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:01,920
Speaker 3: me next time. But it was really, really funny. No,

699
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:04,040
Speaker 3: he knew exactly what he was doing, and none of

700
00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:06,480
Speaker 3: the others cotton onto it. It was too late, So

701
00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:08,080
Speaker 3: I enjoyed that it was good fun.

702
00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:10,959
Speaker 1: I don't know about you, and this might be like

703
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:15,320
Speaker 1: a controversial opinion. I freaking hate when they do the

704
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:18,240
Speaker 1: towing in the RBS and they will sit behind each

705
00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:22,200
Speaker 1: other and It's like, isn't I get why they do it,

706
00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:24,080
Speaker 1: but why would you not just go out and do

707
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:26,240
Speaker 1: a lap with a clean track in front of you

708
00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:30,400
Speaker 1: where there's no qualms or anything that could possibly hinder

709
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:32,080
Speaker 1: it apart from someone crashing further up.

710
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:33,120
Speaker 2: That's out of your control.

711
00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:36,800
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, it looks optically it's ridiculous. So you see

712
00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:38,960
Speaker 3: guys sitting there, it's like, well, you are we motorcycle

713
00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:40,840
Speaker 3: racist here or are we just know what are we doing?

714
00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:43,880
Speaker 3: Playing follow the leader? I hate that the safety aspect

715
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:46,360
Speaker 3: of guys pulling out on the last sector and basically

716
00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:49,320
Speaker 3: at walking pace while they wait for the fast guy

717
00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:52,720
Speaker 3: to go through. There should just be far strict penalties

718
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:55,880
Speaker 3: with that sort of thing because A it's dangerous. B.

719
00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:58,840
Speaker 3: I think it sets a really bad precedent for lower

720
00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:01,280
Speaker 3: category series because this is the World Championship, right. If

721
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:03,120
Speaker 3: you allow this sort of stuff in the World Championship,

722
00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:05,680
Speaker 3: then what a feeder series in other countries supposed to do.

723
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:08,920
Speaker 3: You're setting a terrible example for kids coming through. It's like, oh,

724
00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:11,480
Speaker 3: so this is how you qualify. It's like, no, this

725
00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:14,280
Speaker 3: is how you get hurt. So there's an element to

726
00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:16,040
Speaker 3: that that I can't stand and it also just looks

727
00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:18,080
Speaker 3: a bit crap. Let's be perfectly honest, like, go out

728
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:20,480
Speaker 3: do the lap, and I did kind of like that.

729
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:23,680
Speaker 3: Alonso was kind of subtly baking a point here. It's like, well,

730
00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:25,440
Speaker 3: if you'd like to go and ruin your own qualify,

731
00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:28,120
Speaker 3: because then be my guest, I'm not going anywhere. It

732
00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:29,960
Speaker 3: was kind of fun, it.

733
00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:31,960
Speaker 1: Was exciting, but yeah, let's look about a positive note.

734
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:35,680
Speaker 1: You mentioned David Alonzo with his records that he's broke.

735
00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:38,680
Speaker 1: I grew back to that he's the first Asia Talent

736
00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:41,840
Speaker 1: Cup writer to win a championship and the first Japanese

737
00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:43,920
Speaker 1: writer since Iyama.

738
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:45,720
Speaker 2: And I can't remember the year. I want to say

739
00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:48,120
Speaker 2: two thousand and No, was.

740
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:51,840
Speaker 3: It two nine, two thousand and nine in the two

741
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:54,080
Speaker 3: fifty c C category, but when that was still a thing.

742
00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:58,280
Speaker 3: But I love the Asian Talent Cup thing because it's

743
00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:02,400
Speaker 3: another pathway to world championship that doesn't involve Italy or Spain.

744
00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:06,080
Speaker 3: And I think that's really important to show that if

745
00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:08,560
Speaker 3: you have the talent and the backing and you can

746
00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:10,440
Speaker 3: get yourself in the right series, you can be a

747
00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:13,360
Speaker 3: world champion from anywhere, because that's what this is supposed

748
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:16,399
Speaker 3: to be is a World Championship, and you know, great,

749
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:18,239
Speaker 3: if the Spanish and the Italian riders are the best

750
00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:20,520
Speaker 3: in the class, then fine, but it's also good to

751
00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:22,920
Speaker 3: have another sort of portal to get through to the

752
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:26,280
Speaker 3: World Championship and be successful. So big tick for that series.

753
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:27,760
Speaker 3: And like I said, I think he's going to surprise

754
00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:30,040
Speaker 3: a few people next year because you know, might not

755
00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:33,359
Speaker 3: have the stariest CV going around, and you know, he's

756
00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:35,560
Speaker 3: not exactly a media darling. His English is still a

757
00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:37,759
Speaker 3: bit spotty, and he's a bit more sort of shy

758
00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:39,560
Speaker 3: and not super confident with it like a lot of

759
00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:41,880
Speaker 3: the Japanese can be. But I think he's going to

760
00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:43,600
Speaker 3: be pretty decent in Motor GP next year.

761
00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:46,560
Speaker 1: And then speaking about the Asia Talent Cup, obviously a

762
00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:48,880
Speaker 1: lot of our Ossie riders go through that, which is

763
00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:51,120
Speaker 1: awesome for us in this part of the world.

764
00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:53,879
Speaker 2: But job kelso.

765
00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:56,399
Speaker 1: First Ossie to have a Moto three podium since Jack

766
00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:59,280
Speaker 1: Miller in over was it like ten years or something.

767
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:01,759
Speaker 1: So there's all these records that have been broken by

768
00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:04,879
Speaker 1: these young guys. It's making it so exciting across the

769
00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:08,480
Speaker 1: whole Moto GP board, not just in that Premier Class.

770
00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:10,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, I completely agreed. I think Joel was just excitedly

771
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:13,000
Speaker 3: fine they got a watch for qualifying on poles, I

772
00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:14,920
Speaker 3: think he'd bit on the front row like seven times

773
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,399
Speaker 3: or something, so he kept getting so close. So one

774
00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:19,600
Speaker 3: of his crew members actually said, finally you got the watch,

775
00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:23,160
Speaker 3: which is actually quite funny. But look, he we know

776
00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:26,279
Speaker 3: he's been there and thereabouts the entire season, particularly good

777
00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:28,160
Speaker 3: in qualifying. It was a bit of a weird race

778
00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:31,920
Speaker 3: because of the conditions, and obviously finished seventh and in

779
00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:34,319
Speaker 3: the pack that he was in. But yeah, another good

780
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:36,520
Speaker 3: weekend for him. And yeah, finally he can look at

781
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:38,320
Speaker 3: his left wrist and tell the time and not have

782
00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:40,280
Speaker 3: to look at his phone anymore. So that's exciting.

783
00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:41,880
Speaker 2: That is exciting.

784
00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:43,960
Speaker 1: And before we move on, I know we've been teasing Malaysia,

785
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:45,920
Speaker 1: There's one other thing that we have to talk about, Matt,

786
00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:49,840
Speaker 1: is that weird pit lean entry crash between Arbilino and

787
00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:52,839
Speaker 1: vander Gorberg in Moto TiO.

788
00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:54,719
Speaker 2: What was up with that?

789
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:58,399
Speaker 1: Because there was a Marshall running, there was Arbilina trying

790
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:00,560
Speaker 1: to pick up his bike like right in the middle.

791
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:03,160
Speaker 2: It just it was a mess waiting to happen.

792
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:06,399
Speaker 3: Massively so, and it's kind of a function of the

793
00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:09,880
Speaker 3: pit lane entry. So weird at that track because it

794
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:13,319
Speaker 3: basically runs the entire length of that back straight into

795
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:16,080
Speaker 3: that last right hander. So and you're not obviously on

796
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:18,200
Speaker 3: the speed limit at that point, so as you're coming

797
00:36:18,239 --> 00:36:20,319
Speaker 3: you can quite easily crash in that pit lane entrance

798
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:22,360
Speaker 3: because you're off the circuit but you're not beholden to

799
00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:25,840
Speaker 3: the pit lane speed limit, and there's a bit of

800
00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:28,600
Speaker 3: a The problem was that Arbillino crashing his bike and

801
00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:31,720
Speaker 3: was trying to get a broken bike back to the pits,

802
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:33,640
Speaker 3: where he probably should have just got off the thing

803
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:35,319
Speaker 3: and come back on the back of a scooter. So

804
00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:37,840
Speaker 3: that was partly the problem, because you've got marshals on

805
00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:41,120
Speaker 3: the track and you're on the outside of a fast corner.

806
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:43,440
Speaker 3: There's other guys trying to get into pit lane, and

807
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:47,400
Speaker 3: it was it just took too long to resolve that situation.

808
00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:49,319
Speaker 3: You're thinking, geez, I hope they get away with this.

809
00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:52,480
Speaker 3: I hate seeing marshals on the side of racetracks when

810
00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:55,680
Speaker 3: they're live, and so, you know, not great for Billino

811
00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:57,360
Speaker 3: trying to get a broken bike back to the pits.

812
00:36:57,640 --> 00:37:00,359
Speaker 3: Van and Gilberg. You can sort of see how he's

813
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:03,400
Speaker 3: just seen the bike and tried to get it stopped.

814
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:05,719
Speaker 3: There's almost like a bit tunnel vision with that. There's

815
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:07,399
Speaker 3: a marshal who had to jump out of the way.

816
00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:09,480
Speaker 3: That could have been so nasty that accident. So they

817
00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:12,320
Speaker 3: both got penalized for it. But moral of the story,

818
00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:14,440
Speaker 3: kids is don't try and ride crashed bikes back to

819
00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:16,879
Speaker 3: the pits. Sister, save that for another day and play

820
00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:17,560
Speaker 3: the safety card.

821
00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:21,640
Speaker 2: I think, right, Malaysian Grand Prix. Finally, let's move on

822
00:37:21,719 --> 00:37:23,120
Speaker 2: to our next race.

823
00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:27,480
Speaker 1: And so looking at last year, we had Pego Banyaya

824
00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:32,120
Speaker 1: on pole and our podium was an Abashanini, Alex Marquez

825
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:36,560
Speaker 1: and Peco Bangyaya. So no Warhe Martine in that mix.

826
00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:40,480
Speaker 1: But you wrote an article for Fox sports dot com

827
00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:43,680
Speaker 1: slash Motorsport, and you were talking about how the seasons

828
00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:47,359
Speaker 1: have been playing out in previous years. What's your take

829
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:49,239
Speaker 1: going into this weekend. I know we've alluded to it

830
00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:51,080
Speaker 1: a little bit, but I want to hear from you.

831
00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:54,759
Speaker 3: This is just I knew what I was getting into

832
00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:57,239
Speaker 3: when I started doing this. I thought to myself, hmm,

833
00:37:57,280 --> 00:37:59,480
Speaker 3: how many times do we get championships that are still

834
00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:01,440
Speaker 3: alive with two rounds to go, which is where we

835
00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:04,239
Speaker 3: are right now, and one thing led to another, and

836
00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:06,920
Speaker 3: several hours passed and I went down fourteen rabbit holes,

837
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:11,000
Speaker 3: and so basically in the last twenty years, I've decided

838
00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:13,720
Speaker 3: to go back twenty years. Ten of the last twenty

839
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:16,160
Speaker 3: years have come down to the last two races, So

840
00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:19,080
Speaker 3: we've had ten titles decided before the last two races.

841
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:22,120
Speaker 3: Of those ten titles that have been alive for the

842
00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:25,080
Speaker 3: last two races, four of them got decided in the

843
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:29,479
Speaker 3: second last round, So six title deciders in the last

844
00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:32,160
Speaker 3: twenty years. Interestingly, this is the third year in a

845
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:35,120
Speaker 3: row that we've come down to potentially having a last

846
00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:37,920
Speaker 3: round title decider. But the interesting thing for me is

847
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:40,920
Speaker 3: that of those six championships that went down to the

848
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:43,360
Speaker 3: very very final round, it's the guy that's in the

849
00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:46,239
Speaker 3: league that's won the championship every time. And there's been

850
00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:50,040
Speaker 3: some mad ones in there, because there was two thousand

851
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:54,520
Speaker 3: and thirteen Marquez's rookie year, which was one of the

852
00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:58,120
Speaker 3: great title deciders because Jorge Lorenzo needed Marquees to finish

853
00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:00,440
Speaker 3: fourth and got to the front of the race slowed

854
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:03,520
Speaker 3: down so much that the entire pack caught up behind

855
00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:06,520
Speaker 3: Marquez and started roughing him up, which was just completely

856
00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:09,359
Speaker 3: bastardrew by Lorenzo. I kind of appreciated. It's like, I'm

857
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:10,560
Speaker 3: going to be at the front, but I'm going to

858
00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:12,480
Speaker 3: be so slow that there's all these other guys that

859
00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:14,720
Speaker 3: might trip over Marqure. So that was fun when that happened.

860
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:17,000
Speaker 3: And then the maddest one of all is a race

861
00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:18,920
Speaker 3: that your brother was actually in in two thousand and

862
00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:22,800
Speaker 3: six in Valencia, where the championship lead actually changed hands

863
00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:26,360
Speaker 3: twice in the last two races. We had that bizarre

864
00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:29,359
Speaker 3: race in Portugal where a rookie called Danny Pedrosa took

865
00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:33,080
Speaker 3: Nicki Hayden out of that race in Estuaria when Hayden

866
00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:37,080
Speaker 3: was leading the championship Valentino Rossi probably thought he was

867
00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:39,759
Speaker 3: going to win that race and lost by two thousandths

868
00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:42,160
Speaker 3: of a second on the line to Tony Elias, his

869
00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:45,080
Speaker 3: only Motor GP win. So Rossi had an eight point

870
00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:48,640
Speaker 3: lead going into Valencia, took Pole and then fell off

871
00:39:48,719 --> 00:39:51,200
Speaker 3: in that race at Valencia, pretty much right in front

872
00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:53,319
Speaker 3: of Cruis actually if I remember rightly. And then Nicky

873
00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:56,040
Speaker 3: Hayden finished third and won that World Championship. That was

874
00:39:56,280 --> 00:40:00,400
Speaker 3: absolutely remarkable. So look, the guy who who's led the

875
00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:03,120
Speaker 3: championship with two rounds to go is generally converted. There's

876
00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:05,359
Speaker 3: one asterisk to this, and you know where I'm going

877
00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:07,480
Speaker 3: with this, because it's we love talking about this. We're

878
00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:12,320
Speaker 3: going to Malaysia. Malaysia twenty and fifteen. Valentino Rossi left

879
00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:15,440
Speaker 3: that race as the World Championship leader. He also started

880
00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:17,520
Speaker 3: the FINALI at Valencia at the back of the grid

881
00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:19,759
Speaker 3: because of a certain incident with Mark Marquez that I'm

882
00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:22,200
Speaker 3: sure nobody listening to this podcast has any idea what

883
00:40:22,239 --> 00:40:25,359
Speaker 3: I'm talking about. And of course juhelern Soo wins that race,

884
00:40:25,560 --> 00:40:27,840
Speaker 3: and the only time he led that championship for the

885
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:30,880
Speaker 3: entire year was after the last race in twenty fifteen,

886
00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:33,440
Speaker 3: so that's the only one that's come down to the

887
00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:36,720
Speaker 3: wire where the leads actually changed hands in the last round.

888
00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:40,680
Speaker 3: So I thoroughly enjoyed going down a nice YouTube rabbit

889
00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:43,600
Speaker 3: hole and reminding himself, oh yeah, that happened. That was fun.

890
00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:45,840
Speaker 3: I didn't need to watch Malaysia twenty fifteen again. I

891
00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:49,040
Speaker 3: think it's burnt into my brain somewhere. But the point

892
00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:53,960
Speaker 3: being that Martine historically should convert from here because he's

893
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:55,680
Speaker 3: the guy that's got the high ground with two rounds

894
00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:58,120
Speaker 3: to go, because history tells us, if you've got the

895
00:40:58,200 --> 00:40:59,839
Speaker 3: lead with two rounds to go, you're going to win,

896
00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:02,880
Speaker 3: with the exception of Malaysia twenty fifty, the exception of

897
00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:05,879
Speaker 3: all exceptions. So I'm sure not that we need any

898
00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:08,720
Speaker 3: not that we need any invitation to talk about Malaysia

899
00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:10,839
Speaker 3: twenty fifteen, but it might even get more of an

900
00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:13,239
Speaker 3: airing this weekend than it normally does. So I'm sure

901
00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:16,080
Speaker 3: downa are rubbing their hands together for the social media content.

902
00:41:17,040 --> 00:41:20,520
Speaker 1: Well, let's just kind of keep going down that rabbit hole.

903
00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:23,279
Speaker 1: Bit off to a side a little bit. Andrea in

904
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:26,200
Speaker 1: the Eanni his name, because there.

905
00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:29,200
Speaker 3: Is the thought it's been so long, it's.

906
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:29,680
Speaker 2: Been so long.

907
00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:32,760
Speaker 1: But also, how does he come back into Moto GP

908
00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:35,239
Speaker 1: article you wrote all because he got a phone call

909
00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:37,440
Speaker 1: from his old mate Valentino Rossi.

910
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:40,200
Speaker 3: It is bizarre, isn't it. So Look, we knew that

911
00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:42,440
Speaker 3: VR forty six we're going to need a replacement rider

912
00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:45,239
Speaker 3: because Fabio digit Antonio was going to opt out and

913
00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:48,080
Speaker 3: have his shoulder surgery ahead of next year. Big shout

914
00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:50,200
Speaker 3: to Digya by the way, fourth place at his last

915
00:41:50,239 --> 00:41:52,440
Speaker 3: two races before he goes for a shoulder operation with

916
00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:55,600
Speaker 3: Australia and Thailand. So awesome. Finished to a really good

917
00:41:55,680 --> 00:41:58,000
Speaker 3: season for him, and he's a guy that I'd be

918
00:41:58,040 --> 00:42:00,719
Speaker 3: putting some money on to feature very highly next years

919
00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:03,560
Speaker 3: World Championship. That's a separate podcast. But of all the

920
00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:07,200
Speaker 3: people they could have brought in to do this race

921
00:42:07,239 --> 00:42:09,919
Speaker 3: for V forty six, I think it was probably down

922
00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:15,320
Speaker 3: to two really, Nicolo Bulager and Andrea Andanoni. And Buliger

923
00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:18,479
Speaker 3: had made some noises like he's young and probably still

924
00:42:18,520 --> 00:42:21,000
Speaker 3: has aspirations of getting back to Moto GP or into

925
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:24,000
Speaker 3: the World Championship, and I'm not sure he was that

926
00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:26,479
Speaker 3: keen on doing it unless he could test beforehand. And

927
00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:28,440
Speaker 3: with the way the calendaries you've got three races in

928
00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:30,279
Speaker 3: a row, there was going to be no testing for him.

929
00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:34,000
Speaker 3: So obviously World Superbikes has finished for the year. You Knowoni,

930
00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:38,200
Speaker 3: we know the story band initially for eighteen months for

931
00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:41,279
Speaker 3: failing a steroid test. Appealed the band, saying that he'd

932
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:44,840
Speaker 3: eaten a piece of contaminated meat in Malaysia, of all places,

933
00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:47,160
Speaker 3: which is where we're going back to so vegan diet

934
00:42:47,160 --> 00:42:50,839
Speaker 3: for Andrea this weekend. I would have thought, but yeah,

935
00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:52,960
Speaker 3: and then of course he appealed that sentence saying that

936
00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:56,640
Speaker 3: he had accidentally taken this steroid because of some contaminated meat.

937
00:42:57,000 --> 00:42:59,440
Speaker 3: Wada looked at it and said, no, we don't like

938
00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:02,080
Speaker 3: that evidence and slapped him with a four year ban

939
00:43:02,239 --> 00:43:05,279
Speaker 3: because he wouldn't accept the eighteen month band. So this

940
00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:07,799
Speaker 3: is why we haven't seen Andrea Aroni on a World

941
00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:10,960
Speaker 3: Championship grid since twenty nineteen when he was with a Prillier.

942
00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:15,160
Speaker 3: He's thirty five years old now and this is really

943
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:18,719
Speaker 3: a dou Cati aligned rider getting a free hit from

944
00:43:18,719 --> 00:43:21,160
Speaker 3: an old mate for one race. I don't think he'll

945
00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:26,280
Speaker 3: do Valencia simply because the post race test at Valencia

946
00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:29,160
Speaker 3: two days after that last GP, Mikaylee Piro is going

947
00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:31,719
Speaker 3: to be there anyway, so it makes no sense to

948
00:43:31,719 --> 00:43:33,600
Speaker 3: have Yunoni do that and then throw Piro on the

949
00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:35,120
Speaker 3: bike for the test. He may as well do both

950
00:43:35,160 --> 00:43:37,040
Speaker 3: given that he's going to be there. So this is

951
00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:39,760
Speaker 3: not some sort of you know, career comeback or something

952
00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:42,200
Speaker 3: for Yunoni. It's just a chance for a mate of

953
00:43:42,239 --> 00:43:45,239
Speaker 3: Valentino and Uccho saluci Us to do his last race

954
00:43:45,239 --> 00:43:48,440
Speaker 3: and go out on his terms. But super interesting because

955
00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:50,239
Speaker 3: you can say a lot of things about Yuanini, and

956
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:52,120
Speaker 3: a lot of people have over the course of time,

957
00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:56,200
Speaker 3: but he was never slow. He was a little demotivated

958
00:43:56,200 --> 00:43:58,720
Speaker 3: from time to time, and I do remember him missing

959
00:43:58,719 --> 00:44:02,880
Speaker 3: a preseason test at Paying because his facelift hadn't healed properly.

960
00:44:03,280 --> 00:44:04,839
Speaker 3: So this is kind of the deal. And the look

961
00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:06,560
Speaker 3: on your face, I'm not sure you've heard that one before.

962
00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:09,360
Speaker 3: There's a lot of there's a lot going on with Andrea,

963
00:44:09,440 --> 00:44:11,840
Speaker 3: let's be perfectly honest, but the guy could never be

964
00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:14,879
Speaker 3: accused of being slow. So it'd be super interesting him

965
00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:17,560
Speaker 3: stepping back on a motor GP bike for the first

966
00:44:17,560 --> 00:44:20,080
Speaker 3: time in a really long time, and not just a

967
00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:23,399
Speaker 3: motor GP bike, a very very fast motor GP bike

968
00:44:23,840 --> 00:44:26,399
Speaker 3: that the previous rider ever finished in the top four

969
00:44:26,680 --> 00:44:29,960
Speaker 3: in the past two races. So that's another little subplot

970
00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:32,399
Speaker 3: for this weekend. Where does he fit in? Where how

971
00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:33,880
Speaker 3: long does it take him to get up to speed?

972
00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:35,719
Speaker 3: He's on the best bike in the Okay, it's a

973
00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:38,520
Speaker 3: GP twenty three, but he's on the best manufacturer in

974
00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:40,880
Speaker 3: the business. He might be taking some points off a

975
00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:43,560
Speaker 3: few people. If he gets he guess himself sorted this weekend.

976
00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:46,080
Speaker 3: But of all the people I thought that would be

977
00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:48,520
Speaker 3: back on the Motor GP grid, he was pretty close

978
00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:51,000
Speaker 3: to the bottom of my list after what had happened

979
00:44:51,040 --> 00:44:51,680
Speaker 3: five years ago.

980
00:44:52,560 --> 00:44:53,919
Speaker 2: I just like you.

981
00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:57,400
Speaker 1: Saw my face the whole facelift thing. For those who

982
00:44:57,440 --> 00:44:59,719
Speaker 1: don't know what Andrea Ian and He's been up to.

983
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:03,800
Speaker 1: When he wasn't racing, he did feature on Italy's Dancing

984
00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:06,040
Speaker 1: with the Stars well, so he's.

985
00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:08,440
Speaker 2: Been a very busy man on and off track.

986
00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:12,400
Speaker 1: He is a character, and I think that's what's exciting

987
00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:15,400
Speaker 1: here is a character. There's been a lot of talk

988
00:45:15,520 --> 00:45:20,359
Speaker 1: and speculation and controversy, maybe because he's coming back in

989
00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:23,279
Speaker 1: and that's what Moto GP needs. Is exciting. All the

990
00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:25,799
Speaker 1: socials talking about Dre you know what, he's coming back.

991
00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:28,239
Speaker 2: People like he shouldn't have come back. They're like, yeah,

992
00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:31,320
Speaker 2: he's coming back to Moto GP. It's exciting.

993
00:45:31,360 --> 00:45:33,520
Speaker 1: It just adds to the other layer of what is

994
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:37,719
Speaker 1: Malaysia gonna bring this weekend, probably some thunderstorms in the afternoon.

995
00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:40,600
Speaker 1: A man who's been on Dancing with the Stars and

996
00:45:40,680 --> 00:45:45,000
Speaker 1: recently Valentino ROSSI was on some Italian or Spanish TV

997
00:45:45,080 --> 00:45:47,759
Speaker 1: show talking about Jorge Lorenzo and Mark Marquez. So there

998
00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:51,560
Speaker 1: is stuff happening left right and censor, not just Peco

999
00:45:51,640 --> 00:45:55,080
Speaker 1: Banyaya and Jorge Martine with the hashtag rematch.

1000
00:45:56,000 --> 00:45:58,799
Speaker 3: Yeah, the silly season. We talked about mid year whatever

1001
00:45:58,880 --> 00:46:01,000
Speaker 3: one's need to be swapping Sea every five minutes. But

1002
00:46:01,040 --> 00:46:02,800
Speaker 3: it's gone from sort of silly to ridiculous in the

1003
00:46:02,880 --> 00:46:05,560
Speaker 3: last couple of weeks. We've just referenced facelifts, dancing with

1004
00:46:05,640 --> 00:46:07,719
Speaker 3: the Stars, and something else I can't remember in the

1005
00:46:07,760 --> 00:46:10,640
Speaker 3: last three minutes. So yeah, it's definitely getting a bit

1006
00:46:10,719 --> 00:46:11,640
Speaker 3: nuts at this time of year.

1007
00:46:11,680 --> 00:46:14,880
Speaker 1: Is that it is? But I feel like that's where we

1008
00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:17,400
Speaker 1: can call it a day. We know your thoughts on

1009
00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:21,480
Speaker 1: the Malaysia Grand Prix. I believe Jey Martin is going

1010
00:46:21,520 --> 00:46:23,479
Speaker 1: to be strong. I also think this is a track

1011
00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:26,960
Speaker 1: that does suit Mark Marquez. You know, it's the type

1012
00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:29,719
Speaker 1: of track. There's a lot of long straights here, hardbreaking

1013
00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:33,680
Speaker 1: on camera, off Canber. It's hard to not want, like

1014
00:46:33,719 --> 00:46:35,880
Speaker 1: you said earlier, it's hard to not just say Jey

1015
00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:37,600
Speaker 1: Martin's going to be fast, He's going to put it

1016
00:46:37,640 --> 00:46:40,160
Speaker 1: on pole and because of the variabilities, he's going to

1017
00:46:40,200 --> 00:46:43,600
Speaker 1: be stronger than Peco Banyaya. But the Professor might prevail

1018
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:47,200
Speaker 1: in Malaysia and we might see him strong and standing

1019
00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:49,919
Speaker 1: on the number one. But ma'am, I feel like that's

1020
00:46:49,920 --> 00:46:53,160
Speaker 1: our Malaysia Grand Prix preview and our Thaighland Grand Prix

1021
00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:56,879
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1022
00:46:56,960 --> 00:46:59,719
Speaker 1: are listening can't get enough Moto GP action, then you

1023
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1025
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1026
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1027
00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:17,080
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