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Speaker 1: Moto GP heads to the Land of the Rising Sun

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Speaker 1: for round seventeen and it's match point Mark Marquez who

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Speaker 1: can take home his seventh Moto GP class World championship.

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Speaker 1: This weekend Pittook as always as sponsored by Shannon's Insurance.

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Speaker 1: Joining me Ronita Muelin is the Samurai of stat slicing

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Speaker 1: through MotoGP News with Razor sharp precision, Mister Matt Clayton,

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Speaker 1: Matt Short, sharp and simple this weekend because Mortegi is calling.

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Speaker 2: I love Motigi Bradi, Hello to you, Hello, everybody listening.

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Speaker 2: I love this race because well for a few reasons,

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Speaker 2: absolute privilege that is. I like this track because this

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Speaker 2: nowhere like it. It's a really really unusual place. You know,

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Speaker 2: You've got the two times that it goes underneath the

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Speaker 2: bizarre layout because it's long straight into to absolutely tortuous

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Speaker 2: you lap this circuit. Because it's Japan. At this time

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Speaker 2: of year, you know you're going to get some weather

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Speaker 2: at some point. It always happens when you're in Japan

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Speaker 2: in late September early October, as I know from being

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Speaker 2: so it's always a fun weekend. But yeah, watching Murder

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Speaker 1: I am so looking forward to it. And let's just

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Speaker 1: touch that other listeners, if you haven't seen, this schedule

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Speaker 1: is going to be up on the Fox Motorsports Social soon.

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Speaker 1: But Sunday's Grand Prix is on at three pm a

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Speaker 1: e s t. Australian Niece's standard time, So three pm

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Speaker 1: race is going to be done by four potentially Mark

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Speaker 1: Marquez's championship and all that celebration will be done by

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Speaker 1: four point thirty and we can have dinner and go

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Speaker 1: not like having to stay up till two three am

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Speaker 2: I'll be written by midnight, which is an absolutely extraordinary

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Speaker 2: something to something to save. I'm not going to get

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Speaker 1: Like we mentioned, it's Japan, so it's the head of

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Speaker 1: the flyways and the four as cool as Southeast Asia, Australasia,

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Speaker 1: that area that they're head into. Obviously we come into

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Speaker 1: But Mategi, like you said, twin Ring, we got that oval.

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Speaker 1: It's more designed as a testing circuit, so it is

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Speaker 1: But then Brembo it's their hardest breaking circuit, one of

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Speaker 1: mister Statman. Motor GP riders use their breaks for thirty

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and their big stops into parts opportunities. Is what

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Speaker 2: We had some pretty fraught Rossy Lorenzo battles back in

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Speaker 2: Because there's no real sort of secret to being good

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Speaker 1: I remember a quote from Marquez, and I don't know

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Speaker 2: but what if the the decat he's not very good?

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00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:46,240
Speaker 2: What does he do then? Does he want to finish

432
00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:48,280
Speaker 2: his career at Honda and sort of go back and

433
00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:51,159
Speaker 2: close that circle, or will there come a point where

434
00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:53,359
Speaker 2: you get to a certain age and you've already been

435
00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:57,199
Speaker 2: through so much injury, ravage, seasons and what have you

436
00:20:57,240 --> 00:21:00,320
Speaker 2: in pain and mental anguish? Is there a finish line

437
00:21:00,359 --> 00:21:03,399
Speaker 2: for this? Like, I'd be super curious to know once

438
00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:05,480
Speaker 2: the glow of the World Championship sort of fades a

439
00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:08,720
Speaker 2: little bit, what motivates him now? Is it just being

440
00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:12,000
Speaker 2: the best on every Sunday or is there something longer term?

441
00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:15,240
Speaker 2: I think that'll be a super interesting question. I expect

442
00:21:15,280 --> 00:21:18,560
Speaker 2: that when he wins, he will actually be really, really

443
00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:20,680
Speaker 2: quite emotional about it, because I feel like he's been

444
00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:23,880
Speaker 2: holding on to it the longer this season's gone, he's

445
00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:25,639
Speaker 2: been you know, we'll talk about that when it happens.

446
00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:28,080
Speaker 2: We'll talk about that when it happens. When it happens,

447
00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:30,960
Speaker 2: I suspect that there'll be a lot of memories of

448
00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:33,800
Speaker 2: maybe some of his worst days that will pop back

449
00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:36,800
Speaker 2: into his head between twenty twenty and twenty twenty five

450
00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:39,359
Speaker 2: that he'll probably think about and it'll be like, I

451
00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:42,520
Speaker 2: overcame that as much as I won the World Championship.

452
00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:44,000
Speaker 2: I think you'll be pretty emotional Sunday.

453
00:21:44,040 --> 00:21:47,359
Speaker 1: I would say, imagine having a bird's eye view of

454
00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:51,720
Speaker 1: witnessing what his actual thoughts are. Oh yeah, that would

455
00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:54,119
Speaker 1: be incredible. But there's something you just touched on there

456
00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:56,800
Speaker 1: and I just want to flag an article that you

457
00:21:57,240 --> 00:22:01,560
Speaker 1: recently wrote titled Moto GP's best Losers, if that's anything

458
00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:04,320
Speaker 1: to go off, and you said, they're like, you know

459
00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:09,679
Speaker 1: what happens when when the confetti's fallen and what happens

460
00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:12,159
Speaker 1: when the World Championship's over and done with? Is he

461
00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:14,960
Speaker 1: going to keep trying to win? And I think you

462
00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:17,840
Speaker 1: summed it up best and I'm going to totally brutalize

463
00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:22,320
Speaker 1: what you've said, but is Valentino Rossi is the best

464
00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:25,240
Speaker 1: example of this? Is he was fighting for it so hard,

465
00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:29,399
Speaker 1: but then what happened? You know, he aged, he lost,

466
00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:31,960
Speaker 1: like he didn't finish his career on a high. Yes,

467
00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:35,000
Speaker 1: he is a goat and the best thing that's probably

468
00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:38,040
Speaker 1: ever happened to Moto GP because you know, look what

469
00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:40,520
Speaker 1: we saw in the Zanno, the amount of VF forty

470
00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:44,399
Speaker 1: six floral yellow everywhere he's raced team. But tell me

471
00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:47,160
Speaker 1: where did he finish in his last season in Moto GP?

472
00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:49,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was like eighteenth or something. You look at

473
00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:51,840
Speaker 2: that twenty fifteen we talk about Malaysia twenty fifteen all

474
00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:55,359
Speaker 2: the time, but in terms of you know, let's let's

475
00:22:55,359 --> 00:22:58,280
Speaker 2: play the alternative circumstance out here. He led that World

476
00:22:58,359 --> 00:23:01,240
Speaker 2: Championship in twenty fifteen for sixty out of the eighteen rounds.

477
00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:04,080
Speaker 2: The biggest deficit he had all season was five points,

478
00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:06,240
Speaker 2: which is the end of the championship at Valencia after

479
00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:08,359
Speaker 2: he started from the back of the grid. After what

480
00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:11,000
Speaker 2: happened in Malaysia. That would have been a six year

481
00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:13,080
Speaker 2: gap between his two thousand and nine world title in

482
00:23:13,119 --> 00:23:17,640
Speaker 2: twenty fifteen. He finished second in twenty sixteen to Marques,

483
00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:19,359
Speaker 2: but it was one of those runner up It's a

484
00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:21,240
Speaker 2: bit Alex Marques is just like, well, someone's got to

485
00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:23,720
Speaker 2: finish second, is not really in doubt, and he was

486
00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:26,159
Speaker 2: never really there again, and his career sort of just

487
00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:29,119
Speaker 2: dwindled to a bit of a conclusion. And you know,

488
00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:31,199
Speaker 2: he obviously raced for a number of years after that

489
00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:34,280
Speaker 2: twenty fifteen near miss. But how about that as a

490
00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:37,800
Speaker 2: moment that changed the course of history and legacy and

491
00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:40,240
Speaker 2: all of the other things. Not so much Malaysia twenty

492
00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:43,520
Speaker 2: fifteen to what happened in that circumstance, but he was

493
00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:46,720
Speaker 2: so close to the summit again after a really long

494
00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:49,520
Speaker 2: period that he could almost touch it and then lost

495
00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:51,800
Speaker 2: it in the final round and never got another chance

496
00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:55,320
Speaker 2: to win. And it's on these little knife edge moments

497
00:23:55,359 --> 00:23:58,720
Speaker 2: that these careers can completely change. So, you know, taking

498
00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:03,119
Speaker 2: it back to the Marques consequence here, you have to

499
00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:05,560
Speaker 2: think about the amounts of times during this past six

500
00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:07,440
Speaker 2: years that he probably thought, well, maybe that is it,

501
00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:10,240
Speaker 2: Maybe I don't win anymore. Maybe because of what happened

502
00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:13,240
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty and the four arm surgeries and everything else.

503
00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:14,800
Speaker 2: The fact that he's able able to get back to

504
00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:17,040
Speaker 2: even being contingent to win another one as a story

505
00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:20,480
Speaker 2: in itself, because Rossie, as really good as he was

506
00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:24,400
Speaker 2: in twenty fifteen, that was the when he didn't win

507
00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:27,000
Speaker 2: that world title. That was the beginning of a long,

508
00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:30,200
Speaker 2: slow decline. And when we think about the great career

509
00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:33,240
Speaker 2: of Valentino Rossi, no one's really talking about twenty seventeen

510
00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:35,480
Speaker 2: to twenty one, are they. We're almost trying to sort

511
00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:37,800
Speaker 2: of forget it existed, a bit like he's Ducaddy time, Like, oh,

512
00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:39,679
Speaker 2: that didn't exist. We know what happened, but let's not

513
00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:43,960
Speaker 2: talk about it. By the end, it felt that you know,

514
00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:45,400
Speaker 2: and he's got the right to do whatever he wants

515
00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:47,439
Speaker 2: because he won seventy world championships, but it kind of

516
00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:50,359
Speaker 2: felt that he stayed that little bit too long. And

517
00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:52,960
Speaker 2: you know, you look at sometimes these guys get out

518
00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:55,480
Speaker 2: too early, very rarely, but Casey Stoder probably got out

519
00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:58,080
Speaker 2: too early. There's some guys that leave at the right time.

520
00:24:58,119 --> 00:25:01,480
Speaker 2: I always thought to Vizio, so you know, pretty much

521
00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:04,159
Speaker 2: got it right. It's a hard line to find. You

522
00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:05,879
Speaker 2: look in the four wheel space, like you wonder if

523
00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:07,920
Speaker 2: we're going to be having this conversation about Lewis Hamilton

524
00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:09,600
Speaker 2: in a year or two. It's like, well, this Ferrari

525
00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:12,240
Speaker 2: stuff's not gone very well and he's forty one years old.

526
00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:14,920
Speaker 2: How's that going? So trying to find the right time

527
00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:17,280
Speaker 2: to go is the hard thing. Valentino probably outstate. He's

528
00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:19,320
Speaker 2: welcome a little bit, but he was completely within his

529
00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:22,760
Speaker 2: rights to do so because of what he'd done. And Marquees,

530
00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:24,600
Speaker 2: this is what I said before, like this is the

531
00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:26,960
Speaker 2: second career of a guy with the same name, because

532
00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:31,359
Speaker 2: twenty thirteen to nineteen, Marquees was a complete force of

533
00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:34,399
Speaker 2: nature who just won for fun on six titles in

534
00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:36,399
Speaker 2: seven years. He is a different writer now, in a

535
00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:39,399
Speaker 2: different person, but it's at a different time of his career.

536
00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:42,720
Speaker 2: But also knowing when to stop, that's always the key thing.

537
00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:46,880
Speaker 2: But yeah, the Rossie thing, These things turn on such

538
00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:49,920
Speaker 2: a knife agent. The point I was trying to make

539
00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:51,439
Speaker 2: in the story is that, you know, yeah, I was

540
00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:53,439
Speaker 2: being a little bit disingenuous when I described him as

541
00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:55,560
Speaker 2: the best loser of the past decade, but he is

542
00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:58,680
Speaker 2: the most competitive runner up of the past decade in

543
00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:01,680
Speaker 2: Motor GP. The only thing that made me go down

544
00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:04,800
Speaker 2: that rabbit hole and work that out was, yeah, Alex

545
00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:06,639
Speaker 2: Marquez is going to be runner up this season, but

546
00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:09,600
Speaker 2: it's not the most competitive runner up season of all time.

547
00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:13,800
Speaker 2: It's been an amazing season for Alex because he's completely

548
00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:16,400
Speaker 2: I don't know about you, but he's exceeded any expectation

549
00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:18,040
Speaker 2: I had of what he would do in Botter GP

550
00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:19,919
Speaker 2: this year. I'm like, is this the same guy that

551
00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:22,600
Speaker 2: I've seen for the previous five years? In and of itself,

552
00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:25,119
Speaker 2: He's had a fantastic season as a runner up, and

553
00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:27,960
Speaker 2: has it been competitive? Absolutely not No.

554
00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:30,199
Speaker 1: But I mean the news that's come out of it

555
00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:31,800
Speaker 1: is he's going to be on a factory es you

556
00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:37,000
Speaker 1: caddy next year, so whether that's something he wants to

557
00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:39,280
Speaker 1: is it even going to be a GP twenty six

558
00:26:39,359 --> 00:26:41,600
Speaker 1: or is it going to be twenty four point seven

559
00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:43,480
Speaker 1: eighty two or whatever version.

560
00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:46,399
Speaker 2: They are on the classic case of a poison Chalice,

561
00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:48,720
Speaker 2: congratulations on having the best year of your career. He's

562
00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:51,800
Speaker 2: a worse bike, yes, So we'll.

563
00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:54,959
Speaker 1: See what next year brings. But this weekend, Matt, I

564
00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:57,080
Speaker 1: asked you this and I just want to I want

565
00:26:57,119 --> 00:26:58,960
Speaker 1: you to reanswer it for me, because I was a

566
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:01,840
Speaker 1: little bit confused because we keep seeing Mark only has

567
00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:05,000
Speaker 1: to be Alex by three points to win the World Championship.

568
00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:07,800
Speaker 1: Can he do it on Sunday? Or is it just

569
00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:09,680
Speaker 1: going to be on Sunday that that's going to happen.

570
00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:12,840
Speaker 2: No, it has to be Sunday. So let's play the

571
00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:15,960
Speaker 2: scenario out. Say Mark wins the sprint and Alex doesn't

572
00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:18,040
Speaker 2: score a point just to go the worst case scenario

573
00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:20,560
Speaker 2: for Alex. Best case scenario for Mark, that means that

574
00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:23,400
Speaker 2: Mark would be fifteen points ahead coming into Sunday's Grand

575
00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:26,359
Speaker 2: Prix at Motegi. There's twenty five points available on Sunday

576
00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:28,920
Speaker 2: at Motegi. So if you had a situation where say

577
00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:32,439
Speaker 2: Alex wins the Grand Prix and Mark finishes seventh, then

578
00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:34,000
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, he's not going to be ahead

579
00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:36,240
Speaker 2: by the points he needs to cement the World Championship

580
00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:38,600
Speaker 2: by the end of the Motigi round, because it'll be

581
00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:41,159
Speaker 2: one hundred and eighty five available. So you could have

582
00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:45,400
Speaker 2: this really weird situation where Mark could get the three

583
00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:48,080
Speaker 2: points that he needs over Alex to be in a

584
00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:50,959
Speaker 2: position to win the World Championship by Saturday night. He

585
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:53,920
Speaker 2: could go to bed Saturday night and motegi as World

586
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:56,320
Speaker 2: Champion in waiting or put air quotes around it, because

587
00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:59,080
Speaker 2: he might have a one hundred and eighty seven point

588
00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:02,000
Speaker 2: gap over his younger brother in the standings, but that

589
00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:04,720
Speaker 2: doesn't mean anything because the World Championship standings are calculated

590
00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:06,400
Speaker 2: at the end of the round, and there is still

591
00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:08,960
Speaker 2: a chance for Alex to actually overtake Mark if Mark

592
00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:10,760
Speaker 2: was to have a shaker on Sunday and Alex was

593
00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:14,639
Speaker 2: to be by several places. So points wise, yeah, he

594
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:16,640
Speaker 2: can have the number of points that he would need

595
00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:18,920
Speaker 2: to be World champion by Saturday night, but there's still

596
00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:20,959
Speaker 2: a race on Sunday, and the race on Sunday's got

597
00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:22,960
Speaker 2: double the amount of points, and so you could have

598
00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:25,720
Speaker 2: this really really strange situation. It's like, well, he's basically

599
00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:29,800
Speaker 2: world champion, but he's not. Strange. One, it feels more

600
00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:32,800
Speaker 2: appropriate to be celebrating or moving on from these things

601
00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:35,600
Speaker 2: after a Grand Prix rather than a sprint, because it

602
00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:37,720
Speaker 2: would be a little bit sort of flat. It's like, oh,

603
00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:39,360
Speaker 2: we've had a sprint. Oh yeah, by the way, you're

604
00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:40,920
Speaker 2: the world champion, and now we've got to turn up

605
00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:42,959
Speaker 2: twenty four hours later and do the big show on

606
00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:46,280
Speaker 2: the Sunday. So simply because of the points gap between

607
00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:48,040
Speaker 2: the sprints and the Grand Prix this year, number of

608
00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:50,120
Speaker 2: points available, no, he can't win it on Saturday, but

609
00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:51,200
Speaker 2: he can wein it on Sunday.

610
00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:56,080
Speaker 1: Now, the important question for the weekend is it going

611
00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:58,840
Speaker 1: to be a Cloud nine celebration for March? You think

612
00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:03,520
Speaker 1: they're going to be like a seven plus two or.

613
00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:07,200
Speaker 2: A seventh plus two. We're going in an yetto territory here,

614
00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:10,920
Speaker 2: Mark Mark being Mark, I can see now. I mean,

615
00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:13,800
Speaker 2: if you you look around social media, you do a

616
00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:15,800
Speaker 2: bit of reading, there is some sort of discussion that

617
00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:18,240
Speaker 2: Downer have said, by the way, this is your seventh championship,

618
00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:20,560
Speaker 2: so you know there'll be some sort of themed celebration

619
00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:24,240
Speaker 2: that they've cooked up. Hopefully no, not involving any like

620
00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:27,720
Speaker 2: CGI Dancing Devils. The low point of Moto GP championship

621
00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:30,640
Speaker 2: celebrations with Coutaterero a few years ago. Still an absolutely

622
00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:34,160
Speaker 2: shocking one, that one. But you do since Mark being Mark,

623
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:38,160
Speaker 2: he'll probably acquiesce to the whole seventh Moto GP World

624
00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:40,760
Speaker 2: Championship thing. I'd be looking very closely at what that

625
00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:42,680
Speaker 2: number seven is because it might have a little plus

626
00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:44,400
Speaker 2: two just in there in like sort of you know,

627
00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:47,160
Speaker 2: ten point type or something, or with an asterisk or something,

628
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:49,640
Speaker 2: because you'll want to acknowledge the nine world championships. So

629
00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:51,920
Speaker 2: he'll probably be a good boy and do what he's told,

630
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:53,520
Speaker 2: but it'll also be a bit of by the way,

631
00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:56,480
Speaker 2: I won two other world championships as well, and I'm

632
00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 2: not forgetting about those. So they might have had to

633
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:01,240
Speaker 2: hastily redo the T shirts this week or something you

634
00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:03,920
Speaker 2: get them out to MOOTEGI. But I don't think that

635
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:07,040
Speaker 2: the one, two, five and the Motor two Championships I

636
00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:10,160
Speaker 2: go to be forgotten in the celebration. I'll say that no,

637
00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:10,880
Speaker 2: that's one.

638
00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:13,160
Speaker 1: Thing, like we spoke about earlier. Everyone can have their

639
00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:16,560
Speaker 1: opinion and everything about that, but I think you, hands down,

640
00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:20,320
Speaker 1: Mark Marquez is our alien right now. He is the

641
00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:23,200
Speaker 1: best that we've had since Valentino Rossi. And you can

642
00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:25,720
Speaker 1: go back the name whoever your favorite best is, but

643
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:28,360
Speaker 1: right now it is Mark Marquez. No one can get

644
00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:31,400
Speaker 1: even close to him, and we're witnessing one of the

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Speaker 1: best comebacks we've ever seen in sport. I've said to you,

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Speaker 1: this is like Michael Jordan, and you were like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm old enough to know when Michael Jordan actually did.

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Speaker 2: That, so I had Actually I'd actually argue, and this

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Speaker 2: is me putting my other sporting hat on here, because

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Speaker 2: I covered a lot of the Jordan era because again,

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Speaker 2: old other sports, that sort of stuff. I'd actually argue,

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Speaker 2: it's more impressive than what Jordan did. Because Jordan chose

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Speaker 2: to walk away and do another sport for a couple

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Speaker 2: of years, and he won three consecutive championships, so he

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Speaker 2: won six in all in a nine year period. Because

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Speaker 2: he spent the best part of those middle three years

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Speaker 2: either not playing or just getting back to playing again.

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Speaker 2: Mark didn't have a choice in all of this in

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Speaker 2: that Mark's body was broken and he's had to come

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Speaker 2: back through all the physical anguish and the mental anguish

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Speaker 2: that goes with that to get himself back to the

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Speaker 2: top in a completely different spec series at this point,

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Speaker 2: with different rivals. And you only have to look, and

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Speaker 2: I mentioned this when we had Keith Ewanon last week.

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Speaker 2: You go back and look at photos of Mark's first

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Speaker 2: championship at Honda in twenty thirteen and look at the bikes.

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Speaker 2: They look so sort of, I don't know, they look

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Speaker 2: so they look like motorbikes as a start for their

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Speaker 2: air no weeks, but they look like they're out of

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Speaker 2: a museum or something. They look look like a totally

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Speaker 2: different sport because we get so used to seeing what

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Speaker 2: these bikes look like and the right height devices and

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Speaker 2: the way they're ridden. These days, you look at the

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Speaker 2: ninety three repsol Honda in twenty thirteen, it's like, man,

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Speaker 2: this thing seems so basic, Like there are amazing bits

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Speaker 2: of kit for their time, incredibly fast as a sound,

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Speaker 2: and the amazing bikes to watch, but it looks like

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Speaker 2: a different hatch. Agreed, isn't it?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? I completely agree. I see the same when I

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Speaker 1: look at my brother's bike from two thousand and seven

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Speaker 1: sitting in his house and it's.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like, where's the rest of it?

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Speaker 1: Yea, hey, you wrote this thing. This is like a

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Speaker 1: big hunker metal.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well it was a very fast, big hugger metal,

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Speaker 2: but yes it was.

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Speaker 1: Well, ladies and gentlemen, we are about to witness history

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Speaker 1: in the making this weekend for around seventeen and twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty five at Moto GP World Championship. Can Mark Marquez

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Speaker 1: get another star added to his belt? We will find out,

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Speaker 1: you read Matt's one on Moto GP's Best Losers, you

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Speaker 1: of the way from myself and Matt Clayton. We're going

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