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Speaker 1: So between floods, sinkholes and the track coming apart like

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Speaker 1: Was this iconic? Was it a disaster or is it

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Speaker 1: a bit Talk sponsored by Shannon's Insurance. Joining me Rinita

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Speaker 1: Vmulan is our Fox Sports resident Moto GP editor Matt Clayton. Matt,

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Speaker 1: I didn't want to do a funny intro because in

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Speaker 1: all seriousness today there's been a lot that I don't

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Speaker 2: Was there anything that passed the safety aspect? Grenada? I've

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Speaker 2: I have never in my life written a headline with

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Speaker 2: This shouldn't be happening in professional sport. I guess that's

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Speaker 2: story of this entire weekend, it sort of began really

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Speaker 2: And then that was just the tip of the iceberg,

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Speaker 1: Oh, the stories, the things that I've heard from people

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Speaker 1: Or am I going to put a post about it?

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Speaker 2: Wins, I mean betting on Mark Marquez. Coda is not

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Speaker 2: and Mark's just like, that's a left hand I'm going

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Speaker 2: you're starting to feel pretty confident with your body again

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Speaker 2: long winded way of me saying, yes, he is going

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Speaker 2: to win it, coda, and all will be right with

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Speaker 2: the world. And of course if it doesn't happen, you

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Speaker 2: will not mention it on social media and I will

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Speaker 2: deny ever saying it.

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Speaker 1: I think I saw did you say that his shoulder

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Speaker 1: which I thought was hilarious. It shows that they were

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Speaker 1: and that's the real racing. That's what we want. We

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Speaker 1: love it, guys, and more sticking your head into an

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Speaker 1: north of sixty degrees is bananas. Yeah, insane, Yes, coder

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Speaker 1: is this weekend, so we have Moto GP back to back.

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Speaker 1: We love a double header and you guys can catch

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Speaker 1: all the action live and ad break free on Fox

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Speaker 1: Sports and KO a little bit better for us, I

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Speaker 1: think in terms of visuals. Is not me setting a

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Speaker 1: Sunday morning sprint.

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Speaker 2: In that case seven am Australian Eastern daylight time. So

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Speaker 2: breakfast Moto GP on a Monday morning. It's almost the

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Speaker 2: absolute It's the perfect time slot. Quite frankly, get up

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Speaker 2: ten minutes before, get the breakfast on, and then watch

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Speaker 2: watch the world's greatest riders around a pretty cool track.

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Speaker 1: Oh so good. Make the most of you guys before

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Speaker 1: MotoGP heads back to Europe. But don't forget. You can

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Speaker 1: keep up today with all of Matt's articles and the

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Speaker 1: latest MotoGP news on our website Fox sports dot com,

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Speaker 1: do au forward slash Motorsport and if you want to

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Speaker 1: see if Matt's predictions do come up on social so

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Speaker 1: you can remind him of them, and they are on

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Speaker 1: our social platforms at Fox Motorsport everywhere. Plus we are

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Speaker 1: on YouTube as well at Fox Motorsport on YouTube. But

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Speaker 1: that wraps up everything from this. We're gonna be back

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Speaker 1: real soon, hopefully with some inside goss from CODA, but

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Speaker 1: from Matt Clayton and myself. Ronita Vmuellen will be back

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Speaker 1: real soon with more monor gippit talk