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Speaker 1: So Brazil it's famous for at senna kind of ball football,

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Speaker 1: but Moto GP has arrived with three hundred horsepower, twenty

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Speaker 1: two riders and absolutely no chill. So yeah, this is

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Speaker 1: going to be wild. Welcome back to pittok podcast sponsored

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Speaker 1: by Shannon's Insurance. I'm your host, Rinita Vmullin, and alongside

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Speaker 1: me is the man who may not have the samba

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Speaker 1: rhythm of Brazil, but he definitely knows the rhythm of

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Speaker 1: Moto GP. Mister Matt Clayton, Matt, how you going?

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Speaker 2: How dare you cast such as versions or may Rineta

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Speaker 2: on this podcast. That's one of my hidden talents that

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Speaker 2: I haven't revealed yet. But no, lovely to be back

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Speaker 2: with you the important exports of Brazil. You've forgot to

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Speaker 2: mention coffee as well, which will be very very handy

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Speaker 2: for Australian audiences this weekend.

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Speaker 1: I would suggest the time zone is definitely not in

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Speaker 1: our favor, but I mean we should be grateful because

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Speaker 1: we had Thailand in a Sunday afternoon where we could

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Speaker 1: actually enjoy it for once, which is exactly nice. But

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Speaker 1: before we continue on, we have to choose our other guests.

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Speaker 1: Joining us is the man who greases our TV speakers

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Speaker 1: twenty two weekends of the year. It's MotoGP's own Lewis

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Speaker 1: Suderby Lewis, welcome to the pit Talk podcast.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks for having me on, guys, And yeah, you

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Speaker 3: don't want to see me get involved in the sort

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Speaker 3: of samba either. There's a reason why on gear Up

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Speaker 3: after the Flag you don't see me walking much. It's

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I reckon, Jack Aup. We are to have the

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Speaker 2: samba side of things pretty sordid, I would have thought

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Speaker 2: to partake in that one.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. He'll throw himself into absolutely anything. So yeah, if

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Speaker 3: you see him engaging in a bit of sambrother weekend,

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Speaker 3: do not be remotely surprised.

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Speaker 1: I cannot wait to see that on like the Inside

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Speaker 1: the Paddock and or a little social thing the JACKI

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Speaker 1: goes on his little adventures. But enough about our second

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Speaker 1: favorite Jack. We're going to talk about you, Lewis, so

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Speaker 1: before we get into Brazil and everything that's that's coming

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Speaker 1: up on the weekend. And one thing we like to

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Speaker 1: of the people behind the scenes. How did you get

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I i've in terms of motor GP,

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Speaker 3: Back in twenty nineteen and yeah, for about four or

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Speaker 3: I've been a formerly one fan longer than I've been

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Speaker 2: And so now you're working shoulder to shoulder with Matt

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Speaker 2: know how Matt does. He is the greatest over preparer

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I've idea how he'd find the time to do

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Speaker 2: I've got one more nerdy journalism question before you hear,

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Speaker 2: because it's something I would always do when I was

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Speaker 3: It certainly will be this weekend being a brand new circuit.

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Speaker 1: I'm just listening to you pronounce the location because this

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Speaker 3: I don't know if I've quite mailed it yet.

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Speaker 1: Look, I'm going to learn from you, sir. Let's go.

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Speaker 1: I'm just going to wing it, okay, order Drummer International

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Speaker 1: and Senna in Guyana. Look, that's the most Australian pronunciation

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Speaker 2: Thank you for practicing.

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Speaker 1: What do you know about the track? Because I was

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Speaker 1: Surely they're going to make some improvements to the track

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Speaker 3: Bad as much as you guys? I guess. There's been

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Speaker 3: fernetic around there. It's gonna be thirty one laps on Sunday,

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Speaker 3: to be the shortest lap of the year in terms

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Speaker 3: Obviously the riders that learn quickest there's any new track

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Speaker 1: I think Lewis is going to take the crown. Honestly,

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Speaker 2: you know, one of the reasons he went to KTM

432
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Speaker 2: in the first place is that he was actually offered

433
00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:40,960
Speaker 2: a deal that was worth more than one year for

434
00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:43,000
Speaker 2: once in his life and he did have the job security.

435
00:19:43,040 --> 00:19:46,240
Speaker 2: But it's interesting the Yamaha project at the moment. This

436
00:19:46,359 --> 00:19:51,200
Speaker 2: is very very specific, narrow band job description that is

437
00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:53,480
Speaker 2: almost like it's been written by Jack for himself, because

438
00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:55,520
Speaker 2: he's one of the few guys that can actually fill

439
00:19:55,560 --> 00:19:58,840
Speaker 2: the job. You need experienced with other manufacturers, you need

440
00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:01,280
Speaker 2: to be a leader who can take the emotion out

441
00:20:01,320 --> 00:20:03,920
Speaker 2: of the technical feedback. And I guess Lewis For me,

442
00:20:04,320 --> 00:20:07,639
Speaker 2: the sign of how well Jack does this job is

443
00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:10,359
Speaker 2: that the benefits of what he's doing now. He probably

444
00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:13,119
Speaker 2: won't be around for if and when Yamaha comes good

445
00:20:13,160 --> 00:20:16,000
Speaker 2: in the future, but maybe the legacy play for him

446
00:20:16,119 --> 00:20:18,920
Speaker 2: is like, well, my fingerprints are on this company getting

447
00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:21,119
Speaker 2: back to where it needed to be. He might not

448
00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:23,920
Speaker 2: necessarily be holding the handle because when they get there,

449
00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:26,680
Speaker 2: But it feels like what he does if he gets

450
00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:28,560
Speaker 2: another yearnixt year, and I think he's probably got better

451
00:20:28,640 --> 00:20:31,359
Speaker 2: job security now than he might have had previously, it

452
00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:33,800
Speaker 2: feels like that's going to be his sort of swan

453
00:20:33,880 --> 00:20:36,680
Speaker 2: song to Motor GP now and that when he eventually finishes,

454
00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:39,160
Speaker 2: he's going to have a big say in what Yamaha does,

455
00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:41,480
Speaker 2: assuming as we all do, that Yamaha is going to

456
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Speaker 2: come back up the grid again.

457
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's gonna be important his role because, as we say,

458
00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:49,359
Speaker 3: there's going to be a little bit of musical chairs

459
00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:52,359
Speaker 3: going on in the Yamaha setup for next season. Whether

460
00:20:52,520 --> 00:20:54,680
Speaker 3: that means Jack moves up to the Battery team or

461
00:20:54,680 --> 00:20:56,960
Speaker 3: stays put at Pramak, I'm not sure at the moment.

462
00:20:57,040 --> 00:20:59,720
Speaker 3: Potentially he'll stay where he is, but yeah, he's going

463
00:20:59,760 --> 00:21:01,560
Speaker 3: to have a hugely important role. And what you said

464
00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:04,960
Speaker 3: there reminds me of some comments from Pitt Byra when

465
00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:08,680
Speaker 3: they announced that Pedro Acosta was replacing Jack at KATM

466
00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:11,399
Speaker 3: in that he credited Jack with a lot of the

467
00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:13,480
Speaker 3: progress that Kate had made with the bike. I think

468
00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:16,640
Speaker 3: one tends of purposes. He said, Jack is a big

469
00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:20,240
Speaker 3: reason for the progress on the bike. But unfortunately Jack

470
00:21:20,359 --> 00:21:23,400
Speaker 3: wasn't the rider that ultimately exploited that progress that we've

471
00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:25,720
Speaker 3: made for the bike. It was Brad Binder at the time.

472
00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:27,959
Speaker 3: And we might find ourselves in a similar situation at

473
00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:33,119
Speaker 3: Yamaha that once Yamaha do ultimately understand to improve the

474
00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:36,960
Speaker 3: new motorcycle that they've got, the V four, which they're

475
00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:39,800
Speaker 3: going to because they're too strong and too powerful the

476
00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:44,679
Speaker 3: manufacturer not too over time that maybe ultimately it's going

477
00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:47,600
Speaker 3: to be a Johey Martine if he does join Yamaha,

478
00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:50,760
Speaker 3: or a top Rack who knows that ultimately exploits that.

479
00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:53,760
Speaker 3: But but don't underestimate Jack's role in all of that.

480
00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:57,120
Speaker 3: He is central the moment of that project because top

481
00:21:57,200 --> 00:21:59,119
Speaker 3: Rack is new to Motive GP, so you can't really

482
00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:01,240
Speaker 3: trust him at the moment with developing the bike and

483
00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:03,960
Speaker 3: do you really want to trust Fabio Quattarara with developing

484
00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:05,959
Speaker 3: the bike if you know he's leading the team at

485
00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:08,439
Speaker 3: the end of the season. So Jack's role is going

486
00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:10,400
Speaker 3: to be so important in terms of developing the bike,

487
00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:12,520
Speaker 3: in terms of developing the bike on the Perellis for

488
00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:15,000
Speaker 3: next season and everything that goes into it, and that

489
00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:18,160
Speaker 3: experience is going to be so key. You mentioned top

490
00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:18,600
Speaker 3: Rack there.

491
00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:20,800
Speaker 1: That's another name that I kind of want to discuss

492
00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:24,680
Speaker 1: a little bit and explore because when I was in

493
00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:28,680
Speaker 1: paying for the test, we saw top Rack really struggling.

494
00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:31,240
Speaker 1: I was talking with Peter Baum and he was explaining

495
00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:35,200
Speaker 1: the setup and the trying to figure out everything. We

496
00:22:35,359 --> 00:22:37,040
Speaker 1: know that he's kind of gone in a bit of

497
00:22:37,080 --> 00:22:40,160
Speaker 1: a different direction, But what have you seen from top

498
00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:42,720
Speaker 1: Rack because he's starting to get the hang of the

499
00:22:42,840 --> 00:22:45,240
Speaker 1: Yamaha and the V four and Moto GP as a whole.

500
00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:49,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, do you know what, As I mentioned earlier, it

501
00:22:49,359 --> 00:22:52,040
Speaker 3: doesn't get anywhere nearly attention because he's not winning on

502
00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:54,480
Speaker 3: a BMW now he's near the back on the Yamaha.

503
00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:57,639
Speaker 3: But I thought he did quite a good job in Burra.

504
00:22:57,840 --> 00:23:01,200
Speaker 3: He qualified half a second. Think it was off Fabio

505
00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:03,960
Speaker 3: and we know Fabio is potentially the fastest rider in

506
00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:06,080
Speaker 3: the world. Over one lap. He was a quarter of

507
00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:08,480
Speaker 3: a second or so off off Jacket and Alex Rinz,

508
00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:10,919
Speaker 3: which I'd say in his first qualifying session in other

509
00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,800
Speaker 3: GP is a is a very good job. He was

510
00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:16,560
Speaker 3: in the same group as the of the Yamahas in

511
00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:20,680
Speaker 3: the sprint when he crashed. And yes he beat Jack

512
00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:22,159
Speaker 3: in the Grand Prix, but we know Jack had his

513
00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:24,080
Speaker 3: issues towards towards the end of the race which don't

514
00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:27,040
Speaker 3: quite paint a clear picture of where they were in

515
00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:29,520
Speaker 3: the race. But I think top Rack's got the right

516
00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:32,200
Speaker 3: attitude for this. You know, he's he's such a great

517
00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:34,520
Speaker 3: guy just to just to talk to and be around

518
00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:36,800
Speaker 3: because and I hope this doesn't change him this experience

519
00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:39,040
Speaker 3: in the first half of this year with Yamaha. I

520
00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:41,159
Speaker 3: hope he still remains as open with all of us

521
00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:43,760
Speaker 3: and as chatty as he has been. He's got a

522
00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:47,040
Speaker 3: very mature head on his shoulders, and many many riders

523
00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:49,840
Speaker 3: would not be like that. Having been on a diet

524
00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:52,240
Speaker 3: of winning and winning and winning for the last few years.

525
00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:55,000
Speaker 3: Three time world champion over in superbike to then go

526
00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:58,000
Speaker 3: to a championship where first of all, you know the

527
00:23:58,119 --> 00:24:00,320
Speaker 3: levels a step up, you know the modor side, you

528
00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:03,000
Speaker 3: know the tires. I think most importantly the Mitchellin's are

529
00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:05,639
Speaker 3: different to what he's used to. And then you've got

530
00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:07,680
Speaker 3: to go out there and compete and see, you know,

531
00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:10,000
Speaker 3: for all your hard work to see p. Twenty one

532
00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:13,119
Speaker 3: next to your name at the end of qualify. There

533
00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:15,359
Speaker 3: are many many rylos that that would have a major

534
00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:19,400
Speaker 3: psychological impact on but top ras keeping his head down,

535
00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:22,080
Speaker 3: he's doing that for me as good a job as

536
00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:25,280
Speaker 3: you can realistically expect of him at the moment. He's

537
00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:26,840
Speaker 3: just not getting the plaud it's all the points to

538
00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:28,680
Speaker 3: show for it at the moment because of the compesitiveness

539
00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:29,640
Speaker 3: or lack of of the bike.

540
00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:31,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's what you were saying before. Like in

541
00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:34,159
Speaker 2: some respects it's almost the perfect year for him to

542
00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:37,480
Speaker 2: come in because twenty seven is such this hard reset anyway,

543
00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:40,480
Speaker 2: and so if you've got your head around what it's

544
00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:42,600
Speaker 2: like to be in the motor GP paddock, the way

545
00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:46,200
Speaker 2: the weekend's unfold, getting used to circuits you've not written on,

546
00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:48,120
Speaker 2: to a lot of circuits he's not written on, particularly

547
00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:49,639
Speaker 2: a lot of the flyways. I think it's probably a

548
00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:52,360
Speaker 2: good year for him to do that. But Rineta, I'm

549
00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:53,840
Speaker 2: going to jump in here with something that we're going

550
00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:55,240
Speaker 2: to talk about a bit later, but I want to

551
00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:56,879
Speaker 2: go to the other end of the standings at the

552
00:24:56,920 --> 00:24:59,920
Speaker 2: moment and ask Lewis a little bit about Marco Betzeki

553
00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:04,119
Speaker 2: simply because it's really interesting what's happened there at a

554
00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:07,760
Speaker 2: Prillier in that you know, if you gave Massimo Riverla

555
00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:09,560
Speaker 2: some truth Cerreum, I don't think he ever would admit

556
00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:12,119
Speaker 2: that he was hiring Marco Poseki to become this leader

557
00:25:12,359 --> 00:25:15,040
Speaker 2: that he's become. And then with the way things played

558
00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:17,440
Speaker 2: out with a Prillier last year in Juge Martin, just

559
00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:19,880
Speaker 2: going from one incident and accident to the next thing,

560
00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:23,680
Speaker 2: Aprillier might have stumbled across something almost accidentally with bed Zeki.

561
00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:27,080
Speaker 2: Because the more responsibility that he has had, there's been

562
00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:29,400
Speaker 2: this sort of different version of Marco that I think

563
00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:31,520
Speaker 2: that's emerged over the last little while. And you can

564
00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:33,640
Speaker 2: see that, you know, he and the team love each other,

565
00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:36,200
Speaker 2: and you know, I know Masimo from his Formula one days.

566
00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:38,320
Speaker 2: He's a certain guy to work for that is definitely

567
00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:41,680
Speaker 2: going to empower someone in a position like that by

568
00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:44,000
Speaker 2: some sort of happy accident. This has turned out to

569
00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:46,720
Speaker 2: be a really formidable little partnership, hasn't it with these two.

570
00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:50,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's worked out really well for them. I draw

571
00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:54,640
Speaker 3: parallels with Andreda Bitcioso Jacati in that. Yeah, he wasn't

572
00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:57,679
Speaker 3: really he wasn't brought to Jakati to be barely right,

573
00:25:57,720 --> 00:25:59,560
Speaker 3: you'd argue Andre you Nona was supposed to be that,

574
00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:01,960
Speaker 3: and for reasons that we weren't going too, that didn't

575
00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:08,200
Speaker 3: really work out for him, and I think ultimately why.

576
00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:12,000
Speaker 3: I also draw the comparison with with Dovies Andreda Vizioso

577
00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:15,280
Speaker 3: elevated himself as much as the bike clearly did improve

578
00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:17,760
Speaker 3: it Jacati to give him the package to fight Mark Marquez,

579
00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:21,240
Speaker 3: Andreda Vicioso elevated himself as a rider to a level,

580
00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:23,800
Speaker 3: but I'm not sure many thought he could. And maybe

581
00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:27,120
Speaker 3: we're seeing that too with Bez where even in twenty

582
00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:29,040
Speaker 3: twenty three when he was, you know, winning Grand Prix,

583
00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:31,000
Speaker 3: was you know, in the top three in the world championship,

584
00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:33,760
Speaker 3: I think we all saw him as a level below

585
00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:38,720
Speaker 3: Banyai Martin, Mark Marquez, maybe Fabio Quatuaro. That sort of level.

586
00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:42,160
Speaker 3: But he's now joining that conversation. I think as a genuine,

587
00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:46,320
Speaker 3: you know, elite mother GPE rider, I think what Borro

588
00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:49,320
Speaker 3: Ram demonstrated I think is still how far he has

589
00:26:49,359 --> 00:26:52,600
Speaker 3: to go in that We we saw how strong he was.

590
00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:55,280
Speaker 3: We saw as we saw in the last two granpries

591
00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:56,840
Speaker 3: of last season. If you give him clear tarmac at

592
00:26:56,880 --> 00:26:59,320
Speaker 3: the front of the fielding with a GP, he is

593
00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:02,719
Speaker 3: super super strong, if not unbeatable on the right package.

594
00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:05,600
Speaker 3: But Marco Betzeki should have left Burrow around with thirty

595
00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:08,919
Speaker 3: seven points. There's no two ways about that. And if

596
00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:12,879
Speaker 3: you're fighting for a world championship, you need to really

597
00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:15,760
Speaker 3: really punish Mark, Marquees and Jakati on a weekend where

598
00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:17,760
Speaker 3: they're on their back foot a little bit and you

599
00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:21,600
Speaker 3: have the dominant package. So as super strong as Marco

600
00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:26,000
Speaker 3: Betzeki is now, he's clearly up there with the fastest

601
00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:28,879
Speaker 3: riders in mud GP and on argue with the fastest

602
00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:30,639
Speaker 3: bike at the moment. We'll see if it is in

603
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:33,080
Speaker 3: the next couple of grown prize. So he's now going

604
00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:37,399
Speaker 3: to find that level of consistency to befit a championship contender.

605
00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:39,720
Speaker 3: Because he crashed three times ultimately didn't he On the Saturday,

606
00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:42,520
Speaker 3: he had the warning in free practice too. He then

607
00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:44,480
Speaker 3: crashed at the end of quarter fang after already taking

608
00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:47,680
Speaker 3: whole position and then trying to pull clear of Mark

609
00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:50,040
Speaker 3: Marquez in the sprint, he dumped it at turn eight.

610
00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:54,000
Speaker 3: So if Marco Etzeki is going to go from genuine

611
00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:58,280
Speaker 3: brector Mark Marquez and Jacati to ultimately beating them, he's

612
00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:00,959
Speaker 3: got to try and you know, find that level of consistency,

613
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:04,040
Speaker 3: try to ride at ninety nine percent and still when

614
00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:06,080
Speaker 3: rather than running up just over the limit as he

615
00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:08,800
Speaker 3: was in the sprint in Burrogram. And if you could

616
00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:11,800
Speaker 3: do that, for sure, there's a championship contender in there

617
00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:13,879
Speaker 3: if a Prillier give him the bike over twenty two

618
00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:16,160
Speaker 3: grod prize to show that he can fight up there.

619
00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:19,920
Speaker 1: Let's touch on the sprint. You mentioned that there, and

620
00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:24,800
Speaker 1: it was kind of a little bit controversial that last lap.

621
00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:26,879
Speaker 1: Should we just say like that was a little bit

622
00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:28,919
Speaker 1: smarte It kind of kept us on ounces a bit.

623
00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:32,080
Speaker 1: What were you guys, I mean, we were listening to

624
00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:34,680
Speaker 1: you and Bertie on the broadcast, but what were you

625
00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:37,760
Speaker 1: guys thinking when that was happening between Pedro and Mark,

626
00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:39,240
Speaker 1: what was going through your head?

627
00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:42,480
Speaker 3: Well, we have the I guess, the lovely benefit of

628
00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:44,760
Speaker 3: doing the job we do of we think out loud

629
00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:48,520
Speaker 3: right on the broadcast. So I said, at the time

630
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:50,400
Speaker 3: we were I think we were waiting to see more

631
00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:52,560
Speaker 3: angles of it, given that we were on the final lap.

632
00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:55,120
Speaker 3: It wasn't the ideal moment to really do that. But

633
00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:56,880
Speaker 3: I said straight away, the students have got a big

634
00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:59,160
Speaker 3: decision to make here, And that wasn't me saying I

635
00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:01,840
Speaker 3: thought it should have been a penalty. But you can

636
00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:04,960
Speaker 3: understand why kat m would be waiving the imagine a

637
00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:07,640
Speaker 3: yellow card saying we need something done about this, and

638
00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:10,280
Speaker 3: why Jakati would be a little unhappy if a decision

639
00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:14,320
Speaker 3: was made and they the stewards, led of course by

640
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:17,600
Speaker 3: a guy we know well in Simon Crowfart. They they

641
00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:20,280
Speaker 3: were in a position that I do not envy at

642
00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:22,680
Speaker 3: all there in that they had to they had to

643
00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:25,760
Speaker 3: make a snap decision because because no one wants to

644
00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:28,120
Speaker 3: see a race victory change hands after the checker flag

645
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:30,800
Speaker 3: has been taken. We all want to see a finish,

646
00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:32,200
Speaker 3: we want to see an end, we want to see

647
00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:35,760
Speaker 3: a winner. So they they made the decision that they made.

648
00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:38,360
Speaker 3: It's not the decision I would have made. I would

649
00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:41,120
Speaker 3: have left it alone. I would have let Mark Marquez

650
00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:42,880
Speaker 3: keep that victory because I think it was it was

651
00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:46,040
Speaker 3: on the limit, and I think both riders ultimately played

652
00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:48,600
Speaker 3: a part in that. I said it during commentary that

653
00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:51,600
Speaker 3: this is in no way blaming Pedro Acosta for this,

654
00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:55,520
Speaker 3: but Pedro Acosta tried to sort of hang out around

655
00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:58,680
Speaker 3: the outside of Mark Marquez rather than doing what mart

656
00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:01,600
Speaker 3: Marquez did in the sprint when Pedro was overtaken to

657
00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:03,760
Speaker 3: that corner, which is, let Pedro have the corner and

658
00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:05,560
Speaker 3: just duck underneath him on the way out and get

659
00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:08,960
Speaker 3: the run onto the main straight. Pedro had done that,

660
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:11,920
Speaker 3: there would have been no collision or no no sort

661
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:13,960
Speaker 3: of incident into the corner. He depends on who you

662
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,280
Speaker 3: speak to as to whether there was contact or not,

663
00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:21,280
Speaker 3: but ultimately they decided that contact had been made, that

664
00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:23,760
Speaker 3: it was I think the distinction they made was that

665
00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:28,400
Speaker 3: it wasn't an safe maneuver, but it was an unfair

666
00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:31,600
Speaker 3: maneuver on Pedro Costa in that it didn't give him,

667
00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:34,400
Speaker 3: I guess the fair run onto the straight. I can

668
00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:38,239
Speaker 3: see the rashtale behind that. Yeah, but if i'd been

669
00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:40,440
Speaker 3: in that decision, which ultimately I'm not so as crazy

670
00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:41,800
Speaker 3: for me to say that I wouldn't have had that

671
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:44,560
Speaker 3: I didn't have that pressure on my shoulders. I think

672
00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:47,360
Speaker 3: I would have let Mark Marquez away with that, maybe

673
00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:49,760
Speaker 3: giving him a talking to the race to say that's

674
00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:52,360
Speaker 3: on the limit. You know, we've seen incidents like that

675
00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:54,480
Speaker 3: go unpunished. We've seen in a Bashnini with a Grand

676
00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:57,240
Speaker 3: Prima zan a couple of years ago against Jhe Martine

677
00:30:57,280 --> 00:31:00,720
Speaker 3: where you could argue they were similar, if not identical,

678
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:03,040
Speaker 3: moves on the last lap, and Bashnini was allowed to

679
00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:05,920
Speaker 3: keep the win. So I can understand why Jakati were

680
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:08,720
Speaker 3: pretty hot about that after the race. David Ata dots

681
00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:11,040
Speaker 3: In particularly, who never he's never shined showing us how

682
00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:13,360
Speaker 3: he feels about something. He was pretty he was pretty

683
00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:16,280
Speaker 3: unhappy about that after the race. But it's great for us.

684
00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:18,080
Speaker 3: It's great for the spot because it got the whole

685
00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:20,360
Speaker 3: world talking about my other GP on the first one

686
00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:21,840
Speaker 3: Saturday of the season, which is perfect.

687
00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:24,480
Speaker 2: Well, the funny part about it is because the way

688
00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:26,840
Speaker 2: that race was playing out, you knew that whatever the

689
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:29,680
Speaker 2: order was coming into that penultimate lap, that that situation

690
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:32,240
Speaker 2: was probably going to play out. And it's like the

691
00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:35,200
Speaker 2: football match where two guys literally turn around and gesticulate

692
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:36,440
Speaker 2: to the reference, like how about that?

693
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:37,480
Speaker 3: And you knew that.

694
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:40,040
Speaker 2: Whatever whether the roles were reversed or not, it was

695
00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:43,120
Speaker 2: sort of boiling down to that someone's going to put

696
00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:44,760
Speaker 2: their hand up and say, how about the other guy.

697
00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:47,920
Speaker 2: I'm a bit in your category, Lewis, in that I'm

698
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:50,320
Speaker 2: more thinking not so much about the incident itself, but

699
00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:53,320
Speaker 2: when you adjudicate on something like this one way or

700
00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:56,280
Speaker 2: the other, it's to set a precedent, right, so the

701
00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:59,280
Speaker 2: next time there is a situation like this, someone will

702
00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:01,000
Speaker 2: do exactly what you just mentioned there with the best

703
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:02,920
Speaker 2: you knowed you want. At Messano the other year, it's like, well,

704
00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:05,680
Speaker 2: how is this any different to tyler ad last quarter, second,

705
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:08,960
Speaker 2: last lap. So that now becomes like the test case.

706
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:11,240
Speaker 2: Now we have to fit everything into that particular box.

707
00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:14,040
Speaker 2: And the subtext of watching those two go at it,

708
00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:15,800
Speaker 2: and I know Nita and I were talking about this,

709
00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:18,280
Speaker 2: We're thinking these two are going to be teammates this year.

710
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:19,960
Speaker 2: How good is this? And the fact they haven't even

711
00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:22,720
Speaker 2: haven't even announced that, you know, there's a bottleneck of

712
00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:24,960
Speaker 2: the announcements at the moment, But I just kept thinking,

713
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:26,880
Speaker 2: these two are going to be sharing a box next year,

714
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:28,480
Speaker 2: and they're already at it in the first sprint of

715
00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:31,120
Speaker 2: the season. Just added another layer to the story, didn't it.

716
00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:35,240
Speaker 3: Yeah. I think mart Marquez is very He's very smart

717
00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:37,120
Speaker 3: in the way he deals with you. So I think

718
00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:40,080
Speaker 3: he lets emotions sort of bubble up a little bit

719
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:42,360
Speaker 3: when he gave the imaginary of the sort of sarcastic

720
00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:45,960
Speaker 3: applause up up the resirection after the sprint had finished,

721
00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:49,680
Speaker 3: once he got off the bike, he said, first of all, look,

722
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:51,640
Speaker 3: I'm never going to cry about Jewish decisions. That's just

723
00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:53,920
Speaker 3: not in my makeup. That's just not how I go

724
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:57,480
Speaker 3: about things. Mart Marquez is very good at knowing where

725
00:32:57,520 --> 00:32:59,920
Speaker 3: the line is and pushing as far as he can

726
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:02,440
Speaker 3: without going past it. Now I guess he's now found

727
00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:04,080
Speaker 3: out in the not the way he wanted to, but

728
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:06,600
Speaker 3: he found out in perhap where the line is, and

729
00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:10,080
Speaker 3: it's slightly before where he ultimately got to with Pedro Acosta.

730
00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:13,600
Speaker 3: But that extra context is absolutely right that you brought up,

731
00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:16,240
Speaker 3: and I think I think I referenced that soon afterwards,

732
00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:18,320
Speaker 3: and that I think I felt that was mar Marquez

733
00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 3: also proving a point to Pedro Acosta at the end

734
00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:23,080
Speaker 3: of the sprint. If this is going to be the

735
00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:26,400
Speaker 3: Jacati factory team for the next year or two, We'll

736
00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:29,400
Speaker 3: see how long that mart Marquez remains at the top

737
00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:32,720
Speaker 3: top level of MOTORGP for They're going to be battling

738
00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:35,400
Speaker 3: for world championships against each other in the next two

739
00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:38,600
Speaker 3: to three years, there's no question about that. Assuming Jacati

740
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:42,000
Speaker 3: don't completely botch the eight fifty, which we're not expecting

741
00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:44,800
Speaker 3: them to. Mar Marcus and Pedro Costa are going to

742
00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:46,800
Speaker 3: be on the same piece of racetrack a lot in

743
00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:50,520
Speaker 3: the next couple of years. And Pedro Acosta quite rightly

744
00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:52,880
Speaker 3: wants to prove a point to Mark that I'm here

745
00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:55,400
Speaker 3: to take your crown away from you. I'm what you

746
00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:58,440
Speaker 3: were back in twenty thirteen when you came into MOTORGP,

747
00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:01,840
Speaker 3: and Mark Marquez is now the experienced old hand who

748
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:04,960
Speaker 3: wants to defend his territory in motor GP and dit Chikati,

749
00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:07,440
Speaker 3: so he's not going to let Pedro Acosta push him around.

750
00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:11,959
Speaker 3: Mart Marquez is a very proud athlete, so I'm sure

751
00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:15,040
Speaker 3: he's well aware that he spent most of the Tigro

752
00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:18,560
Speaker 3: on pre weekend being overtaken by Pedro a Costa, and

753
00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:20,839
Speaker 3: he won't enjoy that one bit. So I'm sure he'll

754
00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:22,560
Speaker 3: want to try and fight back in any way he can,

755
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:25,319
Speaker 3: because of course we very early stages, but Pedro Costa

756
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:26,280
Speaker 3: is the world championship.

757
00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:30,520
Speaker 1: Yep, he does into Brazil and it's exciting. But just

758
00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:32,680
Speaker 1: listening to you then talking, I was replaying the races

759
00:34:32,719 --> 00:34:34,320
Speaker 1: in my head. It kind of reminds me of that

760
00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:37,239
Speaker 1: like older brother younger brother, like they'd really like trying

761
00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:39,640
Speaker 1: to fight it out. But for us as the fans

762
00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:43,080
Speaker 1: at home, it made the race so exciting. And there's

763
00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:44,799
Speaker 1: something me and Matt we were talking about. We were

764
00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:47,000
Speaker 1: on teams at the same time. We're like, oh my god,

765
00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:50,279
Speaker 1: this is happening, and it's cool because obviously, you know,

766
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:53,279
Speaker 1: for so long it would be Mark just done both

767
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:56,400
Speaker 1: the du caddies end previously with Hondas, So for us

768
00:34:56,480 --> 00:34:59,560
Speaker 1: as fans, like this is what we need. But how

769
00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:02,200
Speaker 1: cool If the rumors are true that on the Jucati

770
00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:05,279
Speaker 1: factory bikes is going to be two Spaniards, right, you know,

771
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:08,040
Speaker 1: We've got the Italian of Macro Medzeki on the Italian one.

772
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:11,120
Speaker 1: Maybe there's another Italian going there. I don't know what

773
00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:13,640
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, but like, imagine, if we've got all this,

774
00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:18,560
Speaker 1: We've got this competitiveness and this like fire that's going again,

775
00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:20,759
Speaker 1: and this is what Moto GP needs. This is what

776
00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:25,520
Speaker 1: we're going to get so excited about. But Brazil, when

777
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:27,920
Speaker 1: you get excited about Brazil because us this weekend you

778
00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:30,560
Speaker 1: have the joy of the really long flight to get

779
00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:32,960
Speaker 1: to South America, and we have the joy of having

780
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:34,840
Speaker 1: to watch it at like two am in the morning

781
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:36,360
Speaker 1: or three am whatever time is.

782
00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:38,320
Speaker 3: If it's an ideal one for you guys, is it

783
00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:40,239
Speaker 3: this is not fun? Yeah?

784
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:43,000
Speaker 2: I mean so for you Queenslanders that don't get the

785
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:46,680
Speaker 2: whole daylight saving things, it's actually worse for you. So's yeah,

786
00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:49,000
Speaker 2: self inflicted for you. So I've got absolutely no sympathy

787
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:52,520
Speaker 2: for you whatsoever. It's five am Australian Eastern daylight time,

788
00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:55,880
Speaker 2: which is not diabolical. It's not you know, it's not

789
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:58,040
Speaker 2: a katar no matter whether you have katar in April

790
00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:00,279
Speaker 2: or November. It's a pain in one month or in

791
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:02,600
Speaker 2: the other month. There's not quite in that category. But

792
00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:04,040
Speaker 2: a five am is reasonable.

793
00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:05,279
Speaker 3: But not.

794
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:07,440
Speaker 2: The greatest start of the week is at five am Monday.

795
00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:07,759
Speaker 3: No.

796
00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:09,640
Speaker 1: I mean it's good. You can watch the Grand Prix

797
00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:11,799
Speaker 1: and then head to work right like, It's a good

798
00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:16,960
Speaker 1: way to start a Monday morning. But predictions for this weekend, Lewis,

799
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:19,440
Speaker 1: We're going to throw you under the bus. What are

800
00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:22,719
Speaker 1: you envisioning from this Sunday's Grand Prix.

801
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:27,480
Speaker 3: Action? I think, as I say thirty one lapse, it's

802
00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:30,839
Speaker 3: going to be pretty fast. And for an etic, I'm

803
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:33,560
Speaker 3: a bit of a default position here in new circuit,

804
00:36:34,239 --> 00:36:37,399
Speaker 3: I tend to go for mart Marquees. I think he's

805
00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:39,600
Speaker 3: going to be a little bit stung by what happened

806
00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:42,399
Speaker 3: to him and what happened to Jakati in burw Ram.

807
00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:46,239
Speaker 3: So Mart Marquez is as good as the mental game

808
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:48,480
Speaker 3: as he is at the actual game on track, and

809
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:49,800
Speaker 3: I think he'll want to go out there and I

810
00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:52,000
Speaker 3: prove a point and send a message to everyone else

811
00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:54,600
Speaker 3: that you know, the world champion is still here. Guys,

812
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:56,959
Speaker 3: just because they were on their back for a little

813
00:36:56,960 --> 00:37:00,160
Speaker 3: bit and playing catchup to a prettier in Thailand is

814
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:01,879
Speaker 3: by no means is that going to be the case

815
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:04,320
Speaker 3: throughout the season. So yeah, I think Mark Marquez is

816
00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:07,280
Speaker 3: going to be super super strong, and I think Marco

817
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:10,120
Speaker 3: Betzeki there's no reason for me why he can't be

818
00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:14,480
Speaker 3: as competitive as he was in Thailand. Whether he's going

819
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:17,160
Speaker 3: to have that same ultimate pace advantage that so I

820
00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:20,320
Speaker 3: win by such a margin, I'm not sure, but I

821
00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:23,600
Speaker 3: think Marco Betzeki will be there too. And I think,

822
00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:24,880
Speaker 3: as I say I said right on the top, I

823
00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:26,719
Speaker 3: think room for a really close weekend. I think given

824
00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:30,320
Speaker 3: that the track is is so so short, it's not

825
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:32,680
Speaker 3: the most technical trackllout. It's not like we're going to

826
00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:35,759
Speaker 3: an Austin or a Sapang where you know you've got

827
00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:39,560
Speaker 3: a huge two minute lap with very technical sections. I

828
00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:42,400
Speaker 3: think this circuit will keep the field nice and close.

829
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:44,279
Speaker 3: So I think room for a huge battle at the front.

830
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 3: And I think this if you're looking at other riders

831
00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:50,760
Speaker 3: that will see this as an opportunity, I think Pedro

832
00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:54,000
Speaker 3: Costa will also see this one as a big, big opportunity.

833
00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:57,280
Speaker 3: I think new circuits are where you see the rider,

834
00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:01,000
Speaker 3: the rider talent and the rider adaptability he come through.

835
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:04,000
Speaker 3: And I think Pedro Costa, for all of you know,

836
00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:07,480
Speaker 3: the plaudits he rightly gets, still not one a motor

837
00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:09,920
Speaker 3: GP Sunday grow on Prix even if he is a

838
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:12,800
Speaker 3: sprint winner, so he may be another one this weekend.

839
00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:15,399
Speaker 3: That will be saying, right, a level playing field here, guys.

840
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:17,759
Speaker 3: No one's seen this place before. Here's a chance for

841
00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:20,360
Speaker 3: me to really show how good I am and a

842
00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:22,480
Speaker 3: chance for me to make the difference on a brand

843
00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:25,480
Speaker 3: new circuit. So I'm kind of naming the obvious the

844
00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:27,879
Speaker 3: obvious names there. But if I had to pick a winner,

845
00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:32,000
Speaker 3: I'd say I'd say I think Marco went on Sunday best, second,

846
00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:33,480
Speaker 3: and Pedro and third.

847
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:38,520
Speaker 2: I like the prediction. I've got two predictions for you,

848
00:38:38,719 --> 00:38:42,200
Speaker 2: RealD while we're here. No tuk tuks, but I'm saying

849
00:38:42,239 --> 00:38:44,400
Speaker 2: the whole griddle be in Brazilian soccer shirts at some

850
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:46,120
Speaker 2: point over the course of the weekend. I think that's

851
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:51,160
Speaker 2: an absolute given. Yeah, drink to that. My other prediction

852
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:55,040
Speaker 2: is I think Jorge Martin finishes on a Grand Prix

853
00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:57,520
Speaker 2: podium for Aprilier for the first time. Not the top step,

854
00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:01,879
Speaker 2: but I can see him possibly second, more likely third.

855
00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:03,480
Speaker 2: I think this guy's in better shape than him, but

856
00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:07,440
Speaker 2: there's enough signs of he's starting to look a bit

857
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:10,480
Speaker 2: more like Jege Martine again. And given that we know

858
00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:12,640
Speaker 2: that that bike is good, there is a podium coming

859
00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:15,040
Speaker 2: and I reckon that you clean slate of a brand

860
00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:17,600
Speaker 2: new circuit. We might see that at about quarter to

861
00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:20,839
Speaker 2: six on Monday morning for me. And if it doesn't happen,

862
00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:22,360
Speaker 2: then no one's going to be awake in Australia to

863
00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:24,080
Speaker 2: tell me that I'm wrong anyway, So that's all fine.

864
00:39:24,160 --> 00:39:27,280
Speaker 2: But Brazilian soccer shirts and Jollgey Martin on the podium,

865
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:28,200
Speaker 2: they're my two predictions.

866
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:33,040
Speaker 1: What about Peko Vanyaya Lewis? What's your thoughts on Pecko?

867
00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:34,640
Speaker 1: How do you think he's going to go? Because we

868
00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:36,600
Speaker 1: know he's the professor and he likes to be really

869
00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:39,160
Speaker 1: methodical and everything. But is he Is he on his

870
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:41,080
Speaker 1: way back like everyone's been saying.

871
00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:45,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I I've given up predicting how Pakka

872
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:48,560
Speaker 3: Banyai is going to do. We go, but let's have

873
00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:53,560
Speaker 3: her go anyway I thought he was. I wasn't going

874
00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:55,799
Speaker 3: as far as saying Paco is back because I feel

875
00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:57,440
Speaker 3: like there's a drinking game being set up. Now how

876
00:39:57,480 --> 00:40:01,480
Speaker 3: many times we hear Paco is back over weekend? Davidetadots

877
00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:02,680
Speaker 3: He said it at the end of the burro M

878
00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:04,720
Speaker 3: test and I sort of went out. I was interviewing

879
00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:06,160
Speaker 3: him at the time, and when he said that, I thought,

880
00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:09,000
Speaker 3: you've gone and said it day you've said is back.

881
00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:14,160
Speaker 3: I'm not saying he's wrong because he was a little

882
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:17,440
Speaker 3: unlucky in Burahm. You make your own look to a

883
00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:21,000
Speaker 3: certain extent, but it wasn't a normal Friday, Let's be fair.

884
00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:23,440
Speaker 3: There was the rain that was sort of on and

885
00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:26,800
Speaker 3: off throughout most of a Friday practice. Now, ultimately it

886
00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:28,840
Speaker 3: was up to the rider and the team to maximize

887
00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:30,200
Speaker 3: what can the conditions that were in front of you,

888
00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:32,360
Speaker 3: and Pekabanya I didn't do that, he said himself. He

889
00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:36,000
Speaker 3: didn't quite maximize that session. And once you then put

890
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:38,560
Speaker 3: yourself in a Q one session that also featured ralpher

891
00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:42,640
Speaker 3: Nandez on the super FASTA Prillier also featured Frankie Morbidelli

892
00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:45,400
Speaker 3: on on the Chikati. Albeit the Jacati that Pecabanya is

893
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:47,600
Speaker 3: so key to see the back of last season the

894
00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:50,440
Speaker 3: GP twenty five, one of those is always going to

895
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:53,200
Speaker 3: miss out in qualifying one and once Pecko qualified thirteen,

896
00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:55,120
Speaker 3: he was always on a bit of a hiding to

897
00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:58,759
Speaker 3: nothing because in the traffic, higher on the front tier,

898
00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:00,600
Speaker 3: all the situations that we know about when you're in

899
00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:03,480
Speaker 3: the packing on GP, he found it so hard to

900
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:06,080
Speaker 3: fight his way through. So if Pekka Banyaya has a

901
00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:10,600
Speaker 3: good Friday gets himself into Q two on Friday in Brazil,

902
00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:13,719
Speaker 3: then I would expect a much more normal weekend from

903
00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:17,400
Speaker 3: Pekka Banyaya. What a normal weekend looks like this year

904
00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:20,759
Speaker 3: for Peco it is I guess another matter because with

905
00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:23,320
Speaker 3: that question, the front of the field is more competitive

906
00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:25,080
Speaker 3: than it was at the start of last year, when

907
00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:27,839
Speaker 3: he was having poor weekends but still finishing third behind

908
00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:30,680
Speaker 3: the Marquez brothers. At this stage of the season, we

909
00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:33,799
Speaker 3: saw last year, once a pretty yer got stronger, once

910
00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:35,920
Speaker 3: Pedera Costa started getting involved in the battle of the

911
00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:40,600
Speaker 3: front Japan apart, Pekka Banyaya struggled to stay with that group.

912
00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:43,840
Speaker 3: So I think it's a big weekend for Peko to

913
00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:46,520
Speaker 3: demonstrate that the progress we saw from him in pre

914
00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:49,879
Speaker 3: season testing was real, because I think it was genuinely there.

915
00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:52,640
Speaker 3: He looked much happier, he sounded much happier with the bike.

916
00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:55,520
Speaker 3: The lap time's backled up. He did a sprint simulation

917
00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:58,239
Speaker 3: in Brewram, which was very very quick. We just did

918
00:41:58,320 --> 00:42:01,040
Speaker 3: not see that when the points regrets in the actual

919
00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:04,239
Speaker 3: Grand Prix weekend itself. So yeah, I think Paco is

920
00:42:04,600 --> 00:42:07,200
Speaker 3: stronger than it looked for a lot of borrow around,

921
00:42:07,719 --> 00:42:09,399
Speaker 3: but where they were strong enough to win the Grand

922
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:11,279
Speaker 3: Prix this weekend, I'm not ultimately that shut.

923
00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:14,120
Speaker 2: Well, there's the other aspect of that too, in that

924
00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:16,319
Speaker 2: if he has another weekend that's not so great, then

925
00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:18,920
Speaker 2: it starts to become the same old Peco narrative and

926
00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:21,560
Speaker 2: we're still talking about what we did last year. And

927
00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:24,000
Speaker 2: he's a guy that we've seen in the past that

928
00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:27,400
Speaker 2: momentum shifts good or bad seem to almost have like

929
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:30,320
Speaker 2: outsize effects on the way that he goes because you

930
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:32,960
Speaker 2: know you're talking before you know the Professor Rode. You

931
00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:36,680
Speaker 2: remember twenty twenty four, the level that he attained that season.

932
00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:38,239
Speaker 2: I know he did win the World Championship that year,

933
00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:42,520
Speaker 2: but his absolute top level was unbelievably good. Last year.

934
00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:44,520
Speaker 2: I still think he's going to be closer to that

935
00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:47,279
Speaker 2: than whatever that was most of last year was. But

936
00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:49,680
Speaker 2: how soon he can get back to anywhere near that?

937
00:42:49,760 --> 00:42:52,040
Speaker 2: And your point, Lewis, is really well made about the

938
00:42:52,120 --> 00:42:53,680
Speaker 2: fact that you can't just have a bit of a

939
00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:55,880
Speaker 2: ropie weekend and still finish in the top four. Now

940
00:42:56,320 --> 00:42:59,200
Speaker 2: the field is too close. It's the classic case of

941
00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:01,640
Speaker 2: the last year of a very mature rule set in

942
00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:05,160
Speaker 2: that everyone's kind of squeezed every available drop there is

943
00:43:05,239 --> 00:43:06,960
Speaker 2: out of the orige at this point, like we've almost

944
00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:09,840
Speaker 2: got to the absolute prime way you can ride these.

945
00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:15,000
Speaker 3: Two years ago, two years ago, and I've been trying

946
00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:17,400
Speaker 3: to improve on that since. And I think you'd make

947
00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:20,000
Speaker 3: a very good case that Jakati still hasn't improved on

948
00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:21,319
Speaker 3: the GP twenty four even now.

949
00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:24,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's exactly right. So, yeah, it's going to

950
00:43:24,080 --> 00:43:26,160
Speaker 2: be so much closer now, So you can't have those

951
00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:28,960
Speaker 2: sort of like bar weekends and still finish top five.

952
00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:30,560
Speaker 2: You do that now, and you're going to be stiffing

953
00:43:30,600 --> 00:43:32,799
Speaker 2: at the back end of Q of Q two.

954
00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:37,399
Speaker 1: Really right, ladies and gentlemen, you heard it here. First,

955
00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:40,560
Speaker 1: Lewis picked the three favorites that we knew he was

956
00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:43,759
Speaker 1: going to pick, and Matt went in with a wild card.

957
00:43:43,880 --> 00:43:45,480
Speaker 2: So just rogue, that's fine, just.

958
00:43:45,840 --> 00:43:46,640
Speaker 1: Wrote and we love it.

959
00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:47,239
Speaker 3: We love it.

960
00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:50,879
Speaker 1: That's what we're here for. Lewis, thank you so much

961
00:43:50,920 --> 00:43:52,680
Speaker 1: for joining us on the pod. We better let you

962
00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:54,719
Speaker 1: go and prep all your notes so that when you

963
00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:57,000
Speaker 1: do get on air on Friday, you're not like, ah,

964
00:43:57,160 --> 00:43:58,800
Speaker 1: I can't remember anything.

965
00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:01,480
Speaker 3: If not, when I hit the bottom, I'm gonna have

966
00:44:01,520 --> 00:44:04,200
Speaker 3: to start talking anyway. So even if I'm not prepared,

967
00:44:04,239 --> 00:44:06,200
Speaker 3: we'll just like you guys. But we'll do our best

968
00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:09,360
Speaker 3: because you'll first hear me obviously Mooto two Friday morning

969
00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:12,799
Speaker 3: talking about Senna. So yeah, I'll look forward to talking

970
00:44:12,800 --> 00:44:14,360
Speaker 3: to you guys out from Brazil on Friday.

971
00:44:15,239 --> 00:44:17,600
Speaker 1: Amazing, we can't we Yeah, Fingers Cross Center has a

972
00:44:17,640 --> 00:44:20,279
Speaker 1: bit of a better weekend and same with y'all in

973
00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:24,239
Speaker 1: this weekend in Brazil as well. But a big thank

974
00:44:24,280 --> 00:44:27,920
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975
00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:31,800
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976
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977
00:44:34,440 --> 00:44:38,279
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978
00:44:38,600 --> 00:44:41,680
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979
00:44:41,719 --> 00:44:43,080
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980
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981
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982
00:44:49,640 --> 00:44:53,319
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