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Speaker 1: Moto GP is cooking up a feast and with just

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Speaker 1: for the first time since twenty twenty two. But the

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Speaker 1: pressures on, would you Caddy be the one serving up

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Speaker 1: a masterclass or will another team find the secret ingredient

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Speaker 1: for victory. I'm your host, Rinita Vmulan, and here serving

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Speaker 1: up the latest Moto GP news with the side of

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Speaker 1: expert analysis is none other than the Michelin start maestro

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Speaker 1: of motorsport himself, Matt Clayton. Matt finally got through that intro,

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Speaker 1: but the question on everyone's mind heading into this weekend

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Speaker 1: is Mark going to return to his winning ways at

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Speaker 1: his beloved Aragon.

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Speaker 2: Renita, I don't know about that, But what talk of food?

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Speaker 2: I think I should be wearing a chef's hat or

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Speaker 2: bidie I should be eating right now. I wasn't actually

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Speaker 2: hungry before we started this, but I am now but

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Speaker 2: great to join you as always. And look, I mean,

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Speaker 2: it's the question of the weekend, isn't it, Mark Markez

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Speaker 2: and this particular track, it's one of the ones I

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Speaker 2: think I think we had circled at the beginning of

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Speaker 2: the season. When's he going to break this massive wind

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Speaker 2: draft that he's had. And we know his affinity for

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Speaker 2: He's a six time winner at Aragon. He's incredibly good there.

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Speaker 2: He was even good there a couple of years ago

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Speaker 2: when he had one and a half working shoulders, which

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Speaker 2: I'm sure we'll get to. But look, I can see

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Speaker 2: it's a little bit of a stretch to get on

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Speaker 2: GPP twenty four, which we've talked about this in previous podcast.

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Speaker 2: The longer this season goes, I just think you're seeing

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Speaker 2: Marquees on an anti clockwise circuit where he's gone incredibly

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Speaker 2: Jeseter be good if it was for something for a

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Speaker 1: Oh definitely. I think that Mark is uber talented. We

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Speaker 1: need to talk about Aragon. The reason I started with

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Speaker 1: all that food reference is Yamaha, we're sneaking something earlier

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Speaker 1: this week about they've got something cooking. They said, we've

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Speaker 1: But what I am interested to see is there's very

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Speaker 1: Plus it's been two years since moto GP have been here,

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Speaker 1: like I said in the intro, and the track's been resurfaced.

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Speaker 1: So for me, going into this weekend, I'm starting to

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Speaker 2: And I think what that's going to mean is, I

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Speaker 3: Then I think, you know we're in good hands, aren't we.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think, like you said, we don't know what

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Speaker 2: If someone's going to beat Peckabnai this weekend, it strikes

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Speaker 2: exactly what you just said. He's the best guy in

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Speaker 1: Juja Martin going in with that five point gap. As

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Speaker 2: Hopefully he's the got rid of all the sharp edges

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Speaker 2: in the shower from the trackside motor home after what

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Speaker 2: Banyoa has a five point lead. But you keep looking

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Speaker 2: Points wise, he absolutely is. As we mentioned before, it's

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Speaker 2: And look, he was second to Vanyay in Austria in

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Speaker 2: be perfectly honest. He was just not in the same

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Speaker 3: Race for him.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, maybe he just needs to avoid the shower

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Speaker 1: Fine, ray smelly. No one's gonna know anyway. One thing, exactly,

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Speaker 1: one thing I found really interesting was, you know, hey,

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Speaker 1: he's second in the championship Peko Vanyaya. On the factory team.

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Speaker 1: but it's Peco Vannaya, it's the professor. I don't know

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Speaker 2: But look, I'm not surprised Fabio's asking for some grip.

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Speaker 2: But he's probably a bit worn out Fabio because he's

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Speaker 1: have a feeling Alisha and Maverick are going to be

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Speaker 2: That's not only do Caddie. So I think that's a

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Speaker 2: really good call. But I'm sure Maverick could sign up

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Speaker 1: Who would know with Maverick and who would know with

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Speaker 1: That's me paraphrasing a lot of what you wrote. But

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Speaker 2: I guess that's the question.

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Speaker 1: Which one definitely. But for those of you listening, if

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Speaker 1: you haven't seen Aragon before, because you are a new

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Speaker 1: fanso Moto GP. It's really interesting track. There's a few

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Speaker 1: ninety degree corners like Turn one, really good for overtaking

433
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Speaker 1: or undertaking in that instance, but it also has a

434
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Speaker 1: reverse corkscrew like Laaruita Seika's famous corkscrew, and that is

435
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Speaker 1: just phenomenal to watch. There's so much elevation at this track,

436
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Speaker 1: so I think breaking is going to be a big one.

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Speaker 1: Like you said that the drive out of corners onto

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Speaker 1: that backstraight in particular as well, and that's really where

439
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Speaker 1: we're going to see that strong aspect of the dow CADDI,

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Speaker 1: So I agree. But there's been a little bit of

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Speaker 1: news coming out recently and we haven't really touched on

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Speaker 1: news much in our pot. So recently it was announced

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Speaker 1: Bruno's returning to the Motor GP calendar for twenty twenty

444
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Speaker 1: five onwards, which is exciting. I don't think MotoGP's raced

445
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Speaker 1: there for a while. I remember my brother used to

446
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Speaker 1: race there when he was in Moto GP. But Matt,

447
00:20:15,760 --> 00:20:18,080
Speaker 1: you're going to know you're the statsman. When was MotoGP

448
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Speaker 1: last in Czech Republic the last time.

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Speaker 3: We were there.

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Speaker 2: Unfortunately, no fans were because it was part of that

451
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Speaker 2: bizarre COVID calendar in twenty twenty where we didn't basically

452
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Speaker 2: leave Europe, so it was the last time we were there.

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Speaker 3: There was no one there to watch. Unfortunately.

454
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Speaker 2: I'm so pleased at this track's back on the calendar

455
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Speaker 2: because it's a great layout. It gets a massive amount

456
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Speaker 2: of fans, The riders all love the place. The dispute

457
00:20:39,680 --> 00:20:42,240
Speaker 2: really was the track needed to be resurfaced. The owners

458
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Speaker 2: of the track didn't want to pay for it. The

459
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Speaker 2: local government didn't want to pay for it either, and

460
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Speaker 2: it needed to be done. They couldn't really decide who

461
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Speaker 2: was going to foot the bill for it. There was

462
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Speaker 2: never a case of this not being a place at

463
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Speaker 2: motor GP wants to go, or the riders and the

464
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Speaker 2: fans didn't want to go. So it's great that it's

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Speaker 2: back on. It looks like at this stage much as

466
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Speaker 2: we don't have it's twenty twenty five yet. We'll probably

467
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Speaker 2: get that before the first Messano, but it'll be a

468
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Speaker 2: back to back in some water with Austria, which makes

469
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Speaker 2: sense geographically of course, So about early August next year,

470
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Speaker 2: I reckon early to middle August next year will be there.

471
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Speaker 2: It'll probably be very very hot as it always is,

472
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Speaker 2: but such a cool layout and yeah, I haven't seen

473
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Speaker 2: these bikes on this track for a while, so very

474
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Speaker 2: much looking forward to that. A really good re addition

475
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Speaker 2: to the calendar, he might say.

476
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Speaker 1: And the news that we all were waiting for to

477
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Speaker 1: come out that the rumors have been swirling for forever

478
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Speaker 1: since the announcement of Ferm and Aldiger signing with you

479
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Speaker 1: Caddy as to what team he's going to go to,

480
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Speaker 1: and he's officially even announced at Grassini Racing. And for

481
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Speaker 1: those of you who haven't seen it, Grissini do some

482
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Speaker 1: really cool social media campaigns leading into race weekends. And

483
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Speaker 1: I'm in a group chat with Matt and I'm like,

484
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Speaker 1: how cool is the Ferm and Aldiger announcement. They recreated

485
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Speaker 1: the Nirvana album cover, you know, the one with the

486
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Speaker 1: baby swimming. They've got Fermin aldigair in there. So he's

487
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Speaker 1: officially on the Mono GP grid with Grassini for twenty

488
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Speaker 1: twenty five. And the announcement of Ayagura. There's some new

489
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Speaker 1: blood coming into Moroto GP next year, which is really exciting.

490
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Speaker 2: Yeah, a couple of good Moto two front runners at

491
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Speaker 2: the last couple of years, Aldigare. He really was signed

492
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Speaker 2: on the basis of what he did at the end

493
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Speaker 2: of last year. He's struggled a little bit this year

494
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Speaker 2: as they've switched to the Perells. He's been very peaky.

495
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Speaker 2: He's either been really good or really anonymous. So I

496
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Speaker 2: think he's much better suited to a Moto GP BI

497
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Speaker 2: like simply because he's a bigger guy. Like for reference,

498
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Speaker 2: he's kind of a similar height to Alex Marquez, so

499
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Speaker 2: he's sized like a normal humor being as opposed to

500
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Speaker 2: a little jockey like some of these guys. And a

501
00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:36,840
Speaker 2: Gura has been fantastic in Moto two this year. You

502
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Speaker 2: can't deny what he and Sergio Garcia are doing in

503
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Speaker 2: that team fighting for the title.

504
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Speaker 3: And you know, a different nationality's bit of new blood.

505
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Speaker 3: I like it.

506
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Speaker 2: I think it's time for a bit of a shake up. Obviously,

507
00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:49,000
Speaker 2: Elisha's retiring at the end of the season. But you know,

508
00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:51,000
Speaker 2: peedro Acosta was always going to win this year's Rookie

509
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Speaker 2: of the Year because he's the only rookie everyone else

510
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Speaker 2: returned from last year.

511
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Speaker 3: So yeah, some new blood. It'll be good to see

512
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Speaker 3: some new guys.

513
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Speaker 2: And yeah, only a couple of seats that we don't

514
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Speaker 2: know about interest yet, but they'll be feeling up pretty soon,

515
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Speaker 2: I think definitely.

516
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Speaker 1: We're still waiting for the news of Jack Miller, so

517
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Speaker 1: as soon as that gets announced, we will be sure

518
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Speaker 1: to let you guys know on Fox Sport. But someone

519
00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:13,719
Speaker 1: we don't often get to talk about is one of

520
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Speaker 1: the best writers to close out the twenty twenty three season,

521
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Speaker 1: Fabio dg Antonio on board the Via forty six machine.

522
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Speaker 1: We're so lucky that we get to chat with him, So, guys,

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Speaker 1: I want to introduce you to Fabio dgi Antonio. Alrighty, Fabio,

524
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Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us at Fox Sports.

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Speaker 1: And at the time of recording this Thursday before the

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Speaker 1: Aragon Grand Prix, you're back after having to unfortunately sit

527
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Speaker 1: out the Austrian at Grand Prix due to that huge

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Speaker 1: crash and the shoulder injury. How is the shoulder feeling.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, it's not fantastic at the moment, and I

530
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Speaker 4: worked a lot the past weeks to try to have

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Speaker 4: asad as possible, but yeah, I still have some pain

532
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Speaker 4: in some movements.

533
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Speaker 5: I think that's with.

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Speaker 4: Their mobility that they need on the bike would be

535
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Speaker 4: enough for me so will not be a gay problem.

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Speaker 4: I just have to see the strength because for sure

537
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Speaker 4: I didn't at the time of the opportunity to work

538
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Speaker 4: on the you know, on the on the masshots of

539
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Speaker 4: the shoulder. But yeah, let's see therefore was undred percent,

540
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Speaker 4: so let's see how it will be.

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Speaker 2: What was it like watching Austria when you were at home?

542
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Speaker 2: Were you on the on the couch, like because motor

543
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Speaker 2: GP riders aren't very good at watching motor GP racers.

544
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Speaker 3: Was that very very frustrating?

545
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's been my first race seeing the race from

546
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Speaker 4: from home because since I joined the World Championship from

547
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Speaker 4: treadp is my first race that I was from let's

548
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Speaker 4: say with an injury or something, so it was quite strange.

549
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Speaker 5: Yeah, it was my own on the coach. But yeah,

550
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Speaker 5: it was just.

551
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Speaker 4: Like switching on switching off because the paint inside the

552
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Speaker 4: mind was too much, you know.

553
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the the paint inside the mine was worse the

554
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Speaker 2: pay for the shoulder, for sure. But let's let's switch

555
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Speaker 2: it to happier topics because your season so far has

556
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Speaker 2: been absolutely fantastic. I mean I've written something for Fox

557
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Speaker 2: Sports a couple of weeks ago that compared to year

558
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Speaker 2: on year, you are the most improved writer on the

559
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Speaker 2: grid this year compared to last year, particularly statistically. So

560
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Speaker 2: how much of this improvement is you just writing better

561
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Speaker 2: or how much of that is confidence and now knowing

562
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Speaker 2: what your future is like Because we'll get to this

563
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Speaker 2: later in the chat. But this time last year you

564
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Speaker 2: knew that things were pretty unstable for you, and you've

565
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Speaker 2: now got continuity contract confidence. Do you think you're actually

566
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Speaker 2: writing better or are you just feeling better as a writer.

567
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Speaker 4: Let's say that has been a a liner growth because honestly,

568
00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:46,920
Speaker 4: my first temology it was rather disaster for many reasons.

569
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Speaker 4: And then last year I started to understand how to

570
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Speaker 4: ride the big bike and also yeah everything out of

571
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Speaker 4: what was with the team. So last year I learned

572
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Speaker 4: saw so many things that I used on the last

573
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Speaker 4: part of this is in the last here to do

574
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Speaker 4: those great, great races. And also I started this year

575
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Speaker 4: with a lot of with more confidence, with more you know, knowledge,

576
00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:10,200
Speaker 4: and also with the with the team, with the super team.

577
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Speaker 4: That helped me and it's helping me to to to

578
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Speaker 4: perform like this, you know. So let's say that we

579
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Speaker 4: start the season with a with another mindset and it

580
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Speaker 4: is we are taking results from this, you know, we are.

581
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Speaker 4: We're doing good. So I think every day is inside

582
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Speaker 4: the top seven more or less so or really close

583
00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:34,040
Speaker 4: to that. So yeah, it's a mix of things, but

584
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Speaker 4: for sure it's like you know when you're at school

585
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Speaker 4: that you you have to to write a lot of

586
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Speaker 4: things and you just do sketch and then you go, Okay,

587
00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:44,600
Speaker 4: I did the sketch. Now I know what have to do,

588
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Speaker 4: so restart the game and let's do a clear one.

589
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Speaker 5: So this year is a more clear one.

590
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Speaker 4: Let's see.

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Speaker 1: That's what I wanted to to ask you about the

592
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Speaker 1: jump from your team last year to being with the

593
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Speaker 1: VR forty six team now is it? Does the environment

594
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Speaker 1: just feel like it's you a lot better? Do you

595
00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:04,520
Speaker 1: feel more comfortable here there? Uh?

596
00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:08,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, Let's say I said many times I don't like

597
00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:11,480
Speaker 4: to compare the teams because for sure there are two

598
00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:16,280
Speaker 4: completely different stories. But honestly, I'm feeling great here, feeling

599
00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:19,600
Speaker 4: really good. Let's say they had the approach of raising,

600
00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:22,800
Speaker 4: the approach of the work, the approach of everything also

601
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Speaker 4: the events or whatever.

602
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Speaker 5: Is it's really really it suits me so good.

603
00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:31,399
Speaker 4: It's really close to what I think about the sport

604
00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:35,280
Speaker 4: and we have approach of racing. So let's say that

605
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:38,000
Speaker 4: we are really completing each other, me and the team.

606
00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:40,399
Speaker 4: So this year everything is more easy, the energy is

607
00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:43,200
Speaker 4: different and not you know, this team is just fantastic.

608
00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:45,560
Speaker 4: I always said that this team was a factory without

609
00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:47,920
Speaker 4: a factory bike, but now we have also factory bike

610
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Speaker 4: for next year, so we're this super super cool next

611
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Speaker 4: year we have this super team trying to bring it

612
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Speaker 4: on top.

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Speaker 2: A factory bike and a factory rider.

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Speaker 3: Did you.

615
00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:00,919
Speaker 2: Let's not downplay that, but I did want to go

616
00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:04,280
Speaker 2: back to what we talked about before with last year,

617
00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:06,679
Speaker 2: because you did those final six rounds last year without

618
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Speaker 2: a job, and then from that, I mean you literally

619
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Speaker 2: you have the best six rounds of your entire career,

620
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Speaker 2: and of course a huge part of that was Australia,

621
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Speaker 2: your first Motor GP podium. You know, your four tenths

622
00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:22,680
Speaker 2: off the win. It was an absolutely crazy last lap.

623
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Speaker 2: There was so much going on that weekend, mostly because

624
00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:27,359
Speaker 2: we were racing on a Saturday as well, so the

625
00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:29,000
Speaker 2: whole thing was completely bizarre.

626
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Speaker 3: You finally get through the podium. I mean, you were

627
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Speaker 3: good in Indonesia the previous round but just missed.

628
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Speaker 2: But to finally get on that Motor GP podium and

629
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Speaker 2: with everything else going on, how was that for you?

630
00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:41,920
Speaker 2: Because I know you love that place and you've got

631
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Speaker 2: an affinity with some Australians that we'll talk about in

632
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Speaker 2: the future. But take us back to Philip Island last year,

633
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Speaker 2: because that was pretty crazy.

634
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Speaker 4: Yeah, let's say that last year was tough for me

635
00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:55,480
Speaker 4: because I was improving, I was growing and the speed

636
00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:58,280
Speaker 4: was coming. But in the middle part of the championship

637
00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:01,160
Speaker 4: was like in every week Can was up in something

638
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:03,440
Speaker 4: that was not that for me, it was not possible

639
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:05,480
Speaker 4: to show my real speed, my real potential.

640
00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:10,040
Speaker 5: So I was doing crashes on beat results.

641
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Speaker 4: But the speed were there, so we were not just

642
00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:15,360
Speaker 4: we were not able to show it, to show the speed,

643
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Speaker 4: and then we started to you know, we did the

644
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Speaker 4: INDONESI was the first, like the first moment that we

645
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Speaker 4: see the light at the end of the tunnel and

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Speaker 4: from that everything just turns out good. So in Philip

647
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Speaker 4: Final we did our really good practices. The back was

648
00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:33,520
Speaker 4: really good and I loved that place.

649
00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:33,960
Speaker 5: Honestly.

650
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:37,000
Speaker 4: That track is I think it's the most crazy track

651
00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:38,480
Speaker 4: that we do in the calm.

652
00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:45,480
Speaker 5: Uh qualifying and then.

653
00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:48,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure, we have to do everything on Saturday,

654
00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:53,120
Speaker 4: can you mean yes? Okay, sorry, because I was a

655
00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:57,320
Speaker 4: bit so okay, so on Saturday, for sure to do

656
00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:00,480
Speaker 4: the race, and I was feeling good, but for sure

657
00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:04,200
Speaker 4: I haven't done a podium yet at the time, so

658
00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:07,440
Speaker 4: well stuff. But then when I started the race, I

659
00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:10,440
Speaker 4: was feeling comfortable again. I was feeling strong, and I said, okay,

660
00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:13,959
Speaker 4: today the day we have to make it. So I

661
00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:17,720
Speaker 4: just went fully attack mode and we did a fantastic race.

662
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:21,000
Speaker 4: It was It was youte Also the night after was

663
00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:23,320
Speaker 4: was quite crazy because you know, we had to celebrate

664
00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:23,840
Speaker 4: a little bit.

665
00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:27,920
Speaker 5: Also the thing that on Simeday we didn't have done there.

666
00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:29,440
Speaker 4: The spiron was I had for me because I was

667
00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:33,720
Speaker 4: still straggling with the Saturday nice things.

668
00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:39,920
Speaker 1: Oh I love that so much. I think that one

669
00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:41,360
Speaker 1: of the cool things. When I was like doing some

670
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:44,280
Speaker 1: research on you, fabruar is you just seem like such

671
00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:47,000
Speaker 1: a really cool guy. But there's one thing that I

672
00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:49,240
Speaker 1: have to tell you. So my teammate here, Matt, he

673
00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:53,600
Speaker 1: wrote this incredible story about you, and I want to

674
00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:57,520
Speaker 1: hear this straight from you. Can you tell us and

675
00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:00,600
Speaker 1: all the Australian fans, what does the numbers twenty one.

676
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:06,080
Speaker 4: Maint you you say you give me a good band. Sorry,

677
00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:10,240
Speaker 4: because my idol since ever has always been Troy Baillies

678
00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:13,120
Speaker 4: and I met him when I was a little little kid.

679
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:16,880
Speaker 4: And also there is a little story behind that. I

680
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:20,080
Speaker 4: was honestly I forgot it, but my father said to me,

681
00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:22,520
Speaker 4: like a few weeks ago and he reminded me this.

682
00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:28,920
Speaker 4: I won the Italian Championship European Championship in twenty two

683
00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:32,200
Speaker 4: thousand and eight with the pocket bikes and my father

684
00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:34,400
Speaker 4: said to me, okay, which is your gift? What you

685
00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:37,320
Speaker 4: want to you know, to to celebrate this, and I said, okay,

686
00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:40,320
Speaker 4: I want to see Tred baillies last race in portimou In.

687
00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:44,560
Speaker 4: So we went to see the superbike race and we

688
00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:48,440
Speaker 4: had the opportunity to go inside the garage and they

689
00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:53,040
Speaker 4: bring my poster, my poster with the pocket bike riding.

690
00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:57,000
Speaker 4: Don't worry Troy to bring on top of the number

691
00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:00,160
Speaker 4: twenty one is me, dot worry. I'll do it for you,

692
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:03,480
Speaker 4: So I give me. I give the foster to him.

693
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:07,840
Speaker 4: That there was like ten years on. So it was

694
00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:12,600
Speaker 4: a really funny story. Yeah, it means a lot. It's

695
00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:15,480
Speaker 4: about why I I start to love the sports. And

696
00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:18,920
Speaker 4: also you know, I always admin him as a character

697
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:20,000
Speaker 4: as also a person.

698
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:22,440
Speaker 5: I'll say the garage, So yeah, Troy story.

699
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:24,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love that as well.

700
00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:26,680
Speaker 2: And I also like the fact that you know, you're

701
00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:29,600
Speaker 2: a kid, You're a kid born in Rome and you're

702
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:31,960
Speaker 2: growing up and your idol is an Australian guy like

703
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:32,840
Speaker 2: Troy Baalysis.

704
00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:34,400
Speaker 3: Such a cool story.

705
00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:37,000
Speaker 2: But hey, I do want to ask you because we've

706
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:39,440
Speaker 2: been talking about the GP twenty four and the GP

707
00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:41,640
Speaker 2: twenty three this season. You're now not going to ride

708
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:43,200
Speaker 2: the GP twenty four because you go straight to a

709
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:45,760
Speaker 2: twenty five for next season. But you know, other than

710
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:49,000
Speaker 2: yourself and Mark Marquez are having the best fortunes on

711
00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:51,080
Speaker 2: the twenty three this season. We keep hearing that the

712
00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:53,719
Speaker 2: GP twenty four seems like it's a massive step on

713
00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:56,880
Speaker 2: the twenty three. So from your perspective, from what you

714
00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:59,520
Speaker 2: can see in the data that you know, explain to

715
00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:02,160
Speaker 2: our list is why the twenty fourth seems to have

716
00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:04,640
Speaker 2: the advantage of the twenty three Because last year you

717
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:07,440
Speaker 2: want to race on the twenty two, bears one three

718
00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:09,760
Speaker 2: races on the twenty two. This year it seems like

719
00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:11,960
Speaker 2: there's a bigger gap. So how do you explain that.

720
00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:16,400
Speaker 4: I would say that because I hear also a lot

721
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:18,760
Speaker 4: of interviews from the my colleagues on the twenty four

722
00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:21,160
Speaker 4: bites that they say that the difference is not that big.

723
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:25,920
Speaker 4: But I think that this year, with the also the

724
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:28,600
Speaker 4: update of the new tire on the on the ear,

725
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:33,920
Speaker 4: this different has been has been bigger than how that

726
00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:37,960
Speaker 4: they feel. Let's say, because from our point of view,

727
00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:39,680
Speaker 4: the twenty three bike is a bike that has a

728
00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:44,280
Speaker 4: lot of edge grip, and you know, you can use

729
00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:46,280
Speaker 4: this edge grip when you don't have the grip on

730
00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:47,800
Speaker 4: the tires. But this year with the new with the

731
00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:50,240
Speaker 4: newspect of the tires, we have already a lot of

732
00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:52,719
Speaker 4: grip on the rear. So with the also with the

733
00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:54,560
Speaker 4: super good that we have with the bike, the bike

734
00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:57,280
Speaker 4: just doesn't stop. Let's say, it pushes a lot the

735
00:33:57,360 --> 00:34:01,400
Speaker 4: front and it's super difficult to to to make tight lines.

736
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:04,400
Speaker 4: And when you add behind our twenty four bikes, you

737
00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:07,600
Speaker 4: just do the lines one or two meters wider than them.

738
00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:10,719
Speaker 4: So at the end of the lap is that one, two,

739
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:13,160
Speaker 4: three tens that you lose At the end of the race.

740
00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:16,839
Speaker 4: The gap is massive, especially because to ride the tide

741
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:19,040
Speaker 4: you have to use more the real tire, so at

742
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:21,359
Speaker 4: the end of the race you have used much more

743
00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:24,440
Speaker 4: the real tire. So also there the gap is bigger.

744
00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:27,680
Speaker 4: If you see the races, if realize it still mid

745
00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:31,040
Speaker 4: the race we are not that far. But then when

746
00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:32,799
Speaker 4: you start to play with the U S tires will

747
00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:36,080
Speaker 4: use tars. We use more the tire to be in

748
00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:38,239
Speaker 4: that rthom So the end of the race the gap

749
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:41,120
Speaker 4: is bigger, getting bigger. So that is the main thing

750
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:43,320
Speaker 4: that is really different with the twenty three bikes to

751
00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:46,279
Speaker 4: follow the twenty four bikes especially This is especially with

752
00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:49,759
Speaker 4: the Gade, but also with other manufacturerses for sure they

753
00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:53,480
Speaker 4: may they may steps, so it's tough. It's a bit tough.

754
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:56,759
Speaker 4: Last year everything was much much closer. And also I

755
00:34:56,760 --> 00:34:59,160
Speaker 4: want to add that in valence last year that we'll

756
00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:01,920
Speaker 4: try this bike with the old respect of the tires.

757
00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:04,520
Speaker 4: This big was just fantastic and we didn't have this

758
00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:07,400
Speaker 4: this feeling the back was just a meeting, but then

759
00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:09,880
Speaker 4: we did new spect changed by the game, you know,

760
00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:12,680
Speaker 4: and when you have the old bike you cannot do anything.

761
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:17,800
Speaker 1: Fabio. Just before we let you go heading into Aragon,

762
00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:20,799
Speaker 1: we know you have the shoulder injury and everything. But

763
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:23,640
Speaker 1: you said you're feeling okay with the new resurfacing on

764
00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:26,239
Speaker 1: the track and not having been here since twenty twenty two,

765
00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:28,880
Speaker 1: how are you and the team feeling going into this weekend.

766
00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:33,800
Speaker 4: Well, let's say that if we hadn't this little injury,

767
00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:36,960
Speaker 4: I think could be a great opportunity for me because

768
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:40,080
Speaker 4: at the end in Aragon, I always don't really good racis.

769
00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:42,960
Speaker 4: I did podium simo to three Montero two, so I

770
00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:45,160
Speaker 4: was really looking for to threight here with the with

771
00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:48,319
Speaker 4: this team, with the with the mother GP again. But yeah,

772
00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:50,439
Speaker 4: now want to see is a test, let's say, because

773
00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:55,200
Speaker 4: the show that is okay on the live things, but

774
00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:57,160
Speaker 4: on the bike we had we had I hadn't the

775
00:35:57,640 --> 00:35:59,840
Speaker 4: opportunity to try, so honestly, I don't know.

776
00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:02,880
Speaker 5: We have to see it. We would be really a

777
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:06,560
Speaker 5: test to understand my condition.

778
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:11,759
Speaker 4: See, I think it will be really a we just

779
00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:14,160
Speaker 4: have to make it just we have to retake the

780
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:18,719
Speaker 4: rhythm and to prepare. Well, it's a pity, but this

781
00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:19,960
Speaker 4: is what it is at the moment.

782
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:23,160
Speaker 1: Well, thank you so much again for joining us on

783
00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:25,800
Speaker 1: Fox Sport. We wish you all the best this weekend

784
00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:29,080
Speaker 1: and we can't wait to see Phil violence in October.

785
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:32,520
Speaker 5: For sure, for sure. Thank you so much, Gase, Thank you.

786
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:35,560
Speaker 1: Well, Matt. That's the first time I've ever spoken to

787
00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:39,319
Speaker 1: dgr and I have to say, considering he had to

788
00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:42,520
Speaker 1: sit out for the Austrian crand Prix coming back, we

789
00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:44,560
Speaker 1: don't know at the point of recording this, if he's

790
00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:46,920
Speaker 1: actually going to be able to race. He seems like

791
00:36:46,920 --> 00:36:50,919
Speaker 1: he is, but he is so upy. What a cool guy.

792
00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:54,319
Speaker 2: The guy's just so positive sort of like about him.

793
00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:56,759
Speaker 2: Either has good days or better days even when things

794
00:36:56,760 --> 00:36:59,319
Speaker 2: are going wrong. And I think testament to what he

795
00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:01,840
Speaker 2: was able to do last year that you know, Grassini

796
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:04,000
Speaker 2: signed Mark Marquez to take his place, as you would

797
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:05,680
Speaker 2: if you were any team in the history of Boto

798
00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:08,680
Speaker 2: GP with Marquez being available. But then he goes and

799
00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:11,239
Speaker 2: uncooks the best six races of his life to save

800
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:14,280
Speaker 2: his career, wins the Grand Prix, finishes on the podium

801
00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:16,560
Speaker 2: in Australia, gets a great job for this year, and

802
00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:19,040
Speaker 2: is now a factory. Do you catty rider on a

803
00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:23,200
Speaker 2: GP twenty five next year. It's amazing what's happened to him,

804
00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:25,439
Speaker 2: and I think he's been kind of the unsung star

805
00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:27,959
Speaker 2: of this season, and I do think that he's really

806
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:31,320
Speaker 2: on a good trajectory. Three guys on GP twenty five's

807
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:34,880
Speaker 2: next year, Mark, Marquis Pecabanna and Fabio Degenman Antonio. That

808
00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:36,799
Speaker 2: tells you something, doesn't it, Oh.

809
00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:38,480
Speaker 1: One hundred percent? And just even the way that he

810
00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:42,239
Speaker 1: was talking about how his mindset's evolved coming into this

811
00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:45,040
Speaker 1: new team, how he feels so much more comfortable there,

812
00:37:45,719 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 1: and like you said, he is just such a good guy.

813
00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:49,960
Speaker 1: He didn't want to say anything bad about Garssini and

814
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:52,600
Speaker 1: you respect that because he did get his podiums and

815
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:55,399
Speaker 1: he's win with them. But you can just see that

816
00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:58,920
Speaker 1: it seems like he has found his team, he's gained

817
00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:01,360
Speaker 1: his support network and they are just gelling together. And

818
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:04,320
Speaker 1: I think next year we're going to see a whole

819
00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:07,759
Speaker 1: new Fabio, but a bigger, better, stronger one. He's going

820
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:10,400
Speaker 1: to really be able to I think give it to

821
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:11,920
Speaker 1: Mark and Peco.

822
00:38:13,239 --> 00:38:14,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do think. You know, he's going to be

823
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:16,480
Speaker 2: on the best bike on the grid Disney, and we've

824
00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:19,680
Speaker 2: seen already what that's doing this year. Decaty's probably still

825
00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:22,719
Speaker 2: going to have this advantage for the majority of this

826
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:25,480
Speaker 2: rule set before it finishes in for twenty seven, so

827
00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:28,239
Speaker 2: he's in a really, really good place, and you know,

828
00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:29,960
Speaker 2: he's been on a couple of podiums already. I think

829
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:33,000
Speaker 2: that's going to only increase in pretty rapidly next season.

830
00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:37,439
Speaker 1: But guys, we want to introduce a new segment and

831
00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:40,400
Speaker 1: this is something that we just thought of and we

832
00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:43,960
Speaker 1: thought you would all really really appreciate it. So welcome

833
00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:48,920
Speaker 1: to storytime with Matt. Matt, what cool story have you

834
00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:49,880
Speaker 1: got for us today?

835
00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:52,799
Speaker 2: We need some music or I need like a pipe

836
00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:54,400
Speaker 2: and some slippers or something if we're going to pull

837
00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:56,520
Speaker 2: this off properly. But now, it was just funny when

838
00:38:56,719 --> 00:38:59,120
Speaker 2: did you was talking about Troy Baylets before and I

839
00:38:59,239 --> 00:39:02,520
Speaker 2: had this idea for a story many years ago where

840
00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:04,640
Speaker 2: I wanted to find out the origin story of all

841
00:39:04,719 --> 00:39:07,200
Speaker 2: of the writer numbers. And some of them could be

842
00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:08,920
Speaker 2: literally it was the first number I was handed when

843
00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:11,400
Speaker 2: I was doing motocross, or it could be a birthdate,

844
00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:14,240
Speaker 2: or you know, in Aabastianini used to run with thirty

845
00:39:14,239 --> 00:39:16,080
Speaker 2: three because he first rode a bike at the age

846
00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:17,960
Speaker 2: of three years and three months. You know, little things

847
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:21,120
Speaker 2: like that. And the Digia story was just so on

848
00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:23,160
Speaker 2: point for being digit, and he did all his junior

849
00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:25,759
Speaker 2: career in twenty one because he was a Troy Baylors fan.

850
00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:27,799
Speaker 2: He wanted to wear the same twenty one that Troy

851
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:30,400
Speaker 2: Bayless had. He couldn't get that when he got to

852
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:33,640
Speaker 2: Moto GP because Franko morberd Delli had it, and interestingly,

853
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:36,840
Speaker 2: Peco bagnol As sixty three was because Peko used to

854
00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:39,000
Speaker 2: run with twenty one Emoto three. He couldn't have any

855
00:39:39,080 --> 00:39:41,040
Speaker 2: Moto two, so he doubled it to go to forty two.

856
00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:43,600
Speaker 2: He couldn't have an EMOTOGP, so he put twenty one

857
00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:45,359
Speaker 2: on again. That's how he got to sixty three. That's

858
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:49,200
Speaker 2: literally the story Digia being Diji, he said, I couldn't

859
00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:51,960
Speaker 2: use twenty one, so I decided I'd go through the

860
00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:54,920
Speaker 2: entire history books of Motor GP to find a number

861
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:58,200
Speaker 2: that nobody's ever raced with before. And I'd laughed at him.

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Speaker 2: I said, what you literally went through? He said, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I went through and found a number that no one

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Speaker 2: had used, and that's how he arrived at number forty nine.

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Speaker 2: And his rationale was, no one's written the history of

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Speaker 2: on point thing for him to say, and I love

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Speaker 2: the fact that he was thoughtful and others. Eh, I

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Speaker 2: can't get what I want, but I'm going to do

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Speaker 2: something cool because it's going to be a cool story

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Speaker 1: Well, hopefully we're going to see the number forty nine

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Speaker 1: on the top step of the podium, and ideally, Philip Ireland,

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Speaker 1: that's exactly what we want, is a rewrite, but instead

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Speaker 1: of it being third, we want it to be number one.

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Speaker 1: So let's see if we'll see the number forty nine

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Speaker 1: just like Matt was talking about there, about the Digia

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