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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Rinita Vmuellen, and adjoining me is Moto

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Speaker 1: GP's very own walking encyclopedia and a bloke who's probably

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Speaker 1: still recovering from a shock of sunshine at Silverstone on Sunday,

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Speaker 2: Matt, we were talking off air and we're like, we have.

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Speaker 1: the highs and the lows at the British Grand Prix.

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Speaker 1: What a weekend for the West start of the Heizo

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Speaker 3: Of all the things that we could have been talking

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Speaker 3: didn't disengage going to the first corner, which is why

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Speaker 3: he went down so rapidly. And then Mark's crash on

436
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Speaker 3: lap two of the first race was he said he'd

437
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Speaker 3: been super cautious through maggots and Becketts in the first lap,

438
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Speaker 3: and then when he was in the lead on lap

439
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Speaker 3: two he decided to push a little bit more and

440
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Speaker 3: was literally blown halfway off the track by the wind

441
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Speaker 3: because it was so gusting there and lost control there.

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Speaker 3: And we're talking about Jucadi. Before you look at what

443
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Speaker 3: a Ducaddi looks like relative to all the other motor

444
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Speaker 3: GP bikes. There's aerodynamic winglets on winglets on winglets on

445
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Speaker 3: those things. It looks like a cheese grater, there's so

446
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Speaker 3: many bits in it. But on a really windy day

447
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Speaker 3: like it was on Sunday, there's more surfaces for the

448
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Speaker 3: winter hit on the doucaddy and it definitely affected the performance.

449
00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:37,520
Speaker 3: You could see that was part of why they struggled relatively.

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Speaker 4: But you know it was interesting.

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Speaker 3: Mark was not happy after the race that he was

452
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Speaker 3: very annoyed with himself for the mistake that he made

453
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Speaker 3: in the first race, but he managed to regroup and

454
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Speaker 3: make the best of a bad situation. He was down

455
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Speaker 3: in tenth at one point on Sunday in that main

456
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Speaker 3: race and just methodically worked his way back through, And

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Speaker 3: you know, that was a day to that was a

458
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Speaker 3: day to consolidate. And he's had his eyes on his

459
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Speaker 3: brother Alex for a lot of these last few races.

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Speaker 3: If I'm having a bad day, that's not great. But

461
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Speaker 3: if I'm having a slightly less bad day than my

462
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Speaker 3: brother who's behind me, then that's good because I'm accumulating points.

463
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Speaker 3: And I'm always a believer that you win these World

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Speaker 3: Championships on your worst days, not your best ones. If

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Speaker 3: you can mitigate the pain of your bad days. If

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Speaker 3: he's not had a good day and he's not happy

467
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Speaker 3: with how he's ridden and the decisions he's made, and

468
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Speaker 3: he's banked to podium and he's finished two places ahead

469
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Speaker 3: of his main rival in the championship standings, that's a

470
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Speaker 3: good day and you take that one and you move on.

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Speaker 3: We know that Silveston's not a great circuit for him,

472
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Speaker 3: and an interesting theory. I heard about that over the weekend,

473
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Speaker 3: which makes complete sense. I'm not sure why I didn't

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Speaker 3: think about it before. A lot of the high speed

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Speaker 3: corners at Silverston are right handers, and we know Mark's

476
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Speaker 3: awesome and left hand corners, and Mark slightly struggled more

477
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Speaker 3: in these fast right handers ever since the fort shoulder

478
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Speaker 3: surgeries on your right side, which quite frankly, you would

479
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Speaker 3: struggle more in high speed right hand corners if you

480
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Speaker 3: have had your right shoulder operated on four times. It's

481
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Speaker 3: just not a track that suits his riding style, which

482
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Speaker 3: is amazing to think for a guy as good as

483
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Speaker 3: Mark is, so for him to get a podium out

484
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Speaker 3: of a weekend where he clearly wasn't quite right. He

485
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Speaker 3: got beaten in the sprint for the first time all year,

486
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Speaker 3: and rode a bit of luck to get on the

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Speaker 3: podium on Sunday. These are the days when you win

488
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Speaker 3: a World championship, not the days when you're cruising around

489
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Speaker 3: smashing everyone by ten seconds. It's making the best of

490
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Speaker 3: the least and that was definitely an example of that.

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Speaker 1: Did you hear the off track talk about Peko Vano

492
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Speaker 1: and Mike Marquez and I don't know who said what,

493
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Speaker 1: but apparently it was along the lines of, you know,

494
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Speaker 1: you can't keep blaming the bike at some point, it's

495
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Speaker 1: coming down to the writer. I feel like that marquees

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Speaker 1: to Peco situation because you know, you're talking about making

497
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Speaker 1: the best of the worst situations and Peko Vanak is

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Speaker 1: on struggle Street at the.

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Speaker 4: Moment, right, Yeah, yeah, he is.

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Speaker 3: I mean we've talked about this before and that there's

501
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Speaker 3: two really different approaches to try to achieve the same

502
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Speaker 3: end here in that Peko's you know, you always call

503
00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:08,520
Speaker 3: him the professor, and it's so right because he wants

504
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Speaker 3: to understand everything first and then deploy it. And we've

505
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Speaker 3: seen in the last couple of years that when he

506
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Speaker 3: does understand everything perfectly and everything is just so for

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Speaker 3: him in the way that he wants it. He can

508
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Speaker 3: get himself into a zone where he's just about impossible

509
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Speaker 3: to be unless he falls off, which he did last

510
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Speaker 3: year and why what lost the World championship. He can

511
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Speaker 3: get in those zones where he'll go to Asen or

512
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Speaker 3: he'll go to some of these tracks where he's in

513
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Speaker 3: his sweet spot and you just don't see him for

514
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Speaker 3: the entire weekend. It's like bye bye p one and

515
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Speaker 3: he just disappears. There's a bit of Johaler and so

516
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Speaker 3: in the way that he goes about it and seat

517
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Speaker 3: of you know, that real sort of win every race

518
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Speaker 3: and the laboratory perfectly. Whereas Mark, let's be honest, a

519
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Speaker 3: lot of those years at Honda, that bike wasn't the

520
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Speaker 3: best or second best bike on the grid. But Mark's

521
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Speaker 3: one of these guys who would just bend a bike

522
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Speaker 3: to its will and it's just like, well, this isn't perfect,

523
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Speaker 3: but I'm just going to manhandle this thing into a

524
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Speaker 3: position it shouldn't be in. And to my mind, the

525
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Speaker 3: biggest legacy of what Mark's done in his motor GP

526
00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:05,040
Speaker 3: career not so much what he did at Honda. Look

527
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Speaker 3: what happened to Honda when he was either injured or

528
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Speaker 3: not there, or once he left, they were absolutely hopeless

529
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Speaker 3: for years. Because he was so good. He masked a

530
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Speaker 3: lot of the problems that bike had, and Honda could

531
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Speaker 3: look at it and say, well, this thing's still winning races,

532
00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:21,159
Speaker 3: whereas the probably the question was, well could any other

533
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Speaker 3: rider win a race on this thing? So Mark is

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Speaker 3: the guy who I reckon. Mark would be a terrible

535
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Speaker 3: test rider or a terrible development rider, because you could

536
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Speaker 3: give him a bike that was no good and you'll

537
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Speaker 3: be like, and that's fine, it's fast. I could get

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Speaker 3: around on this thing, not be just by riding around

539
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Speaker 3: the problems or the deficiencies of a machine, whereas someone

540
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Speaker 3: else will go, well it doesn't turn, and it doesn't

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Speaker 3: do this, and it doesn't do that, where Mark's just like,

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Speaker 3: I'll live with that. So you know, Mark on the

543
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Speaker 3: best bike is dangerous. Mark on not the best bike

544
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Speaker 3: is possibly even more dangerous, because that's when you see

545
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Speaker 3: how good the guy is. So you've got Bagnaro Marquez

546
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Speaker 3: approaching the same problem from two very very different directions.

547
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Speaker 3: Peco's not the sort of guy who can just say,

548
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Speaker 3: but I'm just going to ride this thing harder and

549
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Speaker 3: live with the consequences. Peco needs to know why things

550
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Speaker 3: happen and how they happen before he commits to doing them,

551
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Speaker 3: whereas Mark's prepared to live more on his wits. And

552
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Speaker 3: it's so interesting that I love a bit of motor

553
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Speaker 3: GP body language. I'm a big fan of it because

554
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Speaker 3: when you see it's not so much what people say,

555
00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:23,480
Speaker 3: it's what they don't say, right, And you can see

556
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Speaker 3: so much in the body language and these pressed dee

557
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Speaker 3: briefings and everything else. You watch every little interaction in

558
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Speaker 3: and angle, not so much the soundbites, but how they're

559
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Speaker 3: saying them. You can learn so much about a way

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Speaker 3: a writer goes about it by what they're not saying,

561
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Speaker 3: which I know sounds a bit counterintuitive, but there's so

562
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Speaker 3: much about the approach and the attitude of writers up

563
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Speaker 3: and down the grid, and Mark and Pecco are at

564
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Speaker 3: very opposite ends of the spectrum.

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Speaker 4: There.

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Speaker 2: On that note, I have.

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Speaker 1: To bring up the whole alicious Bargero Morbidelli first lap

568
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Speaker 1: slash that Morbidelli's blaming Aleish, saying he did it on purpose.

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Speaker 1: I feel like this is a few day is obviously

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Speaker 1: dating back years and years and years ago, but why

571
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Speaker 1: is this still happening now? Talking about the body language,

572
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Speaker 1: you could see these two just wanting to butt heads.

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Speaker 3: The two of them walking out of the gravel trap

574
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Speaker 3: together when they clearly would have wanted to be next

575
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Speaker 3: to anybody else in the world except for the person

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Speaker 3: they were walking next to, was high comedy because they

577
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Speaker 3: covered it for it was so It was so so funny.

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Speaker 3: And you love a good, long running grudge which you'd't

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Speaker 3: even know where it has its genesis. This thin Morbidelli

580
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Speaker 3: on Sunday brought up the fact that he thought that

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Speaker 3: Elisia Spargo cost him the twenty twenty World Championship. That's

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Speaker 3: the first time I've heard that one. We're going back

583
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Speaker 3: five years saying that, oh he did something to me

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Speaker 3: beside oh that year, and everyone's like, wow, you don't

585
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Speaker 3: carry a grudge Morbidelli. I don't know whether you were

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Speaker 3: at his press debrief on Sunday. He's talking about a

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Speaker 3: Spargo and obviously he's a wild card at the moment,

588
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Speaker 3: and Morbidelli said, well, he won't be here for the

589
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Speaker 3: next race, so it's all good, and then just walked off.

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Speaker 3: It was the It was the funniest way to end

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Speaker 3: a press debrief.

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Speaker 4: So those two definitely have some history.

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Speaker 3: We remember the slapping incident in Guitar a few years

594
00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:06,840
Speaker 3: ago which got Elash into a lot of trouble. They

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00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:09,119
Speaker 3: have formed, they have history, and it was one of

596
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Speaker 3: those things on the first lap of that race where

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Speaker 3: Alesha afterwards said that I actually breaked almost too early

598
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Speaker 3: into that second last corner on the end of lap

599
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Speaker 3: one because I didn't want to run up the back

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Speaker 3: of someone or cause a problem, and then it ended

601
00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:23,400
Speaker 3: up causing a problem. But those two are like magnets

602
00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:24,760
Speaker 3: to each other where they're on the track, like you

603
00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:26,520
Speaker 3: know they're going to come together at some point and

604
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Speaker 3: get the pop called out and enjoy the fallout because

605
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Speaker 3: it's difficult get.

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Speaker 1: The popcorn out as well for that last lap. Speaking

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Speaker 1: of Morbidelli, that battle with him in Mark, if there

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Speaker 1: was anyone on the grid who was going to send

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Speaker 1: it to Mark because he has nothing to lose, it

610
00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:44,399
Speaker 1: was a Morbidali and you could see that I was

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Speaker 1: sitting in the media center, like I said, and everyone

612
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Speaker 1: was like, come on, Frankie, come on, Frankie, because you.

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Speaker 2: Just know that he was just going to send it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he was another guy who you know that restarted race.

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Speaker 3: We're talking about the Marquez brothers before and the fact

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Speaker 3: that Morbidelli he was off the bike and he's actually fractured.

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00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:04,320
Speaker 3: He's left foot I heard today as well in that

618
00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:06,119
Speaker 3: accident before the right he's got a fracture in there,

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Speaker 3: which is going to have to deal with the fact

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Speaker 3: that he was almost getting a podium about an hour later.

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Speaker 3: Was a pretty good outcome for him. But yeah, he

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Speaker 3: certainly wasn't going to die wondering on that last quarter.

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Speaker 3: He was going to send it and of course everyone

624
00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:19,480
Speaker 3: in the media sent to knew, everyone watching on TV

625
00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:22,280
Speaker 3: knew it, and Mark Marquez knew it as well. So

626
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Speaker 3: I'm just going to slightly run you out onto the

627
00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:26,439
Speaker 3: exit curb there and I only need to beat you

628
00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:29,600
Speaker 3: by seventeen thousands, but that's fine. I'll take my podium trophy,

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Speaker 3: thank you exactly.

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Speaker 1: And obviously, being in an Aussie podcast, we have to

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Speaker 1: talk about Jack Miller, because, like we mentioned earlier, at

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Speaker 1: one point there I was messaging the guys at Fox

633
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Speaker 1: Australia saying, oh my goodness, we might have an Aussie

634
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Speaker 1: across all three podiums. Straight after the Motor two Prodium,

635
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Speaker 1: which we'll talk about shortly. But Jack Miller, we spoke

636
00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:55,120
Speaker 1: about the error upgrades a little bit, but Temmy because

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Speaker 1: you wrote a fantastic piece on Jack, because the news

638
00:28:57,560 --> 00:29:02,000
Speaker 1: broke about him doing the Suzuka for Yamaha, which is

639
00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:06,520
Speaker 1: a prestigious event in its own What was with Jack?

640
00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:09,640
Speaker 1: What was that that pace? Why did he drop down

641
00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:11,800
Speaker 1: further in the race? Was it the tires in.

642
00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:13,720
Speaker 4: The end a little bit.

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Speaker 3: I mean, Jack is pretty hard on tires, as we know,

644
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Speaker 3: relative to some of the other guys that were running

645
00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:21,160
Speaker 3: the soft but he was still fourth with four laps

646
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Speaker 3: to go, like he'd gotten shuffled down the pack a

647
00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:24,720
Speaker 3: little bit more. Beidelli at Alberti about of the way

648
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:26,800
Speaker 3: he managed to recover from that and get back on

649
00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:30,240
Speaker 3: his lines. And there's something about that Yamaha that he.

650
00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:31,000
Speaker 4: Was saying afterwards.

651
00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:33,960
Speaker 3: When it can run its lines and you can you're

652
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:37,040
Speaker 3: not having to really stop the bike to block, pass

653
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:39,800
Speaker 3: or defend when it runs its line smoothly, it's a

654
00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:42,680
Speaker 3: really really effective bike. We saw that with Quaaterero upfront

655
00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:45,800
Speaker 3: just doing the perfect race. I'm not sure that Yamaha

656
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:47,960
Speaker 3: is the greatest sort of bike in combat, if that

657
00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:50,440
Speaker 3: makes sense, because it's you interrupt the flow of that

658
00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:52,480
Speaker 3: bike and it's no wheredear as effective. But Jack had

659
00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:55,240
Speaker 3: got himself back up to P four and then with

660
00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:57,680
Speaker 3: about four laps to go he had that came slightly

661
00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:00,200
Speaker 3: wide into T nine there at Cops and as he

662
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:02,360
Speaker 3: said afterwards, got out on all the dirty stuff on

663
00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:04,840
Speaker 3: the outside, and then you know, Morbidelli got back past him,

664
00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:06,440
Speaker 3: and then a cost that came back through while Jack

665
00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:08,960
Speaker 3: was recovering from being out in the weeds a little bit.

666
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:11,480
Speaker 3: So that was probably the one that annoyed him the

667
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:13,920
Speaker 3: most because he finished seventh and probably should have finished

668
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:16,960
Speaker 3: fifth or sixth. But you've also got to take the

669
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:20,360
Speaker 3: fact that you know, he had that three full events

670
00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:23,120
Speaker 3: without a score, you know, through Qatar and Spain and France,

671
00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:26,720
Speaker 3: with some incredibly bad luck in that, and then obviously

672
00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 3: the mistake that he made in France had probably cost

673
00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:31,040
Speaker 3: himself minimum podium possibly a win on the day that

674
00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:33,760
Speaker 3: Zako won that race. So I think for him to

675
00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:35,760
Speaker 3: score points in a sprint for the first time this year,

676
00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:37,520
Speaker 3: and then to get a decent hall of points in

677
00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:40,840
Speaker 3: a Grand Prix, I think that's a pretty good weekend

678
00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:43,760
Speaker 3: given where things have been recently. But there were two

679
00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:45,480
Speaker 3: things for me, and I wrote about this today. I

680
00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:48,800
Speaker 3: think the fact that Yamaha have entrusted him to do

681
00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:51,200
Speaker 3: the eight hour, like it's a big, prestigious honor for

682
00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:54,920
Speaker 3: racing for a Japanese manufacturer in that event in Japan,

683
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:57,360
Speaker 3: which is such a massive deal. You have to remember

684
00:30:57,480 --> 00:30:59,760
Speaker 3: Jack Miller doesn't have a contract with Yamaha for next year.

685
00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:02,960
Speaker 3: But if you were ever wondering what Yamaha think of

686
00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:04,920
Speaker 3: what he's doing behind the scenes and the impact that

687
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:07,520
Speaker 3: he has made, I would be stunned if he doesn't

688
00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:08,960
Speaker 3: get a deal for next year. And I think being

689
00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:11,360
Speaker 3: entrusted with something like the eight Hour in August is

690
00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:14,400
Speaker 3: only proof of that. But I also I mentioned it

691
00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:16,360
Speaker 3: earlier in the podcast, the fact that he'd gone out

692
00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:18,560
Speaker 3: and done the sighting lap on the soft front and thought,

693
00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:22,520
Speaker 3: I'm noticing something here and immediately went to the factory

694
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:25,280
Speaker 3: Yamaha box and grabbed rins and grab couatarra. You could

695
00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:28,160
Speaker 3: see them talking, and I dare say Jack was saying, Look,

696
00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:31,280
Speaker 3: with my experience around this place, I think I know

697
00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:32,720
Speaker 3: how this is going to play out, and I'm not

698
00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:34,360
Speaker 3: going to tell you what front tire to run, but

699
00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:35,960
Speaker 3: this is what I'm running, and this is why I'm

700
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:38,680
Speaker 3: running it, And I think that shows you that there's

701
00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:40,800
Speaker 3: a real team player aspect to what Jack is doing

702
00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:43,560
Speaker 3: at the moment. I think he's doing things for the

703
00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:46,640
Speaker 3: greater good of that brand, and he might not be

704
00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:49,160
Speaker 3: getting their headlines for it or necessarily the points at

705
00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:51,440
Speaker 3: the moment, but we can see what Fabio's doing. Jack's

706
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:53,440
Speaker 3: had a big role behind the scenes testing that bike.

707
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:57,080
Speaker 3: I think his impact there has been pretty significant, and

708
00:31:57,720 --> 00:31:59,200
Speaker 3: it look It was nice to see him in the

709
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:03,000
Speaker 3: best positions he'd been in all season. Probably a little

710
00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:05,840
Speaker 3: bit disappointed with himself that he probably didn't score a

711
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:08,080
Speaker 3: top five in that race, but it was nice to

712
00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:09,760
Speaker 3: see him back up the front and old merit and

713
00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:12,360
Speaker 3: it looked really good. So, you know, fingers crossed, that's

714
00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:14,400
Speaker 3: the start of an upward trend for him because the

715
00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:17,280
Speaker 3: previous few races, Yeah, he committed a few silly mistakes

716
00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:19,080
Speaker 3: here and there, but Manny had some weird stuff happened

717
00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:20,840
Speaker 3: to him like hereth and some other plot and some

718
00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:23,280
Speaker 3: of the other Grand Prix that he had. So nice

719
00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:24,960
Speaker 3: to see him back up there. But his impact there

720
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:26,120
Speaker 3: is pretty evident to me.

721
00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:29,440
Speaker 1: He's interesting you pointing that out, and now we're taking

722
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:30,760
Speaker 1: the step back and having a look.

723
00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:33,360
Speaker 2: You can really see Yamaha are working together.

724
00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:36,760
Speaker 1: It's not so much like an individual like for example

725
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:39,520
Speaker 1: it was last year with Pramac, Jucaddy and Factory Jucatti.

726
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:40,400
Speaker 2: You see the.

727
00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:44,080
Speaker 1: Yamaha group are working so strongly together, and I think

728
00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:47,520
Speaker 1: that's what is helping them. Like you just said there,

729
00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:51,000
Speaker 1: I think between Jack and Fabio, we're not seeing the

730
00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:53,960
Speaker 1: necessarily the same stuff with Alex Frinz because we know

731
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:56,440
Speaker 1: Alex has those injuries and whatnot. And then we've got

732
00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:59,080
Speaker 1: miguel O Lavera who's also just had a string of

733
00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:04,520
Speaker 1: bad luck over it. But I think with what you're

734
00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:06,440
Speaker 1: saying about Jack and what I'm hearing it, and I'm

735
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:10,640
Speaker 1: reading what you're writing as well, if Yama don't resign

736
00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:15,040
Speaker 1: Jack for fromak Yabaha next year, it's going to be

737
00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:17,720
Speaker 1: kind of turning heads. It's going to be a whole Hey, Martine,

738
00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:20,160
Speaker 1: not getting the factory ride type of like why are

739
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:21,080
Speaker 1: you not keeping him here?

740
00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:23,960
Speaker 2: Because we're seeing what he's doing and obviously.

741
00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:26,480
Speaker 1: What they're bringing in this weekend though, with that new

742
00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:30,360
Speaker 1: Arrow update that they had, you think that's what benefited them,

743
00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:32,680
Speaker 1: because when I was talking to Jack on Thursday, he

744
00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:35,320
Speaker 1: was saying, Oh, this is a track that he's confident at.

745
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:36,680
Speaker 2: Here, he feels comfortable here.

746
00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:39,640
Speaker 1: Was that Errow that what what helped them? Or was

747
00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:41,360
Speaker 1: it just the fact that you know, he was feeling

748
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:44,080
Speaker 1: strong here? We know Fabrio is coming off like a

749
00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:45,920
Speaker 1: strong couple of races as well.

750
00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:49,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, bit of bitter Colubu and bitter colar bloo with

751
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:51,560
Speaker 3: all this sort of I think the key part is

752
00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:53,960
Speaker 3: you remember the day after her Reath they had the

753
00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:56,040
Speaker 3: one day test there where they tried the new engine

754
00:33:56,040 --> 00:33:58,400
Speaker 3: and a whole bunch of new Errow stuff. We were

755
00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:01,040
Speaker 3: probably going to see what that could really do at Lamon,

756
00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:03,200
Speaker 3: but it rained on the Sunday, so you know, all

757
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:04,720
Speaker 3: bets are off a little bit. We didn't really quite

758
00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:07,000
Speaker 3: see the dry weather performance, and even Silveston to a

759
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:09,120
Speaker 3: degree because the weather was so weird on Sunday it

760
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:12,479
Speaker 3: was so cold and so blustery. Then you know, once

761
00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:14,879
Speaker 3: we go to Aragon for the next round, I think

762
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:17,120
Speaker 3: that's where we're going to get a true representation of

763
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:20,760
Speaker 3: where the Yamaha has improved because you think of Aragon,

764
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:23,680
Speaker 3: it's got that massive long back straight, which in the

765
00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:25,839
Speaker 3: past the Yamaha has just got their doors blown off

766
00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:27,520
Speaker 3: going down that straight by they do caddies because they

767
00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:30,680
Speaker 3: were fifteen twenty k hour slower. I'll be super curious

768
00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:32,680
Speaker 3: to see the speed trap figures once we get to Aragon,

769
00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:35,560
Speaker 3: because it's much more of a normal in inverted Commas

770
00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:37,759
Speaker 3: circuit with the exception of that back straight, which is

771
00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:40,160
Speaker 3: where they issued bleed lap time all the time. So

772
00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:43,600
Speaker 3: we'll see if the new engine they've put in really

773
00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:45,839
Speaker 3: is stronger on a track that really rewards that sort

774
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:47,960
Speaker 3: of thing. But I think you can see the state

775
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:50,120
Speaker 3: of Yamaha's progress by the fact that there were three

776
00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:52,040
Speaker 3: of them in Q two, which is something we've not

777
00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:54,480
Speaker 3: seen for a really, really long time. Jack was right

778
00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:56,319
Speaker 3: up the front as early as Friday practice. He was

779
00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:59,360
Speaker 3: third after Friday and Oliver still there's a bit of

780
00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:01,680
Speaker 3: an asterisk because he's still not one hundred percent fit,

781
00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:04,520
Speaker 3: we know that, but he was closer to those other

782
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:05,520
Speaker 3: guys than he's been.

783
00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:06,000
Speaker 4: For a while.

784
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:08,759
Speaker 3: So you know, Yamaha have double the bikes of last

785
00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:13,520
Speaker 3: year and they're operating really well as one entity rather

786
00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:15,680
Speaker 3: than two teams, which you were talking about with Decadi

787
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:19,120
Speaker 3: last year. They feel really together for me, and having

788
00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:21,919
Speaker 3: a couple of experienced guys in that second team once

789
00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:24,319
Speaker 3: Olivera gets back up to speed helping to.

790
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:25,440
Speaker 4: Push the development along.

791
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:29,840
Speaker 3: It's a really good rider lineup because the youngest and

792
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:32,560
Speaker 3: most forceful of them is you know, the guy who's

793
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:34,399
Speaker 3: going to lead the project in terms of results, which

794
00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:37,200
Speaker 3: is Quaerero. But you've got other guys behind the scenes

795
00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:39,920
Speaker 3: that are making a real impact. And the other factor

796
00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:41,640
Speaker 3: on Jack before he's had wrapped. The jackpart of this

797
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:44,160
Speaker 3: up is that I think the fact that you've got

798
00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:47,000
Speaker 3: one more year of these rules in twenty six before

799
00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:48,839
Speaker 3: you move into twenty seven and kind of the great

800
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:52,040
Speaker 3: unknown with the big reset, the fact you've got continuity

801
00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:56,080
Speaker 3: and Yamaha's clearly made progress year on year. It would

802
00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:59,279
Speaker 3: be stunning if they didn't keep Jack because I feel

803
00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:02,959
Speaker 3: that he's doing everything he needs to do in terms

804
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:05,279
Speaker 3: of impact at that manufacturer. I mean, he scored less

805
00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:06,719
Speaker 3: points at this time of the year than he'd scored

806
00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:08,879
Speaker 3: at KTM last year, but the whole KTM thing last

807
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:10,719
Speaker 3: year felt that he was dead man walking, right. You

808
00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:13,000
Speaker 3: kind of knew that he was out there, whereas I

809
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:15,160
Speaker 3: think here he's making a real impact. I don't think

810
00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:16,880
Speaker 3: it's any surprise that that bike has been one of

811
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:19,080
Speaker 3: the big improvers of the year because he's doing what

812
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:19,719
Speaker 3: he needs to do.

813
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:23,280
Speaker 1: I can't wait for twenty seven to hurry up, because

814
00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:25,640
Speaker 1: you think we were in twenty twenty seven right now,

815
00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:29,960
Speaker 1: Fabrico Daura would have won that because there wouldn't have

816
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:32,840
Speaker 1: been the whole rhin eye devisol technology changes everything.

817
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:35,279
Speaker 4: So, like you said, that sounds like another podcast.

818
00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:38,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, that's your job to write about all that

819
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:40,239
Speaker 2: text stuff about it.

820
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:44,040
Speaker 1: But oh man, can't wait to see Jack Miller on

821
00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:46,600
Speaker 1: a podium this year, Ossie on a podium in Moto GP.

822
00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:49,120
Speaker 1: But we had an Aussie on the podium in Moto

823
00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:56,319
Speaker 1: too with his maiden Moto to Grand Prix victory. And

824
00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:59,840
Speaker 1: I tell you what being there to witness that, to

825
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:03,280
Speaker 1: see him, to see his dad John O, them tears,

826
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:08,120
Speaker 1: the whole team, Wow, just wow, what it was.

827
00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:09,600
Speaker 4: It was so good.

828
00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:11,200
Speaker 3: I mean, I love the fact that it was the

829
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:13,120
Speaker 3: first race of the night as well, obviously because the

830
00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:15,920
Speaker 3: program was slightly jumbled with the Motor GP being the

831
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:19,839
Speaker 3: middle race of the three. But to see the way

832
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:22,640
Speaker 3: Centner won that race, this is not you know, I

833
00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:24,799
Speaker 3: heard it described as, you know, the Stephen Bradbury way

834
00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:26,360
Speaker 3: for everyone to knock each other off and you know

835
00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:29,359
Speaker 3: we're a gold medal. It's not how it quite worked

836
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:31,520
Speaker 3: because it was a strange Motor two race and that

837
00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:34,319
Speaker 3: you don't often get big packs battling for the lead

838
00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:36,440
Speaker 3: in Moto two like this, but at Silverston you do.

839
00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:39,000
Speaker 3: It's just a nature of that particular track. And there

840
00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:42,920
Speaker 3: were five of them in that pack for the entire race,

841
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:44,880
Speaker 3: and they each gave as good as they got. But

842
00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:46,680
Speaker 3: you know, I just never led that race until the

843
00:37:46,719 --> 00:37:49,839
Speaker 3: second last quarter. He certainly timed it right. But one

844
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:52,600
Speaker 3: of the things I loved about this was that he

845
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:54,080
Speaker 3: looked at the two guys that were ahead of him

846
00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:57,880
Speaker 3: on the final lap. You've got Aaron Connett, and anyone

847
00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:00,280
Speaker 3: who's got tattoos up to his jawline, he can probably

848
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:02,000
Speaker 3: tell the way he's going to fight in a last

849
00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:04,560
Speaker 3: lab battle. There's a certain tell with a guy's eg

850
00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:07,560
Speaker 3: with that situation. He's also an established guy who isn't

851
00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:09,920
Speaker 3: going to be pushed around on the last lap, particularly

852
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:12,120
Speaker 3: when he's racing against a young kid that's come up

853
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:14,080
Speaker 3: from Moto III last year and is starting to pull

854
00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:17,200
Speaker 3: up trees. And David Alonso, who we talked about Alonso

855
00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 3: last year. He's the next big Motor GP staff of mine.

856
00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:22,600
Speaker 3: Once he gets himself in there, you knew there were

857
00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:25,080
Speaker 3: going to be fireworks on that last lap because Connett

858
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:26,680
Speaker 3: was just not going to sit there and say, well

859
00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:29,040
Speaker 3: after you to David Alonzo, it's like, you want to

860
00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:31,040
Speaker 3: race at the front end Motor two in the last lap, Well,

861
00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:34,040
Speaker 3: this is how this works. And I love the fact

862
00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 3: that Ags saw this was coming and positioned himself in

863
00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:42,239
Speaker 3: the perfect place if it all went wrong, keyword being

864
00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:46,320
Speaker 3: if he was there to sweep up and take the victory.

865
00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:49,200
Speaker 3: It was brilliantly executed given what was on the line

866
00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:51,600
Speaker 3: for him as a first time Grand Prix winner, and

867
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:54,080
Speaker 3: it happened so fast. And the funniest part about this,

868
00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:56,200
Speaker 3: and you can take our listeners behind the curtain a

869
00:38:56,200 --> 00:38:57,880
Speaker 3: little bit here because you're.

870
00:38:57,760 --> 00:38:58,320
Speaker 4: On the ground.

871
00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:01,520
Speaker 3: The Stilveston press room is in possibly the silliest place

872
00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:03,399
Speaker 3: of any racetrack of the entire world, because it takes

873
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:06,200
Speaker 3: about one hundred years to get anywhere I remember going there.

874
00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:08,000
Speaker 3: We couldn't actually see the circuit at one point. I

875
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:09,600
Speaker 3: don't know whether they fix that or not. It's still

876
00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:12,480
Speaker 3: pretty hard to work out what's going on. But with

877
00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:14,560
Speaker 3: all that excitement going on, there were plenty of Australians

878
00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:16,360
Speaker 3: that were watching it happening in real time, but you

879
00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:17,319
Speaker 3: weren't one of them.

880
00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:21,759
Speaker 1: No, no, I was running down. I was saying to

881
00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:24,719
Speaker 1: Matt that with our whole last lap, I'm thinking, oh

882
00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:25,920
Speaker 1: Sin is probably going to get on.

883
00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:27,720
Speaker 2: The podium, and I'm filming.

884
00:39:27,520 --> 00:39:30,399
Speaker 1: Some vlogs and social content for Fox Motorsports. So let

885
00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:33,120
Speaker 1: me head on down and catch center and park Ferme.

886
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:35,400
Speaker 1: And as I'm going down, like you said, you can't

887
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:37,880
Speaker 1: see what's happening in Philip Island, for example, as a

888
00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:42,120
Speaker 1: track where you can see the racetrack from the media center,

889
00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:44,680
Speaker 1: but Silverstone is not. And I'm running down and I

890
00:39:44,719 --> 00:39:47,280
Speaker 1: can hear everyone like screaming and getting really excited.

891
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:49,400
Speaker 2: I could hear the grand stands off the main street.

892
00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:52,719
Speaker 1: And I come on down and I look at the

893
00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:54,640
Speaker 1: big screen and I see that Senter's one. So I've

894
00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:57,439
Speaker 1: missed all the on track action from Cener getting into

895
00:39:57,480 --> 00:40:00,000
Speaker 1: the lead. But all I was thinking the whole time

896
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:02,960
Speaker 1: was obviously Alonzo and Cannett, and we know what Alonso's like.

897
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:06,360
Speaker 1: But I'm also thinking of Marrera against Senna because those

898
00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:09,440
Speaker 1: who have exchanged quite a lot, thinking back to Thailand

899
00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:12,600
Speaker 1: in round one, and I know that they want to

900
00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:14,600
Speaker 1: get their elbows out with each other. Shall we say,

901
00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:17,879
Speaker 1: they're not afraid to send it to one another there, so,

902
00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:22,280
Speaker 1: but watching just the raw emotion and when I spoke

903
00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:26,440
Speaker 1: to Senna in the broadcast is set after for Fox Motorsport,

904
00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:29,399
Speaker 1: I said, what was it like when you.

905
00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:31,880
Speaker 2: Realized you had won? What was it like? And he

906
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:34,360
Speaker 2: said he just had to stop when he was in tears.

907
00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:36,040
Speaker 2: And for those of you who.

908
00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:39,000
Speaker 1: Know Sona, and he's quite a serious character, as we've

909
00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:41,120
Speaker 1: spoken to him on the pod before, you know, he's

910
00:40:41,239 --> 00:40:44,359
Speaker 1: very straightforward and very focused on what he wants. And

911
00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:46,239
Speaker 1: for him to say that he's led out a bit

912
00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:50,239
Speaker 1: of emotion is wow. Okay, you can see what this

913
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:52,920
Speaker 1: means to him. The whole team where there to celebrate,

914
00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:55,879
Speaker 1: even his teammate Manu, who crashed out earlier in the race,

915
00:40:56,239 --> 00:40:59,879
Speaker 1: to celebrate with him. So once again it's that camaraderie there.

916
00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:03,080
Speaker 1: You can see them all working really together. But the

917
00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:07,520
Speaker 1: center he's had, you know, multiple podiums already now we've seen,

918
00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:10,680
Speaker 1: but now it's that victory. Okay, here's our hope for

919
00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:13,359
Speaker 1: the next Aussie and somroto GP and if we can

920
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:16,879
Speaker 1: keep progressing on this trajectory, he's going to get there well.

921
00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:18,920
Speaker 3: And you can understand why he reacted the way that

922
00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:21,080
Speaker 3: he did afterwards because he led the race for about

923
00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:23,080
Speaker 3: two and a half seconds, so there's a bit of

924
00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:25,640
Speaker 3: process after the race because like, oh, I've just won

925
00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:27,160
Speaker 3: by first grold breed. If you're ever got a win

926
00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:29,719
Speaker 3: a first Grold prie, that'd be the way to do it.

927
00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:32,560
Speaker 3: But I just am really impressed with the way he's

928
00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:34,480
Speaker 3: going about it because it's not just this flash in

929
00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:36,240
Speaker 3: the pan, like oh, he's on the podium. Like Philip

930
00:41:36,239 --> 00:41:38,680
Speaker 3: Biol last year was amazing, but it was a bit

931
00:41:38,719 --> 00:41:41,080
Speaker 3: of an outlier, let's be honest, and you know, because

932
00:41:41,120 --> 00:41:42,880
Speaker 3: it came from kind of nowhere and he did. You know,

933
00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:44,759
Speaker 3: he's very good all weekend there, but it wasn't like

934
00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:47,160
Speaker 3: he was on this huge run of competing for podiums.

935
00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:49,719
Speaker 3: You're almost surprised now when he's not up the front

936
00:41:49,719 --> 00:41:51,200
Speaker 3: because it looks completely legit.

937
00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:52,879
Speaker 4: But one thing I did love.

938
00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:54,040
Speaker 3: I mean, this is one of the things I love

939
00:41:54,040 --> 00:41:56,839
Speaker 3: about this championship in that the international nature of Moto GP.

940
00:41:57,719 --> 00:42:02,840
Speaker 3: An Australian, a brazil and a Colombian on the podium.

941
00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:04,600
Speaker 3: It sounds like the first line of a bad joke,

942
00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:06,920
Speaker 3: doesn't it. An Australian, a Colombian and a Brazilian.

943
00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:07,200
Speaker 4: Walk into a bar.

944
00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:10,280
Speaker 3: But the three of them, you know, no Spanish Italian riders.

945
00:42:10,680 --> 00:42:12,040
Speaker 4: You know. Jake Dixon wasn't there.

946
00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:13,640
Speaker 3: He's normally so good at silver, so that it was

947
00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:16,600
Speaker 3: just so bizarre to see those three flags going up

948
00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:19,239
Speaker 3: behind the podium ceremony. But the best part about it

949
00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:20,880
Speaker 3: was that the flag in the middle, the one that

950
00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:23,120
Speaker 3: was the highest, was the Australian flag.

951
00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:26,200
Speaker 1: And of course he did this showy on the podium

952
00:42:26,280 --> 00:42:28,160
Speaker 1: which we had supposed the.

953
00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:29,800
Speaker 2: Fox Motorsports Socials.

954
00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:33,520
Speaker 1: That was a standard Australian little nod there. But I

955
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:36,440
Speaker 1: think routes to stend on his mad Moto IWO victory

956
00:42:37,080 --> 00:42:42,439
Speaker 1: and obviously Moto three unfortunate events for our Aussie. Joel

957
00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:46,319
Speaker 1: can also with that DNF Joel when I was talking

958
00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:48,439
Speaker 1: to him on Thursday as well. He was saying he's

959
00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:51,080
Speaker 1: feeling really confident the runs that he's been having so

960
00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:53,640
Speaker 1: far this season. You know, he's just feeling out along

961
00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:55,880
Speaker 1: with the bike, and this was a track that he

962
00:42:56,239 --> 00:42:57,759
Speaker 1: felt really confident going into.

963
00:42:57,880 --> 00:42:59,600
Speaker 2: And then we see that on Sundays.

964
00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:02,680
Speaker 1: You know, like you said, you've got to take the

965
00:43:02,719 --> 00:43:05,840
Speaker 1: positives from the vat and when you can. But Joel,

966
00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:10,080
Speaker 1: he's on track and he's working hard to potentially get

967
00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:12,359
Speaker 1: a higher championship position this year.

968
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:14,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, and crashing from the lead as well at the

969
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:17,759
Speaker 3: same quarter where Agis had gotten in front about ninety

970
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:19,640
Speaker 3: minutes before that. So I have all the places to

971
00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:21,839
Speaker 3: do it. But you know, we talked about this last

972
00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:24,640
Speaker 3: week after he'd led for so long at Lemont. There

973
00:43:24,719 --> 00:43:25,799
Speaker 3: is going to be a Grand Prix win.

974
00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:26,319
Speaker 4: For him this year.

975
00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:29,200
Speaker 3: He's just been too good and too consistent and too

976
00:43:29,239 --> 00:43:32,080
Speaker 3: fast to not have one before the end of this year.

977
00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:35,080
Speaker 3: And it was still quite early in the race at Silverstone.

978
00:43:35,120 --> 00:43:37,160
Speaker 3: We know that Motor three can be a complete fist

979
00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:40,520
Speaker 3: fight for twenty laps there, so who knows where that

980
00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:42,560
Speaker 3: would have ended up for him, But you can just

981
00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:45,480
Speaker 3: see it like there's a confidence and a belief there

982
00:43:45,560 --> 00:43:48,239
Speaker 3: now he knows he's legit at the front of that championship.

983
00:43:48,880 --> 00:43:50,799
Speaker 3: Wouldn't surprise me at all if it happens in the

984
00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:53,560
Speaker 3: next two or three rounds. So an unfortunate one. And

985
00:43:53,560 --> 00:43:55,080
Speaker 3: what was weird about it too, is you sort of

986
00:43:55,080 --> 00:43:57,600
Speaker 3: scratched your head. That's like, huh, when was the last

987
00:43:57,640 --> 00:43:59,959
Speaker 3: time he was in a position of advantage and actually

988
00:44:00,239 --> 00:44:01,800
Speaker 3: squad did it because it doesn't happen very often with

989
00:44:01,920 --> 00:44:05,839
Speaker 3: Joel these days. He's like this super consistent performer. So unfortunate.

990
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:09,319
Speaker 3: I'm sure he was kicking himself because that's not one

991
00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:10,920
Speaker 3: of those ones where it was someone else that took

992
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:12,480
Speaker 3: him out or nudged him off the track like it

993
00:44:12,560 --> 00:44:14,360
Speaker 3: happened at Lamon at the end of that race.

994
00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:17,760
Speaker 4: But it's coming. You can see that it's coming.

995
00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:20,200
Speaker 3: It's just unfortunate that a track that he was super

996
00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:22,440
Speaker 3: confident at that it didn't work out for him on Sunday.

997
00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:24,480
Speaker 4: But I dare say that's not the last of him.

998
00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:26,319
Speaker 3: The time we get to Aragon in a couple of weeks,

999
00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:28,520
Speaker 3: he'll be right back where he's been all season.

1000
00:44:28,239 --> 00:44:28,560
Speaker 4: I think.

1001
00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:33,319
Speaker 1: And Jacob Rolston, he crossed the line in thirteenth. I

1002
00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:37,560
Speaker 1: believe the same position that he qualified in in Moto three.

1003
00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:40,719
Speaker 1: But if you assies, if you guys didn't watch the

1004
00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:42,560
Speaker 1: Moto three race, because I know it wasn't on at

1005
00:44:42,600 --> 00:44:45,440
Speaker 1: a friendly time zone, shall we say you.

1006
00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:46,440
Speaker 2: Need to go back and watch it.

1007
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:52,160
Speaker 1: Because Ruwaida Rada one the three race from last place

1008
00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:53,279
Speaker 1: on the grid.

1009
00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:57,839
Speaker 3: That was only this, well, tell you someone who did

1010
00:44:57,880 --> 00:44:58,319
Speaker 3: believe it.

1011
00:44:58,480 --> 00:44:59,680
Speaker 4: Sitting in the.

1012
00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:01,960
Speaker 3: Wait to go into the press conference after because Moto

1013
00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:04,680
Speaker 3: GP was the middle of the three races, Mark Marquez

1014
00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:07,400
Speaker 3: is watching Moto three in the early laps on the

1015
00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:11,400
Speaker 3: monitor and says Ruada will win this after he'd started

1016
00:45:11,400 --> 00:45:13,600
Speaker 3: from last on the grid. So if Mark Marquez doesn't,

1017
00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:15,600
Speaker 3: you know, this whole motorcycle riding thing doesn't work out

1018
00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:17,200
Speaker 3: for Mark, we'll get a job as like a fortune

1019
00:45:17,200 --> 00:45:18,920
Speaker 3: teller or something, because that seems to be pretty good

1020
00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:22,200
Speaker 3: for him. But the fact the fact that he picked

1021
00:45:22,200 --> 00:45:24,919
Speaker 3: that so early, Ruaida is just on a different level

1022
00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:28,120
Speaker 3: in that championship this year, it's very rare to think

1023
00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:30,239
Speaker 3: of guys who can come from the very back or

1024
00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:32,640
Speaker 3: pit lane starts and actually winning that cat grig because

1025
00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:35,000
Speaker 3: it's so cutthroat, I mean, you think I remember Pedro

1026
00:45:35,080 --> 00:45:37,319
Speaker 3: Costa doing that in Qatar really early in his Moto

1027
00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:39,480
Speaker 3: three career. Came for the pitlane to win a race,

1028
00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:41,960
Speaker 3: So only the really good ones do that. We know

1029
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:44,600
Speaker 3: he's with a good team there, but man from last

1030
00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:47,320
Speaker 3: on the grid to win. And this wasn't like Lemon

1031
00:45:47,360 --> 00:45:49,640
Speaker 3: where if he inherited a win because of some silliness

1032
00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:53,239
Speaker 3: on the final lap which included Joe kel So awesome performance,

1033
00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:55,560
Speaker 3: but yeah, Mark Marqus picked at about half an hour

1034
00:45:55,560 --> 00:45:57,960
Speaker 3: before it happened. So if he liked to send us

1035
00:45:57,960 --> 00:46:00,840
Speaker 3: this week's lottery numbers, then you might your co host

1036
00:46:00,920 --> 00:46:02,759
Speaker 3: for next week's podcast, because I'll probably be on a

1037
00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:03,400
Speaker 3: beach somewhere.

1038
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:07,400
Speaker 1: Hey, if you're getting some of those lottery numbers, I

1039
00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:08,200
Speaker 1: want some as well.

1040
00:46:09,120 --> 00:46:09,759
Speaker 4: I'll pass it on.

1041
00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:15,600
Speaker 1: Just give market As a call and ask the lottery numbers. Well, guys,

1042
00:46:15,760 --> 00:46:20,000
Speaker 1: that pretty much wraps up Moto GP from Silverstone. If

1043
00:46:20,040 --> 00:46:21,680
Speaker 1: you want to know a little bit more about what

1044
00:46:21,719 --> 00:46:24,560
Speaker 1: happens at a European MotoGP race, you can head to

1045
00:46:24,600 --> 00:46:27,719
Speaker 1: the Fox Sports YouTube channel, where I am working on

1046
00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:29,880
Speaker 1: a log. Plus I got some cool behind the scenes

1047
00:46:30,280 --> 00:46:33,279
Speaker 1: coming up with Alpine Stars and Brambo, who took me

1048
00:46:33,760 --> 00:46:36,800
Speaker 1: behind in their workshops to show me what is happening

1049
00:46:36,840 --> 00:46:39,040
Speaker 1: on a Moto GP weekend, and it was actually quite

1050
00:46:39,080 --> 00:46:41,960
Speaker 1: interesting because a little spoiler alert, I got to see

1051
00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:45,600
Speaker 1: them repair Alex Marquez's favorite suit and how that.

1052
00:46:45,560 --> 00:46:46,480
Speaker 2: Happens on the go.

1053
00:46:47,480 --> 00:46:49,200
Speaker 1: But if you want to also catch up on all

1054
00:46:49,239 --> 00:46:52,319
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1056
00:46:56,400 --> 00:47:00,120
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1057
00:47:00,160 --> 00:47:02,759
Speaker 1: now attending the next F one race, so you guys

1058
00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:05,160
Speaker 1: will get to hear a little bit from me about

1059
00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:07,200
Speaker 1: F one and Matt. I'm sure you'll be talking with

1060
00:47:07,360 --> 00:47:12,120
Speaker 1: Michael Lamonado about the upcoming F one at Barcelona, but

1061
00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:15,080
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