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Speaker 1: Moto GP is ready to lock horns at the iconic

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Speaker 1: we've got plenty to unpack ahead of the blockbuster in Spielberg.

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Speaker 2: Pit Talk has brought to.

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

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Speaker 1: to help us get reped up for the return of

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Speaker 1: Racy is our very own Matt Clayton. Matt, we're going

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Speaker 1: to get straight into it with the hard question. So

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Speaker 1: my question to you is Peco going to remain the

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Speaker 1: king of the Red Bull Ring having been unbeaten here

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Speaker 1: since twenty twenty two? Whereas Mark Marquez going to break

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Speaker 1: his Austrian couract.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, interesting, isn't it? By the way, nice use of

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Speaker 2: Spielberg blockbuster that won't be used at all by anybody

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Speaker 2: else for the rest of the weekend. Certainly not me.

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Speaker 2: I'll probably get it in the first paragraph of every story,

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Speaker 2: all right, But say to.

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Speaker 1: Our listeners every time Matt Burt says it on the broadcast,

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Speaker 1: take a shot, like we always have our drinking games

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Speaker 2: You might not get to the end of well, you

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Speaker 2: might not get to the end of FP two at

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Speaker 2: that right, because Bat'll use it one hundred times as well.

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Speaker 2: But going back to your question, it's interesting, isn't it,

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Speaker 2: because we've had a couple of tracks this year that

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Speaker 2: who's won those two races, Mirk Marquez. So it's funny,

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Speaker 2: isn't it that Mark's alongside Peco in the factory team.

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Speaker 2: We know that he's had some wins at tracks that

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Speaker 2: What's really interesting about this was two things for me.

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Speaker 2: Since they changed the circuit layout back in twenty twenty two,

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Speaker 2: So that's interesting in terms of that run from the

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Speaker 2: how severe that was until I was literally watching it

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Speaker 2: What's so strange about this? And I've got a story

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Speaker 2: for Fox Sports dot com dot AU that's going to

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Speaker 2: so strange that someone with a CV that's so glittering

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Speaker 2: normally when guys have bogie tracks, they are absolutely hopeless,

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Speaker 2: But the thing with Marquez and Austria, it's not that

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Speaker 2: But it's so bizarre when you think about he's won

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Speaker 1: I just love that you brought up the little mind

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Speaker 1: Matt was just saying there where he's like, no, this

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