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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Pits Talk podcast, brought to you by

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Speaker 1: Shannon's Insurance for your dose of all things F one

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Speaker 1: and Moto GP. Alrighty Sena Agy is welcome back to

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports.

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Speaker 2: How are you going?

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Speaker 3: Oh good?

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Speaker 4: Thanks for having me back home in Australia now in

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Speaker 4: the sunshine, which has been really needed after a busy

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Speaker 4: first part of the year.

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Speaker 1: Let's touch on Thailand, because what a rollercoaster of a

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Speaker 1: weekend for you. I mean, before we get into anything

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Speaker 1: there your first career pole position in Moto two class.

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Speaker 2: What was that like? How are you feeling for that?

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Speaker 4: I felt great all weekend. I was competitive all weekend

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Speaker 4: and felt great with my bike. It's always unknown going

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Speaker 4: to Thailand.

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Speaker 3: We test in.

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Speaker 4: Hareth say like winter conditions, really cold, full of grip,

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Speaker 4: everybody super fast, so credit to my crew. We took

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Speaker 4: pretty much out base from Herath and it worked in Thailand,

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Speaker 4: which was good.

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Speaker 3: We hit the ground.

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Speaker 4: Running, no great Friday, great Saturday morning. We were down

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Speaker 4: on top speed all weekend on sector one and two,

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Speaker 4: so I was super always in the top three, top

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Speaker 4: two in sector three four, so I knew I really

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Speaker 4: need I was losing three tenths on each straight for

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Speaker 4: free and it would be from like one hundred to

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Speaker 3: We were writing really well on that aspect, and so.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, for the pole app, I found a little slipstream

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Speaker 4: through out as turn one and that just allowed me

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Speaker 4: to go through sector three and four. How I wanted

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Speaker 4: sector four and yeah, nearly got nearly when it was

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Speaker 4: all over when I caught Aaron, But yeah, I went

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Speaker 4: a little bit hot into the last corner, I went

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Speaker 4: on the exit. But the speed that I went into

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Speaker 4: the last corner to get past him actually ended up

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Speaker 3: So yeah, pole AUP was cool.

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Speaker 4: I've always felt I've been a little unlucky on pole position,

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Speaker 4: sorry like going for pole in the past, I've been

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Speaker 4: close and something's always happened or someone with better track

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Speaker 4: position gets us. So yeah, so yeah, that was something

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Speaker 4: cool to tick off. But quickly after that I was

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Speaker 4: already thinking about the race and yeah that was that

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Speaker 4: was another story but pole position's cool and I'll never

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Speaker 4: forget it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, what a way to start twenty twenty six

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Speaker 1: with ticking off pole position. Last year you had the wins,

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Speaker 1: you had the podium. Now you've ticked that box. You

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Speaker 1: got the Teaso watch.

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Speaker 2: To prove it.

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Speaker 1: But then someday, like you said, everything changed. So fill

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Speaker 1: us in because we're watching here on the broadcast back

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Speaker 1: home in Australia and we heard Jack Appleyard saying to

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Speaker 1: Matt Burt that they changed the ECU but they couldn't

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Speaker 1: give us any more info. And then obviously we saw

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Speaker 1: what happened. So what actually happened from your point of view.

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Speaker 4: From the first lap of the race, I was I

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Speaker 4: had not the same and we're already struggling on top speed,

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Speaker 4: but there was something us sluggish, feeling didn't bike was

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Speaker 4: not pulling off the first two sectors worse than the

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Speaker 4: previous day. I was using first gear off the hairpin

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Speaker 4: that should have been second, Like, I just felt that

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Speaker 3: All my shift points are really late, and that.

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Speaker 4: Was on the first lap, so I was a little

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Speaker 4: because Guevara went wide in front of me, and I

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Speaker 4: was just really hungry on the breaks, passing in a bit,

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Speaker 4: I felt like I was losing. And then yeah, unfortunately,

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Speaker 4: so I couldn't react. And where I'm on the middle

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Speaker 4: that heat, which was terrible. And credit to the guys

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Speaker 4: they did change these year. Yeah, long story short, there

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Speaker 4: was just a fault code somewhere on a pardle on

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Speaker 4: folded it shut it down. It was something to do

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Speaker 4: Hends on deck Motor three team were in our box

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Speaker 4: and it was a b's a beehive, sorry in the

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Speaker 4: box and I was just trying to stay calm and yeah,

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Speaker 4: a little bit of a confusion with the rules regarding

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Speaker 4: starting from pitt lane second time. Yeah, I'm not sure.

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Speaker 4: I think that needs to be clarified a little bit

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I should have started from the back of the grid

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Speaker 4: on the second one, and I think I could have

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Speaker 4: rode it to at least score a point, but luckily

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Speaker 4: they awarded I think on Tuesday we got told that

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Speaker 4: they awarded half points, which I understand, Like, Okay, if

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Speaker 4: you're the winner, I understand you'll be a little bit

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Speaker 4: dirty that you didn't get your points, But in the

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Speaker 4: end of seven, that race probably doesn't deserve full points

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Speaker 4: and it limited the damage for us in the championship.

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Speaker 1: I'm just thinking about this and it's only just comes

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Speaker 1: to my thought. Do you think a problem like this

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Speaker 1: because we know that the track temperature and the changes

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Speaker 1: been able to pick up on this problem. Do you

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Speaker 1: think that would have helped or it was just a

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Speaker 1: freak incident where it happened in that moment.

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Speaker 4: It's freaky. I think it was a freak accident. Well,

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Speaker 4: not accident like failure, let's say. But well, if we

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Speaker 4: obviously something would have been changed before the race.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, I'm not sure.

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Speaker 4: And it's actually no fault to the team either, Like

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Speaker 4: I said that pretty clear when I come in, like

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Speaker 4: because there's nothing in our control, you know, in Moto

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Speaker 4: You know, the engines are all sealed everything, so there's

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Speaker 4: nothing independently that we're doing different that's failed, you know,

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Speaker 4: it's just the equipment we've been given. And I'm sure

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Speaker 4: we will be rectified when we get to Brazil with

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Speaker 4: because it seems to be something to do it's happened

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Speaker 4: to me before last year. It seems to be something

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Speaker 3: But looks like, I don't know, it looks like it's

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Speaker 1: Us, but I mean taking away that look at your

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Speaker 1: Thailand results. We know you've been stronger in the past year.

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Speaker 1: go leading into the twenty twenty six season, your third

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Speaker 1: It must be a positive start for you seeing this

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Speaker 4: Yeah, of course I was strong in Thailand last year

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Speaker 4: with the podium and a great race. Yeah, it used

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Speaker 4: I found a bit of a click moment and then yeah,

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Speaker 3: But yeah, starting off great. We also tested really well.

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Speaker 4: I was a little bit under the radar, didn't had

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Speaker 4: a couple of different bike problems, just teething issues with

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Speaker 4: the new fitman of the the you know, everybody will

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Speaker 4: in testing, which is fine, Like We've got a lot

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Speaker 4: I was. My crew obviously took it pretty hard because

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Speaker 1: What you got also twenty twenty six, I mean last

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Speaker 1: the poor position.

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Speaker 1: I mean, apart from Moto too world champion, what are

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Speaker 4: Be I don't want to be a name anymore that

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Speaker 4: I know I can do it. I've proved I can

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Speaker 4: do it, and I'm constantly fixing things that I can

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Speaker 3: And learning new tools for different situations.

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Speaker 4: So I want to put that all into into show

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Speaker 3: And I think we learned a lot from them.

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Speaker 4: The guys that beat us last year convincingly, like Marrera

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Speaker 4: analyzing the season and on what it takes in Moto too,

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Speaker 4: And that's part of my job of analyzing myself and

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Speaker 1: Can you share with us maybe something that you've learned,

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Speaker 1: like there's something there where you've gone. Ah, that's what

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Speaker 1: I can do differently than the others to get that

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Speaker 4: I think in Motor two, with all the bikes being

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Speaker 3: Like I think you've got to we just got to

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Speaker 2: No, you are right, it's a massive thing.

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Speaker 4: and now fast. So I just from my experience and

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Speaker 4: say that this will be the hardest year of Moto two. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: everybody's flying, and when we all get back to Europe,

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Speaker 4: the level super high run so familiar, so it'll be tough,

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Speaker 4: but we're are in there.

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Speaker 2: Awesome will sooner.

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Speaker 1: We can't wait to see out on track next weekend

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Speaker 1: the Brazilian Grand Prix and hopefully that sad a name

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Speaker 1: lives up to its legacy there. But thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for taking the time to chat with us here

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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