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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine

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Speaker 1: from Newstalk Z'B.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, buzzing. Can't wait to get out there and get

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Speaker 2: on the race course.

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Speaker 3: The tefoils are on everybody's mind. Everyone's been talking about

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Speaker 3: them this week. Tell us about your experience with the

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Speaker 3: new titanium tefoils.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's fantastic to get them one. It's obviously a

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Speaker 2: bit more similar to what we were using over in Barcelona,

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Speaker 2: so there's been plenty of interesting differences between the teams.

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Speaker 2: I'd say that there's been a little bit more looseness

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Speaker 2: out there, some more crashing. So I think it'll be

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Speaker 2: a great weekend for the fans.

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Speaker 3: That does it bring into sharper focus the skill of

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Speaker 3: the sailors we're going at at faster speeds.

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Speaker 2: I think that the fastest speeds will be great, but

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Speaker 2: I also think it's about how we learn and adapt

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Speaker 2: to these new tfoils and how the boat behaves. So

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Speaker 2: there's certainly plenty for us to get on top of.

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Speaker 2: And we've seen some, as you say, some differences and

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Speaker 2: we're all trying to work out the best way to

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Speaker 2: get the boats around the race course.

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Speaker 3: What are your experiences with them, what have you it

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Speaker 3: to adjust the most.

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Speaker 2: There's some different settings that we can play with, and

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Speaker 2: the cant sor the angle that it drops at is

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Speaker 2: very similar in reality again to the sort of the

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Speaker 2: seventy five the aight forties, So trying to work out

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Speaker 2: where we can bring the experience from the cup, but

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Speaker 2: also how different it is in CELGP with the fifty Casmaran.

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Speaker 2: So there's plenty going on.

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Speaker 3: So you're backing into Cell GP. Obviously the change of

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Speaker 3: dry has it been relatively seamless as far as your consuit.

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Speaker 2: I think it feels good to be back in Emirates GBR,

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Speaker 2: but obviously the team's very experienced, and I know that

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Speaker 2: the level has gone at massively since season one, so

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Speaker 2: I'm very much just hanging off what the team's telling

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Speaker 2: me and trying to do best job I can.

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Speaker 3: You must obviously have kept a close eye on Cell GP,

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Speaker 3: though as you say you were involved in season one,

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Speaker 3: you clearly have kept an eye on its development over

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Speaker 3: over seasons two, three, four into five.

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Speaker 2: Now, yeah, certainly kept an eye and I was even

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Speaker 2: sort of working behind the scenes in season three. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's great to finally be back driving, and the boats

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Speaker 2: have got a lot faster, a lot better, the teams

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Speaker 2: are a lot better, and I think that it's just amazing,

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Speaker 2: to be honest, you know, I think this event here

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Speaker 2: really shows SELGP at its best. We've got you know,

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Speaker 2: eight thousand you know, seats in the grandstand right by

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Speaker 2: the race course, the tech areas right here, we've got

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Speaker 2: all the moorings which are really closed. It's amazing to

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Speaker 2: see all the fans here already. So I just hope

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Speaker 2: that we put on a great show for everyone.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I don't think there's any any danger of that

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Speaker 3: not hppening. Obviously, you've come in for Garles Scott, who's

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Speaker 3: gone to the Canadian team. Can you tell us how

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Speaker 3: that conversation happened? Who run you? Was of an easy years.

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Speaker 2: It was very fluid and it was quite late, to

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Speaker 2: be honest, Ben knows, I've always been pushing to get

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Speaker 2: back on the boat or back in an F fifty

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Speaker 2: ever since that first season, and you know, I guess

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Speaker 2: I was slightly surprised at first when Garles went to

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Speaker 2: the Canadians, but it all fell into place quite nicely.

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Speaker 2: At the end of my time in Barcelona with Ben

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Speaker 2: saying that, you know, I'd got the gig and I

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Speaker 2: was driving, So yeah, an exceptional lent, exceptional summer.

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Speaker 3: What has Subbin like to deal with?

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Speaker 2: Formidable? But he's he's really nice, to be honest, and

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Speaker 2: you always know where you are with him, and yeah,

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Speaker 2: I certainly have a good relationship.

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Speaker 3: So Dubai the season opening of be into Dubai second there,

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Speaker 3: you must have been pretty happy with it, were you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess pretty Happy's a probably a good way

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Speaker 2: of putting it. Certainly, we know it's a long season

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Speaker 2: in SELGP and we're all about getting into that Grand Final,

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Speaker 2: but at the end of the day, we're trying to

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Speaker 2: win every event, and to be honest, I'm still sort

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Speaker 2: of slightly annoyed at myself for part of that in

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Speaker 2: terms of I just wanted to win, and you know,

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Speaker 2: being being by the keywis is something I don't enjoy.

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Speaker 3: Well, you'll probably enjoy it list out here with eight

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Speaker 3: thousand if it happens, of course, with eight thousand cheerings.

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Speaker 3: So what were you annoyed personally? It's something you did

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Speaker 3: or didn't do.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we were leading the race sort of halfway through,

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Speaker 2: and you know, a little mistake from myself on you know,

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Speaker 2: open the door for Pete and I know that you know,

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Speaker 2: he'll take any opportunity you get. So it was a

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Speaker 2: frustrating one, but yeah, we'll live and lane.

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Speaker 3: Well, let's talk about the conditions out here across the

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Speaker 3: next two days. You've obviously been training practicing out here.

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Speaker 3: What impact do you expect the conditions to have on

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Speaker 3: racing today and tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be very hectic and close. The

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Speaker 2: last two days we've been racing with fleets of five

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Speaker 2: or six boats, and today is the first time we've

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Speaker 2: got all eleven on the racecourse and it felt small

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Speaker 2: with six boats, So eleven it's going to feel real small.

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Speaker 2: So I'm expecting plenty of furs and spills, some crashes,

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Speaker 2: and yeah, just trying to keep it on its feet

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Speaker 2: is going to be the important part.

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Speaker 3: So actually, you're going into the racing expecting that there

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Speaker 3: will be some carnage.

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Speaker 2: Yes, hopefully no one actually touches, but you know, we've

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Speaker 2: seen plenty of crashes. The Germans, you know, nearly put

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Speaker 2: it in a tide yesterday around the bottom mark. I

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Speaker 2: think the Brazilians nearly put it in the tide, so

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Speaker 2: there's plenty going on.

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Speaker 3: What's it? What is it like though with with other boats?

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Speaker 3: High speed, close proximity, low margin for era? How how

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Speaker 3: cool hidded do you have to be in situations like that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I guess you've got to keep your call. But

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Speaker 2: to be honest, I think this is what all of

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Speaker 2: us live for. We absolutely love it out there and

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Speaker 2: having eleven boats and going you know, ninety k's and

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Speaker 2: now one hundred ks now hopefully, is that's what we

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Speaker 2: live for?

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Speaker 3: You reckon you had a hundred? I hope.

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Speaker 2: So?

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Speaker 3: And what about rounding the marks because again, you know

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Speaker 3: they're very close proximity. They talk about getting elbows out,

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Speaker 3: don't they things like that? As you know, you're ready

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Speaker 3: for that sort of thing this afternoon and tomorrow as well. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I think it's that famous quote. You know, if you

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Speaker 2: see a gap, you've got to go for it. Otherwise

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Speaker 2: you're no longer a racing driver, so you'll be giving

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Speaker 2: it everything your fifties.

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Speaker 3: How do they compared to the other craft that you've seldom.

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Speaker 2: They're you know, they're formidable really as well. They're just

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Speaker 2: the speed is high. It's not as quick as some

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Speaker 2: of the others, but it's the fact that you're very

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Speaker 2: exposed open, you're having to run across the boat when

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Speaker 2: you're doing you know, seventy eighty ks an now, which

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Speaker 2: is it's pretty full on. So and I think for

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Speaker 2: me the main thing is just the fact that we

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Speaker 2: got ten of the boats on the race course. It's

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Speaker 2: super tight, it's ever changing, so it's some of the

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Speaker 2: best racing in a while.

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Speaker 3: To be honest, in the start obviously important, you know,

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Speaker 3: doubly so with so many boats, not a lot of

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Speaker 3: room or time to overtake. So if you don't get

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Speaker 3: the start right, can you still put together an impressive

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Speaker 3: performance beyond the start line? If you get my.

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Speaker 2: Drift, Yeah, I think that you saw, you know, if

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Speaker 2: you look back at Dubai from sort of the stats

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Speaker 2: and everything, and asselves, I think the Kiwis were the

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Speaker 2: best overtakers and we were the second best overtakers, and

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Speaker 2: neither of us started particularly well. So I guess it's

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Speaker 2: that balance. Ideally you start well, but if you don't

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Speaker 2: start well, make sure you overtake well.

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Speaker 3: Fear enough you're excited, Yeah, looking forward to great to

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Speaker 3: see you, Dylan, all the bits out there today. And tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for stopping him for a chain.

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