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Speaker 1: Jason Pines here Weekend Sport hosts. Hey, Jason gid a

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Speaker 1: Ryan Now Liam Lawson, he's had a chance to have

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Speaker 1: a quick buzz around the track already. How's he looking?

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Speaker 2: Sixteenth fastest of the twenty, so like you should say,

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Speaker 2: towards the back of the field. In the opening practice session,

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Speaker 2: first taste of driving in the Red Bull seat as

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Speaker 2: a full time driver one minute eighteen point four five

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Speaker 2: five seconds. Now, that probably doesn't mean a lot in isolation,

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Speaker 2: but they have said Red Ball they want Liam Lawson

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Speaker 2: to be within three tenths of a second of Max

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Speaker 2: for Stappin in terms of how quick he goes. He

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Speaker 2: hasn't managed that because the Stappin's gone one seventeen six

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Speaker 2: nine six, So a bit of work to do for

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Speaker 2: Liam Lawson. But it's only practice, it's not qualifying and

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Speaker 2: it's certainly not the race itself, which is on Sunday.

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Speaker 2: At five Max for Stappin was fifth fastest. Mclarenly got

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Speaker 2: the fastest cars this year, Ryan Orlando Norris topping the

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Speaker 2: time sheets so far, quite a way ahead of the rest,

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Speaker 2: so they'll be everit a catching up to do for

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Speaker 2: Red Ball, but Liam Lawson at least has got out

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Speaker 2: there for the first time. He will be play to

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Speaker 2: get that out of the way.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, What does this weekend Sunday five pm? You said,

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Speaker 1: the big race? What does success look like for him?

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Speaker 2: Well, it depends on who you listen to. I think

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Speaker 2: finishing is one one measure of success. You know, to

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Speaker 2: finish first. First, you have to finish, as they say,

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Speaker 2: so I think getting rounds and getting the check a

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Speaker 2: flag is one thing. I think getting in the top

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Speaker 2: ten would be a bare minimum for Liam Lawson given

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Speaker 2: the fact he's in a Red Bull car which is

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Speaker 2: one of the one of the fast cars, and if

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Speaker 2: he stays within three tenths of a second of max

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Speaker 2: for staff and you'd have to think he'll do that.

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Speaker 2: But let's not forget it's a long season. There are

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Speaker 2: twenty one, sorry, twenty four Grand Prix across twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 2: So even if he doesn't quite manage to raise a

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Speaker 2: lot of eyebrows this weekend, I think getting the first

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Speaker 2: one out of the way will be a big weight

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Speaker 2: off the shoulders of Liam Lawson as he contemplates a

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Speaker 2: full year of being in this seatful time.

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Speaker 1: Now the Warriors Round one but ugly against Manly. Can

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Speaker 1: they bounce back tonight?

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm not worried about Liam Lawson, a bit worried

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Speaker 2: about the Warriors. If I'm honest with you, Ryan, you

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Speaker 2: know they weren't great in Vegas, and you might be

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Speaker 2: able to write it off as saying, okay, well that

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Speaker 2: was almost a false economy. Vegas is almost pre season.

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Speaker 2: But Manly were very good last weekend, very very good.

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Speaker 2: One of the better sides going around, in fact, probably

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Speaker 2: one of the top two or three sides in the NRL.

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Speaker 2: The Warriors wouldn't want to put on the same performance

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Speaker 2: tonights at home as they did in Vegas. Look, I

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Speaker 2: don't think their favorite. I really don't think their favorite.

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Speaker 2: But look, funny things happen when the Warriors play it

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Speaker 2: mount smart, big crowd, hopefully expected. I think the weather's

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Speaker 2: going to be okay. But Manly are a good team.

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Speaker 2: I think performance is the thing rather than result. Even

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Speaker 2: if they were to lose but played a lot better,

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Speaker 2: I think that would be okay. But of course we'd

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Speaker 2: love to see them win tonight.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, thanks so much for that, and good luck

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Speaker 1: to the lame O Hurricanes too.

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Speaker 2: Thanks right, gee, you left it late for.

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Speaker 1: That Jason Pine. We'll see later on that Statson Pine

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