June 11, 2025 • 47 mins
Aragon turned red — Marquez red — as the eight-time champ reminded everyone who’s boss.
But while the racing brought the heat, off-track news exploded too.
A surprise rookie test stirred the pot, and after months of speculation, Toprak Razgatlıoğlu finally confirmed he’s MotoGP-bound with Pramac in 2026.
What does it all mean for the current grid, silly season, and riders like Jack Miller?
Renita and Matt Clayton break it all down, with sharp takes, spicy rumours, and a look ahead to what’s next.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Aragon turned into Marquez Land, a surprise rookie jumped on
a Moto GP bike, and finally the announcement we've been
waiting for. Toprac is heading to Moto GP. From shock
test to silly season chaos, and we have got a
lot to unpack in this episode, so let's get straight
into it. As always, this episode of Pit Talk is
brought to you by Shannon's Insurance.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I'm your host, Rinita.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Vanmullen and joining me as always Matt Clayton. Mat no
silly intros at this time, because we are straight into
facts and you can finally write about top Rac actually
moving into Moto GP.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
And this is after me saying a few weeks ago
that I was banning myself writing about him until it
was actually happening, because I feel like I've started this
story about two hundred times and it's never actually amounted
to anything.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
But is it funny?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Like we have a Grand Prix weekend where we set
in the lead up that it was probably going to
be very one sided, and then it was very very
one sided, and all of a sudden, there is so
much to talk about because of all the other things
that are happening on the periphery. So yeah, this pod
could go in a million different directions. So I guess
where do you want to start? Because there's plenty of
starting points.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I feel like let's talk about the top Rack news.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
That's probably the biggest talking point as of right now
because for us Ozsie's Jack Miller, and we've spoke about
it so many times on the pod. We know he's
only on that one year contract. Top RAC's coming into Parmaha.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
I'm hearing rumors.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
About Miguel trying to get out of his contract. Now,
what's your take on that? A let's talk about top
Rack coming into Moto GP. How do you think he's
going to go? Because some people are saying, oh, the
writing style is so different from superbikes Tomoto GP. But
it's top Rack, right, it's the man who's just dominated
in superbikes.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Well, you say a house top Rac going to go
A should be? You've just said Pramaha. So everyone taking
shots at home, please feel free to down your first
one for the evening.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
But look top Rack in MotoGP.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
This is super intriguing because it's been like this great
unknown for years. We know how good he's been in
world superbikes, and it's not just that he wins there,
it's how he wins.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Like.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
The guy's a showman, he's a stylist, he does it
his own way. He's got fantastic celebrations. He's got this
enormous fan base from a part of the world that
you know, we've not had a massive amount to cheer
about in the past. It's going to bring a new
dynamic to Moto GP. It's interesting to me that I
don't know how old is too old for a rider
(02:27):
to make a switchlight this. But he's twenty eight. It's
not like you're talking about a twenty two year old here.
So yeah, he's a mega talent. He's been a mega
talent in a production bike series. And anyone expecting this
guy to walk into Moto GP and be awesome from
day one, I think that's a little bit optimistic, and
it probably depends on where your passport comes from or
who you're supporting these things. But I don't I think
(02:48):
it's fanciful to think that he's going to come in
and just be right on it right away against the
best riders in the world on very very different motorcycles.
I think that's the first thing, he's going to be excited.
He's going to probably bend a few bikes along the way,
let's be honest, because that happens with these really fast
guys that come in from other series. But it adds
(03:08):
another injection of adrenaline into twenty twenty six. And I say,
why that's important is that because we've got this rule
change coming in for twenty twenty seven, which is kind
of this hard reset for MotoGP that we've been talking about.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
For a while.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Twenty twenty six to me kind of feels like an
extension of last year and this year it's going to
be decaty domination. Is everyone going to start turning the
development tap off on a thousand cc rule set that's
going to be obsolete at the end of the year.
There's no point developing lots of arrow and ride height
devices because they're all.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Going in the bin anyway.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
So I kind of feel like twenty five and twenty
six will kind of meld into one when we look
at it in the future. The key thing for Razgatlioglu
coming in now, I think it's really smart by Yamaha
because he gets to learn the circuits, he gets to
learn the tires, he gets to learn how motor GP
weekend works, and there's not necessarily going to be the
pressure of expectation because he's coming in riding a bike
(04:01):
that's not a race winning bike, because Yamaha hasn't won
a race since twenty twenty two, So it's not like
people are expecting him to come in and be like,
you better be in the top four in the World Championship.
That's not going to happen. I think the key thing
is he gets all the He'll get the l plates
off next.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Year if you like.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
So when we hit twenty twenty seven, with the ground
running and this sort of reset playing order, he's going
to be just as experienced as everybody else. He's not
going to be so far behind as you would be
as you came in in twenty seven. So I think
it's smart by Yamaha to come in. But the other
side of the coin for this, of course, is that
you know, Yamaha's got four bikes now, four riders. Fabio
Quatrero is the kingpin of the whole thing. He is
(04:41):
their shining light. We've seen this year that as Yamaha
has improved, if we ever needed to be reminded how
good Fabio is. Like he's given us a bit of
a reminder this year for anyone that might have lost
the faith. He's the leader of this project. And an
interesting part about Razcatlioglu coming in, even if they necessarily
wanted to put him in the factory team next to Quatroa,
there's a clash of sponsors. Rasquatlioglu is personally sponsored by
(05:04):
Red Bull. Of course it is the Monster Energy Yamaha
Motor GP factory team, so that doesn't work. So he
was always going to come in with Pramak. Now you've
got this really interesting situation where Pramak has two riders
who are new for this year. Miguel Olivera is on
a two year contract and has been injured or not
(05:24):
very good for the most part that he's been there.
And Jack Miller's on a one year contract because he
was the last rider signed on the grid for this year.
So Yamahad had frankly all the leverages, like Jack would
have taken whatever they offered him in September last year.
Jack's been really good this year, and I think this
time last year you had to put your patriotic Australian
(05:44):
had on to really come up with a reason why
Jack Miller should stay in Motor GP, because his final
year with Katie it was pretty ordinary. There was absolutely
no doubt he was going to be replaced by Pedro
Acosta on about nine two of the season Big Guitar.
It felt like that was pretty much inevitable. It's a
little bit fortunate to be on the grid this year,
but that owes itself to Pramak, can you him. He's
(06:05):
vastly experienced with a number of different manufacturers, Pramak Yamaha
as much as an established brand and an established team.
It's a bit of a startup, right, so they needed
Jack's experience and his ability technically to drive them forward.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
I actually think.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Jack's been really good this year, where last year he wasn't,
and he absolutely deserves to stay on the grid for
twenty twenty six given what's coming in twenty seven is
what we were talking about. But of course you've got
this contract situation. Jackson one year, Miguel's on two, and
so is it as easy as just saying, well, Miller
is going to be the guy that this is out
here because he's got the shorter contract tenure. I'm sure
(06:41):
you heard some stuff in Aragon over the weekend, as
I heard from Afar. It's not as simple as that,
by the sounds, isn't.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
No. I'm hearing a lot of rumors about Miguel trying
to get out of his contract as well, But then
spending time with Jack on the weekend, and you're talking
about what he was like at KTM last year. We
interviewed him here.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
For Fox Sports, and it.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Seems like to me, spending some time with Jack this weekend,
his whole mental, his outlook, everything is.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
So much more positive.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
I spoke about it in Thailand as well, and that
was the season open. I now where eight rounds in
and Jack is still this positive, happy guy. It seems
like Pramak is the been the switch that he needed.
But it's that one year contract looming.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Then.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
On the other point, and this is something I want
to ask you matter is you know, Pramak do have
the riders in Moto two as well, so are they
going to want to try and bring those riders up
through to Moto GP. But now they've signed top Racks,
so there's a lot going on in that aspect too.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Yeah, they need about six four bikes, don't they at
this point, but I think with the Moto two team
that was clearly establishing that team is something for the future.
Now for the future in inverted commas is this sort
of nebulous How far are we going into the future here?
So they've got Tony Ablino who's been around for a while,
and east At Cuavaro, who's super, super young and has
pedigree as a Moto three champion. I still believe they're
(08:00):
the future, but that future might be pushed back a
little bit now. I can still see Guevara is the
one for me. I think we'll see him in Motor GP,
but it might take him another two or three years
to get there, which I think is fine because he's
still young enough. The key thing for me, and you
probably heard this over the course of the weekend, it
seems like there's a clause in the Olivera contract that
Yamaha can basically a null that second year of his
(08:22):
contract if he is the last place of Yamaha's four
riders in the championship at the end of this season.
So there'll be a cutoff point in this season where
they have to make that decision. You look at the
championship standings right now, Quatarero is a leading Yamaha by
some distance. Jack is the second best place Yamaha, ahead
of Alex Ritz and then Miguel Olivera. As we've said,
he's missed three rounds, but he scored so few points
(08:44):
in the rounds that he has been there, and Olivera
kind of acknowledged that over the Aragon weekend basically saying, look,
you know, I need to perform. I need to perform now.
And it wouldn't surprise me. With these contract clauses, a
lot of them kicking around the mid season break where
we get that break after the checker public it probably
gives Olivera, what four more rounds to actually do something.
(09:05):
He's a long long lay behind Rins and Miller in
terms of not being the last Yamaha rider in the standing.
So you know, these contracts, as we know from Juje Martin,
there's always lines in them that you never expect to
come out. But that might be the thing that moves
Olivera on. But you probably during the week I wrote
for Fox Sports dot com dot Au that it's a
(09:28):
little tough on Miguel Okay and he's proven to be
a grand Prix race winner. I still think in the
right day, in the right circumstance, he's still a very
good motor GP rider. You do wonder about these contracts
because I look at Alex Rinns and Alex Rins is
a fantastic motor GP rider when he's at his peak.
But when he's at his peak is the key part
(09:48):
of that sentence. Alex Rins has been either injured or
recovering from injury for basically two years Magello twenty twenty
three when he broke his legs basically two years ago
this week.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
And I think, if I remember.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
My own story, which I we should given that I
wrote it, I think he's been in the top ten
three times since then in two years, and he's mister
heaper racers. I think he's out quite qualified quatro four
times in two years as teammates. And you had these
races recently when Fabio is on Pole and rinses in
q Q one. It's too big of a gap between
two riders on the same bike. And you know, Alex
(10:21):
Renz proved himself as a guy who could win races
with Suzuki and with Honda and fully fit is a
fantastic manor GP rider, but fully fit and Alex Rerins
is not two things you're saying in the same sentence
these days.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
It's really really harsh, But.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
You do wonder if he's ever going to get back
to being what he was, where someone like OLIVERA to
me is still like a TVC because we don't have
enough evidence of whether he can do anything on a
Yamaha yet.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Because it's been super disjointed.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
So in terms of the three riders that could be
potentially under the pump here, to my mind on performance,
Jack should be the safest of the three because I
think he's over delivered or what Yamaha expected of him
this year. OLIVERA is inconclusive because he's been hurt and
there's the form line with Rins that it doesn't look
like it's going up. He's sort of stuck where he is,
(11:05):
and I think he's just so physically limited these days.
So wherever Yamaha go, I think all three of those
guys are worthy motor GP riders, and maybe Oliver or
Rins if it's one of those two, can find a
seat elsewhere. There's going to be seats around because that's
how motorgp works. I think Jack's actually a lot safer
this year that he was last year. He's pretty lucky
to be on the grid this year. I think it
(11:27):
would be a bit of a travesty if he's not
for next year, given what he's brought to Yamaha, and
as you said, he seems completely reinvigorated this year. He's
a different person a different personality. Yamaha really enjoying what
he's bringing. And you look at how competitive Yamaha is
this year compared to the last couple. You can't tell
me that Jack's fingerprints aren't on part of that resurgence
(11:50):
for them. I think he's a huge asset for them,
and I think he should stay.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
I think for our listeners, don't necessarily include Aragon, because
we know Aragon's a track that just doesn't suit the Yamaha.
They struggle here. I think Fabruary post on his Instagram
they haven't. He hasn't scored points here in the last
four years. Something ridiculous like that, right, So remove aragonau
the situation. Yeah, Yamaha are on the resurgence. My question
(12:15):
is kind of to Yamaha and to you as well.
Matt Okay Alex Rins. If you see him walking around
the paddock, he has this like compression sleeve on his leg.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
He's like sop on his calf. He's limping.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Why is he not taking a page out of Mark
and Jorge Martin's book of resting, recovering properly and then
trying to come back to fight, Because Yeah, like you
said about Alex Rins, is kind of like Maverick Vinalez
where you just have like this spark of okay, he's
doing really well, but then he's dropping back.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Why is he not recovering or why is he not moving.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
To a test writer position where he could be a
bit more beneficial.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Yeah, you have to. You do have to wonder.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
I think the key to that is, you know, we
talk about Jello twenty twenty three. So he won that
race at Cota for Honda, that elsr win, which came
from kind of nowhere at the start of twenty three,
broke his leg at Magello and probably tried to come
back too quickly. He'd already signed for Yamaha to be
Quattroro's teammate for twenty four at that point, and it's
almost like he came tried to come back too fast
(13:20):
in order to prove that he was the right man
for the job. I still vividly remember this because it's
a Philip Island memory. You know this, from the paddock
up to the media center at Phillip Island. I actually
counted the number of steps because I was watching Alex
try and negotiate them on crutches at the time. I
think it's seventeen steps from the paddack up to the
media center or something along those lines at Phillip Island.
And I wrote about it that weekend. The hardest thing
(13:41):
he did that entire week ken was get up the
steps to go to do the press conference and get
down the steps again on these crutches. And you mentioned
the brace that he wears on his leg. He only
ditched the crutches at the start of this year. I
think it was Argentina that he finally got rid of
the crutches. So he's not been right for basically two
full calendar years. He's a really, really good motor GP rider.
But you do wonder, like you said, Martine's taking his time,
(14:02):
Marquez took his time.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Rinz might have rushed back too.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Quickly for reasons that we just detailed back in twenty
twenty three, and he's kind of still paying the price
for it a little bit because he's just not the
rider that he was. I mean, this is a rider
who went toe to toe with Mark Marquez several times
in Grand Prix, including Australia in twenty twenty two as
Suzuki was winding down, and beat Marquees in a head
to head fight a couple of times.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Did it?
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Silverstone as you remember back when he was at Suzuki,
really really talented rider. But I don't know if that
guy's there anymore, just simply because physically he can't be
that same rider anymore.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Yeah, I think you've hit the nail on the head.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
And then that leads me to the question is is
it just holding onto a seat because of the fact
of holding onto a seat or could some of these
younger rookies like Bramak who have that Moto two bike
sorry Moto two team can then start bringing riders through.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
But we're not team owners. Where just speculating here.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
There's so many if buttson wins, But there's these little
things that I've seen over the weekend, Like I said
about Alex who's still limping, and you're like, how are
you mustling a Moto GP bike around Aragon, which does
have quite a lot of elevation. Yeah, we're going to
Magello next that has even more elevation.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
How are you doing that?
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Struggling off so many unanswered questions, but the question that
we knew was going to get answered this weekend was
Mark Marquez absolutely dominating Aragon. What can I say, leading
all sessions and beating his own record, which I thought
was hilarious the way Meto GP had it on the
screen of Mark Marquez has beat Mark Marquez at his
(15:32):
own record of leading every single session since twenty fifteen.
What do you say to that? It's Marquees Aragon, is
markez Land?
Speaker 3 (15:41):
It is I mean, what's one of six eighty clockwise
tracks on the calendar, So it's Rightney's wheelhouse. We know
that we know how good he is there because we
saw that the previous year on that surface that was
like a skating rink and he's on a two year
old Decatti and making everyone look ridiculous. But there were
two parts of the weekend for me, I'll go three parts.
Friday morning practice. I think he was eight tenths of
(16:03):
a second faster than everybody else, which is just you
look at the time sheets and go, yeah, okay, here
we go the sprint race where he didn't get a
very good start and drop back to fourth, and when
I'll just overtake it. If everybody had clear off, that'll
be fine to go win the sprint race. But in
the actual Grand Prix, and you were to see this
on Sunday, cruising out front, got the start right led
(16:23):
from the start, and he said, as the laps were
counting down, he started thinking about Austin where he was
in the lead, and he dropped it and scorned at
a heap of points. So just because he could not,
because he had to, he decided to go set a
new circuit lap record with three laps to go on
twenty one lap old tires, just to basically keep himself
fully focused. And it was completely planned. It's like I'm
(16:45):
just going to attack here to see if i can
set the fastest lap to make sure I stay in
my race rhythm and I don't sort of button off
mentally or start cutting a few corners or what have you.
He was going to be locked in right the way
to the end. Because of a previous race where he
thrown some away and I thought, that's just a classic
insight into what Mark is like. He's aware that he's
now starting to wander mentally, like, don't do what he
(17:07):
did in Austin. Don't do what you did in Austin.
So he did the opposite of what he did in
Austin and decided to go and break a circuit record
because he could. And that just shows you that. I mean,
he basically rolled out on the last lap of one
by a second and a bit, but if he was pushing,
that felt like a five seven eight second whatever he
wanted it to be win because a combination of the
best bike on the grid and Mark Marquez and this track,
(17:29):
there was just this inevitability about it the whole weekend,
and you could almost argue right that Alex Marquez was
almost like the biggest winner of the weekend because on
a weekend where he wasn't in the same post code
as his brother, he only actually lost eight points over
the course of the weekend, it felt like eighty eight
points given that Mark was in his own race. So
Alex has done kinde of well, really, he did the
(17:50):
best he could to only lose points to his brother
and managed to beat everybody else. But I'm sure you
were there. I mean, there was a huge Marquez grandstand
there just on the off the corner where the wall
is there. They were having the best time of their
lives and it was nice to see the Marquers were
celebrating afterwards. But the whole thing felt like it was
kind of predetermined as suit as Friday practice started, didn't
(18:11):
it for.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
The listeners just a little insight.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
I did a vlog for the Fox Sports YouTube channel
that I'm calling the Marquez Effect because.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
I'm going to show you just how many.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Mark Marquez and Alex Marquez fans there are in Aragon
and if you've only ever experienced Philip Island, this is
going to give you an insight to what Matt was
saying is I got up close when the riders were
doing their lap around the circuit and awesome the Marquees grandson.
They had a live MC there who was hyping the
crowd up. Mark and Alex came up with the T
(18:42):
shirt guns and watching. I actually watched some of the
practice sessions from that corner because it's really interesting near
the wall as they come up and over and head
back down the elevation again. And every time Mark or
Alex were on track, stepping in and out of their
pit garage.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Wherever you were, you.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Knew that Mark and Alex were there because you would
just here the crowd raw at any time of the day.
So the Marquez brothers are literally the biggest celebrities there
are in that part of the world, which was crazy,
but we obviously know that. Yeah, Mark was just in
his own post cred as you said. One thing we
spoke about though in the pre preview pod was you
(19:22):
said that you started to see this is where the
twenty five GP would start to expand in the GP
twenty four.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Ward State workers.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
We didn't really see that this weekend, though, did we,
Because we saw Morbidelli and Aldiger and all these guys
were battling and they were up the front. It's just
the fact that it was Mark Marquez being Mark Marquez.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Yeah, complete race for second place really, So, I mean
it's one of those tracks that it's a decading track
at the best of times, and then it's like it's
Marquees in like category one and then everyone else sort
of behind that. I mean, Franko Morberdelli really good qualifying
for It's the best qualifying he's had for a long time.
Faded a bit in the Grand Prix, but the twenty
fives weren't quite as strong here as maybe I suspected
(20:04):
they might be. But we talked about this a little
bit offline before we started. I reckon that that podium
for Pekabanyai on Sunday might be a super interesting result
to monitor from here, because he did something super different
with that bike on Sunday. Saturday was an absolute disasters
twelfth in the sprint, and the other five decaddies were
(20:24):
all the top six, so he was in this category
of absolutely nowhere, and it's just an extension of how
his season has gone. It feels to me like they
might have unlocked something for him on Sunday, which was
a really really random thing that we can get into
which might be the world's longest podcast, but I'll try
and keep it short. But it feels that Banyai had
(20:44):
a result on Sunday that was worth more than just
your average third place finish because you saw him after
the race. He doesn't usually get that fired up about
finishing third. I mean, he's won thirty Grand Breeze. The
way he runs. He was super excited to finish third
because I think he reckons he found something, don't you think?
Speaker 2 (21:00):
I think so.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Match And you know you spoke recently on Fox sports
dot comdo for Slash Motorsport where you said that there's
some internals, there's some changes that have happened in Peko's bike,
and there's been some talks. We've heard Ta Doozzi saying
to Jack Appleyard and these guys, you know that they
found something, They found something with Peco whatnot. I heard
(21:23):
some little whispers about potentially it was like the rear
right height device the weight had shifted, so he was
struggling and that's why we're seeing so many front end crashes.
But yeah, what do you know, because you're looking at
me like you've got some inside got here?
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Yeah, a little bit.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
So I wrote a couple of weeks ago about this.
Two things about the twenty five that are different to
the twenty four Ducatti without getting super granular here, it's
the engine internals are different, and the weight distribution of
where they are and the bike.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Is different, and the rear ride.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Height device is much more towards the front of the bike,
but it's also lighter. So Banniol's biggest problem all year
is he uses the word feeling all the time. I
don't have the feeling, have the feeling, and he doesn't
have the confidence on the front end of the bike
in corners. You often see him run wide or he's
not as good in breaking because he's an awesome late
breaker as we've seen over the past couple of years.
(22:11):
He doesn't have the confidence in that, and turns out
that on race day at Aragon it was a bit
of a hail mary I reckon. They through the biggest
break discs you can possibly use in motor GP. That
through fifty five millimeter break discs into the front of
Banyai's bike. Normally you're running three forties, so he's gone
the heaviest possible break disc These are the brakes that
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you use at something like Motegi, which is all like
long straights in the ninety degree corners, long straights in
the ninety degree corners. What that's done and a hatsip
here to Simon Patterson from the race of digging this
out from Brembo. The bigger caliber break discs are about
four hundred grams heavier than the ones that are lighter.
Four hundred grams doesn't sound like a lot, nearly half
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a kilo, but all that weight's on the front of
the bike, and Banyai the whole year has said, I
don't have feeling at the front. I don't have feeling
at the front. Yes, you're running a heavier break disc,
but it's redistributed the weight to the front of the bike,
which is where he's wadded it the entire year. And
so you go in twenty four hours. He was hopeless
in the sprint, to the point that he's back dealing
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with Jack Miller after Jack and had his run in
with Juan Mier. And it was interesting because Jack after
the sprint spent the entire sprint sitting right behind Banyai,
which is you would not expected to catty at a
Yamaha at Aragon to be in the same piece of
real estate. And Jack was like, I don't recognize the
way Peco's riding, Like he's riding in a completely different way.
His body's not hanging off the side of the bike
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like it normally does. And Jack's like, I know Peco
better than anybody on the grid.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Because they were.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Teammates for four years and Jack knows exactly how Peko rides,
and he's looking at him thinking, I don't recognize this.
I've not seen this before, and this is Peco trying
not to lose the front on every single court and
that's why he was so dog slow. I think he's
fourteen seconds behind Mark Mecmarquez in eleven laps.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
That's dreadful.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Fast forward twenty four hours he finished two seconds behind
his teammate and on the podium twenty four hours later
after they'd run the bigger break discs. And I'm going
into a long piece on this for Fox Sports dot
com dot Au that's going to run on Thursday, Australian time.
But you do have to wonder whether they found something here.
And you know we always say motorsport, right, there's no
magic bullets with this thing, like, there's not just you click,
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can't click your figures and everything gets better. But maybe
they have clicked their figures and they've found something here.
It's a pretty random left field solution. But the thing
for me, and we talk about this offline before what
are the next two races? Migello Asen, who's one at
Magello the last three years Peco Van who's one at
Assen the last three is Peko Vanyaya. And you remember
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particularly Asen, there's some of those weekends it's a bit
like Marquez Aragon.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
It's like west Pecker.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Oh he's six seconds in the lead, you just don't
see him for the entire weekend. So if they've really
found something on this bike, if he goes out and
wins at Magello, we know how good he is there.
If he goes out and beats Mark on a red
Ducat at home at Migello this World Championship, he's probably
too far behind Mark to win the title unless Mark
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helps him by falling off a couple of times, which
Mark can do from time to time. But it's certainly
going to be interesting because I think there are races
later in this season where we know there's tracks where
Peko is just about unbeatable when he's been Peco Vanyaya.
We haven't seen heaps of that this year so far
in eight rounds, but it doesn't mean that it's not coming.
And if he's got this bike balance right, whether that
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transfers across from Aragon, which is not a great circuit
for him anyway, if he can make it work at Magello,
if he can make it work at Asen, then doesn't
that add a wrinkle that we didn't see coming to
the end of the season because it was pretty much
one way traffic before ARAGLV, wasn't it.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Yeah, it was the Marquez Brothers show. But yeah, I
think you have Peco Banyai back in. Ultimately, then we'll
go back to what I said where you mentioned the
gap between the GP twenty fives and GP twenty four's
is going to become more realistic. Yep in seeing that
though we know Diggia is on the GP twenty five
as well, and just looking at the results from the weekend,
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he was P. Nine, So it's as much the bike
as it is the rider on the bike.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
And if the rider on the bike is.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Peco Banyaya and all his eyes are dotted and his
teas across and he's comfortable, that's when we're going to
see him that closer to the top. But so, yeah,
if your podium on Sunday was a Ducad dominated podium,
we knew that, but looking at P four, Pedro Acosta
made a surprise appearance, and it seems like every debrief everything.
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Like I heard from Pedro on the weekend, He's still
just saying I'm not happy. I'm not happy, And I
feel like that's just Pedro's tagline at the moment. But
I mean a P four from a KTM where the
next KTM I'm just looking at the results was Anaya
Bastianini in twelve. You think that's a big jump. And
Brad Binda, we know he's this is not his strongest
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circuit either, and he had a DNF. But Petro Costa
P four that's not too bad for a KTM.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
No, not at all, And it's interesting like Binda was
running quite high in the Grand Prix until crashed. Vignales
ended up crashing and I think he was the last
classified rider, but I think he said his fastest lap
with a broken bike or the last lap of the race,
because Averick Vignalez just filed that in the Maverick Vidales
file like we always do. But interesting with a Costa
because you remember he was on the podium at Aragon
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last year. Now that owed itself to a little bit
of Alex Marquez, Peco Vannyaya running over each other in
the gravel nonsense.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
Later in that race, he.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Wouldn't have been on the podium otherwise, but it's been
generally a pretty good track for him through the junior classes.
And something that's interesting now is we always think of
the DECADI as being the grid's fastest bike right through
the speed traps. These days, generally speaking, it's a KTM
that's the top of the top of the speed traps.
There's nothing wrong with the straight line speed of a KTM.
You know, the quartering stuff's a bit of an issue
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from time to time. But what do we have at
aragon A one kilometer back straight and you could just
see like a Costa was right in the fight with
Banyaya early in that race, simply because Peko would gap
him in the first two thirds of the lap and
then this KTM would unleash it self out of that
third last quarter and all of a sudden they be
back on there again. So it's going to be a
bit circuit specific for a cost I'd be curious to
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see how they go at Magello, which is you feel
the bike's always just turning or doing something at Magello
with the elevation change and the fact that you're very
rarely upright in a straight line on that track, even
the start finished straight's got the huge undulation is that
goes over the crest there, So it might be a
bit of a one off, but there's not been heaps
of good news for Katie of this year. Let's be honest,
and a Costa goes from being half grumpy to fully
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grumpy most of the time. So he was only half
grumpy on the weekend because he finished fourth, But a
cost of being a costas like, are you happy you
finished fourth? No, I wanted to finish third. That's pretty
much whatever you give him. If it's not a weird
he's probably not going to be that thrilled about it,
But considering where they've been lately, that's a very good.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Result for them, very good result.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Looking at some of the other manufacturers in the top ten,
it leads me to micro Bitzeki on.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Prillia, which also then leads me to the.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Shock announcement of Mano Gonzales testing with track House on Monday,
something that I was totally oblivious to, And to be honest,
when that announcement got made, you could see a lot
of the journalists in the media sense of going, oh, okay, this.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
Is really happening.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Yeah, inside word from someone at trackhouse.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
So this is a Prillier driven and not.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Trackhouse driven, which I thought was very very interesting.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
But then what was Manu.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Two seconds off off the fastest on on Monday.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
Decent?
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Pretty decent, I thought, for a guy who's never ridden
murder GP bike before and had absolutely no way to
prepare for this, he was just thrown in the deep
end at the very very last last minute. You know,
it was super interesting. You say it was a prillier
thing and not a track house thing. Who looks after trackhouse.
It's Davide Privio, right, and he's got this awesome track
record of finding rough diamonds or guys that might not
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necessarily be ready a Moto two and bringing them up
into Moto GP. He was a guy that bought Maverick
vinalez in. He was the guy that bought Alex rins In.
He was a guy who bought Juan mir In. They've
all won races, mirrors of world champion. If you get
the nod of approval from David A. Brivio, you're probably
doing something right. And so, I mean, Gonzales has clearly
been the guy in Moto two this year he's had
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a couple of rope rounds, the last couple, but yeah,
a left field test. I like it when these guys
get thrown in the deep end with very little prep
because Motor GP and motorsport generally it's all about simulators
and data and getting yourself as completely ready as possible.
Sometimes they can go are you free on Monday? Do
you fancy riding one of these? And of course if
you've made a Gonzales you're going to say where do I?
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Sighn and let me add it? And he would have
had the best day of his life. Quite what that
does to his Moto two riding Once we get to
the next track, of course he's going to have to
relard everything again. But if you're him, it was a
complete no lose situation, right, you can get on the
bike and look really good and impress some people. Yeah
there's not a spot for him on the grid yet,
but there will be people looking at that going huh.
He handled that quite well with absolutely no preparation. And
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Moto two is such a jungle to try and get
out of to get to Moto GP. Any chance you
get you got to take it. So interesting decision by Aprilia,
and I thought he acquisted himself pretty well.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Well if you were looking at the results from Monday's tests,
no surprise there. Maverick Vignalees was fastest.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
He is the test.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
But to be honest, they were actually lapping quicker than
what they were during Sunday's race. In saying that, because
I was on the ground for Sunday's race when the
race was actually.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
On, it was hot, so true, temperatures were through the roof.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
So in doing this, you know, some of these these
lap times that they could have been doing it early
in the morning, they could have been doing it late afternoon.
We're not like, you know, it does change, the weather
does change that there. But one thing I found interesting
from the test was that someone posted on Instagram saying, ah,
is there Italians working at KTM now because they were
testing KTM were testing a new front firing design that
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was literally a copy and paste of the GP twenty five.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Did you see that, Matt? Do you see the photo?
Speaker 4 (31:56):
Did? Yeah? I did.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
It's one of those things that Decadi will say it's
a being paste and Katie em will say, I know,
we were inspired by what they were doing it. There's
no copying and pasting here. We thought yours was good
and we decided to build our own version.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
You love these.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
In any top line motorsport, there's always some guy with
a camera that's wandering up and down pit lane, or
they're wandering up and down all agree before the race,
like taking a bit of a sneaky look at what
everyone else is doing.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
And you know, the what is it? The imitation is
the sincereous form of flattery. Right.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
If you're making something that's good and everyone wants it,
then you'll start seeing variations of your bike on other
people's bikes. What they're basically saying is you do it.
A great job, guys, keep it going. But yeah, it
is funny, isn't it. There's no secrets in this sport.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
There was no secrets in this sport.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
At the race on the weekend as well, Augusto Fernandez
was filling in a wild card for Yamaha, and what
we learned was Augusto was trialing a new engine that
they seemed to be really happy with. So then Augusto
didn't take part in Monday's test as he was getting
prepared for a private test with Yamaha. Rumor is now
the engine that Augusto was using during Sunday's race and
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all weekend is now going to be the new version
of the engine that Fabio and Alex and Jack and
Miguel are going to be using for the rest of
the season. But let's talk about Honda as well, because
Honda this weekend. Yeah, Juan Miir was I think P
nine on Sunday so strong for Juan. But Zarko having
come from such a high the previous two races to
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just nowhere this weekend. We kind of spoke about it
before in the preview that yet this is a track that.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Maybe wasn't going to suit them.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
But it's looking like during Monday's tests that Zarko felt
like he'd made progress once again. But this is something
we keep hearing from him. Yeah, we're making progress. We're
making progress, right.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
I think it's funny with Hondra and Yamaha, they're coming
from so far back right that we see any sort
of sign of progress like a Zarko win or a
bunch of coaturo poles. Oh, they're back, they're back. They've
still got a long way to get back back. There's
gonna be flashes, and I think that's the way those
two are going to be this season. There's going to
be some weekends where they're kind of anonymous, you know.
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Zak I'd come off back to back podiums and so
it was a massive fallback for them, and obviously the
factory Honda team only had the one rider with Luca
Marini being out, and it sounds like Marini might be
out for quite some time by what you're hearing around
the place. But hat tip to Juan Meir who absolutely
fuming with Jack Miller on Saturday and he's incredulous Juan
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Meir style. But seventh place on Sunday in the race,
best result I think since India, remember the one off
Indian Grand Prix where I melted in twenty twenty three.
He was actually really quite good and I think he was.
It was quite funny afterwards, a he was relieved he
didn't crash. We didn't get the Joan mir writer okay
graphic up on the screen, but he was saying it
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was nice to overtake people and then not have them
come straight back.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
Past you again.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
It was just sort of funny how he mentioned that,
like he was super fired up after finishing seventh, which
quite frankly, if you'd given that guy seventh three years ago,
he would have looked at you like, I want more
than that. But my god, it's been desper of him.
He's a good rider. We just haven't seen him stay
aboard his bike long enough in the past few years
to actually do something about it. But on the whole,
a pretty bla weekend for Honda, a very bla weekend
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for Yamaha. But like you said before, Aragon's a bit
of an outlier. I don't think that's going to continue.
They will be inconsistent because they're coming from so far back,
and there will be flashes. But yeah, Aragon was one
best forgotten I think for both of them.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Yes, and for the listeners or the viewers at home.
Maybe you thought the Aragon Moroto GP race was a
little boring. Look, I kind of agree with you on
that because it was the Mark Marquez Show. But if
you tuned in to Moto two and Moto three, boy,
go with that. We were talking off I know, we
keep saying that because we have this catch up before
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we come on talking about everything that happened, Let's talk
about the Moto two prodium. A Turkish writer a Brazilian
writer and a Belgian writer. The Brazilian writer was on
poll When do you ever hear of a non Italian
or a Spanish writer at least somewhere in the top
three and taking pole in a Motor GP race.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
Yeah, so true.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
It sounds like the start of a bad joke, doesn't it,
Like a Turk of Belgium and a Brazilian walked into
a bar. Insert your own punchline. But yeah, it was
just so nice to see some new faces up there.
And the last lap of that race, which I do
I'd had to admit I did watch about three times.
I still don't know how Dennis Onchu won that because
you see them coming into the last corner, Well, that's nice,
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it's going to be a close finish, and that's done.
And then you see the photo finish which they put
up on the screen, and it was what one third
of the width of a wheel, like it was absolutely
crazy if that race had finished one meter earlier than
Marera's won his first Grand Prix. So yeah, super fun
result Moto two. Funnily enough, the last couple of rounds
meant obviously ceterageous. Winning at Silvester was pretty dramatic at
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the end. It's almost served up the best race of
the day for the last couple of Grand Prix, which
is not something we often say about Mono two motors
has been actually pretty interesting this year. Often you get
these races that are pretty strung out, but certainly the
last couple have been super fun. But like you said,
like you just keep waiting for the Italian or the
Spanish national anthem and neither of them are happening. It's like,
that's weird. But it was super fun though, And Marrera
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looks like a guy who might be particularly with Brazil
coming onto the calendar, and it'd be great to have
a writer from that part of the world. He's a
guy whose name you would not be surprised at all
to see in the Motor GP conversation before too long,
because he's pretty fast and pretty good so early in
his career.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Like I just mentioned the flags and I pulled up
the result, So yes, Santa was fourth Australian Phillips a
latch Czech Republic.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
Then it's the first.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Italian, a sorry, Spanish of Aaron Connett. Then we go
to the American of Joe Roberts. So yeah, we are
seeing this multi cultural like a blend coming in.
Speaker 4 (37:44):
Yeah, we foundations of the World Championship Love.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Yeah, Gonzales had a terrible qualifying. I was actually in
Senna's box when that happened and the crash and just
didn't have time to return. But otherwise it just feels
like this season kind of has just been the Gonzales
show with him just running away and you can see why
he's been off at this little ride, it's little test
in Moto GP. But then let's go further down to
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Moto three. And I want to touch on Joel Kelso
because I spent a lot of time with him this weekend.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
He showed me around.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
The track, gave me some pointers for when I make
my Moto three debut, which is going.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
He gave me some good pointers for.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
The track, and he was talking about this weekend and
he said, look, this weekend for me, I'm aiming for
a top.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
Five because this is a track that I feel it is.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Not my strength. And one thing I noticed, and I
don't know if you guys saw on the Fox Sports
YouTube where I did my track walk with Joel as
I mentioned that Joel for me, seems like he's looking
at things really differently. Now he's he's learning to take
away from the positives but also the negatives and what
he can learn on. So the sitting there and dwelling
(38:55):
on it and getting really down in himself. And actually
saw him after the race and I said, like, that
was awesome, Like, you know, you got a good start,
you were consistent.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
He goes, yeah, he goes, but I know, Magello, I'm
going to be a lot stronger at and I'm really
looking forward to that.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
And I think this is we spoke about so many
times for Joel. Compared to the last year, Joel would
be so strong for the first half of the race
and then he drop off. Now we're seeing him progressively consistent.
And if that consistency means it's a P seven for
him like it was here in Aragon, then he's taking
away the positives for that.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
But let's talk about that Motor three race as well,
because we had the Aspah boys taken each other out.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Then we had all that drama, all the.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Overtaking, the what we love about Moto three, right the
slip streaming, everything. Joel was telling me about that and
the last race. But then we go back to the
old Spanish podium. How's the maximum Kielez though, I mean
the Mark Marquez little prodigy that's coming through right.
Speaker 3 (39:54):
Oh yeah, he's He's a guy who's making a name
for himself pretty quickly, isn't he. He's a super we're
exciting super motor GP at most tracks. Is you know
you hide behind the couch on the last lap just
in case something might happen, and certainly an hour ago,
like where's this going in the last lap? But super
enjoyable race. The thing you mentioned about Joel before, and
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you know we've known this because we've spoken to him
for a bunch of years. Now, I reckon it feels
like he's aged about three years in the last twelve months.
And I don't mean that in a negative way. There's
this maturity and belief, and you know he's an experienced
motor three head now and I don't reckon he gets
too high or too low with stuff. He's just really
balanced now as a person, and you see the way
that translates into his riding.
Speaker 4 (40:36):
He's grown up fast.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
You know, he's been a motor three for a little
while now, before it was this, Well, that's nice that
he's got to result and what have you. But he
now knows that he's good enough to fight at the front.
The results tell you.
Speaker 4 (40:46):
That he is.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
He's really matured into a front line Motor three rider.
And what you just said then about you know, that's
a great result, Aragon. He's already thinking ahead to somewhere
where he's going to be stronger.
Speaker 4 (40:58):
That's not what last year.
Speaker 3 (40:59):
He would have been fuming about something, or he would
have been taken it really badly and taken a few
days to come down from it. Now he's got this
sort of thirty five thousand foot view where he looks
at what's next and this is a race I can
capitalize on. This is one where it might be a
bit of damage limitation. He's putting together a really nice championship.
It's really good to see because it feels like it's
nice to have an Australian that's really legit at the
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front of that championship now and he really does look
like that.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
This year he spoke to us about his goal of
eventually going to Moto GP, which means he does have
to step through Moto two. And I think this new
mentality is what he needs to become.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
A Moto two writer couldn't agree.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
Even though the age difference between Joel, Jacob and Senna
is not that much. Now we're seeing Joel acting more
like Senna, and I think Senna's had that experience coming
through the European Championship and then going straight into Moto
two where he's constantly looking forward, looking at things very differently,
Joel's now taking that step up.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
And we saw this weekend.
Speaker 1 (42:01):
You know, it wasn't a good result for Jacob Rulestone
with that DNF, and I think it was a mechanical issue. Yeah. Technique, Yeah,
technical issues, So yeah, obviously not his fault. But I'm
starting to now go is the pressure starting to.
Speaker 2 (42:14):
Get to Jacob as well?
Speaker 1 (42:16):
Because this is his second year with the TEKTA team.
You know, it's a championship winning it's a race winning team.
Is that pressure starting to be amounted on his shoulders?
And is he starting to crack a little bit?
Speaker 4 (42:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (42:29):
Look, I think there's a bit of impatience there, which
is understandable. I mean, obviously the start of his season
he was injured through you know, circumstances, and it's taken
him a while to get back to being where he
needs to be. You know, there's not many Australians in
this World Championship paddock, and because these guys are all
similar ages and they've come at it from really different directions,
but they'll all be looking at each other's results. And
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Joel's been on podiums and sent us one of Grand
Prix and you know, so the pressure there comes from
probably wanting to keep up with the guys that have
got the same passport, right, because you're always mentioned in
the same conversation, you're going to be compared to what
your compatriots are doing because there's so few of you.
So it's been a rough go for Jacob this year
because he's just not really had a great run at
it because he was injured and then recovering from injury.
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It was a shame that he was in a good
position to get a good result. And then, I mean,
it's motorcycle racing. Bikes are going to have technicals from
time to time and it's going to happen. Those ones
never hurt quite so much when you're circulating in thirteenth right,
Like when you're in a good position to get somewhere
and there's something out of your control takes it out
of your hands. I think the positive for him was
the speed was there. He looked like he belonged up there.
(43:32):
The whole weekend had been pretty strong. You just have
to shrug your shoulders with the technical and move on
and try and replicate that for the next one. But
isn't it nice that we're talking about guys being Australian
guys being in strong positions in races and good positions
in the championship and the glass is very much half
full because we've had seasons in the past where you know,
it was either Jack Miller or Bust. We were getting
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nothing on the World Championship stage. There were other guys
kind of making up the numbers here and there.
Speaker 4 (43:57):
You'd get a.
Speaker 3 (43:58):
Random Kelso podium and a soaked Philip Island, which was
a super outline back in twenty three. But it's just
nice to have guys in each World chair beget category.
Speaker 4 (44:06):
Now.
Speaker 3 (44:06):
As an Australian fan, we you look at it and go, huh,
we could be fighting for something meaningful here. It definitely
makes the whole Sunday night on the couch for everyone
in Australia pretty enjoyable, I think definitely.
Speaker 1 (44:16):
And you know, we've got the youngsters like Carter Thompson
who were going to catch up soon, these guys coming.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
Through the Red Bull Rookies.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
The actually I ran into Harrison Voyd, who's doing the
Super Sport World Championship. You know, the Aussie guys, they're
all there, they're all supporting each other. It's a fact
of us as a nation need to get behind them
as well and help support them and cheer them on
from our sofas because they're over there representing their country
in countries there they're living in for the first time
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and having to experience everything new, and they're so far
away from home that it is nice. Like when Senna
was on the podium, Joel and Jacob Jack they all
came down to celebrate with him because we're all in
this together. And it's funny because even now I'm over
here only for four races, but all of a sudden,
all the Australian get together, which is really really nice.
Speaker 2 (45:02):
To be a part of.
Speaker 3 (45:03):
All ten of you get together at the same time,
we're very much a minority in that paddock. But you're right,
I did certainly notice that we'd said of winning at Silveston,
where everyone just suddenly appeared in Park fer Me to
wish him all the best for what he had done.
The thing we have to remember is that, you know,
Motor GP, there's only twenty two guys on this grid,
and there's no right that there's some sort of Australian
(45:24):
on there. We've had great World champions obviously, but to
have a writer in that World Championship from this part
of the world, it's a really hard thing to do.
Speaker 4 (45:30):
We've been a little bit spoiled because.
Speaker 3 (45:32):
Jack's been there for ten years and he's just been
ever present and he's won some Grand Prix and given
us lots of great moments and whatever happens with Yamaha.
You know, Jack's certainly closer to the end of his
World Championship career than the beginning. I mean, he'd say
that himself. But one of these younger guys coming through
the feeder classes is going to be the next guy.
And that's the exciting thing. Like, there's nothing more exciting
than seeing an Australian guy on the ground floor as
(45:54):
they're sort of getting their feet wet and becoming who
they are. These are the days you remember. You remember
the Jack Millermoto three days where doing the worm in
the gravel trap at the French Grand Prix, and he's
got a terrible haircut, he's crying on the podium in
guitar and all these sorts of things.
Speaker 4 (46:07):
That's the Jack Miller story. And now we're seeing some
of these young.
Speaker 3 (46:10):
Guys that are starting to write their own stories and
let's hope one or more of them ends up on
the Premier class.
Speaker 4 (46:16):
Grew at some.
Speaker 1 (46:16):
Point, definitely, But we only have one week before we
head to Migello. So you're on F one Judy's once
again in Canada. Love that for you, with a really.
Speaker 2 (46:28):
Good time zone in Australia.
Speaker 1 (46:30):
Right dig you be heads to Magello and as you mentioned,
this is Peco Bangay's ground, so we've gone from Marquez
Land to Peko Banyaya hopefully masterclass in Magello. As I've
mentioned a lot though in this podcast, you can listen
read Matt's articles on Fox sports dot com, do Au Forward,
Slash Motorsport, and I've mentioned a few videos. I did
(46:52):
a really cool behind the scenes of what Jack Miller
does in a day to see his time stamps of
what day in the life of our workday, A nine
to five shall we call it Jack Miller, So you
can check that out on the Fox Sports YouTube. Also,
my track Walk with Joel Kelso gets some really good
insights into Aragon and we talk about Joel's mental mental
(47:13):
abilities right now and where he's at, but also what
he misses from Australia, what food he misses from here.
Speaker 2 (47:18):
So that was a good little insight into the world
of Joel.
Speaker 1 (47:21):
Keep up to date though with all the ladies news,
also on our socials at Fox Motorsport everywhere Matt's articles
around foxsport dot com do a force slash Motorsport. This podcast,
as always, is brought to us by Shannon's Insurance. But Matt,
I think we've pretty much wrapped up Aragon. We're gonna
head to Michello. I'm gonna be on the ground. Hopefully
(47:42):
we can get some good insights there for you guys
as well, and from Matt Clayton and myself Rined of Mulin.
We're gonna be back real soon with more motor GP
Pittok
Aragon turned into Marquez Land, a surprise rookie jumped on
a Moto GP bike, and finally the announcement we've been
waiting for. Toprac is heading to Moto GP. From shock
test to silly season chaos, and we have got a
lot to unpack in this episode, so let's get straight
into it. As always, this episode of Pit Talk is
brought to you by Shannon's Insurance.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I'm your host, Rinita.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Vanmullen and joining me as always Matt Clayton. Mat no
silly intros at this time, because we are straight into
facts and you can finally write about top Rac actually
moving into Moto GP.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
And this is after me saying a few weeks ago
that I was banning myself writing about him until it
was actually happening, because I feel like I've started this
story about two hundred times and it's never actually amounted
to anything.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
But is it funny?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Like we have a Grand Prix weekend where we set
in the lead up that it was probably going to
be very one sided, and then it was very very
one sided, and all of a sudden, there is so
much to talk about because of all the other things
that are happening on the periphery. So yeah, this pod
could go in a million different directions. So I guess
where do you want to start? Because there's plenty of
starting points.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I feel like let's talk about the top Rack news.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
That's probably the biggest talking point as of right now
because for us Ozsie's Jack Miller, and we've spoke about
it so many times on the pod. We know he's
only on that one year contract. Top RAC's coming into Parmaha.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
I'm hearing rumors.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
About Miguel trying to get out of his contract. Now,
what's your take on that? A let's talk about top
Rack coming into Moto GP. How do you think he's
going to go? Because some people are saying, oh, the
writing style is so different from superbikes Tomoto GP. But
it's top Rack, right, it's the man who's just dominated
in superbikes.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Well, you say a house top Rac going to go
A should be? You've just said Pramaha. So everyone taking
shots at home, please feel free to down your first
one for the evening.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
But look top Rack in MotoGP.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
This is super intriguing because it's been like this great
unknown for years. We know how good he's been in
world superbikes, and it's not just that he wins there,
it's how he wins.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Like.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
The guy's a showman, he's a stylist, he does it
his own way. He's got fantastic celebrations. He's got this
enormous fan base from a part of the world that
you know, we've not had a massive amount to cheer
about in the past. It's going to bring a new
dynamic to Moto GP. It's interesting to me that I
don't know how old is too old for a rider
(02:27):
to make a switchlight this. But he's twenty eight. It's
not like you're talking about a twenty two year old here.
So yeah, he's a mega talent. He's been a mega
talent in a production bike series. And anyone expecting this
guy to walk into Moto GP and be awesome from
day one, I think that's a little bit optimistic, and
it probably depends on where your passport comes from or
who you're supporting these things. But I don't I think
(02:48):
it's fanciful to think that he's going to come in
and just be right on it right away against the
best riders in the world on very very different motorcycles.
I think that's the first thing, he's going to be excited.
He's going to probably bend a few bikes along the way,
let's be honest, because that happens with these really fast
guys that come in from other series. But it adds
(03:08):
another injection of adrenaline into twenty twenty six. And I say,
why that's important is that because we've got this rule
change coming in for twenty twenty seven, which is kind
of this hard reset for MotoGP that we've been talking about.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
For a while.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Twenty twenty six to me kind of feels like an
extension of last year and this year it's going to
be decaty domination. Is everyone going to start turning the
development tap off on a thousand cc rule set that's
going to be obsolete at the end of the year.
There's no point developing lots of arrow and ride height
devices because they're all.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Going in the bin anyway.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
So I kind of feel like twenty five and twenty
six will kind of meld into one when we look
at it in the future. The key thing for Razgatlioglu
coming in now, I think it's really smart by Yamaha
because he gets to learn the circuits, he gets to
learn the tires, he gets to learn how motor GP
weekend works, and there's not necessarily going to be the
pressure of expectation because he's coming in riding a bike
(04:01):
that's not a race winning bike, because Yamaha hasn't won
a race since twenty twenty two, So it's not like
people are expecting him to come in and be like,
you better be in the top four in the World Championship.
That's not going to happen. I think the key thing
is he gets all the He'll get the l plates
off next.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Year if you like.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
So when we hit twenty twenty seven, with the ground
running and this sort of reset playing order, he's going
to be just as experienced as everybody else. He's not
going to be so far behind as you would be
as you came in in twenty seven. So I think
it's smart by Yamaha to come in. But the other
side of the coin for this, of course, is that
you know, Yamaha's got four bikes now, four riders. Fabio
Quatrero is the kingpin of the whole thing. He is
(04:41):
their shining light. We've seen this year that as Yamaha
has improved, if we ever needed to be reminded how
good Fabio is. Like he's given us a bit of
a reminder this year for anyone that might have lost
the faith. He's the leader of this project. And an
interesting part about Razcatlioglu coming in, even if they necessarily
wanted to put him in the factory team next to Quatroa,
there's a clash of sponsors. Rasquatlioglu is personally sponsored by
(05:04):
Red Bull. Of course it is the Monster Energy Yamaha
Motor GP factory team, so that doesn't work. So he
was always going to come in with Pramak. Now you've
got this really interesting situation where Pramak has two riders
who are new for this year. Miguel Olivera is on
a two year contract and has been injured or not
(05:24):
very good for the most part that he's been there.
And Jack Miller's on a one year contract because he
was the last rider signed on the grid for this year.
So Yamahad had frankly all the leverages, like Jack would
have taken whatever they offered him in September last year.
Jack's been really good this year, and I think this
time last year you had to put your patriotic Australian
(05:44):
had on to really come up with a reason why
Jack Miller should stay in Motor GP, because his final
year with Katie it was pretty ordinary. There was absolutely
no doubt he was going to be replaced by Pedro
Acosta on about nine two of the season Big Guitar.
It felt like that was pretty much inevitable. It's a
little bit fortunate to be on the grid this year,
but that owes itself to Pramak, can you him. He's
(06:05):
vastly experienced with a number of different manufacturers, Pramak Yamaha
as much as an established brand and an established team.
It's a bit of a startup, right, so they needed
Jack's experience and his ability technically to drive them forward.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
I actually think.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Jack's been really good this year, where last year he wasn't,
and he absolutely deserves to stay on the grid for
twenty twenty six given what's coming in twenty seven is
what we were talking about. But of course you've got
this contract situation. Jackson one year, Miguel's on two, and
so is it as easy as just saying, well, Miller
is going to be the guy that this is out
here because he's got the shorter contract tenure. I'm sure
(06:41):
you heard some stuff in Aragon over the weekend, as
I heard from Afar. It's not as simple as that,
by the sounds, isn't.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
No. I'm hearing a lot of rumors about Miguel trying
to get out of his contract as well, But then
spending time with Jack on the weekend, and you're talking
about what he was like at KTM last year. We
interviewed him here.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
For Fox Sports, and it.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Seems like to me, spending some time with Jack this weekend,
his whole mental, his outlook, everything is.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
So much more positive.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
I spoke about it in Thailand as well, and that
was the season open. I now where eight rounds in
and Jack is still this positive, happy guy. It seems
like Pramak is the been the switch that he needed.
But it's that one year contract looming.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Then.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
On the other point, and this is something I want
to ask you matter is you know, Pramak do have
the riders in Moto two as well, so are they
going to want to try and bring those riders up
through to Moto GP. But now they've signed top Racks,
so there's a lot going on in that aspect too.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Yeah, they need about six four bikes, don't they at
this point, but I think with the Moto two team
that was clearly establishing that team is something for the future.
Now for the future in inverted commas is this sort
of nebulous How far are we going into the future here?
So they've got Tony Ablino who's been around for a while,
and east At Cuavaro, who's super, super young and has
pedigree as a Moto three champion. I still believe they're
(08:00):
the future, but that future might be pushed back a
little bit now. I can still see Guevara is the
one for me. I think we'll see him in Motor GP,
but it might take him another two or three years
to get there, which I think is fine because he's
still young enough. The key thing for me, and you
probably heard this over the course of the weekend, it
seems like there's a clause in the Olivera contract that
Yamaha can basically a null that second year of his
(08:22):
contract if he is the last place of Yamaha's four
riders in the championship at the end of this season.
So there'll be a cutoff point in this season where
they have to make that decision. You look at the
championship standings right now, Quatarero is a leading Yamaha by
some distance. Jack is the second best place Yamaha, ahead
of Alex Ritz and then Miguel Olivera. As we've said,
he's missed three rounds, but he scored so few points
(08:44):
in the rounds that he has been there, and Olivera
kind of acknowledged that over the Aragon weekend basically saying, look,
you know, I need to perform. I need to perform now.
And it wouldn't surprise me. With these contract clauses, a
lot of them kicking around the mid season break where
we get that break after the checker public it probably
gives Olivera, what four more rounds to actually do something.
(09:05):
He's a long long lay behind Rins and Miller in
terms of not being the last Yamaha rider in the standing.
So you know, these contracts, as we know from Juje Martin,
there's always lines in them that you never expect to
come out. But that might be the thing that moves
Olivera on. But you probably during the week I wrote
for Fox Sports dot com dot Au that it's a
(09:28):
little tough on Miguel Okay and he's proven to be
a grand Prix race winner. I still think in the
right day, in the right circumstance, he's still a very
good motor GP rider. You do wonder about these contracts
because I look at Alex Rinns and Alex Rins is
a fantastic motor GP rider when he's at his peak.
But when he's at his peak is the key part
(09:48):
of that sentence. Alex Rins has been either injured or
recovering from injury for basically two years Magello twenty twenty
three when he broke his legs basically two years ago
this week.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
And I think, if I remember.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
My own story, which I we should given that I
wrote it, I think he's been in the top ten
three times since then in two years, and he's mister
heaper racers. I think he's out quite qualified quatro four
times in two years as teammates. And you had these
races recently when Fabio is on Pole and rinses in
q Q one. It's too big of a gap between
two riders on the same bike. And you know, Alex
(10:21):
Renz proved himself as a guy who could win races
with Suzuki and with Honda and fully fit is a
fantastic manor GP rider, but fully fit and Alex Rerins
is not two things you're saying in the same sentence
these days.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
It's really really harsh, But.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
You do wonder if he's ever going to get back
to being what he was, where someone like OLIVERA to
me is still like a TVC because we don't have
enough evidence of whether he can do anything on a
Yamaha yet.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Because it's been super disjointed.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
So in terms of the three riders that could be
potentially under the pump here, to my mind on performance,
Jack should be the safest of the three because I
think he's over delivered or what Yamaha expected of him
this year. OLIVERA is inconclusive because he's been hurt and
there's the form line with Rins that it doesn't look
like it's going up. He's sort of stuck where he is,
(11:05):
and I think he's just so physically limited these days.
So wherever Yamaha go, I think all three of those
guys are worthy motor GP riders, and maybe Oliver or
Rins if it's one of those two, can find a
seat elsewhere. There's going to be seats around because that's
how motorgp works. I think Jack's actually a lot safer
this year that he was last year. He's pretty lucky
to be on the grid this year. I think it
(11:27):
would be a bit of a travesty if he's not
for next year, given what he's brought to Yamaha, and
as you said, he seems completely reinvigorated this year. He's
a different person a different personality. Yamaha really enjoying what
he's bringing. And you look at how competitive Yamaha is
this year compared to the last couple. You can't tell
me that Jack's fingerprints aren't on part of that resurgence
(11:50):
for them. I think he's a huge asset for them,
and I think he should stay.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
I think for our listeners, don't necessarily include Aragon, because
we know Aragon's a track that just doesn't suit the Yamaha.
They struggle here. I think Fabruary post on his Instagram
they haven't. He hasn't scored points here in the last
four years. Something ridiculous like that, right, So remove aragonau
the situation. Yeah, Yamaha are on the resurgence. My question
(12:15):
is kind of to Yamaha and to you as well.
Matt Okay Alex Rins. If you see him walking around
the paddock, he has this like compression sleeve on his leg.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
He's like sop on his calf. He's limping.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Why is he not taking a page out of Mark
and Jorge Martin's book of resting, recovering properly and then
trying to come back to fight, Because Yeah, like you
said about Alex Rins, is kind of like Maverick Vinalez
where you just have like this spark of okay, he's
doing really well, but then he's dropping back.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Why is he not recovering or why is he not moving.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
To a test writer position where he could be a
bit more beneficial.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Yeah, you have to. You do have to wonder.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
I think the key to that is, you know, we
talk about Jello twenty twenty three. So he won that
race at Cota for Honda, that elsr win, which came
from kind of nowhere at the start of twenty three,
broke his leg at Magello and probably tried to come
back too quickly. He'd already signed for Yamaha to be
Quattroro's teammate for twenty four at that point, and it's
almost like he came tried to come back too fast
(13:20):
in order to prove that he was the right man
for the job. I still vividly remember this because it's
a Philip Island memory. You know this, from the paddock
up to the media center at Phillip Island. I actually
counted the number of steps because I was watching Alex
try and negotiate them on crutches at the time. I
think it's seventeen steps from the paddack up to the
media center or something along those lines at Phillip Island.
And I wrote about it that weekend. The hardest thing
(13:41):
he did that entire week ken was get up the
steps to go to do the press conference and get
down the steps again on these crutches. And you mentioned
the brace that he wears on his leg. He only
ditched the crutches at the start of this year. I
think it was Argentina that he finally got rid of
the crutches. So he's not been right for basically two
full calendar years. He's a really, really good motor GP rider.
But you do wonder, like you said, Martine's taking his time,
(14:02):
Marquez took his time.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Rinz might have rushed back too.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Quickly for reasons that we just detailed back in twenty
twenty three, and he's kind of still paying the price
for it a little bit because he's just not the
rider that he was. I mean, this is a rider
who went toe to toe with Mark Marquez several times
in Grand Prix, including Australia in twenty twenty two as
Suzuki was winding down, and beat Marquees in a head
to head fight a couple of times.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Did it?
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Silverstone as you remember back when he was at Suzuki,
really really talented rider. But I don't know if that
guy's there anymore, just simply because physically he can't be
that same rider anymore.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Yeah, I think you've hit the nail on the head.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
And then that leads me to the question is is
it just holding onto a seat because of the fact
of holding onto a seat or could some of these
younger rookies like Bramak who have that Moto two bike
sorry Moto two team can then start bringing riders through.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
But we're not team owners. Where just speculating here.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
There's so many if buttson wins, But there's these little
things that I've seen over the weekend, Like I said
about Alex who's still limping, and you're like, how are
you mustling a Moto GP bike around Aragon, which does
have quite a lot of elevation. Yeah, we're going to
Magello next that has even more elevation.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
How are you doing that?
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Struggling off so many unanswered questions, but the question that
we knew was going to get answered this weekend was
Mark Marquez absolutely dominating Aragon. What can I say, leading
all sessions and beating his own record, which I thought
was hilarious the way Meto GP had it on the
screen of Mark Marquez has beat Mark Marquez at his
(15:32):
own record of leading every single session since twenty fifteen.
What do you say to that? It's Marquees Aragon, is
markez Land?
Speaker 3 (15:41):
It is I mean, what's one of six eighty clockwise
tracks on the calendar, So it's Rightney's wheelhouse. We know
that we know how good he is there because we
saw that the previous year on that surface that was
like a skating rink and he's on a two year
old Decatti and making everyone look ridiculous. But there were
two parts of the weekend for me, I'll go three parts.
Friday morning practice. I think he was eight tenths of
(16:03):
a second faster than everybody else, which is just you
look at the time sheets and go, yeah, okay, here
we go the sprint race where he didn't get a
very good start and drop back to fourth, and when
I'll just overtake it. If everybody had clear off, that'll
be fine to go win the sprint race. But in
the actual Grand Prix, and you were to see this
on Sunday, cruising out front, got the start right led
(16:23):
from the start, and he said, as the laps were
counting down, he started thinking about Austin where he was
in the lead, and he dropped it and scorned at
a heap of points. So just because he could not,
because he had to, he decided to go set a
new circuit lap record with three laps to go on
twenty one lap old tires, just to basically keep himself
fully focused. And it was completely planned. It's like I'm
(16:45):
just going to attack here to see if i can
set the fastest lap to make sure I stay in
my race rhythm and I don't sort of button off
mentally or start cutting a few corners or what have you.
He was going to be locked in right the way
to the end. Because of a previous race where he
thrown some away and I thought, that's just a classic
insight into what Mark is like. He's aware that he's
now starting to wander mentally, like, don't do what he
(17:07):
did in Austin. Don't do what you did in Austin.
So he did the opposite of what he did in
Austin and decided to go and break a circuit record
because he could. And that just shows you that. I mean,
he basically rolled out on the last lap of one
by a second and a bit, but if he was pushing,
that felt like a five seven eight second whatever he
wanted it to be win because a combination of the
best bike on the grid and Mark Marquez and this track,
(17:29):
there was just this inevitability about it the whole weekend,
and you could almost argue right that Alex Marquez was
almost like the biggest winner of the weekend because on
a weekend where he wasn't in the same post code
as his brother, he only actually lost eight points over
the course of the weekend, it felt like eighty eight
points given that Mark was in his own race. So
Alex has done kinde of well, really, he did the
(17:50):
best he could to only lose points to his brother
and managed to beat everybody else. But I'm sure you
were there. I mean, there was a huge Marquez grandstand
there just on the off the corner where the wall
is there. They were having the best time of their
lives and it was nice to see the Marquers were
celebrating afterwards. But the whole thing felt like it was
kind of predetermined as suit as Friday practice started, didn't
(18:11):
it for.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
The listeners just a little insight.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
I did a vlog for the Fox Sports YouTube channel
that I'm calling the Marquez Effect because.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
I'm going to show you just how many.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Mark Marquez and Alex Marquez fans there are in Aragon
and if you've only ever experienced Philip Island, this is
going to give you an insight to what Matt was
saying is I got up close when the riders were
doing their lap around the circuit and awesome the Marquees grandson.
They had a live MC there who was hyping the
crowd up. Mark and Alex came up with the T
(18:42):
shirt guns and watching. I actually watched some of the
practice sessions from that corner because it's really interesting near
the wall as they come up and over and head
back down the elevation again. And every time Mark or
Alex were on track, stepping in and out of their
pit garage.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Wherever you were, you.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Knew that Mark and Alex were there because you would
just here the crowd raw at any time of the day.
So the Marquez brothers are literally the biggest celebrities there
are in that part of the world, which was crazy,
but we obviously know that. Yeah, Mark was just in
his own post cred as you said. One thing we
spoke about though in the pre preview pod was you
(19:22):
said that you started to see this is where the
twenty five GP would start to expand in the GP
twenty four.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Ward State workers.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
We didn't really see that this weekend, though, did we,
Because we saw Morbidelli and Aldiger and all these guys
were battling and they were up the front. It's just
the fact that it was Mark Marquez being Mark Marquez.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Yeah, complete race for second place really, So, I mean
it's one of those tracks that it's a decading track
at the best of times, and then it's like it's
Marquees in like category one and then everyone else sort
of behind that. I mean, Franko Morberdelli really good qualifying
for It's the best qualifying he's had for a long time.
Faded a bit in the Grand Prix, but the twenty
fives weren't quite as strong here as maybe I suspected
(20:04):
they might be. But we talked about this a little
bit offline before we started. I reckon that that podium
for Pekabanyai on Sunday might be a super interesting result
to monitor from here, because he did something super different
with that bike on Sunday. Saturday was an absolute disasters
twelfth in the sprint, and the other five decaddies were
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all the top six, so he was in this category
of absolutely nowhere, and it's just an extension of how
his season has gone. It feels to me like they
might have unlocked something for him on Sunday, which was
a really really random thing that we can get into
which might be the world's longest podcast, but I'll try
and keep it short. But it feels that Banyai had
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a result on Sunday that was worth more than just
your average third place finish because you saw him after
the race. He doesn't usually get that fired up about
finishing third. I mean, he's won thirty Grand Breeze. The
way he runs. He was super excited to finish third
because I think he reckons he found something, don't you think?
Speaker 2 (21:00):
I think so.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Match And you know you spoke recently on Fox sports
dot comdo for Slash Motorsport where you said that there's
some internals, there's some changes that have happened in Peko's bike,
and there's been some talks. We've heard Ta Doozzi saying
to Jack Appleyard and these guys, you know that they
found something, They found something with Peco whatnot. I heard
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some little whispers about potentially it was like the rear
right height device the weight had shifted, so he was
struggling and that's why we're seeing so many front end crashes.
But yeah, what do you know, because you're looking at
me like you've got some inside got here?
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Yeah, a little bit.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
So I wrote a couple of weeks ago about this.
Two things about the twenty five that are different to
the twenty four Ducatti without getting super granular here, it's
the engine internals are different, and the weight distribution of
where they are and the bike.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Is different, and the rear ride.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Height device is much more towards the front of the bike,
but it's also lighter. So Banniol's biggest problem all year
is he uses the word feeling all the time. I
don't have the feeling, have the feeling, and he doesn't
have the confidence on the front end of the bike
in corners. You often see him run wide or he's
not as good in breaking because he's an awesome late
breaker as we've seen over the past couple of years.
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He doesn't have the confidence in that, and turns out
that on race day at Aragon it was a bit
of a hail mary I reckon. They through the biggest
break discs you can possibly use in motor GP. That
through fifty five millimeter break discs into the front of
Banyai's bike. Normally you're running three forties, so he's gone
the heaviest possible break disc These are the brakes that
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you use at something like Motegi, which is all like
long straights in the ninety degree corners, long straights in
the ninety degree corners. What that's done and a hatsip
here to Simon Patterson from the race of digging this
out from Brembo. The bigger caliber break discs are about
four hundred grams heavier than the ones that are lighter.
Four hundred grams doesn't sound like a lot, nearly half
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a kilo, but all that weight's on the front of
the bike, and Banyai the whole year has said, I
don't have feeling at the front. I don't have feeling
at the front. Yes, you're running a heavier break disc,
but it's redistributed the weight to the front of the bike,
which is where he's wadded it the entire year. And
so you go in twenty four hours. He was hopeless
in the sprint, to the point that he's back dealing
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with Jack Miller after Jack and had his run in
with Juan Mier. And it was interesting because Jack after
the sprint spent the entire sprint sitting right behind Banyai,
which is you would not expected to catty at a
Yamaha at Aragon to be in the same piece of
real estate. And Jack was like, I don't recognize the
way Peco's riding, Like he's riding in a completely different way.
His body's not hanging off the side of the bike
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like it normally does. And Jack's like, I know Peco
better than anybody on the grid.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Because they were.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Teammates for four years and Jack knows exactly how Peko rides,
and he's looking at him thinking, I don't recognize this.
I've not seen this before, and this is Peco trying
not to lose the front on every single court and
that's why he was so dog slow. I think he's
fourteen seconds behind Mark Mecmarquez in eleven laps.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
That's dreadful.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Fast forward twenty four hours he finished two seconds behind
his teammate and on the podium twenty four hours later
after they'd run the bigger break discs. And I'm going
into a long piece on this for Fox Sports dot
com dot Au that's going to run on Thursday, Australian time.
But you do have to wonder whether they found something here.
And you know we always say motorsport, right, there's no
magic bullets with this thing, like, there's not just you click,
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can't click your figures and everything gets better. But maybe
they have clicked their figures and they've found something here.
It's a pretty random left field solution. But the thing
for me, and we talk about this offline before what
are the next two races? Migello Asen, who's one at
Magello the last three years Peco Van who's one at
Assen the last three is Peko Vanyaya. And you remember
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particularly Asen, there's some of those weekends it's a bit
like Marquez Aragon.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
It's like west Pecker.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Oh he's six seconds in the lead, you just don't
see him for the entire weekend. So if they've really
found something on this bike, if he goes out and
wins at Magello, we know how good he is there.
If he goes out and beats Mark on a red
Ducat at home at Migello this World Championship, he's probably
too far behind Mark to win the title unless Mark
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helps him by falling off a couple of times, which
Mark can do from time to time. But it's certainly
going to be interesting because I think there are races
later in this season where we know there's tracks where
Peko is just about unbeatable when he's been Peco Vanyaya.
We haven't seen heaps of that this year so far
in eight rounds, but it doesn't mean that it's not coming.
And if he's got this bike balance right, whether that
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transfers across from Aragon, which is not a great circuit
for him anyway, if he can make it work at Magello,
if he can make it work at Asen, then doesn't
that add a wrinkle that we didn't see coming to
the end of the season because it was pretty much
one way traffic before ARAGLV, wasn't it.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Yeah, it was the Marquez Brothers show. But yeah, I
think you have Peco Banyai back in. Ultimately, then we'll
go back to what I said where you mentioned the
gap between the GP twenty fives and GP twenty four's
is going to become more realistic. Yep in seeing that
though we know Diggia is on the GP twenty five
as well, and just looking at the results from the weekend,
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he was P. Nine, So it's as much the bike
as it is the rider on the bike.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
And if the rider on the bike is.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Peco Banyaya and all his eyes are dotted and his
teas across and he's comfortable, that's when we're going to
see him that closer to the top. But so, yeah,
if your podium on Sunday was a Ducad dominated podium,
we knew that, but looking at P four, Pedro Acosta
made a surprise appearance, and it seems like every debrief everything.
(26:28):
Like I heard from Pedro on the weekend, He's still
just saying I'm not happy. I'm not happy, And I
feel like that's just Pedro's tagline at the moment. But
I mean a P four from a KTM where the
next KTM I'm just looking at the results was Anaya
Bastianini in twelve. You think that's a big jump. And
Brad Binda, we know he's this is not his strongest
(26:50):
circuit either, and he had a DNF. But Petro Costa
P four that's not too bad for a KTM.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
No, not at all, And it's interesting like Binda was
running quite high in the Grand Prix until crashed. Vignales
ended up crashing and I think he was the last
classified rider, but I think he said his fastest lap
with a broken bike or the last lap of the race,
because Averick Vignalez just filed that in the Maverick Vidales
file like we always do. But interesting with a Costa
because you remember he was on the podium at Aragon
(27:17):
last year. Now that owed itself to a little bit
of Alex Marquez, Peco Vannyaya running over each other in
the gravel nonsense.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
Later in that race, he.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Wouldn't have been on the podium otherwise, but it's been
generally a pretty good track for him through the junior classes.
And something that's interesting now is we always think of
the DECADI as being the grid's fastest bike right through
the speed traps. These days, generally speaking, it's a KTM
that's the top of the top of the speed traps.
There's nothing wrong with the straight line speed of a KTM.
You know, the quartering stuff's a bit of an issue
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from time to time. But what do we have at
aragon A one kilometer back straight and you could just
see like a Costa was right in the fight with
Banyaya early in that race, simply because Peko would gap
him in the first two thirds of the lap and
then this KTM would unleash it self out of that
third last quarter and all of a sudden they be
back on there again. So it's going to be a
bit circuit specific for a cost I'd be curious to
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see how they go at Magello, which is you feel
the bike's always just turning or doing something at Magello
with the elevation change and the fact that you're very
rarely upright in a straight line on that track, even
the start finished straight's got the huge undulation is that
goes over the crest there, So it might be a
bit of a one off, but there's not been heaps
of good news for Katie of this year. Let's be honest,
and a Costa goes from being half grumpy to fully
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grumpy most of the time. So he was only half
grumpy on the weekend because he finished fourth, But a
cost of being a costas like, are you happy you
finished fourth? No, I wanted to finish third. That's pretty
much whatever you give him. If it's not a weird
he's probably not going to be that thrilled about it,
But considering where they've been lately, that's a very good.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Result for them, very good result.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Looking at some of the other manufacturers in the top ten,
it leads me to micro Bitzeki on.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Prillia, which also then leads me to the.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Shock announcement of Mano Gonzales testing with track House on Monday,
something that I was totally oblivious to, And to be honest,
when that announcement got made, you could see a lot
of the journalists in the media sense of going, oh, okay, this.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
Is really happening.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Yeah, inside word from someone at trackhouse.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
So this is a Prillier driven and not.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Trackhouse driven, which I thought was very very interesting.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
But then what was Manu.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Two seconds off off the fastest on on Monday.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
Decent?
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Pretty decent, I thought, for a guy who's never ridden
murder GP bike before and had absolutely no way to
prepare for this, he was just thrown in the deep
end at the very very last last minute. You know,
it was super interesting. You say it was a prillier
thing and not a track house thing. Who looks after trackhouse.
It's Davide Privio, right, and he's got this awesome track
record of finding rough diamonds or guys that might not
(29:49):
necessarily be ready a Moto two and bringing them up
into Moto GP. He was a guy that bought Maverick
vinalez in. He was the guy that bought Alex rins In.
He was a guy who bought Juan mir In. They've
all won races, mirrors of world champion. If you get
the nod of approval from David A. Brivio, you're probably
doing something right. And so, I mean, Gonzales has clearly
been the guy in Moto two this year he's had
(30:10):
a couple of rope rounds, the last couple, but yeah,
a left field test. I like it when these guys
get thrown in the deep end with very little prep
because Motor GP and motorsport generally it's all about simulators
and data and getting yourself as completely ready as possible.
Sometimes they can go are you free on Monday? Do
you fancy riding one of these? And of course if
you've made a Gonzales you're going to say where do I?
(30:31):
Sighn and let me add it? And he would have
had the best day of his life. Quite what that
does to his Moto two riding Once we get to
the next track, of course he's going to have to
relard everything again. But if you're him, it was a
complete no lose situation, right, you can get on the
bike and look really good and impress some people. Yeah
there's not a spot for him on the grid yet,
but there will be people looking at that going huh.
He handled that quite well with absolutely no preparation. And
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Moto two is such a jungle to try and get
out of to get to Moto GP. Any chance you
get you got to take it. So interesting decision by Aprilia,
and I thought he acquisted himself pretty well.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Well if you were looking at the results from Monday's tests,
no surprise there. Maverick Vignalees was fastest.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
He is the test.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
But to be honest, they were actually lapping quicker than
what they were during Sunday's race. In saying that, because
I was on the ground for Sunday's race when the
race was actually.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
On, it was hot, so true, temperatures were through the roof.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
So in doing this, you know, some of these these
lap times that they could have been doing it early
in the morning, they could have been doing it late afternoon.
We're not like, you know, it does change, the weather
does change that there. But one thing I found interesting
from the test was that someone posted on Instagram saying, ah,
is there Italians working at KTM now because they were
testing KTM were testing a new front firing design that
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was literally a copy and paste of the GP twenty five.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Did you see that, Matt? Do you see the photo?
Speaker 4 (31:56):
Did? Yeah? I did.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
It's one of those things that Decadi will say it's
a being paste and Katie em will say, I know,
we were inspired by what they were doing it. There's
no copying and pasting here. We thought yours was good
and we decided to build our own version.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
You love these.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
In any top line motorsport, there's always some guy with
a camera that's wandering up and down pit lane, or
they're wandering up and down all agree before the race,
like taking a bit of a sneaky look at what
everyone else is doing.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
And you know, the what is it? The imitation is
the sincereous form of flattery. Right.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
If you're making something that's good and everyone wants it,
then you'll start seeing variations of your bike on other
people's bikes. What they're basically saying is you do it.
A great job, guys, keep it going. But yeah, it
is funny, isn't it. There's no secrets in this sport.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
There was no secrets in this sport.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
At the race on the weekend as well, Augusto Fernandez
was filling in a wild card for Yamaha, and what
we learned was Augusto was trialing a new engine that
they seemed to be really happy with. So then Augusto
didn't take part in Monday's test as he was getting
prepared for a private test with Yamaha. Rumor is now
the engine that Augusto was using during Sunday's race and
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all weekend is now going to be the new version
of the engine that Fabio and Alex and Jack and
Miguel are going to be using for the rest of
the season. But let's talk about Honda as well, because
Honda this weekend. Yeah, Juan Miir was I think P
nine on Sunday so strong for Juan. But Zarko having
come from such a high the previous two races to
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just nowhere this weekend. We kind of spoke about it
before in the preview that yet this is a track that.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Maybe wasn't going to suit them.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
But it's looking like during Monday's tests that Zarko felt
like he'd made progress once again. But this is something
we keep hearing from him. Yeah, we're making progress. We're
making progress, right.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
I think it's funny with Hondra and Yamaha, they're coming
from so far back right that we see any sort
of sign of progress like a Zarko win or a
bunch of coaturo poles. Oh, they're back, they're back. They've
still got a long way to get back back. There's
gonna be flashes, and I think that's the way those
two are going to be this season. There's going to
be some weekends where they're kind of anonymous, you know.
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Zak I'd come off back to back podiums and so
it was a massive fallback for them, and obviously the
factory Honda team only had the one rider with Luca
Marini being out, and it sounds like Marini might be
out for quite some time by what you're hearing around
the place. But hat tip to Juan Meir who absolutely
fuming with Jack Miller on Saturday and he's incredulous Juan
(34:24):
Meir style. But seventh place on Sunday in the race,
best result I think since India, remember the one off
Indian Grand Prix where I melted in twenty twenty three.
He was actually really quite good and I think he was.
It was quite funny afterwards, a he was relieved he
didn't crash. We didn't get the Joan mir writer okay
graphic up on the screen, but he was saying it
(34:44):
was nice to overtake people and then not have them
come straight back.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
Past you again.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
It was just sort of funny how he mentioned that,
like he was super fired up after finishing seventh, which
quite frankly, if you'd given that guy seventh three years ago,
he would have looked at you like, I want more
than that. But my god, it's been desper of him.
He's a good rider. We just haven't seen him stay
aboard his bike long enough in the past few years
to actually do something about it. But on the whole,
a pretty bla weekend for Honda, a very bla weekend
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for Yamaha. But like you said before, Aragon's a bit
of an outlier. I don't think that's going to continue.
They will be inconsistent because they're coming from so far back,
and there will be flashes. But yeah, Aragon was one
best forgotten I think for both of them.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Yes, and for the listeners or the viewers at home.
Maybe you thought the Aragon Moroto GP race was a
little boring. Look, I kind of agree with you on
that because it was the Mark Marquez Show. But if
you tuned in to Moto two and Moto three, boy,
go with that. We were talking off I know, we
keep saying that because we have this catch up before
(35:46):
we come on talking about everything that happened, Let's talk
about the Moto two prodium. A Turkish writer a Brazilian
writer and a Belgian writer. The Brazilian writer was on
poll When do you ever hear of a non Italian
or a Spanish writer at least somewhere in the top
three and taking pole in a Motor GP race.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
Yeah, so true.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
It sounds like the start of a bad joke, doesn't it,
Like a Turk of Belgium and a Brazilian walked into
a bar. Insert your own punchline. But yeah, it was
just so nice to see some new faces up there.
And the last lap of that race, which I do
I'd had to admit I did watch about three times.
I still don't know how Dennis Onchu won that because
you see them coming into the last corner, Well, that's nice,
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it's going to be a close finish, and that's done.
And then you see the photo finish which they put
up on the screen, and it was what one third
of the width of a wheel, like it was absolutely
crazy if that race had finished one meter earlier than
Marera's won his first Grand Prix. So yeah, super fun
result Moto two. Funnily enough, the last couple of rounds
meant obviously ceterageous. Winning at Silvester was pretty dramatic at
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the end. It's almost served up the best race of
the day for the last couple of Grand Prix, which
is not something we often say about Mono two motors
has been actually pretty interesting this year. Often you get
these races that are pretty strung out, but certainly the
last couple have been super fun. But like you said,
like you just keep waiting for the Italian or the
Spanish national anthem and neither of them are happening. It's like,
that's weird. But it was super fun though, And Marrera
(37:09):
looks like a guy who might be particularly with Brazil
coming onto the calendar, and it'd be great to have
a writer from that part of the world. He's a
guy whose name you would not be surprised at all
to see in the Motor GP conversation before too long,
because he's pretty fast and pretty good so early in
his career.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Like I just mentioned the flags and I pulled up
the result, So yes, Santa was fourth Australian Phillips a
latch Czech Republic.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
Then it's the first.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Italian, a sorry, Spanish of Aaron Connett. Then we go
to the American of Joe Roberts. So yeah, we are
seeing this multi cultural like a blend coming in.
Speaker 4 (37:44):
Yeah, we foundations of the World Championship Love.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Yeah, Gonzales had a terrible qualifying. I was actually in
Senna's box when that happened and the crash and just
didn't have time to return. But otherwise it just feels
like this season kind of has just been the Gonzales
show with him just running away and you can see why
he's been off at this little ride, it's little test
in Moto GP. But then let's go further down to
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Moto three. And I want to touch on Joel Kelso
because I spent a lot of time with him this weekend.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
He showed me around.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
The track, gave me some pointers for when I make
my Moto three debut, which is going.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
He gave me some good pointers for.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
The track, and he was talking about this weekend and
he said, look, this weekend for me, I'm aiming for
a top.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
Five because this is a track that I feel it is.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Not my strength. And one thing I noticed, and I
don't know if you guys saw on the Fox Sports
YouTube where I did my track walk with Joel as
I mentioned that Joel for me, seems like he's looking
at things really differently. Now he's he's learning to take
away from the positives but also the negatives and what
he can learn on. So the sitting there and dwelling
(38:55):
on it and getting really down in himself. And actually
saw him after the race and I said, like, that
was awesome, Like, you know, you got a good start,
you were consistent.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
He goes, yeah, he goes, but I know, Magello, I'm
going to be a lot stronger at and I'm really
looking forward to that.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
And I think this is we spoke about so many
times for Joel. Compared to the last year, Joel would
be so strong for the first half of the race
and then he drop off. Now we're seeing him progressively consistent.
And if that consistency means it's a P seven for
him like it was here in Aragon, then he's taking
away the positives for that.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
But let's talk about that Motor three race as well,
because we had the Aspah boys taken each other out.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Then we had all that drama, all the.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Overtaking, the what we love about Moto three, right the
slip streaming, everything. Joel was telling me about that and
the last race. But then we go back to the
old Spanish podium. How's the maximum Kielez though, I mean
the Mark Marquez little prodigy that's coming through right.
Speaker 3 (39:54):
Oh yeah, he's He's a guy who's making a name
for himself pretty quickly, isn't he. He's a super we're
exciting super motor GP at most tracks. Is you know
you hide behind the couch on the last lap just
in case something might happen, and certainly an hour ago,
like where's this going in the last lap? But super
enjoyable race. The thing you mentioned about Joel before, and
(40:14):
you know we've known this because we've spoken to him
for a bunch of years. Now, I reckon it feels
like he's aged about three years in the last twelve months.
And I don't mean that in a negative way. There's
this maturity and belief, and you know he's an experienced
motor three head now and I don't reckon he gets
too high or too low with stuff. He's just really
balanced now as a person, and you see the way
that translates into his riding.
Speaker 4 (40:36):
He's grown up fast.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
You know, he's been a motor three for a little
while now, before it was this, Well, that's nice that
he's got to result and what have you. But he
now knows that he's good enough to fight at the front.
The results tell you.
Speaker 4 (40:46):
That he is.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
He's really matured into a front line Motor three rider.
And what you just said then about you know, that's
a great result, Aragon. He's already thinking ahead to somewhere
where he's going to be stronger.
Speaker 4 (40:58):
That's not what last year.
Speaker 3 (40:59):
He would have been fuming about something, or he would
have been taken it really badly and taken a few
days to come down from it. Now he's got this
sort of thirty five thousand foot view where he looks
at what's next and this is a race I can
capitalize on. This is one where it might be a
bit of damage limitation. He's putting together a really nice championship.
It's really good to see because it feels like it's
nice to have an Australian that's really legit at the
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front of that championship now and he really does look
like that.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
This year he spoke to us about his goal of
eventually going to Moto GP, which means he does have
to step through Moto two. And I think this new
mentality is what he needs to become.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
A Moto two writer couldn't agree.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
Even though the age difference between Joel, Jacob and Senna
is not that much. Now we're seeing Joel acting more
like Senna, and I think Senna's had that experience coming
through the European Championship and then going straight into Moto
two where he's constantly looking forward, looking at things very differently,
Joel's now taking that step up.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
And we saw this weekend.
Speaker 1 (42:01):
You know, it wasn't a good result for Jacob Rulestone
with that DNF, and I think it was a mechanical issue. Yeah. Technique, Yeah,
technical issues, So yeah, obviously not his fault. But I'm
starting to now go is the pressure starting to.
Speaker 2 (42:14):
Get to Jacob as well?
Speaker 1 (42:16):
Because this is his second year with the TEKTA team.
You know, it's a championship winning it's a race winning team.
Is that pressure starting to be amounted on his shoulders?
And is he starting to crack a little bit?
Speaker 4 (42:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (42:29):
Look, I think there's a bit of impatience there, which
is understandable. I mean, obviously the start of his season
he was injured through you know, circumstances, and it's taken
him a while to get back to being where he
needs to be. You know, there's not many Australians in
this World Championship paddock, and because these guys are all
similar ages and they've come at it from really different directions,
but they'll all be looking at each other's results. And
(42:49):
Joel's been on podiums and sent us one of Grand
Prix and you know, so the pressure there comes from
probably wanting to keep up with the guys that have
got the same passport, right, because you're always mentioned in
the same conversation, you're going to be compared to what
your compatriots are doing because there's so few of you.
So it's been a rough go for Jacob this year
because he's just not really had a great run at
it because he was injured and then recovering from injury.
(43:12):
It was a shame that he was in a good
position to get a good result. And then, I mean,
it's motorcycle racing. Bikes are going to have technicals from
time to time and it's going to happen. Those ones
never hurt quite so much when you're circulating in thirteenth right,
Like when you're in a good position to get somewhere
and there's something out of your control takes it out
of your hands. I think the positive for him was
the speed was there. He looked like he belonged up there.
(43:32):
The whole weekend had been pretty strong. You just have
to shrug your shoulders with the technical and move on
and try and replicate that for the next one. But
isn't it nice that we're talking about guys being Australian
guys being in strong positions in races and good positions
in the championship and the glass is very much half
full because we've had seasons in the past where you know,
it was either Jack Miller or Bust. We were getting
(43:53):
nothing on the World Championship stage. There were other guys
kind of making up the numbers here and there.
Speaker 4 (43:57):
You'd get a.
Speaker 3 (43:58):
Random Kelso podium and a soaked Philip Island, which was
a super outline back in twenty three. But it's just
nice to have guys in each World chair beget category.
Speaker 4 (44:06):
Now.
Speaker 3 (44:06):
As an Australian fan, we you look at it and go, huh,
we could be fighting for something meaningful here. It definitely
makes the whole Sunday night on the couch for everyone
in Australia pretty enjoyable, I think definitely.
Speaker 1 (44:16):
And you know, we've got the youngsters like Carter Thompson
who were going to catch up soon, these guys coming.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
Through the Red Bull Rookies.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
The actually I ran into Harrison Voyd, who's doing the
Super Sport World Championship. You know, the Aussie guys, they're
all there, they're all supporting each other. It's a fact
of us as a nation need to get behind them
as well and help support them and cheer them on
from our sofas because they're over there representing their country
in countries there they're living in for the first time
(44:43):
and having to experience everything new, and they're so far
away from home that it is nice. Like when Senna
was on the podium, Joel and Jacob Jack they all
came down to celebrate with him because we're all in
this together. And it's funny because even now I'm over
here only for four races, but all of a sudden,
all the Australian get together, which is really really nice.
Speaker 2 (45:02):
To be a part of.
Speaker 3 (45:03):
All ten of you get together at the same time,
we're very much a minority in that paddock. But you're right,
I did certainly notice that we'd said of winning at Silveston,
where everyone just suddenly appeared in Park fer Me to
wish him all the best for what he had done.
The thing we have to remember is that, you know,
Motor GP, there's only twenty two guys on this grid,
and there's no right that there's some sort of Australian
(45:24):
on there. We've had great World champions obviously, but to
have a writer in that World Championship from this part
of the world, it's a really hard thing to do.
Speaker 4 (45:30):
We've been a little bit spoiled because.
Speaker 3 (45:32):
Jack's been there for ten years and he's just been
ever present and he's won some Grand Prix and given
us lots of great moments and whatever happens with Yamaha.
You know, Jack's certainly closer to the end of his
World Championship career than the beginning. I mean, he'd say
that himself. But one of these younger guys coming through
the feeder classes is going to be the next guy.
And that's the exciting thing. Like, there's nothing more exciting
than seeing an Australian guy on the ground floor as
(45:54):
they're sort of getting their feet wet and becoming who
they are. These are the days you remember. You remember
the Jack Millermoto three days where doing the worm in
the gravel trap at the French Grand Prix, and he's
got a terrible haircut, he's crying on the podium in
guitar and all these sorts of things.
Speaker 4 (46:07):
That's the Jack Miller story. And now we're seeing some
of these young.
Speaker 3 (46:10):
Guys that are starting to write their own stories and
let's hope one or more of them ends up on
the Premier class.
Speaker 4 (46:16):
Grew at some.
Speaker 1 (46:16):
Point, definitely, But we only have one week before we
head to Migello. So you're on F one Judy's once
again in Canada. Love that for you, with a really.
Speaker 2 (46:28):
Good time zone in Australia.
Speaker 1 (46:30):
Right dig you be heads to Magello and as you mentioned,
this is Peco Bangay's ground, so we've gone from Marquez
Land to Peko Banyaya hopefully masterclass in Magello. As I've
mentioned a lot though in this podcast, you can listen
read Matt's articles on Fox sports dot com, do Au Forward,
Slash Motorsport, and I've mentioned a few videos. I did
(46:52):
a really cool behind the scenes of what Jack Miller
does in a day to see his time stamps of
what day in the life of our workday, A nine
to five shall we call it Jack Miller, So you
can check that out on the Fox Sports YouTube. Also,
my track Walk with Joel Kelso gets some really good
insights into Aragon and we talk about Joel's mental mental
(47:13):
abilities right now and where he's at, but also what
he misses from Australia, what food he misses from here.
Speaker 2 (47:18):
So that was a good little insight into the world
of Joel.
Speaker 1 (47:21):
Keep up to date though with all the ladies news,
also on our socials at Fox Motorsport everywhere Matt's articles
around foxsport dot com do a force slash Motorsport. This podcast,
as always, is brought to us by Shannon's Insurance. But Matt,
I think we've pretty much wrapped up Aragon. We're gonna
head to Michello. I'm gonna be on the ground. Hopefully
(47:42):
we can get some good insights there for you guys
as well, and from Matt Clayton and myself Rined of Mulin.
We're gonna be back real soon with more motor GP
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