MotoGP Czechia 2025 Round 12 Recap in S5 Ep 16

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Episode Transcript

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Listen to the Be Favorite Cool podcast.
My name is Rex 45 Tonight we gotTJ in the building.
We got Cheetah 740 in the building.
We got the real Luis Ortega. What's going on, fellas?
What's good, What's good? What's happening, man?
Can't complain. It's beautiful weather down here
in in Florida. Where am I in Florida?

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So I, I sorry, I really can't complain.
So how are things up there in Boston, TJ?
You know it's back down to cool,but this is how everyone likes
it. It's in the 7075 range, but you
know bikes out everywhere is what I like to see everyone's
bright and safe. It's for the most part, but All
in all, what a great weekend racing for all the classes.

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So I can't wait to get into it. That's.
What's up? That's what's up.
How about yourself, Cheetah Man?How you doing tonight?
Good, man. It just rained outside in
Atlanta, but it's more humid than ever.
My windows are foggy outside. It's, it's a weird, some weird
weather going on. But yeah, man, I'm, I'm happy
because I got the, I got to get out on the bike over the
weekend. The bicycle that is still got to

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watch some, some GP along the way.
So it's a good weekend. What What kind of bike you ride?
The Trek Domani I did. I did my first fifty mile ride
this weekend. So it was.
It was fun. Yeah.
A little bicycle, yeah. Oh.
Nice, nice. That's what's up.
No, I, I, I, I ride a cycle cross and I have a carbon
specialized in Boston I'm actually going to bring down.
Yeah, we're going to have to ride one of these.

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Days. Yeah, yeah, we're going to have
to ride, man, for sure. What's going on, Louis?
Man, how are things? I I I know you're busy over
there at least changing your house.
Maybe not the world. I know it's it's a good weekend
busy like like you said, they got a lot of projects going on,
but you know, still found time to catch the racing this
weekend, break the monotony of the weekend with, you know,

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watching the guys go back to Bruno for the first time in
several years and and some pretty competitive racing.
Man, it was actually a really good weekend.
I had a lot of new faces. Yeah, we're going.
We're going to jump into that. I was trying to get track stars
to come on tonight, but we'll. We'll see what happens.
He don't want it. He don't want any of this.
We'll see what happens next week, but you know, you, you

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know, you kind of segue right into the first thing I was going
to talk about, which is it's been five years for Moto GP, six
years for the fans in in Bruno. We'll start with TJ, man.
I mean, what do you think of thecrowd being over?
I think it was over 230 + 1000 people coming out for the
weekend. You know, I can't imagine, you
know, having a sport taken away and you know, motorcycle is huge

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over in Europe being taken away for that many years.
You know, we, we're very fortunate over in the US.
What are your thoughts about that Moto GP going back to Bruno
I? Think it's I think it's awesome.
I mean, when I first started watching Moto GPI think they
were at this track and I like itand it's a good layout, called

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it the Adrenaline track or something like that.
And it's such a long layout and to have that many fans there,
it's pretty cool. Like when you love you think
there's like bleachers. It's just all grass.
They're just sitting all on the grass.
I mean most tracks are like that, but can't really even see
the grass just all over the place there.
There's just fans everywhere andI don't know who they really

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root for there. I'm not sure if there's a
there's a. What is it in the Dutch?
They they, they, they root for the European.
Yeah. So, but it's good for that type
of turn out, you know, So it's good to have things like that.

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I wish we had that in Coda, you know?
Yeah, it's I think so. I think it's definitely dope to
have the Czech Republic. When I was at Austin, I heard
some of the media guys talking about how nice it was going to
be when they got to Bruno. And it seems from the track
being resurfaced and stuff like that, it's a pretty fast track.

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In some of the media questions they asked some of the guys, and
this is the Cheetah, they were talking about how an F1 they
have mandatory tracks and they were asking what tracks should
they make mandatory in in Moto GP?
And a lot of the guys say, Bruno, so you know, we're all
riders, but what are your thoughts of that being a

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mandatory track and also just, you know, overall weekend and
and Moto GP going back there? That's a cool thing.
I didn't hear that question, butit's it's, it's cool to have
favourites like that. As riders, we all like want to
go back to certain tracks because other a the racetrack is
just suited for the riding styleof everyone.
It's just suited for these bikes.
It's safer in some ways. You can get to go faster and

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feel sort of safer. Some tracks are very, very risky
and you know, we still go back to those tracks even though the
pavements really bad. But you know, that's that's
interesting that to say that I'dI'd be curious.
I would I would also imagine that a lot of riders that said,
yes, they want to go back, make the favorite track.
They have different reasons why,right.
So maybe some win there more or whatever it may be, but it's a

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great track. I know we went back there a few
years back. We used to have some really good
battles. So it's really good to see.
And the passing is interesting. You have to do it where you're,
it's, it's always in the soup switchbacks, you know, you
always have to be put it on the inside on somebody on the
switchbacks, pretty much all youcan do for passing there or on
the breaking zone on the first three corners really.
So I like it a lot. It's a fun track to watch.

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Lewis the numbers guy. I mean, what do you think?
Do you think it was numbers? Why they weren't at Bruno for a
little bit or I think, I don't know if they were protesting
wars that were close by, but you.
Know it's the Czech Republic. I don't think they really have
too many wars going on. No, I think, you know, maybe

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this is a little inside baseball, but the previous owner
of the track was called Abraham's father.
And it's interesting that they stopped going to the track right
around the time Kyle Abraham stopped getting funding from his
dad to keep racing in Moto GP. OK.
So I don't know if, you know, maybe they had a little bit of
falling out with the family because his son couldn't get a
ride or he didn't want to keep supporting his son's racing

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career because it wasn't really going anywhere.
But I know that the new owner took over the track in 2023, and
since then they've been in negotiations to try to get Moto
GP back on the schedule in Bruno.
So, you know, I'm glad it's coming back because obviously
the attendance shows that, you know, people do like to go watch
Moto GP at that track. That track has been on the

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schedule for a long time and it's a unique track because it's
got a lot of elevation change. It's got a fast, fast sections,
it's got flowy sections. It's got a lot of strange 90° /
90° chicanes. So there's a little bit of
everything. And that's I think that's one of
the reasons we saw such an interesting mix of different
manufacturers up towards the front, because it did lean on

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some of the strengths of the KTMand it leaned on some of the
strengths of the Aprilia and that's why we see the mix.
But it didn't lean on the strengths of like some of the
other bikes. So you saw that, you know,
Yamaha struggled a little bit, Honda struggled a little bit,
but the bikes with more horsepower got a little bit
better. So, you know, again, this is one
of those tracks that benefits some bikes, doesn't benefits

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other bikes, but it's a cool track.
I've always enjoyed watching race into this track and seeing
220 people show up over the weekend.
That's that's a massive number, man.
Yeah, something to blink your eye out.
No, it is. And I think it's the when I,
when I, well, I was thinking of the Ukraine war with Russia and
looking at the map, they're not that far apart.

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So that's, that's what was in mymind somewhere.
But let's jump into the the weekend itself.
You know, Pekko had to go through Q1 and got pole position
and so forth. I thought it was going to be a
more competitive race for him. What did you guys think?
Were you guys surprised that Pekko was able to?

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Well, not, I'm probably not surprised at the part that he
was in Q1 but got out of it and got pole position.
We'll start with your TJ. Yeah, Pekko is not supposed to
be in Q1. So I mean, for him to, you know,
even put himself through that when he already knows his

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struggles. I mean, like, it is rewarding to
get polled and you know, it is racing.
But I think he only got polled just because I forget the reason
why, but something happened where he ended up actually
getting polled. Thing Mark Marquez was actually
on a the one of the fastest lap he was ever on and then he

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crashed like two corners before.It's like a flag.
Right, right. He he he said he saw Zarko
crashed in the same corner before him and he saw the dust,
and that distracted him. And he was on a fly.
I mean, you know, you know, it'syou know.
So yeah, go ahead. But no, I gave it to him like
he, I want to see him build his confidence.

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You know, he is a really good writer.
I know we've been getting on himall the time, all all year.
But I think he deserved the pollfor sure.
You know, the spring was a different story.
Got you Cheetah. What do you think about it?
Does Peko use this as motivationas he's because he seems to be

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sorting it out a little bit overthe last three rounds.
Even mentioned that in in pre press conference as well.
Do you mean granted he you know,4th and 7th may not be the
results he wanted this weekend? Is that motivation to say hey
you know this is pretty good. second-half of the season is
going to come up in about 3 weeks.

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I should be good probably 2 races after that.
I don't think so. Just knowing Petco himself, like
I think Petco has always been like a slow starter.
He's always been slow in the prepractices and then he sort of
picks up in Q2Q1Q2 wherever he ends up.
But even then he's like, sometimes you'll get pulled.
But last year he was because I mean, it was, it was a different

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scenario. But I mean, I given that, you
know, qualifying is, is a different tire, it's one lap,
you know, I think they all know that sure, they got the pole.
It's a great accomplishment. It is a morale boost.
But at the end of the day, it's the race distance that matters,
right? So I think for that aspect, I
don't know if he was really motivated because he got a few

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other polls right this year. And no, he didn't get any polls
this year. No, no, it's his first one.
It's been the Marquez and Quadraro show.
Got you. Yeah.
And so I even still it's, it's, it's not something that's
applicable to the race distance,you know, and that's where he
struggles. He falls back more and more and
more one lap at a time. At one point, you know, it's

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just like 1 after another. And so that's why I, I feel like
he's still not feeling accomplished off a qualifying
session. Just my opinion.
Got you. What are your thoughts, Louis?
I will throw this in and you guys can jump in after Louis
talk about this and we talk about the Sprint because the
factory they screwed up on the tire pressure, right?

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And it sounds like even in the in the main race itself, the
bike just had way too much grip for that surface or the surface.
It just has so much grip that the bike had a lot of vibration.
What are your thoughts on Peckles pole position and also
the struggles they had in the inthe Sprint?
I mean, he got a pole. I mean he did 1 fast lap that

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got him the pole. But if you looked at what Zarko
was doing on the lap he crashed and Mark was doing, you know,
they were about to clip his pole.
I mean they were on the last sector pretty much and they were
definitely going to take the pole either way.
I mean, pole is pole. Whoever is there at the top,
when the checkered flag waves, he's at the top regardless of
whatever else happens. But if you look at his
inconsistency through the warm ups and the fact that he had to

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go through Q1, like he was already showing that he's having
some struggles and some other issues in the Sprint.
I mean, he's had a horrible sprints all season.
So seeing him in 7th in the Sprint wasn't a surprise because
in a short distance race, you know, for some reason he just
can't seem to put it together. I thought he would do a little
bit better on Sunday and he did better on Sunday.

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But again, you know, he started having whatever issues he
started having. But again, this is where a good
rider and a great rider separatethemselves.
Marquez is having the same issues, but he finds way around
the issues. And Petco runs into these issues
and succumbs to the issues. He doesn't find his way around
the issues. You know, Marquez jumped out

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front. He had a three plus second lead.
He saw the tire pressure was messed up.
What did he do? He turned into a track day
coach, he slowed down, he let the guys pass him, he followed
him, he showed him the line, Then he tapped his head and
bounced and he still got anothersecond and a half.
Like that's embarrassing man. At that point, Paki shit up and
go home. This dude is literally showing
you he's faster than everybody else, has got more talent and is

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is just the best package. And that's the race that Pekko
came in 7th. So Marquez having the same issue
and wins, slows down, gives the the grid a chance and then still
passes the grid to win. So again, Mark Pekko needs to
find a way to work himself around the problem while he's on
the bike, not in the pit, because he's obviously not

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finding the solution in the pit.So you got to find it out on the
track. You got to find a way to change
something about your riding style to help you overcome
whatever obstacle you come across, man.
But you know and you know, I think in Pecos case we had some
overzealous track day guys just when he try let one person pass,
three people passed. Hey, if you leave the door open,

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people gonna come in. It's called racing.
It's gonna happen and and and when they and when you see a
wounded fish, do you go? You know, it's like watching a
wounded gazelle. Do you go against the really
fast in shape gazelle or or thiswounded gazelle right here looks
looks tasty. We're about to eat him up.
That's what they do it. His his crashing has been way

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down this year. I know past two seasons he's
been, you know, always either a first or on the podium or just
throwing it away completely. He needs to get back to that.
Even when there's times going out to practice, they wanted to
follow him. Mark Marquez was always trying
to follow him, pick on him, and he's just not been that guy.

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And like you said, he's just throwing all those pieces on the
front end and trying to have a change in the paddock.
And we just have to get that around the problem because he's
not the only rider that's had anissues.
So everyone's running around issues.
So he needs to go. He knows what he needs to do,
but. Right, you do.
You do make a. He needs to do.
Yeah, you do. You do make a good point that I

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think he doesn't want to crash. Where Marquez he OK if he crash.
I think Peko used to crash a lotand I think this year maybe he's
being too cautious because he's not sending it down the road.
He'd rather not deal with the bumpy situation or the you know,
the lack of feel and you know, you know, you know, you know he

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he's still pretty fast, right, But just I think that's a
different way. Mark don't mind if if he lose
the front, you know, he'll he like he's he's trying to talk.
He's trying to ride more like Petco and but you know, he's he,
you know, and Petco probably needs to ride more like how
Marquez ride where can't be. I mean, again, but it's tricky
because you're crashing out for the season reason, you know, so

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you know, but I think he, you know, you make a good point
there. I think, I think one thing is
it's, it's, it's about the riderand getting out of his head.
What you just said is sort of something that can get up in
their head and they're scared ofcrashing, right?
Or they're scared of losing those points if they crash,
whatever it may be. He has to get out of his head
because even the adjustments of Mark is just so quick and so

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fast. He's able to get back a spot and
only a spot and not lose 2 spots.
And if whenever he snaps his fingers, he's back in front of
the the guy he wants to be in. I mean, the pace is obviously
much, much faster than the guys around him.
But Petco, I mean, he turned it down a little and then he turned
it down a little too much. There's, you know, a cost
everyone sneaking through. So it's, it's about like being

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able to and then make that back up at the end of the end of all
that. Because if if that wasn't the
case, would he have lost the pace anyways?
You know, if he was falling backthe way he did And he's such a
late starter that he needs 15 laps to get going, then maybe
this is a guy that's just not able to manage the bike well or
the tires. Or he just needs to get warmed
up mentally in the race and losethat many spots for him to be

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like, all right, now I'm going to just say, forget not
crashing, forget all that. Let me just push and go through.
So does it take him that long toget out of his head?
Who knows? Only he knows because he's in
his head. So we can all guess.
But I mean, I think we all know the man's in his head.
Right. You listen, No, no shade our old
Fernandez, but he he you know, he, he was dealing with that for

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a while too and he seems to be figuring it out now because he
has some really good results this past weekend as well.
But what do you guys think of the other brands?
You know what I mean? The KTM look good, Aprilia look
good, the Yamahas and the and the Honda.
I mean, are we to the season where these these other brands
are just starting to figure out the the, the things that are

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wrong with their bikes and just making it better?
What are your thoughts, TJ? Well, I was going to say that
Petco maybe needs to lose spot kilos because, you know, Neil
Gastonini just came out of nowhere and he got on the podium
for KTM, so he looked at. Bull.

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He looked in that bull and saw death once he saw he was going
to live. He's there.
Listen, no more chances, man. This is it.
I'm going for everything. It's also a track they have they
haven't been to in a few years. So I don't know if that played
any part. Obviously, you know, towards
like the race, everyone's probably got all that data, but

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it was really good to see a mix of the manufacturers like Pedro
Acosta actually being up there and they are being up there.
Like a lot of the KTMS are up there.
The COD is struggling a little bit, which is, you know, not
normal, but you know, it was forfor like both the mark, the
Marquez and Pekko to have the tire pressure issue.

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You know, that made it interesting for, you know, the
the manufacturers to come in andplay.
So it was also good to see Bazecki do what he was doing on
the Australia Martine Pittsburghround back officially.
I think he did a pretty solid job, but I think it was really
nice to see the KTM's finish one, it's two and three in a

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Sprint. Got you cheetah.
Do you think that the guy shouldput in a petition to have all
the tracks resurfaced because itseems like ATM had more grip.
The previous had more grip. All the bikes had more grip on
this track where you know they're going to go on to other
tracks that are not resurfaced. Well, I was just reading up when

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you guys were talking. It was a debt issue.
Apparently it was unpaid debt and resurfacing.
So maybe there needs to be a lotmore tracks where the unpaid
debt gets settled with repaving,right?
I don't know how that works. But no, I mean, it's it's great
to see KTM is doing phenomenal right now.
I mean, they're finally getting their bearings together.
All the things they're testing out.
Maybe it's all coming together. You know, we all want Vinales

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back, but Acosta, first time there at at Bruno and he's doing
so good. That's what that's what they
were talking about was like, wow, he's already in in 3rd
place and everything he's got into second in the race, so
really good. And Bassinini's right there.
First place in the Sprint for a second.
Yeah, for a second when it's allowed, but yeah, I mean, you
know, Bassinini's doing good, but Betseki's doing great.

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He's showing what Martine can potentially do.
You know, Martine, obviously that's another so we'll get
into, but he was also kind of feeling good.
Had a big smile on his face whenhe came back.
So, you know, I think Honda's probably the weaker of the one
manufacturers, but they're also mixing it up in all the other
races. So there's not really one weak
competitor as far as a manufacturer goes.

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So it's going to be very interesting to see how the rest
of the season plays out after this break.
All right, All right, Louis, youheard all those guys.
What are your thoughts man? I think this and the next track
are a little bit of an anomaly for KTM.
This track and the next track, which is the Red Bull Ring,
leans really, really heavily on the strengths of the KTM.

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So I expect to see them doing the similar pace at the next
round and even maybe the round after that at Hungary.
But then after that, when we getback to Catalonia and San Marino
and so forth, the KTM is probably going to start to
struggle again because they can't lean on the horsepower as
much as they have. I mean, the KCM is the fastest

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bike in a straight line. And if you look at this track,
this track had a lot of straightlines, so you're going to get a
lot of competitive advantage. I think once the lines get a
little shorter and the turns geta little bit more significant,
that's where you see the KTM struggle outside of Vinales.
And Vinales, to be honest with you, I think was the leading
reason why they were doing so good, because they were seeing

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what he was doing. And then now he's hurt, right?
And you know, even Pedro Acosta himself admits like he's a hot
head and the people at KTM are hot heads.
So it's hard for them sometime to get on the same page because
he doesn't know how to explain himself without probably getting
super animated, whereas Vinales can also get animated, but he

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can also really tell you what needs to get done.
He's been, he's a little bit more mature, a little bit, you
know, a student that the game a little longer.
Right. How crazy is how crazy is that?
Is it that Jack Miller helped him last year at the beginning
of the season anyway? And I've been Yalis and you got
guys that been coming up to KTM the whole their whole life and

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and they weren't able to make the leaps and bounds that these
two guys are making. I mean, this is again, how do
you explain how good are you? Are you at explaining what's
wrong with the bike? If you go back to the pit and
just give the bike to the techs and just say, well, this doesn't
seem to be working. You know, you need to be able to
really tell this to the text exactly what's happening.

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Because one, they're going to look at your data and they're
going to tell you you're full ofshit or not.
If you're like, dude, I'm breaking as late as I can.
They're going to look at the data.
Be like no, you're not you know they look at the data and say
hey, this other guy on the same bike is breaking at this point
and in this sector he's .32 seconds faster than you.
You need to do what he's doing in this sector.
And this other guy in this sector is doing one point

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something seconds faster. You need to do what he's doing
in that sector. And this is what you know, being
part of a team really is. And when you're in a motorsport
like this and you have KTM, you have 4 riders, you're sharing
the data because you want each rider to benefit from what the
others are learning. And again, now with Enyala's
out, I don't know how much of that good data is going away

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because obviously Bender's not giving good information.
And Bastianini, you know, he benefited from Hella, you know,
fight of diarrhea. So, you know, he wanted to just
finish as fast as he could because he had to go to the
bathroom before he sticks pants again.
So that put a little bit of extra emphasis on him trying to
finish as quickly as possible because he didn't want to brown

(23:27):
up his suit. But I think Acosta now maybe
with a good base can now take a couple steps forward.
And like I said, the next two tracks do benefit the KTM.
Outside of that, you know, Yamaha kind of did what they
did. They were a little bit middling.
The big surprise to me is Aprilia.
Aprilia now has between Fernandez, who is fighting for

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his job and I think he's doing agreat job now.
Like if he can keep this out through the the end of the
season, I don't see why Track House wouldn't want to sign it
for another two years. Yeah, I think he signed it till
the end of 26. I mean, I would, I would try to
try to lock him in as early nextyear as possible.
He's going to ride like this, you know, because the last thing
you want to do is lose a guy that's on the on the rise to a

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factory team or something else. All right well, I want to talk
about it for you next, but I'll I'll go to TJ and and cheetah
today. Have anything on anything they
want to add on on the KTM's sad to see Bash any crash out in the
main race because he it could have been it might have been a
KTM 1-2 again too. Or, you know, actually, I don't
know if Zack he was going to give that up.

(24:33):
Yeah, yeah. I mean, I'll say not as much as
to KTM, but just what Lewis is talking about.
Like the best developmental guysare sometimes not the best
riders in the same sense. I use the same analogy as like
if you look at boxing, basketball, we both talked about
these a lot sports a lot. The best coaches aren't the best
players. They're the players that have
been sort of average in the in the league or in the in the

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game, but they found a way to still make it almost great,
right? And those are the guys that find
the way. And so maybe these test riders
also the same. They can't speak it, but they
can just feel it. Some those guys don't end up
becoming the best test riders, you know, and it's the guys that
have both. Sometimes that's the rarity like
like Evan Alice, right, that candevelop it and talk it so and do

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the fast laps. Right, I agree.
More, more, more like an Elish, But I'll say I was going to say
on the KTM part, it was good to see Paulus Prager out there.
Yes, I'll say that. Yeah, and he, I think he
finished ninth in the in the Sprint.
So not, as you know, not as great as Danny Pedroza, but

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nonetheless. I mean, I don't think he, I
don't think Paul did any races last year.
No, he didn't do any races. He just did testing.
And you know, in the race, thinkabout it, he finished one second
behind Brad Bender. Bender's been on that bike for
like 72 years now. Like bro, the guy that was last
week was had a microphone at thelast race just came in a second

(26:02):
behind you in the actual race. Bender won at Bruno last time,
yeah. Yes.
And, and now he finished, you know, in the top 10, but
literally the guy that didn't have a job last week finished
one second behind you. Like that's not a good look.
You know, yeah, I think Bender might be struggling a little bit
or maybe he's just been on that bike too long and it's and it's

(26:24):
time for a change sometimes thatthat happens.
Complacency. Yeah, yeah.
But let's talk about Aprilia. As you have mentioned in Lewis,
it looks like Fernandez is is finding his way.
You know, I don't know if it's the if the help outside of the
track or seeing your rookie do better than you in the first
fight until he crashed out in Silverstone, you know, or

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whatever it is. You know, he's figuring it out.
You know, Bazecki's looking really good on on the bike.
And you know, or hey, Martine had to come in and he had to do
that walk of shame. And you know, let's talk about
the walk of shame part first, which is that interview where he
had to be up there by himself and ask all those questions, you
know, just to sit here and be asked how many different way he

(27:10):
screwed up. I mean, and that that was tough
for me. And he knew that.
He knew that had that had to come, that had to be done.
It was the best way to do it. But yeah, it sucks to be up
there alone where everyone just picking at you on the situation.
It wasn't like, oh, how was yourrace or how was your time off?
How did you recover? It was just like, why did you

(27:32):
make this decision? Why did you hold back and and,
you know, just more antagonizingthe situation just to get
everything out right at that that moment.
There's some certain things thatI didn't agree with Martine said
that was kind of like him being an asshole about it.
But, you know, it is his life and what he wants to pursue.

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But he was close to losing everything at one point.
So. But yeah, that was a tough
interview. I would say to go through, to
come back and to have to do thatand then focus on racing.
So I don't know. They could have done it another
time, but. Yeah, I know.
I, I, I agree. I, I, you know, I've, you know,

(28:13):
if I think if he would have chilled out like, you know,
months ago, they probably would let all that slide.
But you know, he, he, he, he embarrassed the sport and, and
so they can't just be like come back home, you know, I'm saying
they, he, they have, he has to, he had to go out there and do
that. What are your thoughts, Cheetah?

(28:34):
I'm mad I didn't see this. How do you?
Always online. I was like watch wanting all
this and now it's there. OK, I got to go watch it.
It's on Moto GP. Yeah, it's on Moto GP, but for
sure check it out. We'll go ahead add something,
Lewis, since Cheetah didn't get a chance to check it out.
I'm going to say two things here.

(28:54):
One, who had the worst weekend? Was it Martine during that
interview or the HR guy and the CEO at, at, at the Coldplay
concert? Because they both had really,
really bad moments in front of the camera.
Like they both had like, oh shitmoments in front of the camera.

(29:15):
Like they had to come with receipts and and they were
getting charged full price. But.
Martine, you know. Martine, you know, I don't know
if a prelien pushed it or Moto GP pushed it, but but somebody
had to do that. Like Martine had to eat a lot of
crow because if he didn't, this was just going to chase him from
this round to the next round to the next round.

(29:36):
Like, you know, at some point you just got to come out, Meet
the Press, get it over with and move on.
You know, release the Epstein list.
Don't stop worrying about it. Once it's in the air, it's out
there, you know, nobody can question it anymore.
And also they got to make sure that no other rider gets this
idea. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And that's the other thing. I mean, I wouldn't be surprised
if this was a Dorner. Anything with Aprilia or even a

(29:58):
door, anything where it's like, look, you need to go out here,
address the press, get this out,clear the air, and then we can
move on. Plus, this is a little bit of a,
you know, I did this once and got away with it.
I thought I could do it again, but guess what?
I can't because that the name onthe side of the building isn't
Martinez Dorna. So you just work here, my man,

(30:18):
Like the same your company, you can do whatever you want.
Once that was done and it was time to go racing, I'll give you
the second best thing that I wastell people.
Winning cures everything. If you're doing good, no matter
how bad everything else is goingon, winning cures everything.
The team will forget all about the discrepancies.

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The mechanics will work hard foryou, you know, everything will
come together if you're winning.And he came in 7th place after
being off the bike, you know, almost half the year.
I mean, we're at the summer break.
He's only ridden in two rounds, 3 rounds, 2 rounds.
Yeah, and he didn't even finish the one round.
So for him to be here coming in 7th place again, fast never

(31:02):
forgets how to be fast. You lose timing, you lose this,
you lose that. But as you get laps, you get
your timing back, you get your rhythm back.
You understand where the apex is, where the trail, where they
let off the brake, where they get back on the gap.
Like fast guys, don't forget howto be fast.
They just lose their timing. So he got back on it and the
more he rides, the better he's going to get his timing and he's
already got a benchmark. Bazeki is setting the benchmark.

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My man technically could have 5 podiums in a row had it not been
for a couple of incidences. That's huge.
You know, Aprelia has not been in that position to have 5
possible podiums in a row ever. Even with Alicia Sparrow, they
never had this consistency and if he can continue, if Best can
continue this into the next two rounds, which again are are

(31:45):
really good rounds for the Aprilia bike and beyond, like
this again sets a new bar for Martine to achieve.
So it's good man. Again, it's over with, it's done
with. Ride the bike, let you ride and
speak for yourself. Shut up, don't talk anymore.
The less you talk, the better it'll be for you, Martine.
That's what I'll tell him. You know, and I'll I'll say, I

(32:06):
mean Bez is the only guy that's really pressured Mark beside I
wouldn't even say Alex pressuredMark, but Bez is the only guy.
Yep, yeah, he's the only one that dice it up with him.
Like outside of one or two passes by Peko Bagnaya in random
places, like, you know, he hasn't had that person on his

(32:27):
ass where like, oh man, you know, I could let off from this
nine and a half second lead and I'll still win by 4 1/2 seconds.
Like, Oh no, I got to keep pushing because if I slow down a
little too much, this guy's going to catch up.
And again, man, I'll always say Mark is the most intelligent
rider in the entire field, man, the things that he's constantly
thinking and calculating and understanding.

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Like in the interview he even said, look, I got behind Bez and
as soon as I felt the tire dropped, that's when I knew I
had to make a move. And it's like, really like when
your tire went to shit, that's when you decided you're going to
go fast. And that's where he kills it,
man. When when the tire drops,
everybody says, you know, the dude's just on another level.

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Yeah, yeah. I'll add to that just a little
on the Bez, Bez part. I'm just glad for Aprilia that
Bez is doing well for them because if he wasn't, then
Aprilia, I mean, Martine is going to come back and look like
a king. And they don't like this guy.
And not just for that reason alone, but now that Aprilia gets
a say so at being one of the topcompetitors right now.

(33:32):
It's just I'm glad they're not left alone in in the mix right
now without their top rider. And now Bez is now the top rider
in because Martinez not showing his number one plate.
He's not putting it to good use yet.
So I mean once they both start mixing it up man, Aprilia can be
a real force to be reckoned within my opinion.
Yeah, for sure, for sure. I completely agree.

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I think so. I think that Martine seeing what
Bez is, I think seeing what I agree because like he you guy
agree was nice in the beginning.See what he was doing.
See what Bez is doing now and again, Raul Fernandez, what he's
doing, it's good motivation for him.
I I mean, I you know, I I can't stop thinking like he he could

(34:14):
have avoided all this, but if hejust kept his mouth shut and
because he could have enacted that clause at any point in time
in the whole season. So you think he would have
waited to have more information.But nonetheless, I think that if
you know the way they're lookingafter this past weekend, like I
think you know, again a couple of rounds from now, I think
they'll they'll they'll be in the mix for the top five and

(34:35):
anyone else a pro years. I won't say I grew up because
he's not, he's not there yet, but I think that definitely
Martine and Bez and even Raul Fernandez because he's he's been
finishing top seven, you know, lately.
Absolutely, yeah. You know, let's talk about
Grassini and VR46. The only two top Ducatis this

(34:57):
round was the factory. Everybody else were either
injured or just down in the down, you know, 10th or below or
something like that. They can't be happy with the
with this right at Ducati. Ducati can't be happy that hey,
listen, we're used to having sixbikes in the top ten.
What's going on? I.
Mean you can change once in a while, you know it's it's

(35:19):
racing. They can't be greedy.
But no, it sucks to see like Alex Marquez go down and you
know some decisions that he makes sometimes.
I don't know if he's going back to the original Alex now,
because this past few weekends haven't been that great.

(35:39):
I don't know if this is like theAlex that we know, but hopefully
he gets back on his high to continue with the championship
push. We know that he's not going to
get it, but VR46, I think they were looking good.
But you know this, there's some struggles.
I didn't really see much other struggles with the VR46.

(36:02):
Got you. Frankie's injured, so he's out,
but Digio was, he crashed out ofthe main race, but I think he
qualified 18th or something likethat.
So not really not really a good look.
Cheetah. Do you think that, you know, as
as a satellite team, they're doing too much because, you
know, last year Primark wanted they feel like, you know, they

(36:23):
they they can do it. Granted that VR46 that they got
an injured rider but still Diggio should have done better
than than where he he he finished or didn't finish.
Yeah, I mean Diggio definitely, but I mean, just going back to
Alex for a second, I wanted to mention him because I feel like
he's gotten a taste of the podium juice and now that he's
not able to see Marquez insight,he's getting a little antsy and

(36:44):
making kind of decisions he could he can't he shouldn't be
making right. The decision to go under mirror
that took him and mirror out, you know, that's a that's a
decision he didn't need to make.I think the pace just wasn't
there for him. And I'll be Garrett this
weekend. So I don't know, man, I'm not
feeling the maturity out of Alexyet.
You know, that's that's yet to come.

(37:06):
So. Yeah, Yeah, I agree.
I agree. And I think we talked about it
last week. He rides different with his
brother, then he rides with everybody else.
He took Petco out last year. And and, you know, Petco had to
be gracious and, and and and take back the words he said
where I don't think, you know, Marc Marquez has taken back a
word yet, you know, and I think that, you know, Alex, I'm the

(37:32):
youngest, so I don't I've never,I could have always called on my
oldest siblings, I suppose. But I live not to do that and do
anything like that. But I think Alex sometimes is
moving with his brothers clout. Yeah.
Yeah, he wants to be up there. He just wants to.

(37:52):
I mean, he's already got the taste of it, right?
I mean, first few months, first few races, I mean, he was the
man. We were like all besides, Mark
wasn't here. He was winning.
That's what I said. And then so, but like now he's
not there in this one race and he starts getting a little
antsy. I don't know, maybe it just
wasn't a thing for the whole team.
Al Daguerre wasn't looking too fancy either.
And he's usually up there in thepodiums, at least in sprints.

(38:13):
So I don't know, it was just an interesting thing.
So hopefully you can keep that hand healthy for the next few
races. Alex, that is.
What are your thoughts, Lewis? I mean, it could also have been
the grip and, and the 24 bikes because last year Bazecki and
them couldn't figure out was it no, it was a 23 bike last year.
They they could have ran into the same similar problems that

(38:34):
the the factories run into. Because when Marquez was in the
press conference, he, he, he said all the Ducatis were having
issues. Not so you know, it could have
been something there. But what are your thoughts,
Lewis on I think mix Cressini? I think the the Frankie injury
might be a little bit telling because if you look at
throughout the last few rounds, Frankie always does well in the

(38:59):
practices and Digi is always in the lower half of the practices.
And then when it comes race time, Digi kind of does a little
bit better. And, you know, maybe he's using
Frankie's data, and this weekendhe didn't have Frankie's data
because if you think about it, he had Frankie's data last
weekend. And Frankie did well.
He did well. And now this weekend, Frankie's
not there. And all of a sudden he's

(39:20):
struggling mightily because he doesn't have that second guy
collecting data for him. So I'm wondering if that might
be one part of it on the VR46 side.
But I'm hoping that, you know, by the next round, after this
short break, Frankie will be back and, you know, we'll be at
a new another track that benefits the Ducatis and we'll
see how they do. And on the side of Alex Marquez

(39:40):
and the Gracini team, you know, again, Alex made a bad decision.
But also, you know, he's still riding with an injured hand.
So we don't know how that's affecting him.
Maybe he's trying to compensate a little too much.
Maybe he's doing a little too much considering that he does
have an injured hand. And that does affect how you're
able to ride because you can only do so much with the

(40:01):
handlebar when one of your hands, you don't have that firm
grip or you might be getting a little numb.
You don't know what's happening.I mean there, but he definitely
did make a bad decision. And I feel really bad for the
new Oliveira, which is Johan Mir, because once again, fucking
somebody takes him out. Bro, this dude needs to get
whatever blessing that Oliveira had get done in his garage now,

(40:24):
because now he's the new Oliveira.
He's getting taken out round after round of no fault of his
own, not doing anything outside of the norm, just in the wrong
place at the wrong time. And somebody miscalculates and
uses him as a berm. And that sucks for him because,
you know, it's not like he was riding badly, like he was doing
fairly well, all things considered, compared to the

(40:45):
other Hondas. And once again, man, he finds
himself in the Kitty litter. And I think you saw that in the
frustrations because you saw that he really went after Alex
and kind of really gave him a tongue lashing because he was
just like, yo, man, you know, dude, we're we're way back here
and you're taking me out from behind.
You're not even taking me out from the inside where I could
see a tire hit me. You're literally taking me out

(41:06):
from behind. Like there was no way you're
going to make that pass. Anybody that knows anything
about apexes and getting out of corners.
What what the hell were you doing, bro?
Like you're not, there's nothingto there's nothing to see here.
It's like you're doing it wrong.This is not how you race.
And it's true. You see that sometimes.
Sometimes, you know, there are incidents like Alex Marquez and
Pekko at Aragon. And I consider that a 5050

(41:30):
because Alex thought he had the line and Pekko kind of came in
and they kind of just met at theapex.
And two bikes can't take the same place at the same time.
Something has to give. And in that case, both of them
gave, you know, and again, that's might be a little bit
Alex being overly aggressive andPekko thinking, oh, he's going
to let me go because I'm Pekko and leaning.

(41:52):
Kind of in front of him. He was in front of him.
Why would he hit him? Why would he hit him in the leg
if he was in front of him? He passed him and then.
But if you come. In when you come.
In the tires there and I hit your leg.
When somebody passes you, sometimes you come off the break

(42:13):
a little bit later to catch backup.
That's what I'm just saying sometimes.
I'm just saying that sometimes Petco thinks that Petco's
supposed to get a pass because he's Petco, and it doesn't
always happen. I'm not here to let Petco be
Petco. I'm here to try to win my race,
to try to get as good as as I can.
And if you happen to lean in andI happen to be there and my tie

(42:34):
hits you in the leg, you might be in front of me, but it's only
because you coming into my line.Come on, last year, he said all
the year before he said he said he didn't want team order.
You know, he wants riders to ride.
So I don't you know, he did it. Of course he.
He's the same guy that said I want satellite bikes to go
slower. Ducati shouldn't give Ducati
shouldn't give all the bikes this, all the teams the same

(42:56):
bike. Because satellite bikes should
be slower. So they got Marc Marquez.
No, but then that's he was saying that because Martine was
on his ass the entire time and he was like, why does a
satellite team have a bike that's as good as mine?
Like he's a satellite team. He should have the shitty parts
so that way it's easier for me to win.
But you guys giving Martine a bike just as good as my bike and

(43:17):
he's on a satellite. Look now I got to work like come
on man, you can't get this dudesthat they call him Peko Princess
for a reason bro, he sounds. Like.
Yeah bro, he wants the easiest path of victory and that's why
he's getting his ass handed to him this year.
I I didn't see any of that. What?
Okay. Google Pekko wants slower

(43:40):
satellite bikes and you'll find it.
You know, it could have been, itcould have been pinned by Scott
Reddick. It was any interviews.
Say again. I remember that too.
I. Don't think that is that is
unfortunate if he's saying it. I mean, it is, you know, a, a,

(44:01):
the, the racing industry is a little bit different and you
know, we see it in, in Formula One and stuff like that.
And, and you know, the number one guy's always gotten favors
right? Or the number one ride has
always gotten favors on teams. And, and Ducati did anything out
of the norm by putting 8 bikes on the grid by sharing data the
way they're sharing it and stufflike that.
So which he, he profited from. So which is the part that I I

(44:25):
wouldn't understand why he wouldsay that 'cause he did profit
from having all that information.
It would be fine if if Jorge wassaying it back last year when he
was on the Knot factory team. But there's the link to the
interview where Peko Bagnaya argues that slower satellite
bikes will make for safer riding.
Bitch ass shit. Yeah, pretty much.

(44:49):
Safer riding because nobody can catch me.
Come on man. Yeah, yeah.
Safer riding, huh? Once.
You see a bigger factory. Was he?
Was he was he specifically talking about Martine or?
Well, what other? What other satellite bike was
close to him? The Honda?
The astral house that. They had no that.
Wouldn't matter because it's nota Ducati, right?

(45:10):
Yeah, no, they. I thought they had 224 bikes
last year they had like 424 bikes.
No, they had like 18 Ducatis at one point.
Right, right, right. But like last year there was 424
and 420 threes. Like VR46 had one and Grassini
had one, right? Yep.
Yeah, Martine had the newer bike.
Oh, Martine and and VR46. VR46 had one rider on a newer

(45:30):
bike. So he he could have been talking
about did you? No, I doubt it.
Rexy man you going forever buying this stock man.
I'm not buying this stock, I'm just passing making sure the
wealth is. Is he can buy the stock?
I'm just trying to bring the value down to a realistic point
like if. Somebody said that, you know
what I'm saying? Like I guess he's talking about

(45:51):
Vinales as well in that. But if somebody said that, I get
it from the other side. If he wasn't on the factory
team, he's like all the factory riders should not have that much
of an advantage over us. I get that a little bit.
Even that's a little whiny, but to say that?
Point to the factory saying like.
Here's the direct quote. A rider behind you that doesn't
have the potential is looking topass 6 riders in one lap and it

(46:15):
doesn't work like this because we are on the limit and is
they're looking for maximum goal.
If you look, the incidents are fairly the first part.
So you can read this, but he literally there is no there's
he's literally saying there's nolonger a six or seven second
gap, 10th gap between satellite bikes and factory bikes.
And then if that was there, it would it would make it easier.

(46:37):
Was that when a couple of ridersis, you know, using their bikes
as bowling balls? Moto GP every weekend if
somebody's using their bike as abowling ball.
That's going to happen and that's up the race direction to
give the points, right I. Don't know if it was Frankie or
whoever yeah I think that was after like, you know, somebody
was trying to pass like 6 bikes yeah so a.

(46:59):
Few years back there was a gap in time, you know, then a lot of
aerodynamics came into play and and now it's more a fair game.
So for everybody. So most bikes have it's the same
thing. There was a time where just
Ducati had the rear right, the vice Suzuki did it halfway
through the season, Suzuki got it and then they were
developing. So like they all get in faster

(47:22):
with all their dynamics. So everyone has similar time
now. So that go, yeah, just complain
too much. I can see if he was on a
satellite, but you're on the factory, you're still on the
best bike at. At the end of the day, you
figure out the way to win because you're, you're supposed
to be the one that helped develop it the most and, and,
and, and continue this brand going forward for the next few

(47:46):
years, you know? Well, you know, again, you know,
I I I hear that, but you know, Marquez, you know, help
undeveloped that Honda, but I. Just want to point out two
little quotes from this article,by the way, he says.
He says. Meanwhile, the others were
further behind because they didn't have the potential, but
they also didn't have the same technical level.
So what he's saying is that he'sjust better.

(48:08):
No technical level of the bike. Potential as well, but then he
well why would he say the bike should be slower then?
Well, I can't be technically. I can't believe he's saying to
other writers not as skilled. Yeah, that's.
What I'm saying he's literally saying they don't have.
The talent and then the next thing is the next thing is
referring to the level of competition is extremes.

(48:29):
I come with receipts every week Rexy.
And this was an interview. This was an interview you've
got. To read this.
Come on man, I come with receipts.
I'm going. To have to read.
My mind is like a steel trap. Bring.
This up because that that that'swhy I kind of yeah, I thought
about. It I'll, I'll read it and get
back. But even still, I mean.
You say something in a press conference, I'm gonna bring that

(48:51):
shit up in like 5 years. Remember back when you said in a
press conference? Yeah, hopefully I'm being
consistent, right, so. You are you are very consistent.
So there you go. And I'll say this before we move
on. He also gets more Flack and
other writers do do yap off too,but he's getting a lot of Flack.
He's the only person to take down to try to take down Marquez

(49:14):
and a lot of other writers, kindof.
And though that last press conference he did he, he sounds
like a guy that's finally realized like he doesn't have it
because he pretty much said thatright now his target is to try
to keep with Alex and see if they can secure 2nd place.
Because right now he's he's 6 races behind Mark.

(49:34):
It would take 6 DNFS and hims winning six in a row to even
come close to getting back on par with Mark.
And, you know, with the with theamount of rounds left, I don't
see Mark pitching it down the road in six consecutive races,
not talking sprints, but in likefull races where the points are
the biggest, you know, I don't see that happening.

(49:54):
I mean, you know, at this pace, Mark can win with five rounds
left almost. Something which is.
Which is crazy. Yeah, I got a question for you
guys. I was, I was going to say is,
yeah, PECO has a long way to go to, to even catch up to Mark for
sure. But do you think like anyone's

(50:16):
even going to be close to catching Mark for the next
couple years? No, I think, I think I think
he's possibly going to repeat next year.
He's right. And his potential, how he's
showing off, how he's. No, man, I'm so glad you asked.
Just about an hour before this podcast, I was thinking about
this man's at his peak. He's not even at his peak at his

(50:39):
prime. He's at his prime right now and
he's like perfect balance of mental machinery and fitness.
He just got this perfect aura about him that he's been perfect
last five races, sprints and races first.
It's perfect. I will say this, there's maybe a
couple of people. I think Martine because we don't

(51:00):
know what we're going to get yet.
So he, he, he could right. If he's already feeling good at
on the on the bike. Besseki, I think it's another
person. And I think Frankie, outside of
those three people like because they, they, you know, I, you
know, I think they have what it takes, but I, I can't see the

(51:21):
rest of the guys and you know, there's nothing is impossible.
But no, I think it'd be, it's going to be hard next year for
them to beat them, but I don't think they're doing much
development on the bike. So you never know.
Barring injury and barring something really, really crazy
happened in 2027 where they put the tires on backwards on all

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the bikes. Like I know that 27 is going to
be a new bike, new tire and everything else but barring
injury, I mean Mark has already had two pretty good runs.
He had two back-to-back. He had a back-to-back wins in
2324 like his first and second season.
Then he had the the Rossi special season where he lost to

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Lorenzo. And then after that he railed
off 4 championships in a row andhe was on his way to 1/5
championship before he got injured because that that year
he was doing the same thing he'sdoing this year.
He was playing track day coach, he was going out there and just
managing the time, doing whatever he wanted, put in the
bike where he wanted and nobody had any answers to to to give it

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what he was doing. And he would have won that
championship and he probably would have won the next
championship. I mean, we technically could
looking at looking at a guy thatwon five or six in a row.
Now he has an opportunity on a bike that is competitive and his
his talent level. Just like Cheetah said, it's
just how it's ever been. I mean, the dude came into this
year in unbelievable shape. His ABS got little ABS.

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Each of his ABS got like 6 little ABS, man, that's crazy.
He got like an 82 pack and everybody in the paddocks, you
know, people have been quoted assaying like that first trip to
that first round of testing whenthey were flying out to that
first round, people were saying that Alex got on the that mark
got on the plane already with a look like we're in trouble and

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we're in trouble. Look at us.
We're getting our asses handed to us.
Like we're professional riders. We're the top of our peak.
Imagine a Formula One rider thatwins every race by like 8
seconds that nobody can even touch.
Like that's what we're looking at here.
We're looking at, you know, somebody that's at the peak of
their fitness, peak of their mental strength.
I mean, mentally you have to be super strong for any kind of
Motorsports cuz that's where youwin it or lose it.

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Can you bring yourself into every weekend and, and push
yourself to be the best and not make mistakes.
And when you make mistakes, forget them and go back out
there and ride. And that's what he's doing, man.
He crashes and he comes back outlike he never crashed.
He does this, he learns from it.He doesn't do it again.
He crashes. He's doing what he used to do,
crashing in practice, but avoiding the crashes in the

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race, pushing as much as he can when it doesn't count, so that
when it does count, he kind of already knows the limits.
I mean, going at this rate, you know, if the bike, if everything
stays the same, I mean, it's going to be, it's going to be
hard to take him down. Like right now, his only
competition is gravity. Yeah, before we get out of here,

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let's talk about what Joe Roberts did, because pretty
impressive for a guy who struggled at the beginning of
the year through injuries and you know that, you know, he
seems, I don't I don't remember how did he win a race last year?
I. Think he won a?
Few or or he was on a podium andI think maybe he was on Mojelo

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on the podium or something like that.
You know what you guys thoughts of that?
It's pretty good to see. You know, the team winning is
good for him because you know him and like Jake Dixon, these
guys have been in the in in Moto2 now for a minute and you got
all these young writers that that that you know, getting
talked about, you know, week in and week out and stuff like

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that. What you guys think of that,
what Joe Roberts did this past weekend?
I think it was. I mean, I didn't know all the
history about him in this track.I think it's like his his debut
at this track a few years back or he has a lot of history with
this track. So to come back and and, you

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know, responsible until summer break.
He even said it himself that, you know, it gives you
confidence. You want to go out there and do
the best you can. And he said, I'm winning this
race. So it was really good to
actually finally hear someone American speak on the podium
with with the one or two series.So I'm really, I'm really happy,

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you know, hand the national anthem and everything.
So I'm really happy to finally see him back up there.
Last year he had a really good run, kind of faded toward the
end. But it was really good to see
Joe back up there. Didn't really expect it.
Like I said, I didn't know the history that he had with his
track. You know, a lot of people have
some history with his track and they do pretty well so.

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Yeah, yeah, the fact the fact that he won their last time just
shows he's got he's got some favorites.
It's good to see. Obviously an American, you know,
be up there in in the European pretty much the European league
is what it should be called because they're just dominating
in every aspect, 2 wheels. So even even Tour de France
stuff, right? So, but, but it's just it's good

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to see that man. I mean, we need we need more
American guys up there coming back from his injury just to see
a comeback and, and, and have that happened.
I mean, that's, that's what we all love athletes for is just
those those stories where they go through adversity and still
able to make it to the top, especially in this case a
podium. So this is always good to see
that. I just took a quick look and it

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looks like it's his third top, the third time he's been on the
top step since he got to Moto 2.So he hasn't had a lot of
visits. So whenever you can get a visit,
that's great. And coming off of like, you
know, he had an injury kind of messed him up.
It's it took him out of the gamefor a while.
But coming back from an injury and getting on a top step,
hopefully that gives him some confidence going forward.

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I know he just signed a new deal, so he's going to stay with
the team a little bit longer. So hopefully this is a sign of
good things to come. Hopefully the team can continue
to give him a competitive bike and he can kind of keep going
forward. I mean, it sucks to only have,
you know, one guy and all of GP that's an American.
So, you know, here in our our national anthem over the

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speakers, I'm sure the people inEurope are like, I never heard
that before. It's like the first time I've
ever heard that. What is that?
What's that sound? That's that's pretty funny, but
it's pretty good, man. You know, I hope the kid, well,
he's still got a, you know, a good amount of career in front
of him and hopefully he can keepdoing it.
As for Jake Dixon, you know, we mentioned him really briefly if

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you guys haven't seen like, it looks like he's going to World
Super Bike and like I told you, he'll never see a Moto GP bike
and neither will Aaron Connett. So no, no, no.
I was just what he said today, like, like, I don't know, I

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think he's he screwed himself ina way because who's that?
And and qualifying Eric and, andqualifying, you know, he
crashed. So, you know, he didn't get a
chance to, you know, get on the road that he should be on.
And him going through Turn 1 when the race starts, you know,
he tried to jump to the front. And it's just so unfortunate.

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Yeah. You know, that's that's just
pretty. Pretty unfortunate.
What do you guys think of Ramirez?
Should he he he knew he had too long that penalty.
Should he even have been battling with Joe in the
beginning? I can understand another brand
but but you know. That that's a tough one, but
somebody after the race probablywent up to him and were like,

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yo, let me talk to you a minute.One of the only fans, team
managers probably went up to himsay, let's go over here where
somebody can't hear you scream because I want to talk to you
about something and probably like give him a good but like I
would have punched him in the face.
I'll be like, yo, you're fighting for nothing and you're
literally going to take out almost your own team rider
that's doing much better when you got to make like, you know,

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you're going to lose 8 1/2 nine seconds going through the long
life penalty. Like what?
What the hell you doing? You think you're going to get a
nine second lead that you've never had in your entire career?
Moto 2, like again, this is thisis young people making stupid,
stupid decisions at at the moment.
Like somebody probably should have spoken to him before the
race. Because sometimes these are

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things that in the moment when you have the helmet on, you
don't think about because you'reso worried about corner to
corner and your apexes and your braking and your gearing and
everything else that you don't have that bigger.
Who's on the other bike? Yeah.
Well, you don't have that biggerfield of view, you know, and not
everybody has that Marquez fieldof view where he can calculate
tire pressure and laps and this and that.

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You know, this guy's just I'm trying to get to the next turn
stop. I'm trying to get to the next
turn and he done thinking, oh shit, I got to do too.
A long lap penalty. I'm going to lose this much
time. Even if I get to the front, I'm
still going to end up in the back.
Like why am I going to possibly take my own teammate out?
Like these are the things you really got to think about.
And when you make those kind of decisions on a bike and make
those kind of mistakes, that's the kind of thing that high

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level managers look at and say this guy doesn't have that IT
factor for the mentality to to do what he needs to do.
Unless your last. Unless your name Jorge Lorenzo.
Unless you're Jorge, Lorenzo or Rossi.
You know, one more thing, I, youknow, I think Vietay and and
Roberts should be on a team together.

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I, I, I think that'll be a, thatwould be a, a, a good teammate
of Roberts, because both these guys kind of they, they do one
off. So certain tracks they do really
well for granted, they've both had a lot of injuries the last
couple of years, you know, collarbone issues and stuff.
I think the BA take it was an Argentina somewhere.
I figure where he broke his lastyear, whatever and and that

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messed them up last year. What would you think about those
two guys teaming out? I'll let someone else go
personal. Are you just saying that because
they both have mullets? They're both really good riders
and unfortunately, you know, like, like, you know, you got,

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we talked about the cadets and the Jake Dixons of the world,
like eventually these guys. How long can you hold on to a
seat Moto 2 when you start to push 2728?
You know, after 26. If you if you got good results,
you can stay there for a long time.
I mean, Tony, Tony Lee has won the first Moto 2 championship
when he's like 57 years old. Dude there's dudes out of 1716

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that's trying to get into Moto 2now all.
Right. But if but if I'm on a team and
I'm consistently in the top five, my team's not going to
want to let me go if my teammateis in the top, in the bottom 15.
Yeah, but like, but none of these guys like are consistently
in the top five in the last couple of years, granted.
So then why would I want 2 inconsistent guys in the same
team? Like you got to try to find that

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11 consistent guy, and usually that's the older guy because one
of the things you want to do is you want to put the younger guy
with the older guy so that the older guy can kind of school a
younger guy. Because at a certain point, like
I told you, the older guy is notgoing to get that step to Moto
GP. But he has enough experience in
Moto 2 that he could probably mentor a younger rider and give

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him that little bit of a step up.
And maybe that younger rider will have the opportunity in GP.
But I don't want to put 2 old guys on the same team because
what am I doing here, man? I'm just paying old guys to go
racing, right? I'm not going to be able to
level anybody up. Anyone else want to add to that?

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Go. Go 2 old guys on the same team.
Well guys, there's a break for like 3 weeks in Moto GP, but we
still got Moto America and we still got World Super Bike BSB.
Looks like Scott Redmond will bein BSB so we'll we'll see how he
does there. Until next week, guys.

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Peace. Take care guys, take care.