The Smallest Thing Can Be The Biggest Answer – MotoGP Aragon 2025 Review - For The Love Of MotoGP

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Steve, my good man, How the devil are you?

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Oh? Good buddy. I enjoyed those stereo beers.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
It was pretty good. Unfortunately, as soon as you hit record,
you just froze on my screen. I had a momentary
internet blip. So we had a moment where I think
my timing is not quite as good as it should
have been. But we're fine. We're there now. I think
we can hear each other. I think we're all good.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
We're all good, mate. Yeah I did notice there was
a bit of a delay. Oh god, he's gone. We
haven't even started.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Yeah, we're isn't it. We're back. We'll try our best.
We'll see what we can do.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Eh, yeah we shall. We'll give it a go.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Excellent. How was your weekend, Steve?

Speaker 2 (00:43):
My weekend was good, mate, Yeah, it's really good. What
do we do We didn't do a great deal. I
didn't think. Hung around here a bit. Well, okay, remember
we didn't do a great deal anyway, just had chill
family again. So yeah, oh I had Monday off and

(01:04):
took mum's car shopping, which is lovely. Yeah, just chilled man.
What about you? How is your again?

Speaker 1 (01:13):
I might become as good Steve you know how it
is here in the hostel. It's just every day is
the same for the next few months. But you know,
I'm nearly two months into the season now, two months.
It's flying by.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
It really is going quick, mate, I can't believe how
far through it you are now.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
I know it's nearly a third of the way through,
and obviously this is my last year. Well, it's kind
of a weird countdown now where it's not just counting
down to the summer being over. It's kind of counting
down to the next chapter, which is all very strange.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
The next chapter, mate. I'm very interested that your next
chapter is going to be. I do love keeping up
the travels of Tim and the adventures of I don't know,
the Tim Jones.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yeah, well, we'll be in the UK for a few
months after the season here. I'm gonna spend Christmas with
family this year. But it's done that for a few
years and it feels like a nice thing to do. Exactly,
there will be no gifts. I haven't got that much money,
So my presence is gift enough to everyone.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
That's mate. That's always enough for me. That's all I want.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
I appreciate that. But then yes, then we'll be heading
over to New Zealand will be the plan. But we've
got a few months until we have to worry about
actually sorting anything out for that, so I'm not stressing
about that just yet.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Nice buddy, Well whatever you do, have a great time.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
Excellent. Thanks man. You make it sound like you're you're
never going to talk to me again.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
Well, some of the eventures you've been on. I'm always
a bit like, fuck is Tim coming back from this?
We're going up in somewhere, We're going off up this
hill and it turns out to be a fucking massive mountain,
And I was like, who is she always coming back?

Speaker 1 (02:59):
Yeah, it's all right, mate, I'm resilient. I'm like schlamidia.
I'm always around. I'm always coming back.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
It's always there, just to rehead at the worst possible moment.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
Exactly exactly. Although herpies would have been a better joke
than chlamydia there, because that's just a few pills together tolmidia.
And I'm a bit more resilient than a few pills.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yeah you are.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
You're tough to relegate, buddy, exactly exactly. Anyway, I'll stop
comparing comparing myself to sties. Now, I notice you're on
the beer tonight as well, Steve, So that's a tree.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
I'm not designated driver tonight. I've got a good woman.
I'll tell you, I've got a good woman. You're just
going to blow her trumpet here. She can't hear me
because she's got the door shut. But I'm at work,
phone rings and what's all that? And I pigure up,
I know what's happened? Do you need any podcast beer?

(03:53):
So what if you're offering I'm not gonna say.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
No perfect exactly what more can you need? Ah?

Speaker 2 (04:01):
Exactly? It's four cans for a five or it is
eighteen that works out like forty four p can. I
was like, well, so I have a whole case of
Australia's finalists next to me.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
Nice And as we said before we started recording, Steve,
they've got and you can now and it's like the
old can.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
It does look like the old can. Yep, it's got
RUMs on it. So now you buggers can know.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
Yeah, exactly, kangaroo on the can. How can you get
more Australian than that?

Speaker 2 (04:31):
I fear they're all like flying into batterus as we speak.
All the Aussies and born in players when they hear
this these.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
Every time. This is why I download numbers in Australia
keep getting lower and lower.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
They dip, they dip heavily. Every time we mentioned Fosters,
they're like, fuck off.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
So yeah, exactly exactly. So let's pull it away from that, Steve,
and let's dive in because we've got quite a lot
to cover. We have a lot has happened, obviously the
Aragon race weekend. That's why we're here, That's what we're
here to talk about. And it was an interesting weekend

(05:09):
of racing. It was.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
Yeah, there was a lot going on. There was good
racing this weekend, very good racing and a lot of
I don't know, intelligent racing.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
Yeah, yeah, that's fair. That's a good way to put it. Well,
it wasn't the most exciting, especially in the Moorgip class.
The two lower classes gave us a lot to talk about.
And there's just a lot happening around Motorgp right now,
including breaking news. So it feels quite nice to be
recording on a day with breaking news.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
We joked before the show we came on air, you know,
I sent you the show notes at such and such
a time and what was it fourteen minutes later, breaking news?

Speaker 1 (05:53):
Yeah, exactly, and I'd already on the show. Notes already
had a load of rumor information about silly season written
on them, and then text comes through being like have
you seen the news? Oh, for fuck's sake, fourteen minutes
between clicking send and getting a text that said the
notes are now need changing. Hr.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
Oh, well, we're here. We'll talk about it.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
Exactly, we will, Steve. So let's dive into the show,
shall we.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
Let's go for it.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
This is going to be a biggie good stuff. So
I'm Tim, He's Steve, And this is for the love
of Moto GP. If you are new to the show,

(06:42):
welcome and if you are returning, well, welcome back. This
is for the love of Moto GP, the show where
Steve and I sit down with a couple of beers
and talk about Moto GP like we would in the pub.
I can only apologize today because we're already having weird lag,
a weird delay lay going with our internet connection here,
so it's going to be a bit choppy in places,

(07:04):
but we're going to do our best.

Speaker 2 (07:05):
We have got a little bit of a jump, but
we'll work with it.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
Exactly. We will work with it. So the news, Steve, Yes,
there's kind of quite a lot to be getting through
with the news here, so let's just do it in
the order of written it down, because that seems the easiest.
So we're going to cover a couple of news items,
then we'll talk silly season, which is where we've got
a breaking news, and then as per usual, we'll dive

(07:33):
into the top fives in Moto three, Moto two, and
the two GPE races, and we'll round it off by
going back over our predictions. And maybe I'll give you
a moment to gloat about your good boost in the
Fantasy League.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
Oh yeah, yeah, I won't. I won't brag too much,
you know.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
So the first bit of news here, then, Steve, obviously,
it was the Arragon test after the race. Again, the
Arragon Test happened on Monday, so yesterday, as we're recording
a couple of days ago, if you're listening on release
day for this show. And we'll talk about the test
properly in next week's show because it's between race weeks,
so we won't have a recent walk about. But I

(08:15):
just want to touch on one point from it, and
that's that Manuel Gonzalez was testing. The current Moto two
championship leader replaced i Agora the injured i Agora in
this test riding for Trackhouse are prillier and I love this.
I love the idea of Moto two riders being able

(08:37):
to test Moto GP bikes. This is the thing that's
very common in Formula one. In fact, it is mandated
in Formula one that every team has to do x
amount of I think it's every car has to do
two FP one sessions with a rookie driver across the season,
which is really cool because it gives teams a chance
to evaluate drivers. It gives drivers a chance to get

(08:58):
like in top spec machinery and test it all out,
and I think that would be a really cool thing
to happen more often a Moto GP.

Speaker 2 (09:06):
Yeah, I completely agree. It's a nice little incentive for
the Moto two guys as well. You know, it's a
bit of a work perk, but it do it makes
sense to test these guys, give them the opportunity when
it presents itself, and I do think it should become mandatory,
like if you've got people in the pipeline Yeah, it

(09:27):
might be a bit of a giveaway who you're going
to sign for silly season, But nine times out of
ten other rumors are true. So it which just give
us shed a little bit of light early on. But
I think it's a great thing. And let you say,
it gives the teams a chance to evaluate the riders.
They could be looking at the current Moto two champion

(09:50):
and they think, oh, this is the guy, this is
the guy. Put him on the Moto GP bike. Can
you think of Gesus Christ? No, give him a milk float.
It works both ways. You know. I think I shared
a post earlier on social media. You know what what
a worker from Manuel Gonzales. You know you wake up
in the morning. Yeah, quite, you're going to go ride
this bike? Oh yes, I'll have a bit of that.

(10:11):
No one's going to say.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
No, no, exactly. Well, this is an interesting point because
apparently Manuel Gonzalez wasn't actually the number one choice for
and track House of Brillier. Apparently. Now I've only heard
this in one place, but apparently Diego Morera was their
number one choice. Okay, but Diego's contract does not allow

(10:36):
him to jump on a motor GP bike to test.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
It fair enough, fair enough. Yeah, well, after last week's
talk about people who can write you a good contract,
maybe Diego needs to have a word.

Speaker 1 (10:52):
Yeah exactly. He's on the phone to Valeria or he's
like fox sake, man, can you just come sort out
my contracts?

Speaker 2 (10:57):
But can you do this over lunch because I really
want to ride that like tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
Yeah exactly, just roll back.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
But yeah, it's a new bit of paper for you
sign If you could just sign up today for me, please,
thank you very much. Yeah, that would be much appreciated.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
Yeah quite, but yes, either way, this is an amazing
situation as Regardez, like just great to be able to
get on a bike and like we're saying, to be
evaluated by both the team and give the rider a
chance to evaluate bike. I think is fantastic and I
think it's something that should be I can kind of
understand in mergup, maybe don't throw this in there's like
a you've got a test during the season, because maybe

(11:38):
that's not really all that okay, no, just because confusion
and there's a chance of injury and stuff. But maybe
you just do like a full rookie test where you
mandate every team has to run, you know, one rookie
or two rookies, minimum of one rookie for a test
just before the summer break.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
Yeah, that makes perfect sense. Yeah, I think it should
be in. It should be made mandatory. Yeah, I really do.

Speaker 1 (12:04):
Yeah, right, And what would be really cool? And Formula
one toyed with this last year and are reportedly definitely
doing it this year, but they are doing a rookie
race in Formula one machinery at the end of the year.
So after the last round they're going to every team
is just going to run one rookie, so they'll have
a ten car race with just complete rookies, Which.

Speaker 2 (12:26):
That would be fantastic.

Speaker 1 (12:28):
Yeah, wouldn't It would be so good, that's amazing.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
Yeah, we need to do that badly, really badly. Yeah right.

Speaker 1 (12:36):
I can kind of see how that wouldn't work in
Motor GP, just because you know, there's a lot more
danger element on a bike than in a car. A
Formula one car is a very very safe vehicle, Like,
you don't get much safer when it comes to the
vehicles than a Formula one car. A motorcycle is a
completely different story.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
Yeah, exactly. The risk is hugely exaggerated. Compared to Formula one.
But all these teams will know this risk, so and
everyone will probably have to sign a disclaimer. If one's
doing it, they've all got to do it. It's the
risk they'll have to take. So I think if they'll
all be on board for it, I'm sure. I think

(13:16):
the guys who were given the opportunity would certainly love them.

Speaker 1 (13:22):
For it that way. Yeah, quite.

Speaker 2 (13:27):
So.

Speaker 1 (13:27):
Yeah, that's kind of all I wanted touch on. That
bit was just this we Gonzales test. So moving on. Yep,
really interesting stuff here going on with the future of
tech three. This is fascinating what's going on here?

Speaker 2 (13:40):
This is starting to get a bit deep, this one.
This is really getting into that kind of corporate level.
Oh my god, it's heavy, very very heavy.

Speaker 1 (13:54):
What I really like about it is it's happening in
front of our eyes, and quite openly. This isn't like
house kind of managing to weed all their way in
because the RNF squad has been like kind of ousted
and got rid of or crypto data or whatever the
fuck they ended up being called.

Speaker 2 (14:10):
This is someone.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
This is happening in front of our eyes. We can
see it happening, and people are talking about it, which
is super cool. So everyone that doesn't know. There's been
a lot of speculation over the last week about what
the future of Herve's Tech three team looks like, and
Punchras spoke candidly on the mejorgip broadcast this weekend, referencing
his switch from Yamhart KTM machinery and also openly about

(14:34):
the KTM financial troubles, which I feel like is the
most honest chat we've heard from anyone affiliated with KTM
in the last six months.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
Yeah, I saw parts of this and it did feel
like I don't know whether someone's something's happened behind the scenes.
Someone in PR has said, right, you can actually open
up about this a little bit, because he did feel
very comfortable saying it. There wasn't a lot of pauses guarding,
you know. Sometimes we see these guys get asked a
question and they do have to pause to think about

(15:04):
their response. There was none of that. It was very cool,
very calm, very crisp and honest kind of flow of
just what he wanted to say. So, you're right, it
does feel like the most honest anyone's ever spoken about this.

Speaker 1 (15:20):
Yeah, exactly, And Herve says that basically he's looking for
outside investors in the team to ensure it remains a
viable enterprize way into the future. Now clearly he's said
that clearly staying with KTM is his first choice, but
he's looking at other options if the manufacturer is unable
to field new bikes for the twenty twenty twenty seven
rule change, because KTM's current contract with Dorner does run

(15:41):
out at the end of twenty twenty six and there's
no guarantee they will be able to field two bikes
alone four coming into the new rule change in twenty seven.

Speaker 2 (15:50):
Yeah, yeah, exactly that.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
For the moment, it's a bit up in the air.
What's going to happen. Herve seems to be open to
everything from taking on investors, working directly with a new partner,
sort of going fifty to fifty on it, or selling
the team entirely. He's also not ruled out, and he
has a queue of people wanting to get into MOTORGP
at some level with his team before Liberty Media takeover,

(16:13):
which is just fascinating that people are expecting when Liberity
to take over, the Motor GP's value and presence will explode,
much like Formula ones did when Liberty took over.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
Yeah, that's what it feels like. People are trying to
jump on the hype train before it gets too expensive.
And why wouldn't you you know, like you say, it
happened with Formula one, the trend said, it will happen
again with motor GPS, so now is the time to
get into it. So it makes sense.

Speaker 1 (16:42):
I do worry a little bit though, that people are
expecting it to happen like it did with Formula One.
But it happened with Formula one at such a perfect moment.
It was such a perfect storm because it had not
only do we have COVID so that lasted kind of
those two years on and off lockdowns. People couldn't go
out and do as much, so people were watching more TV.
I mean, you only have to look at our podcast

(17:03):
downloads during that time higher then than they've ever been.
And that's true of everything for everyone because everyone was
just sitting at home doing nothing, so you have more
time to consume with this media. Plus that combined with
the fact that Drive to Survive did really well and
Formula one season in twenty twenty one was just one
of the best motorsport seasons of all time, like it

(17:24):
all combined into this perfect storm of situation and of
a worldwide pandemic or someone actually being able to challenge
Mark Marquez at some point in the next couple of years.
I can't see that happening to quite the same level
with Motor GP, but you never know. It might happen.

Speaker 2 (17:41):
The stars could align on some weird things can happen. Yes,
you're right, I did fall perfectly for Formula one, but
Motor GP is different. We might not need as many
things to fall into place so perfectly this one. We
can only sit back and see what the hell's going
to happen, because that change is going to happen fairly soon. Yes,

(18:03):
so I don't know. Let's just buckle up and ride
the pony, if you will. Where the hell we end up.

Speaker 1 (18:11):
Exactly? But of the people that are trying to get
in and are having conversations with HERB and Tech three,
and there seems to be reportedly quite a lot of them,
the most famous is the EXFU boss Gunda Steiner. He
has experience in a lot of motorsport rally various teams.
Nothing in two will motorsport, but he's a super savvy
businessman with lots of connections. Plus he's a household name

(18:34):
thanks to Drive to Survive. And now this is the
really important thing, because I'm sure when Liberty take over,
they're going to want to make a Netflix series similar
to Drive to Survive based around Moto GP, and I'm
sure when they do, it's going to be belting. I'm
also sure when they do a lot of die hard
fans are going to be quite upset by it, because
the die hard fans of Formula One are upset by

(18:55):
Drive Survivor every year as well. They kind of they
manufacture us some storylines, but it works. It gets more
fans to the sport. So fine, let's just enjoy it
for what it is. It's a soap opera based on
the soap opera that is the sport, and it will
be really really good for that shows good to Steiner
is involved in Motor GP because he was so loved

(19:16):
in Drive to Survive, that's instantly a crossover that everyone
will recognize and he will be on the front of
the thumbnail. He will be the one that is front
and center selling the TV show exactly if.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
He's already known and when the crossover happens, then it's
just going to make people's kind of transition easier if
there is a TV series, Yeah, you know, it makes
people comfortable if there's a face you recognize. Oh, this
should be good. I remember this.

Speaker 1 (19:44):
Yeah, so.

Speaker 2 (19:46):
I'm looking forward to it. We've spoken before, we said
how we need motor GP needs another good series. So
I can only see good things coming from this Liberty
media takeover, really can. I can't see any negatives to
it at this point. So I really do think people
should just get on board with it and go with
it and get excited about it.

Speaker 1 (20:07):
Yeah, I'm with you. I think it's going to be great,
and I think most people's opinion are it will be
pretty good.

Speaker 2 (20:11):
Yeah. Yeah, I mean I've bought some stocks in the
Netflix just waiting for the boom. I have.

Speaker 1 (20:19):
Very well played sir. Could be a sensible bye there, hope.
But this show is not financial advice.

Speaker 2 (20:28):
It's not.

Speaker 1 (20:33):
Yeah, yes, the kind of that's the future of Tech
three here is all a bit up in the air.
We know the team's going to remain on the grid.
Hopefully it will continue with the Tech three name, although
that's not a guarantee. Hopefully it will remain as a
KTM customer, but again that's not a guarantee. What I

(20:54):
really like about it is, as we said at the top,
just how open and transparent this seems to be right now.
Compared to all of the other wranglings within teams and
sponsors and all the stuff that happens behind closed doors,
a lot of it's happening in front of our eyes now,
and that's just really interesting.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
Yeah. It is becoming more and more open and evident
every time we're on screen, So that's so weird. It's
like we're there, We're definitely not there. It is playing
out before our eyes and it's a big story. It's
something that we've not really seen before, and it is
fascinating to watch.

Speaker 1 (21:30):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely. And speaking of fascinating to watch, Seed
Silly season is hotting up hot enough.

Speaker 2 (21:39):
It exploded today, Buddy. All weekend it went nuts.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
Yeah. Yeah, it's been all over the show. It's kind
of started. The weekend started out Silly season wise with
pecobag Naya and these weird rumors that appeared of him
going to Yamaha for next season mid contract, just beinning
off the dow Catti and going to Yamaha. Now I
don't actually know where these rumors came from. I can

(22:07):
only assume you had something to do with it, because
I heard no one talking about this, and then you
started going, Oh, Peco's going to leave, Pecko's leaving New Cati.
You wit and see he'll leave, And then all of
a sudden, everyone's talking about Pecko's Yamaha. Oh my god, Steve.
I don't want to say you predicted it, because I
don't think he's going I've stood by that the whole time.
But you may have started a rumor, and I don't

(22:29):
quite impressive.

Speaker 2 (22:30):
I'm still sticking by my word. He's off that boy
when we'll talk about his results this weekend in a bit.
I'm fairly certain you know the guy is still hungry
to win.

Speaker 1 (22:44):
But why would you get off the machine that's clearly
capable of winning to go to a Yamaha, Because you
can't go to any other manufacturer. Becco's not going to
go beat Fabio.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
I don't know. I think he could.

Speaker 1 (22:59):
Nah. If I tell you what, I'd be keen to
see it if it was a straight swap between Pecker
and Fabio, if they could do a straight swap because
I think Fabio Babo and he might be able to
hold a candle to to mart Marquez maybe, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:16):
That would be a juicy one. I'm pretty sure he's off.
I really am. I've seen other silly season kind of
Spider where transitions that Anaya is off somewhere.

Speaker 1 (23:33):
Yeah. The thing with the Naya though, is that there
was a lot of rumors attaching him to Primakayamaha, and
that obviously has pretty much been silenced.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
That's besides, the one I saw was a prillier for
Joge Martin.

Speaker 1 (23:45):
See that's an interesting one, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (23:50):
Yeah, that's that's viable. That is really viable because obviously
Martine we know, has made it clear that he wants out.
So m there's a lot of doors opening and a
couple closing.

Speaker 1 (24:04):
Yeah, so I think there could be a lot of
people queuing up outside Massimo Rivola's office looking for offers.

Speaker 2 (24:11):
Yeah, I really do think they could be, especially now
one big seat by a big player has been filled,
which will come to.

Speaker 1 (24:19):
Yeah exactly, well we'll come to that now, go for
that now. So I haven't updated the show notes, Steve
since I wrote about the top rack rat Scatalioglues Pramak
Yamaha rumor. Fourteen minutes before the news broke, I wrote,
is this actually the rumor that will come to fruition? Yes?

(24:42):
It turns out yes, it is actually the rumor that
will come to fruition because ratzcatliolg Glue has now officially
signed to be a Pramak Yamaha rider in Moto GP
in twenty twenty six. No, just no, it does feel
right after years now of speculation about this. After years,

(25:05):
I believe it feels like it's been more than that,
hasn't it, Like it just feels like this has been
going on for maybe my entire adult life, Like to
my GP, rumors just wouldn't stop, And now it feels
weird that now it's done, he signed to one of
the worst satellite bikes on the grid, which feels weird.

(25:28):
It's just everything about this is strange and it's melted
my little brain a bit.

Speaker 2 (25:32):
Steve, Yeah, yeah, I'm sure there's going to be clause
after clause after clause written into this contract for Yamaha
to provide. I wouldn't be surprised if we don't see
him on a factory Yamaha for the big rule change
in twenty twenty seven. I really do. I'm surprised that

(25:52):
he's going. I am anyone who listens to this show
will no. I made my thoughts clear. I wanted him
to say World Superbikes has just become the multi time champion.
I think this is a big, big risk moving across here.
Nothing but respect for him for doing it, and I
would love to see him. One of the nicest comments
I saw about this move earlier was his fan base.

(26:16):
Just how good they are and how big it is,
and how much of a boost they will be for
GP fans.

Speaker 1 (26:22):
Oh mate, he has a huge, huge fan base. It's
huge and it hadn't occurred to me until I heard
another PODC can't which podcast it was, another podcast talking
about it. But he will be the only Muslim rider
on the grid, and even just that comes with a hue.
It's not just a Turkish fan base here. You're attracting
like the potentially a billion people who will see something

(26:44):
in him that they do not see in any other
rider on the grid, which is just only can be
a great thing for this sport where we just want
more diversity all the time. This is huge.

Speaker 2 (26:55):
Yeah, it really is big, mate. I'm in some ways
I'm pleased that he's coming. In other ways I am
gutt that he's leaving that series. It's good for Moto
GP ultimately, ultimately, and that's what we're here for. So
so I just want to get him on a bike
now and see what you can do, because I'm just

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fearful for his career after what we've seen in the past.
We just hope that this is the one who can
transition and really set the place on fire. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (27:26):
Well, the point here is isn't it is twenty twenty
six will be a write off. It does not matter
what happens in twenty twenty six. For it's all about
getting him embedded. Is the Motor GP way of working,
and it's going to be about factory Yamaha being able
to look at the way he works, look at his results,
and I think you're absolutely right bump him into the
factory team for twenty twenty seven. When we get onto

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the Perli tires, we get new bikes with less arrow,
we get a rid of the ride high devices, and
it becomes much more like a Moto GP bike of old,
more like an actual motorcycle rather than the rocket ships
they are right now.

Speaker 2 (28:03):
Yeah, exactly that, I'm sure is what the long term
plan is, right next to year off treat it is
testing twenty twenty seven is where we begin. Yeah, I'm
sure of it. I hope it. Yeah, I don't know, scared.

Speaker 1 (28:25):
I'm really looking forward to it. Man. It's a shame
to me that he's not on you know, a factory catty,
but it's still going to be amazing to see and
to see how he transitions and to see how his
performance because he's clearly I know, he's not leading a
championship right now over in odd super bikes, but he's

(28:47):
you know, outperforming everyone else on the same machinery as
him by a really really long way, which has just
been his calling card. And it's going to be interesting
to see how that talent stacks up against the major
GIP field.

Speaker 2 (28:59):
Yeah. Yeah, it's going to be interesting, mate, It's going
to be good to see ultimately, just a little bit
worrying basically.

Speaker 1 (29:08):
Yeah. It's also going to be really interesting to see
who he replaces at Yamaha or at Pramak Yamaha.

Speaker 2 (29:17):
Easy, there's only one choice.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
I mean, you did send me a text that just
said goodbye all of Erra. So we know where you're
nailing your colors here.

Speaker 2 (29:27):
Yeah. I can't see any other way if yous have
been off Miller at this point. Unless Jack's got an
insane offer in his back pocket, you know, sudden he's
gon announce he's doing a straight swap with top Rack.

Speaker 1 (29:41):
Which well reportedly Jack has got some very big money
offers coming from the World super Paddock.

Speaker 2 (29:47):
Yeah, so unless that's going to happen, I think the
most logical one is Oliver EA's beaten, battered, bruised. You know,
his sister wife wants him to sit down and chill
out at home. It just makes sense.

Speaker 1 (30:04):
Yeah, I think you're right. I mean, Jack Miller is
currently the only Yamaha rider without a contract for next year,
but he's on equal points to Alex Rins in the
standings right now, and they are both twenty eight points
clear of Miglila Vera, who is down in twenty third
place with like three points or something. And I know
he's been battling in real years, so that's not representative

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of his actual ability.

Speaker 2 (30:26):
No, but is it going to get a bait? It?

Speaker 1 (30:29):
Well, exactly, and it's hard. It'll be hard for Yamaha
right now or for Pramak or whoever's signed these contracts to.
I think it's Yamaha is now. I thin they're directly
contracts with Yamaha, but to justify getting rid of Miller,
not resigning him, but keeping Oliver Ea. I think if
they get rid of Miller, theyll getting rid of both.
But I think it's going to be a Miller that's
Gali auglue lineup next year.

Speaker 2 (30:52):
Yeah, yeah, I think you're right.

Speaker 1 (30:57):
There's also more interesting well superbike Moto GP crossover news here,
and this is that Nicolobouleger, who is currently leading the
World super Bike Championship before Ducatti, has re signed with
Ducati and World Superbikes. But that's not the interesting thing.
The interesting thing is that at the same time of
this he has become an official Ducati test rider for

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their Moto GP project, meaning with his knowledge of Perrelli tires,
I know the Parrellis and World super Bikes are going
to be different to the Prelis. We get a Motor GP,
but with his knowledge of the DNA of the Pirelli tire,
he is going to be able to develop the new
eight to fifty bike for twenty twenty seven. He will

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have more knowledge of that bike and that tire than
any of the current MOTORGP riders will have. It sets
him up beautifully for a full time move into Moto
GP for twenty twenty seven.

Speaker 2 (31:55):
Yeah, Hulsent, I think we're going to see the what
hope we see the reclash of the Bulleger top rack rivalry. Yeah,
it makes perfect sense. It's kind of, you know, his
way of getting back in. So yeah, I have known
nothing wrong with this one. I don't know why, you know.

(32:18):
I think it's because he's not one the total yet.
Good luck to him, Good luck to that. He's going
to be busy, blood ay you busy?

Speaker 1 (32:27):
Well luckily for him to cat He can't really do
all that much testing anyway, just because of the concessions.
So yeah, but he will be doing obviously, I think.
I don't know, but I imagine they're going to be
given certain provisions to be allowed to test new machines
with test riders outside of their normal allocation of testing.

Speaker 2 (32:45):
They must do. They have to, surely, you think would
be crazy not to.

Speaker 1 (32:52):
It's also a bit of a shame though for world
superbikes that potentially in the next two years their top
two stars could be leading the class and moving over
to mo GIP.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
Yeah, but I guess in that time you have to
have faith that the next rising stars will be on
the grid and you know, the next level of talent
coming through. We always speak about the talent polk coming
through Motor GP. It's no different in world superbikes that
you know, they've.

Speaker 1 (33:15):
A lot of except a lot of them are cast
offs from MOORGIP Emoji.

Speaker 2 (33:20):
Oh yeah, this is true, and we just hope that
whoever's coming into the sport can pick up the mantle nicely.

Speaker 1 (33:30):
Yes, quite, and hopefully these two do perform well in
Motor GP, and it will show you that there is
that avenue as well into MOORGP that you can come
across the world super bikes and perform. Because we had
every now and again an influx since we have kind
of world super bike riders coming over, most notably in
recent years during that CRT era, when of a sudden
there were ten bitch and everyone was like, fuck, how

(33:51):
are we going to fill these bikes? World super bike
riders will get them over anyone, you exactly, te boy
Christoph ponson, we need you come here.

Speaker 2 (34:01):
We always we always pick on him.

Speaker 1 (34:03):
Yeah, I don't. I feel a bit bad about it,
but I'm you know, man's going to mention.

Speaker 2 (34:08):
So it's probably exactly. We did ask him for his
gloves once. They never turned on.

Speaker 1 (34:13):
Yeah, I been a little offended by that. Maybe we're
telling him we'll stop taking the piss of him if
he sends us some gloves.

Speaker 2 (34:18):
Yeah, yeah, will be nice. We also free ship.

Speaker 1 (34:21):
Yeah, we are a little bit mercenary like that.

Speaker 2 (34:25):
Yeah, we will hold you to runds, but we don't
have anything to hold against you.

Speaker 1 (34:31):
No, exactly. We just have our voices.

Speaker 2 (34:33):
So yeah, which are menacing? Yeah, like a puppet dog.

Speaker 1 (34:41):
No, I don't want to take the piss. The man
is far more capable than I am. He's just also
easy to make a joke about every now and again.

Speaker 2 (34:48):
Yeah. But if he ever dropped into the DMS and.

Speaker 1 (34:50):
Was like, right, lads off, fuck, Oh, I'd be like, yeah, absolutely,
you're going to cream me. But it'll be fun.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
Yeah, Yeah, I'd be all day long. I'd be there
like a rocket. Right here we go. You're gonna lap
me with it by the time I'm on the third caller.

Speaker 1 (35:10):
Yeah, but I'm going yeah, quite, that's then kind of
the end of the news there, Steve. Unless there is
anything you think I have missed before we dive into
the actual race weekend, No, I.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
Don't think sobody. I was then checking the socials to
see if anything's happened, because you know what breaking news
is like today. No, I think that's it.

Speaker 1 (35:35):
Excellent. Okay, Well, in that case, let's take a quick break.
When we come back, we'll dive into the top fives.
Let's do it, buddy, good stuff. So guys, bear with
us for just one moment, and we will be right
back with you. Thank you for bearing with us. We

(36:06):
are back, glad as our mt. My beer is still
half full, and I'll be honest, I had a little
bit of a snaccident after dinner and an entire bag
of Harry Bow so feeling a little bit sick. So
probably I'm just going to stick to the one beer
this evening.

Speaker 2 (36:19):
That might be a shell. You did look a bit
wide eyed and wired, I must admit.

Speaker 1 (36:23):
Yeah, yeah, my stomach is feeling unpleasant at the moment,
but it's all my own doing, so we don't need
any sympathy.

Speaker 2 (36:36):
No, No, if you did pick out on a packet
of hurry bow mate, you've got no one to blow
but yourself.

Speaker 1 (36:42):
Exactly, exactly, So Steve, let's dive into the top fives,
starting the traditional Moto three. Let's go for it now.
It's worth saying here that the top five in this
race were covered by just six tenths of a second
by the end, so it was a nice close scrap throughout.

Speaker 2 (37:06):
Yes, yeah, that was I already caught parts of this,
but what I did see was amazing. I want to
wait until I've got enough time to sit down and
watch it properly and enjoy it before I really commit
to it, and that will probably be tomorrow night.

Speaker 1 (37:20):
This is the problem with Moto III is that you
really have to sit and watch it because so much
happens by corner that you can't. It's not like Moto GP,
where you can kind of zone out for a lap
and everything's probably gonna say the same. Yeah, everything can
change Emotor three.

Speaker 2 (37:34):
Yeah, this really is the trouble. You have got to
go for it. You've got to commit some time to
watch it, which is a good thing because you don't
want to miss anything. No, but you have got to
make sure you are darling and tuned in, which dedicated
fans are.

Speaker 1 (37:49):
Yeah, exactly so, Steve, I know you've not watched it fully,
but we are going to spoiler the fuck out of
you right now. So the top five in the race
looked this. Fifth place was Luca Lenetta, continuing his strong
season with another top five appearance, but he did make
hard work of this one, and he had to battle

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back from the bottom of the top ten on lap two. Thankfully,
he had the pace in this place even once the
top ten had split into a couple of groups, allowed
him to rejoin the lead group and drag a load
of other riders with him in the process.

Speaker 2 (38:27):
He had a good weekend.

Speaker 1 (38:29):
It was a good weekend. His season's been good so far.

Speaker 2 (38:32):
Yeah, so far, I've seen nothing but good things from Luca. Yeah.
I just hope he continued.

Speaker 1 (38:38):
Yep quite Fourth place was David al Manser, Honda's only
representative in the top five, and al Mansa looked good
or race scrapping right at the front and really yeah,
making sure everyone knew he was there.

Speaker 2 (38:54):
Yeah, he wasn't afraid to get the elbows out. He
was certainly announcing his presence.

Speaker 1 (38:59):
Quit Third place was Alvaro Carpe, And considering how much
we've spoken about Carpe this year, I'm surprised that this
is only his second podium in his rookie season.

Speaker 2 (39:10):
Yeah, it just always seems to be at the front,
but kind of missing out a lot. There's always in
this battle, in this group at the front. So it's
Good's say it is a rookie season. But he's here,
He's at the front. And if you if this was me,
I'd be happy as hell.

Speaker 1 (39:30):
Oh absolutely, mate, Well, podium in your first race, a
bunch of top fives, podium in year, what eighth race? Like,
this is a good rookie season. We've kind of been
spoiled by people like David Lonzo and Pedro Acosta and
actually at the moment Max Kileez on what rookie seasons
can look like. But Alva Carpe's rookie season is belting
by general standards. Yes, yes, they really are quite He's

(39:55):
currently what fourth in the championship. I am expecting to
be overtaken at some point in the rookie standings by
our second place finisher, the astounding Maximochilez. For now, Carpe
is looking solid.

Speaker 2 (40:08):
He is, Yeah, he really is looking good.

Speaker 1 (40:12):
And then yes, Maximo Kilez did finish second in this one.
It was an excellent race and he missed out on
the win by just five hundredths of a second, So close,
so close. And he was a little bit scrappy at
times and made a fair amount of errors, especially when
he ended up taking the lead on a few occasions,
which certainly cost him more than those five hundreds. So

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he probably should have been able to run away with this.
But this is only and it's easy to forget this.
This his fourth Moto three appearance, so he can't really
be blamed for making rookie mistakes.

Speaker 2 (40:48):
No, No, the guy's young, he's new, he's very green
and obviously very excitable, so he just needs to settle.
He'll be fine, just needs a bit more time.

Speaker 1 (41:00):
And I'll tell you what though, as I say it's
his fourth appearance, he obviously he wasn't old enough for
the first two rounds of the year. He made a
debut in Texas to finish fifth. He then was injured
miss two rounds. In France, he got pole position and
finished seventh, and then he's had two second places since then,
So in his rookie season. He has got a fifty

(41:23):
percent padium rate and a twenty five percent pole position
rate and one hundred percent top eight finishes at all.
Is one of those astounding rookie seasons already.

Speaker 2 (41:35):
Exactly, the guy is looking fantastic. We can't knock anything
that he's doing at a minute.

Speaker 1 (41:41):
No quite.

Speaker 2 (41:42):
Yeah, we should have picked him for Rookie of the
Season with him again.

Speaker 1 (41:48):
Yeah, well, thankfully we didn't make predictions about Rookie of
the Year for Most three or Motor two, so we
don't have to feel bad.

Speaker 2 (41:53):
But we didn't pick him, thankfully, Yeah, we didn't. That'll
do that covers us nicely.

Speaker 1 (42:01):
And then winning this race Steve by five hundredths of
a second was David Munyoff. And I tell you what.
When this idiot can stay on the bike and ensure
that his overtakes are legal but it's still pretty tough
at times, but legal and within the limits, he is
an absolute beast.

Speaker 2 (42:22):
Yeah, this guy just needs to calm down. I don't
know how many sugars he has in his coffee in
the morning, but maybe we should cut it from like
eighteen to maybe like one.

Speaker 1 (42:36):
And I think maybe we need to get him off
the coffee entirely, and he's just on herbal tea from
now on.

Speaker 2 (42:42):
I don't know what he needs to calm him day.
He probably just needs to get laid and out of it,
you know. I don't know what the rules are a
mootor GP, you know, before the big rows.

Speaker 1 (42:57):
Maybe making myself that weird, isn't it that athletes seem
to believe works, But I don't think the science backs
it up. But they all seem to not all. I
don't actually know of any of the current riders actual
sexual practices before a race week but I read John
hopkins biography autobiography, but it's cost written, so whatever, it

(43:19):
doesn't matter. But he spoke about that there was no
sex the week before a race weekend just wound it.
And this is true of boxing. You see this in
a lot of elite lil sports. People seem to believe
that this helps boost testostrode or some other bullshit. I
think the science on this says that it makes absolutely
no difference, but people believe it, so you never know.

(43:40):
Maybe Dadavi Mino is one of those guys, but he's
also fucking eighteen mate. How many they I don't know.
I don't actually know how many eighteen year olds are
virgins or not. I guess it's irrelevant to even contemplate
at this point. I don't know why I went down
this tangent of conversation, so I'm just going to put
it back. I don't know how gen Z works, Steve,
I don't understand it anymore. I don't know what's a

(44:00):
safe thing to say.

Speaker 2 (44:02):
Bloody cool clue. Oh, I know if the guy is
to chill out, whatever that reason may be, Slip them
a bit of CBD oil, bust the nut who cares anything.
Just chill.

Speaker 1 (44:13):
Yeah, quite, Because if he can form more performances like
this out of the bag and smooth off those really
really rough edges, he's going to be an absolute weapon
in the future. This was a well deserved and hard
thought win, and he performed brilliantly, and I really hope
we see more of it from him. I hope this
kind of phrase gives him that confidence that he doesn't
have to be ramming people off the track to make overtakes.

(44:35):
But I kind of fear that it might just go
to his head a little bit and he'll just expect
people to move out of his way because actually, to
be fair, there is a school of thought that says,
if you can show people that you're willing to crash
into them and push them out of the way and
take a penalty, people are more likely to just get
out of your way and to give you more space
than they otherwise would if they think that you are

(44:56):
not going to give them an inch.

Speaker 2 (44:57):
Yeah, there is that train of thought, and I think
it is true. But I think in this kind of
sport you risk a lot of sanctions and being penalized.
So I think just calm it down. It's really the
only way to go. So I don't know, Maybe the
guy just needs a nice bath.

Speaker 1 (45:15):
Maybe it would be interesting, though, wouldn't it in the
future if he came out and said something like, oh, yeah,
for my first season and a half, he's I just
took penalties. Is that I knew I was gonna take penalties.
I wanted to build a reputation where people would get
out of my way, He's like, and want to build
that reputation. People just kept on getting out of my
way for years because that would happen.

Speaker 2 (45:32):
That would happen as well. Yeah, it's all feasible. I'd
have a way for the biography.

Speaker 1 (45:38):
Yeah, quite Maybe he'll talk about his sex life and that,
who knows, maybe in this race as well, then, Steve,
we are two championship protagonists right now. Ruaider finished in
eighth after battling at the front for the first half
of the race, but he did drop back as his
soft tires started to fade, and Carass finished sixth and

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he never really challenged in the front group at all.
But the gap between the two of them has close
slightly thanks to this these finishes, although it is still
fifty two points between the two of them, so Rouder
is still looking very comfortable ahead of the caras.

Speaker 2 (46:18):
Yeah, yeah, damn's limitation. Really, you know they're finished though
they're following suits. They both finished low, so there was
going to be a point gained, but not that many.

Speaker 1 (46:32):
No, exactly. It was a handful of points exactly. And
then Steve, it was Moto two time. Oh yeah, if
you thought the finish was close in Moto three, Moto
two really took the fucking piss.

Speaker 2 (46:49):
They will come on to that lose.

Speaker 1 (46:52):
This was close. This was maybe the closest finish I've
ever seen. But well, as I say, we'll come on
to it. Fifth place in this one, Steve was Philip Salach.
Now Salmatch was the only Boscoscuro in the top five
in this race. And it's interesting that Boscoscuro seemed to
really have lost their advantage from last year, especially after

(47:13):
a bunch of teams bend off a Calyx to sign
with Boscoscuiro. So yeah, that now seems like it might
not have been the best move. But they are still
appearing in the top five, just not with the same
regularity or the same numbers as we.

Speaker 2 (47:25):
Saw that they're not dominating that resort in the what
vast majority of races last year before they started to
fade towards the ends. In Yeah, I like you say,
many people teams riders jumped across ship and too soon.

Speaker 1 (47:40):
I'm feeling yeah, it does look like that might have
been the case. And the really what's really a shame
for Bosco Scuro at this point is the bike clearly
is still fast. That chassis does seem to work, but
it doesn't work for all of them, and it doesn't
work for one or two riders all the time. It
seems to work for one or two riders every weekend,

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but it's always seemingly different riders. So this means that
the title challenge is near or on impossible for the
Italian chassis manufacturer this year. I mean, if you look
at the championship right now, let me just get it
up in front of me. I thought I had it loaded,
but I didn't have it quite as quickly as I wanted.
Jake Dixon is the highest Bosco Scuro bike right now
in fifth place on eighty five points with those two wins,

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and then we go down to Vietti, salatch at Lopez
all down ninth to eleventh, and they're all kind of
sharing decent results. Because Jake Dixon, I can say he's
had two wins, but then he's had the last two
races have been outside the top ten, He's had some
races inside the top ten. Like it's just it's always shifting.
There's no consistency with one rider or any riders of

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the Bosco Scuro.

Speaker 2 (48:51):
Team right now. No, it does seem to be an
ever evolving kind of entity with these guys at the minute,
I know and alms changed. They were so dominant in
the early part of last season that it really do
seem like whether it's changes to other parts of the
bike which are upsetting them because there's no rhyme or

(49:11):
reason or pattern for how these ups and downs are going.
It just can't predict how they're going to do, which
riders going to do well each race. It's not that
they have two good rounds and are bad or any
anything like that. It's just something's changed, and I'm sure
it's a smaller component within the bike which is upsetting

(49:32):
whatever good rhythm they had last year.

Speaker 1 (49:37):
I'm not convinced it's even anything has changed to the
Bosco Scuro. I think the Bosco Scira got on really
well with the Pereli tires in the first year and
that chassis just worked with them, and Calyx were behind.
And Calex now has data from almost every other rider
on the grid except for the four Boss Cascuiros and
you know a couple of forward bikes. But Klex have

(50:00):
got all the data and Klex have just managed to
over And we saw this happening towards the end of
last year. They were developing and developing, and their riders
was getting better and better with setups and stuff that
worked with the Klex worked with the tires, and I
think that transition has just continued. That progress for Calex
has just continued and Boscoscuro having Yes, okay, they've got
eight bikes on the grid this year the four last year,

(50:22):
but that's still way less data, way less input than
all of the Kalx riders can give. So I think
they're just still at a data deficit, and I think
last year surprised everyone, including Boscoscuro, and maybe they didn't
really know what to do with the fact that they've
just won. Whereas Klex has won almost every Moto two championship.

(50:44):
I think there's been three Moto two championships and many
Kles No, not many at all. So Calex know how
to win, and for Bosco Scuro it came as a
win a shock.

Speaker 2 (50:56):
Yeah, that is due. Maybe that is the case. Maybe
they did just go out of the blocks running and
really didn't know how to handle it. That's a good point.
Actually I didn't considered.

Speaker 1 (51:08):
That, just got on with the tire as well, but
didn't really know how to push on from there, because
they've never really been into that kind of position before,
whereas Calyx didn't get on with the tires so well
and went well, we've dealt with tire changes before. It's
just gonna takes a little while. We'll get there and
just got there going through whatever process it is that
they use.

Speaker 2 (51:26):
Yeah, that is true. That's a good point. Actually considered
that interesting.

Speaker 1 (51:32):
Fourth place in this one. Then Steve back to Calexes
Center ages and the hot run of form continues for
the Aussie. The guy is just on fucking fire right now.
There we go. He's probably also necking a Foster's Steve.
I hope, so, oh, there we go. I like that
that was opened in his honor.

Speaker 2 (51:50):
Yes, one hand is as well.

Speaker 1 (51:52):
Yeah, yeah, that's pretty good. Can you do an one
handed egg crack?

Speaker 2 (51:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (51:57):
I knew you'd be able to. That's so annoying.

Speaker 2 (52:00):
Call you not?

Speaker 1 (52:02):
No, absolutely not. I'm really bad a cracking eggs, full stop.
Considering how much I consume eggs, it's amazing how bad
I am at cracking eggs and how much of a
mess I make.

Speaker 2 (52:12):
Oh dear, are you still rescuing shell from the bottom
of the bowl.

Speaker 1 (52:16):
No. My new technique is to hold the egg and
get a very big knife and sort of crack the
egg with a knife in my hand and then open
it from there. Because every time I try and crack
it on the edge of a frying pan or on
a bowl or whatever. I always just end up either
it only cracks the shell but doesn't break the membrane membrane,

(52:38):
that's the word I was looking for. Or I crack
it too much and I just spill egg all over
the hob. So it's better for me to just go
with the hold the egg big knife and then break
it from there.

Speaker 2 (52:49):
Yeah, that's how I'll teach an angel at the minute
knife technique is normally hits it too hard, as like
an explosion, less to be you know, at his age,
we'll allow that. Yeah, we're working our way up to
the jug crack two handed.

Speaker 1 (53:04):
Yeah, I just I can't. I can't on a jug.
I can't do it on a mug. I can't do
it for on the edge of a frying pan. I'm
just not good at breaking eggs. I can cook a
good egg, but I can't break an egg. So we
can although the other day I did. This is a tangent,
but we're you gonna do. I did get to the
point where I got a good crack on the shell,

(53:24):
but the membrane was intact, and I went, I wonder,
and I managed to peel three quarters of the shell
off the membrane before my membrane broke. I was pretty
tough with that, Yeah, I was. I was just sure.
He's like, what are you doing? I was just in
the kitchen for hours. There was hours, it was maybe
ten minutes, just one egg. So what are you doing?
I was like, look what I've managed to do. She went,

(53:45):
you are disgusting. Just cook the eggs.

Speaker 2 (53:49):
I'm hungry. What are you doing?

Speaker 3 (53:50):
Man?

Speaker 2 (53:51):
Yeah, exactly, this is that is the perfect representation of
how the male mind works. Yeah wait, yeah, the ADHD
kicked in and Tim was off.

Speaker 1 (54:03):
Yeah. Quite, I found something more interesting than poaching eggs.

Speaker 2 (54:06):
Yeah, we're just going to peel the egg like an orange.

Speaker 1 (54:10):
Yes, quite anyway, Steve the podium two. Third place was
Barry bout Us, and Barry led for a lot of
the early race, but did eventually succumb to the pressure
from behind. It didn't help the Onho and can It
battled for quite a long time just behind him, slowing
himself down in the process. So Barry managed to hold

(54:33):
a lead and stretch it out a little bit. And
I just can't get over how good and what a revelation.
He has been this year. I also can't get over
the fact there's a twenty one year old in the
world called Barry. That's weird. But mainly I'm just impressed
how good he is.

Speaker 2 (54:52):
I love the fact that you picked up on the
fact that he's called Barry.

Speaker 1 (54:57):
It's a weird name for a twenty one year old
to be called Barry. He was born in two thousand
and four and his parents went, I've really liked the
name Barry. Where weird where? I think he's Belgium.

Speaker 2 (55:09):
I think, yeah, he's it's from the Barry Belgium.

Speaker 1 (55:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (55:18):
Oh, he looks like a Barry.

Speaker 1 (55:22):
Was he named after Barry Sheen? Because that would make
some sense, wouldn't it.

Speaker 2 (55:27):
Would family of racing fans named after Just google him,
for God's sake, Google him and see the picture that
comes up. Poor fella. Sometimes you wish you Marry. You
could pick your own Wikipedia picture.

Speaker 1 (55:48):
Yeah, bless him, but yeah, there we go, Barry Bounce's mate.
What a fucking revelation this year. And we've said it before.
It just goes to show how good some of these
riders are and they're not in the right team or
on the right bike and haven't got the right chance.
But when you when everything comes together in that perfect storm. Wow,
some of these guys can do amazing things. And Barry
Belts is absolute proof of that right now.

Speaker 2 (56:10):
Yeah, this guy's setting it on fire this year and
long layer continue.

Speaker 1 (56:14):
Yeah, quite second place in this one, Steve then was
Digo Morrera and I really thought my man Diogo was
going to take his first motor to win in this race,
but he was pipped to the post by just three
thousandths of a second by Dennis on Chu, who took

(56:35):
his maiden win in the class. And it was a
fantastic titanic last lap that was in between the two
of them.

Speaker 2 (56:45):
That last lap was racing at its finest. It was
so absolutely the way they crossed the line, they were
like millimeters apart.

Speaker 1 (56:56):
It was it was elbows out as well. They were
bashing elbows off each other in that way up to
the line.

Speaker 2 (57:02):
It was so good, It was fantastic. It was so
good to see these guys really did treat us on
that last lap. But to miss out by that margin,
in some ways, you can't. I think you can't be
angry just because if you were a floroughbred racer and
you enjoy the race. You would have appreciated that last lap. Yeah, yes,

(57:24):
deep down inside you will be gutted you didn't win.
But racing's racing, and when it's that good, whether you're
spectating or you're taking part, you have to appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (57:36):
Absolutely. And the fact that delis on Chew went around
the outside of the final corner's ballsy to get the
run and to do him like that at the line
was just incredible, Like I just I did not see
it coming. Like Marera pulled that gap coming into the
final sector, that final sector where on she was the
fastest guy all weekend, and most of his time he

(57:58):
was taking the final second. He was two or three
tenths of a second up in just the final corner
on everyone. But it looked like Marera had enough of
a gap and he was going. He was going, and
then Onto just rode around the outside of him. It's
like he did that jackmaner thing and just took his
brain out and he just went And it was incredible.

Speaker 2 (58:17):
There really was. I don't know how they didn't crash.
They were that close. I thought they were going to
trip each other up and we're just going to see bikes.

Speaker 1 (58:25):
Go everywhere and then Barry goes and wins it.

Speaker 2 (58:28):
Yeah, literally comes steaming for in the third h cheers lads. Yeah,
it was just fantastic to watch. I could literally watch
that last lap over and over again. He add that
to the Catalonia O nine file.

Speaker 1 (58:43):
Uh huh.

Speaker 2 (58:43):
You know there are twenty fifteen Australia, those kind of races, laps,
last laps that you want to see. This is one
of them.

Speaker 1 (58:53):
Yeah. Absolutely, Yeah, it was just bolting. It was so
so good just between the two of them, so good,
and they were just so close together. It reminded me
of do you remember when I think it was Alasia
Spargo on the forward racing Yamaha and cow Crutchlow on
the Ducati had a similar drag to the line and
they were so close that Cal said he couldn't even

(59:13):
change gear because like Elisia was in the way. He
couldn't move his foot to change his gear to go
up a gear. Yeah, they were just so tangled and
this gave me that vibe.

Speaker 2 (59:23):
Yeah, that's good. It was so good to watch.

Speaker 1 (59:26):
Yeah, it was beautiful, mate, It was just beautiful, beautiful
racing from the two of them, two of them who
let's face it, are properly hard, hard racers. Like there
was no quarter given. It was properly good, none at all.

Speaker 2 (59:37):
It was fantastic.

Speaker 1 (59:41):
Four championship context here, Aaron Cannett finished in sixth in
this race, while Manuel Gonzalez was down in ninth, and
the two of them now sit on equal points at
the top of the standings. But Gonzales is number one
right now thanks to race wins. Yes, Gonzales crashed in two,
meaning he had to start from eighteenth and fight back

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through the field, and he clearly had the pace to
be on or around the podium, but did screw it
up on Saturday, whereas can It just didn't have the
pace to run with the top guys in the latter
half of this race. He was there at the start
and he was fighting at the start, but as the
race went on he just got dropped.

Speaker 2 (01:00:18):
Yeah, just faded down the order happens. I say, he
didn't have the pace all weekend, so it was not
to be expected from him.

Speaker 1 (01:00:25):
Yeah, it's actually probably to come out of it outscoring
your championship contender. Yeah quite. And now I don't know
what's going on with Gonzales in recent races, He's had
a couple of rough rounds in a row. Whether he
was distracted by the Motor GP test or this is

(01:00:45):
just a blip, or whether there's a little bit more
going on here, because we've seen clear Motor two favors
go and win a bunch of races at the start
of the season and then disappear. Garcia did it last year.
We saw Baldazzari do it in the past, Vietti has
done it in the past, and I'm start to wonder
whether Gonzales is on a slippery slope towards doing the
same thing here.

Speaker 2 (01:01:04):
I have started to think this myself. I'm hoping it
was a combination of race pressure, wanting to be the
fastest this weekend. He probably already knew about the test.

Speaker 1 (01:01:19):
I'm hoping he absolutely knew about the test.

Speaker 2 (01:01:21):
Yeah, I am hoping it was just distraction that caused
this mistake and it was one era that led to
the whole weekend being a bit of a fuck up.
So that's what I'm hoping. I don't want to see
him be one of these characters who does, like you say,
fade into obliving. We seen guys go on a tear
when a number of races and then just disappear. We
don't speak about him again. I really don't want him

(01:01:43):
to be one of those, but it certainly does feel
like we might have another one on our hands. But again,
I just want to get to the next round, sue
we does, and if this trend continues, then we can
really start feeling like maybe he's going to start slipping
out the order. So I think we just need another
round or two just to see what he does and

(01:02:05):
then we can properly mote some predictions.

Speaker 1 (01:02:08):
Yeah, I think thankfully for him right now, his closest
title contender, Aaron Cannett, is only there through consistency. He's
won one race, he's still on the podium twice, but
he's had like a bunch of top fives, and you know,
the rest of all been points scores. So it's not
like Canet. Every time Gonzales has a problem. Can it's
not fully capitalizing on it, which is good for Gonzales

(01:02:31):
here and maybe we'll give him some hope. But you know,
between Aary Baltus Diogo Morera, those two are getting into
the run of things now like they could become title threats.
If the top two don't start to sort it out
and score the big points every weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:02:47):
They really good, But then let's down to everyone else
to sort out the ship. And these guys just carry
on doing what they're doing. So, yeah, they can't really
do anymore except what they are. Everyone else just needs
to get the ship together and get their acting place.

Speaker 1 (01:03:04):
Yeah, exactly. Speaking about getting their shit together, it's worth
noting here that Danny Olgardo crashed on Lap one, wiking
out his teammate David Alonso, and both of those who
looked like they probably would have had the pace to
run near the front too. So after Alonto's amazing podium
last time out and Olgado's decent start of the year,

(01:03:28):
it's I don't think that they we were all going
to be friends in the box come when they managed
to get back on the black of those scooters after
this crash.

Speaker 2 (01:03:39):
No, that was a heavy crash. That's not the first
time they've had a coming together either. It's been the
same person's fault. So tension is going to be high
in that garage. But we're seeing in the past it
does happen. People get unlucky and you have you do.
Sometimes you run a form especially in sports where the

(01:04:01):
same Groundhog Days style scenarios happened over and over again.
You've got to feel for the perpetrator because they're probably
not doing it on purpose, but it does make a
great spectacle.

Speaker 1 (01:04:12):
Yeah, quite, And I mean this one was quite an
egregious move, wasn't it?

Speaker 2 (01:04:16):
He was?

Speaker 1 (01:04:17):
This was hard like Sam Malo's style. He just completely
missed his breaking marker. It looked like for the first
time I saw the overhead shot, I was like, is
he trying to overtake three bikes in one corner because
he just completely missed his breaking marker. And then when
he finally lost the front, it was just unlucky that
his teammate was on the outside to be cocted.

Speaker 2 (01:04:37):
Yeah, he fucked that big time. There's no other way
upon it.

Speaker 1 (01:04:41):
That quite. That then rounds up Moto to Steve. So
let's take another quick break. When we come back, we'll
dive into the real meat of this GP, the filling.
Let's do it, buddy, good stuff. So guys, bear with
us for just one moment and we will be right

(01:05:02):
back with you. Thank you for bearing with us. We
are back, but ladders are empty. My beer is empty too.

(01:05:26):
I must admit Steve, Steve's got three quarters of a beer.

Speaker 2 (01:05:31):
Good.

Speaker 1 (01:05:32):
There's still beer going between us, which is all good. Yeah,
I mean I've got more beer. I'm just not consuming
it right now because I'm not convinced i'd keep it down,
to be honest with you, Steve.

Speaker 2 (01:05:43):
The Harry Bow are not sitting well, they're not sitting well.

Speaker 1 (01:05:47):
It was a big dinner as well. It was a
stupid thing. Why did I do that? When I said,
you know when you even when you're doing it, you're like,
this ain't gonna win. Well, and you just carry on. Anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:05:55):
We've all been there, We've now where's we go? We
went out once and we ordered a lot of food
by mistake. And you know when people are bringing you
your food and you're happy, you're doing the happy dance,
and it keeps cohen, You're like, shit, a lot of food, Yeah,
and then realization hits. You're like, you're about to see

(01:06:16):
something special.

Speaker 1 (01:06:19):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:06:21):
You should have brought the stretchy pens.

Speaker 1 (01:06:23):
Yeah, well quite shere and I once went out to
a restaurant where we were. It was a pizza restaurant.
We were somewhere. It wasn't in the UK. But we
ordered so much food that they brought out another table.
But yeah, yeah, and that blocked then the aisle, which
meant everyone was having to take weird just to get
around us and main food table and our secondary food table.

(01:06:46):
So yeah, that was quite embarrassing. And then it got
to the point where you're like, we have to finish it.
If we don't finish it, now we look like idiots.
We have to finish this meal. And we sat in
there for out three hours and we did finish it,
and I don't think weit again for like the next
thirty six hours. It was quite an unpleasant situation.

Speaker 2 (01:07:02):
Yeah, at any point did Morgan Freeman walk past and
go gluttony?

Speaker 1 (01:07:10):
It felt like you should have done it. I think
every other patron in that restaurant was thinking exactly that.

Speaker 2 (01:07:16):
Yeah, you've bastard.

Speaker 1 (01:07:19):
Yeah quite, Oh that's that's something special.

Speaker 2 (01:07:22):
Yeah I've got quite done at that badly. I did
order a KFC once, you know, the family buckets. That
was when we got the news Sereal wasn't well again.
I wasn't really paying attention. I was as hungry I
was in the drive through bit I was like banging buttons. Luckily,
it went through it was fifty seven quid. This has
gone up and I got like four family buckets and
little shit.

Speaker 1 (01:07:44):
Wow, that's quite impressive. I used to go to KFC
a lot with my friend Chris. You know Chris, We
used to do a monthly visit up to KFC where
we'd just go and talk about Lord of the Rings
for hours and just sit in KFC and demolish and
into one of the biggest family buckets you could get.
That was always nice. Hm hm, fun day out. Oh
look at that. You're holding up a Lord of the

(01:08:04):
Rings game for the original Xbox Nice. That's very cool.
I learned the other day speaking of Lord of the
Rings again, this is a tangent that the not all
of the nine actors, but I think eight of them
plus some of the stunt doubles all got the Eldish

(01:08:25):
word for nine tattooed on them after they've finished filming
the nine actors within the fellowship.

Speaker 2 (01:08:30):
That is. Yeah, Yeah, I did hear that.

Speaker 1 (01:08:34):
Yeah, I thought that was very cool.

Speaker 2 (01:08:35):
Yeah, that is very cool.

Speaker 1 (01:08:39):
Anyway. AnyWho, most cycle racing almost as magic and dramatic
as The Lord of the Rings but not quite not quite.

Speaker 2 (01:08:48):
We do love a bit of magic and drama.

Speaker 1 (01:08:51):
Quite so, Steve. We had obviously a Sprint and a
Grand Prix, so to do the top fives in that order,
We'll talk Sprint, will talk Grand Prix, and then where
if anything else comes up, we'll chat about that as
we go. So let's start it off with the top
five in the sprint, then Steve. Fifth place in this

(01:09:12):
one was Pedro a Costa, and it's really nice to
see a Costa back in the top five and looking
really racy while at it.

Speaker 2 (01:09:20):
Yeah, he did look good this weekend. This was like
the Acosta we got used to last year. Yeah, quite
and everyone was thinking, like, where there's this guy been.
He's been nowhere this year, so this was really nice
to see him back at the port the end. I
hope it's not not the last time, but we will
have to wait and see.

Speaker 1 (01:09:41):
Yeah, the ktms looked much better in general this weekend.
They looked much more competitive than they've been all year.
And I don't know why, and I don't think anyone
else actually knows why, because there seems to be this
enigma within KTM that's just sometimes it works.

Speaker 2 (01:09:54):
Yeah, they filled a bit like an alpha at the minute.
If it goes wrong, it's going to go wrong. When
it works, it's going to be sublime.

Speaker 1 (01:10:03):
Yeah, exactly. And you better hope it doesn't rain because
that water gets into those electronics and it's game over.

Speaker 2 (01:10:08):
That's it, You're dead.

Speaker 1 (01:10:10):
Yeah. Fourth place in this one was Frankie Morbid Deli
and Frankie had some great fights out there with both
the Costa and Fermin Aldergare, but couldn't quite get it
together enough to get on the spring podium. But you know,
Frankie when it's all working for him, is a joy

(01:10:30):
to watch because he's so aggressive and he just doesn't
give any anything at all. It's so good to watch
it is.

Speaker 2 (01:10:39):
He is sublime to watch when it's working clean, I suppose, well, yes, yeah,
But even when he's not, he's pushing that boundary a
little bit. He has a lovely racing style. When it's
proper elbows out racing, that's still very good. So yeah,
it was really nice to see him at the point
the end, the entirety of the race. I've got to

(01:10:59):
see a lot of rank you this weekend.

Speaker 1 (01:11:02):
Quite But although he did beat Pedro Acosta, he did
not beat Fermin Aldergare, who finished third in this one. Yes,
and after his first few races in Motor GP that
were kind of like, oh, maybe this was a bad choice,
he's been super impressive since then, and we need to
get used to seeing his name at the top. And

(01:11:23):
I think if the stars of line mate, he's got
race winning in him this year he has.

Speaker 2 (01:11:28):
Yeah, I'm completely on board with that one. Like I say,
first few races not so great, but since then, the
last three or four rounds have been impressive. So yeah,
I think anyone who is going to sort of take no,
he's going to fade at the minute, I'm going to
have to disagree with you, doesn't feel that way, but
I agree with you. I think he's got a race

(01:11:50):
winning at some point this year. He's got a race
winning in him.

Speaker 1 (01:11:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:11:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:11:56):
It's quite interesting the kind of the discourse around Aldergare
actually because a lot of people, obviously at the end
of twenty twenty three were really hyping him. When he
went on that run of four race wins and he
signed to do Catty Deer, he was getting really hyped,
and then twenty four he had a bit of a
lackluster Moto two season, and that's actually an understatement. He
had a shocking Moto two season compared to what we

(01:12:17):
expected from him, and even coming into MotoGP you kind
of hear some people say things like, oh, you know,
he's not a really special rider, he's just on the
best bike, bloody bloody blah. But I don't know, man,
I disagree. I think he is. I think his peaks
are really really high. Maybe he just needs to kind
of round off the troughs a little, but he's got

(01:12:38):
a huge amount of potential. Yeah, and I know it's
a bit boring to speak of another Spanish superstar, but
fucking that's my gip at the minute it get used
to it.

Speaker 2 (01:12:46):
Yeah, we can't change where these riders come from, you know, inherently. Yeah,
we're going to get from the continent. We will, but
we can't take away the fact that he's earned the
right to be there. Someone's going to have my chance,
and it's turning out that he's beaten a lot of
big names who have been there a lot longer, so

(01:13:07):
it's justified and happy days for him. I'm glad for
the kid.

Speaker 1 (01:13:13):
Yeah, quite me too. Second place in this one, Steve.

Speaker 2 (01:13:17):
Speaking, you are let's just skip the first place.

Speaker 1 (01:13:22):
We all know whose second place is going to be.
Alex Marquez P two say no more. He just just
if this is what he does, mate, Although he did
bolt from the start on this one and I thought
he might be able to do the impossible and pull
out a win. But alas his brother, Mark Marquez was
dominant once again in this sprint. Even though he had

(01:13:46):
a bad start compared to those around him, he easily
took positions back and ended up leading the race by
lap six, and I really thought it was going to
take him longer to get through, especially when we saw
Alex Bolton away. I thought that, you know, if I
could even get through at all, it was going to
be in the last couple of laps and it was
gonna it was going to be an interesting battle. But
Mark decided not to give us a show and just

(01:14:08):
did what needs to be done.

Speaker 2 (01:14:10):
Just over to his brother and went, yeah, another master class. Ye, Marcos,
I don't really know where to go with it. We
say every weekend now or nearly every weekend. Yeah, he's
just back on it.

Speaker 1 (01:14:30):
He's just back. He's absolutely back. It's interesting though, and
I didn't really realize this until I've heard another podcast
talking about it. But this is the first time that
Mark Marquez has won in two months. So it's been
two months between wins from Mark Marquez and this is
his first win since coming back to Europe after the
flyaways at the start of the year. So those stats

(01:14:51):
did surprise me slightly.

Speaker 2 (01:14:53):
Yeah, that is surprising. Oh well another stat for him,
I guess.

Speaker 1 (01:15:01):
Yeah quite. Oh no, ignore everything I just said. All
of that stuff I just said about Europe and his
first win in two months is actually only relevant to
the Grand Prix because he's one three of the four
sprints in Europe, so he's one of the sprints. It
was his Grand Prix win. To spoiler the next bit

(01:15:22):
of the show, that was the first in the two
months and the first since coming back to Europe.

Speaker 2 (01:15:26):
Oh well, fair enough. Mistakes are made. You were quoting
someone else, so that wasn't directly your mistake.

Speaker 1 (01:15:36):
Yeah, but I think they quoted it correctly. I think
I was misquoting them, so I think it was still
my mistake, but I correct my mistake.

Speaker 2 (01:15:43):
Yeah, we'll blame them.

Speaker 1 (01:15:47):
We'll blame them, and it doesn't need to be a
correction corner. So all is just there.

Speaker 2 (01:15:51):
Don't quote who they were.

Speaker 1 (01:15:54):
Yeah, exactly. Their fucking website is behind. You have to
sign up to an email list now to get to
their website. Disgusting.

Speaker 2 (01:16:02):
Yeah, so if you want our newsletter, please sign up.

Speaker 1 (01:16:05):
As we didn't have the news let's Steve, it'd be.

Speaker 2 (01:16:09):
So boring, same shit, different week.

Speaker 1 (01:16:12):
By Alex finishes p too well done, Yeap.

Speaker 2 (01:16:15):
Didn't drink beer. Steve didn't drink beer. He may do
next week by Ma Yeah. No.

Speaker 1 (01:16:21):
I've considered newsletter ideas in the past and then realized
that there were a lot of work and that I
enjoy just talking to you about my GPA, and I
enjoyed the fact that people that listen enjoy it. And
I'm not going to add any more stress onto it
than that, Steve. No, exactly, so we'll just enjoy it exactly.
It's worth noting here. In the sprint, Paco bag Naya

(01:16:41):
finished out of the points in twelfth place, fourteen seconds
behind his teammate and race winner Mark Marquez. He was
more than a second lap off race winning pace.

Speaker 2 (01:16:55):
I don't know. It did not go well for him
in the sprint.

Speaker 1 (01:17:00):
Didn't go well at all, mate, And I text you
after the sprint, and I was just like, I really
feel for Peco right now because this is going to shit,
like and I starting to really feel for him. This
is just this this season has just not gone to
plan at all.

Speaker 2 (01:17:14):
Yeah, we'll talk about him a bit more after the
main race because there was a thing that I saw
on the coverage which I want to talk about.

Speaker 1 (01:17:22):
Okay, all right, we'll come on to that now. Yeah, thing, Okay.
The other thing of note in the sprint here is
that Mark Oberzeki, the Silverston winner from last time out,
qualified twentieth on the grid and did manage to finish
in eighth after just eleven laps. So this was an
impressive race performance from him.

Speaker 2 (01:17:44):
Yeah. Once he can get that thing hooked up and
up the speed, he's unstoppable. It's just one lap Poce
is letting him down.

Speaker 1 (01:17:51):
Yeah, but this was crashes, wasn't it that knocked him
back this far as opposed to just being that slow.
But yeah, the Abrillia right now, which isn't the bike
to qualify on? Is it that we've seen it be
in the past, And that's really why they need fucking
Martin back on that machine, mate, because it was the
guy's a qualifying.

Speaker 2 (01:18:08):
Beast, he is. Yeah, I do need him barely quite.

Speaker 1 (01:18:15):
Will he ever get back on that bike though, We'll
have to wait and see.

Speaker 2 (01:18:18):
It's looking like it just slowly, Yeah quite?

Speaker 1 (01:18:24):
And for how long? Oh god, it's be exciting, man.
I feel like the Martin News kind of drowned, was
drowned out quite a lot by all of the other
city season bullshit that was going on this weekend. So
it's yeah, we've got we've got time for it to
build again.

Speaker 2 (01:18:39):
So it's it's going to build now. I don't wants
got anything to talk about. Now, come with Jello. Everyone's
going to have a camera in top Brax post. Yeah quite,
and then after that they've got something to talk about.
So he will be the in vogue thing again.

Speaker 1 (01:18:55):
Yeah exactly. He'll probably say something inflammentry that just gets
his name back in the headlines pretty.

Speaker 2 (01:18:59):
Soon, exactly. He'll say something everyone to go ooh, and
that's it. He's top dollar again.

Speaker 1 (01:19:05):
Yeah quite. Let's move it on to the Grand Prix then,
Charlie Steve that lets excellent. So the top five in
the Grand Prix. Fifth place was Frankie morbid Deli, another
strong ride from Frankie and a good weekend overall, two
top fives and some great fights for different riders, and

(01:19:26):
the duel between him and Fermin Aldergare in this race
was particularly enjoyable. The two of them properly went at
it and it was all that, a proper elbows out scrap.
This was really good.

Speaker 2 (01:19:40):
Yeah. I was surprised by Furman in this one. He
did not let up one little bit. He stood his
ground against the older, more experienced rider and this young scamp,
if you will, just came through and no, fuck you, Sancho.
Watch this.

Speaker 1 (01:19:56):
Yeah, quite Yeah, it was really good.

Speaker 2 (01:20:00):
It was good.

Speaker 1 (01:20:02):
And Urmin's just a super aggressive rider as well. And
we know Frankie is. We've already spoken about that. So
you get two superders together and it really makes fireworks.

Speaker 2 (01:20:11):
Yes, yes, it really was.

Speaker 1 (01:20:14):
Fourth place. Then in this one Steve was Pedro a
Costa and again so nice to see him fighting at
the front in both the Sprint and the Grand Prix.
And I wish I say I could say I think
this is going to continue, but I really don't. I
do think ATM might be quite good in Magello next
time out, because their top speed is excellent. I think
they're the fastest of everyone right now, but in Asen

(01:20:39):
I do think they're going to drop back down the order,
But regardless, that's for the future for now. Pedro had
a great fight in the early lapse with Peco Bagnaia.
Peco was faster, and Pedro says he knew that, and
he knew that the only way he possibly could beat
him would just be to disturb him, fuck with his lines,
get in front of him, getting his way, and try
and hold the position. That didn't work. Peco clearly did

(01:21:02):
have the place to beat him. But yeah, Pedro was
really good in this. I enjoyed watching this one.

Speaker 2 (01:21:07):
Yeah, it really does feel like a little mini resurgence,
which is nice to see. Let's just get to Magello
and see what the hell happens. Yeah, before really get excited,
it just feels like we're going to see another MAV.

Speaker 1 (01:21:23):
Yeah, it does kind of. It's a weird thing, isn't it,
because Casey m sort of have that boss or Scuro
problem right now, where it seems to be that like
one or two of their riders can perform and it's
not always the same one or two.

Speaker 2 (01:21:34):
Yeah, that's a really good example. Actually that really is Yeah,
that does feel like that. There's always two at the top,
maybe one in the middle and one at the bomb,
and he.

Speaker 1 (01:21:44):
Kind of at the bottom.

Speaker 2 (01:21:45):
Oh yeah, for fuck it. Yeah, the other three though,
it's hard to tell who's going to beware.

Speaker 1 (01:21:53):
Yeah quite. I mean, Binder isn't having a great season.
He crashed out of the race.

Speaker 2 (01:21:58):
Yeah, he crashed.

Speaker 1 (01:22:01):
He's down fourteenth. Thirty five points is all he's got.

Speaker 2 (01:22:05):
Yeah, that's not a good show for him. He's normally misconsistent,
like top.

Speaker 1 (01:22:08):
Five, top five, top five, top five, I tell you what, mate,
after we've just said and they have asked, he's the
one at the back. Binda and Basnini are on the
same number of points right now.

Speaker 2 (01:22:19):
Really that is surprising.

Speaker 1 (01:22:22):
Yeah, he is surprising, But then it's not surprising when
you think about the fact we've not spoken about either
of them at all.

Speaker 2 (01:22:27):
Really all year.

Speaker 1 (01:22:28):
They've just kind of been existing in the peripheries of
points and occasionally making like a decent top ten.

Speaker 2 (01:22:34):
Yeah, I know, this year has just gone off piece
to off radar, off everything. He could probably not turn
up no notice. Yeah, except the team.

Speaker 1 (01:22:46):
I don't even They might be relieved.

Speaker 2 (01:22:48):
Yeah, they could be. Oh, I've got to watch the
back of the grid. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:22:54):
Quite, We'll just hope Maverick pulls it out this weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:22:59):
Yeah for something anyway, Well, KTM at the minute is
just this weird enigma of what the hell is going on? Yeah,
the fortunes are all over the place. I mean people
often say fortune favors the brave, but who's the bloody
bravest in the KTM camp at the minute?

Speaker 1 (01:23:20):
I mean, if you look at the point standings at
is Pedro Acosta up in eighth on seventy six points, But.

Speaker 2 (01:23:26):
How many of those were gathered this weekend? Though?

Speaker 1 (01:23:30):
That's a good point. I mean, he's had a fourth
place finish already this year, so he's matched his best
end of the year. But yeah, this weekend was his
biggest points all of the season so far.

Speaker 2 (01:23:43):
Still scary.

Speaker 1 (01:23:45):
Yeah, you're quite third place in this one. Then, Steve
was Peco Bagnia surgent I like it just a bit
man recovering from an awful Saturday, takes a podium in
the main Groan. Now, apparently he started using a larger
front brake disc and said that this has helped him

(01:24:06):
rediscover a good feeling on the front of the bike.
We spoke before how he'd said that he can tell
this the softer the medium he had that little feeling
on the front. I still think that was hyperbole, but whatever,
but he said that this new Bigger break disc has
just given him the feeling again. And people seem to
be getting very excited about this result, as if it's
enough for him to turn his season around and now

(01:24:26):
he'll be able to challenge the title. But I think
we're all looking a bit too far, a bit too
rosy eyed if we believe that, because he's still way
behind both Mark and Alex, not only in the points
but also generally in pace. Although he did look like
he might be able to be Alex for a while
this weekend, but he couldn't. And he had the same

(01:24:49):
problem that he had a few rounds ago when he
got stuck behind Fabria Coroaserrara. Of all people is he
had the pace as soon as got close to the
rider in the front. There was nothing he could do
with that pace.

Speaker 2 (01:24:59):
No watching him after this race the camera when he
got the camera across the lane, that the camera instantly
shot to his garage and like found my friend's team
all celebrating like he just won the race, like something
had big had just happened, and then when you hear

(01:25:21):
the explanation, like him talking he felt good. He talked
about the breaks, and he talked about making improvements. For
the first time in a long time, we've seen a
very very happy Peco and that's something we're not used
to see it. And I kind of generally do believe
that he has found something that he has been missing.
And we are coming to Magello next where you're heavy

(01:25:44):
end of that straights, the biggest breaking zone I think
of the entire season. We're going to properly find out
whether that's right come next weekend.

Speaker 1 (01:25:54):
Yeah. The problem with Migello is that he has to
before well that this is I think he's one of
the last three years on the bouncer, goes really well
around anywhere. So if he if he wins here, it's
kind of a lose lose really, because if he wins here,
you go, well, that's the bare minimum we expect from you.
He gets beaten by Mark and Alex here, that's that's

(01:26:17):
not it's.

Speaker 2 (01:26:18):
Going to be tough. We can only hope that he
is right when he says like this new break, bigger
front break, has given him the ex for feeling that
he needed. If that is the case, the only way
we're going to find out is when he does touch
tarmac at Magello. So we kind of do need a
fast forward button now to get to the next race
and then we can see if this is true. I

(01:26:42):
don't see any other way of doing it.

Speaker 1 (01:26:46):
No quite, I mean, I understand I feel quite pessimistic
about Peko's chances. This isn't anyway now. He's what ninety
something likeinety three points in a hole to Mark, He's
a long way in a hole to Alex, like he's
a really long way behind. He's not clawing this back.
But we might be able to claw back sixty points

(01:27:06):
on Alex, but not if Alex keeps doing what he's doing.
Like this is just very little chance, I think. But
this is a step in the right direction. And as
we say, the next two tracks are Bagnaiah Strongholds, Magello
and Adison, like these are two of his favorite tracks.
He could go out in theory and score thirty seven
points a weekend, you know, outscore everyone, take a chunk
of points back. But I can't see him actually doing that.

(01:27:31):
If he does do that, I might start to believe, well,
it could be on now, though there could be a
challenge on It's a shame that Marco Marquez is so
far ahead. But if he can't, it's done now. There's
no chance, aside from injuries for the other two in
front of him, that he's he's pulling this back.

Speaker 2 (01:27:50):
I'd like to think there is. Both Mark and Alex
are not without their faults, and we're soon so far.

Speaker 1 (01:27:55):
This year they can screw up, not ninety three points.

Speaker 2 (01:28:01):
And the other factor in that is if they screw
Peko has got to be first both all the time,
which is another factor. We don't know where it is
capable of the minute. So I want to say it's
still doable. I want to say you can finish second,
but I can't quite find enough confidence to say he

(01:28:22):
can challenge Mark. Not what was in so far.

Speaker 1 (01:28:29):
And I think as well, there's going to be a
fun psychological game going on here because Pecko's going to
come into Magello and think I have to win, and
Mark is going to come into Magello and be like,
I have to beat Peko. If I beat him here,
it's done. Yeah, So it's going to be a really
fa It could be potentially the next two rounds could
be really really good battles between the two of them.

(01:28:49):
Assuming this new break disc thing has fixed all of
Peko's problems, which I'm still kind of skeptical about. I'm
still a bit skeptical that it could be as simple
as putting a large brake disc on. He's going to
fix all of the problems he's been having with this
bike so far. I cannot believe that someone at Ducati
hadn't gone earlier on, why don't we just put a

(01:29:11):
bigg break disc on, Let's see what that does. He's
been so stark, so in the hole. I cannot believe
that the geniuses at Dukati hadn't thought about this until now.
And if they hadn't thought about this too now, I'm
not quite so convinced that there's such geniuses.

Speaker 2 (01:29:26):
Maybe there's hope for us after all. I don't know.
Sometimes I think the smallest things can be the biggest answer,
And when you're looking for a big answer, it's easy
to look at building a house as opposed to replacing
a brick. So I don't know. I'd like to think

(01:29:47):
that they have just overlooked it because they were looking
for a massive fix as opposed to a small one.
But again the only way we're going to know is
to rattle off the next two or three rounds and
he's finished first from first, and then we will fully know.

Speaker 1 (01:30:04):
Yeah, that's fair, that's fair. I like the smallest things
can be the biggest answer, Steve, that was good.

Speaker 2 (01:30:10):
Yeah, I think sometimes they are. Sometimes you just got
a change from a thong back to your pants and
it will solve all your chasing issues.

Speaker 1 (01:30:18):
I thought for a minute there when you said thong
you meant flip flops. I thought you'd gone all Australian
after the Fosters.

Speaker 2 (01:30:25):
Over there, and even get this that Aussi souls.

Speaker 1 (01:30:30):
I don't even know what that means.

Speaker 2 (01:30:31):
They're a brand of thong flip flop?

Speaker 1 (01:30:34):
Oh, okay, fair enough, literally Aussie souls? Okay, fair I
thought you meant they would just like had some special
grip pattern on there that was designed to deal with
hot temperatures or coming.

Speaker 2 (01:30:45):
No, No, they are a brand of thong.

Speaker 1 (01:30:51):
They got kangaroos and a Foster's logo on them as well.

Speaker 2 (01:30:53):
No, they have starfish on the bode.

Speaker 1 (01:30:56):
Okay, this is straightly, particularly well known for starfish.

Speaker 2 (01:31:02):
Get in touch.

Speaker 1 (01:31:03):
Yeah, i'd have said, like top Australian animals you think
of top five, I wouldn't put starfish anywhere near the
top five.

Speaker 2 (01:31:11):
I struggle with Australian animals because when you say top five,
my brain goes ways of dying and.

Speaker 1 (01:31:19):
Well, yes, obviously, and I'm thinking, you know, sharks, I'm
thinking crocodiles, I'm thinking that, the snakes, I'm thinking kangaroos.
I'm also thinking the plaspus, which I believe is venomous,
but it doesn't kill people.

Speaker 2 (01:31:30):
Yeah. And what I really like is on their website
their flip flops that even you got the scroll down thongs.

Speaker 1 (01:31:38):
It's just how they're thongs.

Speaker 2 (01:31:41):
And if I remember rightfully, it's that one.

Speaker 1 (01:31:45):
We gave you. When you're finding it, it's like you're
shopping for the flip flops you already own.

Speaker 2 (01:31:49):
Yeah. Yeah, And I'm going to send you a zealink
when I remember how to do it.

Speaker 1 (01:31:54):
Tell me, won't you, Steve? Instead, I'm going to tell
you who finished second in this race. H it was
drum roll, please, I can't do it. Alex Marquez. Yes,
Alex once again finishes second Classic, but a great weekend.

(01:32:18):
And do you know what, there's no shame in not
being able to beat Mark at one of his favorite tracks.
Alex did everything he needed to do, beating everyone else
and keeping Mark with insight in the championship. I just
I think that given the fact that this was Aragon
and Mark was obviously going to crush it, this was
just everything Alex needed.

Speaker 2 (01:32:38):
Okay, it's not working, Well, they're working.

Speaker 1 (01:32:41):
What are you struggling with? Where are you in the
copy and paste situation?

Speaker 2 (01:32:44):
Well, we haven't yet managed to copy it.

Speaker 1 (01:32:47):
Okay, control c I did that once. It's all highlighted,
or just highlight a lot and right click and copy.

Speaker 2 (01:32:53):
I thought you could just do it. Oh no, you can't.

Speaker 1 (01:32:58):
Fact sake, you know how Barkley's in the UK the
band to do those computer lessons. You can go see
collect your winter field payment. Go to Barkleys, get your
computer lessons.

Speaker 2 (01:33:14):
This is not going well.

Speaker 1 (01:33:17):
I can do this. I believe in you.

Speaker 2 (01:33:22):
I can't.

Speaker 1 (01:33:25):
I'll look him up later, Steve, don't stress it.

Speaker 2 (01:33:28):
I'm on it now.

Speaker 1 (01:33:29):
Okay, when you do that, I'm going to talk about amongst.

Speaker 2 (01:33:32):
Yourself for a while. Get a viewer on over here.

Speaker 1 (01:33:36):
Okay, Well, Mark Marquez topped every single session over the weekend.
He won everything, including the Grand Prix. This is the
first time, apparently someone has done this since Mark Marquez
at Saxon Ring in twenty fifteen. In the top every
single session, so a full Grand Slam, and he was
utterly dominant, and most importantly, that didn't throw it down

(01:33:59):
the road. There we go, I've got the link. I'll
open that now, mate. Yeah, this certainly wasn't a Mark
Marquez's level of performance. I can assure you with that.
This race weekend is the first time that I felt
Mark was truly back at his best.

Speaker 2 (01:34:17):
Yeah. This really did feel like a announcement of his
old self. Yeah quite Yeah, very nice to see. If
we hadn't already been reminded enough that he was back,
he just wanted to just show us a little.

Speaker 1 (01:34:35):
Bit more, yeah, exactly. And he reeled off just laps
of lap record. He went a second, almost a second
under the previous lap record here race lap record, and
he did the qualifying lap record as well, because why
the funk not? But he just reeled them off these
that were so much faster than everyone else. Midway through

(01:34:58):
the race, and then at the end he was really
him off again, just absolutely showing. He's like, yeah, I've
beat you all by you know, a few seconds, but
it could have been more.

Speaker 2 (01:35:05):
Yeah, the guy is properly back. The phenom is back.

Speaker 1 (01:35:09):
Yeah, yeah, quite. It's it's worrying for everyone else.

Speaker 2 (01:35:13):
I think worrying. We were robbed, absolutely robbed. You having fun?

Speaker 1 (01:35:23):
Yeah I am. But they tell you what, mate, they
don't look comfy.

Speaker 2 (01:35:27):
They are to be fair, they are, I've had.

Speaker 1 (01:35:30):
The reviews seemed to suggest they are, but yeah, I'm skeptical.

Speaker 2 (01:35:34):
No, man, they are really going to be. I have
mine for a couple of years. I've got the cameo
Patten two point o's lovely.

Speaker 1 (01:35:41):
Well, there we go. Look at that. Even that croc
vibe about them.

Speaker 2 (01:35:46):
A little bit, yeah, tiny, tiny bit. It's the little details,
like the soongy bit that goes between your toes. It's
not round, it's oval, so it doesn't just push on
your toes.

Speaker 1 (01:35:58):
Fair enough. Flip flops aren't a shoe for me anyway.
I don't like them. They don't stay on my weird feet.

Speaker 2 (01:36:03):
No, I see, I am. I'm a flip flopped dude.

Speaker 1 (01:36:08):
Fair enough, I'd rather just be barefoot.

Speaker 2 (01:36:10):
But it's just me and looking at my skanky pause.
I should probably go get him looked at. No one
wants to.

Speaker 1 (01:36:18):
Radio before we end up start turning this show into
Tim and Steve Dousharopodi. Let's just cover. I've got one
more thing I want to mention on moor gp here
and this was Ayagura not racing. I was ruled out
of the race and the test obviously, which is why
Mamial Gonzalez took the test spot Aragon after seeing the
doctors in Barcelona on Thursday. So it was announced he

(01:36:41):
would be continuing and he would ride this weekend and
then was declared unfit. Now there's a conspiratorial part of
my brain here, Steve, that thinks that he and track
House knew this was going to be the case because
they didn't have a plug and play reserve rid already.
Because Savadori is being used currently to replace all him

(01:37:02):
o dem they decide to gain the system by announcing
he would ride, so they wouldn't have to find a
replacement like they should have done.

Speaker 2 (01:37:10):
Yeah, it works if they haven't got people in play.
That are ways of getting through this. I can see
another loophole coming and being closed. Yeah, quite pretty rapidly.
It's a wise way of doing it. They've taken full
advantage of a situation that's been thrown their way, and

(01:37:31):
they've got out of it smoothly, no other way about.

Speaker 1 (01:37:38):
Yes, I think that's exactly the case. I don't think
he ever had an intention to run this.

Speaker 2 (01:37:42):
Weekend, No, no, none at all.

Speaker 1 (01:37:45):
However, he should be back for Magello next weekend, so
hopefully we'll see the full contingent of Trackhouse riders.

Speaker 2 (01:37:52):
Then, hopefully and hopefully they all stay on this time.

Speaker 1 (01:37:57):
Yeah, quite right, then, Steve, that's the end of my
notes there, unless you have anything else you want to add.

Speaker 2 (01:38:06):
I don't think so, buddy. We knew that was going
to be a biggie with all the news stuff going
on racing. That was, yeah, always going to be a
big one.

Speaker 1 (01:38:17):
Yeah, exactly. And before we do finish, Steve, we do
quickly need to recap our predictions.

Speaker 2 (01:38:22):
Yes, we do.

Speaker 1 (01:38:24):
So for anyone new to the show, or for anyone
that doesn't usually get this far. Welcome to this section
of the show.

Speaker 2 (01:38:31):
The long season.

Speaker 1 (01:38:34):
Steve and I make predictions of every race weekend, and
then we give ourselves points based on the positions of
our predicted riders where they finish. So we just got
the podiums of both the Sprint and the Grand Prix,
and then we give ourselves three points for a rider
in the correct position, or one point if a rider
is on the podium in the incorrect position. Steve, not

(01:38:55):
only did you have a good fantasy weekend, but you
had a good weekend in our predictions as well. Let's
get to it. Yeah, you did. In the Sprint, the
actual result was a Mark Marquez win and Alex Marquez second,
then a Firmin alder Gath third. I predicted a Mark
Marquez win and Alex Marquez second and a Fabio Couateraro third.
So I scored six points. There you predicted, Steve, Mark

(01:39:18):
Marquez win and Alex Marquez second and a Fermin Aldergarey.
There it is there, It is the perfect score. I
think that is maybe only the second time either one
of us has managed to do.

Speaker 2 (01:39:35):
That second or I think you were the first one.

Speaker 1 (01:39:40):
Yeah, happy with that, Yeah, very well played, sir. For
the Grand Prix, the actual result was a Mark Marquez win,
Alex Marquez second, and a Peckerbag Nia third. I predicted
a Mark Marquez winn and Alex Marquez second and a
Fermin Aldergare third, scoring me six points. You predicted a
Mark Marquez win Alex Marquez second than a Frankie morber

(01:40:00):
Deli third, scoring you six points. I thought I'd done
pretty well with a twelve point sweep here. I thought
that's solid, that's going to get me through. And then
you went and scored fifteen points. Steve, very well played. Indeed,
that bumps our totals up. I have gone up from
fifty one to sixty three points and you have gone
up from fifty four to sixty nine points. Very well played.

(01:40:26):
So not only you know six points clear of me,
but you have got the sexiest number there is I have.

Speaker 2 (01:40:32):
I didn't really put two and two together though.

Speaker 1 (01:40:36):
There's no more exciting numbers between sixty nine until we
hit four twenty, I'm afraid, and I think we will
be hard pressed to get anywhere near four hundred and
twenty points.

Speaker 2 (01:40:45):
Well, if you've got the two together, then that's a
very good night. That's what I'm going to leave that one.

Speaker 1 (01:40:52):
There, you go with that, and that then does bring
us to the end of the show it does.

Speaker 2 (01:41:00):
It's been a long show. It's been a good shoe.

Speaker 1 (01:41:03):
It's been a long show. It's been a good one.
Next week we will talk fantasy league. Steve, you have
ever taken me in the fantasy league now with well
timed boost, very well played and for everyone that did
boost my Marquez this weekend, you are very welcome that
I did not because I yeah, so very well done
all of you. I've managed to have a really solid

(01:41:24):
point scoring weekend and still dropped a load of places
because everyone used the well timed boost. So very well
played folks.

Speaker 2 (01:41:30):
Thank you that.

Speaker 1 (01:41:33):
Then, Steve does bring us to the end of the show.
So guys, if you have anything you want to say,
any questions, any comments, anything at all, you can find
us on.

Speaker 2 (01:41:43):
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If anything else for us, correction cooler anything he wants

(01:42:06):
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(01:42:30):
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Speaker 1 (01:42:42):
I really thought you were gonna do it again.

Speaker 2 (01:42:44):
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He was like, that's too off.

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(01:43:13):
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No no, not pre arragon. What am I talking about?
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(01:43:34):
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