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Hello and welcome back to the Red Sector GP Podcast ORG. I'm your host, Buno Gp, joined as always by my host Lisa PERSON, who you can follow on Twitter at Elisa Vida and myself at Bunno Gp ORG underscore. We are back this week with our French Grand Prix EVENT review and a whole bunch of news all surrounding around the new regulations of MotoGP that have been introduced a day afterrecording in fine Red Sector FACA. Alisa, back this week with complete new rules for the upcoming motor GP era. Your thoughts on us changing from 1,000 cc to 850cc. We've got other rules such as the Holshot devices being banned, all to 850 cc. We've got other rules such as the whole shot devices being banned, all ride height devices being banned. We've got thinner bikes. What's your thoughts?

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Well, I have no idea if it's come across before, if I've stated it, but I understand absolutely zero things about bikes. Like, I barely know what an engine is, honestly. Like, I'm working on it, okay, guys, but I have other other focusesat the moment not to learn like aerodynamics and physics and all that stuff. So I barely know what's going on. I just read comments on it and tried to judge what's going on.But I think people are quite too wary of the new rules. But I like the fact that the whole short devices are going because well, you know, we have seen so many incidents with them, likepeople having them stuck on and stuff like that. And I think they're completely gone like from the starts as well. So I think I don't know if it's going to make maybe that's starting back again to feel more like a writer's skill. I don't know if it's going to make maybe the starting back again to feel more like a writer's skill.I don't know if we can go straight back to that. But I certainly like that the start is also a part of what the writer is able to bring to it, rather than just having the best device. Because, I mean, we have seen the KTMs be the best starters out there. Like Brad Binder had said over the weekend,

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that their start is worth a row in qualifying, and that's obviously an advantage, which is good for them, but not that good for the rest of the field.

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So I like that it's more dependent on the rider, and hopefully it brings back to that.

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But yeah, I can't really comment on it.

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Otherwise, I just hope it will be good. That's my main takeaway.

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Thank you for your insightful engineering perspective. No, but I get where you're coming from. I suppose from a neutral standpoint on the engineering side of things, it is just in hope of good racing and, you know, positive racing for the future. I think for me, I like the fact that they're banning the Hullshot PRODUCT devices and ride height devices because although I think qualifying should still be important, I still think it should have an effect on, you know, you shouldn't be able to qualify a poll and then it not have any effect on your Sunday race or Saturday sprint or whatever.However, I do think that it's always good to see when you go back to older races that if somebody qualifies down in like Mark PERSON this weekend in P13, that yes, Mark proved it on these bikes, but I'm saying it is quite a rare occurrence for that to happen, that it would be nice to see riders who do have that pace not have their whole end ruined by the fact that everyone's got a ride height device and a whole shot device and they're all really wide and the harder to overtake and the arrow just sucks everybody in and it makes overtaking even more difficult.I think this in general will be a positive step in the right direction. Just to point here, I wanted to bring up on the post of the new regulation changes. Casey Stoner, obviously his opinion is worth, I would say a lot more than mine and yours, Lisa PERSON. He says the only improvement to the current rules is the banning of the ride height device and the whole shop devices. Nothing else will benefit this sport for the future. Not only, oh sorry sorry only the engineers will getthe benefits so not exactly saying it's all bad but saying that the only positives are the ride height devices now obviously a thousand cc down to 850 cc is a big change and there's been a lot of the team principles that have turned around and said, you know, we all need sort of an engine freeze for 2026 because running two different programs for two different projects for 2026 and preparing for a new regulation change in 27 is a hell of a lot to try and control. And then ironically, Dukati ORG have been turning around saying, you know, we've got eight bikes.It's like, well, you wanted eight bikes. So if you want eight bikes, then you've got to control eight bikes worth of program development. So, you know, I do understand where they're coming from, though, that we might see an engine freeze depending on if it goes up for a vote or if it goes up for, you know, whether it's the FIM that decide that or whoever, that will be an interesting one to see if they do pull an engine on that, which obviously in the current world of affairs, Ducati ORG are going to be advocating for very heavily because they benefit a lot from the current regulations.So yeah, rare sea aero included in the homologation one update per season. So you can update the aero on the back of the bike once per season. You can't, basically, we're not going to be seeing 14 different variations of rare wings on the bike throughout the entire season,

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which is, I would say, as a positive, because it makes you sort of deal with what you've got and get the absolute most package. I like seeing change and I like seeing that, you know, people are always going to argue that this is sort of your open wheel type argument of. It should be unlimited development. It's, you know, it's not like production bikes, they're prototype bikes.You can do what you want with them.

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But at the same time, it's like I feel like there's a limit where you need to control with what you have. What do you think?

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Yeah, and I agree. Like, I get the sense that, yeah, these are prototypes, but there are physical limits we have called tracks and people involved that already make us limitedin where we can develop it. Like, as much as it's an engineering exercise, it's still supposed to be safe and doable. And if they are not somehow trying to limit the speeds and other, like, the corner speeds involved in thesport, then it's, it's just going to end up, like, way worse for people, and we're just not going to be able to race this track. So I think it's always been about limits. Ever since, like, it'seasier to say and look back at times, like, when you look back at the beginnings of the sport and you're like, well, there are basically no rules, but back then the bikes didn't go this fast, and they aren't coming into the human limits in the same way. Like, we have been racing at these tracks for, like, 75 years. Obviously, the development is going to go forward, but at some point you just can't go any faster. Like, we have seen so many laparcos broken this year also. And, you know, I might be particular to it, but I don't really care about lapargot being broken at this point, because it's standard. Obviously, it's impressive when there's a big difference to the rest

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from someone in qualifying, but you can have that without it being a lap record broken. So I don't really think it's, obviously, it does kill involved, but I don't really, I don't put any more merit to someone having a lap record at some track

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because it's just all of these marks are going like lap records spread.

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Yeah, I think for me, if you said, would you rather have lap records and the same amount of racing, or half a second slower in terms of qualifying pace but a chance of more racing I'm definitely picking the latter every single time I'm not saying that this new reg is absolutely destined for more racing but that's the aim that's the that is sort of the the idea behind it that they think that this is going to improve the racing.It's going to get rid of some of the issues with, like I mentioned earlier, with the Aero and riders complaining about the suction effect when trying to race with people. So we can only sort of gather our own thoughts and, you know, spout on about them for so long with this. We've not even entered the testing period prior to this season. We're in 2024 for crying out loud.We're not even near 2026, let alone 2027, when these bikes are due to change. But let's see. I mean, it is a huge deal in terms of the sport because this won't be, I'll be very surprised if, with that change, whenever, however 2026 lays out will not be exactly the same way 2027 lays out. This will be a big change and it will cause for certain manufacturers to float and certain manufacturers to sink. It, you know, it could be a hugeturning port for someone like Honda ORG. They could bring out an engine that's really sustainable, really durable and, you know, very reliable and, you know, picks up their pace half a second in comparison to a other else. And somebody like Apprilla might have an engine that just can't even last half a race and they have instant issue. You know, obviously there's going to be a lot of testing prior to it. So I doubt that's going to happen. But my point still stands in that, you know, this is a huge turning point for the sport and it will be a big change. As I said, we can't,we can't sort of decipher what's going to happen just yet because there's a long way to go. But I imagine in 2025, late 2025 and early 2026 is when we will first start seeing the first prototypes and testing of those new bikes. But with that being said, we will get in to the French Grand Prix weekend DATE and we will start off like we did in the Hereth Grand Prix EVENT review. We will start off with the sprint race, which we had a finishing order of Jorge Martin,Mark Marquez and Maverick Vignales, making it an all-Spanish NORP podium. And Opeko Manaya PERSON, who actually had a technical fault and did not finish the race. So Peco missed out on 12 points, losing 12 points to Jorge Martin, 9 to Mark Marquez,and yeah, 7 to Maverick Vignales PERSON, because I think this season, it's fair to say that he is not challenging for the front, but he's certainly inbound, let's say, of this top five, top six scrap.Alisa, a very standard procedure when it comes to Jorge Martin's Saturdays, wouldn't you say?

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Yeah, he's just going up there. And actually, you know, we are at the fourth, fourth way, fourth way through the season, which is crazy to say because it's just started. But I think it's interesting. These three have been on the podium, like Mark and Maverick have both been on the sprint podium three times,and Martin has obviously been like the most times. So they have been definitely the best three riders over the sprints this year, which is, I think it's a bit surprising. Like, I was shocked when I look.

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Definitely for Maverick PERSON.

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Yeah. Definitely for Maverick PERSON. Yeah. And the fact that Peco Bagnaia or nor Elia Mastaini have not,neither of them have been on the spring podium this far. Like the factory Dukati ORG team just hasn't been over there and obviously the... It's shocking.I looked at it and I was like, wait what? Wait, really?

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Yes.

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I think that's...

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Oh my gosh, yeah. Yeah.

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I had to check that myself then when you said that. I was my gosh, yeah. Yeah. I had to check that myself.

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I mean, you said that. I was like, no way. Yeah.

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So there's definitely moving like a group of... That's why I think we saw last year. Like some riders were better in the sprints and some riders who are not doing that well in sprints. But yeah, Pago PERSON's misery continues. Do we know, did he ride the number two bikeThat he had to After the qualifying crash Or did he get his number one bike fixed

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I think it was his number one Okay

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I believe as far as I'm aware

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It was the number one

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Do we know if it's true to the crash

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The technical issue or anything like that I'm not entirely sure. I mean, Hecker was saying that on acceleration, the front tire was folding,

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which is basically impossible.

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You don't really, you know,

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for anyone that's watched MotoGP ORG for a while, when the front folds, that's usually a fucking or mid-corner. You don't, very, very, very rarely will you see anyone get on the gas and see the front tire start to fold forward? You know, it doesn't happen. So I'm not sure what thesort of diagnosis of that issue was, but Peck PERSON was obviously very vocal in saying that it's the first time that's ever happened to him on that bike. But yeah, I mean, 12 points lost to Jorge Martin on the Saturday. And obviously, we have to mention Mark Marquez, who if it wasn't for Jorge Martin this weekend, would very much be putting his name of the queue for this factory Ducati ORG ride, which seems to be this three-way scrap between Jorge Martin, Mark Marquez,and Anaia Bastianini, who did finish fourth in the sprint. And as we were mentioning beforehand, before recording, Enaia PERSON had probably the most lucky, unlucky weekend in the sense of, he had a very good weekend, very solid weekend. But if it wasn't for yellow flags, and that whole rule in the fact that you can't, you know,go quicker with yellow flags for qualifying, for practice, whatever that may be, Anaya Bastianini would probably be walking away with two podium, I would say, after this weekend. But if buts and maybes, it didn't happen. Maverick Vignales PERSON, though, I genuinely think that, obviously,Areth was a difficult race for Apprilla ORG, but I think that this is probably, might be bold to say, but I think that this is probably, might be bold to say, but I think since 2017, this is the strongest Maverick Vignales I've seen in a first quarter of a season DATE.Now, 2017, for you that don't know, he won in Qatar GPE, he won in Le Mans EVENT, he won in Argentina GPE, in his first year at Yamaha ORG, and he was, you know, it was this sort of waiting in vain rider that we'd been, you know, dying to see take it to Mark Marquez, and then it all fell away in the rest of the year.But since then, Maverick PERSON has always been hit and miss. But this season, he seems to be a lot more consistent again, excluding Horeth PERSON, but that's sent to be only Apprilla ORG. There wasn't a lot of, you know, Apprilla struggled, Hereth PERSON. I think there's no hide in that. But Maverick, I would say, is really taking the lead on this apprilla role now.And there was talk before the season that, you know, if things don't go as planned this season, we may see Maverick Vignales leaving Apprilla ORG at the end of his contract, but I think it's fair to say that if he wants to stay at Prillia ORG, I think they'll take him.

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Yeah, they probably should. Because as you said, I think he's taking the lead role. I don't know, he's definitely being the lead performing rider when you just look at the constructors' points that are previously as gained. And I think when you look at the qualify, like obviously we only have five races, but he'squalified three times on the front row. That's not an easy thing to do in modot JP. And more often than not, he's converted them to results that are good and notlike 15th after a bad start. So he seems to have figured that out as well, which is really impressive. Like I've been waiting for Maverick PERSON to pull out something like this and something actually resembling consistency. It's never going to be like bad.I don't know if this bike it can be, but it's never going to be like podium every weekend, but it's still a lot better than what it used to be.

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Exactly that. I just kind of look at Maverick now this year, and I expect him to stay within range of where he is, whereas before it was almost as if Maverick PERSON, what are you doing down in 17th? And, you know, why, why have you all of a sudden just nose dive? Whereas he seems to be a lot more consistent now. He seems to be more comfortable on the bike. And like you say, it seems to be like this lead role that he is taken, which with the talk of a lache finishing this year may be, it's important for him to do that now, as opposedto waiting until Lash PERSON has gone to then stop aiming that to lead the role. I think if he stamps his authority down at Apprillion FAC now, he'll reap the benefits of that going into 2025 with the development of the role. I think if he puts his, stamps his authority down at Apprillion now, he'll reap the benefits of that going into 2025 with the development of the bike. That being said, they had a very good sprint race with a lace finishing in P5 PRODUCT andPedro Acosta PERSON doing Pedro Acosta things for P6 PRODUCT. And I said it before, and I'll say it again, if that kid is not on the factory KTM by next year, I will eat my hat becausethere is no way on this earth he's not got that ride, wouldn't you agree?

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Yeah, but I imagine if out of left field, Ducati ORG came out and said, you know, we've signed Pedro Costa.

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I literally said this. I literally said this on Saturday. I said, imagine if everything that's going on with Jorge Martin, Mark Marquez, and Air Bastienini PERSON, you know, a few murmurs, here, like, who's going to get what right? I literally said this in that imagine the absolute storm that would come down on that media press conference if Gigi is Linear at Magello FAC, when they're all waiting for the answer, and who walks in with him is Pedro Acosta PERSON? Honestly, that would be one of the biggest mic drops in MotoGP ORG history if that happened.And I'm glad you've thought about it as well as I have, because that would honestly be, that would make my year. Not in a bad way to put Jorge Martin down, Mark Marquez and all the others, but I just, that would be the best. That would just make my year.

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Yeah, and I also think like, yeah, it's most likely not going to happen. But if it did happen, then at some point, like Jorge Martin or Mark Marquez, couldn't really say anything about it. Obviously, he's a rookie and stuff like that. It invites Pedro Costal PERSON. If Yucati were able to sign him, it would be steel of the century.

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I mean, something that's worth mentioning, and I don't mean to get too silly into silly season, but something that is definitely worth mentioning is if Pramak go with Yamaha ORG, apparently they're in further talks. And Uchio PERSON, the team manager at VR-46,that said that they were 70% staying with Dukati ORG. So let's say, right, let's just hypothesize here. Let's say Pramak, Yamaha, where does Famin Aldegar PERSON go?

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Because he is signed to Ducati for 2025.

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Yeah.

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And you've got Pekebanaya, Mark Marquez,

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let's just say Jorge Martinez PERSON, factory bike. Let's say, Enaya goes to Apprilla ORG, right? Let's just say that. Let's be, you know, whatever. So we've got Pecco PERSON and Jorgeon the factory bike. You've got the Marquez brothers on the Cassini PRODUCT bike. And you've got Bersacki and Digi or Vieti or Moldelli or whoever they keep on at Vio 46 ORG. Where does Femina Alge go? Because there's only then six bikes. I'll go because there's only then six bikes.

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I think someone at the bottom end of the championship in a Ducati ORG is going to look to see it. Because they were already inside Altegaer and it's like he's going to be there.

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It's difficult because if VL 46 turn around and say, you know, by the end of the year they they want to promote Vieti to GP ORG, and Berzeki wants to say in GP, or more is out of a ride, they're going to look after their own, aren't they? They're going to look after their academy and say, well, it's our academy, it's our team, we'll sign who we want. And then for me and Alderg is in a very difficult contract situation because he has signed for Ducati ORG. So it's worth noting.

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I mean, Pramak will probably end up staying at Ducati, but it's worth thinking about if Pramak do go to Yamaha ORG, where does everybody go?

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It's only a certain amount of riders in certain amount of seats.

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It's the, I don't know what you call that game, but you know the game where there's all the time like one seat less than the people

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in your... Musical chairs. Yeah, musical chairs, yeah.

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It's like that. If they lose Pramak PERSON, then there are a lot of desperate Dukati ORG riders.

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Yeah, exactly. I mean, obviously

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if Pramak goes to Yamaha ORG, then they're going to be Pramak PERSON scenes on a Yamaha ORG, so someone is going to end up there, and I don't think most of the Dakotirayans are in the bad bet for it, other than Franco Morbynelli PERSON, who I thinkwould rather retire and move to

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the outback of Australia GPE than go

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back on that Yamaha ORG. But it's interesting, yeah. It's, you know, maybe you could say that, well well in this scenario if Mark PERSON stays at Grisini and Grasini ORG is like well we want afactory bike here then maybe Dohati ORG could say well you take Ferreira another next to him and we give you a factory bike or something like that I don't know yeah

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it's very difficult because I've seen some people say, he used to say that Alex Marquez PERSON will keep his ride, but then Marquez PERSON is not going to sign anything if Marquez isn't signed on. Do you know what I mean? There's a lot of different, like, links to everybody's sort of contract situation.So, again, I don't want to nose dive into a very deep hole of contracts in 2025, but it's just worth keeping in mind that Feminauque signed on for 2025. So it does depend where he goes with where Pramak PERSON end up, because everyone's been set on saying this announcement was for me and Aldegera ORG. We said on this podcast for ages it will just be some sponsor or something. And it was, it was.It was. It was just some, like, literally nothing announcement. But, hey, let's see. Let's see what happens with that. I don't want to deep dive into that too much. But, yeah, a very good Saturday sprint. And then we will get on to our Moto 3 Grand Prix Sunday,which I, once again, I'm blessed to announce that the race winner is David Alonzo, followed by Danny Holgardo and Colin Veyer PERSON, which, to be honest, having watched this race, you couldn't give a more deserving podium than that, really. They were the main three throughout the whole race. Maybe Colin Vire and Holgardo PERSON will be a little bit miffed that they missed out, butlook, last year, if you watched Moto 3 last year, you don't count David Alonzo PERSON out on the last lap because he will sit and watch, observe, see where everyone is a week, and then on the last lap,four times last year, snatched it from everybody. So it's sort of his signature move at this point to wait to the last lap. And he topped every session again all weekend. He topped every single session. And I think now, unless I'm mistaken, I think he's led every single session since Portugal GPE or something like that.I can't remember. Either way, he's topped like nine-tenths of the seasons this year. And look, I don't need to say anything else because I bang on about David Alonzo PERSON more than anybody ever to exist. But Alisa PERSON, how good was this race? Because it had a bit of everything, didn't it?

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It was really good. And honestly, yeah. As you said, I was like, Alonso PERSON, that's at this point. Winning feels like inevitable. Once he's in a position to win at the end of the race,it's really, yeah, I think it was interesting because we saw Olgada PERSON really race hard. But yeah, I just didn't end up going anyway or anywhere for him. But yeah, I just... But they end up going anyway or anywhere for him. But yeah, once again, just lost out. And yeah, it's...Yeah, I just... As, as you know, I don't have time to watch the practice this, but even I see the results and I'm like, never allowed to up there again.

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Again, it's... I just checked

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it. The last session he wasn't

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at the top of was Q2 in Portimao GPE.

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Wow.

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And he was a tenth off of pole. That was the last session he wasn't top of. Portemau, which for people who listen, if you're new to this, that was round two. We're now at round five, and he's topped every single session. And if you're new to this, look, I've said this for two or three years now on the podcast, but this kid is just so good.He is so good. Honestly, even to watch on a Friday, the way that he sets the pace alive and just the way he rides, he is destined for greatness. He just is.

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Another great ride as well

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for his teammate, Joel Estaband in P4 PRODUCT, who is really picking up now. You're going to say something.

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Yeah, just, I'm related to racing. I think David Alonsoe PERSON seems like just a nice guy. Like, he mentioned about the Motherso seems like just a nice guy. He mentioned about the Mother's Day in Colombia over the world. And like, every time he's in Park Fair FAC, he just seems toremember the people around and being really genuine and kind, and obviously, you know, the racing is the main thing at the end of the day. Your personality doesn't really matter if you're winning, but just to havejust a nice, nice looking kid out there who is really just heartwarming on the podium. I think that's nice.

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Yeah, he comes across very well, doesn't they, in his interviews.

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And even in like, I remember in Qatar GPE when he was like shouting people out and his English LANGUAGE was very, very raw still, but he was, you know, thankful for the team away and very honest but modest at the same time. Yeah, I look, I get banging on my home all the time. I love David Alonzo PERSON.He's so good.

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But it's actually quite bizarre to think that Joel Estaband PERSON, who's a rookie this year and very good rookie, very quick, David Alonzo PERSON's younger than him and he's he's already like set in the world of light so it goes to show even though Joel Lesterman is a rookie, David Alonzo is still younger than him just turned 18 years of age. So yeah I mean for everyone listening what you were doing at 18 look it sends you down a dark hole when you compare your age to these kids that come through and set the world to light in Moto 3. But still, we have to mention the incident between David Munoz and Ricardo Rossi PERSON.Now, Ricardo Rossi charged through the pack, caught up with David Munoz PERSON, who was fighting at the front with the main pack to begin with. And they did recreate the Vignales and Pekka Bainaya incident from last year. However, David Munoz didn't come out like Maverick Vignales PERSON did and he just carried on. Do you think the double long lap penalty was fair? Do you think one long lap penalty would have been more reasonable? What's your thoughts on that? Yeah, I kind of feel like maybe I might be wrong

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about this, but David Munoz PERSON is known for making quite hard moves, and I think for the whole race, he was making some sort of moves over the whole field, so I think maybe the stewards look at at it and thought, well, well you know you've already been doing like a big bit on the limit in general so maybe this time it'sgoing to stick I don't know some sort of penalty obvious maybe I don't know

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I do think he's reeled it in though

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wouldn't you agree I think he's reeled it in this year I was even saying it watching it it's like

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past years Munoz would never sit behind first place for that long. He just wouldn't.

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He would always want to be at the front. He'd always want to be overtaken. No matter where he was, he was always overtaken. And this year he has reeled it in a little bit, but maybe this is still a sign of what's been in the past. And he's still trying to, you know, cross that bridge of maturity where he doesn't really make that move. Yeah, maybe one long lap would have been

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okay for me, I think. Yeah, I agree. I think two long laps was quite harsh because that

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corner is very, it opens itself up to go the way Munoz PERSON was going. So yes, it caused a crash. But I don't think it was entirely his fault with the way that they were placed. So a long lap would have been fair, but double long lap. Again, that is a killer. A big killer of a race, really, from somebody that, in my opinion, it was like 6040, 70, 30 to Munoz PERSON. But still. And just thinking in like 60, 40, 70, 30 to Munoz PERSON. But still.And just thinking in terms of riders and results, Rueida PERSON was a surprise to me. I thought Rueheda PERSON would have been higher up.

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He'd be the P8.

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I think he has been struggling with the after-up effects of his appendicitis and going through.

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And I think he missed the previous race. and I think there was still talk about having blood

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somewhere like I had an infection yeah he had an infection

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yeah he had an infection for breath so I get that I do understand that but like from

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Friday he looked very quick he looked quite competitive

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and had said that he felt that he could run right at the front and

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maybe it is you know later race pace that's sort of, you know, really hurt him there.

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But quite surprised at that.

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But still, I mean, I say that he's finished a second off the race win. So, you know, Moto 3 terms, that's where it puts you down in P8. In terms of riders of the day, though, Elisa PERSON, who have you got for your pick? of Riders of the day, though, Elisa PERSON, who have you got for your pick?

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I thought it was... I actually thought, you know, Ruea PERSON coming back, I think P8 is a good result. And, like, obviously, he wanted more. But given his eldest and stuff like that, I just thought, you know, he's still race rusty. Like, he isn't meaning bad there for the past two weeks. And so it's still like getting right up there in the sharp end of it, you know, having been sick yourself. I think that was a good result, obviously.But, you know, for someone who watched a championship, it's not the best one, but still. And I think he's a bit out of that picture already. But, you know, I think it's a good comeback result, and I think he was running up there fairly long in the race, but then he just went a little bit backwards.

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Yeah. For me, I was going to pick, I think for me, I'm going to pick Joel Estaband PERSON, but I want to go out to Luca Leneto PERSON, who finished in P11 PRODUCT, who I think had a really solid race.I mean, you look at some of the riders behind in Roosten GPE, Kelso, Furosato, Suratouza race. I mean, you look at some of the riders behind in Roosten, Kelso, Furasato, Zerutuzer, Almancer GPE, you know, there's some solid riders behind him there. And I think P11 PRODUCT is a very respectable race. I'm going to go with Joel Esteban PERSON because he is just, he just continues to impress me week in, week out.I mean, even at Areth FAC, he'd kind of burnt out his tyres fairly quickly, but, I mean, he still had a very competitive race and a very solid race all round.

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Yeah, I think you saw the difference. Like, you saw Joel Esteban PERSON, another one. I just want to mention, Annel Piceros PERSON.

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He ran, like, the 10th place.

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But I think they ran, like, closely together, most of the race.

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But Joel Esteban PERSON stayed up there.

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Anhele dropped out to 10th.

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So I think that's steep. With to 10th so I think that's steep with a fellow rookie I think that's the comparison to make even there

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so that makes it Joel PERSON's

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alright really impressive yeah Joel Esteban PERSON and Angel Pequeras are both very very good rookies as is Javi Zerutuzer they're all very good in each of their own respectsbut like honestly John Levin and Pekiras PERSON at the moment, I know Zeratuz PERSON has started later with the age limit and such like, so I think he'll come good later on. But, I mean, Pekirass PERSON, for me, in terms of on the eye, Pekiras PERSON to watch is fantastic. He's so good.But yeah, like I say, I have to give it to about P4, rookie, you know, first time racing around LeMont in the World Championship EVENT. A very difficult track to come to and be competitive at because, you know, you look at some of the riders that have been here before. Hogardo, previous race winner, Alonzo PERSON, obviously.Colin Viya, last year, you know, there's not many rookies, as you say, around them. So as a rookie, I think LeMont FAC is one of those circuits that you can get eaten up at and find yourself very much out the pack when the experienced riders come through. But still, very respectable race for Joel Esterman PERSON. Matt PERSON has gone with Ricardo Rossi, which for Matt wouldn't be a surprise to go for a rider that's crashed.

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We are back. We have been out for a while. I don't think we have picked riders who have crashed in a while. But this is...

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Yeah, I mean, if they're a man and they crash, then they get picked as well. So, you know, Matt PERSON, Port Ricardo Rossi said he was doing so well and looks to be on for a podium before being taken down by Munoz PERSON,which, me personally, I don't, I don't think he was on for a podium. He was in and around the podium, but I don't think he would have got a podium by the end of it, but, you know, sort of, again, I can't really go off of that.He said, Munoz PERSON deserved the double long lap penalty, and I'm glad to see that the stewards made a correct decision for a change. So Matt PERSON, having a slightly different opinion from us, but, yeah, kind of puts into perspective with the stewards where they're not that consistent.But, yeah, a good selection of riders the day all around, which moves us on to Moto 2. And we had a finishing order of Sergio Garcia, Iagoa, and Alonzo Lopez PERSON, an all non-Calx podium for the first time in, I don't even know how long that is. I'm sure there's been a stat put somewhere with when the last time it waswhere we didn't have any calyx on the podium. But I won two for the MT Helmets ORG team, which we said even last round, they've been so consistent and they've looked so strong on all fronts, even at late race pace, which Iagoa is, and Garcia PERSON, are both incredible when it comes to late-Reyer's pace, which showed in Iagoa's pace fighting against the likes of Aaron Kinet, Sumkatchan, Joe Roberts PERSON,in those last few laps. Alisa PERSON.

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Yeah, I have to start for you. I found it on Twitter, and the answer is 2013 Valencia, whenever Johan Zago PERSON was on the podium.

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So, yeah.

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Wow. 2013 2013 Valencia and to think in in terms of a time lapse

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2013 Valencia Mark Marquez was crowned Moto GP world champion for the first time

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that goes to show how long ago that was more than a decade yeah it's wow yeah again

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I think that's really good step. Yeah. Again, I think that's really good step, to be honest with you. I think it's nice to see that it's not just dominated by one particular manufacturer, whether you want to cut manufacturer development or the chassis, whatever.You know, I think it's good to see. And Sergio Garcia deserved this race win. I thought Aaron, it got to P2, would have caught Sergio Garcia. I know Kinnett PERSON's dealing with the recovery of a broken ankle,which we could see him lifting his left foot off the foot peg throughout the race, but I feel so bad for Aaron Kinnett PERSON, having finished in P6 PRODUCT, but it is one of the things.You know, he kind of just got eaten up right at the very end, didn't he?

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Why is it always Kenneth PERSON, though? Like, I remember last year, like, he kind of just got eaten up right at the very end, didn't he? Why is it always Kenneth, though? Like, I remember, like, last year, like, he had an incident, like, he crashed a car last year. I don't think it, I don't remember if it was his fault, but I don't think it was his fault. And I remember some race where he had his, afterwards, like, the car, he had his nose broken.

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And then, like, he's also lost, hasn't he lost, like, part of a finger as well? Like, he, I can't remember where it was, but I think he had a crash where the car, he had his nose broken and then, like... Yeah, he's also lost, hasn't he lost, like, part of a finger as well? Like, he, I can't remember where it was, but I think he had a crash where the bike rolled back onto his hand. And I think it's his... It might be his wedding fingeror his pinky finger.

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He's lost, like, half a finger. Yeah, it's just, like, it's just, at some point, you gotta, like, he has angered some some point, you've got to, like, he has angered some, some sort of, some sort of racing guard over there, like, that's just unfortunate, but yeah.

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It's all the racing ancestry that hate the fact that the modern day world accept somebody

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being covered in tattoos, that they have to get it back into him somehow. Yeah.

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But, yeah, a very unlucky race result for Aaron Connoe PERSON who, you know what?

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He hadn't have fought his way through and just creeped up to P6 is such a respectable

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race finish because racing on a broken ankle, I mean, he did crash. He did crash, not that in the race, but this weekend he did crash in qualifying, I believe it was in Q2 EVENT. After putting it on pole as well on a broken ankle. So he's had a very strong weekend, just unfortunate at the very very end in receiving an Alonzo Lopez shunt and a Joe Roberts PERSON shunt. And some catch andra flying and through as well to push him back down to P6but albeit a very very good race all around Garcia PERSON led from start to finish this is his second race win of the season and honestly now he's the championship leader you can't really sit there and say that he's not in the fun championship because he's leading it

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which is bizarre isn't it? Yeah he's won two races now and it's now, and it's the same number that's the same number that Fermin PERSON has won. I am not 100% sure, but yeah, it's really impressive. Like, I was looking at last night all the results, and whenever you look at, like, this year's, and obviously this year's rookies have started, but this year's and last year's rookie class, like, Serhi PERSON really stepped it up. Like, he was, even last year as a rookie,I looked at the points, and he was like, he had to double the points as the next best rookie out there. I think Dennis Forgeo was the second one, and obviously, you know, different bikes and stuff like that, but still, I think it's really impressive, and, you know, it's really impressive.I think back in was it which year did he fight for the motor three title the year before that

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this would have been

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2022 two two yes

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yes because last year it was a rookie

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but yeah and I think that year I think you heard at least I remember hearing all the people talk about how well currently like Kevada is Garcia on the same level, but people said that they expect Isan Gavara to be the better one of the two. And obviously that might still be the case. You know, we don't know the future.But, you know, up to this point, Garcia PERSON has proven to be, you know, whatever the stuff is made out of.

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I mean, to be fair on that point, it's a gruel to bring up, but Garcia PERSON had, on the top, of the top of my head, I think he had four years in Moto 3. He had.

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Maybe five, four years, I think he had. And Guevara had two, I think. Yes, two.

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So Garcia's got a lot more experience than he's on Guevara PERSON.

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And maybe with that, it's like, you know, Guavaa, yes, he's in his second year,

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but he's only his fourth year in World Championship EVENT.

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So Motto ORG be in the biggest step, who actually, not to give it away too early, but Guvara is actually my rider of the day because he improved a lot throughout the weekend. And to finish in the top 10 was so good to see because he is somebody that, yeah, he finished 14 seconds off the race to win but that being said this is the best weekend he has had for a long long time and I think it'll give him a lot of confidence knowing that he's finished in front of a lot of good tagline him and beating and around that fightyes I think his tires went away at the very end but again new tires for everybody and somebody like isanguvar who's had a year on the Dunlops and now a year on the Pirelli's. He is coming good. So, yeah, but you can't take anything away from the Hempter ORG's guys. I mean, Iagoa GPE, what a race.He didn't have a great qualifying, but it's normal for Iigora PERSON to come through at the late race and show what he's made of. But still, a fantastic showing for empty haremers like really really good all roundArbelino PERSON creeped back into this top 10 top 9 8 CARDINAL sort of ballpark if you like finishing in P8 but still not seeing the Tony PERSON of old your thoughts

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it's the top fives are coming. They are going to be... I'm at Barcelona GPE in the next race. I hope I'll bring Tony PERSON all the luck he needs. I think that's going to be your top five then. There you go.

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If Tony Obolino PERSON crashes, you know, why? Yeah.

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No. I mean, it's not what you look for. it seems a bit hopeless, but it could be worse. Like, for example, what is happening to Philip Salach PERSON? I just...

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Yeah, I mean, Philip Salach PERSON's finishing in P-12. I don't mean to sound like I'm putting it all on this, but I think a lot of what we see now with the mixed, like the mixed bag of results in Moto 2 is tires. I think it is tires. I don't, you know, Philip Salach was after he got the KT, the KTM, the Mark VDS PRODUCT contract, I think it was quite clear that he was hitting me some rounds. He was, the Salach PERSON we knew. Sometimes it was, you know, it was nowhere. But, you know, it was nowhere.But, you know, you look at other riders that have sort of, I mean, like Marcus Ramirez PERSON, P-15, three rounds ago, two rounds, he was fighting for a race win. So it's like, the tires, this people thought, I mean, Jake Dixon PERSON, P-17, he quite clearly had an issue with other things other than just tires. But, you know, there's a very mixed bag all around so that's why you see the likes of like barry baltas in katar GPE that's you know with all due respect come from nowhere so a mixed bag a very mixed bag with tires um matt's rider today is chandra he said finish fifthwhich is the best finish of the season which i find bizarre actually but chantra seems to be picking it up and was in around the um fight, which Joe Roberts PERSON was in again, keeping up the consistency. Who's your rider of the day, Elisa PERSON?

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Can you share yours first, I want to?

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Oh, mine's Izan Guevara PERSON, as I said earlier.

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Oh, yeah. I'm going to give mine to Isan PERSON. Yeah.

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But, I mean, there's some good picks. I mean, I Agora would be a solid show. Alonzo Lopez was strong. Yeah. Net, I mean, there's some good picks. I mean, Iagoa GPE would be a solid show. Alonzo Lopez PERSON was strong. Yeah.

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Net, maybe.

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Yeah, I think I'm going to go with the trend of previously injured riders

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and currently injured riders.

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It was an impressive showing from him.

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You're not unlucky. And, you know, also the last lap,

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like Joe Roberts PERSON is going for the move and then just losing the podium at the same moment. Interesting.

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Yeah, Aaron Kinnett PERSON's had a

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mixed weekend but, you know, albeit, I mean, with the injury that he's got a pole P6, in the circumstances that's happened yet to be a little bit annoyed, but you know what, it's not the worst and he's bit annoyed but you know what it's not theworst and he's picked up plenty of points and he's not a million miles off in terms of points for the championship still early days but you know an ankle breaks not exactly ideal is it when it comes to that but we have to move on to the inquiry of france with the moto gp finishing order of jor Martin, Mark Marquez and Peco Badnaya PERSON. And anyone that watched Shareth PERSON would have come away from that saying, you can't top that. You know, you can't get better than that.And Le Mans EVENT gave the biggest middle finger and said, yeah, we can. And for a record attendance, we had a three-way fight for the race win right to the very end. And you couldn't pick a better three riders. In the circumstances that's going on at the moment with, as we've said, with the factory dukati ride of Martin and Marquez PERSON,it seems to be going down to Anabastieni GPE, probably missing out on that factory ride full 2025. You couldn't have asked for more, could you, Lisa PERSON? Incredible.

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I thought, you know, we were shaping up for a good fight when you saw Horamartin PERSON be able to be up there with Takalbagnaya. Like, Ragnaya PERSON didn't pull away like he usually does. And I thought, you know, oh, we are going to get some exciting last lap, last part of the race, racing between them. And then Mark PERSON out of nowhere just climbed up there and suddenly he was in the fight.Impressive, like, it's, yeah, and amazing. Like, I think the last five laps, I think Mahathrae was like at 200.

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I thought someone was going to end up in a gravel trap. I wasn't sure who it was going to be, but I thought someone was going to end up in a gravel trap.

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I wasn't sure who it was going to be, but I thought someone was going to end up there. But thankfully, they all made it around the chicken flag.

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Well, I've got to say, if it wasn't for Bastianini PERSON's long lap, the pace that Bastianini PERSON was running at the end of the race, he would have been, I genuinely think he would have finished in front of Peko, if not Mons. Bastianini was setting record lap pace back to back with three, four laps to go. And they were continually, like, continually,not even a word, continuously making mistakes at the front. He does.

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With Martine, Peco, Marquez PERSON. Like, Marquez PERSON's ties were gone. Martine makes a mistake, backs them all up again. And Bassinini PERSON, like I say, if it wasn't for that long lap, he would have been within a fight,110% he would have been within the fight. We had Maverick Vignales, P5, Digia P6 PRODUCT, which is so good to see, Digia back up in the top six. Frankie Morbidelli and Alash had a coming together before the last few corners, which I will find the quote for them in a moment.Elisa, we had Brad Binder PERSON come all the way back from, I think it was like P21, P20 PRODUCT or something like that.

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22.

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Yeah, 22. A very difficult, if it wasn't for Pedro Costa who did crash out, but fine at the front, if it wasn't for all of the crashes promoting everybody else, a very tough weekend for KTM ORG once again, wasn't it?

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Yeah, it's just like, once again, like obviously Bradpinder PERSON did an impressive right, not to take away from that, but it's just you know, I think last year, I thought that the start of this year,I thought Bradford PERSON was really good, but you can't qualify 22nd. Like he qualified dead last. Not when there's Pedro Acosta who's qualifying all the time into Q2 EVENT. And more often than not, into great places. Like, it just shows that obviously Brad had a difficult weekend and he had an injury and stuff like that.But still, I think to be struggling against Acosta at this point so much, it just shows that, well, it's, you know, maybe KTM ORG don't have the full-proof package they thought in him. I don't know.

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Yeah, I mean, in relation to what I was saying about Aleish PERSON, a Leish PERSON said if I hadn't stood the bike, I would have crashed. This is a last lap dive from Frankie Morbidelli PERSON, apparently. And Frankie PERSON said, I attempted an overtake in the last cornerthat Elish PERSON wasn't happy with, but I'm used to that by now. And as we were saying before recording, these two seem to be butting heads every so often. So it's not a rare occurrencefor Morbidelli PERSON and a Leach PERSON to be squabbling. And as Alisa PERSON said said it's almost another version of Jaumeir PERSON and Jack Miller PERSON. Some people just don't get on andyou know what I don't think many people get on, should I say, with Frankie Morbilly and there have been a few people who have a few run-ins with a lach so I'm not blaming a lache, I'm not saying al-lash ORG doesn't have a point but yeah there seems to be more people squabbling with a lache. I'm not saying alish ORG doesn't have a point, but yeah,there seems to be more people squabbling with alash PERSON these days than there does Frankie Morbidelli PERSON. So I can't really comment on the move. I've not seen the move. It wasn't televised, but take from that what you will. Which did promote Morbidelli 2P7 PRODUCT,Bradbinder P8, LHP9 PRODUCT and Alex Marquez P10. Yeah.

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It looked like a great weekend, I was going to say.

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It looked like a great weekend in terms of a race result as well with a half decent qualifying for the home hero Fabio Guateraro PERSON. However, he did crash out of P6 PRODUCT, which my heart did sink. But albeit, I know it's not where they want to be, but it was a better weekend than what it was the last. And you're only as good as your last. So, yes, the race result wasn't what he wanted.But even Fabio said that they made a good step in the direction that they went that weekend, in that even without the crashes, they were P7, I think he was, P8 in qualifying. And they were further afield than every other Japanese NORP manufacturer and every other Japanese bike, including Rins ORG and, you know, all the others. So not the worst weekend in Fabio PERSON's sense. Obviously, at home, he would have wanted a great race result.Obviously, he would have wanted to win. But in the current circumstance, not the worst weekend all around. You were going to say something prior to that, though, sorry.

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Yeah, nothing really. But on the hand of Fabio PERSON, yeah, I did shit up here when he crashed out, but you know, you can't really fault him from that. He was running six at that point. Really impressive, like, I'm just evoked same feelings in me as watching whatever Mark Marcus did last year on the Honda ORG. That was like, I'm just, emote same feelings in me as watching whateverMark has did last year on the Honda ORG, and that was like,

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I think it's the same thing.

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Fabio PERSON just pulling all the heroics because it's his home race, and he had a nice-looking livery as well.

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Obviously, special liveries usually end up in the gravel trap,

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but that's to be expected expected but on the other hand really impressive weekend from Fabio PERSON like qualifying straight into Q2 EVENT and I think that helped his weekend a lot and in qualifying he was so fast like it's just he had alreadysaid that he didn't think he was going to go any faster and then somehow he qualified P8 so he qualified really good fast and people on much faster bikes on a bike where he said himself he didn't see any more coming out of the speed. And it's just, I'm so impressed by him, honestly.Like, yeah, I would have hoped for the home fans for his to see him finish. But I'm happy he was happy raising some of the people, as he said, he used to race before he was relegated to the back of the grid.

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Yeah, speaking of the back of the grid, Jo Amir PERSON crashed out in both the sprint and the race, and I don't really know. Like, I was saying this all weekend that Yamaha ORG, people tell me that Yamaha need a V4 and they need two more bikes,which I agree with the latter. I don't necessarily agree with the former because I don't thinkaha need a V4 and they need two more bikes, which I agree with the latter. I don't necessarily agree with the former because I don't think they need a V4 PRODUCT. I think they need two more bikes. Honda have both of those things and are worse off than Yamaha ORG. So that puts into perspective how bad Honda are at the minute.

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Yeah.

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I mean, Jo Amir's PERSON crash. Anyone that saw Joamier PERSON's crash in the sprint or the race, I mean, I've never seen two crashes from the same rider and thought on both occasionshe could literally not have done anything wrong in that scenario. The bike just does, it just doesn't go. It doesn't work. Like, nothing works on that bike. It's not even like, I think honestly,if Marquez was riding this year's bike, I think he'd do well to get anywhere near the top 10. Like, it's so bad. It's awful. I mean, Luca Marini PERSON, who's new to this bike, right? He's jumped on the Repsol Honda ORG.He is 10 seconds behind the next bike. Luca Marini, who's new to this bike, right? He's jumped on the Reptel Honda ORG. He is 10 seconds behind the next bike.

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I think... The next bike, Elisa PERSON.

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I think Luca Haramarini PERSON has...

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I'm not sure, but I think he's finished last in probably every race. It's bad.

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I mean, I know he's new to the bike, but 40 seconds on the dot away from Jorge Martine PERSON, 40 is bizarre. I mean, this race, they weren't necessarily running. I know they were running a decent pace, but they weren't running, they weren't pushing at the front to get away from everybody from a minute go TIME. Like, 40 seconds behind,I mean, you look at down all the way up until P10. So Alex Marquez and P10 finished 13 seconds behind Jorge Martin. You've got Ralph Fernandez, 24, Joanne Zarko on the Honda, 26 seconds behind. Augusto Fernandez, 27 seconds behind. Takanacagami, 30 seconds behind. Alex Rins 30 seconds behind. Augusto Fernandez, 27 seconds behind, Takanakagami, 30 seconds behind, Alex Rins 30 seconds behind. Luca Marini, 40 seconds behind. Like,oh my God, and you can't even use the argument of he's completely new to the bike, because Alex Rins is new to the Yamaha ORG, and he's injured, and he's finished 10 seconds in front of him. Like, that is drastically bad. I just don't know with Honda ORG. Like, if they don't manage to keep Jo Amir PERSON,like, even if Zarko GPE gets that ride, what's the progression? Where's the direction of this project? Like, where do they go next? What will be, what, two years on the current regulations?

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Like, where do Honda ORG go at this point? Yeah, you hear about the bike. Like, they bring new things in testing, and they say, well, we know where not to go. So they manage to always bring a completely different bike, but it always manages to suck just as much as the last one.

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Yeah. I mean, yeah, not to, like, you know,completely dig Honda ORG out, but they are, honestly, if there is not drastic improvement to the point where in certain races, they can compete for top 10,genuinely, I don't see Joe Amir PERSON staying. I just don't, I don't, why would Joe Amir PERSON sign for another two years on the same regulation biketo sit on the same bag of crap for two years to not go anywhere with it? What's the point? He's only decreasing his own stock value. He's not going anywhere with it. The bike's not going anywhere.The project's not going anywhere. It just looks like it's falling apart at Honda ORG. It really does. And I'm not saying Yamaha ORG look like they're on the up. But Yamaha have got two bikes, and they don't have the same engine typeas what the current bike leading the whole grid have. They have an inline for, Dakati, Apprilla, KTM ORG, they all have V4s. People keep telling me that Yamaha need, and they don't have it, and they're in front of Honda ORG. They keep telling me they need two more bikes, which I agree with. Honda have two more bikes, and they're still behind Yamaha ORG.So what do you do at this point, if you're Honda ORG? What do you do?

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Yeah, I don't know. Honestly, like, you tell me, do Honda ORG get to Q2 any time this season? No.

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The only time they get to Q2 EVENT, genuinely, I think at the minute, is Zarko GPE, maybe.

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Yeah.

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In a half wet, yeah.

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Okay, completely dry conditions.

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I think you'll see Honda ORG in Q2

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twice. Yeah, I'm you'll see Honda in Q2 EVENT twice.

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Yeah, I'm going to give them once.

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I think it's been up there.

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Like, he's been 13th. Obviously, in the meantime

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differences is, but someone's going to mess up somehow at some point

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and he's going to end up there.

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It's bad. Yeah.

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Very, very bad. I mean,

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yeah. Well, I'll not go too, very bad. I mean, yeah.

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Well, I'll not go too much further into that with Honda ORG,

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but honestly, it's drastic at this point. Yeah. This Grand Prix was fantastic. Honestly, out of 10, I would give this. I think it'd be hard to not give it anything less than a 9. Like 9 out of 10, if not 10 out of 10. I think the only thing you could ask for more for ten out of ten would be Mark's overtake on Peco ORG, but for thelead. Do you know what I mean? If there was a race lead fight, you'd be saying ten out of ten, but look, I'm not going to be too cynical on it. It was absolutely fantastic. And to see Mark Marquez fighting back at the front is always good. To see Martine come back from Areth FAC as well is also very healthy for the sport. Goodbye now, yeah. Probably quite annoyed by the Sunday evening.Don't believe the smiles that came out after Park Fermé and, you know, when he's being interviewed, because have a look, his general body language walking around, it kind of speaks for itself.

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Yeah, you saw it in Park Ferber with Pecker, right?

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Obviously, he's always like cordial and nice,

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but I think you saw he was really muted in that sense,

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just not that happy.

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But, you know, he should be unhappy.

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He's a rider.

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He's a two-time world champion.

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He's the winning.

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Of course.

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You wouldn't be a three-time world champion or a two-time world champion who's the winning. Of course. You wouldn't be a three-time world champion

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or a two-time MotoGP ORG world champion

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if you were happy with third.

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No.

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You wouldn't be.

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I mean, chappo to Mark and to Jorge Martin,

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who had a fantastic race,

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played it absolutely. I mean, the only thing he did wrong, Martin, was when he took the lead, made that slight mistake into turn two, allowing Pecco and Marquez PERSON to come back into it. But that being said, if Martin sees Peco ORG as his main rival,it was actually a blessing in disguise because it made Marquez able to then overtake Peco ORG. His ties were dead. So, you know, Martin probably will be buying Marquez PERSON a drink, I imagine, after that race. But who knows, maybe Mark Marquez will be his main competitor in the championship, which is frightening to say, I've got to be honest. That being said, Matt has given Frankie Morbidelli his rider of the day and also put him down at the same time in saying that Morbidelli is my rider of the day.He has been abysmal so far this season. Glad to see him finish in the top 10. I mean, talk about putting a man down while they up. I mean, Christ. He's had a good race weekend, solid P7, within 10 seconds of the race win,and Matt has still somehow put Frankie Morbidelli PERSON down in the ditch. So, yay for Frankie PERSON, I guess, if you want. Well done that one. My rider of the day is a Neabastienni. Look, you can give it to any one of those front three. And I was going to give it digier, but you know what?I've said it again and again. Bastienini PERSON had a very unlucky weekend all around. Finished two seconds off of Martine. Two seconds off of Martine. Two seconds off of Martin. After giving a long lap, you can't really ask much more from him with that.Again, with having been screwed over in qualifying as well, in qualifying far back, realistically, you could give it to Brad Binder PERSON. You could give it to Mark Marquez. There are so many rights in this race that you could give rider of the day to you'd be worthy of. But my vote is going to a Neabastienini. Alisa PERSON, who's yours?

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You know, I've been pretty harsh on him, but I have to give it to Mark this weekend. Obviously, the start of the weekend was not great, and I don't think he needs to clean down up. He can't be staying in Q1. You know, that's not the way to go if you want to fight for the championship, which he obviously wants to, you know. But to come back from that, like the sprint was good. He had a great start, but like the main race, he just,I think he was in the best way possible. I would call it like a quiet race in that. He just moved forwards, forwards, forwards. And I think he mentioned, like, he was looking for it in the last laps, you know, he was looking for a peco to make overtake. So Mark PERSON could take the win, probably. And then when he realized that, you know, that's probably not going to happen, and he thought, you know, I'm going to get the best out of it.And I think that move put him in third of the championship. So yeah, I think a really great comeback ride and you know you saw him really happy about it and you saw him be happy that he had the speed up there and you know i think it was a bit surprised himself but i think even though the start of the weekend was bad i'm i i take refuge in the fact that he just managed to somehow find the speed come come race day and work that magic over there and you know you have to say that he just has to win that race, like, soon, probably.

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Yeah, I think it's going to come, isn't it? I can't see 2024 going without a Mark Marquez win. I said it before the season that not to overhype it too much, and I'm not trying to put Mark down but an eight time champion on the most competitive bike that there is on the grid can only mean good things like it would be I would be more surprised and not elated but like in shock and you know my I would be overwhelmed with aif I saw Mark Marquez crashing every week and be like, what's going on? Like that can't make any sense. Mark Marquez and that bike are going to win. They are going to win. And if I was to putagain, here we go, let's finish on that. If you were to say Mark PERSON's going to win a year, will it be in Catalonia GPE? I think it's likely he's good around Barcelona GPE. Honestly, I think Mark Marquez will win on the Ducati in Magello FAC.

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Yes, I was going to say the same thing. Yeah.

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I think it'll be Magello FAC. I think it will be where people least expect it, where people think Pecco and then Martin might, I think

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it would be Mark PERSON. I don't know why I just have this feeling, I think

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it would be Mark PERSON. Yeah, I just

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and I mean, obviously with Mogello being the Italian NORP home, it would be an interesting thing to see Mark PERSON win there. I think he has only won there like once, but I think he's good around there.

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2014. He won in 2014, yeah.

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When he won everything.

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Yeah, when he won 10 races in a row.

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Yeah.

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Little feat of his, you know, just something small.

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Yeah.

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But yeah, I think Mark PERSON's, look,

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it could win at Barcelona and Magello FAC.

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It's not Marquez PERSON.

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So it could happen.

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With Mark PERSON, I think the interesting thing, obviously with everyone else so it could happen with Mark

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I think the interesting thing

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obviously with everyone else but I think with Mark it's the interesting thing which I forget

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because obviously he's an eight-time world so you expect the word but it says fifth race on the bike he's going to get bitterlike yeah

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like I've interested

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this is around five I want to see round 15 what's going to go on then I can't wait for this year this year is just getting better and better Like, I've interested, this is around five. I want to say round 15. What's going to go on then?

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I can't wait for this year. This year's just getting better and better. I mean, we had an eight, maybe nine out of ten at Areth FAC, and we've had, in my opinion, we've had a better race this weekend in LeMond GPE. And to have two back-to-back barnstorming races like that, it only gets your sort of, like, you know,you get that sort of feeling around you that, like, you know, you get that sort of feeling around you that like, you just want the next round to come straight away. And you definitely do having, you're going to be there. So, yeah, it's a very exciting time for MotorGP ORG. And that brings us on to the fantasy, which I cannot wait to tell you the situation in the fantasy, because I don't believe you've seen the updated, um, the updated set of it. But we have a top three of rolling racing inP1, Rewind Button Racing ORG in P2 and myself in P3. I'm back in P3 and I'm actually the leading participant that has not used a boost. However, Lisa PERSON, this is where it getsinteresting. Without looking yourself yourself, Josh, and Matt, where would you put yourself in the league? So we have in the league, we have 25 people in it at the moment. Where would you put in the red sector in the red sector division? Where would you say you are currently sat?

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I think I might be like third in terms of us three because I think Matt PERSON was above me.

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But in terms of the full league,

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where would you say you are? I think I was around somewhere in like 15th and I think I had a good weekend in fantasy. I switched out Mark for Pecco PERSON, which probably was not the best choice. ButI'd say like I'd probably speak somewhere like 11.

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Okay, you are P9.

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In fact, I'll tell you in a second.

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You are P9. Josh is P10 and Matt PERSON is P11. However, Matt is on 625 points. Josh is on 633 points and you are on 633.5 points. So you currently lead Josh by 0.5 of a point to be second in the red sector in a league, if you like. Myself, you Josh and Matt PERSON. Matt PERSON, you're going to have to take the L on this one this time round. You are currently sat in P4, which is normally my position in the Red Sector fantasy.But I'm doing pretty well. I'm back up to P3. I'm very, very stoked. But I couldn't believe it when I just brought up the fantasy to 0.5 of a point in front of Josh PERSON. But yeah, as I've said before, in previous podcasts, if you would like to join the fantasy, if you have a motor GP fantasy team, by all means do join the Red Text and GP Fantasy League ORG.And we'll be giving away a prize maybe for the winner at the end of the year. And if it's, I say maybe because if it ends up being myself I will not be giving myself any form of a prize apart from a big pat on the backfor finally not finishing dead last Elisa any final thoughts on the FrenchGrand Prix as a whole and any prior thoughts to your trip away are Salina

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Oh well no I just love Moodytubey PERSON at the moment I hope the whole whole championship is going to be good. I hope the Echo and Mark PERSON and he get a bit closer to Martinbecause we have a threat of a runway leader at this moment, you know, not to put Martin down at all, but, you know, for the sake of a good championship. But other than that, I'm really happy and really excited to get to Barcelona GPE. And then after that, you're going to Mugello as well. So maybe we'll do something like talking about going to GP ORG.

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Yes, yes, we'll definitely do some actual reviews of the Grand Prix EVENT experience as a whole. Obviously, your first Grand Prix EVENT experience, so it's going to be a big one. Do you know where you're sat for the race?

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Yeah, I do, but like the great fan I am, I don't remember at this moment. I'm going to be at a turn in a seat, sitting.

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And do you have any Mark Marquez merch or any particular merch preempted? Or are you going to buy someone as you're there? Any plans?

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You know, maybe this is sacrilegious of me i don't really think most of the merge is not really pretty to me so i haven't bought any but probably i'm going to go there and go insane and buy everything i do have a flag well like a market's flag but i don't think i'm going to bring that because it's it's a bit you know i've i've a limited space in my backpack.

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I'm not paying for another airplane.

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So, but yeah, I'm probably going to buy something or, or.

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Maybe you can get something like that's like event specific.

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So like the Barcelona Grand Prix 2024 EVENT, something that's like specific for that event.

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Yeah, that should be cool.

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And also my sister is making me, you know,

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some people know Taylor Swift PERSON does these, Taylor Swift PERSON fans do this, like, like, hand. And what's it called hand-jou?

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wristbands, yes.

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So she's going to make me something like motorjy-related.

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So maybe I'm going to wear like a wristband with like Mark markers on it

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and like the numbers, like 20 and 93 and stuff like that. Nice one. Well, there you go. That's that's Alisa PERSON's thoughts to preview the round in what will be when this podcast goes out in about a week and a half's time. So Elisa PERSON, all the best with that. I hope you have a great time with that. And then as Alisa said, it will be myself after that going to the Italian Grand Prix at Magello FAC. So, you know, we like to get around on the Red Sector. We like to do our best to tick off as many boxes as we can with Grand Prix. And then I obviously have Silverstone later on in the year.So we're trying our best to tick off at least a couple, if not three. But yeah, that's been us. If you have enjoyed this episode, please be sure to give it a review on whatever audio you are listening to us on. We do really appreciate all the feedback that we do get. And if you have enjoyed this episode in general, or any of our episodes for that matter, please be sure to give our socials a follow on any of the big social networks at Red Sector GP ORG. And you can find all of our links on there through our free, which will take you to our Discord PRODUCT and other socials.So yeah, that's been me, that's been Alisa PERSON. And with that, keep the throttle pinned. Sports Social Podcast Network

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