On track, it was the Marcus brothers who stole the headlines in Barcelona, a sprint stunner, a Sunday showdown, and a championship crowning that's been put on ice.

Deliberate or not, we don't know.

But off track, all eyes are locked on Peco Vanyaya with results that leave you shaking your head.

At the moment, we had crashes, penalties, the usual suspects stirring the pot, and of course, surprise, surprise, ju Catti walked away with the Constructor's crown Classic right.

Plus, we finally got the news we've been waiting for.

Jack is staying for twenty twenty six and we cannot wait.

This episode of Pit Talker's brought to you by Shannon's Insurance.

I'm your host Ronita Vanmullin, and joining me is the man who can name Moto GP facts faster than a Jucati throttle, Mister Matt Clayton, Matt, we've got a lot to unpack from the Catalan Grand Prix, we do.

Is there anything faster than a do Catty throttle?

You would sugest after six constructors championships in a row, Probably not, but it was funny how you know that barely race to ripple over the course of the weekend, everyone kind of just shrugged a win.

Okay, sure, because really nobody else had to look in from the start of the season.

But in terms of where that sat in the news cycle for the weekend, like you said, there was rather a bit going on, so we sort of just ticked the box and moved on with that one.

But I don't even know where you want to start here, because there's about ten starting boards.

Let's go, let's go, let's gore from the mark as Alex Manker's Mark Markers situation, because it feels like it's kind of divided everyone at the moment.

There's some people online who are going, you know, Alex clearly was the faster one all weekend.

We could see it from FP one and but is stating fact Alex was fast all weekend.

But then there's a lot of other people who are saying, you know, Mark has been saying for the last two Grand PRIs, I don't want to win the championship in Mazano.

I don't want to win a Messano.

And then all of a sudden, Alex wins the race in Barcelona, which means Mark doesn't go into a Mazzano with that match points, so there was a lot of intrigue around that.

But Saturday's sprint, Alex Marpez crashing out of the lead, over confidence, right, he just it just the top of the front, as it always happens at that corner in Barcelona, types the front and off he goes, crashing down the circuit.

Yeah, it was done.

And it's interesting that you talked before about you know, was this the case of Alex Marquez being better or was this the case of Mark Marquez's letting And I use the word letting it inverted Commas letting his brother win.

I don't have letting's quite the right word, but I think both things can be true to an extent.

And I think what you just said then about the crash in the sprint dictated so much about how Alex approached the Grand Prix on Sunday, because yeah, he was over confidence and over confident, and he had it one on Saturday.

It was done and Mark had kind of given up the fight at that point, and that was a sprint that you know, Mark doesn't need gifts and Alex handed in won by just a moment of lack of concentration.

Because that was done, I think that dictated how the race played out on Sunday, and that if Alex was going to lose, he wasn't going to lose because he lost it.

He was going to have to be beaten.

He wasn't going to throw it away himself.

So I think that really dictated a lot of how the second half of that race panned out.

I always say that it's good to have different ways to win motor GP races, right, so sometimes have these crazy pack races and these brawls and everyone's overtaking each other every corner for the entire race.

They're great.

Isn't there something cool about watching a race that's a slow burn, that's super tense?

And there were sixteen straight laps there back and looked at the data where the gap was between point two and point six of a second between the Marquez brothers.

Mark didn't make a move on Alex in that time, but he was there, and the tension just ratcheted up because you just kept seeing that lap counter counting down, counting down, and you're all right, I know it's coming here.

And if you're Alex, you're upfront, the rider behind you you know better than anybody else in the entire world, not just on the motor GP grid, better than anyone you know in the world, and you know what's probably going to happen here.

And every time you go into turn ted, you've got this reminder of this win that you threw in the bin the day before.

So to my mind, I liked the way that Alex absorbed the pressure.

And there was a lap I think it's lap twenty where Alex pushed and Mark went with him and thought, all right, we're now starting to build up to this, and then Alex put about half a second in him in the next lap to show that he'd managed this race perfectly.

I look at the championship situation and think, had you know, Mark's got one eye on the title clearly, and he's going to win it.

It's just a matter of when he's going to win it.

If this was a race earlier in the season, when he wasn't thinking about championship permutations, if this was a race later in the season when the title had been one already, I think he probably would have had a bigger go at Alex.

There was too much to lose in that situation.

Now Mark doesn't care where he wins a world championship.

We cared that we wanted him to win it at Mesado because it was going to be some good narrative for us, But he just wants to win, full stop.

He doesn't matter.

It doesn't really matter to Mark when it happens.

Also, I think that you know Alex is this in Malaysia are the two tracks where Alex is at least as good, if not better than Mark.

And it's not because he's a better motor GP right, we know that's not the case, but it's the configuration of the Cattaloonia track in that Mark's never been brilliant at this track because it's a lot of long radius right handed turns, which Mark's never been good at, even pre shoulder injuries, and since then he's definitely not been as good as But you look at where the right handers are, it's at the start of the lap when you're going through well, it's the last four corners of the lap, and then it turns three and four particularly and if you looked at sector one, Alex was fast at the entire weekend, so Mark would make up ground in the rest of the lap that he lost through the first few corners, and then we get to that last sequence of corners, all those right handers coming through the stadium section until you get back on the start, finished straight and Alex was quicker.

So was Alex quicker overall?

Just maybe?

But he was quicker in the right parts of the track where Mark was fast that he wasn't really able to press home that advantage.

So I like the fact that it was a tense race between the two of them.

Could Mark have pushed a bit?

I don't look probably.

Also, if you Mark, why would you because quite frankly, you know, if everyone's saying why didn't he push for the victory?

No one's sick of him winning fifteen races in a row.

Was it not nice to see somebody else win a race?

But I think what this does do it means that the championships almost going to certainly be wrapped up in Japan, right.

There's something kind of poetic or something about that, because he'll win it on Honda's home turf.

And this was not an acrimonious parting between Mark and Honda.

Mark did this with a very heavy heart in that he was ready to win again, and Honda weren't, and they'd had so much success together that I don't think this was some sort of you know, I hate you guys, I need to leave.

It was with a heavy heart that he did this to close the circle and the decision he made a couple of years ago to move from Honda to Ducati.

To do that in Japan is probably a nicer way to finish this narrative rather than just the inevitability year of Rossi fans booing Marquez on the podium at Masada.

Whether he wins the World Championship or not, that's just the lowest hanging fruit imaginable, good for a bit of social media traffic for a few days.

But maybe the better narrative is that he wins it where he left.

I think, yeah, you're hitting in the hand, nail on the head, and I feel like we also need to take a look back that it was only last year was the first time that two brothers stood on the metogp crazy right together, and now it's just it's a normal thing.

I think I read a fact and you can tell me if this is right.

Alex Marcus is the only other writer this season who's won multiple races apart from Mark.

Yeah.

Correct, And so the stat that I dragged out and I wrote in my post race talking points at two am or something, so maybe a bit hazy on this.

Nineteen ninety seven was the previous time there'd been two brothers on a Grand Prix podium before Mark and Alex are on the podium at Saxon Ring last year, right, so that broke how many years?

That is twenty seven years draught between siblings being on the podium if you had the Sprints and Grand Prix together.

This year they shared the podium seventeen times in thirty races, which is absolutely crazy.

Now if you're an Alex Marquez fan, look away down because the score is Mark fifteen, Alex two.

But the fact that those two have been on the podium, and Alex was talking about this in the post race on Sunday, it's so to think that you're sharing a podium with the person you shared a bedroom with growing up in absolutely elite level sport is kind of crazy that it happens once.

It's kind of crazy that they're even on the grid together, let alone sharing all this success.

It's a pretty remarkable story.

And I mentioned this when I was talking to Michael Lemonatto on Arafin Show and we got down a motor GP rabbit hole.

The other day, Matt Oxley made a fantastic point on his podcast post Catalunya where he was trying to think of other siblings who've had this amazing mastery of their sport in a truly global sport.

I'm not talking about the Australian football codes or anything else which nobody else in the world cares about.

I'm talking about genuine world sport.

And he said Serena and Venus Williams, And that was one that hadn't come to mind because I wasn't thinking ball sports necessarily, but I thought, yeah, that's a really good analog for this.

And you think of the improbability of Serena and Venus getting to where they got from where they came from, let alone dominating the sport the way they did and playing a Grand Slam finals and what have you.

This is the Marquez brothers is the only the Williams sisters is the only thing I can think that's equivalent.

And you look at the way that is revered in that particular sport.

We're seeing something pretty remarkable here because there's a pretty small percentage chance this should be happening at all.

Yeah, like a species.

I listened to the same part with Matt Oxley, Okay, I when I heard that as well, I was sitting there going, yeah, I'm trying to think of any other siblings because quite often it's one, and maybe it's one and is in a lower category than the other, but it's very very rare that there's the two at the peak of their sport.

Yeah, or even if they're in the peak of their sport, these are like a genuine hierarchy, like I think of Michael Schumacher and Ralph Schumacher.

Like Ralph Schumacher was a Grand Prix race winning driver, his brother won seven World Championships.

Huge gap between the two.

So the fact that, I mean, Mark's going to be a seven type MotoGP champion in a few weeks, so we're not putting Alex in that category.

But Alex is going to be runner up, absolutely.

And Alex has won titles in Modo three and my titles in Moto two, and he's going to be a World Championship Motor GP runner up in a season that is going to be won by one of the best riders ever to do it.

It's an amazing story.

Amazing story.

But my question to you on that is, with Mark finishing second on the weekend, does that kind of secure Alex is a second in the world Championship.

Is that like another little aspect of the storyline of pushing the crowning back?

Yeah, a little bit.

I mean, Alex has had a bit of wobble since he broke his hand in Asen.

It's not been great since then.

But I think Alex was going to even before this weekend, was likely to fall backwards into second place anyway, because you look at the chasing pack.

Pecobanyaal, which we'll get to, has just been that stories.

It gets worse by the week.

Marco Pozeki didn't score a point in Kashelunya through no fault of his own, but he'd been on a really good run, left there completely scoreless.

And the next guy in the standings is Pedro Acosta, who for the first eight to nine rounds was kind of anonymous, and he's really good now, but he's certainly not a threat to catch Alex at this point.

Like you look at Alex's points tally, it's a significant points tally.

It just gets dwarfed by the mark points tally.

But you look at how many points Alex are scored this year, like, that's a genuinely amazing season.

I think over if I may have written this, I forgot what I've written in the last week.

I think he's scored twice as many points this season than he scored in any single season previously.

And we've still got seven rounds to go.

Like, Alex has been genuinely awesome this year, and it's just the fact that it's been overshadowed by has He's been overshadowed all his life by a big bro who.

Just happens to be incredibly good at what he does.

Yeah, yeah, I mean hard relate with that.

But let's move on to Peckrock, because you brought that up there, and I think this is the thing at the moment is we're seeing like the highest of highs, and especially in the Ducati Lenova garagees celebrate Mark Marquez and look what he's doing and all this amazing, and then you see the garage door closed, or you see those blinds over the farm where it's like Peco is at the lowest of lows at the moment, and this weekend he qualified twenty first.

It was his worst qualification for three years.

I believe, yes, in a qualifying that he didn't actually properly take party because he was injured in Portugal in twenty two.

Yeah, which is insane, okay.

And then in Saturday's sprint he made seven positions, got fourteen, fourteenth yeah yeah, and then he made up fourteen positions in Sunday's Grand Prix.

But I was looking at an article with Jorge Martin, who apparently sat into Peco's debrief on Sunday.

He was saying, and Joy said to what the media kind of give my words out because I'm like, oh, what is going on?

Peco?

He said.

Joje Martin said that riding behind Peco is like riding behind someone he's never seen before, and just said he has no confidence.

And even us sitting at home on the sofar, we can see that, right.

But what happened on Sunday?

How did he go from obviously struggle street Saturday to Sunday?

What was the changes there?

Yeah, Sunday owed itself to and in fact, we never see it on the coverage because unless you're watching the top three, don't see much on the coverage.

He had an awesome first lap, so had a really really good start, took a really really good line into turn one, and then an incident that we still haven't seen.

The pack got scattered a little bit at turn four on the first lap where Brad Bender put a really hard move on Jack Miller, who ended up checking up Jorge Martin, and you saw Jack tumble all the way down.

The Jack Spitt went the first lap, he was eight seconds off the back of the pack because he'd gone through the turn for gravel trap after he'd been pushed off by Binder, So we never saw Jack for the rest of the race, but Peco gained some spots there as well, so he finished he was It was a good result based on what Banyaya has been doing lately.

He was also still beaten by a rookie on an aprillia in Agua, so that's nothing to get too excited about when you think about it.

Because Peko won Catalod yet both times we went there last year, should have the sprint and the Catalan Grand Porine crashed on the last lap, and then when we went back there for the last round when Valencia got canceled, he won the sprint and the Grand Prix didn't win the World Championship, as we know.

But the thing that we always talk about with Peco in that his greatest strength is that he wants to understand everything before he puts it into action.

And right now that's his greatest weakness because Peco always looks for and engineering and technical and data driven way to get himself out of difficulties, and right now he's just he's almost drowning in too much information.

You can see it.

There's nothing Martin talked about how stiff Pecko was on the bike and how he's not riding the bike naturally.

That's the body language of a guy who doesn't quite trust what he's doing and doesn't quite believe what the numbers are saying because he can't translate the numbers and the data and the information to get the feeling.

That he needs.

And so you can almost be you could almost approach this too intelligently, if you know what I mean, where there's other riders on the grid that will just be more accepting of, well, I don't like this bike, but I'm just going to ride it that little bit harder and try that little bit harder, and you turn it into a physical motivation.

I'm going to override this thing that might be a Pilo junk or I don't like and you see it up and down the grid.

There's certain riders that are much more brawn than brain, if that makes sense, Like Pecko's a smart rider.

Someone like Pedro Acosta is just going to get on the bike and rag it and just bend the thing to a point where he's really really good.

Someone like anabashit and he didn't understand how the KTM worked at the start of the season and they were slow to get updates, and he didn't like the way he seek was and everything else.

Since they've got that bike ride, he's been just instantly transformed into a guy who's up the front again.

So you can see how these different ways to approach this.

And I look at this in the context of Mark Marquees and that I've always said that Mark is the best rider of the best bike in motor GP when he has it, But he's absolutely the best rider of the worst bike in motor GP or a not particularly good bike when he has that.

And you can see that by when he won those six world titles with Honda, there were probably three or four of those where he didn't have the best bike on the grid.

Some of those years he might have had the third best bike.

On the grid.

He is a great rider of a not so great bike.

If you give Peko Vanyaya the greatest bike possible and he understands what he's doing, We've seen what happens.

He wins World championships or it becomes runner up in World Championships.

And this is the analogy.

And I keep coming back to it, and I'm super proud of myself.

I don't know if it's original, but I'll claim it.

Mark Marquez is Casey Stoner and Pekovanyaya as Jhe Lorenzo.

The way that they approach their racing and the way they go about every single thing.

I always used to write about Lorenzo that if you could help hold every race in a laboratory where all the conditions were completely benign the entire way through, I don't know how you beat him, because he was just like a metronome, like when things were in the right spot, he was basically unbeatable because he didn't miss lines.

I mean, Chris, your brother has talked about this.

You ride behind Lorenzo and you think this guy's not real, like he has not made a mistake for forty five minutes.

When Peco has everything in the sweet spot that's how he rides.

He's so far away from that right now, and he's trying to intellectually his way out of the wilderness and it's not working.

And it was interesting to hear Fabio di jan Antonio just before I get off this point.

He's also riding a GP twenty five.

He's almost intimating that it's a time to do less thinking and more doing at this point, like, don't spend the whole of Friday like stuffing around with setups, trying to find the perfect bike, Get on the bike, understand what you have, finess a little bit round the edges, and then just get the lap time out.

And maybe there's a lesson in that, and that if Peco is going to do anything for the remainder of this season, maybe it's think less and ride more, not the other way around.

I know that's not the way he rides, but it might be the way to get himself out of the rut that he's in.

I'm really glad you bought U Didyo, because that's something I wanted to say, is like, for me, what has kind of been reaffirming with what Peco' struggling with is the fact that, yeah, Digia is on the same bike as Mark and Peco, but dig he is not constantly up the front with Mark ye, so it's showing, Okay, Mark, we know can ride a bike no matter what it is.

Peco's obviously struggling did he is somewhere in the middle at the moment, And we know Digi is a decent rider, like he's a race winner everything like that, but he was consistently up the front and podium every weekend and up there with Mark and Peko was down here.

You'd kind of be almost pointing more fingers to Pecko, going yeah, is it's more to do with him?

But the fact that digit is right there in the middle, it's like, yeah, okay, something's not quite gelling right.

I would argue that Digi is closer to Mark than he is to Peco right now.

Because Digiti's last two Grand PRIs there was a technical issue that scuffered what he was going to do in Hungary after he qualified to the front row, and then he crashed.

To avoid another crash early in the race in Catalouonya.

The last two race weekends, in the sprints, he's been on podiums both times, and so I think the high points for dig Ya probably show where the other GP twenty five ie Peco.

Should be like right now.

Anything like a third place, you know, and not even a super competitive third place in anything right now for Peco would be like a win quite frankly, So I think Digia shows that there's maybe something in that approach to He's been a little unlucky to last two Sundays, but I think what he's done on Saturdays and in qualifying is more representative of where Peko should be.

So I think he's not close to Mark, but he's closer to Mark than he is to Peko right now.

No, You're right, And I was looking at the results and I'm going, yeah, did you I'm trying to improve on what did You's been on the podium the last few weekends, but I think back to earlier in the year he wasn't there, No, correct, So it's taken that while it's like the diesel train like takes a while to seal it up, and we've seen that.

And speaking of diesel trains.

I'm on Ayagura because you mentioned him before.

That's another writer that I thought of, you know, this weekend who he saw his best results since the season opener, and I was thinking about it, and I was doing a bit of research and obviously listening to other podcasts.

Hi Simon.

He says that i Agura, you know, he done well here because he's tested here before.

He's ridden this circuit on a Moto GP bike.

Same in Thailand.

We saw him test there earlier in the year, did well.

So it's it seems like next year i Agura should be sitting around P six more consistently because he's going to have ridden every circuit on a Moto GP bike completely right.

This weekend, what I found really interesting and some inside goss that I got was the fact that i Agua is so good on the rear tire that he can manage it so well.

When it was ten laps to go, he was like, oh, I could push now, but I'm not sure how much retire I had left.

So he pushed at five laps to go, and but if he pushed earlier, he still would have finished with heaps of retire and even further up the grid.

Yeah, and that's that experience piece, isn't it In that you know right now you don't want to finish the race and go, oh man, I had more retire I could have used that, whereas there are other guys who, like, you know, a cost I could wait for the thing to be over.

He was using the soft obviously, but the Agura thing and you mentioned Simon Patterson there, that's exactly the right point.

He's too strongest Grand Prix this week this year and his rookie season have been at tracks that he's got reps on a motor GP bike.

You know, there's nothing that beats that level of experience and you're a rookie and you just don't have that.

It's interesting to see the approach between Agura and Aldegera's rookies this year.

Agura is the classic, is the definition of the diesel trainer.

He wants to just chug away and learn and build his knowledge, and that's been the way his entire career has gone.

Aldeger will be oh my god, he's on the podium and then you go, oh, he's in sixteenth.

What's going on?

Like his performance graph is all over the place, where Agura is a lot steady at with the high points of the tracks that he'd been too previously, and you wonder.

I don't think his raw speed is necessarily going to be Aldege's level throughout his motor GP career, but there's more than one way to be a really good motor GP writer, right, And to my mind, Agura is the guy who just builds and builds and builds.

He gets his knowledge and you'll see this sort of performance graph climb.

So the analog for me is that Agura is more your sort of Andrea Devitsioso type in that he's going to build slowly and you know whether he's quite well championship material in MOTORGP, I don't know, but you look at Da Viciosa was in motor GP a really really long time before he started to hit his peak, and Agura is going to be this slow burn and I don't know when he's going to get there, but I'm pretty confident that he will get there because he's all about the right stuff.

And Yeah, to see him coming along late in that race and then almost lament the fact like ah Man I could have pushed a little bit earlier.

You saw how quick he was at the end of the race, and you know, mighty have got to a cost through fourth.

I don't know, but they're all things that they're explainable and they're fixable, and you don't make the same mistake again because the next time he goes back to Catalong, Yeah, he's going to know that now.

Obviously you go to Messano now and all of the other circuits and the flyaways and it's all this new experience.

His second season, assuming that the Yaprili is decent, and I don't see why it wouldn't be given we've got so much carryover between twenty five and twenty six.

His second season is going to be really good, I think next year.

And he's certainly a guy to watch and I like the fact that he's he goes about it slightly differently.

He's not just your standard motor GP rider, is he.

No.

I've heard stories that he doesn't train in a gym now.

His hobbies fishing, you know, like it's just so on Moto GP writer esque, Like it's just the opposite, and it's so refreshing.

And he's also completely unimpressed with anything that he does as well, Like it's quite funny when you see some of his press debriefs and someone be like, oh, that was good.

You came fifth to day, that was fantastic.

He's like, that's fine.

Like he has high expectations of himself, but he's also not going to carry away and get carried away when he has a decent result.

And yeah, it's fair to say he doesn't quite ride the emotional rollercoaster that some of these guys do.

He's pretty flat lined.

Yeah, which makes it a little bit refreshing.

I was going to use that one by Yeah, but the emotional roller coaster that we had this weekend, Fabuu Coutorao went from Q on to Q two to front row to sprint podium phenomenal.

It's just it's just a Fabio thing.

Just to do that.

You're like, yeah, it's a Fabio Corderai thing.

Yeah, We've said this before.

There's something with him where, you know, I live in this world of sort of trying to explain things, or capture the emotion of things, or explain stuff through data or whatever it is that I've readen here.

There's something about Fabio Quatura and the energy that he brings at the front of a motor GP grid that there's no analysis needed.

You just smile and you just enjoy it, like watching how ferocious he was in the early lapse of that sprint in a bike that he knows and his opponents know, and we know isn't quite up to fighting like that.

To my mind, I think this season has only enhanced my view that he's the second best rider in Motor GP, and I don't think it's close.

He's accostas the other guy in the conversation.

In terms of natural talent.

Quatta is just an awesome rider of these bikes, and it's incumbent on Yamaha to give him something with which he can fight or he has to make a decision.

Then, in that I'm twenty six years old, I'm still kind of in the middle of my prime at this point.

He hasn't won a world title since twenty one, and he hasn't won a race since twenty two.

I don't think he is worse at all that he was three years ago.

I would actually argue that he's better and seeing these occasional weekends where he gets pole or he's up the front fighting for stuff he shouldn't be fighting for in sprint races.

Seriously, seriously impressive and also like to finish fifth in that Grand Prix.

That's a hard Grand Prix because of the tire management.

We know that bike's got no rear grip.

That wasn't a fifth on sort of good fortune or anything else.

That was completely earned.

A really convincing result for him, and it just shows you if that bike gets anywhere near good, you have a look at what teams don't have or what manufacturers don't have.

They've got a guy that can win races and podiums and get into the world championship fight.

They just need to give him the bike.

The hardest thing to find is the rider they've got that.

They've just got it the bike now, they just got to get the bike in.

But we know they tested in a private test on Monday at Barcelona the new engine and there was reports coming out that what they were a second slower then or Fabio sorry, was a second slower than his best time at Barcelona during the race where he was on the inline four.

For me, he's never ridden an inline for Moto GP bike and he's only our second slower.

I think that's phenomenal.

It's like he's going to take a long time to have to get to used to how the bike works and it feels and the engine breaking it everything that's going to be so different to be only a second.

I mean that was that was rumor.

Is we have no official time income out, but we'll see from Mazano.

Right, yeah, yeah, absolutely, And this is why we're you know, we're probably going to segue to the Jack Miller story to sec This is why Miller's V four experience is super important for Yamaha because he's ridden a Hondra and a decade and a KTM in that engine configuration.

Alex Rings has very little V four experience and top RK's going to have none next year.

So you know, you look at the rest of this year now for Yamaha, and I've read some stuff that you know, Jack has come out and said, quite frankly, stick me on a V four for the rest of the season if you want, like what he's prepared to sacrifice results to try and bring the project forward because it is the only way forward.

And Yamaha still has to take some pain to get to a point where their V four can compete with the other four manufacturers.

But why prolong the pain, Like why don't we fast track this now and use the second half of a season that you want to hit the ground running in twenty six and then what that means for twenty seven when we go to the eight fifties.

There's no point just plodding around now on a bike that's going to have an engine that you're going to turn your back on anyway.

You may as well use the back end of this season to get reps on this thing.

And yes, some of them will break and they'll have problems here and it won't work there, and it will work at other places.

Why not do that now?

Get it out of the way, and then you can start twenty twenty six.

It's a super important year for Yamahara in twenty six because you need to convince Quaaterero that there's enough performance and promise there that he will stay and be your sort of north star, if you like, through this new Motor GP red set, because if you don't have someone like him, there's very few of these guys that are sort of pseudo aliens on the grid that are massive difference makers.

Katim's got theirs in a Costa Aprilia, assuming that he stays and when he's fully fit and has a proper preseason.

Martine has proven that he's a world championship quality rider.

So they've got theirs.

Honda A probably still waiting for their we don't quite know who that is yet, but they're not quite ready to win anyway.

But as I said before, like Quaharero, takes away any doubt that Yamaha might have, Like if we build a great bike, have we got the great rider to ride at The answer is one hundred percent yes, And I'm glad you.

Moved on to Jack Miller because that was the next thing I wanted to bring up.

So thanks to Yamaha and Pramak for letting us record our podcast saying, oh my god, were going to get Jack to announce the news soon and within that same day, So thanks guys, thanks for helping us out this.

On the other side of that, I am going to give lu Chair and Pramak a little bit of a hat tip here.

When the news broke it was about seven pm Australian time on the Thursday of a race weekend, which if you're covering murdor GP in Europe, as I do, seven o'clock is normally breakfast time.

Quite frankly, because it's normally you know your day's nowhere near starting.

So I got the heads up about twenty minutes before it was going to happen, like this is happening.

I looked at my watcher, went, oh, this is the greatest thing of all time.

I'll be able to cover this in said hours for once in Malaye.

So they helped me on that front, but they certainly didn't help us with the podcast because I reckon we published that podcast about four hours before saying oh, maybe it'll be kicked the long to Masado, and then we look like a bunch of vidiots, which quite frankly, I don't need any help in doing it the best of times.

So yeah, so sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

But yeah I won on Thursday night, but our podcast didn't win last week.

No, no, no.

But the news that Jack is saying with Pramak Yamaha, Pramaha, take your drink for twenty twenty six is obviously the news we've been waiting for.

It was just a shame that this weekend obviously didn't play out to see Jack's strength.

And then Miguel Lavera comes along and has his best weekend of the year as well.

But like you said earlier, it's something we didn't get to see on the broadcast, which is a shame.

But you're hearing about these collisions that were happening further back.

So what do you know about Jack's results?

So Brad essentially nudge gym was something and he ended up going through the gravel at some point.

Yeah, so you think of the way turn three leads into turn four at Barcelona, it's that big long radius right hand.

You know, when you were in the pack there, there's three or four lines that gets pretty crazy through there, and basically Jack found himself pushed into He basically was forced into a position of the track by Binda where he could have taken Jugey Martin down with him if he'd not sort of checked up, and Martine said he'd felt some contact and in the end Jack ended up running off into the gravel at the outside of turn four.

So he wasn't just last after one lap.

I think he was last by about six seconds after one lap, and we never actually saw him on the broadcast.

For Jack, Yeah, there were a few crashes in front of him and what have you for Jack to actually his lap times are actually pretty good.

I think he set the eighth or ninth fastest lap of the entire race, fighting all the way back from there and got himself back into the point.

So he started fourteenth then finished fourteenth.

There's one of those ones that on papers like nothing much happened there, But what happened was he had to do this crazy sort of rescue mission from the back.

Actually did pretty well, so it's a shame that, you know, his race was completely compromised by what happened on the first lap.

But then I guess the flip side of that is if you qualify in that part of the grid, then some weeks you end up on the as I like to say, some weeks you're the statue.

In some weeks you're the pigeon.

You know, you're either getting crapped out or you're doing the crapping basically, And that's what happened to Jack on Sunday.

So unfortunate, but that's what happens when you caullify back there.

I'll tell you who is constantly the pigeon is Frankie Morbidelli.

Fantastic segue, by the way, For those.

Who don't know, you can check it out on Fox sports dot com du for Slash Motorsport Matt's article, or on socials at Fox Motorsport.

Frankie Morbidelli just did a Frankie Morbidelli weekend once again, and the outcome from Sunday was he was handed a two thousand euro fine and has to sit out of the first ten minutes of FP one on Friday this coming weekend in Mezzano.

I don't get it now, Matt is at a point where it's like, okay, So once again, thank you to Simon for refreshing my memory.

But Jorge Lorenzo had a race band right years and years and years ago.

Is it not something that should be like I know they've spoke about it on the race and I don't want to I don't want to repeat that, but I'm going if Frankie Morbidelli's having constant penalties in constant situations like this, really, is it really necessary that something else should come into play now?

So something that I've put in this story is that I decided to go and wade through a whole bunch of Motor GP official documents because this is what I do in my spare time.

I clearly need to have a life at some point.

So the penalties that he received penalties plural a catalogia on the weekend are the eighth and ninth penalties in the last fourteen months.

For Franco Morbidelli.

So you've got a whole bunch of impeding in practice one of the favorite Frankie Morbidelli.

Things just fall asleep on the racing line and someone has to check up.

He's had multiple long lap penalties.

Do you remember the start of Sylveston twenty twenty four where he just absolutely pinballed Mark Oberzeki at the start of that race.

He took out Fabio Quatura in Thailand last year, which Quaturo described as a suicide pass, which was pretty.

Strong at the time.

And there's just a repeat offender nature now with Morbidelli in that no two incidents are the same, right, so we judged them all individually.

So what he did to Jorge Martin in the sprint race in Catalonia where he just completely punted him at turn ten and took them both out of the race, that incident was looked in isolation.

It's like, well, you're clearly at fault.

You can have a long lap penalty for the Grand Prix, and then you look at the Grand Prix.

Almost took his team mate out in the first lap, and then he nudged Marco Bozeki.

On lap two, Bozeki crashed, and then Degane Antonio crashed in avoidance of Bozeki.

And then you get to lap twenty one and Morbidelli crashes by himself and then has an argument with the marshals because he wants to get the bike back on track and that's why he's going to sit out the first ten minutes of practice at Massano and slap with a hefty five.

There's just a pattern of behavior here that I don't know if the Motor GP penalty system now allows you to appropriately adjudicate, because if someone's getting penalized that many times, you know, fourteen month period, the system is the problem, not the rider necessarily.

And what a rider's like to do.

They like to ride, they like to race, and sometimes maybe the way you stop a pattern of behavior say well, if you keep doing this, we're going to take away the one thing that you love to do the most, and you know you forget like Juye Lorenzo as a young guy coming through two fifties and then early motor GP, he was pretty wild.

He spent a lot of that first season being very very fast, having some of the most assive accidents high sights on that Yamaha that we've ever seen.

There's a famous photo when they raced in China that year of fo basically upside down going into the court, absolutely incredible, and then you're thinking about how he landed.

Oh my god.

But he needed to calm down.

And the way you get calmed down is that you get to sit and watch doing what you want to do.

And so yeah, the Morbidelli thing.

It's funny with him too, because I mean, you know what it's like, you've interviewed him, you've been on the other side of it.

Off the bike, just the most chill guy of all time.

Like he looks like he should be like riding a skateboard or surfing doing something, like he's literally just having that ah yeah, Like in the way he speaks, he's a super interesting guy.

Once the Vizor snapshot he turns into the terminator like he's just completely crazy.

But there's a pattern of behavior now with him that if you knew he was beside you or behind you in a race, you probably would clinch the bars a little bit tighter because you also know that there's a history with this guy now that he will put his bike in probably an inappropriate place.

And yeah, nine penalties in fourteen months.

That it's pretty good going, isn't it?

Well?

Mate?

I hope I'm not putting on the spot here, but who's the closest writer who's had like a amount of penalties even just this year?

Would you know what had off the top of my head, I would not have to go back and think of people that have got like so.

Aldegare is another one who also was in the middle of it in a catalogy as well, because he punted Berzeki in the sprint Pulbucker.

Berzeki had a shocker and alder Gare has had incidents earlier on this year, like you remember, he was directly responsible for Miguel Olivera missing three Grand Prix at the start of the year when he punted Olivera in Argentina, and given the way things have worked out for Olivera, I think he was probably on his way out the exit door anyway, But that certainly didn't help.

But I think is Aldigarez that's ready to cut you off that he's a rookie.

Correct, it's exactly right.

You know, it is his first season in MotoGP.

Morbidelli has been in Moto GP for multiple years now, twenty nineteen his first season, Yep, exactly, And you go, okay, yeah, he's got the VR forty six crew have his back.

You know, he's part of that academy.

But I feel like that's can only going to take you so far.

You need to also start being held accountable for your actions because it's dangerous.

But then the other question, and I'll put this to you, and I think I know what the answer is.

The Morbidelli season.

And look, he had that horrendous accident in Portramout testing your superbike at the start of last year.

He lost his memory.

It was horrible.

But you think last year he didn't fire a shot on the bike that won the world championship.

With Juje Martin on the sister side of the garage, and the fact that Marco Bozeki left VR forty six to go to Aprilia, they had a vacancy to fill.

Valentino Rossi as you know, Morbidelli's protege of that academy.

He handed him a career lifeline, and then they've just resigned him again for twenty twenty six on the eve of the Catalan Grand Prix, where he spent most of the weekend playing ten binbling.

Is anyone else signing Franko Morbidelli at this point?

No?

Correct?

Yeah, And as much as we love having the drama and the excitement, there's just a line where it becomes dangerous.

It's learned from your actions, learn from your mistakes.

If okay, yeah, you're the one who probably has the guts right now to try and make these moves.

Sure, but not at the cost of injuring other people, or knocking other people off, or constantly getting penalized for it.

The one thing we should be thankful for is that Elisia Spargo is still doing wildcarts for Honda, So every sort of three or four races we get a resumption of the one of the most bizarre, long lasting and fractious rivalries in Moto GP.

Whoever knew that we needed an Elisias Spargaro Franken Morbidelli rivalry, But.

I'm here for it.

For sure.

It gives us something to talk about.

Oh yeah, but let's move on too, off track, because I know we had a lot do unpack on track this weekend.

But off track, we're getting some of the little taste now of the Liberty f one world starting to merge into Moto GPS.

So hopefully I'm gonna say his name right, I know you know him very well.

Matt Gunda Steiner has seen the deal.

Yeah, look, I'll take it with Melsey accent, but he sealed the deal as the new owner of tech TWA that I know I got right.

So Jave Pontorreal, who is nearing on seventy can you believe it?

He's going to finally take that step back.

And we saw Gunta Gunta this weekend.

Yeah, yeah, we saw him this weekend in Barcelona.

There was a big press announcement about that and he was there all weekend.

And what a result for a Navashanini to get on the podium.

Gunda's there in the crowd.

Obviously, Pedro Costa took the risk on the software and that would have been interesting.

But what's your take on this, Matt?

Is it a Liberty move?

Is it a Gunda move because we know what he's like as a businessman and an entrepreneur and a team manager.

Yeah, I think it's more it's a happy coincidence, shall we say, because if you so, if you listen to or read anything that going said in the past six months or so, he's been looking to do this for a while, so we know that he's been you know, he's not working with hass anymore in Formula one.

He's Formula one team managerial days are over.

He's written a couple of books, he does a lot of corporate stuff, which is where I've had a lot of involvement with him over the years.

He's been looking to get into Motor GP for a while.

So this isn't Liberty pushing Steiner into Motor GP.

This is Steiner wanting to do something with an investment group that he's the head of to try and get involved in this.

I think people coming from Formula one, which is a world that I've spent a lot of time, and obviously they look at Motor GP and they see Formula Formula one.

People almost to a person, love Motor GP because they love the purity of the racing and the risk taking and how unfiltered is it?

Oh my god, this is unbelievable.

This is like the world's best kept see here.

They also look at the teams as a product as being massively undervalued, in that you can buy yourself a piece on the motor GP grid for one tenth one hundredth of water Formula one team might cost.

And you're looking at what Steiner ran, a pretty lean and mean operation in f one, probably the team that spends the least amount of money in Haas, and you'll look at a motor GP operation and it be like, that's worth that much, and so you look at it in terms of return on investment.

The right time to get into motor GP, if you're coming from Fye or for anyone else, would be pretty much right now.

Because Liberty Media will enhance the storytelling and the marketing of this series.

That's an absolute given.

I'd be super surprised if Liberty Media does anything to the sporting product per se, because the sporting products is in a pretty good place right.

It's not the story that needs to be changed, it's the story telling that needs to be changed, and that's where Liberty is going to come in.

So I think it's more in ansty a question, more a confluence of circumstance that Steiner has come in just after the Liberty thing has all become official.

But you can't discount, like how many times over the weekend did we see that story and the press conference and there's Steiner on the pitwall.

The visibility that a person like him who brings a totally different audience into Motor GP, the publicity and the exposure that that brings, I reckon everyone wins, right because Steiner's looking at Motor GP being as far less of a stressful thing to do in terms of his day to day than Formula one was.

But Motor GP can sort of hitch its wagon to the popularity and the exposure that this guy brings, and he won't be the last.

I think that's the other part about all this.

And a lot of people in Formula one or look at Motor GP and go, you know what, he's a really really good sporting product.

They all love the sporting product, but from a financial investment point of view, it's probably seen as being pretty undervalued.

With Liberty being involved, now the values of these teams and these entities are already going up right mentioned Herve is near on seventy years old.

God, I hope I have the energy that he does when I get to that point, because he doesn't act like your standard seventy year old, but you look at from you know where he's come from and where he's been.

It's absolutely the right time to do something like this because he's not going to be around forever.

And handing the team over to a consortium led by a guy who is a racer, is a bit of a maverick at a walking sound bite, and all of those things that we love about Herve.

It's almost like.

A sort of their kindred spirits in a lot of ways.

I think it's a really good match.

And their press conference they did on Friday at Catalonia was a hilarious and b it was like two old mates that were just said of sitting having a chat.

You know, they obviously don't know each other super super well, but it felt like very there was a lot of synergy between the two of them.

Was actually really nice to watch.

I think for me though the thing was on the broadcast and I know that they have to promote it by you know, Matt, but was saying a lot you know this is happening, This is happening.

Okay, really trying to get it out there, but it was almost like it's a lot that we're hearing of.

Good though, I don't want that to be necessarily the case of yeah, he's bringing a lot, he's bringing his platform and his brand and everything like that, but you don't want also take away from the fact that this is Moto GP and theorizer on the bike, so there needs to be that balance.

Yeah, And the thing with Steiner for anyone in this audience that doesn't know because I'm as I reference every podcast old and have been around Formula one for a really really long time, Steiner is like an accidental celebrity, which is quite bizarre because he was in Formula one for so he was going as far back as when Jaguar were in Formula one.

Now if anyone doesn't realize, Jaguar became Red Bull Racing, so he goes back to the beginning of the two thousands, has an engineering background, He's done some work with NASCAR.

He is a very very accomplished motorsports CV in a number of different series, and then the Drive to Survive thing took off in twenty nineteen or twenty twenty or whatever it was.

And he has been as baffled as by how he's just become this sort of celebrity, because the good thing you see in that particular program is the same guy he's been for twenty years.

It's just that more people are paying attention to it now.

And the way he acts and the way he is with people, and the authenticity with which he presents himself.

This is no act for the cameras.

Like he is always said, he doesn't understand the whole drive to Survive thing, and he's never watched one episode of it.

He couldn't care less because he's just doing what he does.

It's just that people are now paying attention.

So he's as baffled by all of this as anybody else.

Now, obviously there's ways you can make that pay for you financially, but he's completely over himself.

He's not doing this for him or for his brand or anything else.

He's looking at this is Oh, this is an undervalued investment that I'd like to get involved in.

This looks fun.

I really like motor GP and if all of the eyeballs and the attention and the marketing spend and the popularity of the sport grows as a consequence.

Great, but that's not why he's in it.

That is so refreshing to hear because I know that there's rumors also circling around at the moment about Max Verstappen and we know Lowis Hamilton both rumored as looking to buy Moto GP teams.

And the thing with me is when you hear that, you go, oh, it's a publicity's sun And this has all come out after the Goodtha news blah blah blah.

But I've heard previous interviews where Max Verstappan will say, oh, come in from a session, finish my debrief and then I'll go and watch Moto GP.

And Lowis Hamilton has said multiple times how much he loves it.

We know he's ridden with Cal Crutchler and Valentino ROSSI.

Yeah, so when I hear rumors like this now coming out about Max and Lewis potentially buying it, it does answer.

I agree with what you were just saying, is the fact that people are seeing Moto GP and now they're wanting to get it out into that for them, for the world.

Yeah, and Max is, like Max is just a guy who's a racer through and through, like he's not necessarily in a fine for all of the associated stuff, like he hates most of it.

He just wants to basically drive, and he's like a bit of an old soul in that respect.

And you look at what he does.

He does a lot of sim racing.

He's racing at the Norch Life for in Neburg agreg and a touring car this weekend.

He likes to do that sort of thing.

Motor GP is just another form of motorsport that he's interested in.

And if you have the financial means to do so and get involved with something that Formula one, people look at motor GP and go it only costs that much to really get involved and have a piece of it, because relative to Formula one everything looks inexpensive, right, So it's a business decision for guys who are really into a particular sport.

Now it's conflicting resports with reports with the verstapp and stuff in that SkySports.

Italy said that he'd been talking to a prelier in Honda satellite teams and then the race and his management for Stappens management kind of walked that back and said, look, there's a genuine interest, but we're not doing something yet.

But I think the keyword in that is yet.

I would expect that to escalate and right now.

If you've got the means to get involved in motor GP, it's the classic thing about buying the best house in the worst street right now.

You want to buy now.

This is what you want to do.

You want to get in now because this thing's only going to go up.

And I think the fact that you've got interested parties coming from a sport that's got the global profile that F one has, I think both sports can be winners out of this, and I'm really looking forward to see where it goes.

I do too, And I think, you know, our listener's here old MONOGP fans, and if you don't cross over to F one, I appreciate that and I respect that.

But to hear that big names like this, it's like when Valentino went and did the GT racing.

Look how muchd that sport?

Right?

Or think about Michael Jordan when he went to do baseball after basketball.

It's the same thing.

It's that crossover, and I think it's refreshing in the fact that it brings different eyeballs and it only promotes our sports, so it means we get more access to things and we can see it, and it's not going to fade away into.

Nothing, not at all.

Everyone eats.

It's the best possible outcome for all of this.

So if you have stuck around this long, thank you very much.

I know we've offfered on about Catalunya a lot, but there was a bloody lot to catch up on for that weekend.

Let's look ahead to Mazzanos, which is also known as San Marino or it's officially known as the Rais with the world's longest name.

Are you guys ready?

Deep rat red Bill, Grandfria San Marino and the Rimini Riviera Mezzano World Circuit.

Marco Simon Shelly.

Sorry I had I just had a nap while you're doing that.

I just be just caught up with all the sleep.

But he can get over the catalog in your weekend.

It is no wonder we all just used Masada as shorthand.

It's the f wide equivalent to this is that the race that Imla has a similarly ridiculous name with a couple of sponsors in there as well as well.

That everyone just shrugs and goes imla, so it's kind of the same thing.

So mesado is shorthand for I don't want to say thirty seven words to get the name out.

But pitty, poor Matt Bert.

We're talking about Matt before you know that, he'll be contractually obliged to get the entire name out at some point and we'll be like ten minutes into FPY before he goes it.

Yeah.

So yeah, if you are listening to Matt's broadcast, you know, and take a drink from mart when he does have to say the twenty word circuit name.

But let's quickly talk about this.

If you guys are hanging around, thank you so much, Gris.

We know it's one of their home races.

Last year they had that iconic falsto the White and the Blue.

Livery hopefully to see that again this weekend.

Let's refresh our memories to last year because it was dramatic.

We had that flag to flag.

Joge Martin came in while Peco Manyaya stayed out.

Do you remember that iconic shot of Jogey looking as Peco's going down the front straight and you could just see the heartbreak there going what have I done uh huh Mark one last year.

Obviously, flag this is his strong point.

But the thing is with this circuit, Matt, you know this de Vuilant not far down the road.

All of the VR forty six Academy pretty much lived within us I don't know half an hour window of this circuit.

So let's call this the VR forty six Academy Writer's Home Grand Prix because this.

Is what it is, right, yeah, it is.

I mean, this is the track that I mean.

I know everyone does a load of track laps at Cashiludia, but that's everyone regardless of nationality, where this is like almost the truest true home race for the Italian on the grid because they've all done ten million laps around there.

And that's why when we get to prediction time in a minute, I've got a slightly left field one for you, but I think this is like a proper home court advantage, home field advantage.

Whatever you want to call it.

So, going back to where we were about half an hour ago, if Peco Vanual is going to do anything for the rest of the season, it might be here because you're not going to be spending a lot of time mucking around on circuit characteristics and layout and what have you.

Maybe this is the weekend just to get on the bike, Pecko and just ride the thing and see what happens, because.

If you do that, then something good to probably go to happen.

Will you look at like the stats?

Right, he has most of the records from last year.

If I go into the most polls, he's equal to Maverick, Viannalez and juorhe Lorenzo at this circuit.

Right, Okay, most wins is Mark Marquez, but Pecos consistently there with all the other stats, so I don't discard that at all.

My question to you is what we predicted the last weekends.

I'm going to throw me into this because I agree with you.

We thought that Joge Martin was going to be closer to the front in catalog.

Yeah, Aprillier had a shocker.

Aprilli had a shocker, so we won't hold him to that.

But is this weekend?

Is is this another a circuit where we could see its suit Martine the aprilia and he'd been that little bit closer to the front.

Martin's biggest issue right now and he's been saying that himself.

Is that the thing that he's been so good at through his motor GP career qualifying just that one lap, Like, my god, where did that lap come from?

He doesn't have the reps and the confidence yet on that aprillia to do that.

So that's why he's finding himself racing in the pack because he's getting knocked out in Q one and he's just buried down the grid a little bit.

The thing about his Ducady time is that once he was comfortable in motor GP, he would routinely do things in qualifying where you do a double take when you looked at the timing, like what on Earth's how and how was he six tenths of a second up to two thirds of the way through the qualifying lap.

So he hasn't got that yet, and I think that's just a matter of time and reps and experience.

So it's probably two early necessarily to expect him to do that.

Now.

Do I expect him to be in Q two this weekend?

This is a strong circuit for him.

YEA.

It wouldn't surprise me if he gets into Q two, but I don't think he's quite ready to be qualifying on the front row yet.

It'd be nice if he proved me wrong because we know how good he is in a situation like that.

But it still strikes me as a being a little bit too early for that.

But by the end of the season maybe, but maybe not yet.

Okay, So you mentioned I was going to bring out predictions, So that's the perfect segue in, Matt, I'm sure you've got some good options for me.

Tell me who's going to win this weekend.

And who's going to wouldn't it be funny even though he can't win the championship if Mark Marquez won this weekend in Massano.

But I've got someone here that I'm not going to rule out for the victory because he's won here before and he's very very good.

He's in good for the bike's going really well.

This could be in an AA Bastia any weekend.

Oh, that is very nat field.

He won the second race there at Mesado last year, the Amelia Romania round, which had an even longer name than the San Marino round, and you may remember that he got himself in the middle of the Bagno Martine, you know, won two fight for that.

Bana crashed out of his own accord in that race, and they have put what would be described as a robust move on Juge Martin on the last lap of that race.

I don't know whether it should have been penalized or not, but he wasn't going to stick around to find out.

He's always really good around here.

You remember he was taking podiums on like third string of Vintia Ducatties and things back in the day.

He's exceptionally good at this track.

Another guy who has cut a million laps around this place, and Aya is very much a confidence rider.

And you look at the way he got himself through to third place at Cashalod.

You didn't qualify well because he often doesn't.

But in races we know when he's in the sweet spot because of a very particular way that he rides the bike.

I don't know if it's the best way a lot of the time, but my god, it's good when it's good.

And he's been in a really good frame of mind the last few rounds.

He was really fast in Hungry and then had that crash, a terrifying crash at the start of that race there, so we never got to see how that played out.

But seeing Bashi any on the podium and maybe even splitting a couple of ducaddies would not surprise me in the slightest.

I think it's really cool you're talking about splitting the digit caddies.

And just to go back to Cataluna, we had every manufacturer in the top ten again that race.

We can so this is the cool thing now and you wrote abound it.

We said it before.

It's not the ju Caddi Cup.

It's multiple and manufacturers.

Now, okay, it's Mark Marcus is going to win the championship, not this week, get a Misano, but it's going to happen.

Marcus brothers one too.

But it's every manufacturer is in there, and that's what we love to see in Moto GP.

It is Ducati still out front, but the chasing pack is closing.

And if that leads us to we often get in World motorsport when you get a rule regulation set that's about to expire, like Motor GP, we'll in twenty twenty six last year of these rigs.

You often get everyone sort of basically coming to the same solution to the one problem.

And if that makes for a really really competitive twenty twenty six, I mean, yeah, Mark's probably going to win the championship if he doesn't hurt himself or whatever.

But I think the fight next year could be really quite fun because you're going to have a lot of people coming from different directions and we're all settling on a similar solution here.

So this season shots just a better of when Mark wins it.

But super looking forward to twenty six because I like to be optimistic about these things.

Well, yes, we're excited for twenty six.

Villa's also be excited this weekend for are you ready?

Red Bull Grand Prix of sam Marino and the Rimini Riviera Mezzano World Circuit, Marco sim and Shellie Round four hundred and fifty of however many this year, so don't forget guys.

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