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Alright. Here it is your Max tires post

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show for With Nico Malaria and Oli Morris.

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Alright. Round 5 is done and the summer

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break is upon us, But Le, it did

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its best to challenge the riders with an

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incredible track and some un seasonal conditions. Join

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me, Nico and Ollie as we delve into

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the details of what went on and analyze

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some of the standout performances of the weekend.

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Is delivered incredible racing, and there's heaps to

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talk up. So without further ado, here's your

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Max tires post show with Nico and Ollie.

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Alright. Oli morris, Nik Alley, another hectic week

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in,

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possibly the most challenging version of.

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We've ever seen. I would say.

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But let's kind of roll back to the

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beginning of the week when everything was lovely.

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Ollie take us through, like, initially, your thoughts

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on the track. They've done there. They usual

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sort of move things a bit left it

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right moves some poles around and, like, kinda

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of create a relatively fresh challenge

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on basically the same hill. But... Yeah. I

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think actually, the most challenging just jumping on

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the which is the challenge La. I think

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the first time we came back,

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like 3 years ago, was it? That got

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her people had scratching.

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Everyone was just like, oh, my god. I

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can't think track out because it was all

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fresh then. Right all fresh. And you in

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trap, you just walked a different set every

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section and you'll be like, alright. We've gotta

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figure this bit out and now this bit.

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And I think this year track was a

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bit easier because it was fundamentally the same

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sort of track. It was... Yeah, they freshen

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up and the usual kind of pole moving,

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couple of jumps put in.

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Probably the main change was at the bottom

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wasn't it whereas as it comes out into

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the open with the carnage section for the

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men's, which was and the women's for that

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matter, but definitely through the men's.

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With people just... I think the fans were

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literally like cheering if somebody made it through,

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which isn't a very kind of work cup

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to chairman them if the speeds they go.

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yeah, there was a change down there, couple

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little quick tweaks in the middle, new jump

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there was a lot of, like, the original

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ru were just still there. Yeah. You could

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see them. Yeah. So I think we were

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kind... We were like, correctly. Let's not mess

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with the lines too much. You know, there's

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there's a nice line informed here. Let's just

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plug into that 1 and start building your

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speed and your kind of flow and rhythm

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the weather, which will speak more about. Yeah

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a bit easier to remember, I think, because

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we've been a for a few years now.

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Yeah. Yeah. And Nik, we've you've been out.

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the entire of the rest of the World

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cup circuit. The week before and the weather

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here has been

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bad. For this time of the year, they've

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had a huge amount of rain. There were

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some crazy storms.

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Last week. And as a result, like, the...

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especially when you get onto the flat spots

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on the hill where it's not running off

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as much and it gets quite buggy. So

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the the condition of the track was very

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different to

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certainly last year where it was bone dry.

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How that impacted, like, how the tracks evolved

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throughout the week

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if we sort of take it towards the

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end of practice not at the actual rate.

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because it's it's also a lot earlier in

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this season right now.

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end of August, September is more likely to

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be dry like it was last year.

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off and on in the past few weeks

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here. It was hard to find a good

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day to

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to to really get some consistent writing and

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without just drawing know your you're kidding bike.

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yeah, I guess the first practice

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was pretty muddy.

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slick spots.

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the the whole track

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I would say had a softer base, than

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or Leo gang, Like, the base was a

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lot harder at those last 2.

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day and drying,

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kinda cut in a little bit more, got

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some good ru forming.

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it was it was... The dirt was perfect,

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and the roots were slick. And then,

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it was pretty much perfect

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by by the time we we did that.

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stark contrast to.

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Yeah. And ru... I mean, Rut is something

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that I've personally always struggled to ride.

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But for you guys, you almost like see

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it as a positive because it's it's a

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support through a corner or a change of

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direction. Like, what's what's the technique ollie you're

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that I'm gonna speak to you is the

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the coach here? Like, What's the technique for

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riding rut well? Because I don't think I've

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worked it out. There's 2 the important things

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are around vision and braking to be fair,

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like Let's be honest, reps make you wanna

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stare at them kind of things. So, like,

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obviously, not staring. It was 1 for me,

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like, like, stiff up on the bike kind

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of thing just Yeah. I a little bit,

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That's the thing If it's a deep rut

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and you going straight in it, it's harder

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than the rut in the corner, isn't it?

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Yeah. And they're the harder ones aren't they?

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Because you're sort of twitch too much. And

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you pushed off balance. And that's why if

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you break... If you've got rubbish braking, if

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you're using too much of 1 break, the

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bike gets out of balanced then you end

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up losing

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you know, your mask kind of falls off

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the edge a little bit you lose your

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balance. So, yeah, that and then the vision

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thing, the standard looking down the trail could

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start make hell of a difference. But

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Yeah. A problem these guys weren't having this

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weekend. Right? Well yeah there. Yeah. And I

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guess it's commitment as well to an extent

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Uk just like, being willing to be like

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right. I'm going in that route. Look look

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for it. Answer and just let it go

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kind of thing. Yeah. Sometimes momentum actually is

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your friend. Like, if you can carry more

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speed. It's easier to balance on the bike.

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And the rut

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generally form on a world Cup track from

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good riders. So they're in a lot of

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times it's, like a catch and a spot

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you want it. It's like a almost like

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a slot car track weekend again. And and

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yeah, it it kinda kicks you back out

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the way you want.

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Sometimes you get some aggressive riders that that

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buckle them and and get some hooks and

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it makes makes them a little bit less

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desirable, but

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Yeah. Ben Cath talked about him. 1 of

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his videos this week, the... Because the the

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weather Germany was pretty good or weak until

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today. And there's a lot of very strong

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kind of alpine sunlight coming through the trees.

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The light was very da

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in the woods. And obviously, you're like,

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bit trying to be relatively accurate through

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roots and inter interrupts and you're... You've got

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this, like,

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dark and light mixture, like, how how did

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you find that person are there way ways

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to deal with that?

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it was really bad. Coming from the top

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open section across the road gap and into

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the first woods because it was so fast

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and into a

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breaking zone with lots of roots,

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things that you really wanted to see. Yeah.

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And it was just like going from

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bright sunlight into a dark room.

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You pretty much almost blunt That could be

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almost joked that you'd close your eyes before

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you got into the woods and then opened

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them again. Might be better.

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there's not much you can do. I guess,

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like, just

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visualizing the track and almost knowing where you

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need to be without seeing it as well

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as you want to. Yeah.

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Sometimes I use

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like, a a different go lens that has

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a filter that helps with

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light contrast. Okay. Like, some sunglasses have the

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same. Yeah.

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It's it's hard because then it is a

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little darker in the woods as well when

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you when you have that. So,

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yeah. It's just something that

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at least is the same for everyone out

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there. Yeah. Consistent I guess, Yeah. I've gotta

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almost feel your way through parts of the

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track rather than... Yeah. It's for me, it's

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not as much the spotlight light in the

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woods, but when you go from the open

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into the woods for the first time

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for the first few seconds, it can be

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hard to see. Yeah. Fair. So we've had

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this, you know, the weather has been forecast

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all week to be bad on Saturday. So

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for once the the forecast has stayed consistent

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because pretty much the whole of the rest

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of the last couple of weeks. It's been

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jumping around every day. From a from a

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team coach a line guy perspective Ollie, were

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you

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you know, working with riders on what do

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we do if it's wet, like, how much

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you still don't know. Right? Even though the

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forecast been consistent, you could just wake up

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the next stay and that forecast changed. Like,

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you've kinda got ride the track in front

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of you, but you also maybe need some

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level of prep. How how do you approach

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it with the

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intense. Yeah. I mean, it's all... It it

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should be always something that's in the back

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of your mind? Do you know like, what

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happened to it rains because at the end

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of the day, we're in Mountain region and

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it can always happen.

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Especially when the weather report says that the

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chances rain are increasing as the week goes

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on, such as in L this week.

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For us, yeah, there's there is some. But

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to be fair, there wasn't massive amounts here.

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If you think of the only real change.

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That you saw, like, on the on the

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livestream stream was as you come into the

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open there because it was so... That was

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rock out the ground there. Yeah.

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Like clay, you know? And we all knew

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that that was gonna just turn into an

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absolute like, shit fest come race. Like,

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So there's that thing where, you know, and

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it took even through the race. If you

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think about it, it took a quite a

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long time to get the memo up to

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the top that was, like, Don't bother try

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and the highlight. Yeah. You know Nathan po

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yeah. Yeah. Or did deduct made it through.

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I think a couple made it. Yeah. Nathan,

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I think it was the most impressive set.

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So much wider than anyone else and just

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committed like is insane again. And in fact,

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Louise, on

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my intense team. She she stayed high. She

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was in slightly better conditions than the men's,

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but she stayed high in the wet conditions

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as well. It was possible, but I think

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it was like, yeah, people just got the

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memo to go low. So

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no. Not massive stuff. I don't think I

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think often the riders. Yeah. It's always in

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your mind, but I think often the riders

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a bit like, well, if if what am

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I gonna be scared to ride these routes

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if they get wet kind of thing, You

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know, it's it's a bit like that kind

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of in into mind. So for us, it's

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it's not huge, Unless there's a very obvious

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technical wire that's not gonna happen in the

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way. Okay. There isn't there isn't there isn't

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massive bit differences isn't there? Yeah. What about

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Uni k? Similar vibe?

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Yeah. I I would say,

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we

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had a strategy for wit, and then obviously,

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the junior race Scott canceled. So

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it kinda was out the window after that.

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But,

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yeah, Most of the track, you you really

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wouldn't change much. And

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without knowing without seeing some of the writers

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struggle in that obvious off cab section at

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the bottom.

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You also wouldn't really know not to go

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for it because it kinda was the main

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line. Yeah. I almost nobody looked at the

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that low catch below either.

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I had for my run that I was

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planning on doing tomorrow when everyone's gone, but

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you're gonna hit it. You're gonna try it

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for what's Cody, but I'm not now. I

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think should do the Tu line.

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No chat.

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If you'd be more fun to watch you

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should do it. Well, leaving it to the

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sleeper C guys. They've been doing that. Have

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you seen, they've been doing a little like,

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everyone looks like that know, making this look

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easy We've been filming all weekends so we'll

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go and have a go on our e

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bikes. So people haven't watched that. They should

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tune into the sleepy sleeper Instagram and That

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is worth watching. So they're gonna have a

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bit of a slip slide tomorrow I think,

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but I'm gonna stay away.

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Doug blame you. I think the hardest part

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of the strategies is that there was no

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jet to practice and wet conditions. He started

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raining right after the last riders came through

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practice. So it was to Yeah. If if

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it was like that in a practice run

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everybody would

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realize that that wasn't the line. Yeah. Of

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a rep would develop below...

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It would been much more consistent, but to

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do it for the first time in the

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race.

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Yeah. It's hard to predict. Yeah. Even done

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to tires is, like, I was at the

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top, we just sent Louise off, and then

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the men were there and Saw Greg man

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out at the top, and he was like,

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what tires is it? What tires is it

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and you're kinda looking down going well, it's

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still hard packed. You know, like it's... It

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wasn't at the time. Yeah. There's... Wasn't coming

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into wet at that point seemed like it

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probably changed deeper into the men's, but it

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was, you know, nobody had even got their

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strategy of what tires they were gonna run

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if it got wet because as Nik said,

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we didn't really have the experience on this

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track.

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As a as a as a developing

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wet from dry to wet aid. You know?

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So the tracks change right? We've had it

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hit wet here in the past, but the

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tracks the in the vast majority

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kinda more hard packed than it's ever been

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right because it's had so much more traffic

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over the last year's it 3 years. We've

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been back here 4 years. We've been back

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here race. So, much more. Yeah. Yeah. Definitely

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especially... I mean the top couple of turns.

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The first

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female rider out, F. She came out of

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the right

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straight into left, like washed out, ended up,

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like, reversing down the neck step straight. And

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then like Louise and El were in the

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in the start gate and they kind of

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put... Looks each other and look back at

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me and it's just like

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west.

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Yeah. It's Well, let's let's talk a little

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bit about the decisions to cancel the junior

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because, obviously, that's a big part of the

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news and the storyline from this weekend.

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I I was in... To how those decisions

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get made. So I went and had a

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chat with some of the warner brothers staff,

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earlier on in the day. And apparently, they

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have a like, a big committee of people

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that are meeting throughout the weekend, which include,

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like Warner brothers, the local

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organization, the Jean Da, so the local police,

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the department of Hosts of Wow. I guess

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like the local government kind of people effectively

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or representatives.

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The Gon operators, they have someone from Met,

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France is they're like, weather experts, so they're

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tapping into, like,

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the best weather forecast available at better than

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we can kinda get through the websites and

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stuff.

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Still not an easy decision to make right

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now and wants to mess with the schedule.

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So they did make the call today because

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obviously, you can't when the Gon is in

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a storm and they obviously wanted to, I

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guess, prioritize the elite racing and make that

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happen.

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I think they sent a no out to

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teams,

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sort of 07:00 ish last night as a

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warning, like, be prepared that this might happen,

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but obviously, no communication like head of the

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junior

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qualifications. As team managers both of you like,

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and both with junior, riders out there on

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the hill,

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What are your thoughts on it, Nik? You

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had you like, brief data, like, what, the

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weather looks bad tomorrow. The storms forecast is

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a risk here.

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Or is that? Because this is kinda uncharted

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territory where you just like. Okay. Just go

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to do your normal qualifying.

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Do what you need to do?

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We... It wasn't communicated to us that this

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was an option. Mh. And I don't know

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if that's because we're not an elite team

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or how the communication would go. Mh. But

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it it definitely wasn't something that

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we were had any strategy towards. Okay. Like,

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the plan was just

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Honestly, for him, I wanted him to ease

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into this qualifying run.

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He was protected. There was no points on

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the line.

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Like, just focus on

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having a really clean run, and that'll end

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up being fast.

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The past few races, I feel like he's

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rushed. A bit and made some mistakes. So

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we're kinda trying to work through that. But

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Had nothing to do with the race potentially

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being on the line. Yeah. Yeah. What about

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Ollie You've obviously got some genius in the

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mix there? Total curve for us to be

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fair. We we got up this morning. We

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know knew there was the change. We got

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up this morning. We

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made sure Louise was ready because of the

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potential change there with being earlier and those

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sorts of things,

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And then when it came through it, like,

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half 7 this morning, Oscar was literally on

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his e bike pedal up to the up

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to the trap. I really found to help.

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Yeah. Yeah. Well we,

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I mean, quite literally leaving to get the

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house. Yeah. And

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So we'd... We... I did not expect it

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at all. Okay.

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On, from a team perspective, I just turned

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into, like, action. It was, like, right. Let's

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now make sure... Louise mechanic is totally ready

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with the bike. Yeah. Let's more... Make sure

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she's ready and all of the... The stuff

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that needed to happen.

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But now I'm sitting here relaxed. It was

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like, yeah. We... It was just like right

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Sorry, Oscar. He was upset,

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but I was like, you're on the sidelines.

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And fair play to him. He came up

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on the hill with me and came in

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help with help... And That's cool. And got

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stuck in and he's always wants to learn.

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So

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right, I hadn't qualified anyway. So, like,

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he was never planning to ride today anyway.

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So,

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Yeah. I think it hurts the junior a

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lot. They put a lot of effort in.

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They obviously shooting for the stars and all

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the rest of this sort of stuff.

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So, yeah, It was more the curve. I

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did not have any thought that that was

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go happen. I knew there was gonna be

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a changes to the schedule. Yeah. But I

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didn't think they were thinking would just kick

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the, Junior aside again. Like it's the second

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time now Hey. Yeah. Happened in Lu for

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last year. Yeah.

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Yeah. Very tricky.

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1 for everyone to process.

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So we'll go through the results for the

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Junior. Junior Women's first, Heather Wilson back after

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a concussion to at first place

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in her qualifying and obviously.

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Takes effectively the win and the points for

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that. Ls Sv in second, her best

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result to date. I think a work cup,

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and then Eddie Hu bosch, Hu bosch in

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third,

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family fourth and Sac earnest in fifth. I

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saw El post that she was kinda. Upset

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she had a Huge

532
00:17:32,873 --> 00:17:34,697
first practice I think, like, overs shot the

533
00:17:34,776 --> 00:17:36,362
Be after that new double at the top

534
00:17:36,362 --> 00:17:38,503
and ended up going for x rays and

535
00:17:38,503 --> 00:17:40,248
stuff, and so was on a slow build

536
00:17:40,248 --> 00:17:42,737
back to be ready for race. So I

537
00:17:42,737 --> 00:17:43,855
guess disappointed for her.

538
00:17:45,214 --> 00:17:47,770
Yeah. Tricky 1. And then junior men. Ace

539
00:17:47,770 --> 00:17:49,065
of Met will talk a little bit more

540
00:17:49,065 --> 00:17:50,505
about and get some insight from Uni unique

541
00:17:50,505 --> 00:17:52,105
taking the win there, but only by point

542
00:17:52,105 --> 00:17:53,144
075

543
00:17:53,144 --> 00:17:54,984
over Max Hour run also having a great

544
00:17:54,984 --> 00:17:55,224
season.

545
00:17:56,438 --> 00:18:00,828
John Mi third danger fourth, Rafael, Pellet in

546
00:18:00,828 --> 00:18:03,303
fifth. John Best result of the season. I

547
00:18:03,303 --> 00:18:04,261
think on that way we are 1 which

548
00:18:04,261 --> 00:18:04,820
is pretty cool.

549
00:18:05,792 --> 00:18:07,943
Yeah. Talk us through Ace experience. I think

550
00:18:07,943 --> 00:18:09,298
he had a Did Burp his tire at

551
00:18:09,298 --> 00:18:10,493
some point in that run. He had a

552
00:18:10,493 --> 00:18:11,928
bit of air missing by the end.

553
00:18:13,056 --> 00:18:15,515
Yeah. It was funny. I I encourage him

554
00:18:15,515 --> 00:18:17,974
to do a a really smooth run and

555
00:18:17,974 --> 00:18:19,481
build as I as I mentioned.

556
00:18:20,195 --> 00:18:20,695
And

557
00:18:21,162 --> 00:18:21,662
somehow

558
00:18:22,035 --> 00:18:24,655
about 30 seconds into it, that completely went

559
00:18:24,655 --> 00:18:25,949
out the window, and

560
00:18:26,639 --> 00:18:27,830
he was all over the place.

561
00:18:28,544 --> 00:18:29,441
Said 3

562
00:18:30,068 --> 00:18:32,318
3 almost huge crashes and

563
00:18:33,170 --> 00:18:36,295
was just like a overly aggressive run, which

564
00:18:37,163 --> 00:18:38,599
I I don't know how you can go

565
00:18:38,599 --> 00:18:41,151
so far off planned, but the junior need

566
00:18:41,151 --> 00:18:41,311
to...

567
00:18:42,028 --> 00:18:44,262
They need to experience it for themselves to

568
00:18:44,262 --> 00:18:45,219
really learn.

569
00:18:46,748 --> 00:18:49,308
So I think he was honestly really lucky

570
00:18:49,363 --> 00:18:49,863
to

571
00:18:50,552 --> 00:18:52,454
to get the win by such a small

572
00:18:52,454 --> 00:18:52,771
margin.

573
00:18:54,213 --> 00:18:56,039
Arthur from common saul told me that he

574
00:18:56,039 --> 00:18:57,944
calculated the speed at the finish and he

575
00:18:57,944 --> 00:19:00,722
thought it was 80 centimeters that he was

576
00:19:00,722 --> 00:19:02,627
ahead of max. Wow, which is so close.

577
00:19:03,917 --> 00:19:05,615
But, yeah, I think the big

578
00:19:05,993 --> 00:19:08,468
mistake for Mesa that was could have cost

579
00:19:08,468 --> 00:19:11,502
him was that last burn before the the

580
00:19:11,502 --> 00:19:13,349
jump out of the woods the re jump.

581
00:19:13,509 --> 00:19:14,542
Yeah. Where he

582
00:19:15,338 --> 00:19:16,928
he burp his tire there and just lost

583
00:19:16,928 --> 00:19:18,144
all his drive. So

584
00:19:18,519 --> 00:19:21,398
he didn't carry goods exit speed. Okay. He

585
00:19:21,398 --> 00:19:23,712
give us up by, like, 1.2 or 1.5,

586
00:19:23,872 --> 00:19:24,531
and then

587
00:19:26,265 --> 00:19:28,315
obviously, lost it all to the finish, but

588
00:19:29,070 --> 00:19:30,741
yeah. He was really bumped. The race was

589
00:19:30,741 --> 00:19:31,138
canceled.

590
00:19:32,570 --> 00:19:33,922
I can see from his side. He's like,

591
00:19:34,241 --> 00:19:36,248
I just wanna race. Like, in fair conditions.

592
00:19:36,488 --> 00:19:37,687
I left a lot of time out there

593
00:19:37,687 --> 00:19:38,166
yesterday.

594
00:19:38,566 --> 00:19:39,684
I don't care if it's wet or if

595
00:19:39,684 --> 00:19:41,122
it's dry, like, if we all just race

596
00:19:41,122 --> 00:19:41,922
at the same time,

597
00:19:42,880 --> 00:19:43,575
it'll be

598
00:19:43,933 --> 00:19:45,448
we'll sort it out on the track. Yeah.

599
00:19:46,165 --> 00:19:48,238
So I I I've been there, I can

600
00:19:48,238 --> 00:19:49,695
see his perspective, but

601
00:19:50,231 --> 00:19:52,119
as a Team owner, I was honestly pretty

602
00:19:52,159 --> 00:19:54,155
happy with the... I had all worked out.

603
00:19:55,352 --> 00:19:57,666
The past few races Aces had some crashes

604
00:19:57,666 --> 00:19:58,964
in practice and

605
00:19:59,821 --> 00:20:00,321
some

606
00:20:00,714 --> 00:20:03,192
some good saves as well. Yeah. So,

607
00:20:03,831 --> 00:20:04,651
to get

608
00:20:05,190 --> 00:20:07,427
to to get the win without having to

609
00:20:07,427 --> 00:20:09,265
risk any chance of a crash today.

610
00:20:09,998 --> 00:20:12,469
I was very relieved. You'll take those points.

611
00:20:12,708 --> 00:20:15,976
Oh, we'll take that. Yeah. Let's move on

612
00:20:15,976 --> 00:20:16,853
to the elite racing then.

613
00:20:18,063 --> 00:20:19,973
So practice this morning, I guess All he

614
00:20:19,973 --> 00:20:21,883
was pretty much as good as the conditions

615
00:20:21,883 --> 00:20:24,906
have been all week, literally or morning. Absolutely

616
00:20:24,906 --> 00:20:27,109
lovely. I went out with any sun on

617
00:20:27,229 --> 00:20:29,612
in the rain and nearly pride myself. And

618
00:20:29,612 --> 00:20:30,112
then,

619
00:20:30,486 --> 00:20:32,631
you know, tech what, 10:15 minutes before the

620
00:20:32,631 --> 00:20:34,275
women were you to drop in. It's in

621
00:20:34,790 --> 00:20:35,505
along comes the rain.

622
00:20:36,220 --> 00:20:39,078
How do you process that as a rider.

623
00:20:39,316 --> 00:20:40,507
How do you deal with that? And I

624
00:20:40,507 --> 00:20:42,015
guess some do a better job than others

625
00:20:42,015 --> 00:20:43,420
as we've seen this afternoon, but

626
00:20:44,094 --> 00:20:46,714
literally no wet running all week. That's so

627
00:20:46,714 --> 00:20:49,096
true. I mean, the biggest thing that, Louise

628
00:20:49,096 --> 00:20:50,684
me were speaking about was this kind of

629
00:20:50,684 --> 00:20:53,013
like, like, the thing you can control is

630
00:20:53,013 --> 00:20:53,572
how much

631
00:20:54,291 --> 00:20:55,810
I guess, how much effort you put into

632
00:20:55,810 --> 00:20:57,169
that run, like, how much you commit to

633
00:20:57,169 --> 00:21:00,365
that run, the speed adjusts based on the

634
00:21:00,365 --> 00:21:01,897
conditions of the track. You know, that, yes,

635
00:21:02,057 --> 00:21:04,210
it's wet, but it doesn't mean that if

636
00:21:04,210 --> 00:21:05,965
it's wet, you reduce your effort. You know,

637
00:21:06,125 --> 00:21:07,901
you still go as hard as you can

638
00:21:08,039 --> 00:21:09,974
based on all of the circumstances.

639
00:21:10,432 --> 00:21:10,932
So

640
00:21:11,403 --> 00:21:13,309
you know, I was adding with Louise. We

641
00:21:13,309 --> 00:21:15,398
were going... She's been ill this week. So

642
00:21:15,454 --> 00:21:17,202
she was getting better each day as the

643
00:21:17,202 --> 00:21:18,970
week went on, but I was like, well,

644
00:21:19,049 --> 00:21:20,410
you can just do as much as you

645
00:21:20,410 --> 00:21:22,570
can with your physical ability as as it

646
00:21:22,570 --> 00:21:23,609
as it currently is. Yeah.

647
00:21:24,490 --> 00:21:25,930
So, yeah. For us, it was just a

648
00:21:25,930 --> 00:21:27,858
matter of keeping that effort like, to the

649
00:21:27,858 --> 00:21:30,001
maximum, you know? So... And then letting the

650
00:21:30,001 --> 00:21:31,112
trap decide how fast go.

651
00:21:31,905 --> 00:21:33,492
And that's the best thing. If you start

652
00:21:33,492 --> 00:21:36,134
twitch about the group's gonna be slippery or

653
00:21:36,134 --> 00:21:37,990
the bottom gonna be this, you know, then

654
00:21:38,208 --> 00:21:40,760
then you'll just either go really slow and

655
00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:42,994
within yourself or or just mis it completely

656
00:21:42,994 --> 00:21:45,081
maybe too fast. So just putting in your

657
00:21:45,081 --> 00:21:46,751
maximum effort and like,

658
00:21:47,706 --> 00:21:49,217
it sounds kinda funny, but like, let your

659
00:21:49,217 --> 00:21:51,939
body do the figuring out, like it... These

660
00:21:51,939 --> 00:21:53,934
guys are so experience and girls are so

661
00:21:53,934 --> 00:21:56,568
experience on track. That... Like, if it slides,

662
00:21:56,808 --> 00:21:58,085
they'll know what to do. You know? Then

663
00:21:58,085 --> 00:22:01,371
they their spotlight just. Yeah. Okay. So it

664
00:22:01,371 --> 00:22:02,961
like, don't overthink it. I think is a

665
00:22:02,961 --> 00:22:05,528
big thing. Just just go with full effort

666
00:22:06,061 --> 00:22:07,492
and see what happens at the end is

667
00:22:07,492 --> 00:22:08,207
is the biggest thing.

668
00:22:08,859 --> 00:22:10,535
With some calculation. I, halfway feel through the

669
00:22:10,535 --> 00:22:11,652
men's we soon realized, you had to do

670
00:22:11,652 --> 00:22:13,088
that low line at the bottom. So... Yeah.

671
00:22:13,407 --> 00:22:15,163
Sure. You know, just some of your lines

672
00:22:15,163 --> 00:22:15,961
if required. But,

673
00:22:16,773 --> 00:22:18,284
Yeah. Leave it leave it to the body

674
00:22:18,284 --> 00:22:19,874
to just get down with with full effort

675
00:22:19,874 --> 00:22:21,463
is is what I would say for sure.

676
00:22:21,781 --> 00:22:23,769
For. Niko, Downhill was a sport where, like,

677
00:22:24,659 --> 00:22:24,978
you know,

678
00:22:25,696 --> 00:22:27,213
especially at the very top level now where

679
00:22:27,213 --> 00:22:29,128
teams have got multiple people tracks side and

680
00:22:29,128 --> 00:22:31,065
all this kind of stuff like, everything's analyzed

681
00:22:31,283 --> 00:22:33,689
to the nth degree, like, Everyone knows exactly

682
00:22:33,689 --> 00:22:35,758
where they wanna be, and it it's all

683
00:22:35,758 --> 00:22:37,907
about kind of precision and executing this like,

684
00:22:38,544 --> 00:22:39,897
perfect run in theory.

685
00:22:40,866 --> 00:22:43,172
And when... What happened today happens, it sort

686
00:22:43,172 --> 00:22:44,761
of throws that out the window and you've

687
00:22:44,761 --> 00:22:46,908
got to come back to riding on instinct

688
00:22:46,908 --> 00:22:48,123
and ability and

689
00:22:48,513 --> 00:22:50,347
like, maybe getting into some sort of flow

690
00:22:50,347 --> 00:22:51,963
state where your your

691
00:22:52,340 --> 00:22:54,572
subconscious is using the ability you have to,

692
00:22:54,652 --> 00:22:56,246
like, respond and and do things like that,

693
00:22:56,406 --> 00:22:58,012
which Maybe it's almost a bit more of

694
00:22:58,012 --> 00:23:00,081
an endure rider trait because they're they're they're

695
00:23:00,081 --> 00:23:02,069
doing that more often they're relying on instincts

696
00:23:02,069 --> 00:23:03,342
and a single down of track.

697
00:23:04,711 --> 00:23:07,103
Do you do you think some riders in

698
00:23:07,103 --> 00:23:09,415
the in the group are, like, more able

699
00:23:09,415 --> 00:23:10,929
to switch into that and more able to

700
00:23:10,929 --> 00:23:13,334
tap into that mindset like, how how do

701
00:23:13,334 --> 00:23:15,163
you think about that when the conditions do

702
00:23:15,163 --> 00:23:15,561
this to you?

703
00:23:17,550 --> 00:23:19,084
I think there's maybe

704
00:23:19,792 --> 00:23:21,484
people are in different circumstances

705
00:23:22,018 --> 00:23:23,210
when it comes to it. I think a

706
00:23:23,210 --> 00:23:24,959
lot of the top writers don't like it

707
00:23:24,959 --> 00:23:25,459
because

708
00:23:26,231 --> 00:23:27,240
they feel like

709
00:23:27,838 --> 00:23:29,853
they can compete in

710
00:23:30,470 --> 00:23:33,421
the most consistent of conditions. Mh. And when

711
00:23:33,421 --> 00:23:35,814
you throw all these variables at it, there's

712
00:23:35,814 --> 00:23:37,191
just way more

713
00:23:37,583 --> 00:23:41,013
opportunity for things to go wrong, and they

714
00:23:41,013 --> 00:23:43,586
believe, like, the best guys need to

715
00:23:44,442 --> 00:23:46,457
have the most

716
00:23:47,328 --> 00:23:49,960
chance to do well. Yeah. If that makes

717
00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:50,039
sense.

718
00:23:51,236 --> 00:23:52,751
So I think for the top guys, it's

719
00:23:52,751 --> 00:23:53,389
really difficult.

720
00:23:54,028 --> 00:23:56,580
Then there's guys that have nothing to lose.

721
00:23:56,913 --> 00:23:58,340
And when you put

722
00:23:59,688 --> 00:24:01,671
like, the weather's is the grade equal, when

723
00:24:01,671 --> 00:24:04,312
it rains. And when everybody has

724
00:24:04,938 --> 00:24:05,653
all of a sudden,

725
00:24:06,369 --> 00:24:07,902
B and Am are not

726
00:24:08,674 --> 00:24:10,662
invincible anymore. They could slip on a route

727
00:24:10,662 --> 00:24:12,410
too. It's like they're back in the game.

728
00:24:12,649 --> 00:24:14,134
They've got a shot that they might not

729
00:24:14,255 --> 00:24:15,775
have in in dry conditions.

730
00:24:16,494 --> 00:24:18,255
So you have guys like that that'll put

731
00:24:18,255 --> 00:24:20,974
everything into it. And then you have other

732
00:24:20,974 --> 00:24:22,985
riders that are racing for the overall and

733
00:24:22,985 --> 00:24:24,979
maybe need to add more consistently and and

734
00:24:24,979 --> 00:24:26,675
smarter in these conditions. So

735
00:24:27,929 --> 00:24:30,241
everybody has their own perspective on it. But

736
00:24:30,321 --> 00:24:30,775
I think

737
00:24:31,775 --> 00:24:33,055
all I put it really well that you

738
00:24:33,055 --> 00:24:33,555
can't

739
00:24:34,335 --> 00:24:36,095
overthink it and try to plan ahead. I

740
00:24:36,095 --> 00:24:37,775
think a lot of times in a consistent

741
00:24:37,775 --> 00:24:39,948
race course. When the conditions are good. You

742
00:24:39,948 --> 00:24:40,767
can visualize

743
00:24:41,226 --> 00:24:44,023
every fine detail, and you can almost get

744
00:24:44,023 --> 00:24:46,840
yourself wound up in these conditions when

745
00:24:47,234 --> 00:24:49,698
It's never gonna go perfectly. Everybody's gonna be

746
00:24:49,698 --> 00:24:51,287
sliding all over the place, and you just

747
00:24:51,287 --> 00:24:53,513
need to ride loose and react to what's

748
00:24:53,513 --> 00:24:54,228
coming in front of you.

749
00:24:55,594 --> 00:24:56,967
And the routers that can

750
00:24:57,341 --> 00:24:59,565
just know gonna have a hard time. Everyone's

751
00:24:59,565 --> 00:25:01,471
gonna have a mistake. No 1 can see.

752
00:25:02,185 --> 00:25:04,194
So you just keep pushing and

753
00:25:04,984 --> 00:25:06,765
until you get to the finish, and

754
00:25:07,384 --> 00:25:09,144
the results will be what they are. I

755
00:25:09,144 --> 00:25:10,984
think the riders that are, like, gritty enough

756
00:25:10,984 --> 00:25:12,585
to to to do that.

757
00:25:14,596 --> 00:25:16,420
And also can use the experience, like,

758
00:25:17,451 --> 00:25:18,982
some riders took pretty

759
00:25:20,624 --> 00:25:22,860
aggressive lines that were never gonna work. And

760
00:25:22,860 --> 00:25:24,605
paid the price for it. And then other

761
00:25:24,605 --> 00:25:28,173
guys like, Craig looked so put that 42

762
00:25:28,173 --> 00:25:29,363
years of experience to work.

763
00:25:30,488 --> 00:25:32,155
And was just so smart with his race.

764
00:25:32,393 --> 00:25:32,893
So

765
00:25:33,663 --> 00:25:35,433
there's so many ways to approach

766
00:25:36,282 --> 00:25:38,360
a wet race. I always liked it because

767
00:25:38,519 --> 00:25:40,344
I felt like I was in the position

768
00:25:40,344 --> 00:25:42,511
where in a consistent

769
00:25:43,042 --> 00:25:45,820
condition, I couldn't probably beat the top guys.

770
00:25:46,137 --> 00:25:48,068
Okay. Maybe once or twice I had something

771
00:25:48,068 --> 00:25:50,385
for them and dry. But in wet, it

772
00:25:50,385 --> 00:25:51,184
was like, okay.

773
00:25:52,222 --> 00:25:54,300
Everyone's gonna struggle. Like, if they don't like

774
00:25:54,300 --> 00:25:56,220
it, that's good for me. Yeah. It's all.

775
00:25:56,458 --> 00:25:58,441
So there's probably some guys that have that

776
00:25:58,441 --> 00:25:58,837
mindset.

777
00:26:00,186 --> 00:26:02,193
But... Yeah, it just depends on

778
00:26:02,898 --> 00:26:04,967
on on where you are, Where you're coming

779
00:26:04,967 --> 00:26:07,434
from? Yeah. But let's talk about the Elite

780
00:26:07,434 --> 00:26:09,583
women's day then. And first thing I spied

781
00:26:09,583 --> 00:26:11,833
was no Ka Bo in finals, which is

782
00:26:12,305 --> 00:26:15,025
very unusual site ollie. Do... Does anyone do

783
00:26:15,025 --> 00:26:17,424
we know is Cameo okay? Do we know

784
00:26:17,424 --> 00:26:18,144
what's been going on there?

785
00:26:19,025 --> 00:26:20,873
I think it's still issues with her head.

786
00:26:21,191 --> 00:26:24,768
Okay. So So concussion yeah later stuff. Yeah.

787
00:26:24,926 --> 00:26:26,936
It seems that way. She's... I mean, she's,

788
00:26:28,361 --> 00:26:30,593
it seems like she's kind of okay. She

789
00:26:30,593 --> 00:26:32,209
she recovered? Wasn't she

790
00:26:33,223 --> 00:26:35,056
seems was looking good, but it sounds like

791
00:26:35,056 --> 00:26:37,541
there's sort of things, some smaller things like

792
00:26:37,541 --> 00:26:39,533
off the back of that really. So that's

793
00:26:39,533 --> 00:26:41,684
why she was being super clever, like, just

794
00:26:41,684 --> 00:26:43,994
rolling out the quality run. Yeah. Because she

795
00:26:43,994 --> 00:26:44,951
was protected to semi.

796
00:26:45,763 --> 00:26:47,440
And then, obviously, semi me she had to,

797
00:26:48,557 --> 00:26:49,675
go into deliver. But

798
00:26:50,314 --> 00:26:52,070
yeah. So something to do with that. I

799
00:26:52,070 --> 00:26:53,906
don't know what the and outs. But yeah.

800
00:26:54,066 --> 00:26:56,554
I think There's a lot of obviously, research

801
00:26:56,554 --> 00:26:58,069
out there of we should do and some

802
00:26:58,069 --> 00:26:59,744
of the research says you need to start

803
00:26:59,744 --> 00:27:01,998
returning at some point. Yeah. Yeah. To other

804
00:27:02,057 --> 00:27:03,971
research. Yeah. There's quite a lot of stuff

805
00:27:03,971 --> 00:27:04,345
around

806
00:27:04,782 --> 00:27:06,849
actually restarting the brains. There can be a

807
00:27:06,849 --> 00:27:09,553
benefit of returning to competition competition. Yeah. And

808
00:27:09,553 --> 00:27:12,018
to competition is another is the debate to

809
00:27:12,018 --> 00:27:14,299
riding. Yeah. Starting riding again. And

810
00:27:15,134 --> 00:27:17,043
So, yeah. It's something along there along the

811
00:27:17,043 --> 00:27:19,111
lines of concussion with her. So, yeah, I

812
00:27:19,111 --> 00:27:21,019
hope she, you know, gets better soon. I

813
00:27:21,019 --> 00:27:22,371
think it's really in... From what I'm hearing,

814
00:27:22,784 --> 00:27:25,261
it's like, inconsistent with her. So it's not

815
00:27:25,261 --> 00:27:27,258
like she's just... Obviously, if you're feeling bad

816
00:27:27,258 --> 00:27:28,616
and you're not feeling right, you just don't

817
00:27:28,616 --> 00:27:31,105
turn up. Right? But for her, she's feeling

818
00:27:31,105 --> 00:27:32,860
good and can deliver. We've seen do some

819
00:27:32,860 --> 00:27:33,737
good runs this year.

820
00:27:34,375 --> 00:27:36,449
So it's it's the not now bit in

821
00:27:36,449 --> 00:27:37,805
the middle of a tricky here. Yeah. It

822
00:27:37,805 --> 00:27:39,454
same feels like the same many riders going

823
00:27:39,654 --> 00:27:41,248
that or have been through that recently. Like,

824
00:27:41,408 --> 00:27:43,401
it's... But at least we're understanding it more.

825
00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:45,075
I think everyone's used to push on through

826
00:27:45,075 --> 00:27:45,575
and

827
00:27:46,031 --> 00:27:48,000
that's high risk isn't it So push through,

828
00:27:48,437 --> 00:27:50,026
I think I'd heard Valley had a big

829
00:27:50,026 --> 00:27:51,456
over the bars in last practice this morning.

830
00:27:51,615 --> 00:27:52,807
So I think she was coming in pretty.

831
00:27:53,046 --> 00:27:55,430
So, Miriam, I think here tree and practice

832
00:27:55,430 --> 00:27:56,963
earlier and the week can cut her hand

833
00:27:57,352 --> 00:27:59,205
down to the bone, so she was nursing

834
00:27:59,818 --> 00:28:01,727
stitches and all sorts of things. So there

835
00:28:01,727 --> 00:28:02,546
was some real,

836
00:28:02,921 --> 00:28:03,818
like, strong

837
00:28:05,002 --> 00:28:06,670
performances for people to battle on through all

838
00:28:06,670 --> 00:28:08,894
this kind of stuff. But, yeah, that's Oli

839
00:28:08,894 --> 00:28:11,038
will start with with Louise sixth place.

840
00:28:12,644 --> 00:28:15,525
In some very flash flu Troy kit this

841
00:28:15,525 --> 00:28:18,085
week. How's how's Loo feeling? Were she happy

842
00:28:18,085 --> 00:28:19,845
with that? Is she's... I'm guessing she probably

843
00:28:19,845 --> 00:28:21,779
wants more like she's feels that she's on

844
00:28:21,779 --> 00:28:22,339
the climb.

845
00:28:23,220 --> 00:28:25,380
Of course she wants more, but, you you

846
00:28:25,380 --> 00:28:27,299
know her well, and she's she's so positive,

847
00:28:27,539 --> 00:28:29,059
like, you know, the fact that she was,

848
00:28:29,633 --> 00:28:32,094
I didn't look exactly, but almost nothing off

849
00:28:32,094 --> 00:28:35,111
of a podium. Yeah. Yeah Less less than

850
00:28:35,111 --> 00:28:37,827
0.2 a second. Yeah. And so And the

851
00:28:37,827 --> 00:28:39,501
fact that happened, I think anybody else would

852
00:28:39,501 --> 00:28:41,096
be in like, quite a lot of, like,

853
00:28:41,335 --> 00:28:43,009
pain, but she was like, now I'm happy.

854
00:28:43,169 --> 00:28:44,763
You know, she was like super positive here.

855
00:28:44,923 --> 00:28:46,855
And actually, I'd go back to the point

856
00:28:46,855 --> 00:28:48,375
earlier that she was happy. She just gave

857
00:28:48,375 --> 00:28:49,575
it her all and she put her effort

858
00:28:49,575 --> 00:28:51,174
in. Yeah. She went down and obviously,

859
00:28:51,974 --> 00:28:54,227
she she greased the the difficult bit and

860
00:28:54,227 --> 00:28:55,659
then went down in the slightly easier a

861
00:28:55,659 --> 00:28:57,567
bit coming into the last turn, Yeah. Which

862
00:28:57,567 --> 00:28:59,635
was obviously annoying, but she gave at her

863
00:28:59,635 --> 00:29:00,827
all and that's all that she can do.

864
00:29:00,987 --> 00:29:02,816
It's all that anybody around her can expect

865
00:29:02,816 --> 00:29:05,062
her to do. So she was happy. I

866
00:29:05,062 --> 00:29:06,259
laughed, I said, you know, if you did

867
00:29:06,259 --> 00:29:07,855
it... If if if Vale had got up

868
00:29:07,855 --> 00:29:09,292
a little bit slower than you from the

869
00:29:09,292 --> 00:29:11,367
crashing on the same section, maybe you'd had

870
00:29:11,367 --> 00:29:12,006
done it. But

871
00:29:12,980 --> 00:29:16,419
she's she's stoked. She's learning so much by

872
00:29:16,419 --> 00:29:18,019
the minute. She's just like a sponge of

873
00:29:18,019 --> 00:29:18,919
learning. So

874
00:29:19,460 --> 00:29:20,980
yeah, She will just keep progressing for sure.

875
00:29:21,220 --> 00:29:23,071
Good stuff. And that Valley hole,

876
00:29:24,347 --> 00:29:24,847
Nico

877
00:29:25,225 --> 00:29:27,299
wasn't quite to be again, another slide out

878
00:29:27,299 --> 00:29:29,133
at the bottom, but, like, was on a

879
00:29:29,133 --> 00:29:30,409
pretty good run up until that point and

880
00:29:30,409 --> 00:29:31,980
then, yeah, Big slide out and

881
00:29:32,417 --> 00:29:34,964
I think she seemed pretty stoked early, so

882
00:29:34,964 --> 00:29:37,431
it's kinda cool that she's still in the

883
00:29:37,431 --> 00:29:39,341
battle, but it's not being any... It's not

884
00:29:39,341 --> 00:29:40,296
coming easy for this year.

885
00:29:41,903 --> 00:29:43,337
She looked pretty aggressive in the top of

886
00:29:43,337 --> 00:29:44,692
her run. I thought she was riding really

887
00:29:44,692 --> 00:29:44,851
well.

888
00:29:46,126 --> 00:29:47,560
Maybe it's a little bit easier to be

889
00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:49,963
excited for Ellie because she was further behind

890
00:29:49,963 --> 00:29:52,905
in the points, than if 1 closer competitors.

891
00:29:53,303 --> 00:29:53,462
1.

892
00:29:55,211 --> 00:29:57,756
In school the women are excited for each

893
00:29:57,756 --> 00:29:59,602
other, and there's like so much,

894
00:30:00,639 --> 00:30:02,473
love for each other and within the competition.

895
00:30:03,829 --> 00:30:05,983
But, yeah, I think it's made the racing

896
00:30:05,983 --> 00:30:08,716
really exciting that Valley hasn't dominated every race

897
00:30:09,028 --> 00:30:10,699
sure she would have wanted to. Yeah. For

898
00:30:10,699 --> 00:30:12,846
us watching. It keeps it interesting. Definitely, it

899
00:30:12,846 --> 00:30:14,993
keeps things a bit higher. Miriam in 4

900
00:30:14,993 --> 00:30:17,243
for. It's it's impressive considering

901
00:30:17,554 --> 00:30:19,408
She is still kind of on this recovery

902
00:30:19,546 --> 00:30:21,856
trajectory to some extent and nursing a pretty

903
00:30:21,856 --> 00:30:24,007
sore hand. Again, look great on Track book.

904
00:30:24,899 --> 00:30:26,897
It only takes a a small mistake when

905
00:30:26,897 --> 00:30:28,335
the conditions are like this and things just

906
00:30:28,335 --> 00:30:30,813
seem to compound compounding it. Yeah. Fully. I

907
00:30:30,813 --> 00:30:32,091
just worth noting as well. As looking at

908
00:30:32,091 --> 00:30:33,470
the times then. Considering

909
00:30:33,784 --> 00:30:35,539
to mirroring crash as well didn't she. Yeah.

910
00:30:35,699 --> 00:30:37,375
Yeah. So considering the crashes,

911
00:30:38,093 --> 00:30:41,126
third 4 fifth and sixth was separated by

912
00:30:41,126 --> 00:30:41,626
4

913
00:30:42,096 --> 00:30:43,526
It's crazy there. And they all crash in

914
00:30:43,526 --> 00:30:45,590
different places in different ways. Yes. I was

915
00:30:45,590 --> 00:30:46,067
just like, well,

916
00:30:46,861 --> 00:30:49,084
even the times are tight when everyone's crashing.

917
00:30:49,243 --> 00:30:51,088
So I think it's actually similar in the

918
00:30:51,088 --> 00:30:52,283
men's. But, yeah,

919
00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:55,629
Miriam looks great on the hill. Like, she

920
00:30:55,629 --> 00:30:57,541
is riding so well. And I think, like,

921
00:30:57,700 --> 00:30:58,997
you know, we've seen her obviously

922
00:30:59,705 --> 00:31:01,215
back at some of her best as year

923
00:31:01,215 --> 00:31:03,758
already, and she looked brilliant again all weekend

924
00:31:03,758 --> 00:31:04,474
long. She's

925
00:31:05,348 --> 00:31:07,335
when she's out there, yeah, okay, Vale is

926
00:31:07,335 --> 00:31:09,021
the 1 to be. Probably still at the

927
00:31:09,021 --> 00:31:10,932
moment, but when she's out there, she,

928
00:31:11,968 --> 00:31:14,119
yeah. I think over the next but the

929
00:31:14,119 --> 00:31:15,632
back end of this season and definitely into

930
00:31:15,632 --> 00:31:16,827
next season as long as she has a

931
00:31:16,827 --> 00:31:17,226
good winter,

932
00:31:18,119 --> 00:31:20,835
it could be back to some potential domination

933
00:31:20,835 --> 00:31:22,114
going on there? Or should we say at

934
00:31:22,114 --> 00:31:24,191
least a very, very competitive sort of valley

935
00:31:24,271 --> 00:31:24,771
Miriam

936
00:31:25,470 --> 00:31:25,765
plus

937
00:31:26,282 --> 00:31:27,793
you know and others in that in that

938
00:31:27,793 --> 00:31:28,747
kind of group. So

939
00:31:29,304 --> 00:31:31,611
yeah. She's looking brilliant And again, today, a

940
00:31:31,611 --> 00:31:32,566
tough day, tough day.

941
00:31:33,219 --> 00:31:34,897
The office. Yeah. But that's the point isn't

942
00:31:34,897 --> 00:31:36,516
it. And it comes back to, like championship

943
00:31:36,576 --> 00:31:38,254
winning runs. Isn't it? Like, if you wanna

944
00:31:38,254 --> 00:31:39,453
stay in the fight, she's stayed in the

945
00:31:39,453 --> 00:31:42,170
fight. Yeah. So yeah, Brilliant resolve her again.

946
00:31:42,410 --> 00:31:45,944
Yeah. Solid performance and Nico Tan lit up

947
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:47,747
top of the track. As she's been doing

948
00:31:47,747 --> 00:31:49,494
quite a lot this year, like, and look

949
00:31:49,494 --> 00:31:51,256
really good. I mean, I guess it's sort

950
00:31:51,256 --> 00:31:52,607
of a home race for. She grew up

951
00:31:52,607 --> 00:31:54,435
here. She knows what this place is like

952
00:31:54,435 --> 00:31:56,581
in the wet, but she wrote aggressively. She

953
00:31:56,581 --> 00:31:58,012
seems to be getting on well with that.

954
00:31:58,583 --> 00:32:00,170
New Canyon bike looking good in the new

955
00:32:00,328 --> 00:32:01,463
Ts 57

956
00:32:01,836 --> 00:32:02,471
kit as well.

957
00:32:03,105 --> 00:32:04,930
Just, again, wasn't quite to be in, and

958
00:32:04,930 --> 00:32:06,620
unfortunately, the crash was 1 that

959
00:32:07,088 --> 00:32:08,603
lost quite a lot of time. I think

960
00:32:08,603 --> 00:32:10,436
people... Other people had some crashes where maybe

961
00:32:10,436 --> 00:32:11,791
they could get back on quite easily, but

962
00:32:11,791 --> 00:32:13,625
that was a a tricky 1 to kinda

963
00:32:13,625 --> 00:32:14,183
get back to you.

964
00:32:15,234 --> 00:32:17,545
Yeah. She definitely rode the best out of

965
00:32:17,545 --> 00:32:18,660
anyone in the women's race today.

966
00:32:20,094 --> 00:32:21,688
The bike set up too looked really good.

967
00:32:21,847 --> 00:32:23,600
Like, everything... Just looked like it was working.

968
00:32:25,288 --> 00:32:27,035
It took her forever to get up. I

969
00:32:27,115 --> 00:32:28,942
I was like, Yelling at the Tv, like,

970
00:32:29,180 --> 00:32:29,998
get going

971
00:32:31,007 --> 00:32:32,517
everybody else crashed too, you need to get

972
00:32:32,517 --> 00:32:34,204
on the front of this was she, I

973
00:32:34,204 --> 00:32:35,322
guess she was on the front of the

974
00:32:35,322 --> 00:32:36,201
girls who didn't crash.

975
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:37,160
But,

976
00:32:38,119 --> 00:32:40,675
yeah. She's she's kinda back to her her

977
00:32:40,675 --> 00:32:42,525
normal form. I think the win gave her

978
00:32:42,525 --> 00:32:43,880
a lot of confidence to the last 1,

979
00:32:44,039 --> 00:32:45,951
and then just all season. She's...

980
00:32:46,668 --> 00:32:48,363
I I must feel good for her after

981
00:32:48,912 --> 00:32:50,817
everything she went through with her injury to

982
00:32:50,817 --> 00:32:54,015
get back to this level of competition. And

983
00:32:54,388 --> 00:32:56,610
it's always like Bitter sweet in that situation

984
00:32:56,610 --> 00:32:57,110
where

985
00:32:57,580 --> 00:32:59,660
you know you had it, and you know

986
00:32:59,660 --> 00:33:02,860
you're the fastest, which is really good, but

987
00:33:02,860 --> 00:33:04,380
you also know you let it slip away,

988
00:33:04,779 --> 00:33:07,427
which is frustrating. So hopefully, she can use

989
00:33:07,427 --> 00:33:08,006
it as

990
00:33:08,461 --> 00:33:10,370
fire for the next race. Yeah. For sure.

991
00:33:10,768 --> 00:33:12,517
Merely John said then, Ollie.

992
00:33:13,153 --> 00:33:14,449
I mean, we've we've seen

993
00:33:14,918 --> 00:33:16,265
what Mel is capable of in the past,

994
00:33:16,345 --> 00:33:18,644
but it's just it often doesn't quite come

995
00:33:18,644 --> 00:33:20,229
together on a race for her, but she's

996
00:33:20,229 --> 00:33:22,784
been all weekend. She's looked good here. Said

997
00:33:22,784 --> 00:33:24,220
good results in the in the kind of

998
00:33:24,220 --> 00:33:26,296
run up to finals. And then to put

999
00:33:26,296 --> 00:33:28,530
down a second and, you know, to be

1000
00:33:28,530 --> 00:33:30,765
the by far the closest person to Ellie,

1001
00:33:31,339 --> 00:33:33,412
like, she's gotta be pretty happy with that

1002
00:33:33,412 --> 00:33:35,326
after a, yeah. A rough time trying to

1003
00:33:35,326 --> 00:33:37,001
get that finals run where she knows she

1004
00:33:37,001 --> 00:33:38,835
can be. Yeah. That's that thing isn't it

1005
00:33:38,835 --> 00:33:40,531
that consistency thing been

1006
00:33:41,321 --> 00:33:43,393
I guess, her challenge hasn't. Like, we know

1007
00:33:43,393 --> 00:33:45,704
that she can deliver high speed, but can

1008
00:33:45,704 --> 00:33:47,536
she deliver it for a whole run and

1009
00:33:47,536 --> 00:33:49,050
a whole season. And and I was just,

1010
00:33:49,210 --> 00:33:50,898
I was reflecting on my comment 3 of

1011
00:33:50,898 --> 00:33:52,015
the women a minute again, and then we've

1012
00:33:52,015 --> 00:33:53,450
just spoken about Tanya, and then we're speaking

1013
00:33:53,450 --> 00:33:55,604
about Millie, like, the list keeps growing, doesn't

1014
00:33:55,604 --> 00:33:57,119
it like it sure it does. Yeah.

1015
00:33:57,997 --> 00:33:59,831
And and if Millie carries on the way

1016
00:33:59,831 --> 00:34:02,395
she's going, she will definitely be, like... And

1017
00:34:02,395 --> 00:34:04,305
already is there, but in terms of that

1018
00:34:04,305 --> 00:34:05,897
consistency Yeah if that keeps growing,

1019
00:34:06,773 --> 00:34:08,935
she'll, it's another person in that in that

1020
00:34:08,935 --> 00:34:09,411
fighting group.

1021
00:34:10,363 --> 00:34:12,663
She's brilliant all weak. She's super positive You

1022
00:34:12,663 --> 00:34:14,171
know, if you see her tracks side, she'll

1023
00:34:14,171 --> 00:34:15,494
be smiling and

1024
00:34:15,934 --> 00:34:18,488
chatting and, you know, so she's got good

1025
00:34:18,488 --> 00:34:21,761
attitude, fully committed to just opening it up

1026
00:34:21,761 --> 00:34:22,161
and

1027
00:34:22,639 --> 00:34:25,128
and fully deserved with the result. Shed had

1028
00:34:25,128 --> 00:34:27,992
an awesome drift into that term before the

1029
00:34:27,992 --> 00:34:29,901
river gap as well. Like she was lit.

1030
00:34:30,537 --> 00:34:32,304
She's she is actually great you I think.

1031
00:34:33,905 --> 00:34:36,224
Right, Oli, Let's talk about El Or Fe,

1032
00:34:36,465 --> 00:34:38,224
Someone you know well You spent some years

1033
00:34:38,224 --> 00:34:38,704
together at,

1034
00:34:39,425 --> 00:34:42,170
Ms Mon kinda on track and off track

1035
00:34:42,225 --> 00:34:45,237
helping ellie with lines and helping her on

1036
00:34:45,237 --> 00:34:47,773
the, you know, just gradually improving our race

1037
00:34:47,773 --> 00:34:49,454
craft. It's been a while for her though.

1038
00:34:49,693 --> 00:34:51,677
She's had some some tough times of late

1039
00:34:51,677 --> 00:34:53,265
to kinda get back, and then to come

1040
00:34:53,265 --> 00:34:55,488
and take her first ever world cup win

1041
00:34:55,488 --> 00:34:55,940
in

1042
00:34:56,298 --> 00:34:59,329
gnarly conditions is it's gotta be pretty special.

1043
00:34:59,648 --> 00:35:01,402
So cool. To see that. And I think

1044
00:35:01,402 --> 00:35:03,418
it's gotta be a reminded for every single

1045
00:35:03,476 --> 00:35:03,976
racer

1046
00:35:04,353 --> 00:35:07,158
and rider out there. That, like, you know,

1047
00:35:07,954 --> 00:35:10,104
although, yeah, you see these people like Valley

1048
00:35:10,104 --> 00:35:12,095
winning in... Winning week week out, and, you

1049
00:35:12,095 --> 00:35:14,006
know, like B winning week week out.

1050
00:35:14,738 --> 00:35:15,637
I think sometimes

1051
00:35:16,094 --> 00:35:17,450
that that you look at those people and

1052
00:35:17,450 --> 00:35:19,205
go well. It's never gonna be me. You

1053
00:35:19,205 --> 00:35:20,960
know and and Nellie could be quite easily

1054
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:22,656
1 of those people who could just go

1055
00:35:22,714 --> 00:35:24,070
cut. It's never gonna happen kind of thing.

1056
00:35:24,484 --> 00:35:26,318
But I think it's just evidence and proof

1057
00:35:26,318 --> 00:35:27,913
that keep going. And your day will come

1058
00:35:27,913 --> 00:35:28,631
if you know what to mean.

1059
00:35:29,588 --> 00:35:30,885
And she's she's

1060
00:35:31,263 --> 00:35:33,177
a graph day, you know, she works super

1061
00:35:33,177 --> 00:35:33,496
hard.

1062
00:35:34,148 --> 00:35:36,057
Always open to wanting him to change how

1063
00:35:36,057 --> 00:35:36,773
she rides.

1064
00:35:37,807 --> 00:35:39,342
Very. She has a lot of,

1065
00:35:40,194 --> 00:35:41,785
like, good feel of the bike underneath her.

1066
00:35:42,023 --> 00:35:42,715
Like she'll

1067
00:35:43,075 --> 00:35:45,394
she notes this difference with, like, temperature tires

1068
00:35:45,394 --> 00:35:46,594
and stuff like that. To the point where

1069
00:35:46,594 --> 00:35:48,515
at times I was like, really? You know,

1070
00:35:48,675 --> 00:35:50,835
like anything was that really. I thought I

1071
00:35:50,835 --> 00:35:52,035
was quite aware of her bike but she,

1072
00:35:52,369 --> 00:35:54,047
so it's like... So she's very aware of,

1073
00:35:54,128 --> 00:35:57,324
like her surroundings ins and their equipment and

1074
00:35:57,644 --> 00:35:59,562
and her body, like, what she, how she

1075
00:35:59,562 --> 00:36:01,400
kind of, like rides moves. So

1076
00:36:02,293 --> 00:36:04,911
Yeah. So so impressive that the tears that

1077
00:36:04,911 --> 00:36:06,656
she was shed today were genuine. I think

1078
00:36:06,656 --> 00:36:07,925
there was quite a few others around her

1079
00:36:07,925 --> 00:36:09,670
as well. So Yeah. People seem steak for

1080
00:36:09,670 --> 00:36:09,987
it, like,

1081
00:36:10,639 --> 00:36:12,234
it was cool. 1 of those sort of

1082
00:36:12,234 --> 00:36:14,228
stories isn't it for her. So... Yeah. Yeah.

1083
00:36:14,547 --> 00:36:14,866
She's

1084
00:36:15,664 --> 00:36:16,860
I think the other thing is well looking

1085
00:36:16,860 --> 00:36:18,854
forward, it's like, that's done now, and then

1086
00:36:18,854 --> 00:36:21,021
the confidence that that can bring you know,

1087
00:36:21,180 --> 00:36:22,852
whether there was a she had a slightly

1088
00:36:22,852 --> 00:36:24,762
easier trap being first off, I don't know.

1089
00:36:25,001 --> 00:36:26,354
I think if anything they had a hard

1090
00:36:26,354 --> 00:36:27,172
trap because

1091
00:36:27,628 --> 00:36:30,030
they were like, shit we're first on this

1092
00:36:30,030 --> 00:36:31,462
thing. What does it look like? You know,

1093
00:36:31,541 --> 00:36:33,132
the others could use a bit of experience

1094
00:36:33,132 --> 00:36:34,882
from maybe watching, look a at the times.

1095
00:36:35,613 --> 00:36:37,364
In fact, I said about those was ellie

1096
00:36:37,364 --> 00:36:39,831
and Louise watching F leave at the top,

1097
00:36:40,309 --> 00:36:42,059
and they saw her crash in the second

1098
00:36:42,059 --> 00:36:42,696
left and.

1099
00:36:43,506 --> 00:36:43,823
And

1100
00:36:44,537 --> 00:36:45,568
I sort of looked at Lou to say,

1101
00:36:45,727 --> 00:36:47,393
you know, like, we'll just get around those

1102
00:36:47,393 --> 00:36:48,979
first 2 turns and then build into the

1103
00:36:48,979 --> 00:36:51,139
run. And At least but Ellie then dropped

1104
00:36:51,139 --> 00:36:53,389
after and just ripped the first 2 turns

1105
00:36:53,445 --> 00:36:55,195
and and gripped and I thought, okay. So

1106
00:36:55,195 --> 00:36:56,809
there is grip. You know? So

1107
00:36:57,597 --> 00:36:59,427
she went out with full intent back to

1108
00:36:59,427 --> 00:37:00,541
our conversation earlier,

1109
00:37:01,178 --> 00:37:02,713
full commitment, and

1110
00:37:03,167 --> 00:37:04,122
only want to stay on.

1111
00:37:06,688 --> 00:37:09,001
I think Merely stayed on, maybe made, like,

1112
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:11,235
1 or 2 little mistakes, maybe a little

1113
00:37:11,235 --> 00:37:13,149
stall, but the cleanest run. Yeah. Yeah. The

1114
00:37:13,149 --> 00:37:13,649
cleanest.

1115
00:37:14,346 --> 00:37:16,117
Yeah. So, yeah, super impressive.

1116
00:37:16,996 --> 00:37:18,135
I think the Ms

1117
00:37:18,594 --> 00:37:19,973
intense guys are gonna be,

1118
00:37:20,751 --> 00:37:22,110
I think there's probably a bit of relief

1119
00:37:22,110 --> 00:37:23,080
there. Be brutally honest,

1120
00:37:24,193 --> 00:37:27,135
season for themselves, but... Yeah. Yeah. Congrats to

1121
00:37:27,135 --> 00:37:29,123
them. It's really cool to see. Yeah. Very

1122
00:37:29,123 --> 00:37:31,270
cool. Right. Let's move on to the elite

1123
00:37:31,270 --> 00:37:33,111
men's final. A little thought that came into

1124
00:37:33,111 --> 00:37:34,776
my head while Was watching this earlier on,

1125
00:37:35,490 --> 00:37:37,710
and you probably tell me. I'm absolute idiot

1126
00:37:37,710 --> 00:37:40,742
got and Throw this 1, but in the

1127
00:37:40,742 --> 00:37:42,972
wet, it seems like there's a lot of

1128
00:37:42,972 --> 00:37:45,442
or a lot more subtle body movement to

1129
00:37:45,442 --> 00:37:46,260
kinda like

1130
00:37:46,637 --> 00:37:49,929
catch your balance when things are sliding around

1131
00:37:49,929 --> 00:37:52,250
and moving or unexpected movements of the bike.

1132
00:37:53,369 --> 00:37:55,530
Does does being a taller rider and having,

1133
00:37:55,609 --> 00:37:58,182
like, longer levers in a more ability to

1134
00:37:58,182 --> 00:37:59,379
kind of move. Do you think that helps?

1135
00:37:59,539 --> 00:38:00,597
Do you think it favors

1136
00:38:01,215 --> 00:38:03,210
being slightly taller on the bike than a

1137
00:38:03,210 --> 00:38:04,487
smaller rider in these conditions?

1138
00:38:07,131 --> 00:38:08,585
It's really hard to

1139
00:38:09,119 --> 00:38:11,767
quantify that. But I would say

1140
00:38:12,142 --> 00:38:14,313
it would be better to be smaller because

1141
00:38:14,704 --> 00:38:17,744
your center gravity is lower. So it might

1142
00:38:17,744 --> 00:38:18,244
be

1143
00:38:18,704 --> 00:38:21,425
less like top heavy to fall over.

1144
00:38:22,798 --> 00:38:26,549
Less... Yeah, Less weight higher that would maybe

1145
00:38:26,549 --> 00:38:27,208
make you

1146
00:38:27,666 --> 00:38:28,624
off balance. Mh.

1147
00:38:29,581 --> 00:38:31,826
I also think the way that most tracks

1148
00:38:31,826 --> 00:38:32,541
are these days,

1149
00:38:33,655 --> 00:38:36,540
they're steep, and there's their 1 in breaking

1150
00:38:36,835 --> 00:38:40,116
and being shorter and lighter and lower to

1151
00:38:40,116 --> 00:38:40,595
the ground.

1152
00:38:41,234 --> 00:38:41,973
You can

1153
00:38:42,590 --> 00:38:43,389
slow down quicker.

1154
00:38:44,266 --> 00:38:45,943
So you can run it in faster and

1155
00:38:45,943 --> 00:38:48,429
okay. Still get down to the maximum speed

1156
00:38:48,429 --> 00:38:50,339
you can hear. Corner. Cool. That makes sense.

1157
00:38:50,498 --> 00:38:52,010
I'm small I'm happy with that. Job done.

1158
00:38:52,170 --> 00:38:54,318
Yep. Thanks, Mate. Haven't got an excuse, Chris.

1159
00:38:54,478 --> 00:38:56,228
I have now. I'm like I said my

1160
00:38:56,228 --> 00:38:58,074
age was my best ski until men midnight

1161
00:38:58,074 --> 00:38:59,925
showed, and yet again showed what's

1162
00:39:00,300 --> 00:39:01,653
the age is not an excuse. So you

1163
00:39:01,653 --> 00:39:03,483
should be fine tomorrow. Yeah. Yeah. It should

1164
00:39:03,483 --> 00:39:05,091
be okay. Are you old and small then.

1165
00:39:05,250 --> 00:39:06,765
He's always was saying it's still old small

1166
00:39:06,765 --> 00:39:07,324
and slow.

1167
00:39:08,679 --> 00:39:11,071
I thought said old would fast anyway. He's

1168
00:39:11,071 --> 00:39:12,347
definitely not definitely not.

1169
00:39:13,159 --> 00:39:15,148
So, yeah, Honorable mention before we get into

1170
00:39:15,148 --> 00:39:16,819
some of the the top places. I think

1171
00:39:16,899 --> 00:39:17,717
Ethan Craig

1172
00:39:18,490 --> 00:39:19,684
have 1 of the hardest jobs on the

1173
00:39:19,764 --> 00:39:21,036
Hill day in a way. Like, he was

1174
00:39:21,036 --> 00:39:21,992
sat in that start gate.

1175
00:39:22,724 --> 00:39:24,641
After doing is warm up with an unknown

1176
00:39:24,641 --> 00:39:26,080
amount of time to go while they fix

1177
00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:27,598
the catch in, which is obviously the right

1178
00:39:27,598 --> 00:39:29,835
thing to do. But that must be quite

1179
00:39:29,835 --> 00:39:32,399
hard. Guess, Niko like, you're... You've done your

1180
00:39:32,399 --> 00:39:34,071
warm up. You've got into that focus point.

1181
00:39:34,230 --> 00:39:35,663
You're in the start, get ready to drop

1182
00:39:35,663 --> 00:39:37,891
and then suddenly, you're not going anywhere. Your

1183
00:39:37,891 --> 00:39:39,722
body's calling down, and you're coming away from

1184
00:39:39,722 --> 00:39:41,651
that. Whether it's an optimum state or not,

1185
00:39:41,731 --> 00:39:43,407
but I guess you believe it's an optimum

1186
00:39:43,407 --> 00:39:45,242
state to be dropping into a run. And

1187
00:39:45,242 --> 00:39:47,099
then you went in full commitment

1188
00:39:47,557 --> 00:39:48,376
at a proper

1189
00:39:48,769 --> 00:39:51,002
crack at it. And I think was 1

1190
00:39:51,002 --> 00:39:52,140
of only 2 riders

1191
00:39:52,518 --> 00:39:54,512
alongside Rem ti to take that high, like,

1192
00:39:55,150 --> 00:39:57,064
log drop into the final steep section, which

1193
00:39:57,064 --> 00:39:58,340
is not enough in the try.

1194
00:39:59,151 --> 00:40:00,503
Yeah. It must be hard to be in

1195
00:40:00,503 --> 00:40:01,458
the gate and deal with that.

1196
00:40:02,572 --> 00:40:04,401
Yeah. I've had it once or twice where

1197
00:40:04,401 --> 00:40:05,276
there's a red flag.

1198
00:40:06,968 --> 00:40:08,885
While I'm in the start gate. And normally,

1199
00:40:09,045 --> 00:40:11,682
what I would do is pull my bike

1200
00:40:11,682 --> 00:40:14,170
back and, like, give myself space, so they

1201
00:40:14,170 --> 00:40:16,558
can't, like, quickly say, okay. 30 seconds to

1202
00:40:16,558 --> 00:40:17,115
go. Mh.

1203
00:40:17,752 --> 00:40:19,106
And then you kinda like take yourself out

1204
00:40:19,106 --> 00:40:21,197
of the start gate, you can start to

1205
00:40:22,306 --> 00:40:23,443
relax or,

1206
00:40:24,058 --> 00:40:25,572
like, being in the gate is kind of

1207
00:40:25,572 --> 00:40:28,414
a very stressful place to be. Mh But

1208
00:40:28,774 --> 00:40:30,373
because it was raining so hard. There was

1209
00:40:30,373 --> 00:40:31,891
no place else room him to go. Like,

1210
00:40:32,051 --> 00:40:33,889
he couldn't go back to the warm up

1211
00:40:33,889 --> 00:40:35,827
area, like, this venue is pretty

1212
00:40:36,206 --> 00:40:38,099
bad logistically that way where

1213
00:40:38,619 --> 00:40:39,280
it's a

1214
00:40:39,660 --> 00:40:42,559
minute or 2 pedal back to the tent

1215
00:40:42,619 --> 00:40:44,940
to get cover from okay? Yeah. So he

1216
00:40:44,940 --> 00:40:47,019
had to stay under the small start shelter.

1217
00:40:47,833 --> 00:40:49,976
And there was really nothing else he could

1218
00:40:49,976 --> 00:40:51,565
do but sit there and try not to

1219
00:40:51,565 --> 00:40:54,287
get too cold or get put off by

1220
00:40:54,661 --> 00:40:55,454
what was going on.

1221
00:40:56,899 --> 00:40:57,955
But, yeah, it was

1222
00:40:58,329 --> 00:41:01,032
he he really centered in there. He wrote

1223
00:41:01,032 --> 00:41:03,098
amazing. Yeah. It was an impressive run. And

1224
00:41:03,098 --> 00:41:04,450
it was definitely cold up there. I saw

1225
00:41:04,609 --> 00:41:07,247
Tommy see 1 of the film like, trying

1226
00:41:07,247 --> 00:41:09,316
to warm up, like, 20 minutes after the

1227
00:41:09,316 --> 00:41:10,827
race and finish and he was still shaking

1228
00:41:10,827 --> 00:41:12,179
from being out on the hill. So it's

1229
00:41:12,179 --> 00:41:13,850
it's definitely not a July day in the

1230
00:41:13,850 --> 00:41:16,335
mountains for sure. Alright. Let's talk about some

1231
00:41:16,335 --> 00:41:17,851
of the riders. Ollie will start with Greg

1232
00:41:18,010 --> 00:41:19,685
Mina, the first man down this afternoon,

1233
00:41:20,244 --> 00:41:22,179
squeak into finals

1234
00:41:22,556 --> 00:41:24,652
by a hair's breath, and then

1235
00:41:25,043 --> 00:41:27,509
you know, if anyone's got experience out there,

1236
00:41:27,668 --> 00:41:29,578
it's Greg and he used all of it

1237
00:41:29,578 --> 00:41:33,021
and put together a really impressive run, it's

1238
00:41:33,888 --> 00:41:35,395
for a lot the day I think most

1239
00:41:35,395 --> 00:41:36,824
people thought that could have been a win.

1240
00:41:37,299 --> 00:41:38,965
And I think he knew that if the

1241
00:41:38,965 --> 00:41:41,187
rain carried on that it probably wasn't gonna

1242
00:41:41,187 --> 00:41:41,925
be, but

1243
00:41:42,314 --> 00:41:45,052
third place considering the season that he and

1244
00:41:45,271 --> 00:41:47,348
that Nor team have had has been very

1245
00:41:47,348 --> 00:41:47,748
challenging.

1246
00:41:48,547 --> 00:41:50,880
It's cooler. It's so cool. As it? How

1247
00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:52,557
many people and I'll put hand up. Have

1248
00:41:52,557 --> 00:41:54,795
had this conversation about Greg even this year

1249
00:41:54,795 --> 00:41:56,713
again going, you know, god. Can he can

1250
00:41:56,713 --> 00:41:58,472
he you can claw it back now? Can

1251
00:41:58,472 --> 00:41:59,531
he get lives?

1252
00:42:00,404 --> 00:42:01,918
Sure you know no. And even with Greg,

1253
00:42:02,077 --> 00:42:04,467
which you don't shouldn't lose belief in. And

1254
00:42:05,024 --> 00:42:06,697
and the areas is again, back on the

1255
00:42:06,697 --> 00:42:08,529
box, you know, it's unbelievable isn't it kind

1256
00:42:08,529 --> 00:42:09,507
of thing. So

1257
00:42:09,818 --> 00:42:11,567
Yeah. Age asia doesn't matter Chris. But to

1258
00:42:11,567 --> 00:42:13,792
that point. Yeah. They were talking in the

1259
00:42:13,792 --> 00:42:15,461
country about where the Greg would retire he'd

1260
00:42:15,461 --> 00:42:17,289
won the race today, but with with world

1261
00:42:17,289 --> 00:42:19,692
champion And nora coming up. Can't see any

1262
00:42:19,692 --> 00:42:21,207
anything. I would have thought he'd wanna be

1263
00:42:21,207 --> 00:42:23,121
on that star line. I think Craig would

1264
00:42:23,121 --> 00:42:25,115
would take that as wow. I'm back. I

1265
00:42:25,115 --> 00:42:26,870
can actually I can do it again. Well.

1266
00:42:27,030 --> 00:42:28,545
Yeah. But I might as well keep going.

1267
00:42:29,118 --> 00:42:31,268
You can do another 10 years sign another

1268
00:42:31,268 --> 00:42:32,543
3 year dresses on me.

1269
00:42:33,898 --> 00:42:35,570
Nice. Alright. We should talk about B.

1270
00:42:36,459 --> 00:42:38,047
Down seventh, not kind where we expect to

1271
00:42:38,047 --> 00:42:39,103
see B, but

1272
00:42:39,793 --> 00:42:41,540
a championship ride? Do you think today do

1273
00:42:41,540 --> 00:42:43,390
you think you've made that decision that

1274
00:42:43,699 --> 00:42:45,609
you know, it's gonna get messy. Let's get

1275
00:42:45,609 --> 00:42:47,121
this down the hill. Let's keep strong in

1276
00:42:47,121 --> 00:42:48,792
the overall because he's got, you know, a

1277
00:42:48,792 --> 00:42:51,259
decent lead. He could've have thrown everything away

1278
00:42:51,259 --> 00:42:52,953
with with a big issue or

1279
00:42:53,344 --> 00:42:55,498
Yeah. Maybe it's just a sensible measured ride

1280
00:42:55,498 --> 00:42:57,274
from him. Do you know what? I

1281
00:42:57,651 --> 00:42:59,645
thought exactly that 1 watches run. I was

1282
00:42:59,645 --> 00:43:01,081
like, championship it ride. But then when I

1283
00:43:01,081 --> 00:43:03,889
watched to hit the overall points that O

1284
00:43:03,889 --> 00:43:04,710
collected this

1285
00:43:05,250 --> 00:43:07,409
weekend versus what he collected and Norway already

1286
00:43:07,409 --> 00:43:09,650
nearly doubled this points. I think Bruno was

1287
00:43:09,650 --> 00:43:11,009
like 03:45

1288
00:43:11,009 --> 00:43:11,569
03:50.

1289
00:43:12,625 --> 00:43:14,785
I'm sorry. O was 03:45 03:50.

1290
00:43:15,425 --> 00:43:17,585
And and Low it was like 1 90

1291
00:43:17,585 --> 00:43:18,945
or something like that. So it was a

1292
00:43:18,945 --> 00:43:20,405
huge difference in points

1293
00:43:20,799 --> 00:43:23,277
So championship it ride, definitely it was, but

1294
00:43:23,277 --> 00:43:25,275
actually, now the gaps really, really close. Yeah.

1295
00:43:25,914 --> 00:43:27,192
Ollie in with the shout kind of thing.

1296
00:43:27,352 --> 00:43:27,852
So

1297
00:43:28,231 --> 00:43:29,610
obviously, if he'd had gone

1298
00:43:30,004 --> 00:43:32,955
hell leather and and crashed then we're in

1299
00:43:32,955 --> 00:43:34,869
a... He's in a white worse place, and

1300
00:43:34,869 --> 00:43:36,225
it probably it would have been, well, I

1301
00:43:36,225 --> 00:43:38,219
guess, near enough neck and neck going into

1302
00:43:38,219 --> 00:43:39,516
the next round. So

1303
00:43:39,909 --> 00:43:42,144
Championship ride, it definitely was like in well

1304
00:43:42,144 --> 00:43:43,601
delivered. He's a mature

1305
00:43:44,458 --> 00:43:47,811
talented athlete, like, probably the best racer out

1306
00:43:47,811 --> 00:43:50,054
there. You know, in terms of mindset and

1307
00:43:50,054 --> 00:43:51,563
knowing how to just deliver on the day,

1308
00:43:52,279 --> 00:43:54,266
and he did exactly that again today. It's

1309
00:43:54,266 --> 00:43:55,617
kind of annoying with him Isn't it Finds

1310
00:43:55,617 --> 00:43:58,097
has going too easy. He does yeah. Nicolas,

1311
00:43:58,256 --> 00:43:59,234
you can add something

1312
00:44:00,008 --> 00:44:02,078
historically he's struggled in the mud though. He's...

1313
00:44:02,397 --> 00:44:04,626
I can't remember a Bernie Win in in

1314
00:44:04,626 --> 00:44:05,741
mud conditions like this.

1315
00:44:06,550 --> 00:44:08,059
And I think he's been pretty open that

1316
00:44:08,059 --> 00:44:09,432
he'd much rather race

1317
00:44:09,806 --> 00:44:12,028
when it's consistent, like, Yep. As I've mentioned

1318
00:44:12,028 --> 00:44:14,331
earlier, he thinks he's the best. He's probably

1319
00:44:14,331 --> 00:44:17,380
right. And if it's all consistent, then he

1320
00:44:17,380 --> 00:44:19,539
can put down a run that can compete

1321
00:44:19,539 --> 00:44:21,699
for the wind. When it's like this, I

1322
00:44:21,699 --> 00:44:23,864
think you struggle with that. Yeah. But he

1323
00:44:23,864 --> 00:44:25,611
has this year. He has been delivering in

1324
00:44:25,611 --> 00:44:26,882
the. Isn't it. And it's been the first

1325
00:44:26,882 --> 00:44:28,891
year where he's actually done it, like

1326
00:44:29,663 --> 00:44:29,980
Poland.

1327
00:44:31,508 --> 00:44:33,025
When where did he work? I remember now

1328
00:44:33,184 --> 00:44:34,483
He was second second?

1329
00:44:35,180 --> 00:44:36,558
But I think he's

1330
00:44:37,655 --> 00:44:39,331
he's better in the mud, but he's still

1331
00:44:39,331 --> 00:44:41,498
not as as good crucial. He can be

1332
00:44:41,498 --> 00:44:43,251
in the drive. And and also, as we

1333
00:44:43,251 --> 00:44:45,401
said too, it's like, he's always the guy

1334
00:44:45,401 --> 00:44:47,791
with something to lose. He's often leading the

1335
00:44:47,791 --> 00:44:48,907
championship. He's Scott.

1336
00:44:49,639 --> 00:44:49,878
Yeah.

1337
00:44:50,675 --> 00:44:51,175
Ama

1338
00:44:51,552 --> 00:44:53,806
already behind. So he might as well go

1339
00:44:54,262 --> 00:44:54,762
and,

1340
00:44:55,776 --> 00:44:58,103
Scott, the Jersey on his back and it's

1341
00:44:58,103 --> 00:44:59,877
gotta try to keep that thing. So,

1342
00:45:00,413 --> 00:45:00,572
yeah,

1343
00:45:01,369 --> 00:45:02,643
I think there's a few things about it.

1344
00:45:02,803 --> 00:45:05,469
But I I think generally the roi probably

1345
00:45:06,008 --> 00:45:06,828
not the

1346
00:45:07,447 --> 00:45:09,045
the guy you think over you think of

1347
00:45:09,045 --> 00:45:11,762
mud conditions. Yeah. Very true. Finn was on

1348
00:45:11,762 --> 00:45:12,561
once a day though.

1349
00:45:14,414 --> 00:45:15,926
When he dropped in, I thought, oh my

1350
00:45:15,926 --> 00:45:17,996
god I finished... Well, after the first sector

1351
00:45:17,996 --> 00:45:20,065
like, win this thing. Yeah. Was he were

1352
00:45:20,065 --> 00:45:21,657
near 1 of the first people as well

1353
00:45:21,657 --> 00:45:23,184
the evident that it might be beat.

1354
00:45:23,820 --> 00:45:25,809
Wasn't it? Was kinda like, he came down.

1355
00:45:25,889 --> 00:45:27,956
You're like, okay? There's there's some traction in

1356
00:45:27,956 --> 00:45:29,960
there. I don't know if they're became point

1357
00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:31,494
where there was a little bit more traction

1358
00:45:31,630 --> 00:45:33,300
because if obviously, there was so much rain.

1359
00:45:34,016 --> 00:45:36,083
Sort of obviously started not as bad and

1360
00:45:36,083 --> 00:45:38,071
then got worse and I wonder whether they

1361
00:45:38,071 --> 00:45:38,628
actually improved.

1362
00:45:39,439 --> 00:45:40,878
Obviously, it's hard to know that for sure

1363
00:45:40,878 --> 00:45:42,896
because, like, kind of the rider

1364
00:45:43,515 --> 00:45:45,753
ability. Guess level improved did you went through

1365
00:45:45,753 --> 00:45:47,671
as well For sure. Yeah. But it did

1366
00:45:47,671 --> 00:45:48,949
seem like, you know, when Film was going

1367
00:45:48,949 --> 00:45:51,108
down before his crash, it was, you know,

1368
00:45:51,267 --> 00:45:52,378
he was on 1 and they would say,

1369
00:45:52,617 --> 00:45:54,838
okay. It's game time, and you kinda sense

1370
00:45:54,838 --> 00:45:56,585
that something was actually gonna happen. And you

1371
00:45:56,585 --> 00:45:58,515
stand unfortunately she said that probably, I, I

1372
00:45:58,515 --> 00:45:59,473
wasn't gonna win this thing.

1373
00:46:00,272 --> 00:46:01,868
Yeah. I heard Greg say, I I was

1374
00:46:01,868 --> 00:46:04,024
watching some of the race on the on

1375
00:46:04,024 --> 00:46:05,540
the Tv before I went to the finish.

1376
00:46:06,193 --> 00:46:08,179
And I heard Greg say that he really

1377
00:46:08,179 --> 00:46:10,085
wanted to get the race going again during

1378
00:46:10,085 --> 00:46:12,070
that hold because the conditions were gonna get

1379
00:46:12,070 --> 00:46:13,500
better. And I was like, of course, you

1380
00:46:13,500 --> 00:46:14,532
would say that Greg, like,

1381
00:46:15,406 --> 00:46:17,731
it's keep raining and somehow that's gonna get

1382
00:46:17,731 --> 00:46:18,448
better for you.

1383
00:46:20,838 --> 00:46:22,511
We don't want these riders getting an advantage

1384
00:46:22,511 --> 00:46:23,786
with all this rain coming down,

1385
00:46:24,503 --> 00:46:27,230
But it's true. Does, it can make it

1386
00:46:27,230 --> 00:46:30,264
a little bit grip in some places once

1387
00:46:30,264 --> 00:46:33,058
the rain does soak in, but the vision

1388
00:46:33,058 --> 00:46:35,462
is just so bad. Like, you could see

1389
00:46:35,462 --> 00:46:37,206
the first shot how foggy it was up

1390
00:46:37,206 --> 00:46:39,901
there. And then how much water like, standing

1391
00:46:39,901 --> 00:46:41,487
water there is in the line. You can

1392
00:46:41,487 --> 00:46:43,811
see how many Times dakota pulled his role

1393
00:46:43,811 --> 00:46:46,124
off there at the end. It was... What

1394
00:46:46,124 --> 00:46:47,720
that was insane. Hey, he he may have

1395
00:46:47,720 --> 00:46:48,917
had an issue. I didn't talk to him,

1396
00:46:49,316 --> 00:46:49,769
but

1397
00:46:50,130 --> 00:46:53,190
just the lack of visibility for for riders

1398
00:46:53,329 --> 00:46:55,329
when there is more water on the track

1399
00:46:55,329 --> 00:46:57,010
is it's just really difficult to deal with.

1400
00:46:57,343 --> 00:46:58,934
Wanna find out about dakota. He was pulling

1401
00:46:58,934 --> 00:47:00,047
them around the corners.

1402
00:47:00,921 --> 00:47:02,512
Yeah. You he did it on the jump.

1403
00:47:02,750 --> 00:47:04,817
Okay. That's cool and also useful, but like,

1404
00:47:05,710 --> 00:47:07,150
ran the turns in the tech. I didn't

1405
00:47:07,150 --> 00:47:08,750
know how he he's letting go. Was mad.

1406
00:47:08,989 --> 00:47:10,269
I guess he has no weight on his

1407
00:47:10,269 --> 00:47:12,269
handlebars anymore. Sure that merlin riding through his

1408
00:47:12,269 --> 00:47:12,750
feet. Yeah.

1409
00:47:13,965 --> 00:47:15,565
Well, expect that far to reach you.

1410
00:47:18,045 --> 00:47:19,885
Well Kenny looked like it was gonna be

1411
00:47:19,885 --> 00:47:22,304
his weekend. Right? Holly semi

1412
00:47:23,099 --> 00:47:25,179
kinda we've seen it before, and then, yet

1413
00:47:25,179 --> 00:47:25,420
again,

1414
00:47:26,299 --> 00:47:28,780
it just didn't quite pay off, like, it

1415
00:47:28,780 --> 00:47:30,380
was a pretty wild run. I would say,

1416
00:47:30,619 --> 00:47:33,112
some interesting lines and it just didn't quite

1417
00:47:33,112 --> 00:47:35,027
pay off, but fair play it a good

1418
00:47:35,027 --> 00:47:35,266
crack.

1419
00:47:36,143 --> 00:47:38,058
Yeah. I think he he's another 1 of

1420
00:47:38,058 --> 00:47:39,829
the guys like Brittany that would just obviously,

1421
00:47:39,989 --> 00:47:41,269
the way he's riding in this weekend, he

1422
00:47:41,269 --> 00:47:42,489
would have wanted it to be

1423
00:47:42,949 --> 00:47:43,909
fair conditions. Yeah.

1424
00:47:44,869 --> 00:47:48,081
I think he's not really had the best

1425
00:47:48,081 --> 00:47:49,355
results in the mud. Like, if you think

1426
00:47:49,355 --> 00:47:51,345
of guys that are mud rider, he's not...

1427
00:47:51,584 --> 00:47:52,937
The dakota is not 1 that comes to

1428
00:47:52,937 --> 00:47:53,176
mind.

1429
00:47:54,291 --> 00:47:55,820
I would think of guys, like, Well, that's

1430
00:47:55,820 --> 00:47:57,420
the shame they weren't as many racing today,

1431
00:47:57,500 --> 00:47:59,260
but like Reese or Danny Hart. Yeah.

1432
00:48:00,780 --> 00:48:01,280
Laura

1433
00:48:01,659 --> 00:48:02,699
often pretty good in it.

1434
00:48:03,832 --> 00:48:05,905
Ama after the past 2 races he's like,

1435
00:48:06,862 --> 00:48:09,094
he's definitely... He has some a bunch of

1436
00:48:09,094 --> 00:48:11,327
wins in mud, and I think his commitment

1437
00:48:11,327 --> 00:48:11,566
level.

1438
00:48:12,298 --> 00:48:15,005
Shows. Yeah. But Dakota is not 1 that

1439
00:48:15,005 --> 00:48:15,483
comes to mind.

1440
00:48:16,756 --> 00:48:18,746
For how bad is run looked not not

1441
00:48:18,746 --> 00:48:19,724
to say that and

1442
00:48:20,514 --> 00:48:22,272
that negative of a way. He... To get

1443
00:48:22,272 --> 00:48:24,270
a ninth place is really good. Yeah. There

1444
00:48:24,270 --> 00:48:26,587
was a lot of mistakes or, like, errors

1445
00:48:26,587 --> 00:48:28,425
in there. I think that slowed him down.

1446
00:48:28,585 --> 00:48:30,914
So I was... I I watched the run

1447
00:48:30,914 --> 00:48:31,234
and then,

1448
00:48:32,909 --> 00:48:34,026
I was trying to find ace of the

1449
00:48:34,026 --> 00:48:35,941
podium right after the race. So I didn't

1450
00:48:35,941 --> 00:48:38,512
actually, like, notice what placed he came into

1451
00:48:38,512 --> 00:48:40,110
and then they everybody rushed the finish at

1452
00:48:40,110 --> 00:48:41,948
the the race. But when we look at

1453
00:48:41,948 --> 00:48:43,226
the results here to see him in ninth

1454
00:48:43,226 --> 00:48:45,000
those was like, wow. It's a a lot

1455
00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:46,280
better than it looked on the screen,

1456
00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:49,000
and he probably took a ton of points

1457
00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:50,840
away from the weekend too with the with

1458
00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:53,814
the winds in quality and semi. Yeah. Yep.

1459
00:48:53,973 --> 00:48:55,730
No bad thing. Let's talk about the top

1460
00:48:55,730 --> 00:48:57,726
5 Thomas stack in fifth, Ollie.

1461
00:48:58,524 --> 00:49:00,280
Again, strong performance earlier in the weekend as

1462
00:49:00,280 --> 00:49:01,557
well. But we have to look back quite

1463
00:49:01,557 --> 00:49:03,016
a long way I think to find

1464
00:49:03,328 --> 00:49:04,679
air stack on the podium. I think fifth

1465
00:49:04,679 --> 00:49:04,758
in...

1466
00:49:05,712 --> 00:49:07,699
Sorry, in W in 20 14.

1467
00:49:08,175 --> 00:49:10,423
So 10 years ago, and he's here

1468
00:49:10,894 --> 00:49:12,892
delivering that. It's cool. It's so cool. Yeah.

1469
00:49:13,052 --> 00:49:15,289
He's such a lovely chap as well. He's

1470
00:49:15,289 --> 00:49:17,127
he was bit near and, like, you know,

1471
00:49:17,287 --> 00:49:19,285
he's always got a smile and, like, you

1472
00:49:19,285 --> 00:49:21,130
know, he's that, you know, wants to say

1473
00:49:21,130 --> 00:49:22,639
hello and have a quick chat in the

1474
00:49:22,639 --> 00:49:23,275
morning. Like,

1475
00:49:23,990 --> 00:49:25,658
like, I think that's so cool when, you

1476
00:49:25,658 --> 00:49:27,981
know, people are kind of, like, here enjoying

1477
00:49:27,981 --> 00:49:29,816
their time enjoying their racing and,

1478
00:49:30,773 --> 00:49:32,767
as well. And, yeah. So, I mean, you'd...

1479
00:49:33,086 --> 00:49:34,601
I guess you're sticking in l and you

1480
00:49:34,601 --> 00:49:36,889
make it rain. You'd you'd you'd you'd naturally

1481
00:49:37,089 --> 00:49:38,690
think he's gonna do better When you you

1482
00:49:38,690 --> 00:49:40,849
know like, so it was kinda like ticking

1483
00:49:40,849 --> 00:49:41,510
the boxes

1484
00:49:42,130 --> 00:49:44,449
him to do well. And so, yeah, to

1485
00:49:44,449 --> 00:49:46,862
see him actually deliver on that. In fifth

1486
00:49:46,862 --> 00:49:50,052
place. Absolutely stoked for him. Yeah. Yeah. Really

1487
00:49:50,052 --> 00:49:52,445
good. He's he's such a nice rider to

1488
00:49:52,445 --> 00:49:54,997
watch too. He's often doing the earlier gaps

1489
00:49:54,997 --> 00:49:55,929
on track and

1490
00:49:56,447 --> 00:49:57,563
riding good lines. He...

1491
00:49:58,201 --> 00:49:59,555
Normally the harder it is, like, I think

1492
00:49:59,555 --> 00:50:00,989
he had a podium of val solo 1

1493
00:50:00,989 --> 00:50:03,514
year, and, like, the harder it is. The

1494
00:50:03,794 --> 00:50:05,550
that's where he really shines. Fits into it.

1495
00:50:05,789 --> 00:50:08,982
Yeah. Yeah. Very talented rider. Talking about talented

1496
00:50:08,982 --> 00:50:11,057
riders and riders that we enjoy seeing when

1497
00:50:11,057 --> 00:50:12,095
the conditions are at this.

1498
00:50:12,828 --> 00:50:14,423
Material, and he's actually having a really good

1499
00:50:14,423 --> 00:50:15,619
season. I guess we've had quite a lot

1500
00:50:15,619 --> 00:50:17,135
of wet races which she's where he tends

1501
00:50:17,135 --> 00:50:19,847
to thrive. But, yeah, again, consistent through the

1502
00:50:19,847 --> 00:50:21,362
week. He was good in the dry as

1503
00:50:21,362 --> 00:50:22,574
well as the wear here to be fair.

1504
00:50:23,135 --> 00:50:25,295
But, I mean, another... I I keep talking

1505
00:50:25,295 --> 00:50:27,295
speaking about nice people, but Rem probably is

1506
00:50:27,295 --> 00:50:29,054
the nicest person in the bits doesn't need

1507
00:50:29,054 --> 00:50:31,463
to be fair. And and again, you know,

1508
00:50:32,021 --> 00:50:33,775
same list, You know, he's ticking his boxes,

1509
00:50:34,173 --> 00:50:36,087
the harder it gets the bet the further

1510
00:50:36,087 --> 00:50:38,054
up the field he goes, you know. So

1511
00:50:38,174 --> 00:50:39,766
I guess these are the old school listening

1512
00:50:39,766 --> 00:50:42,472
knows from, like, when tracks were slower, more

1513
00:50:42,472 --> 00:50:42,972
technical,

1514
00:50:43,347 --> 00:50:45,098
harder to keep your speed, all of those

1515
00:50:45,098 --> 00:50:47,577
things and this was, okay. Not slow, but,

1516
00:50:47,736 --> 00:50:49,325
like, harder to keep your speed, especially the

1517
00:50:49,325 --> 00:50:50,437
bottom but it was slow to be fair.

1518
00:50:50,596 --> 00:50:52,954
Yeah. And so it was... Yeah. It was

1519
00:50:53,551 --> 00:50:55,140
right up rem street. It... But he did

1520
00:50:55,140 --> 00:50:56,412
well or weekend. It didn't even in the

1521
00:50:56,412 --> 00:50:58,319
drive, you know, He's posting great sense. So,

1522
00:50:58,399 --> 00:51:00,489
like, yeah. Huge respect to him and

1523
00:51:00,798 --> 00:51:02,388
Yeah. Hopefully, we see them up there for

1524
00:51:02,388 --> 00:51:04,296
longer. I know the French team selection is

1525
00:51:04,296 --> 00:51:06,362
very difficult selection as well well. We all

1526
00:51:06,362 --> 00:51:08,111
know the French selection is difficult for the

1527
00:51:08,111 --> 00:51:09,405
jumps. So

1528
00:51:09,954 --> 00:51:11,546
Like I I don't know how their criteria

1529
00:51:11,546 --> 00:51:12,660
works, but I've gotta to give him a

1530
00:51:12,660 --> 00:51:14,809
good good shout. That is gonna be a

1531
00:51:14,809 --> 00:51:16,401
hard team to get on. Right? I wouldn't

1532
00:51:16,401 --> 00:51:18,550
wanna be selecting it. So much strength this

1533
00:51:18,550 --> 00:51:20,239
year. I know. I mean, a long time

1534
00:51:20,239 --> 00:51:22,077
has been strength there, but, yeah, maybe even

1535
00:51:22,077 --> 00:51:24,713
more so this year. Yeah. Incredible. Alright. Men,

1536
00:51:24,873 --> 00:51:26,472
I think we've talked about enough. Fair play

1537
00:51:26,472 --> 00:51:27,271
hats off. Good man.

1538
00:51:28,324 --> 00:51:29,520
Second place, Andy Ko,

1539
00:51:30,636 --> 00:51:32,151
working his way back up to that form

1540
00:51:32,151 --> 00:51:33,347
that we saw from him last year. So

1541
00:51:33,427 --> 00:51:35,659
I'm earlier in the week. Was very proudly

1542
00:51:35,659 --> 00:51:37,827
show me his new Austrian sleeves. Taken the

1543
00:51:37,827 --> 00:51:40,936
the national title. Yeah. Again, there. Yeah, Big

1544
00:51:40,936 --> 00:51:42,769
1 in his face all weekend. Having a

1545
00:51:42,769 --> 00:51:44,443
good time on the hill and, and that

1546
00:51:44,443 --> 00:51:45,262
looked like

1547
00:51:45,732 --> 00:51:47,954
it could be the run. Her, like, it

1548
00:51:47,954 --> 00:51:50,493
it it was full commitment. It was looked

1549
00:51:50,493 --> 00:51:51,683
like it was kinda on the edge, but

1550
00:51:51,683 --> 00:51:53,611
he delivered something pretty impressive

1551
00:51:53,999 --> 00:51:56,095
Yeah. It was super impressive. It was

1552
00:51:56,472 --> 00:51:57,988
there there was a few guys as you

1553
00:51:57,988 --> 00:51:59,366
mentioned, like, Ethan and

1554
00:52:00,222 --> 00:52:02,389
yeah, guys that were maybe up on the

1555
00:52:02,389 --> 00:52:05,014
time of of Greg, but couldn't make it

1556
00:52:05,014 --> 00:52:06,684
through that off camera at the bottom. Yeah.

1557
00:52:06,843 --> 00:52:07,161
I was like,

1558
00:52:07,956 --> 00:52:09,808
alright. Can can they... They... They've gotten here.

1559
00:52:09,968 --> 00:52:11,406
Can I get through this section? And,

1560
00:52:12,286 --> 00:52:13,804
Andy was the the 1 to do it?

1561
00:52:14,123 --> 00:52:16,201
And, yeah, his run looked really good. He

1562
00:52:16,201 --> 00:52:17,480
looked solid on the bike.

1563
00:52:18,370 --> 00:52:20,672
He'd, probably had some confidence. I think he's

1564
00:52:20,672 --> 00:52:21,863
done well in this track a few times.

1565
00:52:22,101 --> 00:52:23,292
Yeah. It's a good 1 for him.

1566
00:52:24,721 --> 00:52:26,626
But it was amazing The difference... He was

1567
00:52:26,626 --> 00:52:28,710
up quite a bit before that last off

1568
00:52:28,710 --> 00:52:29,029
cam.

1569
00:52:29,745 --> 00:52:31,815
The way Greg wrote it was amazing, and

1570
00:52:31,815 --> 00:52:32,315
maybe

1571
00:52:32,849 --> 00:52:35,411
a little bit fresher than yeah. Once a

1572
00:52:35,411 --> 00:52:37,003
lot of tires had gotten onto it because

1573
00:52:37,003 --> 00:52:37,820
it looked like,

1574
00:52:38,355 --> 00:52:40,764
you know, Andy made it through probably

1575
00:52:42,427 --> 00:52:44,760
1 of the most clean in the race

1576
00:52:44,977 --> 00:52:47,208
considering and lost 3 seconds in that split

1577
00:52:47,208 --> 00:52:48,562
to Greg saying isn't it... Yeah.

1578
00:52:49,518 --> 00:52:51,565
And and just nudge him out. So

1579
00:52:52,320 --> 00:52:54,627
now really good ride for him. He's not

1580
00:52:54,627 --> 00:52:55,502
had... I mean,

1581
00:52:56,218 --> 00:52:57,331
he said a lot of top tens and

1582
00:52:57,331 --> 00:52:59,179
a lot of good results, but compared to

1583
00:52:59,179 --> 00:53:00,857
the last 2 seasons where he's had these

1584
00:53:00,857 --> 00:53:02,155
podium streak and

1585
00:53:02,534 --> 00:53:04,851
just been right up there and and winning

1586
00:53:04,851 --> 00:53:05,331
races.

1587
00:53:06,783 --> 00:53:08,697
It hasn't been like that this year. So

1588
00:53:08,697 --> 00:53:10,692
hopefully this 1 is the momentum that he

1589
00:53:10,692 --> 00:53:12,526
needs to get that going again. Yeah. Definitely

1590
00:53:12,526 --> 00:53:13,643
always good to see him in the hunt

1591
00:53:13,722 --> 00:53:15,956
His runs are generally pretty exciting to watch.

1592
00:53:17,248 --> 00:53:19,486
But it when we talk about exciting to

1593
00:53:19,486 --> 00:53:19,986
watch

1594
00:53:20,365 --> 00:53:22,442
Lam Repair in the last 2 races, it

1595
00:53:22,442 --> 00:53:23,880
seems to of have just changed the game.

1596
00:53:24,280 --> 00:53:27,000
Like, it feels like a bit like, what

1597
00:53:27,159 --> 00:53:29,067
I thought Jackson would do this year if

1598
00:53:29,067 --> 00:53:30,736
he was healthy, like, we saw the that

1599
00:53:30,736 --> 00:53:32,405
at the end of last season in Months

1600
00:53:32,405 --> 00:53:33,938
anne. And that Am

1601
00:53:34,248 --> 00:53:35,918
kinda taken that on and Ollie. We talked

1602
00:53:35,918 --> 00:53:37,031
a little bit about it

1603
00:53:38,065 --> 00:53:39,496
before we hit record it. It's like,

1604
00:53:40,211 --> 00:53:42,358
we've almost got an Ama pier on version

1605
00:53:42,358 --> 00:53:43,764
2. It's like

1606
00:53:44,760 --> 00:53:47,629
a different Am, but even better somehow. It's

1607
00:53:47,629 --> 00:53:49,860
kinda scary isn't it like, when somebody's doing

1608
00:53:49,860 --> 00:53:51,533
that because, you know, back in the day,

1609
00:53:51,692 --> 00:53:53,547
like, hill used to do that or

1610
00:53:53,858 --> 00:53:55,608
Gui used to do that. But, like, in

1611
00:53:55,608 --> 00:53:57,039
recent years, it doesn't happen does, you know,

1612
00:53:57,197 --> 00:53:59,265
don't... It's not like everybody else and then

1613
00:53:59,265 --> 00:54:01,094
just 1 guy, like 5, 6 seconds ahead

1614
00:54:01,094 --> 00:54:03,081
kind of thing. It just doesn't happen anymore.

1615
00:54:03,894 --> 00:54:05,574
Or apparently now it does 2 weeks in

1616
00:54:05,574 --> 00:54:08,295
a row. Yeah. It... It's absolutely insane he's

1617
00:54:08,295 --> 00:54:10,614
got like, he's now showing the... As the

1618
00:54:10,614 --> 00:54:11,494
consistency of Troy,

1619
00:54:12,135 --> 00:54:14,304
but the speed of O. You know, it's

1620
00:54:14,304 --> 00:54:15,741
kinda like he's, like, bought a bit of

1621
00:54:15,741 --> 00:54:17,815
troy consistency, but it hasn't taken away his

1622
00:54:17,815 --> 00:54:21,022
his pace. And for that, it's mind blowing,

1623
00:54:21,182 --> 00:54:23,018
I think. And especially, we just spoke about

1624
00:54:23,177 --> 00:54:23,816
Andy run.

1625
00:54:24,534 --> 00:54:26,689
Like Andy run was amazing. You know who

1626
00:54:26,689 --> 00:54:28,500
it was committed. It was like

1627
00:54:30,291 --> 00:54:32,681
like, it it wasn't perfect granted. I suppose

1628
00:54:32,681 --> 00:54:34,512
it wasn't perfect, but it was the commitment

1629
00:54:34,512 --> 00:54:36,424
and to the speed was there, and he

1630
00:54:36,424 --> 00:54:38,273
got away with that. I was thinking, okay.

1631
00:54:38,512 --> 00:54:40,508
No one's gonna beat this. And then suddenly,

1632
00:54:40,668 --> 00:54:42,344
Omar up 2 seconds. He's up 3 seconds.

1633
00:54:42,424 --> 00:54:44,180
He's at 4... He's at 5 seconds... And

1634
00:54:44,180 --> 00:54:45,378
then it was 6 by the end. Wasn't

1635
00:54:45,378 --> 00:54:47,389
it It was half pretty much. Share 6

1636
00:54:47,389 --> 00:54:50,505
point 498. It's an unbelievable amount and

1637
00:54:51,224 --> 00:54:53,142
1 where it's gotta get everybody else head

1638
00:54:53,142 --> 00:54:55,514
scratching, you know? Because let's be honest, you

1639
00:54:55,792 --> 00:54:57,061
Yeah, you look at Andy, and then you

1640
00:54:57,061 --> 00:54:58,331
go a bit further down. There was a

1641
00:54:58,331 --> 00:55:00,394
point where nobody could get down the track

1642
00:55:00,394 --> 00:55:01,266
without crashing. Yeah.

1643
00:55:02,060 --> 00:55:03,647
You know, you have to think and Buy

1644
00:55:03,647 --> 00:55:05,654
nobody Like, these are, like, the top riders

1645
00:55:05,654 --> 00:55:07,568
in the world are not being able to

1646
00:55:07,568 --> 00:55:08,845
get down the track without crashing.

1647
00:55:09,483 --> 00:55:11,557
And and actually Joe on my team. He

1648
00:55:11,557 --> 00:55:12,833
was kinda sent, it's got a bit boring

1649
00:55:12,833 --> 00:55:14,521
now because so everyone's crashing. Like fans loved

1650
00:55:14,521 --> 00:55:15,954
it on that 1 section, but it was

1651
00:55:15,954 --> 00:55:18,660
kinda like, as boring, it's it's done. But

1652
00:55:18,660 --> 00:55:20,092
the thing that made this race not boring

1653
00:55:20,092 --> 00:55:22,258
is then him just turning up And, Andy,

1654
00:55:22,338 --> 00:55:23,956
but him turning up an absolutely

1655
00:55:24,413 --> 00:55:26,249
just clearing in the field. So feet up

1656
00:55:26,249 --> 00:55:28,165
through that tricky sandwich I don't think. I

1657
00:55:28,165 --> 00:55:30,974
saw anyone else to like, all afternoon. And

1658
00:55:31,135 --> 00:55:32,494
I feel like I used to watch Jam

1659
00:55:32,494 --> 00:55:33,394
pier runs

1660
00:55:33,775 --> 00:55:35,694
before his injury for his neck injury, and

1661
00:55:35,694 --> 00:55:36,734
it was a bit of a heart in

1662
00:55:36,734 --> 00:55:38,494
the mouth like. It felt a bit dangerous.

1663
00:55:38,654 --> 00:55:40,194
It's like watching Ronan when

1664
00:55:40,509 --> 00:55:42,603
before Ronan got a bit more consistent and,

1665
00:55:42,821 --> 00:55:43,060
like,

1666
00:55:43,698 --> 00:55:46,090
slightly less scary to watch. I don't feel

1667
00:55:46,090 --> 00:55:47,526
that way now watching Emery. It just feels

1668
00:55:47,526 --> 00:55:50,013
like a tactic. And it's like, it's almost

1669
00:55:50,013 --> 00:55:51,849
like watching a low it run. You know,

1670
00:55:52,088 --> 00:55:54,963
that precision like everything's on point, you don't

1671
00:55:54,963 --> 00:55:57,517
expect him to crash. Yeah. He's putting in

1672
00:55:57,517 --> 00:55:58,475
massive margins.

1673
00:55:58,969 --> 00:56:00,645
What is going on? I I think the

1674
00:56:00,645 --> 00:56:02,800
the aggression levels is still just as high.

1675
00:56:03,199 --> 00:56:06,072
Okay. And maybe it's, you know, his training

1676
00:56:06,072 --> 00:56:08,400
and technique. And they work so much with

1677
00:56:08,400 --> 00:56:11,030
the bike setup up. That team works nonstop

1678
00:56:11,030 --> 00:56:11,349
on that.

1679
00:56:13,342 --> 00:56:15,437
And a combination of all that. He's he's

1680
00:56:15,829 --> 00:56:17,909
going for it as hard as he was

1681
00:56:17,909 --> 00:56:19,670
before, and it just looks like it's coming

1682
00:56:19,670 --> 00:56:21,750
easier to him. And I think these past

1683
00:56:21,750 --> 00:56:22,150
2 weeks,

1684
00:56:22,869 --> 00:56:24,170
the conditions have

1685
00:56:25,285 --> 00:56:27,925
lent themselves to that where a lot of

1686
00:56:27,925 --> 00:56:29,305
the other riders are

1687
00:56:29,844 --> 00:56:31,925
trying to be smarter being more cautious,

1688
00:56:32,644 --> 00:56:35,138
and Emery just he's just going full commitment.

1689
00:56:35,378 --> 00:56:37,635
I said in val saw. He was turning

1690
00:56:37,775 --> 00:56:38,414
on wet roots,

1691
00:56:39,133 --> 00:56:39,633
and

1692
00:56:40,172 --> 00:56:43,065
it worked. He didn't he didn't really put

1693
00:56:43,065 --> 00:56:44,045
the bike wrong

1694
00:56:44,425 --> 00:56:44,585
anywhere.

1695
00:56:45,385 --> 00:56:46,744
And and sometimes when you go in with

1696
00:56:46,744 --> 00:56:48,344
that that confidence and that,

1697
00:56:50,836 --> 00:56:54,726
the commitment. It it oftentimes, like, commitment plus

1698
00:56:54,726 --> 00:56:57,210
good technique works itself out. Mh.

1699
00:56:58,234 --> 00:56:59,349
Of course, on a on a whole run

1700
00:56:59,349 --> 00:57:00,543
like this, there's a lot of things to

1701
00:57:00,543 --> 00:57:01,760
catch you out, but

1702
00:57:03,011 --> 00:57:05,878
it seems like that recipe in these sort

1703
00:57:05,878 --> 00:57:07,960
of conditions. Of the the past 2 races

1704
00:57:07,960 --> 00:57:08,460
is

1705
00:57:09,231 --> 00:57:10,661
when it goes right, it goes right in

1706
00:57:10,661 --> 00:57:13,361
a big margin. Yeah. He... It does have

1707
00:57:13,361 --> 00:57:15,291
this way. Doesn't it where his body

1708
00:57:15,983 --> 00:57:16,434
is

1709
00:57:16,792 --> 00:57:18,382
firstly his mine, but then his body is

1710
00:57:18,382 --> 00:57:19,200
so far

1711
00:57:19,575 --> 00:57:21,085
through the turn and out of the turn.

1712
00:57:21,562 --> 00:57:23,867
The bike has to follow. But there's there's

1713
00:57:23,867 --> 00:57:25,867
no if it slides, it doesn't matter he's

1714
00:57:25,867 --> 00:57:27,137
just dragging it head with him. You know?

1715
00:57:27,296 --> 00:57:28,963
There's none of this like, like, if I

1716
00:57:28,963 --> 00:57:30,153
was hitting some of that stuff. I'd be

1717
00:57:30,153 --> 00:57:31,900
pushing the bike first and open I made

1718
00:57:31,900 --> 00:57:33,984
it with. You know, like, But he's just

1719
00:57:33,984 --> 00:57:36,062
so committed. He comes out the corner, and

1720
00:57:36,062 --> 00:57:37,500
the bike might be sliding, but it doesn't

1721
00:57:37,500 --> 00:57:40,297
have time to actually disappear because, like, his

1722
00:57:40,297 --> 00:57:42,215
weight is already just moving to the next

1723
00:57:42,215 --> 00:57:44,069
section. That's really in So he's, like, pulling

1724
00:57:44,069 --> 00:57:46,650
the bike. I'm sounding hill away. Yeah. But

1725
00:57:46,869 --> 00:57:47,690
obviously not literally.

1726
00:57:48,549 --> 00:57:50,949
In that, like, it doesn't have time to

1727
00:57:50,949 --> 00:57:53,041
go away. Is that like of, you know,

1728
00:57:53,280 --> 00:57:55,195
he has got quite a low style, I

1729
00:57:55,195 --> 00:57:57,588
guess? Is that leading to that or just

1730
00:57:57,588 --> 00:57:59,992
a confidence to not be sitting back of

1731
00:57:59,992 --> 00:58:01,900
it. The stuck confidence an attitude thing isn't

1732
00:58:01,900 --> 00:58:04,126
it. I think that's what... That's what he's

1733
00:58:04,126 --> 00:58:05,954
very talented, but I think it's like the

1734
00:58:05,954 --> 00:58:07,305
fact that his attitude is like,

1735
00:58:08,514 --> 00:58:10,110
this is what we're doing. You know, there's

1736
00:58:10,110 --> 00:58:12,765
no doubt. Yeah. It's gonna do that whereas,

1737
00:58:13,063 --> 00:58:15,458
you know, everyone has different percentages of level

1738
00:58:15,458 --> 00:58:17,629
of doubt. Don't they And like, some people

1739
00:58:17,629 --> 00:58:19,227
more than ever. It sounds like he is

1740
00:58:19,227 --> 00:58:21,304
like, well, it... I'm not letting it, you

1741
00:58:21,304 --> 00:58:23,063
know? And it's not happening. It's not happening.

1742
00:58:23,222 --> 00:58:25,220
You know, as it's not crashing. So it's,

1743
00:58:25,953 --> 00:58:28,588
It's the most impressive riding. The last 2

1744
00:58:28,588 --> 00:58:30,744
runs have gotta be up there as Val

1745
00:58:30,744 --> 00:58:32,739
oli here that's the best some of the

1746
00:58:32,739 --> 00:58:34,416
best runs ever, and that's 2 weeks in

1747
00:58:34,416 --> 00:58:34,735
a row.

1748
00:58:35,309 --> 00:58:36,349
Like, if he does it again,

1749
00:58:36,910 --> 00:58:37,789
which is a chance in

1750
00:58:39,390 --> 00:58:41,309
And el for him. Like, you know, he

1751
00:58:41,309 --> 00:58:42,849
could just keep going on this

1752
00:58:43,404 --> 00:58:44,463
on this kind of,

1753
00:58:44,843 --> 00:58:46,441
like I a, snowball effect that he's causing.

1754
00:58:46,601 --> 00:58:47,800
Yeah. And I guess the challenge is that

1755
00:58:47,800 --> 00:58:49,318
we've got, we have got a big break

1756
00:58:49,318 --> 00:58:51,156
now. No. So not only is it sort

1757
00:58:51,156 --> 00:58:53,326
of harder for him to carry momentum because

1758
00:58:53,326 --> 00:58:55,081
we've got what is it 7 weeks or

1759
00:58:55,081 --> 00:58:56,995
something to your world. And maybe quite a

1760
00:58:56,995 --> 00:58:58,989
long, quite a long break anyway. But I'm

1761
00:58:58,989 --> 00:59:01,382
guessing that also gives the whole of the

1762
00:59:01,382 --> 00:59:04,029
rest of the like, top leap field time

1763
00:59:04,029 --> 00:59:06,900
to go away and panic, do whatever they

1764
00:59:06,900 --> 00:59:08,416
feel they need to do to catch your

1765
00:59:08,416 --> 00:59:10,090
hammer up. Right? It's gonna be interesting to

1766
00:59:10,090 --> 00:59:11,925
see what everyone goes away and and does

1767
00:59:11,925 --> 00:59:13,611
with a time over the next few weeks

1768
00:59:13,611 --> 00:59:15,361
to try... I mean, where do you find

1769
00:59:15,361 --> 00:59:16,793
a 6.5

1770
00:59:16,793 --> 00:59:19,155
second gap closer in 7, 8 weeks. A

1771
00:59:19,594 --> 00:59:21,135
I think they can at least

1772
00:59:21,675 --> 00:59:23,594
think that the conditions had to do with

1773
00:59:23,594 --> 00:59:26,554
it. In in dry. We haven't seen that

1774
00:59:26,554 --> 00:59:28,645
from him this year. And definitely not in

1775
00:59:28,645 --> 00:59:32,093
that margin. Mh. Really since the injury. So

1776
00:59:32,310 --> 00:59:34,324
I I think they can only hope that

1777
00:59:35,270 --> 00:59:37,807
yeah. A lot of riders didn't put the

1778
00:59:37,807 --> 00:59:40,447
commitment as he did in on these conditions

1779
00:59:40,581 --> 00:59:43,613
and for him it paid off. Yeah. So,

1780
00:59:43,773 --> 00:59:45,126
if I was look, that's what I'd be

1781
00:59:45,126 --> 00:59:45,444
hoping.

1782
00:59:46,877 --> 00:59:48,788
Interesting. Yeah. Point it's gonna make for an

1783
00:59:48,788 --> 00:59:50,221
exciting world. It's definitely cool.

1784
00:59:50,953 --> 00:59:52,708
Yeah. Let's talk about the overall overalls and

1785
00:59:52,708 --> 00:59:54,804
what what this weekend's done to it. So

1786
00:59:54,862 --> 00:59:57,335
in the junior, El, who's the boss still

1787
00:59:57,335 --> 01:00:00,287
leads. From Arr Van And Heather Wilson as

1788
01:00:00,287 --> 01:00:01,715
a 10 point gap first to second.

1789
01:00:02,429 --> 01:00:03,936
Ace has got a nice lead over Max,

1790
01:00:04,492 --> 01:00:06,888
and then danger it with a think 23

1791
01:00:06,888 --> 01:00:09,271
point gap between Ace and Max So it's

1792
01:00:09,271 --> 01:00:10,622
a pretty good position to be in this

1793
01:00:10,622 --> 01:00:12,211
point in the season, I guess. In the

1794
01:00:12,211 --> 01:00:13,483
women's Valley still holds on,

1795
01:00:14,928 --> 01:00:17,553
Tan in second still and closes the gap

1796
01:00:17,553 --> 01:00:19,462
a bit, and they think there's 200 points

1797
01:00:19,462 --> 01:00:21,664
there, followed by Marine Miriam

1798
01:00:22,578 --> 01:00:24,800
and then Lo, now only 216

1799
01:00:24,800 --> 01:00:26,786
points ahead of Am, then Troy finn and

1800
01:00:27,023 --> 01:00:27,262
Dakota.

1801
01:00:27,897 --> 01:00:30,199
Like, Am is really claw his way back

1802
01:00:30,199 --> 01:00:31,589
up that that

1803
01:00:32,046 --> 01:00:34,281
overall ranking. Her, could get pretty interesting.

1804
01:00:35,079 --> 01:00:36,994
Yeah. As Oli said he made almost that

1805
01:00:36,994 --> 01:00:38,611
many points up today. So

1806
01:00:38,924 --> 01:00:39,904
if he can do

1807
01:00:40,682 --> 01:00:42,919
another race like this, another 2 races,

1808
01:00:43,878 --> 01:00:45,976
it's gonna be really exciting to watch. And

1809
01:00:46,766 --> 01:00:48,276
As I said, I think he's in the

1810
01:00:48,276 --> 01:00:49,014
spot where

1811
01:00:49,467 --> 01:00:51,692
he doesn't wanna get second. So he's not

1812
01:00:51,692 --> 01:00:52,192
really

1813
01:00:52,566 --> 01:00:55,443
trying to protect that second place. He's he

1814
01:00:55,443 --> 01:00:56,960
wants to win. And he's got nothing to

1815
01:00:56,960 --> 01:00:59,353
lose. Lo the guy that's trying to hang

1816
01:00:59,353 --> 01:01:02,067
on to it. So I think it's Emery

1817
01:01:02,067 --> 01:01:04,074
style to just throw it all at it,

1818
01:01:04,233 --> 01:01:05,746
and that's what we all have to watch.

1819
01:01:05,985 --> 01:01:08,214
The rivalry is back on. We don't wanna

1820
01:01:08,214 --> 01:01:11,375
see it. Right? Don't. Yeah. What rivalry is

1821
01:01:11,494 --> 01:01:12,922
Yeah, With a good shows off the back

1822
01:01:12,922 --> 01:01:14,034
of that in the past, and I'm sure

1823
01:01:14,034 --> 01:01:15,860
we'll have good show later this season.

1824
01:01:16,892 --> 01:01:18,321
Let's do lit kit. And

1825
01:01:19,368 --> 01:01:19,765
I'll start.

1826
01:01:20,717 --> 01:01:22,542
I I've crowds sourced this 1 a little

1827
01:01:22,542 --> 01:01:23,891
bit. I had some friends that have come

1828
01:01:23,891 --> 01:01:25,319
out this weekend to watch the racing so

1829
01:01:25,319 --> 01:01:27,244
we went up yesterday in. I briefed them

1830
01:01:27,244 --> 01:01:29,322
that they were gonna have to, like, feed

1831
01:01:29,322 --> 01:01:31,479
feed in on l. So we've we've spread

1832
01:01:31,479 --> 01:01:33,078
back this 1 a little bit, but I

1833
01:01:33,078 --> 01:01:34,756
think Luca comes out on top. Like, I

1834
01:01:34,756 --> 01:01:35,895
don't think I've ever seen

1835
01:01:36,208 --> 01:01:38,277
the stars and striped sleeve look so good

1836
01:01:38,277 --> 01:01:40,266
on a kit as that, like c oakley

1837
01:01:40,266 --> 01:01:41,937
cola lab that they had this ship this

1838
01:01:41,937 --> 01:01:42,255
weekend.

1839
01:01:43,783 --> 01:01:45,375
Troy also look really really good, but I

1840
01:01:45,375 --> 01:01:46,648
think with the sleeve that Luke had it

1841
01:01:46,648 --> 01:01:47,046
just like,

1842
01:01:47,842 --> 01:01:49,514
properly topped it off. He looked very cool.

1843
01:01:49,672 --> 01:01:50,787
I mean, no 1 looked cool by the

1844
01:01:50,787 --> 01:01:52,379
bottom of my race runs today because everyone

1845
01:01:52,379 --> 01:01:54,461
was just brown, but like, in an inter

1846
01:01:54,461 --> 01:01:56,369
dry initiative just there. I think Luca was

1847
01:01:56,369 --> 01:01:56,686
the 1.

1848
01:01:57,719 --> 01:01:59,468
Nik thoughts. Oh, this is the 1 race.

1849
01:01:59,627 --> 01:02:01,137
I actually thought about it ahead of time

1850
01:02:01,137 --> 01:02:03,545
and took my answer. Sorry nate. As an

1851
01:02:03,704 --> 01:02:04,845
American, I

1852
01:02:05,224 --> 01:02:07,625
absolutely love that kit from Luca. It looked

1853
01:02:07,625 --> 01:02:09,785
so good on the fourth of July.

1854
01:02:10,359 --> 01:02:12,592
It was... It was fourth of July? Didn't

1855
01:02:12,592 --> 01:02:14,904
think about that. The kit looked absolutely amazing.

1856
01:02:15,143 --> 01:02:17,296
I think Troy was here himself too. Yes.

1857
01:02:17,536 --> 01:02:18,333
I heard that. Yeah.

1858
01:02:19,941 --> 01:02:22,802
Do. Lucas kit was so good. It was.

1859
01:02:23,041 --> 01:02:24,552
Yeah. I don't how they're gonna top it

1860
01:02:24,552 --> 01:02:26,380
at World Champs. Living been a good 1

1861
01:02:26,380 --> 01:02:27,970
for that. Very true. It been a perfect

1862
01:02:27,970 --> 01:02:29,897
world a Champs kit. I was literally thinking

1863
01:02:29,897 --> 01:02:31,493
the same yeah. I like they put it

1864
01:02:31,493 --> 01:02:32,211
on early like.

1865
01:02:33,568 --> 01:02:34,925
Oh, Think on and, I think I know

1866
01:02:34,925 --> 01:02:36,282
where you're going with this. I I hope

1867
01:02:36,362 --> 01:02:37,970
I'm allowed to do this. I think you've

1868
01:02:37,970 --> 01:02:39,482
picked your own kit before Haven't you,

1869
01:02:40,118 --> 01:02:42,664
Nico. But, yeah. I'm gonna go market it

1870
01:02:42,664 --> 01:02:45,068
lick kit. It literally is on 5 minute.

1871
01:02:45,308 --> 01:02:47,226
Yeah. Somebody did say that it was a

1872
01:02:47,226 --> 01:02:48,425
bit too close to the color of a

1873
01:02:48,425 --> 01:02:48,585
pole.

1874
01:02:50,423 --> 01:02:52,980
Truck child. Yeah. I was like, oh, fair

1875
01:02:52,980 --> 01:02:53,873
point. But

1876
01:02:54,830 --> 01:02:56,983
yeah, do you know what? Trolley and bright

1877
01:02:56,983 --> 01:02:59,536
kit is kind of, like historically what it's

1878
01:02:59,536 --> 01:03:01,369
all about was it kind of thing. So,

1879
01:03:01,768 --> 01:03:02,940
I think the fact that

1880
01:03:03,777 --> 01:03:05,295
well, my whole team would come out with

1881
01:03:05,295 --> 01:03:07,530
the, with the full bright kit. It gets

1882
01:03:07,530 --> 01:03:09,685
a lot of comments, both positive and negative.

1883
01:03:09,845 --> 01:03:10,962
I think a bit... I think it's a

1884
01:03:10,962 --> 01:03:12,080
bit Mar. Jennifer fair.

1885
01:03:13,210 --> 01:03:15,380
But I think anybody who knows Troy,

1886
01:03:16,711 --> 01:03:18,621
as, you there's a brand and the history

1887
01:03:18,621 --> 01:03:20,228
of the brand knows of that's. That's the

1888
01:03:20,228 --> 01:03:21,824
way to go. Yeah. Great. I can get

1889
01:03:21,824 --> 01:03:23,099
away with wearing it I'm too slow, but,

1890
01:03:23,179 --> 01:03:25,014
like, if you're a fast writer look woo

1891
01:03:25,014 --> 01:03:25,333
yes.

1892
01:03:25,971 --> 01:03:27,806
Yeah. I wasn't agree with you been too

1893
01:03:27,806 --> 01:03:29,560
slow there, by the way. Thanks me. Thanks.

1894
01:03:31,007 --> 01:03:32,597
Shout out to the commentary team, I think

1895
01:03:32,597 --> 01:03:34,188
they did a wicked up today I think

1896
01:03:34,188 --> 01:03:35,380
I was 1 of the best commentaries I've

1897
01:03:35,380 --> 01:03:37,050
heard. For a good well, especially when the

1898
01:03:37,050 --> 01:03:38,641
person that comes down first, sits in the

1899
01:03:38,641 --> 01:03:40,327
hot seat for most of the day. Not

1900
01:03:40,327 --> 01:03:42,159
not the easiest thing to kinda make exciting,

1901
01:03:42,318 --> 01:03:43,911
But, yeah, I think the combo of Rick

1902
01:03:44,071 --> 01:03:45,585
Josh and Aaron in the beef was like

1903
01:03:45,585 --> 01:03:47,576
super good. So fair play to those guys.

1904
01:03:48,134 --> 01:03:51,275
And also shout out satellite coffee mo. You've

1905
01:03:52,364 --> 01:03:54,114
provided the best coffee in town a week

1906
01:03:54,114 --> 01:03:56,340
and kept Caf so if you're in Mo

1907
01:03:56,340 --> 01:03:58,328
in this summer head down to Root bo

1908
01:03:58,328 --> 01:04:01,130
and get itself into satellite coffee and, enjoy

1909
01:04:01,130 --> 01:04:03,200
their food is also. Very very. Miss spent

1910
01:04:03,200 --> 01:04:05,510
summers booth was so cool. Yeah. The miss

1911
01:04:05,510 --> 01:04:07,182
summers pop up is pretty special here. Yeah.

1912
01:04:07,421 --> 01:04:09,186
That was such cool thing go over there

1913
01:04:09,186 --> 01:04:10,221
and look at all the pictures.

1914
01:04:10,936 --> 01:04:13,244
Like, the Sam Hill Jersey gave me chills.

1915
01:04:13,482 --> 01:04:15,405
It was like, it's like why train out.

1916
01:04:15,564 --> 01:04:17,628
Yeah. Full size is room. Yeah. It looks

1917
01:04:17,628 --> 01:04:19,136
like the jersey is literally on the wall

1918
01:04:19,136 --> 01:04:21,121
in there kind of thing. But, yeah. I'm

1919
01:04:21,121 --> 01:04:22,885
trying to convince them to bring it to

1920
01:04:22,885 --> 01:04:24,885
the Uk and tour that ex there's a

1921
01:04:24,885 --> 01:04:28,105
little exhibition around some bike related spots. So

1922
01:04:28,164 --> 01:04:29,364
if you like the idea of that,

1923
01:04:30,017 --> 01:04:32,715
keep messaging the miss spent boys and comment

1924
01:04:32,715 --> 01:04:34,223
on their post and has them and we'll

1925
01:04:34,223 --> 01:04:35,969
try and make it happen because, yeah that'd

1926
01:04:35,969 --> 01:04:38,763
be good fun. Really cool. Nice. Well, been

1927
01:04:38,763 --> 01:04:40,995
a fantastic couple of weeks and yet again,

1928
01:04:41,154 --> 01:04:42,031
an incredible race.

1929
01:04:42,908 --> 01:04:44,763
Shame that the junior didn't get to show

1930
01:04:44,900 --> 01:04:46,175
their stuff on race day.

1931
01:04:47,383 --> 01:04:50,324
But these things happen. And, yeah, big break.

1932
01:04:50,721 --> 01:04:52,072
Any plans you? What you up to you?

1933
01:04:53,184 --> 01:04:53,502
Oh,

1934
01:04:54,474 --> 01:04:55,675
national champs right in the middle of it.

1935
01:04:55,914 --> 01:04:57,514
Yep. And then we're gonna come to indoor

1936
01:04:57,514 --> 01:04:58,394
probably a week early.

1937
01:05:00,474 --> 01:05:01,835
I'm not gonna raise world. I'm gonna try

1938
01:05:01,835 --> 01:05:03,524
to help the boys. Gonna go to the

1939
01:05:03,524 --> 01:05:04,557
team anyway. Okay.

1940
01:05:05,431 --> 01:05:06,942
Don't wanna take the spot away or try

1941
01:05:06,942 --> 01:05:08,769
to petition. That from 1 of the other

1942
01:05:08,769 --> 01:05:10,144
guys. We had 7

1943
01:05:10,534 --> 01:05:12,295
riders in the Us make finals this year.

1944
01:05:12,454 --> 01:05:13,434
So those guys

1945
01:05:13,815 --> 01:05:15,094
deserve it. Richie is 1 of them, and

1946
01:05:15,255 --> 01:05:16,614
I don't know if Richie wants to do

1947
01:05:16,614 --> 01:05:18,614
it. U. Because he is endure world champs,

1948
01:05:18,775 --> 01:05:20,068
the next week. Yeah. I think he wants

1949
01:05:20,068 --> 01:05:21,906
to focus on. So there's a few of

1950
01:05:21,906 --> 01:05:23,505
us who have made and done pretty well

1951
01:05:23,505 --> 01:05:25,043
in semi finals, but

1952
01:05:26,061 --> 01:05:27,660
I've got... I think I'm more useful.

1953
01:05:28,232 --> 01:05:29,980
Doing other things and riding at more champs

1954
01:05:29,980 --> 01:05:33,556
this year. But. But, yeah, we'll be having

1955
01:05:33,556 --> 01:05:35,621
national champs at my bike park Rock Creek.

1956
01:05:36,257 --> 01:05:36,416
Sweet.

1957
01:05:37,389 --> 01:05:38,128
That'll be,

1958
01:05:39,067 --> 01:05:40,425
I guess in some ways nice and have

1959
01:05:40,425 --> 01:05:41,944
to travel anywhere, but it's kinda like, having

1960
01:05:41,944 --> 01:05:43,782
a party at your house. You guys lean

1961
01:05:43,782 --> 01:05:45,061
up up a nicer to go to a

1962
01:05:45,061 --> 01:05:46,179
party at someone else's house.

1963
01:05:48,027 --> 01:05:50,416
But, yeah, I'm gonna... Yeah. We got maybe

1964
01:05:50,416 --> 01:05:52,008
3 weeks off until then, so I'm gonna

1965
01:05:52,008 --> 01:05:52,907
go home and

1966
01:05:53,362 --> 01:05:55,684
change the track up, Try to throw some

1967
01:05:55,684 --> 01:05:56,184
challenging

1968
01:05:56,636 --> 01:05:58,777
sections at the riders. Sweet fun job. See

1969
01:05:58,777 --> 01:06:00,681
if Luke can keep that sleeve. Otherwise, that

1970
01:06:00,681 --> 01:06:02,284
kit left to go in the bin. Yeah.

1971
01:06:02,525 --> 01:06:03,905
Well, look, I mean, the whole

1972
01:06:04,204 --> 01:06:06,364
race should be exciting. I and we got

1973
01:06:06,364 --> 01:06:08,445
so many fast Us riders now. Yeah. For

1974
01:06:08,445 --> 01:06:08,925
sure. That,

1975
01:06:09,724 --> 01:06:10,625
there's should probably

1976
01:06:13,000 --> 01:06:15,458
6 or 7 guys that could compete and

1977
01:06:15,458 --> 01:06:16,726
and the track that we have at Rock

1978
01:06:16,806 --> 01:06:18,495
Creek is fairly short and

1979
01:06:19,360 --> 01:06:21,427
there's not huge time gaps to separate people,

1980
01:06:21,586 --> 01:06:23,994
so it'll make for a really exciting

1981
01:06:24,369 --> 01:06:26,436
race? Nice. Yeah. That'd be. Ali, what about

1982
01:06:26,436 --> 01:06:26,516
you?

1983
01:06:27,327 --> 01:06:29,635
Yeah. Same. We've got national champs coming up.

1984
01:06:29,874 --> 01:06:31,307
Obviously, British... British Nationals,

1985
01:06:31,864 --> 01:06:34,173
bought a rider albeit at National champs in

1986
01:06:34,173 --> 01:06:34,731
the Us.

1987
01:06:35,623 --> 01:06:37,378
Which be fine. I'm gonna raise Nash champs

1988
01:06:37,378 --> 01:06:38,814
as well. So we have to be back

1989
01:06:38,814 --> 01:06:40,490
out the opportunity takes. There's any so much

1990
01:06:40,490 --> 01:06:41,766
watching you can do until you need to

1991
01:06:41,766 --> 01:06:42,165
just like,

1992
01:06:43,058 --> 01:06:45,134
you get that aggression out or. So, yeah,

1993
01:06:45,453 --> 01:06:47,550
Going... Well, they're in the veterans now. So,

1994
01:06:48,167 --> 01:06:49,205
yeah, it's slightly different.

1995
01:06:50,003 --> 01:06:51,281
Again for the sleeve I may. I don't

1996
01:06:51,281 --> 01:06:52,333
need to push so out to do.

1997
01:06:54,402 --> 01:06:56,551
Yeah. So National and then maybe the European

1998
01:06:56,551 --> 01:06:58,302
champs. So it's a S this year, which

1999
01:06:58,302 --> 01:06:59,575
is gonna be used for the world champ.

2000
01:06:59,829 --> 01:07:01,109
Next year. Yeah. So a lot of people

2001
01:07:01,109 --> 01:07:02,949
are going for, like a preview for the

2002
01:07:03,510 --> 01:07:05,269
For world champs. Yeah. And, again, I kinda

2003
01:07:05,269 --> 01:07:06,389
wanna go on track as well because it'd

2004
01:07:06,389 --> 01:07:08,242
be quite useful for me to do my

2005
01:07:08,242 --> 01:07:10,555
homework. Yeah. The riders haven't confirmed what they

2006
01:07:10,555 --> 01:07:12,389
will or won't yet. So hopefully the dukes

2007
01:07:12,389 --> 01:07:13,346
it should be fun. Yeah.

2008
01:07:14,383 --> 01:07:15,499
But first, I think I don't have to

2009
01:07:15,499 --> 01:07:17,070
sleep for about 3 or 4 days

2010
01:07:17,829 --> 01:07:18,329
then

2011
01:07:18,710 --> 01:07:21,430
get back on the planning organizing and setting

2012
01:07:21,430 --> 01:07:23,190
at the back half the year. Nice. Well,

2013
01:07:23,349 --> 01:07:25,844
thanks guys. It's been fun as always. Always

2014
01:07:25,844 --> 01:07:27,442
much better doing these things in person for

2015
01:07:27,442 --> 01:07:29,760
sure. Yeah. Enjoy the break. Good luck at

2016
01:07:30,000 --> 01:07:31,678
Nationals and speak you'll see.

2017
01:07:32,637 --> 01:07:33,916
Thank you. Cheers Chris.

2018
01:07:37,755 --> 01:07:39,665
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2019
01:07:39,665 --> 01:07:41,415
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2020
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