Daniel Holgado

And to, to your point about Senna sort of being treated unfairly because of his teammate potentially probably winning the championship this year, like, he's, even with the atrocious bad luck he's had in the last few races of being taken out and technical difficulties and just, Senna's had, like, an abysmal last three, four races, the poor guy.

But even with that, he's still ahead of Danny Holgado.

Him, Danny, and Alonso are only covered by, like, less than 10 points, you know.

Um, Alonso has 155, Holgado has 146, and Senna's in the middle, and they're all getting seats.

And we know that Sen Aegis hasn't taken the conventional route, neither has Manu Gonzalez, of course, to get to MotoGP.

You could say the likes of Ethan Guevara, Daniel Holgado, David Alonso, these three in particular, have gone through the prototypical steps of Moto3, winning world championships, apart from Daniel, of course.

And then, you know, proving themselves in different levels.

Whereas Senna has just been on this amazingly steep learning curve.

true.

On the flip side, Danny Holgado did go from being an Aki Ayo rider to a Tech 3 rider, and it actually ended up unlocking the final bit of the puzzle for him, so...

Maybe I need some guys to go in the opposite direction to kind of reinvigorate that for me.

We've gotten way, way late.

Um, and as often happens on this podcast, I'm going to take the opportunity here to kind of roll us back slightly for a first conversation topic, because we must talk about lap one, turn one.

The Moto2 race for Mizano begins, uh, the whole grid goes barely down into turn one, um, The front row all have pretty reasonable starts, I think, as it stands.

I think Danny Holgado got slightly ahead of Senna ages under braking, and they're looking pretty good.

Angel Picaras, from a very impressive P3 on the grid, went for a real dive and a half, I would say, essentially trying to replicate Marc Marquez's move from the sprint the day before, I think it's fair to assume.

Are you watching it at the weekend? Oh, yes.

Did you see Danny Holgado? I was in the garage watching it and it was like, I was like, oh, we're going to be celebrating soon.

He's in first, he's in first.

And then, yeah, the QJ guy celebrated too early.

Guevara could win it.

Holgado, Alonso, it could be...

You know, Gonzalez coming back.

And not once did Alonso Lopez's name emerge from my mouth.

There's a weird, almost like crossfire on that one from Bono.

Um...

I mean, I'm not sure I necessarily agree as well because, you know, I don't necessarily think of Danny Holgado as, like, a tyre conservation specialist or anything like that.

I think, like, front-running specialist, absolutely.