David Emmett

I think it's fair to say we've got some opinions on this one.

Adam Wheeler, David Emmett and Neil Morrison there on the ground.

Before we quickly summarize what's happened, I just want to catch up with you, Neil.

How have you been? How's the day been? Have you kept dry?

And he was diving into the final chicane at Bruneau on slick tires as if it was completely dry.

And he was like two, two and a half seconds faster than anyone that day.

It was just one of those kind of situations where you just have to sit back and marvel at the guy's ability in If he conditions his bravery, willingness to put it all on the line, and he joked afterwards by saying it was his way of ensuring Davide Tardozzi didn't give him a bit of a bollocking because of the crash at the start of the session.

So, yeah, it was astonishing, really.

He dives deep into technical stuff, and then, you know, just as someone entrenched in the MotoGP world, he has insights and views of the championship that just us general outsiders never really get a chance to see.

So for this episode, episode 36 of The Boar and Stoke Podcast, I am happy to welcome David Emmett to the podcast.

David, hello.

Hello.

My name is Adam Wheeler.

I'm joined as ever by David Emmett and Neil Morrison.

And before we get tucked into the important events that occurred in Mandalika today, yes, it was today.

You can probably tell by our haggard expressions that we've been working since an early hour.

The most important thing is that thanks to world super bike legend, Chas Davis, we now have full clarification on the Manda Liga street circuit pronunciation and another fantastic example of David Emmett being in the wrong.

So Dave, would you like to explain a little bit more before we get to the really important

material? It's international street circuit.

So that's all I have to say on the matter.

That's for sure.

The David Emmett factor.

Lewis, you're going to be one of our, Lewis Sutterby, welcome to the podcast.

Nice to see you there in Mandalika.

when only two of them and potentially in a couple of races time only one of them can win it but yeah I think Mark is just being philosophical about this he knows so well that he's going to have weekends very stronger than others and I think we've seen in recent rounds that if Aprilia and Ducati are in any way equally matched Marquez is able to make the difference and carry Ducati to victory I'm not so sure he's going to have the ability to do that this weekend given that we're going to have four Aprilias plus Pedro Acosta who is very very good here in Manda Liga, second in each of the last two years, which will potentially put another bike between Martins and Marquez.

So I think he's looking top five.

David Emmett, I would like your prediction, please.

Well, it is.

This is our Japanese Grand Prix review show.

I'm Neil and I'm delighted to be joined by David Emmett on today's edition of this podcast.

We are doing it solo because we are one man down.

Mr. Adam Wheeler is off gallivanting around France at the Motocross des Nations, I believe.

Welcome to the first Padded Pass podcast note show from the Japanese Grand Prix.

David, Neil, Adam, we're not in Japan, but we're delighted to be joined on this first show from round 16.

We're on by Jack Applegard, who's currently holed up in a hotel at the moment.

And obviously it's the morning for us, which means it's the evening for you.

I hope everything goes well.

Thanks, Neil.

Thanks, David.

We'll be back with our next Paddock Notes show on Friday.

Yeah, we've got some pretty extreme, well, an extreme climate in Catalonia at the moment.

And for once, David Emmett up there in the Netherlands is looking quite bright and sunny.

Yeah, it's going to be 26, 27 degrees and sort of like quite bright.

So I think I've got the better end of it.

I did actually try and ride some local sand tracks and absolutely terrified myself and realized I'm absolutely awful riding a really big, fat, waddly, heavy bike through soft, soft sand.

Well, we have to

be sympathetic to anything that's connected to the David Emmett brain.

So there we go.