Magny-Cours

Can't bank what you never had.

One of my favorite races to go back and watch is the 2000 French Grand Prix at Magny-Cours, where you're fighting Michael Schumacher for the win, where you give him famously the finger as you're going around him.

What did Michael do to make you so angry?

Magnet Crawler's a track I always really enjoyed and I was always pretty quick at.

It's a little bit like with Johnny.

Johnny put himself in a position at Magny-Cours, I think, one year, where he was fighting with Alex for a podium, and all you wanted was that one more podium.

Now, obviously, that's just for us, just for storyline perspective and different things.

Yeah.

Yeah, he did some races, yeah

... just really good rider at the end of that season for us.

And I think that one of those things that I remember at the time thinking, like, "Do you know what? I'd love to see him just stay in the Supersport class and be able to, to win the championship there," because I think he came in maybe at, at Magny-Cours.

I think he was on the podium in his first race.

Yeah.

That one at Magny-Cours-

...

I think he high-sided at, um, what's the French track?

Magny-Cours.

Magny-Cours.

Yeah.

Mm.

I crashed a World Endurance bike at Magny-Cours.

Oh.

[laughs] Did you?

Same as that.

We're going to Magny-Cours, over to France.

Just run through the qualifying times.

So we had Nicolo Bouliger on 1.34.318. Sam Lowes with a cracking second, 1.34.486. Laquona in third, 134.596.