Part 2

In part 2 of Making Up The Numbers Podcast, Joe Breeden describes his race run and how it felt to be on the Red Bull live feed for the first time, before George gives Mojo’s Chris Porter a call.

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Podcast Transcribed

George: So you looked pretty focused in the start gate.  Was that focus or was that bricking it?

Joe: No, I felt good in the start gate to be honest.  Really excited, really keen, warm up went well, everything was good and I would say I was maybe just a bit too keen.

George: Yeah?

Joe: A bit too hungry.  I didn’t go out the gate amazingly and was a bit tight throughout the first couple first corners but after that…

George: There’s like a table just off the start…

Joe: Yeah that’s it.

George: …and some people like you could see some people were really keen and they landed to flat almost on the other side and then you saw like Pierron and Bruni, they’d just…

Joe: Just floated out.  Yeah that was one of the bits where I was paired in a spot where I shouldn’t have been and I was just a bit too keen there really.  But no, like when you know it’s the final and you know you’ve qualified well and you know you’re on TV, I mean you have to focus all in yourself and hit your lines but there’s always that little bit of spark that just makes you go that bit faster.   

George: Yeah, I say yeah [laughter].  

Joe: But I mean yeah, it is a really strange feeling.  I don’t know how you can kind of describe it but it definitely pushes you on more, that’s for sure.  

George: Talk us through the run then.

Joe: Didn’t last for long.  [Laughter].  Yeah, as I say, went out the start alright, a bit tight.  

George: Yeah.

Joe: At the top after that, pretty good.  There was one…  

George: Were you doing that inside, just before they’d disappeared into the woods?  Were you inside in that bail?

Joe: Right at the top?

George: Yeah, so did the first two corners and just before you went into the wood there was like that big left hander.

Joe: Okay yeah.

George: Were you inside…

Joe: Yeah, I was on the inside on that.

George: Yeah. 

Joe: I think most were to be honest, there was a couple who wasn’t.  So yeah, did all that and there was actually a line I’d changed in the morning because the line I was on, the little rut on the outside of it had blown out, someone’s gone over the top of it, followed by another few riders who’d gone over the top of it, so it was just blown out, so that morning I had to make a change of line.  

George: Right.