WYNTV “ON TRACK WITH GARY” ANDORRA DAY 2

I hit the track for the early morning session for day two here in Andorra, and a little Q1 too. Q2 rapid reaction to come later.

All right, so it’s qualifying day morning and we’re up at the crack of dawn. Angus, how you feeling, mate? No sleepins for us today. Actually, 7:00 is a sleepin for me. Angus is just a bit lazy. He’s on holiday. On holiday. Yeah, 7:00 sleep and we’re heading up for the qualifying day practice to get uh Gary on course. Let’s go. Here’s our fastest time training rider, Wan, on course. Yeah, Wan. Oh, stretching the back out to get this shot. Oh yeah, David. Woo. Beautiful these early starts in Angus. Kobe inside. Yeah. Hey Boris, did you plan this storm so that you could get the good lighting? It’s It’s not uh It’s not good lighting. Yeah, some spots, but not always where you want it. So Oh, the big house. Woo! Shrouded it for you. It’s quite risky to Oh, deck attack. What’s stack attack? Jordan Williams. actually um a hireer to the Formula 1 team. Williams got the rare breed of line spotters in the wild. Jacob Dixon. Oh, on the high line. Jacob, go on Jacob. Yeah, Sebastian. Oh, around the wide. T-Bo Deprell through the inside. Few ways to skin a cat here. Yeah, Jackie. Oh, butter Ed. Mr. Ed Loris. Oh, inside. Inside to inside. Man, that guy’s spike doesn’t make any noise, does it? Also on the inside. Oh, hit the rock. Armory. Also on the inside. They’re all changing their line here and their first run. So this is their first run through it and they’re not used to it yet. So they’re not up to speed and they all changed their line since yesterday I think. What do you reckon, David? Good. Good. Yeah. As good as the pancakes for breakfast. Fix, are you racing any races this year? No. No more World Cup. I’m retired. You’re not [ __ ] Yeah, I am. No, retired. Retired? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. But yeah. No. No, I’m on the side. Line spotter. Line spotter now. Yeah. But you race other races? No. But some small race crank works. You No, like French cubs. Yeah. Some small race and more videos. And more videos. All right. Look forward to the videos. Yeah. Cheers, mate. Yeah. Mr. Metallica, you just hang out here for the whole weekend. Yeah. Now I’m friend of those rock. Oh, here they are. Here’s your ro. Oh, it was smooth. That was a smooth operation. Try. You happy with that? Pretty happy with that. Outside that works well. Nice. AG7 dropping in. You all right, mate? Yeah, my elbow. Oh, you’ve hurt your elbow. Yeah. Oh, damn. And it’s not good enough. [ __ ] Sorry to hear that. Hope you’re all right. Gracie, let’s go. Oh, big s. Yeah, Sammy J. Let’s go. It’s my replacement rider for the weekend. He’s representing. He’ll do a better job than I will on this trip. What have we got here? A douche. Douche douche. Yeah. Douche. Douche. Douche. Look at these holes that have formed in the road gap landing. Whoa. You do not want to land in those off there. Off the plank. The diving board. Will they miss the holes? Oh, pretty smooth. Dana bomb I think. Oh, the smart line trying to get left there. So the riders that get fully left, smoothing that out and then going round all the bumps. Mad Max. Oh, douche douche douche. Yeah, Greg. Oh, it got around. Oh, Jazzy Jess, let’s go. Happy birthday for yesterday. Jazzy Jess, we put you off. [Laughter] Yeah. Ollie shouting the turns. Oh, look at it. Ollie’s wearing mud tires front and rear. No, they’re dust tires. Dust tires. Oh, you haven’t seen any mud, have you? Are you from Australia, mate? Bit of bow. That Swedish sleeve had me fooled. Spring both ways. Look at those mud tires. Yeah, he’s hooking up in the dust, eh? And those corners you were hooking up. Yeah, it’s pretty good. Even on the hard pack stuff, it’s not that bad. Yeah, it’s just like a for the the heavy boys, this is just like an extreme merry. The only way you can slow down. All right, good luck, mate. Thanks, mate. Let’s go, buddy. Let’s go. A Shubby. Bit bad on the zoom there. Woo! Let’s go. We go. Oh, where you going? Where you going? He’s blowing out the fresh section. Look how blown out this fresh section is, though. Look at those holes. Horrific. Mate, where you going? Where you going, Valentina? Yeah. Go on, Danny. Yeah, boy. Daddy, Marty, let’s go. Party. Marty is on his way to the party today. Oh, look at he’s got a Colombian accordion. [Music] M Rico, imagine going that fast through those bumps with flat pedals. Angus. Ah, the super brun. It’s super pretty. Oh. Oh. Pull the gap off the route over the other roots. What do you reckon, Angus? Crazy. Kobe. Yeah, the gap keeper. Oh, the gap. Yeah. Oh, over the gap. Yeah. Go on, Greg. Whoa, Greg bouncing his way down there. Yeah, Lucky. Smooth operation. Oh, nice. Yeah, mate. Here on track with Cooper Milwood navigating Andor. woke up on your trail bike. How is it? Oh, it’s it’s getting really rough. It started good, but now I’m thinking it wasn’t a good idea. Really? No. Oh, come on. It’s fun. Yeah, it’s pretty rough now, eh? Yeah. It’s good, though. So, you don’t have a downer bite. That’s why you Yeah. You’re an enduro racer. During the enduro series? Yeah. So, I’ll give this one a go. Yeah. Yeah. Fun. Yeah. Well, it looked fun on the first day. Yeah. Yeah. You’re ripping it. Well, keep up the good work, mate, on the trail bike. Thank you. Oh, trail bike. What do you reckon of the Kiwi navigating the World Cup on his trail bike? See, could have problems. Could have a problem. Well, I mean, he doesn’t have another bike, so shout out to him. Yeah. Yeah. Good on him. Give it. He’s an enduro racer. Yeah, that’s what we like to see, though. He’d be good on the flat bits. Yeah, he’ll be fast on the flat bit. Nice low shot here as uh Steve’s getting his shot. Reason they called him potty. Oh yeah, cuz he used to hit the devil’s lettuce quite a lot. E cruising. That’s Maxin just cruising. Oh, and then just made this a quad like come from that red bull. Yeah. Straight through there and then just quad build that one the same height as that one and we have a quad here. be way cooler. Like supercross, I think. What do you reckon? I reckon. Yeah. Yeah, I reckon. Altha with the triple. Triple or nothing. Oh, he’s going to need a lawyer for that one. Inside looks like the smooth option here, but the outside you can probably carry a bit more pace. Here’s George. Yeah, George. Woo. Oh, through the inside. Sterling it. Yeah, mate. Oh, through the whoops. Flying fin. Casper Hickman. Oh, with the smooth line. Oh, look at that. That’s so smooth. Smooth operation from the fin. Felix Griffith. Yeah, he’s on the smooth line, too. Oh, gone for the Scandi. Hugo’s just examining the course. He wants to see. It looks really rough. Lots of momentum, Fab reckons. Lots of momentum. We got to keep the momentum going. Yeah. Yeah. Keep the momentum. Keep the bike rolling. He He’s got some momentum at the moment. Oh, Hugo, though. Oh, Jonty. Yeah. The snipers in the wild. Snipers in the wild. Ready to shoot some action. Shoot the big game, bro. Big big game. It’s a It’s You must eat the kebab for the race. Lab. That’s the instructions from the coach today. He said, “More kebab. More kebab. More speed.” Yeah. Kate. It’s a real good shot he’s got. He’s getting the shot. E, real nice. Yeah. Oh, going in outlaw. Oh, yeah. Hot. Oh, go on, Stan. Yeah. Nathan the GT. I mean the focus Gary. some loose genius. Oh, smooth operation as Yeah, Aaron. Oh my god. Monetized. Oh, I’m ready. Yeah, mate. With the gap. Oh, yeah. Nice and smooth. Oh, butter. It’s just going to go from there. Tyler. Yeah. Tyler. Oh, smooth operator. Casper. Yeah. Casper. Oh. Oh. Woo. Cream pants going hard. Oh, Benny. Woo. Yeah. Johnny. Oh yeah, Letha. Hey, sir. Not even going doing the outside, but just bombing the inside. Oh, yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. No. Team team pivot heating up. Let’s go. Dodgy. Rody. BK Sport. BK Sport heading up for his first qualifying run of the year. Let’s go. Let’s Let’s go. Pretty good. Yeah. Yeah. I fell slow, so I’m pretty happy with the result. You’re only 0.1 back. Yeah. Yeah. Just I got to get a bike setup I’m happy with. And at the moment, like I can’t get something that works for me. Yeah. So, but surely that’s working now. Uh I mean, you’re not you’re not there yet. I’m not there yet. And I can tell I’m close to the top cuz I can like fight against it. Yeah. And as soon as I get tired, I just can’t like my legs start hurting, my arms. I’m still fighting, but I have less energy. All right. And I just feel a bit annoyed cuz it’s like I know how fast I can go, but it just slowly drops as I get more tired. So, but it’s fun. It’s like exciting to be like, “Yeah, we can definitely improve here.” Yeah. But yeah, I’m happy with that. Like Yeah, that was good. You’re close. You’re right there. Yeah. And Gracie’s been killing it all year. So, you’re right there. Yeah. And she’s got youth on her side. Yeah. Yeah. Youth you youth can help on a on a sport like this for sure. Especially with the way the tracks are now so far. So, I’m pretty happy to be holding it down for the the uh early 90s, mid ’90s. Yeah. All right. Well, at least you’re in the ‘ 90s, not the 80s. All right. Good job. Will be the 80s soon. Yeah, it will be. Yeah. Good job. Thank you. Oh, party m. Let’s go. Good luck, buddy. Hey, did I put you off? No, it actually was. My GoPro went like this on my helmet. Oh, and then I also had But how how was that uh Q1? That was good. That was the first um proper like full run. Yesterday we had like red flag problems and I did like a full run to do a full run. But you should be safely through so that’s good. Yeah. And then my full run I was trying to do. Yeah. Yeah. What I was like, “Oh, put you off.” Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, yeah. Sweet. Good job. Bro, you can take the boy out of New Zealand, but you can’t take the New Zealand out of the boy. Got the shoes on. Those the safety boots or what? Yeah. Steel caps. All good for this afternoon, mate. Bit of a crash this morning. Yeah, we only did half a run, but half a run. Well, um I think I know the track well enough. So, yeah, just get a run down. Good luck, mate. Thank you. How was that, mate? Pretty happy, bro. Super. It’s so fast. Like, the whole run feels like it comes at you super super quick. Uh the smallest mistakes make you so frustrated because you know how tight it is. Yeah. But I was riding well. I just did a The bottom could could be better. I’m a bit sketchy and not carrying the best speed, but uh compared from yesterday, it’s already better. So hopefully tomorrow I can crank it up one more notch. All right, good job, mate. Thank you, bro. Boys have got an early knock. Hey, Brian’s will be back on the job site. Yeah, bit of rain out, boys. You better call it. Christy, we’re going over early knockoff. Q1, bro. Party muddy. That was good. Yeah, it was good. Yeah, just uh a big mistake to the bottom. Yeah, you you’re only you’re in fourth at the last sector. Yeah. Yeah. But you know, I kept I kept a bit of feed for tomorrow. Yeah. Yeah. All right. You got to save it. Yeah. Ocean ocean. All good. Yeah. All good. Just one small mistake and split two. I was 1.4 back and then ended up 0.6. So, it’s going to be a hell of a race tomorrow. So, trying to ramp it up. Ramp her up, boys. Enjoy the early knockoff. Yeah. Yeah. Cheers, boys. Jacob. Probably the ride of the day into 10th in Q1. You got to be happy with that. Yeah, I was okay. I felt good yesterday. Yeah. And then my time practice like I got held up and stuff. So yeah, I knew I had pace. I just needed to take my brain out when just you know, you know, for yourself. It’s like on this track especially. But you got to be happy you don’t have to go up for another run. I think I’m more excited about that. You see doing your warm up at altitude. It’s not fun. No. Sitting there going, “Good job, mate. Nice work. Nice work. Thank you.” Yeah. [Music] Oh, what just won the Q1. Oh my god, what? Y the Q1 winner. What a man. What a man. Yo, so good. All right, so that wraps up everything from on track with Gary. Shout out to Juan for for being the fastest man in Q1. We’re going to drop the Q2 rapid reaction as well, but this is on track with Gary. Over and out for today. Cheers.