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Carlos has just been on tnt commentary during FP2 (no link as I'm watching live) and the majority of what he said was corpo speak bigging up the changes for next year but two points stuck out for me

- riders wanted the removal of warmup according to feedback dorna received. They haven't decided fully what Sunday mornings are going to look like yet but with no warmup they're expecting the day to look less cramped at the track in relation to the support classes.

- upon being asked if riders were consulted and whose fault it is if they weren't, he responded "well I don't want to point fingers but..." And seemed to imply the teams knew well in advance and apparently failed to discuss with the riders.

Interesting enough and wasn't just a press release in conversation form.

-That was tight, really really tight

- he set that up coming up all the way through…..(soon as someone is overtaken)

-does anybody wanna finish this race or lead this race or finish 2nd( something similar, if one or two riders crash)

-he’s out to the car park or nearby hotel and will need a ticket to get back into circuit( soon as someone runs wide)

-YOU know, if you overtake (placeholder) you better make it stick cause he will come right back at you or similar( if overtake doesnt stick)

-no love loss there (between teammates or rivals)

Just some off the top of my head. Funny to think about. I still like listening to the pair we have on now although I do miss Simon Crafar’s information dump. What do you think? Do you notice commentators resorting to recurring phrases or is it nitpicking? Does it deter viewership at all for you?

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