#251 "It was Christian's fault" [MAX COOK & Darren Fry]

Chasin' The Racin'

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🗓️ 19 October 2025

⏱️ 98 minutes

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This week on Chasin' the Racin', Joe Akroyd and Josh Corner are joined in the studio with FS3 Superbike racer, Max Cook, and later joined by his boss, Darren Fry. The lads chat through how Max progressed through his early career, coming to land a superbike seat from Stock 600 and reflect on his time in Superbike so far. Darren then joins to tell us more about the dynamics within the team and how he feels the lads are getting on. He also fills us in on the team's switch from Kawasaki to Bimota for 2026: how it came about, details on the bike and his feelings towards the switch. Oh, and of course some age jokes directed towards Christian sprinkled in throughout for good measure. Enjoy - CTR x

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0:00.0	three to one and welcome back to chasing the racing and welcome back to chasing the racing
0:05.2	and this episode is brought to you by omg racing lucky day competitions JCT truck and trailer
0:11.6	rental and the episode sponsor for us is dock solar and electrical are based in Wigan specialising in
0:18.1	solar and battery storage systems they do only work locally within a 10 mile radius of Wigan soising in solar and battery storage systems. They do only work locally within a 10-mile
0:22.3	radius of Wigan. So yeah, if you're in the area and you're looking for something
0:26.8	solar and electrical storage system based, then reach out. And you can probably tell by my
0:32.3	gravelly voice that this episode is being hosted by myself, Jockroyd and possibly soon to be but we
0:41.2	won't jinx you yeah Josh Connor how we do mate all good all good mate how are you yeah
0:46.8	cold and wet because we're at Alton Park for the penultimate round of the 2025
0:53.3	British Superbikes and our guest today is Max Cook. Are we doing, mate? Pretty good, yeah, pretty good. I'm going to take these headphones off right away, because these aren't working. Not at all. We just got Max to put on his head so he could experience what we have to experience when you head rolled off. Yeah, you guys are pros. I'm quite the amateur when it comes to this.
1:12.6	But yeah, I would it be it? It's my first time on chasing the racing. Yeah, I thought you'd been on before. No, no, my first time. So now I feel like I've made it a little bit, quite excited to do this one. It's cool, yeah, it's cool. Nice. Thanks for giving the time because I'm not on a race weekend. It's not always, especially this weekend, it's not always easy to make the time, is it, if
1:34.0	the weekend's not been playing sailing and you guys have had horrendous weather conditions
1:39.5	thrown out of you for the last two days.
1:41.3	Yeah, I've got no idea, or I've got no idea while we've riding October,
1:45.5	because it's really not very fun.
1:49.3	Also, I'm quite a fair weather rider as well.
1:52.7	You know, I like it dry or I like it wet, but above, like, 20 degrees.
1:57.1	And together in England's quite rare.
1:59.3	But when it's so cold and just Gale Force winds and rain like...
2:03.6	You said like my missus trying to be coldy.
2:06.2	It must be sunshine every day, 20 degrees, or we don't go.
2:11.4	I mean, they've happened the job up a bit, haven't they,
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