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To my right, I've got the... I'm going to say the good looking.

I'll take that.

The slightly ageing, Christian, isn't.

There's a lot of ages jokes.

It's non-stop already on three hours in his car with him.

I must admit, it's the only thing I've got in my armoury is the ages jokes. But anyway, Christian Hayden on the right. And on the other side of the couch this week, we've got Ben Curry. How you doing? I'm good, mate. Thank you. Yeah, really good. We are very impressed, by the way, because Ben has just served up probably the best...

What were these? Cinnamon knots, they're called, like based off a swirl, but... Yeah. So if it sounds like we're talking a bit slow and a bit like lethargic, it's because I'm about to hit a mass of sugar come down. We've got sugar sweats. about to kick in. Well, either that, or there was some crack or something in there that there. You won't tell them about,

but yeah, a mass of sugar come down. We've got sugar sweats. It's about to kick in.

Either that, oh, there was some crack or something in there that you won't tell me about, but yeah, the nicest, the nicest pastry ever had. Followed by a very nice coffee as well, I must admit. A little flat white. Yeah. We do it right here in the curry compound, that's for sure. Definitely. We agreed all I guess like that. We should maybe do a bit of a roster for who does the best coffee.

You would certainly be at the top of it at the minute. Should we do a new league table? I like it. I mean it's going to work well for us, isn't it? I think. It will for you because you like a freebie, so. Yeah, it will. It will start annoying me because I'll tune in. I'll be like, what's the coffee like this Well you've you've started the bar on very high then. No excellent bit and honestly thanks very much for fitting us in and having us on your drive

we've navigated with we here did a few U-turns to find you but yeah no thanks very much for coming on

and I'm not exactly busy I'm not gonna lie like

brands hatch finish but I mean yeah I fit you in there yeah yeah oh well you know

what we were grateful but yeah you were actually due to come on the podcast a couple of

years ago weren't you here this for whatever reason we're just discussing this before

sometimes on a race weekend it's hard to like navigate and and get people on it. It didn't happen, and we've never managed to get it back around to it. So it's great to have you on. Because you haven't been on before, we get to go right back to the start and talk about your early racing career and coming over here and coming over to Britain and

starting racing so yeah where did it all start for you yeah actually I was quite um

quite late into the um road racing or super bike racing scene um I think I started when I was about 18

just turning 18 um back home in Oz I was a motorcross kid through and through

from sort of the age of seven, eight years old, riding dirt bikes,

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