#type: interview

"adrenaline is the real drug" - marc

enjoys the winning and competition more than it being motogp

could do without fridays and go straight to quali and race

reminds me of someone saying casey would kill at sprints because he doesn't need long to get up to speed and adapt

best feeling on the bike for marc: almost outbreaking himself

the feeling of holding his breath, thinking he's not going to make it, and last second the rear slides and he can save it

"if you want to be good at cycling, cycle. if you want to run, run" -> re: best way to make it to motogp/train

it depends on the person though and he's found that different amounts of practice and disciplines effects each differently

for himself, he prefers to do a combo of things

there are many with talent but what makes a rider stand out is how fast you can adapt to conditions and circuits

by riding different disciplines he finds it helps him learn quirks and adapt faster

best bike he rode: pre-aero (2014, 15, 16, etc)

current bikes need a more robotic, standard riding style due to how the aero works. over riding makes you slower. pre-aero you could over ride and essentially be more creative. what i got from this was that the individual strengths and traits of a rider could shine through more.

noted how you can't really save it like he used to because the way bikes crash now is vastly different due to the aero

i'm not trashing aero, and marc was careful not to imply that - just stating it was different, and clearly engineering wise it was the next area to exploit. but fascinating how aero (ground effect + aero in f1) greatly changed the landscape of how to ride/drive

random thoughts:

appreciated so much how genuine and thoughtful chris is and his great questions

you can tell when marc enjoys something. his boba shark eyes light up. he was more animated than usual and gave more in depth answers than normal

the question from chris' kid at the end was cute! love that he recorded it for marc to hear

marc and kids are fascinating to me...a whole separate discussion

i'm always impressed by their linguistic skills but the more i watch his interviews, i realize that marc's english is not as good as i initially thought it was. Meaning! he maybe slightly misunderstands a question but is so good at getting to the heart of what the person is trying to ask. Or! perhaps he's so good at english that he "misinterprets" it slightly off but not very and answers in that direction to steer the convo how he wants (pr master!)

e.g. chris asked marc about the best path to get to motogp and the different ways people have done it. marc answered more about training techniques and styles.

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Taylor Swift is the queen of dropping hints, and no it is not an accident. Not even a little bit. The musician painstakingly plans out every single Easter egg that appears in her work — from lyrical references to numerology to, yes, even manicures. And while there are many Easter eggs that she’ll stay mum on forever (fans have to do some of the work, after all), Swift is celebrating her landmark Entertainment Weekly cover by letting us in on her (very intricate) process. “I love to communicate through Easter eggs,” says Swift. “I think the best messages are cryptic ones.” The singer’s favorite Easter egg mediums include clothing (like her butterfly stilettos at the iHeartRadio Awards), fingernails (in the Spotify vertical video for “Delicate,” she painted her nails in the exact color tone of “ME!”), set design (the electronic scrolls on the bank in the “Look What You Made Me Do” video — or, actually, every moment of the “Look What You Made Me Do” video). Swift even drops Easter eggs into interviews (what she calls “hints in print”). She mentioned Brendan Urie in an Elle interview back in February, writing “When I hear ‘I Write Sins Not Tragedies’ by Panic! at the Disco, I’m transported back to being 16 and driving down the streets of Hendersonville, Tennessee with my best friend Abigail, euphorically screaming the lyrics.” That was two months before “ME!” hit the airwaves. Watch the full video for the full scoop above, and then hunt for today’s hints in print in our cover story.