 I'm Fredrik Lindgren and you're watching Talking Dirt. So who's in your team? Well, on the mechanical side we have Dave Haynes and Jonathan Burks, really good, easy going guys from England and really good communication in between the races and in between their races and behind the scenes is obviously my wife and manager, Carolina Yunos daughter. She's taking care of all of us and all the boring stuff behind the scenes. How's it now dude, like from when you first started out travelling to the UK and stuff and now having like two mechanics and a big van set up, life easier? It's different for sure when I first started to race in the UK as a young man. I lived at a family place, the Harvey family and you know Mark, he used to help me at the track but most of the times I used to do my own bikes in between the races and he worked as well and I didn't race as much as I do now. Now like with having these boys you can concentrate just on the racing and not having to worry about the driving and the long hours of doing the bikes and stuff. No, I think if I had to do everything myself like driving and mechanics and wash bikes and everything myself I wouldn't have lasted this long I think. It's a lot of work to do by yourself so now I have these boys prep everything for me. I can focus on the racing, I can focus on my training and I normally fly. When I can I fly to the places I need to go to be as relaxed as possible so it's the way for me now. I remember back in the day like when Tony and Crumpy were in the series they'd have like GP bikes that they would only have for the GPs. These are your bikes that you're racing in the leagues as well? No because I don't think they did have GP bikes but I don't know. A rumour that I heard? Yeah, that's rumour people hear about me too but these are the exact same bikes that are racing the Polish League now in the Swedish League and GPs. It's the same bikes basically. For this year was to only racing in the Polish League and the Grand Prix series but I made a decision recently to sign for a Swedish club so get a few more meetings and that also means we have to travel a lot more so the boys came here to Prague from Sweden we did the individual Swedish Championship on the Tuesday. And how did you do in Sweden in the championship? In the Swedish Championship I came back and was the king of Sweden, I got the win. I'm not going to see my family much over the next couple of months I reckon so back to speed of my life. How much does your wife and baby get to come to the racing just over or? No my baby she still has not been to a race yet. The ones we had in Shestor were so late they started like 8.30 so Carolina stayed in home with Milly Lee the baby so she hasn't been to a race yet. How was that going into the World Championship last two rounds last year finding out that your wife was going into labour on the day of I think it was the Friday wasn't it? Yeah it was a weird situation. I was chasing the world title, I was really focused on that and at the same time my wife going in to give birth to a baby daughter and she just sent me the photo on I think it was in the morning on the Friday on the race day and I kind of just had to look at the phone look at the picture and be happy for a short time but then straight away focus on the race so it was a difficult situation not only for me more probably for my wife she had to do everything by herself so she's a strong girl. The first seat I got excluded that was pretty tough not to get the points but also not to have a feel for the track in race mode as well and then it was kind of a long break from a second run so I kind of had to dig deep in my mental strength to be ready but I got there I got the points to get to the semis got into the final and worked really hard to make that happen and then in the final I touched the tape and I was like damn damn but the history and it happens yeah it could have been worse could have been better that's how I see it you got me I can't catch I was slim look at them f***ing sick mother f***ing helmets dude where the magic happens aye yeah how many helmets you done this year Slim? 74 so far 74 I can make from this I can make 40,000 shades of colours if somebody comes here and he says I have 1985 Ferrari I go to the system and I mix it I mix it right on point 40,000 shades I used to do a lot of stuff for local racing but now business is doing good and I paint worldwide not too many people show up lately not too many riders because only UPS guy and I pack the helmet and give it to the UPS guy no more visits so it's nice to have someone like Ty turn up oh yeah man I'm stoked I'm stoked to have him here man the fans decided that I need to run the helmet like this I put on Instagram like do you want to see it next year yes or no show it what did they say show you stoked man we got two of them so I'm using one and we're going to give another one away in a competition skate Slim? little bit with my son I haven't been on a skateboard in years just make sure you only put the good one in without my scooter Slim my dad and his friend got two lamb breaders 1960s maybe can't remember the exact date but I'm pretty sure they're 1960s they was completely f**ked like they was rotten no f**k all the paint was all like flaking off they shipped them they went on holiday to England they bought them shipped them back to Australia they fully renovated them and then when my dad died my mum sold everything in Australia and she sold the scooter and then like four or five maybe six six years later I went back to Australia and I was like f**k I wish I bought that scooter I wish I kept it so I put on Facebook I did a big post explained that my dad got cancer and you know we wasn't in a position to keep it and now I want to buy it back and within 24 hours I found the guy and I bought the scooter off him so I got it back and then a couple of years ago when I went back his best friend his kids started riding speedway and I took some bikes out did a little bit of racing and he was like oh like I want to buy a bike off you like I'm gonna sell my scooter and I was like f**k these scooters like came together it was my dad and his best friend they renovated them and I was like just give me the scooter and like a little bit of cash and take the bike and if you want to buy it back in like 10 15 years I'll keep it there so I've got both the scooters you know both Lambretta's both Lambretta's there and both fully restored what year? I think the 60s I don't know exactly but the 1960s this one's 1980 the X125 but they're cool as f**k man but to get my dad's back I didn't think I was gonna get it back 24 hours on Facebook ready bike there no ready? ready? it's like Panna Cotta hey who's the boys in your team and what's their roles? Jacko is my marketing manager Conjo's chief mechanic and then we've got Greshek and Mihal who are just full gas the boys are always full gas getting f**ked up like tonight they gotta f**k and stay here and prep all the bikes in the morning so they'll probably leave here at 1-2 o'clock in the morning and finish them off when they wake up before we start after my last race you could see it's unrideable Bernstern pulled up I took my goggles off pulled four tear-offs ran out of tear-offs, used my hand then I couldn't see anything never throw my goggles in my life but I had to today and there's all the people sat in the stands hasn't stopped raining for the last half an hour the track's f**ked I just don't know why we're all f**king sat here waiting now I'm just catching up with some whatsapps the bosses text me to when it gets rained off, come home so we can have Chinese and watch Love Island so we'll be doing that when this gets cancelled I still got heaps of whatsapps from yesterday because when you do half-dieves and everyone wants the texture and then when you f**king ask no one whatsapps you so the joys of sport everyone wants to know you when you're winning come on boys let's race two minutes two minutes doily in Max's eyes lit up when I shouted that what do you reckon Raf? we should race? would you race? of course everyone that finishes the career says they'd race in it it needs to be four rounds we need to do five more heats because there's one more heat in this block do you have to go from heat one again? yeah start from scratch that doesn't matter just another f**king GP to start how do you feel about that Matthew? be honest result wise good that's good on many points today result wise gee man I was so out of shape you saw how you passed me oh yeah in that f**king in the corner yeah f**king it wasn't me yeah I saw that I just came in like a meter wider and then I saw you go and I was like cheers man stage the meeting from heat one tomorrow at 1pm so I will send out an email and I'll watch up to the riders all the schedules for tomorrow but unfortunately the rain has beaten us tonight so we'll start again tomorrow at 1pm not the weekend you was after we struggled all night and then made it to the semis and made it to the final and still on the podium but not up to speed at all it's been tough having some time off with the injury had a month off when everyone else was racing but no excuses we need to find some more speed and win some more races obviously yesterday was difficult and you're going to have somebody behind you trying to cause mischief Mr.Woofindon but yeah it was a tough weekend yesterday we tried our best to get to where we needed to but unfortunately yeah I'm trying to be professional and these riders come and mess it up he's gone now he had difficulty with the weather the riders respected him for going and I know it hit 11 when they were actually at the start tapes I was considering calling it back then so it came down really heavy so I think I wouldn't have sent the riders out in that kind of condition and it didn't really stop for another hour so we had no option but today as you've seen it was a tough day to get the track to where it needed to be before the start we worked really hard all morning and then we got it and we had a marvellous final which was good for the crowd and hopefully they go away with a good meeting feel how was your weekend it's been really hard work first Friday battle all the way got to the final yesterday was wet one we did three races got cancelled had to start over today a regroup and I felt this morning when I woke up you know my body was very tired but I had some arm pump last night the last heat and still recovering from that so today was just a row with a lot of heart and was battling all the way we never really got the bike working working good we struggled a bit for speed and I think today making it to the podium was a big effort out of my skin out of my skin how was your weekend dude could be better you know but really only by one place to be honest that was a great weekend team was working great and today on Sunday was pretty tough for me but we finished very good and I'm very happy what we got good points track is beautiful city today we have beautiful day so I'm very happy leading the world championship too thanks man I hope I can say to the end it's the new team close for this year hey because of the corona we have to save in so this is the new team close