#192 Hard On The Gas [JOHN HOPKINS] PART 1

Chasin' The Racin'

Grace Rouse

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5 • 941 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2023

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

This week on Chasin’ The Racin’ Dom Herbertson and Joe Akroyd are joined by former GP, WSBK and BSB rider turned Moto2 rider coach and race director, John Hopkins. The American racer joined us from Brands Hatch to chat through the highs and lows of his career on and off track and John himself says this is the most honest and candid conversation he has had publicly. Enjoy - CTR x

This is part 1 of a 2 part series with Hopper and part 2 will be available on every platform from the 7th of August - set your alarms & stay tuned for another couple of hours with Hopper.

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0:00.0	Cheersin, powered by Colchester Kawasaki.
0:04.6	Part of the Global Moto Group, we supply New Aprilla, Motoguzzi, Vespa, Royal
0:10.3	Enfield, Kawasaki, Sim, Mutt Bonelli motorcycles.
0:14.8	Three to one and welcome back to Chasing the Racing.
0:17.9	I am joined on the core horse element with the delicious
0:21.3	yet mysterious.
0:22.4	I've said that twice in our and two shows.
0:24.0	You are, you are very mysterious.
0:26.0	I love it. The Joe Ackroyd.
0:27.0	What you see is what you get, mate.
0:28.0	I love it.
0:29.0	And I tell you what, I'm going to do you straight in a Joe.
0:31.0	I'm going to let you introduce the guest because he is an ultimate fan boy.
0:35.8	He's driven five hours to come down and meet yet. He's got a poor severe decide.
0:40.0	I have. He's pathetic, you know? He's pathetic, he's going a little ready, I love it. Yeah, well I have, yeah. But we're joined by the one and only John Hopkins.
0:49.2	Oh, thank you guys. It's great to be here and yeah, it's finally good to be on this show and yeah looking forward to it.
0:58.0	Mike yeah. No he is a bit embarrassing really but a bit you've... a bit red I love it joys
1:04.5	the childhood you know once you tune into motor gp and you've got your
1:09.2	riders when you're 12 or 13 years old and you're following my following people and that was yeah the same I had the same growing up you know I had my heroes that I just you know ultimately you know just was infatuated with and, and it's a shame though, because there's some, like, you know,
1:29.3	the saying, you know, don't be heroes. And, and I don't let me down I know trust me what you see is what you see is what you get with me and and yeah a few experiences throughout my life of fans that I grew up with and and people that I obviously very much looked up to really let me down in in person even at a young age like I it was funny this is actually we will go
1:57.3	straight into the stories but I had a funny story with this one I growing up we know I was motorcross, so I grew up racing motorcross in California, and that was the main thing I did.
2:10.0	And down in Southern California is kind of the mecca for Supercross and Motorcross Stars and they all live down there and track I used to ride at Supercross and you know top-level motorcross riders were always there riding and practicing on the same days and
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