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🎙️ Unlocking Peak Performance with Joe Talbot | Camino Coaching Podcast 🏍️
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In this episode, we sit down with Joe Talbot, the rising British Superbike talent, to explore the mental game behind elite racing. From his early days on two wheels to competing in the British Superstock 1000 Championship, Joe shares his journey, insights, and the mindset shifts that have fuelled his speed, confidence, and race-winning performances.
🚀 What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
✅ Joe’s journey through the ranks of motorcycle racing.
✅ How mental resilience and flow state impact on-track performance.
✅ The key mindset shifts that separate champions from mid-pack riders.
✅ How Joe prepares mentally and physically for high-stakes races.
🔑 Whether you’re a racer looking to improve your mental edge or a motorsport fan eager to understand what goes on inside the mind of a top rider, this episode is packed with insights and inspiration!
📲 Tune in now and discover what it takes to ride at the highest level!
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Transcript
Introduction and Guest Introduction
00:00:00
Speaker
Welcome to the Camino Coach Show, the place where we dive deep into the peak performance mindset of races on two and four wheels. My name's Craig Muirhead and I'm the founder of Camino Coaching. And today, all we've got a good one for you. Joining us is a rider who's been making serious waves in the British racing scene, Joe Tolbert.
Joe Tolbert's Racing Journey
00:00:19
Speaker
From his early days in the Aprilia superteens, to fighting at the fronts of both the 600 and the 1000 super stock championship.
00:00:27
Speaker
Joe's journey has been nothing short of relentless and now he's making the big step up competing in the British Superbike Championship with OMG Racing. In this episode we're going to break down the mental and physical preparation that has driven Joe's success, his ambitions for BSB and beyond and what it really takes to step up to the biggest stage in British Racing. To get ready this one's packed with insight, inspiration and some serious speed.
00:00:52
Speaker
But while you're watching, please like and subscribe. We want to bring you more fascinating chats this season, and doing that helps us do just that. So enough from me, here's Joe Tolbert.
Early Beginnings and Challenges
00:01:02
Speaker
Okay, so we're here today with Joe Tolbert. Welcome, Joe. You must be very excited about the year ahead. Hiya, mate. Cheers for having me on. Yeah, now I'm buzzing. It's a big achievement that I've got myself here to a Superbike team. So the work starts now, but it's also a dream come true.
00:01:22
Speaker
Yeah, no, absolutely. And if we just rewind a little bit, can you take us back to when you first sort of what took you to racing, what what you enjoyed to begin with, and can you remember your first ever race?
00:01:34
Speaker
Yeah, well, I started obviously ah ah on the field as I was a kid, three year old. I used to go to sleep as I was riding quad bikes. So that's where it all started from. But I started racing motocross before any short circuit stuff. I think my first race was I was eight years old, 65. I started racing and I basically went from there, but of course I had three big knee injuries, had three knee reconstructions on the same knee. ah ah So that sort of pulled me away from the sport or my parents pulled me out of it and said, right, we need just to get walking, right?
Racing Progression and Challenges
00:02:14
Speaker
First of all, because my knee was that messed up. So I had a year basically doing nothing, being a normal kid. And then I first ever go on a road bike
00:02:28
Speaker
at 14 and a 390 KTM. I had my first go on one of them and then also a 450 Aprilia when they did that super team championships on them. ah ah Bought one of them when I was 14 and then went from there and that was in 2018. Excellent, great. And do you know the point or the moment that you knew that you wanted to do this for a living? Yeah, I'd say I won the little superteens championship, I won that in 2019 in the second year. And after I got the taste of winning, I believe that's when I thought, yeah, this is what I wanna do. And then especially then going into the British championships on the stock 600 and stuff like that, and then stock 1000s, I was like, yeah, this is what I wanna do. And now more than ever, now making it into the super bike class,
00:03:24
Speaker
I'm looking at it as a job and I want to do this for the rest of my career. So it's I'd rather do that than sand cars all day. Yeah, it's a good option. and a good option. So yeah, it's been a rapid rise from superteens in 2019 and stepping up to Superbike with OMG Racing this season. Has it fully sunk in yet or are you still sort you know wrapping your head around the next chapter?
00:03:52
Speaker
Yeah, it has sunk in. um um As in, I know what challenge I've got on my hands. Obviously, there's a testing ban in the Superbike class, so I don't get to test the bike till after the 17th
Training and Bike Experience
00:04:07
Speaker
of March. so I had a few days on it before the year so we were allowed to do and it was the best experience ever getting to understand a big super bike and then never mind and yeah a super bike it was a completely different manufacturer that I've never rode so getting used to one of them as well first time riding an R1 and it was it was a good experience and I was
00:04:29
Speaker
over the moon but also like the after I finished the three days I realized the challenge I've got up ahead of me is no small feat and that's why the boys in BSB are so good. But just waiting to the end of March really the start of April I'm just itching to get going on it and spin laps on the bike and just start to process how to get fast on the bike and what it likes to do and Just stuff like that. At the moment, I'm just training, just ticking along, training hard and just basically trying to get as physically fit as I can. ah So when I jump on the bike, I feel good, but we all know like bike fitness, you can't beat it. So I'm giddy and I can't wait for a couple of months to come quick enough so I can get going on it.
00:05:19
Speaker
And stepping up from the 600, because if we go back a little bit again, you were on the super stock 600 class. You step up to the thousand. What was the hardest transition that you found from going from the 600 in adapting to a thousand?
00:05:35
Speaker
The speed, the speed isn't, it is fast. A stock 1000 bike is fast. But that wasn't really the scary part or I got used to that within a couple of days, if not the first day on a stock 1000, you get to realize they are fast.
00:05:53
Speaker
It gets a bit harder when you're obviously around bulletin parks and stuff and it's trying to wheelie everywhere and stuff like that. That's when you realise the speed difference. But it weren't really that. It was more the riding style change. At 600 you carry a lot of like entry speed and off the brake early and flow through the corners.
00:06:13
Speaker
and that's just how because you've not rode a thousand that's just how you think to go around the corner and that is how you go around the corner up until you ride a 1000 and then then you're like that's not how you could go fast on a thousand you have to go late on the brakes and you have to wait longer than you think to get on the throttle because then when you've waited longer you've sat it up a bit better and you can get on the gas even harder so That was more adapting than the speed of the bike. the The change of style is a lot, but I realised once you've done it, you then get to realise, when I go down to the R6 and have a fun on R6, I get to realise, you learn that. It's easier to adapt back, do you know what I mean? Because you've been through perfect experiences, so that was the hardest thing.
00:07:03
Speaker
And do you feel like it's a similar transition to step up to the Superbike from the stock? So when I jumped, maybe because it's a well-developed R1 and it's soon been like, every part of the bike's been thought out. It wasn't like when I jumped on the R1 RNG bike, it wasn't like it was really scary. It wasn't like, it wasn't trying to bite me head off. I didn't feel like it was trying to throw me off or...
00:07:34
Speaker
I only realised how fast I was going up until the recruit chief said he got up 290 miles an hour down the back street. That's when you realise he's tramping on. I feel like the superbikes got more top end, but the actual aggression, it's there, but it's not much scarier than a stalker.
00:07:57
Speaker
But it also is because you have got no forgiving and it is all in your hand. It's like you ride just as hard as you ride a stalker, but you have to be way more patient with your hand. That's the main differences. But I'm making it sound simpler than what it is. It does the Superbike with no electronics or no riding aids. It can bite you. So you just have to be alert when you're riding it. Yeah, I'm sure it's quite an experience the first time that you jump on it.
00:08:26
Speaker
Yeah, it was a surreal feeling. At first, I didn't come in. I just stayed out there for, I think, 25, 30 minutes. And I was just out there for as long as I wanted to. And the biggest difference that I noticed was the gearbox.
Reflections and Learnings from Past Seasons
00:08:44
Speaker
The gearbox in a big factory Yamaha Superbike is unbelievable. It doesn't even feel it goes into gear. It's just so flushing.
00:08:56
Speaker
The gearbox and the blippers on the stock are still really good. I always thought that was the best, but then when I've now gone onto that, words can't describe how nice the feeling is. When you can go from fourth, well, even if you can go from fifth to first, and you can go down the box that fast, it's it's a refreshing feel.
00:09:18
Speaker
2024, so last season, saw you right in the mix for the title of the Superstock class. What were the key moments in that season that you feel shaped you as a rider to be ready to step up to BSB Superbike?
00:09:37
Speaker
especially with tires that we was on last year. I know for 2025, the stock 1000 class has gone back to the treaded tires. was on the slick tires, so we wasn't that far off a super right time. Maybe over the race distance, if you looked at the time we finished the races, we was a bit more not as consistent as the suit bags. But one lap pace, there was some tracks we was only one second off.
00:10:01
Speaker
you know and that's what made me made me realize that we're not hanging about we are even though we are in the stock class we we are we can ride we are be we are fast so when i got basically let's say the call up to go and ride i believed yes i've not been at the superbite level yet but i have been somewhat near the pace and it's not it's not like i'm five seconds off and then having to do it all on a brand new manufacturer i'm probably a second and a half off and i'll find that hopefully with an amazing team that i'm on and stuff like that so also i was fighting at the front end of the class
00:10:45
Speaker
most races and it's just as cutthroat as BSB. Well, I think so anyway because I'm not really at least the BSB race. It doesn't get much harder and even some lads have said to me it doesn't get much harder than stock thousand. There's so many people who can win and so many people who want to win.
00:11:05
Speaker
The, it's just as cut through as BSB. So I feel like I've raced in the situations where everyone's aggressive and everyone's fighting for the last position, which they will be in BSB. So I'm feeling ready. I'm feeling more ready than, ah let's say from the stock 600 going up to the stock 1000 class, I wasn't ready. And it took a while to learn. Obviously this will take, super bike class will take maybe a couple of rounds or maybe the full year to learn it and it will and it'll take time and that's what i've got to do is just to take take the time with it but i feel more ready than i've ever felt for it i'm at the right time right age to move up and see what i can do
00:11:48
Speaker
And obviously there's a difference in schedule, there's a difference in the the layout of the
Race Structure and Physical Demands
00:11:53
Speaker
weekend. What do you feel will be the biggest differences you'll have to be able to deal with compared to what you've experienced so far?
00:12:01
Speaker
Just like you said, the outright time on the bike is so much more than a stock 1000 round. If you're lucky in stock 1000, you get two races a weekend. Let's say I think it was seven rounds you got two and four rounds you got one race or something like that.
00:12:20
Speaker
It's just a lot more riding. You get a lot more free practice this year. You get FP1, FP2 which are longer. Then you've got Q1, Q2 and then you've got your three races. That are all two races are longer and you've got a shorter race. I feel like that will take adapting. Obviously we're talking about the fitness side of things before what I'm doing now. It's just trying to stay alert over them three races as well and not be getting fatigued and staying on top of the nutrition just so you're ready on that last race of the week and you're still as alert as you was for the first race.
00:13:00
Speaker
But I think it works in my favor as rookie and first time in the class, more time on the bike, more time out on track, learning can only benefit me. Obviously everyone gets faster throughout the weekend, but it will help me having a little bit more time. So I'm not having to try and make everything up on Friday. I know that I've got to start a Saturday morning and I can work on it.
00:13:28
Speaker
And when we look at the two levels of challenge, you've got the physical side and the mental side, so we'll look at them both. Physically, what do you feel is going to be needed? Is it more endurance? Is it is more strength? What do you feel? Maybe a little more strength.
00:13:44
Speaker
Let's say blokes who have got that man's strength without even trying because they're dirty or whatever and they're just strong all athletes. and and The endurance side of things is definitely needed.
00:13:59
Speaker
motorbike, we're not made it easy for ourselves. I feel like we need everything in our armour to over the weekend. So we need to have that fitness where we can go out the blocks at the start of the race and get the BPMs really high. Do that first five laps as hard as you can, then try and calm down, settle in, and then go again for the last three laps. But I do feel like the endurance side of things is more important for me in 2025 because I believe them three races will take it out here. Not even that, maybe the nerves of Q1, Q2, because one of my goals will be trying to get into Q2. So that will drain you. So if you've got everything right and you've got a good base fitness to carry you through the weekend, I think that's good because you can still be focused on the job.
00:14:52
Speaker
Absolutely. And what about the mental side? what What are you looking to bring mentally to your game this season? Mentally, I'd say.
00:15:02
Speaker
A little bit more confidence, I'd say, because I'm a bit more happiness, I'd say. In 2024, I was confident as in a way I knew I was probably a top five guy most weekends, which the results say I was. But sometimes if I weren't in the top five, I'd let me head down. And you can't really afford to do that, especially in the Superbike class, because you've got 10, 15 guys, even more, that can put you out the point. So I've got to look and realize, yeah, all their names in front of me can ride a bike. They are all fast. So when I say don't let me head down is and stay happy,
00:15:51
Speaker
Yeah, right, you're 16th and you want to be in the points, let's say, or you want the top 10 because you're feeling good, you've got to realise it's no easy
Mental Strength and Consistency in Racing
00:15:59
Speaker
task. So just stay happy and they just try and take on the challenge rather than getting my head down and start getting frustrated with it. Yeah, and but accept it as all part of the learning curve as well, you know, which is important in your first season as well.
00:16:18
Speaker
Yeah, there's a look at the class and so many experienced guys in it and you realize that's why them experienced guys are still so fast because of that experience and because they've been through what you've already been through. They learn from their mistakes and they learn that they can't They can't let, they can't fall off and then win and then fall off and then win. They've got to be consistent throughout the year. They know that they can't let the head drop if it's not coming. They know that it's a free race, free races throughout the weekend so they can get the bike better. I feel like this...
00:16:58
Speaker
All of them, all them BSB riders carry confidence as in a way they know it's going to come. They know in the mind it might just keep on chipping away. penny So I'm going to try and take a bit of that for myself and I'm going to try and write.
00:17:18
Speaker
If I look at round one and then I'm at round eight, I can then look back at round one and go, look how much you've improved. Maybe the position's not, but you've gone from a second and a half after only point eight off. and Just trying to, because when you come 15th all the time, you want to be winning. And then if you're 15, 15, it's mentally, it does so so destroy you, especially from when I've been fighting for podiums every weekend, it's like, wow.
00:17:42
Speaker
I then have to find little achievements, just ah ah little goals to keep on progressing through myself basically, and maybe not through the ranks, but just so myself becomes a bit, yeah, I've got this. And you've got to set your own level of success, haven't you? You've got yeah to have your own milestones that you're working, everybody else has got theirs, but you're working on yours.
00:18:06
Speaker
Yeah, and especially with two BSB champions, on on my left shoulder, one on my right shoulder in the garage, their ambitions are to win. Kyle and Brad, they want to win every race and they want to win the championship and that should be the goal, whereas my goal should be slightly different.
00:18:28
Speaker
And I've got to look what they're wanting to achieve and then look what I'm wanting to achieve within myself. Even though on the same manufacturer, same bike, same team, I've got to set my goals a little bit different.
Team Dynamics and Overcoming Hardships
00:18:42
Speaker
Yeah, definitely. But you're in good company, that's for certain.
00:18:44
Speaker
Yeah, and we're talking about the experience. The experience of two British champions, you can't get any better. Obviously, I got along really well with my teammate, Kyle, and then I started getting along with Brad when I see him. And it's good. Hopefully, it'll be a really good atmosphere in the team. I think it will be. And already now, I'm dealing with the team. We did that three-day test in December, and we all got on my little crew.
00:19:12
Speaker
And it was good. I've never had anything like that. I've never had my own crew chief, my own mechanics. It's always been a big Joe who ran the old team and my dad. So it's just been a little bit different than a proper team. Whereas my dad now will come out of it a little bit and be more like my dad rather than a mechanic or something like that for me. It's definitely a big change within my racing career, let's say. So I've now, this is going to be the next step and it's all new, but I'm really excited. Every racer has setbacks and what's been your hardest moment in your career so far and what did you learn from it? Hardest moment is probably, obviously, when I was
00:20:04
Speaker
I've obviously, let's say, had two careers, resin, motocross, and then I've now gone to short circuit racing. Obviously the injuries when I was such a young kid, I couldn't then... I stopped playing football, for example, like 10 years old to 14, all you didn't want to do is play football with your mates, go out with your mates. And I couldn't, because I was injured, my leg was injured, I couldn't go in PE classes, I was always on the side. and That was a challenge where, as in my actual racing challenge as a short circuit racer, it's probably stock 1000. The first year in it, I went on a ZX10 and it's not really the bike in stock 1000 anymore. and It wasn't the bike to be on. And especially first year, ah ah I just couldn't get away with anything. I had to ride 110%
00:20:57
Speaker
sometimes fell off where I didn't need to. I had big crashes because I was trying so hard because I was losing so much down the streets and whatnot, but I feel like I learnt so much as well. I'd come in, I'd be 18th, I'd be 20th, and my best result was a ninth, but that was just out of the blue, and I don't know how I got that, but the perseverance I think helped me and I didn't realize it was going to be that hard at 18 I thought I'd be all right I've just come second in stock 600 we'll be up there but that was the opposite but I'm very thankful for the learning that I experienced because then in 2023 I come out the blocks and I got fourth in the championship throughout like a couple got a couple of podiums got two wins in 2023 and
00:21:52
Speaker
I chose the right manufacturer this time and the Honda and I learned and I think that people now say to me, how did you go from finished 20th in the championship to finished 4th?
Mindset and Performance Strategies
00:22:05
Speaker
I couldn't tell you how, but I feel like them lessons I learned when times were hard, when I finished 20th, I think that allowed me to go. And then, so I went from fourth to second ah ah in 2024, so I didn't move up that many places, I like to say, but I did fight for the championship throughout the whole of 2024. I was always there. and the lessons I even learned from coming forth in the championship in 2023, the lessons I learned from then to 2024, I took that into the year and I feel like that's one thing I kept on doing. I've always learned, let's say it's not always been the best year, but I've learned and then I've made amends for the next. And that's what I've got. I've got to take learn my lessons from 2024 and take them into this year. I know that you can't,
00:22:58
Speaker
You have to be on your A-game every session. You can't get away with anything, especially when you're fighting for them top positions. Even if you're mentally a little bit unstable or you're not feeling yourself 100%, you'll be back to 5-10 positions straight away.
00:23:17
Speaker
you've got to walk into them races. I think as you drive through them gates on a Thursday, before you get ready for practice Friday, you've got to walk through them gates as in, I'm going to do well. You've got to have that confidence. And when I said I want to take some confidence into 2025, that's what I mean. I can't look at my teammates as in British champions, even though they are.
00:23:43
Speaker
I'm trying to look at them just as my teammates. I'm trying to put myself the same level as them, even though I'm not. But in my mind, if I could do that, then at least I'm starting on the same page as them and I can try and copy them. That's where I'm trying to go.
00:24:00
Speaker
Yeah, no, absolutely. And I over over performing on a poor package, you know, nothing against Kawasaki, but like you say, the bike was probably not the thing to be on. But over performing,
00:24:16
Speaker
and on the package and means that when you do get a good package that level of determination that skill level that it all comes together which makes it a know whereas a lot of people you know, give up trying because the package isn't good enough and that becomes the excuse. So they haven't actually learnt anything for when they do get onto to to something better to have increased their skills and increased their performance. So you're learning from every opportunity if you're taking it with the right approach. Yeah, I don't know if it's because I'm still fairly fresh into the sport, let's say. I don't know if I was in a 15, 20 year career that I might not be as enthusiastic.
00:24:59
Speaker
It's at this moment in time, it's not in my nature to give up. I'll always try. and I just, even like 2025 coming up, I know it's going to be very hard and I know it's going to be probably even more challenging mentally than it's ever been. Every year it gets harder and harder as you get more of an up the ranks, but I won't give up. And I think that's what makes you allowed to keep on learning. When you don't give up, you learn from it and you can then take it when you've got a good package, like I said.
00:25:33
Speaker
And on the flip side, we looked at the most challenging parts. What's proudest moment? Yeah, proudest moment. I'm always a bit too hard on myself, but what last year was a good year for me. But I don't know if I ever sat back and looked, oh yeah, that was good. So I would go back to 2023, because I embraced the moment I looked, did the double at Donington in the rain. I've got my first win on a Saturday and then my second win on a Sunday.
00:26:05
Speaker
In 2023, I really embraced it at the moment as well. I soaked it all in and it felt amazing. So that was probably my proudest moment. Last year was good. ah I did myself proud last year as I was leading the race last lap at Nakhil and then I collided with a back marker and I just led the whole race. And then I was all of a sudden 35 points down on the championship. And I got it all the way back down to only four points, I think, in between us.
00:26:36
Speaker
and then it eked out a little bit as the last two rounds but I never gave up and I got the lead back down to four points and I also look back at this year when we finished it in October I go over Christmas and I go yeah I did myself proud but the The winner inside me once said, yeah, you could have won that. So it's a bit hard to be proud. But I would say I am happy with the ride I got for the next two seasons. That's what I could be proud of. I've worked very hard. And my family has worked very hard. So to get an opportunity in Superbikes, never mind the best team in the paddock. And I did look back and think, yeah, at least I took that away from 2024.
00:27:22
Speaker
Yeah, absolutely. And staying composed in races is crucial and you've been fighting at the front with that pressure for trying to get to a podium and take the win. What do you use to try and stay in that space to keep yourself composed at that point? Yes, it is. I feel a a like as soon as you get into that picture of, oh my God, I'm leading,
00:27:52
Speaker
That's when it all starts going wrong. You can't afford to think that even if you get to the front you're like oh my god I'm winning you can't do that you have to be like right right focus up and focus on this corner even if you're struggling to even think about the lap then go on to the apexes and your lines just so your mind's always busy on the job you've got at hand as soon as you let your mind drift off to uh where's he
Goals and Competitive Aspirations
00:28:24
Speaker
or what the championship points are in this well some riders can do it and race but me personally i can't i have to be completely focused on what's at hand so that's what i try and do as soon as you get to the lead i know right like i'm going i've gone this line i'm on this line and let's say they come back at you in the next corner my thinking straight away is getting back or
00:28:50
Speaker
ah ah Just everything to not overthink. Always stay on the next goal. Okay. Superbikes is known for its aggressive racing. So are you ready to get your elbows out? And who are you most excited with to battle from the best racers in the UK?
00:29:10
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know. I am ready to get my elbows out. I don't think no one on that grid isn't ready. yeah You have to be or you'll be last. Everyone's so aggressive.
00:29:21
Speaker
and and And the most person I'm excited about, i don't know, because I don't know where I'll be. Do you know what I mean? I might always be around the same guy, or it'll always be a mixture. I'm not sure, all I do know is I'm excited to race everyone and roll out of that grid. As we roll out of pit lane or something, I could be behind Kyle Ryder, I could be behind Tommy Bridewell, I could be behind Glenn Irwin.
00:29:50
Speaker
And that's not, not many people get to experience that. So when I said I wanna try and put myself on the same level as them, I do, but also there is a little kid inside of me that goes, oh, you're behind him, you're behind him. So I feel like once I get a couple of rounds deep, I think that'll start going and then I'll be like, following now, stick with him, what they're doing. for the first couple of rounds, I'll definitely be like, this is cool.
00:30:19
Speaker
Yeah, superb. And then signing for OMG, you've got a two-year contract, a solid foundation in BSP. What can the goals be for your rookie season? What can what the milestones that you can tick off to go? That's a solid first year. I definitely want to keep on progressing throughout the year. I don't want to I don't want to, let's say, go backwards or anything like that. I want to start and then keep on progressing and learn. I feel like if I'm learning this year, then 2026 allows me to find a lot of time just by the experience.
00:30:59
Speaker
by the experiences that I learned from 2025. The goal is to keep on progressing and go through the ranks and learn from my mistakes from round one to round 10. See, like I said before, look at the differences and hopefully I've learned a lot and don't keep on making the same mistakes. And also, I don't know what happens. Let's say we get a wet race or something like that. I'd like to be up there.
00:31:25
Speaker
because I know I can ride in the wet. I've not heard the R1 yet in the wet, but it looked good at brands when Danny Kemp won, so I'm excited for a wet race and that's probably one of my main goals. And looking further ahead, where do you see yourself in, say, five years time? Five years time.
00:31:48
Speaker
My goal, the dream is to be become British champion and then go on to World Superbikes. That is my dream. and But I don't know how the stars are are align,
Young Racers and Personal Insights
00:31:59
Speaker
do I? But the goal is to get into World Superbikes and then hopefully one day become a world champion. That is the ultimate dream. Sounds good. And you're also ages on your side. You're just 20, yeah?
00:32:14
Speaker
21. 21, sorry. Knocking on now. Yeah, you're knocking on, getting on a little bit now. But you're part of a new wave of British riders that are getting up to the British Superbike class. Do you feel like there's a shift happening in the championship of the, maybe there's a changing of the guard?
00:32:35
Speaker
Maybe. But maybe there's a few riders have gone like Jason. ah ah Oh, Halloween is now not in it. And how many years has he been in it? It's just maybe, but I feel like there's still, you still got your Josh Brooks in it. He's still got Tommy Bradwell in it. They're all capable of winning. Them, like we were talking about experience before. Yeah, you can look at the age, but the experience that them boys have, like which makes them still so fast.
00:33:06
Speaker
I don't know. I probably just, I'm maybe on the tail end of their career, but they're definitely not done. That's what I'm saying. They're near the end of their career, but they can still win. But then you've got your likes at Kyle and your Brad Ray's, who are 27, and now they're really fast. So it's, I there definitely is a new, like me, Scott Swan, with with the same sort of agent.
00:33:34
Speaker
We are coming through, which is good to see and I don't know. Right, so let's just have a look at your race weekend structure. One pre-race ritual that you'll never skip. I always wear two pairs of socks. Okay. I have to wear normal socks and then the mobile socks.
00:33:57
Speaker
It doesn't matter if I'm in Spain in 25 degrees or Nokia like 10 degrees, it's always two socks. Okay, good, good, good. What's your favourite track that you've ridden? That I've ridden. Some good ones. I've got to stay loyal to Alton Park. It is my favourite. The only thing I can think of that I've not ridden yet is Portimao.
00:34:27
Speaker
So is that a dream track to do? Yeah, that's ah ah definitely on the bucket list. It looks like a bit of Alton Park on steroids. It looks so good. That's definitely on the bucket list. And I don't know if that might take the top spot, but it might not. And also, another dream one would be to do with Phillip Island. That looks unreal. But so far, only track that I've ridden is Alton Park, and that's my dream, my favourite track.
00:34:56
Speaker
There's some elevation changes, there's a common denominator there, isn't there? Yeah, I love a bit of an elevation change. I just feel like it... I don't know, it's just got character. I know I am a bit of a... a rider that has got character when I'm on the bike, do you know what I mean? Even though I don't think I am, I look at races back and I go bloody hell, out of shape there, out of shape there. But when I'm on the bike I don't feel it, but...
00:35:25
Speaker
when you're at the Alton Parks it's a track where it's so up and down even the straights aren't straight and there's bumps in it and it's wheelie and it's just almost like once you get it going and you're not even thinking you start to like glide over bumps you start to feel the bumps before you've even got to them and on the tracks that are flatter. I don't feel like you ever experience that. You just feel like you're on the limit all the time and you're always pushing. Whereas you could go around Alton Park, not feel on the limit and you're very, very fast. So that's why it's my favourite. Who was your favourite rider growing up?
00:36:05
Speaker
I would say it was Jonathan Ray as my favourite rider. Obviously he's so good on a motocross bike as well, which I grew up on doing. and When I was actually racing it, i I was in Spain and I got to see him ride. It was even as fast as some British championship lads on the motocross bike, so I was thinking he's so good. Obviously what he's achieved in World Superbikes is definitely the idol.
Advice and Social Engagement
00:36:29
Speaker
What would you be doing if you weren't racing motorcycles for a living? I know. Probably working at my dad's unit in the painting cars and painting vans, but I do enjoy it. I enjoy it if it's a nice restoration car and that, but other than if it's just painting around, I do not enjoy it. I'd rather be on my bike doing 100 an odd mile an hour.
00:36:58
Speaker
Good stuff. So if you've got one piece of advice to a young rider that's listening to this has a dream of making it to BSB, what would you tell them? What would I tell a young man? I'd say my advice would be don't ever give up. What was the quote? A winner is just a loser who tried one more time.
00:37:27
Speaker
When you're that age and you're a young kid, all that matters is being cool, being cool in front of school and what your mates think. But as a kid who, when I was a kid, all my mates, you get to a certain age and you start going partying and they start smoking and you're alive and thinking, oh oh should I be doing this? Shouldn't I be doing this? And I've never done any of that. When they all started smoking,
00:37:53
Speaker
What I'm saying is you have to believe in yourself and believe in your goal and put everything into what you want to achieve. As soon as you start trying to impress other people, that's when you won't. So just stay grounded and stay determined on your goal and it will pay off one day.
00:38:11
Speaker
Yeah, good advice. So where can viewers keep up with your journey? What's your socials and how can they keep an eye on you within this season? My socials are all the same. It's JoeTober19racing. That's what you'll find me on Facebook, Instagram. ah That's what I'm on. And when I post stuff, that's where it'll be all over. And as I'm going to Spain soon, just training, I'll be putting some content on there.
Closing Remarks
00:38:40
Speaker
Perfect. Well, thanks very much joining for joining us today. And it's been a pleasure to to you and have a great season. Cheers, mate. Thank you. Thanks for tuning into the Camino Coach Show. We hope you enjoyed this episode with Joe Talbot. If you did, be sure to share it with your friends. Like and subscribe on YouTube and leave a review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Your support helps us keep bringing you amazing stories from the racing world.