00:00The members of Xtreme Measures have been putting in the final touches to their vessel
00:04ahead of the 2025 edition of the TNT Great Race on August 16th.
00:09The boat races in the 70-mile class and is aiming for a hat-trick in that category.
00:14Driver Jonathan Moutet is fully aware of that, but he does not want to put any pressure on himself.
00:19Try not to think about it too much, try not to jinx it, right?
00:23So we're just going to go out and have our best race.
00:25And with regards to the preparations, how have they been shaping up?
00:29Because I know you're doing a lot of work in the garage.
00:32Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.
00:34As usual, we scrap down the entire boat, check everything from top to bottom,
00:38make sure everything is bolted tight, locked down, tie strapped and ready to go.
00:43Moutet is feeling relaxed at this stage, despite the fact that the race is getting closer and closer.
00:49After all, he's been in the business for a long time.
00:52Being a veteran, we've been doing this many, many years.
00:55It's kind of like an everyday thing now, right?
00:57So, you always have butterflies when you're approaching the start line,
01:02but I mean, that disappears soon after the throttle drops, so it should be okay.
01:08Vessel owner and throttleman Jonathan Tardier is also looking forward to an exciting great race this year.
01:14While he's confident about the team's chances, Tardier is not one to get carried away.
01:18We still have quite a bit of work to do, but, you know, as always, we try to do our best to get the boat well prepared.
01:28So, I mean, Saturday morning, we usually, I would like to say we're confident,
01:32but there's always things going on your mind that, you know, did I forget this, did I forget that?
01:36And the amount of years that we've been doing this, one thing I've learned is great race will always find a way to humble you.
01:42So, no matter how confident you feel, there's always something on your mind,
01:47because you know that at the end of the day, this is the great race, and it's called the great race for a reason.
01:51Extreme Measures also won its class at this year's TTPBA National Championships.
01:56But Tardier knows there's a huge difference between Regatars and the great race.
02:00So the question is, which boats must Extreme Measures be wary of going into the prestigious event?
02:07The competitors that we usually face would be, you know, the usual names like Catch This, Ratchet,
02:14we have, we've heard that the legend, Miss Applejay is coming out for us.
02:18I think NWO is supposed to be hitting the water, but as usual, when Saturday morning reaches,
02:29whoever's on the water at that point, we'll deal with it accordingly,
02:32and we'll race our race, and they need to try and keep up with us.
02:36Extreme Measures previously had three members, with Nikolai Assam being the navigator
02:41before switching to 60-mile vessel John Wick as the throttleman in 2024.
02:45But Moutet and Tardier have been with Extreme Measures for years, and the chemistry is second to none.
02:51You know, going up the road, we don't have to talk, I don't have to tell him anything.
02:54Certain things, I'll just hit him a little sign language, or he'll hit me a little sign language
02:58if the attitude of the boat offer a little bit for him.
03:01You know, I will set up the boat in such a way to try to make him comfortable going up the road.
03:06But it doesn't take a whole lot of communication because we've been racing together for so long.
03:11The race begins at 7.15 a.m. with the 70-mile vessels starting from 7.30.
03:17It runs from the foreshore to Storbe, that being the final destination.
03:21And when it was now, I need to export it.
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