Unless you've experienced road racing or any form of extreme sport you will never understand what drives people. Nutters is an unfair description of people that are top of their game. In this pc world with millennium children wrapped up in cotton wool the days of road racing are sadly numbered as is any activity that gets the adrenaline pumping. Personally I don't get what all the excitement is about with football but can relate to what drives the Road racers. It's all consuming and totally selfish.

I can't imagine how his mother losing a husband and son and his grandmother feel having having lost two sons and a grand child. Please god she won't have another funeral to attend in her lifetime.

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Raced solos and side cars at club level whilst working as a motor cycle courier. I can tell you that no car that I've been in has given me the rush that a well fettled bike has. One car came close but that car is well beyond my means and if i did own it I would probably run out of talent before I could master it. 52 years old no more bikes and I still admire road racers more than any other sport.
I did a run what you brung last year in the impreza and while walking round the paddock I stopped to look at the bikes, the mrs looked me straight in the eye and said " don't think you're doing this on one of them" she knows the look, she knows what's going through my head, she knows what makes me tick. She's had the phone calls.
In fact she went into labour the morning of the first day of the season. "You go mate" she said "it won't be here till later" I imagine the dunlops think the same, we don't think we're gonna die each time we sit on a bike.