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Fri Jan 05, 2024 4:59 am
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You may not be able to watch this, unless you have Amazon Prime, but if you can, it's worth it. Guy Martin is one of the few genuine human beings left on earth...and his trip to India is classic Guy Martin: |
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Guy Martin .... the most famous Guy who never actually won a senior TT. With a bunch of seconds .... But one year he actually did win the senior but was penalized something like 30 seconds for pit racing .... It is an odd story ...
larry l langford
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Zitat von paleolithictech im Beitrag #2 In 2010 he was 3 seconds behind Ian Hutchinson in Supersport Race 1 after being 30 seconds for being less than 1kph over the pit lane limit on a pit stop ( yes, that was kph). That was the year that Hutchy won all 5 solo races (which will never be beaten as the number of races has been increased). In the last race (Senior TT) Guy Martin was among the front runners when he crashed after the 1st pitstop and the race was red flagged. Hutchy won the restarted race, to makle it a clean sweep, but only after Comor Cummins crashed at the Verandah. All the luck that Hutchy had that week ran out 3 months later when he was run over in a race at Silverstone. Multiple breaks to his legs needed multiple surgeries and years of rehab. He has win 16 TTs in all but would undoubtedly have won more but for that crash. 2016-2107 he won multiple races in a week again before breaking his femur in a crash in the Senior. He had a stroke while training in early 2022 and had to take a year out of racing. He is back for TT 24 with Padgetts Honda. He is one tough cooky. Have moved to the dark side |
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John McGuinness is no slouch, either. But Guy Martin...he's a national treasure, not for his racing, but for who he is as a person. What you see is definitely what you get with him. I could see him getting Knighthood and saying, "No, I don't deserve that...no, I don't, no I don't. But mega, you know...mega." |
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That Hutchy is a tough and crazy fellow. He had to move all the foot controls to the handle bars as his legs were too weak to use after that crash where he broke his legs. I didn't hear about the stroke though man that is a drag. And he's still racing!
larry l langford
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I wish Hutchie well, but he's only just very recently got his racing licence back after his stroke. I was chatting with him at The Manx GP last year and annoyed that the Race Director wouldn't allow him to do even a Parade Lap although he had his driving licence back. He's gonna be very race rusty. But told he only wants to race if he confident he can win.
Lupin Blue R1200RS SE
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