TT3D: Closer to the Edge Page #10

What do you know?

No.

Yeah, just sat watching

some onboards playing,

getting a plan of attack sorted.

Jeffries's from 2002

and then bits of Hutchy.

I'm going through

the tight sections too hot,

and then I'm losing the run

onto the long straights.

J' I see the sun rise up

into a cloudless sky of blue

J Coaxing the shadows back

J To let the sun 's light

shine on through J

- You want it?

- OK, thank you.

- Can you sign here?

- All right love, how's it going?

- Going great.

- Good lass.

Hope you get the race.

I know. Let's hope so, eh?

I've just seen Paul Dobbs,

lets maybe go

and have a word with Dobbs.

- Good morning, Paul.

- How you doing?

What about today's conditions?

I bet you were sat

when you woke up this morning and

you must have thought, "Oh, no. "

No, teammates

with Oatsey this year

and he assures me

that it's gonna come right, so...

All right, Paul, Ill let you

get it together and get warm,

he looks freezing.

You're looking as if

you're not ready for a race, either

Nowhere near.

I mean, yeah, it's not safe is it?

No, so you can't go racing in that.

I ain't racing.

There you go, love.

Guy! Guy!

Guy, she fancies you!

...as Guy Martin goes

through in fourth place.

There goes Hutchy,

looking very strong.

Keith Amor on the pace

is in third.

Michael Dunlop

is here and he still leads.

But only by 1.82 seconds.

The difference is only 1.82 seconds.

No, I think Hutchy

has done it...

He has, because

Michael Dunlop crosses the line,

but it is lan Hutchinson

who has won the race.

And not just that.

He has made the most amazing

piece of history here today.

The first man in history

to win the first four TT races.

And only the second man,

after Phillip McCallen,

to win four in a week.

Lan Hutchinson,

the new king of the mountain.

No question about that.

James McBride away now.

Next away will be

New Zealand's #nest Paul Dobbs,

and right behind him

is Welshman Paul Owen.

Great to see the man

from Llangollen here once again.

Well,

we were on the start line,

and then you shake hands with your mate

and always wish him all the best.

I set off behind my mate, Paul Dobbs.

Because you're 10 seconds apart,

you can count them

when they just disappear

You start counting.

You can hear them coming

down from the campsite down in the dip

and then back up. You can hear

them speed coming up there.

And you can tell the men from the boys

because they gear down,

they drop a cog down

and then they ease off

slightly, then they open it up

and rip it around the corner.

But I have to say, the top boys,

they just don't bother.

They just keep it going flat.

He just came round the corner so well,

clipped it,

the bike went

the height of the bus stop.

It just went straight up,

the height of the bus stop

that's down there.

Like a battleground.

I was just closing on him

and then we were

just coming up to Ballagarey

and I just seen him

go off into the corner

and then the yellow flags came out

so I knew that there'd been an incident.

Either he'd blown

the engine or crashed so,

I could like hear the other riders

coming so I just grabbed a flag

and just ran into the track

to slow the other riders down.

The medics tried

everything they could for him.

But he'd have been cheesed off

if he'd have been in a car

and got squashed by a tractor

or summat like that, like.

Like, we're here, we race.

We know the dangers.

It's not tiddlywinks or whatever

That's why everybody gets on

if you can help each other.

But sadly,

he lost his life

to the sport that he loves.

Just one of them, like.

I had one of those moments,

you know, that happen at some point

once or twice during every TT fortnight,

when I just stand and look around

and everything you see, the bikes,

the overalls, you know you hear

that siren, pit-entry siren.

Everything going on

and I just thought, I love this.

And I actually thought,

a stupid moment of clarity,

God, I'd miss this if I couldn't have it

cos something happens to Dobbsy.

An hour later...

Anyone could lose

their partner tomorrow.

People step out under a bus.

People are lost every day.

You talk about that, and you joke

about it all the time, you know.

I might not be here next week,

is what people say.

But when it is part

of your consciousness,

even a subconscious part,

it really does make you love life.

It makes you appreciate who you've got

and what's special about them

and just how lucky you are.

The reason we make

that choice to go racing

is just the whole, you know,

We're here for a good time."

What can, you know, how can we

get the most fun out of life?

And, we want the kids

to share that as well.

They come along, they love it,

they're part of it.

Because we had that time with him,

it's made us who we are.

It's made them who they are.

You know, they're incredible.

Um, they're strong. They're fun.

And we have fun.

You know, we have so much fun.

It doesn't stop.

And we're going to keep on having fun,

you know.

Ride the bikes, play the music,

dance in the kitchen.

We still love the T still love the island,

you can't change that.

You can't love the death.

You can't love the loss.

But you can't love

the excitement and the thrill

without knowing that that's part of it.

It wouldn't be so exciting

if it didn't have the risk.

That's why they want to do it.

Meanwhile,

the Auto Cycle Union has confirmed

a second rider was killed

in yesterday's Supersport 2 race.

48-year-old Austrian Martin Loicht died

in a crash at Quarry Bends...

This is Friday, Senior day.

This is the day

we've all been waiting for

it's the final,

and it's the race of the year,

as far as we're concerned.

The big prize. People Call it

the power and the glory.

It just means so much.

So we will be putting a big effort

into this, a huge effort.

Everyone's ready. And Guy is up for it.

He's just arrived.

That's him.

On the dirty old bicycle, the pushbike.

Who's going to take

this year's Senior title?

Will it be an unbelievable

five for lan Hutchinson?

Can John McGuinness

make it onto the podium?

I've had a second, had a fourth

yesterday, I had a fifth.

And so I've not had the best of weeks,

really. A few little issues

in the way of just bike setup.

But it's all food for thought,

and I've got to try and take

it through into today's race

and go play the part, see what I can do.

I'm going to go out

there and try my hardest.

But then sometimes

I've been watching onboards,

I've been watching

this and watching that.

And am I trying too hard?

And I think I look in a couple

of places, and I am.

And that's what's holding me back, so...

Yeah, I'll pull me finger out.

That penalty, I didn't

feel really hard done by.

Worse things happen at sea.

I just came and sat in here

with me helmet and me boots

and me gloves and me leathers

and all that sh*t on,

and just sat here and...

At the time, if someone

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