TT3D: Closer to the Edge Page #11

would have come in here,

if Mr Speed-gun Man

or whatever had come in here

I'd have thrashed f*** out of him.

But, really, Mr Speed-gun Man,

I'd have thrashed f*** out of him.

I'm not a fighting man, but there's

a time and a place for everything.

And something like that's going on.

Point... Whatever, don't

even get me started on it.

I've won four so far,

and it'd be great to get the fifth.

You know, it'd be the fairytale story.

But, obviously, everyone's been

gunning out to get me all week.

And I think in some respects,

the pressure's kind of off them

with it just being one person

that's done it all week.

What more can they do?

It's not as if you know, there's

been four different winners

and they haven't won one, it's just...

I think maybe the pressure

is off them a little bit, but...

On the other side of it,

it's the last race this year.

You know, if they really are determined

to win a TT this year,

this is the last chance.

I haven 't seen one of

those Conor Cummins posters around yet,

but there 'll be a big groundswell

of support for the local boy.-.

If you go out there

with your head filed,

if I listen to Rage Against The Machine

before I go out,

you're going out

with the wrong frame of mind.

So I'm gonna go out there

listening to...

I think I might have a bit of

Otis Redding on before I go out.

Yeah, smoke me 10 Bensons.

Do you want 10 Bensons?

That'll do you, will it?

Yeah, I'm only taking up smoking...

I'm taking up smoking after July.

But there's been a few moments

in this past couple of weeks

where I've just thought...

But I've not smoked, so I think

a bit of Otis Redding on the start line,

pretend to smoke a fag,

and take it as it comes.

Well the parade lap

is coming to its conclusion here.

We 're going to have

the senior TT race going

in just under an hour's time

at half past 12,

and we will, of course,

give you all the build up

and the interviews

as the riders get out there.

Can history be made by lan Hutchinson?

He's proved himself to be

an absolute maestro

around the mountain course.

And there is the number one machine

of Bruce Anstey.

The lap record still standing

at 131.578 miles an hour.

That was set by John McGuinness

last year Less than 10 seconds to go.

Well, I can tell the members of

the Guy Martin fan club over there

on the far side of Glencrutchery Road

that their man is

still one of the favourites,

along with the big local hope,

number 10, Conor Cummins.

The last few seconds tick away.

We watch the Hag, which drops,

and we are now racing.

Bruce Anstey.

Mountain Maestro John McGuinness.

Now number three lan Lochear

That's Hutchy on the number four

Keith Amor goes. And Cameron Donald.

So Michael is away on the Honda.

Guy Martin on the Wilson Craig Honda.

Guy's off and racing.

But I can tell you that

when we look to the scoreboard

to see that Guy Martin,

number eight, leads.

But only by .4 or .5 of a second

from number 10, Conor Cummins.

There is only .06 of a second then

between him and

number four lan Hutchinson,

with John McGuinness

just .74 of a second down on him.

So one and a half seconds

cover the top four here.

And a tight line in

from number eight, Guy Martin.

A hundred and thirty one mile

an hour lap for Guy.

131.108, that's Guy Martin 's fastest lap

ever around the mountain course.

And he's absolutely on song today.

It's all about those guys

on the eight and 10 plates,

Guy Martin and Conor Cummins,

but it's so close right behind them,

Hutchy and John McGuinness

are right there in the mix.

And Conor has gone into the lead.

Conor has snatched

the lead from Guy Martin

but there's 0.58 seconds in it.

It's down to fractions of seconds,

because at the Bungalow,

Guy Martin has narrowed the gap

on Conor Cummins to just one-tenth

of a second. That's all there is.

It's still desperately,

desperately tight.

IFS Guy right

in front of me here now,

red torpedo on the back of his leathers.

Just watch that speed! Go on...

And Guy Martin,

let me just give you his details.

130. 642,

and he was the race leader

at Cronk-ny-Mona,

but we're still waiting for Conor

Conor's here now.

130.278.

A brand new tyre in

for Guy as he fires up and he is away.

Right now we saw a great pit stop

by the Wilson Craig team

and it's the McAdoo boys

who are on it now.

Tighten her up, Mark, and

Mark just says go, go, go, go.

She #res and the big man is away now.

Here he is.

Here's Guy Martin now!

But there was

an awful long gap there

in between Hutchinson and Michael Dunlop

and Keith Amor appearing here,

and the road goes quiet here

for a moment or two.

But we 're still waiting

on machine number eight.

And here's Conor at number 10,

so we don't appear

to have a Guy Martin here.

Guy Martin is missing.

Red flag.

Attention, attention. Red flag.

Well, back here at

the grandstand, we're not sure

if we've got a red-flag situation.

The race has been stopped

because a fire engine

has to go onto the track.

It's clearly something very serious

at Ballagarey.

It's only the second Senior race

in 100 years to be red-flagged.

Incident at Ballagarey.

Guy Martin hasn't reached Glen Helen.

Red flag, boys. Red flag.

We believe it's Guy Martin. He's crashed

and the bike has set fire to a field,

and that's one of the only times

they'll put red flags out.

it's gut-wrenching

for everyone.

The team are pacing up and down,

you can see the team boss' head down,

not knowing what's going on.

I mean, nobody knows

any better than anybody.

First we knew about it was

when Guy didn't arrive at Glen Helen.

You'd like to think

that it's a mechanical failure

rather than a crash.

But then we heard the hedge

was on fire at Glen Vine...

Only riders and officials

are allowed in the parc ferme area.

Everybody else out, please. Thank you.

You could see the fire

in the distance about a mile away.

There was smoke and one of the hay bales

was on fire

and they slowed us way down

and I thought, "OK,

"well, there 's a hay bale on Ere, "

and, "There's the bike

in somebody's yard. "

And I'm like, "OK

we're past the incident."

A quarter-mile later there was Guy.

And I was like, "Oh, sh*t."

There was an incident.

Guy was missing so it had to be him.

He crashed at something

like 170 miles an hour,

cos he was off at that speed

and, of course, you worry.

You know, you don't jump from a bike

at 170 miles an hour and get up again.

So, yes, we are worried.

Paul Dobbs crashed there last night,

and, you know, he didn't make it.

So, fingers crossed for Guy.

It's hit and miss there, you know.

There's no run-out, as there isn't

anywhere on the circuit here.

Guy seems to have made a little bit

of a rider error sort of thing

and he's gone into the wall.

It's not looking good.

I came up on the circuit,

you know, it just looks like

a bomb's exploded when owt goes on here.

The wall and all the bales were on fire,

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