TT3D: Closer to the Edge Page #12

you Know, and Guy's

laid there in the track,

his bike's split in pieces, like it's...

It's horrendous, yeah, we...

Everyone's fingers are crossed

at the minute, to see how Guy is.

So quarter past two, for

a 3:
00 start to a four-lap Senior race.

it's just how it is,

sort of thing.

We all enter it. There's no gun

to our heads to enter

We all love it, and at the end

of the day, if it goes wrong

and the worst does happen,

then he died a happy man, like.

You know, the show's going on.

We've got four laps coming here.

We're a 3:
00 start.

No. it'll be no slower.

Now let's give you

the track conditions.

Roads. Lack of adhesion at Ballagarey

Dry around the rest of the course.

Visibility good. Four lap race.

Got me fingers crossed

for Conor today.

He 'll be out there giving

it the berries, as usual.

I'm right behind you,

Conan if you're listening.

Four laps, 150.92 miles.

John McGuinness, the race leader

in the race before it was abandoned

is away on number two.

This is lan Hutchinson.

And now number 10, Conor Cummins,

looking so good for

the first couple of laps.

He's got to keep it together

for the full race today.

And here comes the first

of those machines, it is McGuinness.

Here's Hutchy now, 0.61,

that's all there is

between the two of them.

I'm sad to report Michael

is in retirement at Joey's.

And Cameron is off the bike.

Here's Conor now. Head down.

So the big news here

at Glen Helen. Lap two.

McGuinness appears to be out.

And there's 3.24 seconds

that lan Hutchinson leads

number 10, Conor Cummins.

Back here at the Grandstand,

we have got a situation at the Bungalow

where lan Hutchinson

retains the lead of the race.

We 're waiting for Conor

to appear at the Bungalow

before we can update that.

News of Conor Cummins,

he came off at the Veranda

and he's receiving attention.

So, Conor off at the Veranda.

Ian Hutchinson crosses the line

and rides into the history books.

Forget the famous five,

this is the fabulous, fantastic five

by the Bingley Bullet lan Hutchinson,

30 years of age.

He has rewritten the history books

of one of the greatest

motorsport events in the world.

Again it was

the sound and the blurt

But the blur stopped.

He was coming around the corner

A good race line,

really good race line

in all fairness to him,

and he was flying round.

The bike comes down,

he kicks the bike away

and the bike literally

turns into a fireball on impact.

It's like the start of a IV programme,

an all-action IV programme

where the screen is filled with flames,

and this silhouette comes towards us

at about waist height, and it's Guy.

And I'm thinking,

"Oh, here we go, I got a job here."

First thing that springs to mind.

So I reached down, grabbed

my orange box, the med box.

I turned around there

and Guy's flying past me

followed by a bike which is on fire

and it just screams past me

and then the bike goes over to one side

and it's still in flames

and there's black smoke everywhere.

And flames, they make a

hell of a mess, don't they?

And Guy's in the middle.

I tell him, "I'm not

gonna cut your leathers,

cos I need to check you over

first of all.

And he says, "No, don't cut my leathers,

don't cut my leathers. "

Now I understand that

because I'm a biker, like,

and that's the last thing I'd want is

somebody to cut my leathers.

But he was good. He was good.

Definitely somebody's up there

watching him.

No doubt about it.

Lucky guy.

I thought,

"Right, job was looking good."

Job was looking good,

131 and a half from a standing start.

Uh, slowing to come into the pits,

I think 1306,

battling for the lead.

Went out from the pits,

got about five mile out, at Glen Vine.

Took the front.

Thought I got it.

Thought I got it! Got it! Got it!

See, I've had a few moments like this.

You're just riding into

the grip that you've got.

And I was riding up to that point of

I knew where there was decent grip,

and you couldn't really push

past that point.

Cos I just left the pits with

another full tank of petrol,

and I decided in my head

the grip that I could ride up to

and, um...

Obviously not.

I think the full tank of petrol

probably made a bit of difference.

Uh, lost the front. Far fronner.

You know, one of the faster corners

of the track.

Probably 160-70 mile an hour.

And took the front, I thought

"I've got it, I've got it,

I've got it, I've got it.

"No... No, I ain't got it."

So I had to jump ship.

And I think I ended up with a few...

I've got a few bits of

singed eyebrows and eyelashes,

and singed me fringe and what have you.

But it's... I ended up

in the wall I think.

I can't remember much.

I was knocked out.

But I'm still here.

And I'm not bad, really. It could have

been a lot worse, couldn't it?

Could have been a lot worse.

Yeah, I think it is nothing.

It's only, you know, a bit of bark

off my knees and what have you,

you know, when you're sliding at

160-70 mile an hour

that's a lot of heat, isn't it?

I've got a lot of

friction burns from sliding.

A few broken ribs, a punctured lung.

Uh, four chipped vertebrae

and two cracked vertebrae.

Apart from that, I'm like a new one.

So, yeah, just sat here and... Yeah.

I think... I think here,

I'm sat here moving my legs

and I think, "Ah, I'm invincible."

Then I try and get off

and I think, "Oh, f***ing hell."

I'm not as good as I think.

Cos they say like owt with the spine,

you can't rush it, can you?

Now, it's a stable fracture

as it is at the moment,

but push any harder,

you know, and it can...

Like Conor's just up the corridor there,

not looking clever.

His back's a bit worse than mine,

and they're having to send him away

to get his shoulder

and his elbow screwed together.

But it's part of the game, boy.

We all know the risks.

No one's making us do owt.

All part of the game.

Put me in that position again

and I'll do exactly the same.

Exactly the same again.

ILL be back.

He's just making me work for it,

isn't he?

Sorted.

I think I've had a podium

every year since 1997.

So, it seems weird, you know,

coming up on the access road

and, you know, not getting

a cheer and a clap

and getting waved past the rostrum

and I was leading the first race

and it all went wrong and then

in the senior, the blue ribbon race,

I got up to a sort of eleven second lead

and then Guy had the crash.

You know, the red Hags come out

and you've got to come back

and tune yourself back in,

and get dialled in and ready

for the restart

and the restart looking like

it was going good

and then we had a kill switch failure.

Two pence wire snaps off

and the solder breaks

and just puts you

out of contention completely.

You know, that's

the TT for you, I suppose.

I've had a lot of luck in the past,

I've won a lot of races round here.

And when luck's not on your side,

it's not happening for you.

For sure Guy Martin's had

a worse day than I had,

and for sure Conor Cummins has had

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