‘Hickman v Harrison and the 135mph lap’
I was watching from the sidelines having raced in every Senior since 1998. It was such an impressive race and watching it took my breath away. It built and built, lap after lap. Conditions were perfect for the whole two weeks and we had the two best riders going at it with the pendulum swinging throughout the whole race. I was glued to the radio and because I’ve been in the hot seat, I knew exactly where they were on track and exactly what they were going through. I knew how hard it would be and they were out there trying to make everything perfect. I was watching at the bottom of Bray Hill and I had some guy yapping in my ear, oblivious to what we were all witnessing. I ended up having to be pretty rude to him to tell him to shut up because we were there watching one of the greatest TT races. I told him to stick his head through the fence and watch them come through on the last lap and boy they were riding at full bore…