Читать книгу Foggy: The Championship Years - Carl Fogarty - Страница 7
ОглавлениеYou can see the straw bales giving minimal protection from the road signs. You also get an impression of how big the RC30 was – it was basically a road bike with a Tony Scott-tuned engine.
My first ever world championship win! This was a big race for the Dunlop brothers, Joey and Robert, in front of a massive crowd of 60,000 at the fast but dangerous Dundrod circuit. It was very narrow in places and people were extremely close to the action when sitting on the banking. Bad weather was almost guaranteed, making it even more dangerous. The event was a journey into the unknown for me and it showed when I qualified on the fifth row in 21st. But I shot through the field like a scalded cat and, by the end of the first lap, I was in the lead. I was very fast in the wet in those days and the Metzeler tyres worked well in the rain. I led until the finish, expecting Joey to come past at any moment. But Joey only managed seventh and suddenly, out of nowhere, I was five and a half points behind the leader of the world championship with just two rounds remaining, and I eventually won by 16 seconds. Michaela, having tuned the radio to an Irish station, was listening to events from a car park in Bolton.
