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In the journey across life's ocean,

you will encounter
the calmest of waters

and wild storms of great adversity.

In the moments of the storm,
you will have to make a decision

whether to counter the
adversity in your life.

It can be a powerful choice in choosing
to fight and live a fulfilled life.

Take that deep breath. Step into
the journey. Listen to your heart.

Have presence of mind, and
create your destiny from within.

Motorcycle racing...

is a passionate
sport that many love.

It takes incredible
skill to race a bike

at speeds of over 100 miles
per hour, around a track.

The sport is challenging
enough as it is.

But there is a team that are
taking it to a new level.

Talan Racing is a team of two paralyzed,
and two above knee amputee riders

that are changing
motorsport history.

Riding the very machine
that disabled them.

We follow the team overseas

and as they attempt to race
alongside able bodied riders,

changing the perception
of disability

in a sport that has been
otherwise inaccessible until now.

All the way through my life
I've been interested in speed.

Whether or not it was on
the water for wind surfing,

it's always been something
that I've been interested in.

And also competition.

You get that buzz from the speed,

but it's that competitive nature

that's made me want to be a racer,

to test myself against others.

Motorcycle racing is one of the
few sports where a paraplegic

can compete against
someone who's able bodied

and there not be a
massive, uh, difference

in our capabilities.

I was paralyzed in March, 2003.

Two hundred yards down the road,
a car came out of a side road

clipped me, knocked me
off the bike and I slid

down the road, which wasn't a problem,

'cause I'm in all my
leathers and I was protected.

Uh, but being knocked,

I was thrown onto the
other side of the road,

and straight into the path
of the oncoming traffic.

Uh, the car went straight
over the top of me.

I shattered my back and T4 straightaway.

So, I'm paralyzed at this level.

Um, I got basically
rolled underneath the car,

breaking more of me,
massive internal injuries.

Didn't see any reason for
me to be alive. It was...

It was cruel. It was
cruel. That's what it was.

For me to be kept alive when I
just begged them to let me die.

My mother was very strong
minded and determined

that we would find something for me to do.

I was also very fortunate to
have an ex-patient from Salisbury.

He came in for a regular checkup.

And he started to tell me about
the things that he was able to do.

He was the same level of injury. He
had had a motorcycle accident as well.

And then he started telling me that he was
driving his car, that he had a girlfriend,

and he started listing
all the things.

Then, he said the magic words.

He said, "Oh, and I've just
come back from skiing."

And that was the moment
that changed everything.

That feeling...

that I used to get on the bike
was replaced with a set of skis.

Right up to the point where
I got on a snowmobile,

and then I thought if I
can ride a snowmobile,

pretty sure I could
stay on a motorbike.

That started me thinking,

started doing a little bit
of research on the Internet,

saw that one or two people
had actually managed it.

Uh, so I...

took a complete gamble.

Went into a showroom, bought a motorbike.

Adapted it... in secret,

went to a disused airfield

and tried to ride again.

And, I managed it for five minutes.

And then I fell over, and
then I was on the floor.

But, the five minutes had
shown me that it was possible.

My first race I turned up in my
van with a bike in the back of it,

and I slept on a little
roll mat next to my bike.

I didn't have any spare wheels.

I only had a front and
a rear paddock stand.

I think I had tire warmers by then.

I didn't have any
generator, I had no gazebo.

Nothing. I simply had a bike

with front wheel paddock stand
and a set of tire warmers.

And that was it.

It took me a long time to...

persuade the Auto-Cycle Union,

which is the governing
body for racing,

that someone who's paralyzed

is safe and capable of racing
alongside able bodied racers.

And we figured out
the best way to do it.

So, it made sense for us to say to
others who were interested in racing,

"Well, if you are interested,
why don't you come with us?

"Let's create a team and
let's make it possible

"for more people to
get into racing."

My job is looking after team logistics.

So, that's everything
on and off the tracks.

I look after the team,
not just the riders,

make sure all the
equipment is ready to go

make sure all the team
are in the right places.

Make sure we've got all the right
equipments, contracts, health and safety.

This year, we're racing with BMCRC or
Bemsee. It's the oldest UK race club.

They've got an excellent reputation

and we're running in several
different championships.

So, we're not just here on track days.

We are out here to compete
against able bodied riders.

Last year, we raced
with them a little bit,

and we just have to
show that we were safe.

This year we're going to be
racing competitively with them.

Racing is no exception to the rule
when it comes to costing a lot of money.

We were blessed last year
with having McMillan Williams

coming aboard and sponsoring
Talan just as a solo rider.

And we proved we were
a good, safe bet.

We had a good year, both in
the media and on the track.

And then, they decided they would back
us for having four riders this year,

which is excellent news, but we just
wouldn't be able to do it without them.

The cost of running the team,

just getting us to the racetrack,

is exceptionally expensive.

We have so many overheads that
most people just don't realize,

but it's not just about
buying a motorbike

and turning up here
and seeing how it goes.

The first weekend of any motorsport
season is predominantly used for testing.

The team's bikes are adapted
for paralyzed riders.

So, it's going to be a
particularly important weekend

to ensure the adaptions
work correctly.

We developed a way of launching
and catching the motorcycle from...

'Cause obviously, once
I'm riding, I'm balanced.

But getting to that point and coming back from
that point to stationary is the tricky bit.

So, we figured out that I get on the
bike while it's on a paddock stand.

Then, one person holds the
front, one person holds the back.

When I'm ready, I get taken
off this paddock stand

start the bike up,
put it in first gear.

The person that stood at
the front moves to one side,

and then I simply drive
outta their hands.

Go off, do my track time, come back.

And the same people that launched
me are there to catch me.

You know, I start off from the back of the
grid if I have a problem whilst I'm on circuit,

then I can easily just ride over to
the arm curve, lean up against it

or the tire wall, lean up against
that, the marshals come, lift me

onto the top row, and then
the race can carry on.

You can take a standard motorcycle.

First thing you're gonna think about is feet.
Your feet, you can't control where they are.

So, we have an old set of
steel bicycle toe clips.

So, the peg takes the weight and the toe
clip simply stops the boot from slipping

left or right, or
forwards and backwards.

So that's the foot sorted out.

The knee, well, we take the knee
sliders off of the leathers,

and then we attach a strap to the side
of the bike, with a little sort of tail.

That wraps around the knee
onto where the knee slider is.

To change gears, you use
an electronic gear shifter.

It's a big unit that sits over the
top of the foot operated gear lever,

and then on the handle bars
there's a red and green button

and you simply press the buttons in order
to go up and down through the gear box.

There are real differences

that we've got to
kind of go through,

look at, and consider,

and sometimes, you know,
unexpected things happen

that we work on as well, because,

of course they've got history,

and sometimes it's more the
traumatic history as well,

because of the injuries
they've sustained and what not.

So yes, we have to
look at that and...

And it is also looking at the
functional capabilities of those riders

from a physical standpoint.

and how that relates
to their psychology.

Disabilities cause different
hurdles for different people.

But I would never stand in the way
of anybody who has a real desire

to go and do something, because
I think, you know, why not?

Steve Jones is the second
rider to join the team.

On November 20th, 2008,

I was involved in an RTA on the way to
work, about seven o'clock in the morning.

I ended up hitting a stationary truck

and bouncing back off the
back about six to eight foot.

I remember asking the policeman
as we drove to the hospital

through Paul, "Was Steve dead?"

To which he said he couldn't
answer me at this point.

I'd gone to the hospital with
the police... policeman...

and been taken to the relative
room, where I was met with,

to the senior staff nurses and
one of the consultants at the time.

They said that he had sustained really
horrific facial, brainal injuries,

broken his back.

But they didn't touch very much on the back
injury, but more so on the concern over the brain

injury and also the
facial damage, etcetera.

It was just a sheer mess.

Everything seemed to explode, obviously
where I'd taken the impact on the helmet.

And the lower half of the helmet
has actually stayed in my jaw.

So, on removing the helmet, the top
half inflated, the bottom half stayed in.

Prying the bottom half out, obviously
all of my teeth and jaw fell out.

I could only gauge from
the scars I had afterwards,

where I'd had the surgery.

It was 20 odd hours surgery to rebuild
my face and it was pretty horrific.

With the extensive brain swelling,

I was taken shortly after
they patched me all back up,

to Southampton Neurology.

I was there for, I believe, a
couple of days. Two-three days.

I was put on life support.

Shortly after that, I was
taken back to Paul Hospital

for a general overview,

before I was waiting a bed

at Salisbury District
Hospital for my rehab.

I thought going to Salisbury,

they could cure my broken back,

and the core injury.

I was slightly disillusioned
really, because

that wasn't the case.

Salisbury was designed
to help rehab.

I think I knew from quite an early stage
that Steve would be in a wheelchair.

Even though it wasn't really discussed
at that point, I knew that the damage to

his spine and his back was severe.

And I knew really that he
would be in a wheelchair.

And I do remember actually saying that I
could cope with Steve being in a wheelchair

and actually meaning it, and
not just a flighting comment.

Um, yeah, no, for better or worse. Yeah.

I was in a room on my own, and the
doctor, Dr. Vinod, it was, told me.

And I'll be honest with
you. I just burst into tears.

It was the hardest thing I've ever
been told, "You'll never walk again,"

after going to a spinal
specialist and sensor.

I think the saddest part was Steve sitting
in the wheelchair for the first time,

and actually thinking, "God, this
is actually how it's going to be."

That he wouldn't be walking
out of the spinal unit.

That he would be coming out in a
chair, but he would be coming home.

And one of his nurses pulling
me to one side and said,

"I think you need
to realize, Claire,

"that although Steve's in a
wheelchair, he's not disabled."

And I've never ever forgotten that.

I took part in the Inter Spinal
Unit Games at Stoke Mandeville,

where I took part in
a variation of sports,

which I thought I
couldn't actually do

being in a wheelchair, and I did,
and I loved every second of it.

And that was then, the
incite to sort of do more,

and achieve a lot more.

Really, nothing should hold you
back being in the chair at all.

I'm lucky to finish. The worst of the
whole injury is being in a wheelchair,

after everything that
I've had, is not that bad.

It isn't that bad at all. There's a lot of
people in a worse off position than myself.

A couple of years ago, Anthony, the
team principal from Talan Racing

asked me if I wanted to
be a part of the team.

This year is my first full
season under Talan Racing.

So, yeah, I'm very nervous.
Very nervous, indeed,

to race and...

But I think, once I'm on the bike,
it will be second nature again.

I think my goal is
to prove to others,

obviously, being in a chair, you
shouldn't have any limitations.

Not ideally, but I'd like
to kick some of their asses.

In fairness, I'm not gonna last.

- I can't swear, can I?
- Yeah, you can.

I'm shitting a brick.

I'm very nervous.

Let's go. Let's do it.

I'll see you in ten.

Steve's not racing this weekend.
He's only here for testing.

It's his first time out on
a track for over a year,

so it's a chance to
get used to the bike.

After only one lap,
Steve has crashed.

The team is concerned
and this is a reminder

that everything can change
very quickly in motorsport.

Just trying to find out
where the med center is.

It looks like Steve has come off

and we're not quite sure where he is.

I'm guessing it has something to do
with cold tires, cold tracks and nerves.

We'll have to wait and see how he is.

Was following the
instructor for two laps

for a lap, at least,
and then he slowed down

for another guy who was
fairly slow at the back.

And I'd gone past him on the
second... past the pit lane,

just gone into the first bend

from the top I'd gone
over, a bit too quick.

And before I could change
direction, I was off.

It can happen, so it is.

But as we know, everything's
so quick, it can change...

I'll get back and move on.

Just get cracking.
I'm fine, really, so.

- Thanks again, guys.
- Thanks very much.

The crash was caused by rider error.

Steve's okay, so it's essential to get him
riding again today, if the bike can be fixed.

I think it was a real shock to him.

I think it came as a real surprise.

Um, but I think that having
had a proper long discussion

so that we can really digest what happened,

and events that led up to it.

I think we've actually gained quite a lot,
and it's been a valuable learning experience.

And thankfully, he's come out of it uninjured,
and it was a minor incident, you know.

This is a really stressful
environment. It's highly competitive.

Nobody out there is gonna give any
break to anybody that's on a motorbike.

Nobody will know Steve
from anybody else,

and they won't even give him
a break for being a rookie.

The race track is the race track.

Mechanics, Dan and Will,
get Steve's bike fixed

so he can go back out
and finish his test day.

So, what we're doing is, we're
securing the tire warmers.

We can't send a bike out on cold tires,

because it takes longer
to get speed or safety.

Checking what fuel is in the
bikes, checking tire pressures,

checking basically all functions
for the safety of the bike,

so that when they go, our riders are
absolutely as safe as they can be.

Having an accident is
always a risk in motorsport.

Talan has had one serious accident
since racing as a paraplegic,

resulting in ongoing bone injuries.

He cannot afford to have another.

I would say that if I had another

serious accident, then I would
have to stop motorcycle racing.

The metalwork in the right
leg could easily get bent

and obviously the left leg
is still in pieces and...

and that would just
set me back so long.

We've got another two years, they think,
before the leg is gonna be fully healed.

So I have to be very, very careful.

When I was paralyzed,
I had an experience of

seeing my life flash
in front of my eyes.

And it wasn't that...

It wasn't a linear progression
as I thought it would be.

It was... You are in the
center point of a giant sphere,

and every second of your life
is projected onto the sphere.

And you become consciously aware
of every moment of your life

in one instant of time.

It was, and I would say
it remained the most

intense and amazing
experience of my entire life.

Because I had that experience,

I'm not worried about dying.

Slipped down the track on my right hand
side. Me and the bike parted company.

Bike spun away. I was fine, so,

bike is pretty much undamaged.

I'm completely undamaged.

Uh, yeah, so, lots of tough
lessons from this weekend.

Talan's fortunate to
not sustain injury.

With both riders off
in the first weekend,

it looks like it will be a
challenge to race competitively.

It's weird looking at
that... that mark in the road.

knowing like, that's the spot.

All this was overgrown.

There was a work turn around all of this.

so you couldn't see through the bend.

Through here, all of this was
overgrown out into the pavement,

and all these trees were right up high.

So, as I came around the first...

The first time that I saw
the back of the traffic,

would have been

about here.

This was all overgrown and I was low.

And that's where I went through...

The flatbed lorry was

further up, just by where the hikes is.

And, the traffic had backed up

to just by where the 50 sign
is, slightly before the 50 sign.

In fact, it was quite a
lot before the 50 sign.

And so as I came around,

all I could do was either try and
stop for the back of the traffic,

or try and

go to the right of the traffic.

And unfortunately, I hit the
vehicle that was coming head-on.

I didn't think I'd... I
remember hitting it thinking...

"That's not good."

Um, but, not really feeling anything.

I just remember flying and
seeing the sky and the tarmac.

And landing and thinking,

"Oh, that's good. I'm fine. Wiggled my
hands and lifted them. It's all good."

I sat up. You know, the first
thing you think, "Where's my bike?"

It's like, always the first
thing. Is the bike all right?

And then, I'm looking for the bike,

and look and see that the bike's there
and I'm like, "Right, go and get the bike."

And I went to get up

to go and walk back to my bike,

and then, I couldn't move.

And, uh, I looked down and my...

My leg had pretty much been smashed off.

And the only thing that was holding it

to me was my leathers.

And I didn't think that I would lose it.

And yeah, then I woke up, and, uh...

I just wanted to lift the
sheet, as soon as I was sort of

awake enough to realize where I was,

lifting the sheet, and
there was no leg there.

I was so desperate to
just get back to my...

the life I lived.

So, I was absolutely desperate
to get back on a motorbike

and I was absolutely desperate to do
this and absolutely desperate to do that.

And I bought a motorbike four
months after I got out of hospital,

when I was still all bandaged up.

I remember going into the dealership
in London, and them being like,

and looking at me like,

and I'm going to buy this CBR400,
which is the exact bike I just crashed.

I really wanted to ride again, and I did.
And I've ridden on the road for years.

And, um,

and really valued having that back again.

And then, I realized that I basically did
a track day about five or six years ago.

And I really liked it. I really enjoyed it.

You're always reminded of
that day and of what happened.

But...

It's like falling down
the stairs, isn't it?

I fall down the stairs and break my ankle,

and the ankle could become
infected, and I could lose my leg.

Wouldn't mean I wouldn't walk down...

It wouldn't mean I wouldn't use
stairs anymore. I'd still use stairs.

But you always have a memory of that place

and the significance of that
place and what it did to you.

But I wouldn't say I'd hold
any fear, or anxiety, or...

Or any particular attachment to it.

It's just a place and time, isn't it?

You, get on.

A new weekend is an opportunity
to improve and develop

following the issues
at Brands Hatch.

It's also Louis' first
race meeting with the team.

This morning I was pretty nervous.

On the run up to the session...

As I came up a few weeks ago with Franz.

So yeah, I had that in the back of my mind.

Today is a gorgeous day for riding.

The track looks lovely
and lovely gripping.

And so it was perfect. I got
on the bike and it felt great.

All back in one piece. I've
got another four to go today,

so I hope we can improve
from session to session.

He's doing really well. I think Brands
Hatch was a real shock to his system.

There was some pretty, I suppose, pretty
heavy things that we have to deal with,

because, you know, when you've
had a significant trauma,

and you then put yourself in a situation
where that could be a likelihood,

which is the risk that we
play here with motorbiking.

You know, it dredges that type
of stuff up, the memories.

And so, we have some time to actually
allow him to digest the experience

and kind of get it out of his system,
and then to relax and calm down.

It felt wicked just bailing out of pit lane

just straight out onto it.

And I just got my head on straightaway,
just went for it like I usually do.

And then...

And then, about four laps in, it
just started to get a bit of arm pump.

But, um... 'Cause the
straights here are so long.

We're just holding on.

And that extends so quick, And I
can't brace myself from the legs.

It's got a hold on my arms, it's killing
my forearms a bit, but that's okay.

Logistically speaking, getting
three riders to Snetterton

any time would be a logistical nightmare.

Getting two of them
that are paraplegics,

and one that's a leg amputee,

that takes a little bit more
planning. You need more team.

We need more space,
we need more tools.

We need more tickets to get
in. Uh, we need more food,

hotels, parts, tires, fuel.

Everything that would normally go into a
race day which most people aren't aware of

is timesed by three.

You have to take into
every person's special need.

And as much as I look at
the riders as just riders,

I don't really see them
as having disabilities.

I don't treat them like
they've got a disability.

I treat them like they're a rider,
because that's what they are.

They're here to ride, they're here
to race, they're here to learn.

So I don't treat them like I would any
other rider that would be in the garage.

And I think they respect that.

I don't treat them
with any kitten gloves

It was a challenge to realize we're gonna
have three bikes ready for this weekend.

But I think we've stepped up to the
plate and we've handled it really well.

The test day has gone brilliantly.

We've had really, really good preparation

with Branch and Donington,
just with one rider.

And then just building
up slowly, and...

you really can't fault the team.

I could not do what I'm doing, just
having the people behind me to help,

to make the job a lot easier.

Third bike that's come in today,
Louis, means I can focus on

that new dynamic of the team and
see how that needs to be managed.

Being around a team like
this is just good fun.

It's the bottom line. It's good fun.

What else could we be doing
at home? Decorating the house?

Don't think so.

I'd rather be out playing with bikes.

Just mucking around with
bikes. That's all I'm doing.

It's just an amazing setup.
I've never seen anything like it

of all the years I've been racing and

it's marvelous and good luck to them.

I think everybody enjoys it so much,

and I think it's tremendous
feat that they can do it.

I always remember Talan's
very first race here.

Um, it was about three
years ago, I believe.

And I think then he was on a SV650.

Obviously, he's at a disadvantage having
to start from the back of the grid.

Unfortunately, there's not
much we can do about that.

But, um, on his very first race,

if I remember correctly, I think it
was about 30 odd riders out there.

and I think he finished 23rd.

And I think it was
absolutely amazing effort.

The reasoning behind... or at
least my reasoning behind the

walking the track. It's one of the things I've
been trying to instill in all the riders here,

is that, I think, an essential
element about connecting

with the circuit and the riding environment

that comes from walking the circuit
and doing it in a slow and easy pace.

To take in all of the
visual environment,

get a feel for the
tarmac under their feet,

it gives them a real good sense of
the direction the track goes in,

the qualities of the track, the cameras
in various places, and so forth.

And I do it in a slow time,
because it gives them the time

to just stand there and take it all
in and soak it in in a proper way.

And that's where the art of getting...
gaining knowledge of circuits comes from.

It doesn't just come from
just jumping on a bike

and zooming around
at 100 miles an hour,

because your brain simply cannot
process the level of detail

that is there in the environment unless
you actually take some time to study it.

If I'd have thought 15 years
ago when I lost my leg...

If I'd have thought, when I was lying
there on that hospital bed if I'd thought

I'm gonna be...

Let alone racing a motorbike,
but riding a motorbike.

I'd have thought that
would be incredible.

At the time, I didn't
know if I would ever

you know, everything goes...
Will I ever kiss a girl again,

will I have a baby with anyone, will I ever
have children, will anyone ever love me?

Will I ever ride a motorbike again, will I
ever work again, will my friends all leave?

There's a million and one
questions that go through your head

when a massive thing
like that happens.

If I come last in every race,

I'm still the first person
I know that's an amputee

I'm just doing something that I never
would have thought I could've done.

The riders all perform well

and finish higher than their
start position in each race.

It's looking possible that they
may be racing competitively

with able bodied
riders moving forward,

but it's going to
take a team effort.

Get behind me

Everybody from the management side,

to the mechanics,

to those that support us
with our riding development,

uh, mental skills development,
you know, everybody

brings something vital to
the team, and it is fantastic

to have them there
supporting us, and

I hope that what we
do out on the track

repays them.

It's now lunch time on the
first race day at Silverstone,

and everybody's hungry. So, they're
getting their lunch, eventually.

I had an accident myself.

I was riding to my mum's

and somebody pulled out in
front of me without looking

and I ended up T-boning
her at 50 miles an hour.

Split my pelvis, um...

broke my lower back, hip,

broke my coccyx,

my right wrist, left shoulder,

uh, to the ligaments in my knee,

punctured my lung, and
had a bleed to the brain.

So, I did it properly.

I've got metalwork in my
pelvis holding it all together.

and I've got metalwork in my wrist...

So, technically, there's...

there's nothing massively,
physically wrong with me anymore.

It's just my brain hasn't
switched off the pain signals.

And that's now been four-and-a-half
years, and it looks like it never will.

So, I've got to just
learn to live with this.

Long term.

Anthony got involved
with the charity,

because he thought I'd want to
use them to get back on a bike.

And then through there, we've...

he got to know Talan more, got
more involved with the racing.

And I figured if I ever wanted
to see my husband again,

I'd better get involved
with the racing as well.

It's... It means the world to me.

I'm very very good
friends with Talan,

and he helped me a huge
amount in my recovery...

In my mental recovery of coming
to terms with chronic pain.

I find this so fulfilling.

If I can't be on a bike, I want
to help other people do it.

The people in the paddock
seeing what we do is...

It's them knowing that actually,
when things do go wrong

there's still light at
the end of the tunnel.

It's never an end. There's
always a new adventure.

There's always somebody in
a worse position than you.

And no matter how hard things are,

there's a way of making them
easier. There's a way of making life

not just bearable, but bloody awesome.

So...

Yeah, never give up.
Always strive for more.

Expect more. Never settle.

It's important.

Mid-season. It's been a
journey to get this far.

Are the perceptions of disabled riders
in motorsport beginning to change?

Um, I think it's certainly
been a lot more successful.

It's created a lot of awareness
of the team and everything.

It's a lot more successful than I

perhaps even thought,

or imagined it would be.

It's definitely really impressive.

I feel very good to sort of just keep it.

Let me know the information on
a kind of need to know basis.

So, the information that's given
to me is that he had a good ride,

there's not been too many problems,

and then when he comes home
he says, "Yeah, I've come off,

"and I have hurt myself a little bit
and I have bruised my hips a little bit,

"but I'm fine and I'm
ready for the next one."

To be honest, it sounds
a little bit cold, but

I've let him get on with it.

At the end of the day,
it's not going to stop him.

No matter how hard he falls,
he's never gonna stop racing, so

I've got to just have faith in him and let
him get out there and do what he enjoys most,

which is, which is this.

I'm glad in that sense, I
get left to my own vices,

so I don't have to think
too much about Claire

not in a nasty way,

but at the paddock, I don't have to
worry if Claire's seen anything nasty,

or any instance that I came
off, or anything like that.

It's quite nice to, you know...

I think I've seen the
worst that could happen.

While in a race with the boys,

whether you're in a chair or... I
just love getting on bikes and racing.

Once people can see we're
safe and we're competent,

I think then people will be like,
"Okay, yeah." They sit back and start

enjoying our rides and maybe

mention it to someone else,
who is in a similar position

of riding or getting back on a bike.

You just got to think slightly
outside the box sometimes.

But yeah, I've got here. We're showing
a lot of able bodies people, it's great.

It's not until we come back off

and if we get on a wheelchair

and we're wheeling away from there.

What the hell is going on?

Uh, all right. Okay. And
then they start to, you know,

they come to say, "Great race."
or compliment you on the riding.

What I've really enjoyed,
which I didn't think I would,

is the camaraderie
of the other racers.

I've really enjoyed getting
to know the other racers,

and getting to banter with them.

And that's what's driven me to want to

not beat, but I suppose beat them.

You'd be mad if you didn't
want to see a progression.

You'd be mad if you didn't want
to see some sort of development.

And that's where that's coming from.

And I'm learning
stuff every weekend.

Every weekend we race,
I'm learning stuff.

I'm learning stuff about myself,
I'm learning stuff about the bike.

Some of it has been hard, some of it
has been like a kick in the balls,

and others have been really great.

Yeah, I feel the racers
have completely accepted us.

We're taken at face value.

When we're out on circuit it's just
us and them. Soon as the lights go out

the crew are this side of the
barrier, and we are out there riding.

There is no option but for us all

to be there together at that
point and you really feel like

you're competing with them
on all the same terms.

You know, it's the same terms.
No one's cutting anyone any slack.

I'm certainly trying as hard as I can. I'm
pretty sure they are trying as hard as they can.

The summer heat brings a new
problem for disabled riders.

Although it may seem just for show,

there is actually a more serious
side behind having group girls.

I can't control my body temperature.

Once it gets above
a certain celsius,

I think somewhere
around about 20/24,

then I start having real problems maintaining
my body temperature and keeping cool.

So, if I'm sat out on the bike,
waiting for the race to start,

because we have to be there nice and
early, so we don't hold up the race,

then I do need shelter from the sun,

or else I'll start overheating. I'm
sat in leathers, I've got my helmet on,

I've got my gloves on. It's
really gonna be a problem for me.

So, medically, I need to
be protected from the heat.

So, tat would mean that
they are pretty important.

Back at the garage, Talan has
returned following a crash.

All bikes have to go back to
scrutiny bay to inspect the damage.

You know, what we need to repair
to make the bike safe again.

Well, he's now taking off
all the plastics and stuff.

We have to do this
outside the awning,

'cause there's stones and there's grass
and all sorts of stuff everywhere.

Don't want it in the garage.

We now need to inspect what
damage has been created,

but initially what we can see is because the
bike's gone straight into the rector cell,

it's taken all the brunt of
the impact on the front end.

Uh, so we're now looking at the...

We're now looking at a
very twisted front wheel.

Took a tumble. I went head
first into some barriers.

Fortunately, they were nice foam barriers,
but I must have hit it at 50 miles an hour.

Went from fifty to zero
in the spate of four feet.

So I think I'm a little bit shorter
now, 'cause I got hit on the head.

I've got a very sore neck, sore back.

Luckily, we've checked the body out.
I don't seem to have broken anything.

I've got some swelling on my knee where
I impacted, but I went in head first

and when everything settled, the bike was
on top of me facing the opposite direction.

So, I don't know how that
happened. I just shut my eyes.

Just been to go see the guys
at 100 percent suspension,

because I need some form of
confirmation that the forks are straight.

He's done a quick check to make sure
they feel okay and they do feel pucker.

The next step is for me to
take it around the paddock

and drive it and make sure
it tracks in a straight line.

And then, all things being okay,

then I'll give it a green light
and Talan can go back out on it.

We got the bike fixed.

I went out and raced and certainly I was
nervous for the first race having just crashed.

But, stayed upright,

gradually rebuilt my confidence
in the second race of the day.

I was back on it and it's
been a fantastic day.

And now I'm full of confidence
to take the bike forwards

to the other race meets
throughout the rest of the year.

And to really battle,

uh, you know, with those
that I'm competing with.

It's not just myself that's riding.

There are now two other
riders, soon to be three.

And then there's all the support staff,

And then there's everybody
the team has inspired.

There's got to be
so many more riders.

I mean, since I've been doing this,

there are now four
paralyzed riders in the UK

competing against able
bodied. And that's wonderful.

The Bike Experience is a
charity founded by Talan.

It's where the concept of
disabled race team was born.

Today, his parents have come
to watch it for the first time.

As soon as I got back on a motorcycle,
I knew the feelings that I had

that there have got to be other people
out there that would want to have the same.

So I set up The Bike Experience.

It's a charity and we teach disabled
motorcyclists how to ride again.

And over the past four years,

we've taught 140 disabled
motorcyclists how to get back on bikes.

I'm so proud of his achievements
with The Bike Experience.

I really am, because I go on Facebook,

that's how we find out about these
things, you know, we're the mum and dad.

No, no, we don't know too much.

I see pictures of people arriving with
rather worried looking expressions, nervous.

Then I see them leaving with big coat
hanger grins, and I think, "Well done, Talan.

"You've inspired them. They've
got something to live for."

This is the first time for Freddie,
she's seeing The Bike Experience,

and I saw one in the early years,

and subsequent to that,
I have seen him race.

He didn't go straight into motor-racing.

It was The Bike Experience
first, and then he thought,

"Oh, wonderful. Love it. Love the speed."

Next challenge, "Oh, I
wonder if I could race."

I wasn't ecstatic about
the racing, uh, but,

he's our son, we want him
to live life to the full.

We want him to have as much excitement

and to meet new challenges as possible.

But I simply find it too painful
to actually come to the race track

and watch my son hurtling around
at 100 and something miles an hour.

It's not that I don't
support and understand

his desire for speed and challenge.
I do. And I do support him.

But, at the back of my mind always is...

Well, he falls, he comes off,

at the moment I consider him lucky,

because he's just injured from T4.

He has full movement from the shoulders up.
He has excellent brain and excellent wit.

And I think, "My goodness, what if
he damages that part of his body?"

His whole face shines and
lights up when he shows us

clips from his race days, but I...

Perhaps one day I will really get over this
silly business and I will come and cheer him on.

I know Peter was hugely supportive.

And I am, but I haven't actually
managed to get here physically, yet,

to cheer him on. Perhaps one day I will.

Today, the fourth rider of the team,
Will, is taking his ACU license.

So, I've come to Darley
Moor today to, um,

take part in the ACU race license
application theory and practical test.

Once you've partaken in this course,
it then allows you to go on and race.

Motorcycle to any national events,

you have to come here for assessment

just to make sure you're competent.

Competent and safe.

It was getting harder and harder
for me to come to the race meetings

and see those good guys go off
and clearly having an amazing time.

And I've always wanted to do it, and

being privileged enough to be in a
situation where that was a real opportunity.

So, Talan was a driving force,
pushing me down this path,

and so I thought I'd grab it.

I will miss the mechanicing, and
mucking about on my ass and belly,

but hopefully this
is going to go well.

I always knew there was something
intoxicating about fast cars,

or things that went fast, whether
it be planes, trains or auto wheels.

If it had moving parts, if
it was machinery, I was...

that was my thing. I was
really, really into it.

Even when I was a small kid,
I'd pull the toaster to pieces.

and on Sunday morning your parents come
home and there's just bits everywhere.

As soon as I put my helmet on for the
very first time on my bike, I was like,

"Yeah, this is me. This is gonna
be... if not my only thing,

"certainly a big part of my life."

And then, it got under the skin
and I just wanted more of it.

I want to experience everything about
the culture and try every different style.

Like food, you want
to try everything.

And it went on from there. So yeah,
it's been a part of my life ever since.

You can have ten-hundred thousand miles
of riding your bike and it'll all be fine.

But the thing that is important is the
one time it goes really badly wrong...

We were just pootling away home.

And as we came off the M25 on to the M4,
we were going back towards Hammersmith,

the front just went away.

And then I had a very
short trip from the...

from the carriageway underneath the armco.

That's what happened to me.
The reason I lost my limb

is because I shattered
the right side of my pelvis

into about 12 different pieces.

My friends obviously...

Couldn't have done it without
them. They were just fantastic.

And I didn't make it easy for them, you
know. I think I tried to brush it off

for the most part. I
think, when I'd sort of...

worked out who I was again,

I just tried to shrug it off as, "It's
just a flesh wound. Just a flesh wound.

"Oh, don't worry about it. I've
got another one. I got another leg.

"Don't worry about it. It's
fine. It's fine. It's fine."

But, you know, I was... I was broken...

mentally. And it took
me a very long time to

work that out.

So, my partner was amazing.

She was inspirational in my support,

and helped me get back to normality.

I'm amazed at how people can bounce
back, and how resilient they are.

From going...

My eyes weren't really, truly
opened until I had my accident,

and then you sort of see
it through a different lens.

And you see how people deal with
various different situations.

And I'm amazed at how they bounce back.

So, I never cease to be amazed
at how resilient people can be

in face of massive adversity.

So, thats' what I try and use.

That's what I try and use to fuel me. I see
how everyone else deals with their problems

and they power through
it, which empowers me.

Will passes his ACU. He
can now race with the team.

The whole idea of the exercise
is to get more bums on seats.

And certainly more, with all due
respect, disabled bums on seats,

you know, and that's
not being nasty about it.

What we've said with Talan,
that's what we want to do.

You know, and certainly Shawn
myself and medical officer.

We'll do all we can to get as
many out there racing as possible.

- You get two certificates.
- Oh, I see.

One from this morning,
and one from afternoon.

Ah, brilliant. Thank you very much.

You should put it with your license.

I will write to the ACU and notify the ACU

that everything is fine
as far as I'm concerned.

I have no worries, I assure them you
can be out on the track with riders,

and we can see no reason
why you shouldn't be issued

a competitor's license, ASAP.

That's brilliant. Thank you very much.

- All right. Pleasure.
- Appreciate it.

Brands Hatch, GP.

The biggest weekend of the year.

The team sponsors will be attending, and
it's the first meeting with all four riders.

It's Will's testing day, and his
first time on a race circuit.

One of my friend's put
it very succinctly.

He said, "I forget with
you. I forget that you're

"disabled..." and here it
comes again, "I forget...

"because you just seem to get around

"most problems, you work to
have things work, because you...

"Because you move
around the way you do,

"because you interact with
the world the way you do,

"I just forget about it."

Whereas with Talan and Steve, you
can't forget they're in the wheelchair,

because it's part of
them and they are...

They have so much
more to get around,

I can't imagine how much
more difficult it is.

So, I consider myself very lucky that
people could spend time with me and forget

from time to time.

News comes in over the radio
that there's a rider down.

So, rider 117, Will Swift has come
off just going into Druids, I believe.

I don't know the extent of what's happened.
Whether it was mechanical or rider error.

I'm assuming it's rider error,
'cause he's new to the track.

So, just going to drive over
to the med center, Brands Hatch,

which sadly is the furthest
possible way from us.

And, yeah. So, it's just over there.

But I'm told he's relatively okay.

The team will just check out
the bike, see if it's all right.

The first session on my own

and just trying out a slightly
different game to the first turn.

Uh, Cranneg curve... I mean Paddock Hill,

Pitching my speed slightly
too far to the left,

and as it drops down
the corner tightens up.

I ended up sort of being,
drifting further and further

out to the left hand side, um...

Probably could have just thrown the bike then,
it probably would have gone around all right.

But, as I... Oh...

Fortunately, Will is okay.

It's not uncommon for a rookie
to crash in their first meeting.

But it's an indication that he

needs to build up his speed
with more progression next time.

Race day.

With the team sponsor spectating, it's
important for everything to run smoothly.

Okay, so it's Saturday. It's the
Grands GP. The sun is shining.

We've got about 75 guests turned
up from various different sponsors.

Um, Steve has gone out and he's
crashed over in, I believe it's Sheen's,

which is over there. It's on the GP part.

Another rider down so
soon is very concerning.

It's really difficult at this
point to find out what went wrong.

But we're trying to shield that at the moment
from the sponsors because it's chaos out there.

We don't know how bad it is. So, what
we're gonna do is have a word with Steve,

see how he is.

Um, we've got some VIPs going out
down to the garage while it's quiet.

Um, and... we're just gonna
try and keep this bad news

away from them, because they've come to see

some spectacular racing
with an inspirational team,

and while this is the reality of it
is that, you know, incidents happen.

We don't want them to get
a bad flavor from it, so.

I'm a little bit worried, if I'm honest...

because this will really
knock Steve's confidence.

He really doesn't need it.

The team doesn't need it. We
had Will come off yesterday.

And, all in all, it's just not good.

We shouldn't have this amount of
riders coming off this frequently.

So, I'll be having a meeting later on
with Simon Darnton, our performance coach.

And Dan, myself, all the riders,

we really need to get
together and find out why...

what is causing these offs...

Is it...

Is it lack of prep, lack of practice?

Knowledge, is it mechanical?

So, that's where we are right now.

So I'm gonna go in,
have a word with him,

see if he's okay. Hopefully, he is.

Go down to the paddock on a part
of the track that's unknown to him.

We've had a situation where we've been reported
by them. He's come round a machine curve,

and he's lost control of the
bike and he's in the gravel trap.

So, we roll on tender hooks for a short
while. Make sure the rider is okay.

We soon had word
back that he's okay.

He's at the medical suite
and he's absolutely fine.

Brands Hatch, fantastic run off
areas. Very, very safe circuit.

So, where' he's come off, he's
gonna land in the gravel trap.

He's gonna tumble across a little bit,
but the safety areas have done their job.

Unfortunately now, from my point of
view, we got a bit of a smashed up bike.

So right now, the team's
got a bit of work to do.

But they enjoy it.
That's why they're here.

So, at least they got
something to play with.

Steve is okay, but
the bike is damaged.

The team gets to work on rebuilding it so
Steve can race in the afternoon session.

Although safety and rider
welfare is paramount,

it's important to ensure all the
riders go out and the sponsor is happy.

The team are treated no differently to an
able bodied team by potential sponsors.

Among the sponsors, Talan's
parents have turned up.

It's a surprise decision for his mum
to watch him race for the first time.

You need to be in the right
mental place to go out and race.

And one of the things that I do

is a routine that takes me
to somewhere where I'm happy.

'cause I believe if you're
happy, you will perform well.

If you're worried or concerned,
you won't perform well.

And the other thing I do is, I always ask
my brother to come and ride pillion with me.

My brother passed away
Christmas of 2008,

and it was a very difficult
thing to come to terms with.

When I was racing in,
uh, in Assen in Holland,

I had a really bad
accident and high-sided,

and I remained strapped to the bike,
and the bike somersaulted down the road.

I was just obliterated
into the tarmac.

As I was flying through the
air and the bike somersaulting,

before I impacted,

I had this sensation, this
feeling that my brother was there

and that he put his arms
around me and he held onto me.

He protected me.

So now every time I go out, I
mentally take myself somewhere happy,

and then I always ask him to
come and ride pillion with me.

Dem Demati, Jonathan
Kingston, Rick Lindes,

Talan Skeels-Piggins, who is
the rider at the back at 26.

Now unfortunately for Talan, he
won't be starting 26 on the grid.

Talan unfortunately is a disabled
rider. He's a paraplegic.

It challenges me every time.

I have to have a good start. I have
to try and fight my way through.

And it's the same in life, you know.
We have to fight our way through life.

It's not easy. It's not a given.

And, often, the difficult
journeys that we take are

far more rewarding.

Yeah!

It was very good!

What goes on in this team is absolutely
unique and very, very special.

Talan and I go back a long
way. We were at school together.

And, it's kinda weird realizing that
I'm the person who's known him longest

out of everybody that's around him
now cause the team is so close.

I am always humbled by the
people that I see in that garage.

Not just Talan...

Not just Talan, but you
know, Steve, Will, Louis...

They've overcome stuff
that I could never

would never want to imagine having to
deal with, and they're here doing this.

So, it's a fantastic
two fingers up, to fate.

You know, but it just demonstrates
utterly what I believe,

which is that you have a choice,
you absolutely always have a choice.

You have a choice about how to deal with life,
a choice about how to react to situations.

You can either choose to live,
or you can choose to die.

Yeah, it was a great weekend.

Friday was quite worrying.
We've had Will of,

and that was quite a big blow for
him. That really shook his confidence.

Uh, pretty much destroyed that bike.
I mean, most of it went in the bin.

Uh, totally unusable.

Then, Saturday morning, we
had Steve off, first round,

or first lap, unbelievable.

Turned out it was actually
a mechanical failure...

which, we didn't see it,
and I take that on board.

Something we should have checked way
before, but that's just the way it is.

We can't check absolutely
everything every single time.

We don't have the time or
the manpower at this point.

So, Steve is okay.
That's the main thing.

He was a little bit bruised... more
bruised ego than anything else.

At least he felt better that it wasn't
his fault, and it wasn't rider error.

First time that Talan's
parents have seen him race,

that's his mum, anyway...

and I think she was just totally
stunned by what she was watching.

I don't think she appreciated
the magnitude, the amount,

really, the amount of effort that
goes in, how big the team is,

how much work we all put in
to making it work for him.

And, it's just the core team.

Just great people pulling together. Bear
in mind, they're not getting paid for this.

Nobody's getting paid.
We're all volunteers.

But it's amazing what a group of people with
one idea can do and really push forward.

I just can't say "thank
you" enough to them, really.

It's been a successful weekend,
and despite challenges,

the team have pulled together
in a remarkable effort.

The team's profile is growing.

Talan is being lent
a bike by Suzuki.

It's a huge achievement
and recognition.

We've come here to collect
a motorbike. It's a GSX-R600.

Suzuki is sponsoring me by loaning
me a bike for the coming year.

So I'll be able to use it to race
here in the UK and also abroad.

I've had quite a few conversations
with a lot of different people,

and they all thought
that my riding style,

my injury level, it all
sort of fits the GSX-R600.

Is this it?

Oh, look at it!

Oh!

It's been stripped down a little bit,

but obviously, you know, it'll very
quickly be covered over with the race fare,

and the bits and pieces that we're
gonna be doing to the bike, so...

If you consider the past year,
you know, a year ago I was...

Just over a year ago, I was struggling by
myself, and then had Anthony come along, and

help secure some sponsorship and then we
gradually started to take steps froward.

But now, having Suzuki helping me,
you know, it's really incredible.

And I hope it can grow and develop.
And who knows what the future holds?

I have, I suppose, the easy job.
I just sit on the bike and race it.

You know, a lot of the hard
work goes on behind the scenes.

Generating the money that it costs to race.

Each rider has had to overcome
difficult periods in their life.

Inspiration can come in many
forms when faced with adversity.

I think I heard Jack Savoretti's album,

one of his songs, Without
You on the radio...

And I heard it probably half a
year before I had the accident.

But during the period, the rehab period,

the only way to help you sleep in the
evenings was to put the album on loud,

on repeat, and that would
just send me off to sleep.

It's been arranged for Steve
to meet Jack Savoretti.

Can't wait. Hopefully,
I won't waffle too much.

I can't wait to see him. He's an
amazing guy and an amazing musician.

Hi, there. How are you?

Not too bad, man. How are you?

- Great to meet you. How are you doing?
- And you.

Yeah, not too bad. Thank
you very much for...

for agreeing to see me.

Don't be silly.

- Shocked a bit.
- It's nice to see you.

- Shocked a bit.
- It's an awesome story.

Yeah, it's pretty... From my
whole... Obviously how it was...

from where it started, really, was
that song, I was in the workshop before.

and heard it on the radio, but
never heard who the artist was.

So, all I heard was the
whistling tune part of it...

- God, that's catchy!
- That's good, yeah.

And then I thought, "Oh,
okay." It took me a few months,

probably the beginning of '08.

I was a little awake before I heard
it. It's Jack Savoretti. Great!

So, I downloaded it, and it
was then on constant repeat.

All the time. All the time.

And then, I had my bike
accident in November, 2008.

So what happened, exactly?

Motorbike accident.

No, I know that. But, what happened?

How did it happen?

I was told I'd hit a stationary vehicle.

A three and a half ton truck,
and I'd gone into it with my head

and the whole impact was on my
head. I actually hit my face.

Basically, everything
was shattered and sheared.

So, I had 21 hour surgery to
try and put it all back together.

Here I had an Alice band
but they took it off.

I can't imagine.

I was put in an induced coma
for three to four days...

And I died on the table a couple of times.

So, I'm a lucky guy to still be here,

and it was...

I lost my brother-in-law, three
years ago to a motorbike accident.

- It was unfortunate.
- I'm sorry to hear that.

He hadn't done his helmet on properly.

- So that didn't help.
- I'm sorry to hear that.

Terrible.

You've had an amazing recovery.

- Yeah. Thanks to you.
- Considering.

All thanks to you.

Well, it was the soundtrack.

I'm not gonna take any credit.

Okay, a little bit was me.

I think it was all you.

Fair enough.

We were like a little band in the corner.

It was on every night. But yeah, it was...

literally, without you, from
then... between the mines

and it was just on constant repeat...

Obviously in the hospital we hear
all the buzz and people are talking...

So I'd literally put my earphones in.

Bang. Put it on repeat.
It just went over and over,

and it helped me get to sleep.

- How long were you in hospital?
- Five months.

Oh, my... Wow!

So, yeah... That was thanks to you.

I'm glad we could keep you company.

Keep each other company.

It was unbelievable.

I can't wait to see your gig
later. It's gonna be awesome.

And we'll have a drink after
the show. Just in the backstage,

so we've even got our own little bar.

Perfect!

If I can't come and see you and have
to drink with you, then its a bad gig.

- Jack, honestly, thank you.
- Nice to meet you.

I'll see you after the show.

He was unbelievable. He just
smashed it out of the ball park.

It was just unbelievable.
It's better than the album.

I've been listening to
him all the way down.

If I could get up and dance, I
would be up there on the stage.

He puts that sort of energy into the music.

It just comes across and you
want to be so much a part of it.

The whole thing was unbelievable.

It's very difficult in motorsport,
here in the UK to get the funding.

You've just got to work hard at it and prove
that you're worthy of people's investment

of both their time and their
energy and their hard earned money.

This was the first track I came to. Um, I
was VIP'd by a friend of mine, Chris Boyd.

Uh, we came here to watch Samsung-Honda.

We came through the tunnel from the VIP
area, so we came through underneath,

and I popped up and then,
we were in the garages.

And that's kind of a golden space.
That's where all the real action happens.

And I thought, "You know what, I
love this. This is where I wanna be."

This is where I fell in love with
motorsports in a very different way,

and thought this is what I wanna do.

So, sponsorship-wise, I'm
looking forward to next year.

We've got a lot of things coming up.

A lot of new individual sponsors
that are trying to get involved.

And that's great. Currently
we're with McMillan Williams

and they've been really good
to us over the first two years,

and we're hoping that they're
going to continue into year three.

I've got a lot of people counting
on me to, uh, make it happen.

These aren't just
normal, everyday riders.

They can't just go from
one team to another.

They can't just say, "Oh, don't
worry, I'll find another backer."

The cold winter
weather is setting in

and racing has been
postponed due to fog.

So, it's exactly nine o'clock, and...

now is really when we ought to be
starting for the first qualifying session.

But, given that it's completely fog
bound and we don't have decent visibility,

or line of sight, as you can see,
we just come out to Druids now,

and the bridge is only really
coming into visibility now.

So, it's definitely not
acceptable conditions for racing.

I've announced a 15 minute delay.

We'll literally take this
is increments of 15 minutes

just to see when the
visibility will improve.

So, this is not the weather we need.

We've got Louis, who is...
He needs to be racing today

and tomorrow, because
he's in a top ten finish.

In his group, we've got Will Swift,
who's going out to his first race.

So, this is not a good environment,

if you can't see literally
outside the garage to the pit wall.

By mid-morning, the fog
clears, and racing continues.

It's really hard work. Really hard work.

'Cause this is the indie
circuit, it's all right handers,

so I'm turning right for about
three quarters of the lap.

There's no real straights.

So, just getting massive fatigue

lying on the right of my prosthetic.

I'm top ten in the
championship at the moment,

which is why I've come
up here this weekend,

to try and just get some points.

Today marks Will's first
race of the season.

He was such a lovely little boy.

He really was, and I'm not
terribly keen on children.

But, he was genuinely a sweet, sweet kid.

- Really sweet.
- Yeah.

He wasn't any trouble.

No, he really wasn't.

Lisa and I realized, while he was
in recuperation, still in hospital,

quite how important
motorbikes were to him.

Now, we knew he was keen on bikes,

we knew he enjoyed riding bikes.

But, I don't think we really
understood how it was in his blood.

And to me, that was epitomized by him asking
us to bring him the Motorcycle News.

So, he's in hospital, he's lost his leg, and
he wants to read the Motorcycle News.

And, it just... We just...

It just dawned on us that this
was really important to him.

And you hear about Will racing,

and practicing, and falling off,

but seeing it is a whole
different ball game.

It's tough to watch. I mean, however fast
I thought they go, they go a lot faster.

And it's... There's not much
between them and the road, is there?

So, it's... It's tough, but
we know that Will loves it.

I think it's a dilemma.

Do I wish he was doing
something less dangerous?

Yes.

Do I want him to be happy? Yes.

And this makes him happy.

You know, he needs to know
that we do support him.

Despite the dilemma,
we're very proud of him.

Will has performed well in
his races over the weekend.

He only has another two
races to get through today

to complete his first race meeting.

A radio call comes in that there's
been a very serious accident on track.

Anthony's concerned that Will has
not come back into the paddock.

So, Will's come off. Not a good day to
do it. It is his birthday, after all.

And he's come off a paddock hill bend.

I'm not sure if it was a collision, or
whether or not he just went a little bit wide.

Hopefully, he's going to be okay.

But it's...

It's a very early stage, so
you just never know with...

You just never know with riders.

They always keep everything quite...

quite quiet.

Will's come off with an
altercation with another bike,

I think at the paddock hill bend.

He's gone to the health care center.

Bike's been brought back in and we've
only just been allowed to touch it

just in case there's anything more
serious. But fortunately there isn't.

So, I'm just seeing what's up with it,

and I think it's knackered.

Anthony's informed that Will
has a suspected broken neck.

He's rushed to hospital.

I've spoken to a number of people
about exactly what happened.

It appeared another rider tried to out-break
him going in to a paddock hill bend.

It appeared he slammed on his breaks, cut in
front of Will and hit the front of the bike,

which caused it to go down
the gravel trap down the end.

Will was taken to A&E.

He has a fractured collar bone, and we believe
some sort of fracture to his neck as well,

but we're just waiting for CT scans.

So at this point, I can't say exactly
for sure the level of his injuries.

The way the end of the season
ended for me wasn't ideal.

We were coming down the
start finish straight and...

so, a 100 and... 140
miles an hour plus...

into the breaking area at the apex,

this other rider comes down the inside
and just sweeps across my front wheel.

So, he basically drives over my front
wheel with his, effectively his whole bike.

As he rode over, as he hit my front wheel,

I got flipped over the front
of the bike, effectively ejected

in a straight line towards the barrier.

Um, head-first. I've... I speared
into the ground with my face,

knocked myself out immediately.

I was out for between two and five minutes.

I think everyone was extremely worried,
because it was an absolutely horrendous crash.

Um, I think the other chap
came away virtually unscathed,

but I was punished
extremely severely

in that particular moment.

I broke my neck.

An extra millimeter would
have been total paralysis,

possibly, or death.

So, that... I mean... I couldn't have...

It could not have been closer,
as far as I'm concerned.

But then I spent a couple
of weeks in hospital.

Scans, MRIs... you know, obviously
being isolated the whole time,

So, you know, I couldn't move.

And a pretty scary couple of weeks.

I'm totally comfortable with the fact that

if I continue to race,

which I plan to do,

this could happen again. And
I'm comfortable with that.

We understand the risks.

We understand the job we do.

That's kind of why we do it.
Because it's fun, it's exhilarating.

It is dangerous,

but that's part of the joy. That's
part of what we get out of it as racers.

It's... finding that edge.

It's a reflective time for the team

as they begin their last
race weekend of the season.

A season, I think with any race
team, has it's ups and downs.

Fortunately, we found far
more ups than our downs.

We always seem to bounce
back from the setbacks

and come away stronger. And I
think the team grows from that,

and from the challenges
that we faced.

We've become a far greater team

than probably we would have
done if everything had gone

very simply and easy.

As long as you learn from
the mistakes that you make,

then, they're a
positive part of life.

This year has been fantastic.

I obviously started very
nervous as a new rider

coming into the team with Talan as
the head guy trying to fill the boots.

It's been a massive
learning curve, really.

Every single track has
been a learning curve.

So, as we've grown on throughout the
season, I've become more confident.

I've met a good bunch of guys in
the paddock than in a race class.

This is the end of the season at Snetterton.
It's been a magnificent year of racing.

When we started this last year, it was just
Talan on the bike, and lots of people had said

it was a stupid idea. It would
never happen. It would never work.

And, nobody wanted to sponsor us.

Talan went out last year
and he did a phenomenal job

and more sponsors came
onboard for this year.

We've come a very long way
from June, 2012, when I first

left the pit here at Snetterton
on to the 200 circuit

and took part in
the very first race.

It was a very emotional time for me and
I was in tears for the entire cool down.

It's also very emotional today,

to see just exactly what has
evolved over those last few years.

To see the family that has grown from
just me, sleeping in the back of my van,

to everybody that we have here,

both, working on the
bikes, riding the bikes,

supporting everybody
that's behind the scenes.

It's not just about us and
racing and having a good time.

It's about helping so many other
people see what we're doing

and take inspiration, and
take motivation from it.

And you can all be
incredibly proud of that.

Helping to change other people's
lives is a truly humbling experience.

And everyone's lives get
touched by what we do.

It is a truly wonderful team,

and I am so happy to be a part of it

and I hope that you are happy
to be part of it as well.

And, I can't see it stopping
for a very, very long time.

And I hope that you will all continue
with the journey that we're taking

and who knows where it will take us.

A single idea can change history.

It takes desire, passion and
commitment to make that idea a reality.

It wouldn't be possible without the combined
efforts of every single team member.

Not only have they changed the perception
of disabled riders in motorcycling,

they've also carved
a path for others.

It has been a roller coaster.
It's been an amazing year.

We've put together a team that a lot
of people didn't think would work.

We sacrificed an awful lot
of time and energy this year.

I think it's been worth it.

We've put in some really good positive
steps to encourage more people

into a sport that otherwise
would have alienated them.

We've made it achievable.

What was dreaming an impossible dream,
has now become an achievable dream,

and in a very short space of time, we've
showed the world that you don't have to just

sit there and think, "Well, that's my
life with disability. I can't do stuff."

They can go on and do great things.

These races have allowed us to compete
with them on a level playing field

even though we're disabled.

And by them treating us normally,

that empowers us so much.

Everybody has got the ability
to do whatever they want to do.

It's whether they can unlock
the ability within themselves

and knocking your potential
is not always easy,

and it's not always simple to do,

because people are complex
and you have to know yourself.

Know what it is you're
trying to achieve very well.

So this year, Talan
Racing has been emotional,

eventful, not what I expected.

It's not always been great, but
it's been a fantastic experience

and I wouldn't have
changed it for the world.

Life is short. We're here for a
good time, not for a long time,

so you owe it to yourself not to be
controlled, or limited by your fears.

There aren't any limitations,

whether you're partially
blind, or have an illness,

or in a chair, through an
accident, or any injury.

Whatever it is, nothing should stop you. I
think that's the main goal, is to do more.

'Cause you never know
what's around the corner.

Someone you love, if
anything happened to them,

you'd think, "I wish I'd done
this, or I wish I done that."

There's no time for any of that, so
really, you need to make the most of now.

Enjoy it, and certainly pass the
message on to others, to your friends...

and certainly do more to enjoy it.

We all have this resource
of energy of power inside us

that we can tap
into, that we can use

to keep us moving forwards, even when
we have these life-changing traumas,

these life-changing accidents.

So, I would encourage everybody to

take some time to be truly
honest with themselves,

be reflective on how
amazing they actually are.

Because everybody is truly amazing
and everybody has that ability

to do incredible things.

And it's just tapping into
that energy and using it.

Don't let it go to waste.

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