THE 8TH WORLD WONDER...METISS MS19

There are many different ways to go racing, as French Endurance World Championship team Metiss knows better than most.

-  JOE AKROYD

It's funny how quickly you can mess up your own head, isn't it. We are our own worst enemy and sometimes making yourself stop, evaluate things from an outside perspective, and reset, can completely change the decisions and paths we end up taking.

I did a lot of endurance racing back in 2021 and rode for the British Endurance Racing Team (BERT), which was run by David Railton. I really enjoyed the gig: riding motorbikes is the best feeling in the world along with shagging, I guess - so to ride a 1000cc race bike for hours on end, right through the night, pretty much ticks all the boxes. The British Endurance team started with a UK race, then two rounds of the World Endurance, which was mega and a proper eye-opener, and we did the big European round at Spa, which was a six-hour race, but at the end of 2021 it was clear that BERT wasn't giving it another year - and I was out on my ear.