This is the one, the only one The Grand Final
Here comes Ward!
Darcy Ward!
Brilliant move from Darcy Ward…
Darcy Ward is completed a fairytale return to the GrandPrix…
On August 23rd 2015 Darcy’s life changed forever
He crashed racing in Poland and severed his spinal cord
Meaning the world will never know just what this racing phenomenon could’ve achieved
Darcy travelled to Europe for the first time since his life changing accident.
and headed to Europe’s biggest motocross museum
MX World Collection
Where his equipment takes pride of place
His Life maybe different now, But he is still fighting with everything his got
I mean good.
Just Rehabbing.. and stuff like that
3 days a week
I’m enjoying it, It’s pretty good fun!
It’s something I didn’t want to do, but You know when I go there,
It’s makes you feel better
My body is, you know a bit looser and a bit more flexible.
They say I’m going well for the way I am after a year, you know,
They are pretty blow away how quick the process is,
of my strength to come back, so
Positive thing!
I’ll just keep doing it!
Seeing him in the States in February, was awesome
Because we had a lot of one on one time together
and just to get to know him, from the other side
and now seeing him, so many month on, again here
and the progress his made, from his rehabilitation and where he’s going
It feels like that his really finding his way forward
and there is still a lot more to come from him
I’m pretty honoured, to be honest Like, I got the main stand,
Pretty much next to the coffee You know I wouldn’t have it anywhere else,
I’m pretty proud to have it here.
It was alright to see it, I didn’t really feel any emotions
of having my bike or my suit being sawn back together
Obviously it was a dark day back then, But now we look at as a positive
And I want them to have them It’s such a great facility
You know I knew, Our Ward was a genius in Australia
But he was 5 years younger, so we never really raced each other
or stuff like that
I wasn’t really into till we came over in England
Did a lot of travel around together In Sweden, Poland.
That kind of thing.
You know, We had a lot of fun on the way
Also in the end, I was trying to look after him a little bit
He was pretty loose (LAUGH)
We had a good time, so it was good fun!
In the early years, Before Darcy was in the GP
and we still quite young in the game
We were all having dinner somewhere
Darcy made a joke to Chris about something, And Chris just fired back:
“Well I got to take advantage of all this time now,
before you figure it out”
And pretty much, that what it was As the kid was starting to figure it out
The race against Darcy was real cool, you know
He was such a fast rider and the same kind of generation as me
So, when we raced each other in the world championship
He was always a rider, that you never kind of looked at:
“ah I got this race”
Darcy was always there pushing.
You know, as a rider, before he was injured.
He was, you know one of the best ever
I sort of secretly looked up to him a fair bit.
We spent a lot of hime together so when he was injured and
you know all that came to a stop, it was a big sort of change and it was tough.
To see him now is really cool.
To see him smiling, happy it definitely gives me a buzz too.
The main focus is, to go home and drive Start doing my own thing in bb or independent
I was fortunate and bought a pretty good car So I plan to take it to a couple of track days
If I get good enough, I got plans to actually try to race a car
But you know that a year and half goal, Not a straight away
You know, I still interact a lot Im not only just helping Chris
I’m trying to help the young Brady Kurtz a bit
I think it not about me being part of the sport still
It more like the fans, that they trying to keep me involved.
I’m try to interactive more with them.
Im thankful, that I’m still part of it Cause it was such a big part of my life
My six year, is my career Thats only short,
but I plan to bring trip back here every year
And I’ll have a little holiday and do the same as I did this year
Just to get around and see what I can see of Speedway.