[MOTORCYCLE ENGINE REVVING]
[ROCK MUSIC PLAYING]
ROY STAFFORD: All part of the job.
HARRY STAFFORD: The first race of this season at Jerez, I got
a really good start.
I got second into the first corner.
ROY STAFFORD: He was in a bunch of four or five riders
at the front and the next group were
very, very close behind.
He made a slight mistake at the hairpin.
Nearly high sided, and then another rider hit him, which
consequently injured him, breaking his collarbone and
having a severe concussion.
All I could see was what was on the monitor, and I just saw
number 24 rider crashed.
And I was hoping that it said then afterwards, rider okay,
but it didn't.
He was very expertly attended to.
The concussion was the worst.
He had two small blood clots on the front right-hand lobe
of his brain.
This is what they were concerned about.
I hadn't slept from Saturday night, and I
was absolutely shattered.
But when your little boy is in the hospital, and he's
injured, and he might need you at any time,
you can't go to sleep.
The bike came over his shoulder, broke his
collarbone, went up here-- this is Dunlop rubber--
and then glanced off.
So consequently, the helmet cracked here, because of the
side pressure.
This is the first time I've seen it since the crash and
it's the first time Harry had seen it since the crash.
So whether it's brought back any memories, I don't know.
But I wouldn't have thought so, because you can't really
remember much.
HARRY STAFFORD: I can't remember the lights going out
or anything.
Everything was a blank from near enough a week.
And then the last two days in hospital, I just barely
remember that.
I just remember pulling up to the grid.
That's it.
So--
ROY STAFFORD: Yeah, it's taken him two months to fully
recuperate.
But this was on the advice of Red Bull.
HARRY STAFFORD: If you crash and it affects you and you
don't want to ride, then you shouldn't ride.
But I love riding, so I want to get back on the bike as
soon as possible.
[ROCK MUSIC PLAYING]
ROY STAFFORD: I worry about him all the time, but there's
not a lot you can do about it.
He wants to race motorcycles and that's it.
The minute he says he doesn't want to do it anymore, I shall
say, OK, mate.
Finished, no problem.
But hopefully I'll never have to say that.
[MOTORCYCLE ENGINE REVVING]
ROY STAFFORD: No.
HARRY STAFFORD: My mom is really nervous because she
thinks there's something wrong with me now,
because I keep on crashing.
But when you get to ride at this level, and you have to
push hard to ride with the front, you start crashing.
And Gusto tells me that whenever you crash, you learn
from the crash so you know not to do it next time.
I learn a lot.
[MOTORCYCLE ENGINE REVVING]
DANNY WALKER: He's down at about 20, and he was 10 for a
little while, and he just hasn't gotten
comfortable with it.
So I'm hoping-- he's got about 6 minutes left, so we'll see
how things turn around here for him.
Hope he can find something he's comfortable with.
DANNY WALKER: He did?
See?
He was trying, and he just crashed.
HAYDEN GILLIM: I just shot off the track.
My hands are beat up a little bit.
Some purple, but that's about it.
My leathers got beat up more than I did.
DANNY WALKER: Hayden doesn't do anything just a little bit.
He's got to do it big.
Go big or go home.
HAYDEN GILLIM: This is the first time I crashed.
[INAUDIBLE]
Cup.
The Rookies.
I've only crashed twice on the US.
ROY STAFFORD: You did a 45 flat and then a 44.6, which is
absolutely fantastic.
All right?
HARRY STAFFORD: You start getting better and better and
better, and you just think, oh yeah, I can make it.
You can go for the next step, you can just keep on going up.
When you're riding, you should be happy all the time.
If you're sad, then you don't do very well.
MATHEW SCHOLTZ: For now I got like third,
so I'm pretty happy.
MATHEW SCHOLTZ: What happened?
MATHEW SCHOLTZ: Really?
JAKE GAGNE: I think I got sixth out of both qualifying,
so six on the grid tomorrow.
I'm not too sure about that second row, so I'm pretty
happy with it.
Just got to get a good start tomorrow.
We'll see how it goes.
STURLA FAGERHAUG: Yeah, and I'm going to beat him.
At least try.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
ROY STAFFORD: We don't do holidays.
We don't like doing holidays.
This is our holiday, at the race circuit.
I know it probably sounds sad, but it's true.
What you have to remember is, racing is a very, very, very,
small circle.
There are not many people that race.
We are all a family, because we all have a common interest.
HAYDEN GILLIM: Our van that we have has a horrible AC system,
so we drove yesterday back from here to the hotel with
the side door open.
MATHEW SCHOLTZ: We took 100 and what, like 60 kilometers?
Hayden's hanging out, both feet
outside, sliding and stuff.
It was just crazy.
And the end we saw pretty hot German chicks.
HAYDEN GILLIM: We were lifting up our shirts and trying to
see if they would do it.
MATHEW SCHOLTZ: We were trying to flirt with them, but we
weren't so good.
HAYDEN GILLIM: In the rain, it's two things for me--
either win or crash trying.
So far, it's crashed.
All right, now I'm pretty happy.
If it stays like this for the rest of the day, this is going
to be good.
DANNY WALKER: They keep telling themselves that, I
hate the rain, I don't like the rain, I hate the rain.
And guess what?
They're going to hate the rain, they're not going to
like the rain.
So Bradley's going to tell me that he loves the rain.
Right Benny?
I love the rain.
No, can't even say it.
Go on, say it.
Didn't hurt, did it?
Everything has to slow way down.
Any of your actions that you have have a gigantic reaction.
So if you brake really quick, or get on the gas really
quick, or turn too hard, it usually ends up being a, I
don't like the rain, I don't like it at all, doesn't it?
BENNY SOLIS: I've been in the rain three times and every
time I crashed, so we'll see.
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COLLEEN SCHOLTZ: Last year, Mathew did three races in the
wix, and he did very well.
And we put it down to his motocross experience, riding
in the mud and everything in South Africa.
HARRY STAFFORD: If you're aggressive with the bike, the
bike can be aggressive back, and that's when you crash.
It throws you off.
It's like the bike's got an emotion, just
the same as a person.
It can only take so much, and then it snaps.
[MOTORCYCLE ENGINE REVVING]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
DANNY WALKER: We hadn't had a chance to ride the bike after
it got crashed, and you just never can tell, you know,
little things.
We started it a couple times but without actually going out
and doing a lap, you have no idea what's going to happen.
So we had a slight problem, and we think we got it fixed,
and he's ready to make up some points this weekend.
It's Christmas time for Hayden.
He likes the rain.
PETER CLIFFORD: Not a wonderful start from
Fagerhaug, but not too disastrous, he has made some
disastrous starts.
But into the first corner, I think it's Kornfeil who
probably leads.
Kent is there in about fourth place, the white helmet, he
drifts a bit wide.
Out of the picture already has gone Kornfeil.
Fagerhaug and Brown go past Kristiansson.
So Fagerhaug now takes it down to a 1.9 second advantage, and
he's really got Kornfeil in his sights.
And Fagerhaug goes down, Fagerhaug goes down and out.
Well, it's an absolute disaster for the cup leader.
And we're just saying that before the race that really
Sturla had it all to lose.
He went into this race with a handsome
40 plus point advantage.
High sided, out of the race, goes Fagerhaug.
Fastest man on the track, though, is Hayden Gillim in
sixth place.
He's riding brilliantly in these tricky wet conditions.
Hayden Gillim in the black helmet has passed the white
helmet of Danny Kent, and Gillim now is right there in
the battle for the last rostrum position.
PETER CLIFFORD: There is Hayden Gillim, he's now on his
own, though.
Gillim on his own.
So what has happened to Scholtz and Kristiansson, has
he just ridden away from them?
Ah, no it's Gillim who had the fall and he's on his own
because he's just got himself back into action.
DANNY WALKER: Ooh.
Ooh.
That close.
It's called racing, otherwise it'd be a parade.
You'd just nod and wave.
ROY STAFFORD: Hey, he's up to 11th.
Yeah, he's riding OK, he's riding within himself, he's
riding according to the conditions, not doing anything
stupid, opting out.
PETER CLIFFORD: It's Kent and Scholtz.
Scholtz goes up the inside on the brakes
into the tight section.
Here comes Jakub Kornfeil around the last climbing left
hander, out on to the start and finish to win his first
Rookies Cup Race.
And down goes Danny Kent, out of the last corner, down goes
Danny Kent.
And it's Scholtz that takes second place.
And across the line comes Jake Gagne.
He didn't expect that, I'm sure.
[BAND PLAYING]
JAKE GAGNE: Everybody kept going down, and going down, it
was really slippery.
So I just sat back and let everybody else scratch,
because I already was too far back at the beginning, so I
just let everybody go down and ended up third.
So it's good.
COLLEEN SCHOLTZ: I am proud of Mathew.
He started eighth on the grid and worked his way up to
second, and I'm very pleased for him.
COLLEEN SCHOLTZ: Nerve wracking.
[LAUGHS].
Especially as you can see him going, and you just keep
thinking in your head, keep it smooth, you can
do it, keep it smooth.
ROY STAFFORD: Well, it was absolutely bang on.
He started from 15th on the grid.
Rode his own race, rode nice and steady, quite within
himself, to the track conditions.
And dash me, he come home ninth.
So I'm well happy with that.
HAYDEN GILLIM: These guys are idiots.
HAYDEN GILLIM: I got a black eye.
STURLA FAGERHAUG: I got some ice on my lower back, yeah.
I landed straight on my back, so I'm feeling
a bit of pain there.
HAYDEN GILLIM: I landed on my head.
HAYDEN GILLIM: Yeah, it is.
GUSTL AUINGER: It was a race like
professional racers are racing.
And someone was very lucky today, and
some were not so lucky.
But I'm proud of my boys.
They did a great, great job.
ROY STAFFORD: Well, people often will say to you, how the
hell can you let your child race around a circuit at 130
mile an hour, putting them in danger.
But what they don't realize is, these
children want to do this.
It is their life, their passion.
And they are not forced at all.
Not at all.