Official statement from #GuyMartin:
Plenty of folk have been asking what Iโm up to this year.
I fancy a change of scenery. I’ve been racing the TT for 11 years. All Iโve really done since I was 18, except the trucks, is race motorbikes and my brain needs something else.
Every yearโs the same: testing, racing, then start again. It brought it home to me when I was lying in hospital after the Ulster Grand Prix crash.
Iโve been on about the Tour Divide, the toughest pushbike race in the world, for three years and I thought Iโll blink and next thing Iโll be 45, so Iโm going to do it this year. I like breaking myself mentally and the Tour Divide will be tough, but itโs same time at TT, so thatโs forced me to make a choice.
I’m not done with motorbikes. Iโm attempting the Wall of Death record in the spring and having a go at the land speed record in the summer and if I do race on the roads it will be with TAS.
After the Tour Divide I might never want to see a pushbike again – or never want to go road racing again, I donโt know. But I do know Bruce Anstey and John McGuinness are still racing the TT, and theyโve got a few years on me, so maybe Iโll come back next year. Or maybe Iโll find something else interesting to do.
Iโve got more interests than just motorbikes and I just think let’s bloody have โem.
Thanks very much as ever for the support.
Guy.
Unfortunately to me that reads as a ‘farewell.’ Hopefully it is more of a ‘see you later’ than a ‘good bye.’
