A confession: I'm still catching up on the weekend's racing. At work. On Wednesday. What can I say? There was a lot of racing to make my way through. That includes some fantastic British Superbike action from Brands Hatch, where Kawasaki rider James Ellison made an early challenge for the lead, then high-sided spectacularly after running wide in Dingle Dell and dipping his tires into the grass.
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The crash was epic, enough to hospitalize Ellison with a broken femur, but that's not why we're talking about it. What got me engrossed in this video is the tiny and almost perfect adjustment that rider Shane Byrne makes as he brushes past the tumbling Kawasaki of Ellison and assumes the lead. What. A. Move.
This is the subtlety that keeps me coming back to motorcycle racing. It's just a shame that it took a spill (and a not-insignificant injury) to see it so beautifully illustrated in action.