Conor Cummins was much in evidence at the Manx GP 2013 both in the paddock and at Jurby. I happened to bump into him there and asked him what happened to cause his monster crash at the Veranda. I said from the Close to the Edge film footage that the smoke from the rear tyre made it look like the rear wheel span up, then came round on him. He told me that the data for that moment at the Veranda was the same as the previous lap for the bike and that he was comfortable with how the bike was going. Then came the only thing he could put the cause down to. Remember that he is a Manxman with good local knowledge. He is aware that as the road turns at that point on the mountain it faces the sea. On some days this can make it a place where sudden strong wind up droughts rush up the mountainside. Weather conditions on the day of the crash were conducive to this. A rider arriving at high speed at full lean would have no warning of this and he feels that this is what happened to him with the result that the up drought got under the bike sufficiently in that split second to break adhesion. The smoke from the back tyre was the result of the tyre not breaking away but coming back down again, grabbing the road and flicking him off. I said that would have been the end of bikes for me to which he replied that these things happen and he was more scared of dropping the Kevin Schwantz RGV 2stroke four he would be parading at Jurby than anything else at the moment !
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