Another rider from the past, Ray Law dusted off the double Triumph that he’d wheeled with a considerable amount of distinction at sprint and drag meetings going back to the sixties, and a side by side pass alongside the Hobbit marked the first time that two blown double bikes had run together at Santa Pod in a long, long time.

The youth amongst you might have wondered why Law’s bike was being carried on a trolley, well back in the days of yore burnouts weren’t rolling affairs, with a suitable piece of barrier being used to provide a halt to the front wheel. This may offer an insight into the efficiency (or lack thereof) of the braking systems that were utilized, but Martin Willmott’s obscenely quick 500 cc Triumph tends to find little difficulty in the “go” bit over a quarter mile.