Video: Mel Pocock on his run-in with Herlings


“I got blue flagged and saw Tommy was behind Jeffrey and thought…deep ruts round this corner! I thought, ‘I’m not going to move over, so I dropped to the inside rut,’ he was behind me revving and roaring…so I just put the brakes on”

Mel Pocock revisits the time he held Jeffrey Herlings up in Portugal to help Tommy Searle and then got death threats and didn’t go back to Belgium to ride for a couple of weeks!

Get the brilliant full podcast below with the Herlings section 37 minutes in – even a very young Liam Everts gets involved in the story!