Antonio Cairoli has opened up on the mind games he used to play with Jeffrey Herlings when the KTM duo were the fastest men on the planet.
Cairoli would play some games when they went practicing with a fast lap and lure Herlings into riding more and more to prove he was faster!
Cairoli told Jase McAlpine on Gypsy Tales: “I was trying to mix things and then we ride sometimes at the track together, I know he wants to be the fastest guy not only by like a second by like by two seconds – he was riding and riding and riding and sometimes you crashed if you want to really push the limit.
“So let’s say we play a bit. We never ride together so much, but sometimes when it happened, I try to make him ride long, long, long, you know to see if something happened! Because I know he wants to always be the fastest guy.
“Now it is a bit less I think these last year’s because he realized it’s not always lap times. But on those years you always show I’m fastest but not only a little bit…I’m super fast. If you always play with the limit sometimes you find it. So yeah, I was just trying play this kind of stuff!”
See how intense the battles were back in the day at Matterley Basin!
