INTERVIEW
FIM SPEEDWAY WORLD CHAMPION GREG HANCOCK
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n the history of Federation Internationale
di Motocyclisme-sanctioned World Cham-
pionship motorcycle racing, no matter the
discipline, only one American-born competi-
tor has ever been able to amass four world
titles. That man's name is Eddie Lawson,
and he now has a partner in accolades. On
Saturday night, October 22, 2016 inside
Etihad Stadium in Melbourne, Australia, Greg
Hancock, at the almost astonishing age of
46, earned the fourth FIM Speedway World
Championship of his storied career. In fact,
since the inception of the Speedway World
Championship at London, England's Wemb-
ley Stadium in 1936, Hancock is now one of
only six speedway riders to earn four or more
world titles. In an era where motorcycle rac-
ers from the United States are conspicuously
absent from the global stage of international
competition, the globetrotting Californian,
virtually singlehandedly, has been hoisting up
the American flag and taking it places it has
never gone before. Still over in Sweden—the
home base for his relentless European-based
racing schedule—Hancock chatted with us
about his remarkable fourth championship-
winning season.
BY ERIC JOHNSON
PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY MONSTER ENERGY AND JOHN HIPKISS
