VOL. 51 ISSUE 8 FEBRUARY 25, 2014 P77
BY HAMISH COOPER
PHOTOGRAPHY BY GOLD & GOOSE
T
he four-hour drive from Va-
lencia to Barcelona gives
a man plenty of time to put
34 years of his life back into per-
spective.
As Jeremy Burgess powered
along the Spanish toll-road alone
in his rental Renault Megane on
November 11, 2013, he quietly
analyzed the tumultuous events
of the past few days.
"This wasn't quite how I'd en-
visaged leaving Europe," he says
three months later, sipping a
Cooper's Pale Ale beer in a quiet
corner of his local pub in the hills
behind Adelaide in Australia. "I'd
LEGENDARY CREW
CHIEF JEREMY
BURGESS SPEAKS
FOR THE FIRST
TIME ABOUT THE
CIRCUMSTANCES
BEHIND HIS
SUDDEN
DEPARTURE FROM
THE MOTOGP
PADDOCK AND
WHAT HE'S GOT
PLANNED FOR 2014.
LIFE
AFTER
ROSSI