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DAVIES ESCAPES
CARJACKING ATTEMPT
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actory Aruba.it Racing Ducati World Su-
perbike rider Chaz Davies was the victim
of an attempted carjacking in Barcelona re-
cently, on the day he went to watch a friend
compete in an Indoor Enduro event.
As he went to meet friends for dinner
afterwards in the center of the Spanish
city an attempt was made to steal his van,
with Davies still sitting behind the steering
wheel.
"My friends and I had agreed to meet at a Thai
restaurant, as right in the center as you can get.
I drove there navigating via google maps and
pulled over just to check the map. These two guys
went by on pushbikes and I heard one guy say
something, then flick his eyes at me and my van.
It looked a bit dodgy so I watched them, and they
rode off. I went back to my map and the next thing
one of these guys appeared again. I did not have
the locks on and he grabbed the door handle,
got it open about a foot and shouted something.
I grabbed the door handle to stop him opening it
any more—it was one of those moments where you
were not sure which way it was going to go. I had
hold of the door with one hand and the guy was
pretty strong—so we were to-ing and fro-ing with it.
Then I got my two hands on the door and ripped
on it as hard as I could to close it. I clicked the
locks on, banged the van into gear and went off."
Davies escaped uninjured from the dramatic in-
cident, before finding an underground car park to
secure his van within. "It felt like about half an hour
of wrestling with the guy!" said Davies, shaken by
the whole thing at the time, but later able to make
light of what could have been a much more seri-
ous incident. "Luckily I think he was half commit-
ted, so I think he gave it up. Lucky he did not fully
commit and lucky the other guy was not with him.
It was not fun at all."
Gordon Ritchie
A bit of excitement for Chaz Davies in Barcelona, Spain.
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et a fender's eye view of reigning AMA
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