VOL. 53 ISSUE 50 DECEMBER 20, 2016 P69
For The
Ages
Greg Hancock—four-time FIM Speed-
way World Champion. That has a nice
ring to it. Has that set in yet?
You know what? Literally, I kind of wake
up every day and just pinch myself and
say, "Wow." I'm so stoked and jazzed that
I've done it again. Every year you set out
to set goals and you go out and try and
achieve everything and here I am, and I've
achieved the ultimate in our sport once
again. I don't know, man. Ever since I was
a kid, I've always just wanted to win, and
to have four world titles now—this is the
bomb, man. This is the shit! [Laughs].
You won your first world title in 1997,
but what has been really remarkable is
that you've won three championships in
the last six years. Quite a run, huh?
Yeah, totally, man. It's been killer. In
2010 we had made some adjustments
to my chassis on the bikes. At the end of
2010, I was having kind of a rough patch
and it wasn't going to plan all year. Sud-
denly I met these guys that were working
for Prodrive in the UK building rally cars.
They did all the prep for Petter Solberg
back in the day [Note: Solberg won the
2003 FIA World Rally Championship in
a Prodrive Subaru]. They built cars, but
when I came in with the speedway bike,
Just when you
think he can't
possibly do it
again, 46-year-old
Greg Hancock reels
off another FIM
Speedway World
Championship.
