Featured In the April 2022 issue of Roadracing World:
While most people were recovering from the holidays, Tarran Mackenzie was trying to get a broken leg fixed in time to defend his British Superbike (BSB) Championship. Mackenzie broke his right tibia and dislocated a shoulder when he took a heavy tumble soon after starting pre-season training in Spain in January. The 26-year-old was riding at Cartagena with other riders escaping the British winter and working to be ready for the opening British Superbike round at Silverstone on April 16-17.
In theory the leg is no big deal; like most professional motorcycle racers, Mackenzie knows how to ride with broken bones. Last summer his push towards the BSB Championship barely missed a beat when he thumped into a barrier at Cadwell Park, breaking a finger, and three weeks later he broke his left hand and wrist at Silverstone.
“I beat myself up at Cadwell, then went to Snetterton two weeks later and nearly did the Triple,” he says. “I realized at that point that it doesn’t matter what happens to me, I can still make the title happen, one way or another…”
—Interview: British Superbike Champion Tarran Mackenzie, by Mat Oxley
BSB Champion Tarran Mackenzie is the youngest member of Britain’s number-one motorcycle racing family, which has its downsides as well as its upsides, for his mother at least! Read the latest chapter in the story of the Mackenzie family’s racing successes in the April 2022 issue of Roadracing World!
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