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Mike Hailwood’s return to racing at the 1978 Tourist Trophy is considered one of the most exciting episodes in the history of sport.
An almost forty-year-old driver, crippled by a car accident which limited the functionality of one leg, decides to return to his natural hunting reserve.
And it’s not just any centaur, but one that is unanimously considered, with Giacomo Agostini, the greatest in the history of two wheels. There is more. In the most famous event of all the races on the Isle of Man, the TT world championship in a single event, Mike decides to challenge the Honda of Phil Read, reigning champion, riding a Ducati, not only the first love of his competitive youth but also a House that was going through a very delicate economic phase at the end of the 1970s.
And it will be precisely from everything that happens in those fifteen days of practice and competition that the destinies of all the parties involved will change forever. Writing an indelible and legendary page of Sport and Life. A story never told until today and relived in detail and finally with the help of various direct sources, who have finally agreed to tell the whole truth, nothing but the truth.
