“Randy Mamola offered to take me for a lap on the two-seater,” started Minnaar. “And that’s the scariest thing I’ve ever done. It was in Estoril, and I remember going down the start-finish straight… it had been raining and there were patches of water on the corners, and he took off down the straight wheelie-ing, and it hit a damp corner, and I’m just holding these two little handles on the tank… I’m quite a bit taller than Randy, so my knees are by his ears, and he’s trying to lean the bike in, I’m trying to lean it out… Eventually, we overshot the braking and went straight. He turned around and says ‘I’ll tap you on the knee, just lean in and have confidence’, and I’m like ‘there’s no way I’m having confidence. I can SEE it’s wet! I can see it on top!’

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