“Now I have two theories, 1. He started it because if someone’s going to try and overtake him up the inside, then it’ll buy him an extra 30cms. And he’s thinking no-one will risk snapping his leg. But I’ve sort of got this theory that he might have started doing it because he thought everyone was copying him. So when he retires, I think he’ll come out and say, “oh, you know that whole leg thing? Yeah, that wasn’t required. I literally did it to see if everyone else would copy!”

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