Rider hit with 17-hour penalty while on FaceTime to his mother
The unusual story of ﷺa worried mother during a prestigious ra♔ce
The motorcycle racing off-season has thrown up a bizarꦫre under-the-radar tale.
A dirt bike rider🔯 completed an infamously gruelling rꦚace while constantly FaceTiming his worried mother.
“I wanted to race the Baja ⭕🍨1000 so badly, but my mom won’t let me because I have Type 1 diabetes,” Ben Hunter explained.
“She sཧaid the only way I could race is if I was live streaming the whole time.”
And that’s exactly what he did.
NEWS: This year at the Baja 1000 saw dirt bike rider Ben Hunter cross the finish line with a Mini taped to his head.
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“I wanted to race the Baja 1000 so badly, but my mom won’t let me because I have Type 1 diabetes. She said the only way I co🐷uld race is if I was ൲live…
Hunter turneᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚd up with a Starlink Mini taped to his helmet, hooke♑d up to a power supply.
His moth✱er was l﷽ive streamed on FaceTime while taped to his body.
The Baja 1000 is one of the most prestigious off-road motorsports event in the w⛎orld, held on the Baja California Peninsula.
So Hunter’s attempt to placate his mother’s conceꩵrns we꧑re admirable.
But on the spo༒rting side he did not fare too well.
Hunter ౠincurred a 17-hour time penalty,🌸 according to , after taking an “unallowed path”.
It led to an official disqualification from the raಞce.
And, presumabl🌊y a telling-off from his mother who watched every moment.
James was a sports jꦗournalist at Sky Sports 🦄for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
