Wil Hartog won as the first Dutchman TT: ‘It was not possible what I did, but I did it’

Sunday, during the hundredth edition of the TT van Assen, the thoughts irrevocably return to 1977. The year in which Wil Wil was the first Dutch person ever to win. About a striking farmer’s son with a weakness for half chickens, unadtracted ponies and are one -eyed mechanic Willy. “Thanks to him I went like a charm.”

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