Danny Buchan announced over the weekend that 2024 is his last season as a motorcycle racer. In a post to his social media he commented:
To all my fans, friends, followers, family…
2024 will be my last season racing motorcycles. I am closing the curtain on my 25 year long career. My body is smashed and it wants/needs looking after, life is long after racing!! One day I will talk about it all, my journey but for now I want to say thank you to everyone who helped me live out my boyhood dream. I mean being paid to race motorcycles, how cool is that? And I’ve been rewarded with a good life and base to start life after racing. I can’t begin to tell you how many life lessons I have learned along the way which will enable me to go on and be great, the people I have been lucky enough to meet and friends I have made for life who really have become family. I really mean it I am grateful.
Thank you to my family, who have sacrificed so much over the years to get to where I got to, it’s such a big effort by everyone and you won’t believe what people sacrifice in order for me to live out my dream – one example just so people are aware of what parents do, my dad’s business in the middle of a recession couldn’t pay his guys on time so the men were working 4/5 weeks before being paid, I was still racing. Why? Because we were all in! Thankfully all the guys were paid and no harm was done (some of the guys are still with us now in the company) but that’s just one example!
Although I won’t be racing/competing anymore I do want to be involved somehow, how and where I don’t know yet but just know I’m working on somethings behind the scenes.
I can’t wait to see what the future holds! I will do an Instagram/Facebook live in the coming weeks and you can ask me some questions. Obviously I want to reach out to certain people directly but in all honesty there are too many people close to me so I’ve written it here
Thank you everyone xxx
DB83
Posted on Monday, October 28th, 2024 in News