WORDS: Boris Mihailovic
PHOTOS: Andy McGechan
SLOAN
FROST
A CONVERSATION WITH
Our mate Boris caught up with NZSBK
champ Sloan Frost during the first
part of his Aussie SBK season.
I met Sloan Frost on a bus travelling to
Phillip Island at last year’s press launch of
the Suzuki GSX-R1000. I had no idea who
he was, and after he introduced himself to
me, I still had no idea who he was.
When he rounded me up on Turn Three
like I was a used pair of fat underpants,
and left me gawking as he fried his rear
tyre most of the way to Turn Four, I was
still no clearer as to who he was. He was
clearly someone who could ride heaps
faster than me, but there are lots of
people in that group and it doesn’t make
him special.
I guess what made him a little special was
that he apologised for passing me. “No
dramas,” I said to him. “It was actually
quite a treat to see someone riding as
hard as that. I’m just pissed I couldn’t
watch you for any longer. Still, I did get to
see you again when you lapped me.”
And Sloan was fun to watch. His body
language was pure aggression, and he
really did look like he knew what he was
doing on that Suzuki.
I still had no idea who he was, though, and
figured he might be a journo from some
Kiwi bike mag I’d not heard of, like Ewe-
Herders Galore, or Fast Farmers.
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