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Even Kiyoshi Kawashima, who was accustomed to Honda’s ambitious manner of speaking, was amazed by this plan:
“All of a sudden, there was this declaration. I hadn’t heard anything about it until then, so it came as a great shock. In Japan, we had been competing in all the races, like the Fuji Mountain-Climbing Race, the Nagoya TT, and so on. But this was a whole different matter. At that time, I at least knew that the Isle of Man TT Races were the major races in the world, but I’d never ever dreamed of taking up a challenge like that.”
The announcement text expressed the decision to enter the races in June of the following year, and also contained this sentence:
“I am scheduled to go to Europe at the end of April, to visit the United Kingdom, where I will conduct on-the-spot study of various kinds before returning to Japan in June.” |
