TROY 'The Slider' Scott was always the odd one out in a family of horse riders.

His passion was instead for riding motorcycles, ever since being taken to a national speedway meeting by his father at the age of seven.

“I can remember it clear as day, and I just freaked out,” he said.

“The lights, the colour, the noise. Everything about it. Apparently, though I don’t remember it, I said t...