BRITISH speedway prospect Vinnie Foord admits he wanted to quit with embarrassment after almost missing races due to being stuck in a TOILET.
The Sussex kid got accidentally locked into the loos as he was due to race for his club Workington.
The ‘Vindaloo’ incident happened in the home clash with Redcar in late July after Foord decided to go to the toilet following his opening heat 2 race.
However concern was raised when there was no sight of Foord when he was due out in heat 4. After a long delay while Comets promoter Andrew Bain smashed the lock off the door, he finally got out to compete in the race.
Foord, 19, has now spoken about the incident for the first time: “The meeting was all going fine. I quickly popped into the toilet before my next race. Next thing I knew I tried the handle and the door wouldn’t open.
“I was so embarrassed. I didn’t have my phone on me at the time either because I was wearing my kevlars racesuit.
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“Luckily the Redcar media guy was also in another cubicle and he did have his phone and he called someone to let them know we were in there.
“The worry came when the Workington boss Andrew couldn’t open the door from the outside and we were stuck for some time. I thought I was going to miss the meeting stuck in the toilet!
“Eventually Andrew managed to batter the lock off from the door with some sort of crowbar.
“Now they have taken the lock off the inside and the toilet door has been left open for the rest of the year!
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“I definitely have learnt my lesson and I go to the loo before the meeting starts so I don’t have a situation like that ever again hopefully. But at the time I was so embarrassed I felt like quitting!”
The son of a tattoo artist, Foord won the treble with Poole a year ago after being involved in two huge high-speed crashes in the Grand Final with Oxford.
He then received death threats from opposing fans after a feisty altercation at Wimborne Road and was dubbed as being “dangerous”.
Foord now believes he has proved himself but was left heartbroken after his engine seized when he was set to win the British Under-19 Championship last month.
He added: “I think I am definitely developing more as a rider. I’ve had less crashes. I’ve just got to file off the rough edges.
“Going into that race I knew if I won it I’d be British Under-19 Champion. I was pretty excited for the race.
“I was last out of the start and managed to work my way through to the front.
“It was a brilliant feeling and then the engine seized just as I got in front.
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“I was pretty heartbroken. But I’ve got to put that in the past now and move forward.
“Those meetings are all about consistency and on my day I showed I can put five rides together. I was just unlucky that my engine seized in my last one.”
