Dan Bewley sensed there was something special in the air as he emerged from the serenity of the pits and into the cauldron of Principality Stadium noise for his first ever Speedway Grand Prix final.
He was right. The 23-year-old Cumbrian shot away from gate two, hit the front and never looked back as he became the first Brit to win Speedway’s crown jewel event in Cardiff since Chris Harris in 2007.
“It was pretty special,” he recalls. “I felt like from the moment I rode up through the tunnel and into the stadium for the final, it just felt like it was meant to be from that point on.
