Fan goes for a ride with 'nice guy' Mark Cavendish... but his GPS app failed to record it properly

Carl Grzegorzek took in a lap of the Yas Marina F1 Circuit with Mark Cavendish, and says that the Manxman is "really nice, normal, down to earth guy"

Mark Cavendish and Carl Grzegorzek

(Image credit: Emirates Motor Company/Facebook)

Cycling fan Carl Grzegorzek got the opportunity of a lifetime on Friday when he rode around a lap of the Yas Marina F1 Circuit in Abu Dhabi with Mark Cavendish.

Grzegorzek - an English air traffic controller at the Abu Dhabi International Airport - was the winner of a competition run by a local motor company to get the chance of riding a lap of the 5.5-kilometre Formula One circuit with the Manxman last Tuesday ahead of the Abu Dhabi Tour.

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