Wouldn't be that surprised to see it rain this round. Again.Originally Posted by Oscar
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Wouldn't be that surprised to see it rain this round. Again.
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Yeah Bubba Shobert did that once and (I think) Kevin Magee ran straight over the top of him.
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Other way round Bro. Laguna Seca.
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Yep you're right. I am glad just to have got the names right...
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Was a pretty good effort for sure. Was a long time ago mate. Cost Magee most of his mates too.
Hardcore Biker
pretty sad all round really. http://www.superbikeplanet.com/2005/Jul/1989usgpb.htm
dont break your cake
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Yeah not cool.
Enigma
Magee suffered brain damage himself and retired,did he not ? I was living in Aust at that time and it was touch and go for him.
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Nah don't think so. He's just an Aussie mate. He raced again after that. Munted his leg from memory. Was Bubba that got the brain injury.
Enigma
Oh ok, memory must be failing me. I know the other Aussie (name avoids me at the mo) who rode Honda and then Suzuki got his toes chopped off in the chain.
Enigma
Here you are Crasher, had a bit of a dig around. Appears he crashed a year later at Laguna Seca and got the head injury.
https://www.google.co.nz/url?sa=t&rc...aeNArXxWmvazOg
God still can't remember the other Aussie,
Christ at last, Daryl Beatie !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! chopped his toes off.
Hardcore Biker
yes and yes sorta to both of you
Taken from that link>>>>>>>>> http://www.superbikeplanet.com/2005/Jul/1989usgpb.htm
"Kevin Magee stood in the middle of it all, fat tears streaming down his face; he tried to walk, hobbled by his broken ankle. He would miss three Grand Prixs because of the injury. "
"A year after the incident Shobert told me that he had no feelings of resentment for Magee and what had happened, in fact quite opposite. He said that in the racing life some risks are accepted no matter how unfair they might seem. Magee was torn apart by the incident and it was clear afterwards that he regretted what happened.
Be that as it may, some members of the American contingent in Grand Prix didn't let the incident simply drift away. Kevin Magee and Eddie Lawson were involved in several on-track incidents that season and after one such episode, Lawson says he made his feelings clear on Magee's ability to control a racing motorcycle, and his judgment in doing so. Lawson said Magee accused him of really being angry over the Shobert incident. "I told him no, 'it's just that you're an idiot.""
"Schwantz didn't actually have time to cultivate a close relationship with Kevin Magee in 1990. Magee crashed at Laguna Seca in essentially the same spot where the collision took place in 1989, suffering head injuries that put him out for the season. "
dont break your cake
Easy Biker
Darryl Beattie is the other Aussie you are trying to remember.
Cheers
Merv
Hardcore Biker
actually found a bit of the racing and acccident http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znFu6GxZz7I
Has the commentator got mike doohan mixed up with mick Doohan ?
The keep saying Magee is in heaps of pain but it looks more like the realization that you just performed a monumental fuck up :/
The battle between Eddie Lawson and Magee is pretty kewl, but wayne lapping everyone up to 7th place? 25 secs (i think) in front of schwantz ? holy shit.
These guys still look fast to me
Oh bums, found a spectators view of the accident. There isnt much smoke. But he has stopped (maybe for a sec ?) before the accident. If only he had pulled over a bit to do it :/............Reading Schoberts bio he was an up and coming star ugliness here >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIt3bLNb9Y8
Opps back to motogp (present time)
dont break your cake
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Doug Polen also lost most of his pinkies in the rear sprocket/chain. Think he was testing at Daytona at the time.
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