Funny Motorsport Videos...

[chaos4NH]

Some nice MotoGP footage from 2011

I watch MotoGP every chance I get. I raced bikes when I was a kid, and blasting around in a car doesn't even come close; I'd still be on one if falling off wasn't going to be the end of it. At least punching a car in results in little more than a short walk & a long invoice.

Couple memories came up watching that: Cal Rayborn being the first to drift a RR bike, doing it on the high banking at Daytona(!) back in, what, '71 or so? It's really not possible to describe how lousy tires were back then; I'd guess the majority of improvement in bike times since the 60s comes from tires alone.

The other was Dave Aldana getting off on the straight at Talladega at 170+ while testing tires. Cycle World had a series of snaps of him going down the track without the bike. IIRC, his injuries were nothing to get excited about.

And, of course, Kenny Roberts rewriting the rules for RR by taking a very sharp intellect & his well-developed dirt riding skills to Europe and doing the supposedly impossible a la Phil Hill & Mario Andretti. He was so good, and with a committed manufacturer in Yamaha behind him, he was able to do it year after year. Kenny's description of how to take a particular turn was so counterintuitive to me that I had to read it many times just to begin to get what he was talking about. I'm certain he hadn't studied it, but the man had physics down cold.

Please, please! Don't forget Dan Gurney winning F1 in his own designed car, the Gurney Eagle. At SPA no less!

[eastcoastbumps]

I'm pretty sure Ryan C is in this video somewhere.

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[breakaway500]

No helmets..must not have been pushing it hard... ...

[ST1Ddope]

Balls of Steel

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[dradernh]

Looks exciting!

[breakaway500]

^I was thinking...insanity!

[Chrispy]

The Irish road racing stuff is nuts, it's like the Isle of Man every event but wheel to wheel.

[SEISAN]

WOW... total craziness.

The run off in the small villages is... pick a stone fence, pick a house theres plenty. I'm glad they did not show any crashes. i would assume there are some and there not pretty.

[John F]

Oh, to be young and Indestructible again

[Chrispy]

This medley shows the wheel to wheel racing action a bit better, some spills are shown but nothing graphic.

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[eastcoastbumps]

This guy has been watching too much soccer.

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[Chrispy]

This guy has been watching too much soccer.

LOL, WTF?

Couldn't get his bike running so figured might as well get the race red flagged? Not sure he has any friends left after they saw this video!

[breakaway500]

^ ..talk about a swan dive. It would almost be funny...if it weren't so overly pathetic.Hopefully,this person was black listed.

[eastcoastbumps]

Yes, he was disquallified from the series according to the source of the video.

[Mick]

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