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6 Jan 2007, 23:19 (Ref:1808558) | #1 | |
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ESPN Classic Barry Sheene era stuff
It seems ESPN Classic are doing motorcycling every Saturday for a few weeks now.
Just finished watching this weeks stuff and it was excellent. They showed the 1977 Transatlantic Trophy from Oulton Park won by America (boo!) and the 1984 British GP won by Randy Mamola. Excellent TV in both cases and boy was Oulton a fast track! Haven't seen footage of the old track for ages and it took me by surprise! Next week is the 1979 British GP I think, which runs for about 50mins. Cracking viewing, so make sure you all tune in! |
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7 Jan 2007, 11:20 (Ref:1808734) | #2 | |
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Missed it...does anyone with better motorcycling knowledge with me know which race it was where Sheene overtook another rider and then proceeded to stick two fingers up at him? They've been doing the ads on ESPN Classic for the past week or so and keen to see that...interested to see what happened before and could have brought that reaction!
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It was that race I think. Murray Walker did the commentary, it was on the Barry Sheene DVD....Definately Silverstone, a great race.
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7 Jan 2007, 11:39 (Ref:1808744) | #4 | |
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Which race - Transatlantic trophy or British GP?
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7 Jan 2007, 11:40 (Ref:1808746) | #5 | ||
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1979 British Grand prix. I think.
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7 Jan 2007, 11:45 (Ref:1808749) | #6 | |
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was that at Brands? I thought that was where the clip was...
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7 Jan 2007, 12:21 (Ref:1808768) | #7 | ||
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No Silverstone.
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7 Jan 2007, 13:53 (Ref:1808831) | #8 | |
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Hms ok. Will just have to try and remember to catch the prog and see!
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7 Jan 2007, 17:38 (Ref:1808920) | #9 | ||
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Iy ws at Silverstone and the other rider was Kenny Roberts, they actually got on OK, but there was some fairly good natured banter between them during the seventies.
I was amazed ah how dangerous the track looked, surrounded by raliway sleepers, but how quick was Steve Baker on that TZ, brilliant And the GP footage again was very good, with John Surtees helping out Murray on the mike, and that was one of the few tiems anyone over here saw the weird NSR500 race after Freddie Spemcer got injured |
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For those who missed it, the program is being repeated this Saturday (20th Jan). Check schedules for the exact time.
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19 Jan 2007, 18:06 (Ref:1819594) | #11 | |
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Thanks for the tip, I've added it to my EPG
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22 Jan 2007, 23:43 (Ref:1822284) | #12 | ||
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Suze it was the British GP from Silverstone - its on our dvd program The Barry Sheene Story - theres a link posted in the Gentlemans Motor Racing Diary thread - if you click on the video trailer for the dvd you will see that sequence in the trailer.
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Well it was actually a different video this weeeknd, they showed some raoe of the year stuff from Oulton in 79 and then the entire British GP from 1981 the race that Middleburg won on the private Suzuki, and quite brilliant it was too, great racing between Jack, Kenny and Randy, awesome names kept cropping up, and there was Freddie on the original Honda, didnt seee him on screen, but some great stuff.
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23 Jan 2007, 08:30 (Ref:1822499) | #14 | |
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Ok thanks for that Steve, will have to have a look.
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