Thankyou for posting these fantastic memorable 500GP races. Barry Sheene, what a legend. Those 500 machines must have been so difficult to ride. Great memories.
3 of the greatest ever, alongside Hailwood, Read, AGO, Surtess, Gardner, Lawson, Sarrinen, Schwantz, Rainey, Doohan, Pedrosa, Stoner, Lorenzo and Marquez, to name a few
Remember watching this live in 1982. Long before the days of cable or satelite tv in the UK. One of the best GP's of the early '80's. Two strokes for me any day. Shame the king retired not long after and Bazza had his accident later this season at Silverstone.
Back in the summer of 1982 my friends and I all riding RD350's or 400's would spend almost every night racing in the canyons of the Hollywood Hills or on Mulholland Dr. One of the reasons for riding all night was we happen to be night owls but, in reality you could tell when there was oncoming traffic around blind corners by the headlights so it was easier to tell when we could use the whole road. The only time we stopped was for fuel. I'm pretty sure that every resident for miles around and the police hated us.
Love it, used to do similar but in different ways , Macpherson street racing in Sydney Australia, up from the beach , through chicane up to the roundabout and back, residents coming out to have a word, all very polite , happy days . Bit different in my home village, am sure the neighbours have orchestrated the theft of our motocross bikes , I joked on the village WhatsApp group that our bikes reminded the neighbours of the church bells ringing , one person was ready to lynch me there and then, I thought time for me to leave . As Shakespeare said , All the world is a race track, and all the men and women are merely racers..
You calling him Freddie and waking up to the fact he doubled the 500 &250 championship made me laugh 😊 Spencer was on top of his game on the best bike by far in both category on that year. Ok it.s great but it’s happened several times before, John Surtees won the 500 and 350cc world titles the same year 3 times in a row… and went on to be a formula 1 world champion.
Remember watching this so well, fantastic race with fantastic riders with some many world champions, the push start was crazy. And now I'm watching Roberts grandson - crazy!
So sad that Barry had his massive crash in Silverstone in the Summer.. '82 was his most credible chance to retake the championship crown until that stage. When he received the V4 he would have been even more motivated. Lamentable.
Agreed, the fact he didn't have the best bike but was riding so well really made it look like a return to the top was on the cards. Then the Silverstone crash, I can still remember being devastated on hearing the news of that accident.
yo estuve en el talud y te ponia la piel de gallina cuando venian los tres juntos inolvidable carrera con legendas de la velocidad como sheene spencer roberts
Poor you. You are almost dead by now. Did you do those stupid drugs, so popular in eighties and nineties? It was alcohol, was it? Hundreds of gallons a year? Brain dead? Haha, I was 16 years old!
The bikes were bad. Oldfashioned. Buy a bike today, it is faster. The television had only 20 pixels. Why the F did we watch this shit? Buying a ticket to Argentina, watching it yourself, would be far better.
Never say Never my friend EssexV6, today we have good riders in the top category of motorcycling, however, they are not "root" like those presented in this video (Sheene, Mamola, Luchinelli, Spencer, Roberts, etc.) and the bikes had an engine 2 times, "monsters", because today, in addition to 4-stroke bikes, we still have aerodynamic and technological devices that help riders. However, as I said above, we have good drivers today ... Especially because dominating bikes of this caliber (500 cc), it is not for everyone.
Estive nessa corrida com um grupo de brasileiros. O Paulinho Baixaria, se vestiu de macacão de couro e entramos no carro (taxi), como se fosse piloto. (piloto de la carretera, piloto de la carretera e fomos entrandokkkkkkk)...Muito engraçado o finado Paulinho Baixaria, Paulão Cintura Alta, Birigui, José Cohen e outras figuraças, amantes do motociclismo e da Velha Rua Augusta de SP....Bons tempos!!!
Barry should have had the British bulldog 🇬🇧 graphic on his helmet instead of that duck, Barry just got amongst it and put up a great scrap.RIP Barry, an inspiration to so many, now you got Murry Walker up there with you, like to be a fly on the wall for that one.
*I had a 1989 RG500 'C' Series Pepsi Suzuki one of the last made, (Frame Number HM31 106277 no 873 of CH Models) and rode it hard including Track Days at Oulton, Cadwell and Mallory Park but was classed as up to 1000cc Class, managed to keep up on corners, but Honda's Blackbirds beat me on acceleration - however finished 3rd so considered a Win at Cadwell Park ! However sold it eventually as it was either going to Kill Me or get Nicked for Speeding to a Guy from Sweden at a huge Profit Today in Mint Condition [as mine was] with low Mileage worth in excess of £20k and appreciating rapidly no doubt ! - I Did a trip from the UK to Switzerland including all [or most] of the Alpine Passes and the Bike was a dream and cruised at 65 mph in 6th gear at around 3500 rpm with ease !*
Great video! Thanks for posting. Today's riders couldn't ride the bikes in this race...they would high-side, and be done. Too much reliance on computer riding aids. MEH.
I ask the question will there ever by another American World Champion since these legends and the late Nicky Hayden... I feel that there won't be... The USA is just not wired to put out top racers as was back in the days... Well, one can hope and pray! Thanks for preserving a golden era... God Bless †
At the moment Spain and Italy does a lot of youth-work to get the kids out on the road racing circuits. As they are the only one, my guess is that they’ll continue their dominance.
First race of that season & Barry didn’t have time to get his JPS leathers so had to use his old Akai leathers with the sponsor blanked out, them were the days 👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧
The power band is not as narrow as many people think. I raced a TZ350 in the early 80s. It was pretty horrible to ride because of the narrow power band until an ace Yamaha race mechanic by the name of Warren Willing advised me to change about 6 things in the carbys. It was amazing the difference it made. It would pull out of a corner like a 4 stroke from about 6500rpm and still have good power to redline.
Men were men and they rode two strokes! The racers these days couldn't handle volatile eruption of the Power Band and precipitate traction to the track, a different era and motorcycle racing that few people can understand! These guys rode dragons and should be held as the greatest that has ever been! The camaraderie and competitiveness between Barry and Kenny where things of Legends are made of!
I was wondering why Mang’s Kawasaki didn’t have dual disks. Then the commentator said it was a 352. I didn’t know you could even enter unless it was a 500.
@@ewennicolson4342 True, probably not many! In Classic Racer some time ago Chas Mortimer (who won that first 500cc GP for Yamaha on a 351 twin) IIRC he admitted the bike had seized in practice and the factory had no more overbored cylinders it pistons so fitted a standard size reducing cc on one cylinder to 174cc, so that twin was probably under 351cc.
It was the time when the pilots had no electronic or other help, you had to have a "big heart" to pilot these "monsters", a 500 two-stroke was far from easy to dominate. No offense to some ;-) C'était le temps où les pilotes n'avaient aucune aide électronique ou autre, il fallait avoir un "gros coeur" pour piloter ces "monstres", une 500 deux temps était loin d'être facile à dominer. N'en déplaise à certains ;-)
Why did they ride bikes with a duo seat, in those years? Was that a racing class? TWO macho's on a racing bike? Those huge bikes look weird. I do not be believe this was only 40 years ago. It looks like medieval bikes.
❤ absolutely Gold , Barry riding his xxxxx off, this should have been his year, never forget you Barry, think about you most weeks , rip
Thankyou for posting these fantastic memorable 500GP races. Barry Sheene, what a legend. Those 500 machines must have been so difficult to ride. Great memories.
Phenomenal riders!! Roberts, Sheene, and Spencer!!
3 of the greatest ever, alongside Hailwood, Read, AGO, Surtess, Gardner, Lawson, Sarrinen, Schwantz, Rainey, Doohan, Pedrosa, Stoner, Lorenzo and Marquez, to name a few
Remember watching this live in 1982. Long before the days of cable or satelite tv in the UK. One of the best GP's of the early '80's. Two strokes for me any day. Shame the king retired not long after and Bazza had his accident later this season at Silverstone.
En Argentina ya existía la tv por cable y satelital en ese año ? Tan atrasado estaban en el reino unido ? Saludo desde Canadá
Excellent camera work and yet another great duel between Roberts and Sheene.
Thanks for posting it!
RIP sheene
初めて見れた！
ホンダが2ｽﾄNS500を本格投入した年だ、フレディのリアタイヤが映像でも解る通りデカすぎて、この頃はリア18インチなのでしっくり来てないのが走りでも解る。83年にリア16インチにして覚醒する。しかしケニーとバリーの2大巨頭相手に3気筒マシンでココまで出来るのは凄いわ。
これは貴重な映像を見せて頂けて感謝です！ キングケニー 英雄バリー・シーン ファースト・フレディ 前年王者の伊達男ルッキネリ レジェンド同士のガチンコバトル！！ ヤマハはこの頃から始動性が悪く後から追い上げてくる。 バリーとの競り合いが影響したのか、フレディはタイヤをタレさせてしまったが、ケニーは後半までタイヤを持たせながら追い上げ、しかも最終的には勝ってしまった。恐るべきタイヤマネージメント！
記録では色々あってウンチーニがスズキでチャンピオン マモラはこの時から惜しくもランキング２位が多い。
ケニーが3年連続のチャンピオンを獲ったあたりの映像資料も見たいです。
そして伝説の83年でさえシーズン全戦の映像は入手困難、私はなんとか84年と85年をＶＨＳで集めましたが所々抜けています。
Just started to watch these old races. Fantastic.
当時見たくても見られなかった貴重な映像をありがとうございます
世界遺産級の映像！！見られる事に感謝！
How very dare you
Back in the summer of 1982 my friends and I all riding RD350's or 400's would spend almost every night racing in the canyons of the Hollywood Hills or on Mulholland Dr. One of the reasons for riding all night was we happen to be night owls but, in reality you could tell when there was oncoming traffic around blind corners by the headlights so it was easier to tell when we could use the whole road. The only time we stopped was for fuel. I'm pretty sure that every resident for miles around and the police hated us.
Love it, used to do similar but in different ways , Macpherson street racing in Sydney Australia, up from the beach , through chicane up to the roundabout and back, residents coming out to have a word, all very polite , happy days . Bit different in my home village, am sure the neighbours have orchestrated the theft of our motocross bikes , I joked on the village WhatsApp group that our bikes reminded the neighbours of the church bells ringing , one person was ready to lynch me there and then, I thought time for me to leave . As Shakespeare said , All the world is a race track, and all the men and women are merely racers..
Não tem como não sentir saudade ao ver 3 lendas brigarem a prova inteira com muita técnica e acima de tudo respeito!!!!!!
Brings back great memories! Thank you for posting!
Freddie went on to win two world championships in the same year ?! Absolutely incredible n will never be repeated.
You calling him Freddie and waking up to the fact he doubled the 500 &250 championship made me laugh 😊 Spencer was on top of his game on the best bike by far in both category on that year. Ok it.s great but it’s happened several times before, John Surtees won the 500 and 350cc world titles the same year 3 times in a row… and went on to be a formula 1 world champion.
And Hailwood won 250 and 350 championships in '66 and '67.
1985, I believe
@@superwrench9445 Giacomo Agostini won multiple classes in the same year more than Surtees.
@@jamesdoust6975 sure was he F1 champion too?
Remember watching this so well, fantastic race with fantastic riders with some many world champions, the push start was crazy. And now I'm watching Roberts grandson - crazy!
Amazing young Spencer and new Honda machine!
So sad that Barry had his massive crash in Silverstone in the Summer.. '82 was his most credible chance to retake the championship crown until that stage. When he received the V4 he would have been even more motivated. Lamentable.
Agreed, the fact he didn't have the best bike but was riding so well really made it look like a return to the top was on the cards. Then the Silverstone crash, I can still remember being devastated on hearing the news of that accident.
I think ThE 82 Championship was reserved for Barry. He would have won in silverstone
yo estuve en el talud y te ponia la piel de gallina cuando venian los tres juntos inolvidable carrera con legendas de la velocidad como sheene spencer roberts
si yo tambien estuve en la horquilla, el dia anterior estive en la recta y no los veias...
Debe ser impresionante
@@pabloperez4063 sin duda para mi un antes y un despues en el mundo del motociclismo
I'm was here...with 14 years old! Roberts... my God!
Poor you. You are almost dead by now. Did you do those stupid drugs, so popular in eighties and nineties? It was alcohol, was it? Hundreds of gallons a year? Brain dead? Haha, I was 16 years old!
The bikes were bad. Oldfashioned. Buy a bike today, it is faster. The television had only 20 pixels. Why the F did we watch this shit? Buying a ticket to Argentina, watching it yourself, would be far better.
Superb race Barry happy memories. We'll never see the like again😢😢😢
Never say Never my friend EssexV6, today we have good riders in the top category of motorcycling, however, they are not "root" like those presented in this video (Sheene, Mamola, Luchinelli, Spencer, Roberts, etc.) and the bikes had an engine 2 times, "monsters", because today, in addition to 4-stroke bikes, we still have aerodynamic and technological devices that help riders. However, as I said above, we have good drivers today ...
Especially because dominating bikes of this caliber (500 cc), it is not for everyone.
Estive nessa corrida com um grupo de brasileiros. O Paulinho Baixaria, se vestiu de macacão de couro e entramos no carro (taxi), como se fosse piloto. (piloto de la carretera, piloto de la carretera e fomos entrandokkkkkkk)...Muito engraçado o finado Paulinho Baixaria, Paulão Cintura Alta, Birigui, José Cohen e outras figuraças, amantes do motociclismo e da Velha Rua Augusta de SP....Bons tempos!!!
The beauty of it all ,AWESOME .
Barry should have had the British bulldog 🇬🇧 graphic on his helmet instead of that duck, Barry just got amongst it and put up a great scrap.RIP Barry, an inspiration to so many, now you got Murry Walker up there with you, like to be a fly on the wall for that one.
Two current multi time champions and a future multi champion in a ding-dong of a race!
Go on Barry my son,good ole Barry having a large portion of GIT SUM 😄😎 R.I.P BAZZA
FANTASTIC years, FANTASTIC RIDERS...❤❤❤
Classic racing... thank you.
*I had a 1989 RG500 'C' Series Pepsi Suzuki one of the last made, (Frame Number HM31 106277 no 873 of CH Models) and rode it hard including Track Days at Oulton, Cadwell and Mallory Park but was classed as up to 1000cc Class, managed to keep up on corners, but Honda's Blackbirds beat me on acceleration - however finished 3rd so considered a Win at Cadwell Park ! However sold it eventually as it was either going to Kill Me or get Nicked for Speeding to a Guy from Sweden at a huge Profit Today in Mint Condition [as mine was] with low Mileage worth in excess of £20k and appreciating rapidly no doubt ! - I Did a trip from the UK to Switzerland including all [or most] of the Alpine Passes and the Bike was a dream and cruised at 65 mph in 6th gear at around 3500 rpm with ease !*
Graeme Crosby later switched to cars mostly racing in touring car races in New Zealand and Australia
You did a great job!
NS500 of debut year?
Barry Sheene also.
yo estuve ahi.... gran carrera gran dia..
Pure racing. Thanks for sharing this race.
Well done King Bazz!!
8 world championship s in the podium! 3 of the greatest pilotos ever
Many thanks yds, great memories, Bazza right up the front!
BELLISSIMO....VERO MOTOCICLISMO....NIENTE ELETTRONICA SOLO MANICO!!
Your Caps-Lock is stuck. Again. Maybe you should F yourself. Buy a new keyboard! Fool!
Motor 2 tempos, pneus e suspensão inadequados para os dias de hoje, porém em uma corrida, no grid sempre tinha uns 5 campeões do mundo...🇧🇷
Great video! Thanks for posting. Today's riders couldn't ride the bikes in this race...they would high-side, and be done. Too much reliance on computer riding aids. MEH.
tous les héros de la vitesse sont la merci pour la vidéo
Glad You Enjoyed It .
28 marzo 1982
Good stuff right here. Should televise this instead of 'NASCRAP"
They look so slow compared to today's bikes.
I ask the question will there ever by another American World Champion since these legends and the late Nicky Hayden... I feel that there won't be... The USA is just not wired to put out top racers as was back in the days... Well, one can hope and pray! Thanks for preserving a golden era... God Bless †
At the moment Spain and Italy does a lot of youth-work to get the kids out on the road racing circuits. As they are the only one, my guess is that they’ll continue their dominance.
This was back when Bike-racing was REAL RACING!!! No more than HOLD THE HELL ON an PRAY!!! Lol.
Sheen was smooth, if not held up ...who knows. Class example for us riders.
First race of that season & Barry didn’t have time to get his JPS leathers so had to use his old Akai leathers with the sponsor blanked out, them were the days 👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧
Freddie is just sooo smooooooth.
Narrow power band, no rider aids, no launch control, no tyre warmers , just honest balls out ,skilled racing.
The power band is not as narrow as many people think. I raced a TZ350 in the early 80s. It was pretty horrible to ride because of the narrow power band until an ace Yamaha race mechanic by the name of Warren Willing advised me to change about 6 things in the carbys. It was amazing the difference it made. It would pull out of a corner like a 4 stroke from about 6500rpm and still have good power to redline.
Parabéns gostei do vídeo.
i wanted a v4 two stroke so bad back then
I used to think 4-strokes are shit. But as I got older I began to know for sure.
Men were men and they rode two strokes! The racers these days couldn't handle volatile eruption of the Power Band and precipitate traction to the track, a different era and motorcycle racing that few people can understand! These guys rode dragons and should be held as the greatest that has ever been! The camaraderie and competitiveness between Barry and Kenny where things of Legends are made of!
Proper, proper racing. How can anybody compare the procession that is F1, to THIS. Epic
very cool Sunkus🐱
Food for thought, today's 600 cc street bikes are the same size with the same horse power
But not the same weight, fairly sure those old race bikes are really light weight in comparison.
@@paulvoak6683 290 lbs at 200 horse power
Even more power...cos 120 4St with a plane curve are much more effective. A CBR IS 171 kg....these GP could be 125 kg.
Some advantage for the GP
La Mia, Yamaha Ow81,pesava179kili,era il 1979.correvo come privato Svizzero, ..Yamaha GP Belgarda...
An TON MANG
... Was he riding a kawa 351 cc?
5,30
That was great!
これまた珍しい映像❣️
スペンサーとバリーシーンの新旧対決は面白い
天才、帝王、走る生傷男!!
Awesome race.
Respect totally to these guys, in today's racing world anyone else think these seemed like warm up laps with speeds the likes of 2019 machines ?
Brilliant racing. So much better than the garbage they call racing today.
Thanks some footage of barry on the yamaha 500cc which he didnt like an went back to syzuki next year again
Moto gp wasn't around till the four strokes appeared. It was just called motorcycle grand prix.
se puede crear una obra de arte en moto? estas imagenes lo son,
スペンサーが右コーナー侵入前のブレーキングで右足を結構出している時って、あれリアブレーキは踏んでるんかな？
踏んでます。凄く上手に というかリアタイやのホッピングを抑える程度しか効かないようにセッティングされているそうです。
racersのns500特集の記事にありました。
ウンチーニがチャンピオンに成った年だなァ。
確か5勝してウンチーニはチャンピオン、片山敬済もスェーデンだと思ったけど1勝を得たシーズンだったかと。
Superb
Nice racing!
Two stroke 500s need to come back i dont watch gp racing anymore its fucking shit
熱い！なんつー突っ込みだ！
Given what was going on in the Falklands, I'm surprised Sheene even was allowed by both sides to even be there?
I'm amazed that push starts were used for so long considering how inherently dangerous they are! 😬
So nice to see!!!!!
125bhp on something the weight of a 125cc. They were pushing 200bhp with no electronics when they changed back to 4 strokes…
82’アルゼンチン名バトル。初めてちゃんと見れました。ケニーの最終ラップの周回遅れとの接触。今の時代なら審議やろなww
KING Kenny Roberts !
Fast Freddie and Magic Sheene
I was here... with ventino rossi... back that's year I was 13 and rossi 12 years...
I was wondering why Mang’s Kawasaki didn’t have dual disks. Then the commentator said it was a 352. I didn’t know you could even enter unless it was a 500.
500cc class meant 351-500cc.
Yamaha won their first 500cc GP with a twin cylinder MC of 351cc
When entered back in the 350 class it would be machines from 251 to 349 (or 350) cc
Even in 1994 Aprilia had a 400cc two-cylinder bike in the 500 class with Reggiani ;)
@@keithdawson4804 How many of those 351's you reckon were just 350 machines with the fairing switched? :p
@@ewennicolson4342
True, probably not many!
In Classic Racer some time ago Chas Mortimer (who won that first 500cc GP for Yamaha on a 351 twin) IIRC he admitted the bike had seized in practice and the factory had no more overbored cylinders it pistons so fitted a standard size reducing cc on one cylinder to 174cc, so that twin was probably under 351cc.
Yo estuve ahi!
Two mechanics for Barry, nowadays they have two mechanics keeping a eye on the cappuccino machine😊
Sheene or pair, Mamola 👆👆✔️💯💙💕, Spencer toujours aussi CON, 2022 👇👇👈👉☝️💛💙
Eso sí eran carreras.Nada de aletines
It was the time when the pilots had no electronic or other help, you had to have a "big heart" to pilot these "monsters", a 500 two-stroke was far from easy to dominate. No offense to some ;-)
C'était le temps où les pilotes n'avaient aucune aide électronique ou autre, il fallait avoir un "gros coeur" pour piloter ces "monstres", une 500 deux temps était loin d'être facile à dominer. N'en déplaise à certains ;-)
Ricordiamoci anche di Gilberto Parlotti 🙏🏻
Has Suzuki ever had a fast bike?
Well they did in 1981 and 1982 because the riders took the world title's in those years.
@@stephenwilliams926 76 and 77 too with Barry winning the championships
Sheene wasn't even riding works machinery as far as I know.
I didn't understand why Sheene couldn't get a factory ride at this stage in his career.
Yamaha stupids
esto eran carreras de verdad
Ahora también....ve Assen 2018
@@pabloperez4063 son imbeciles, no te gastes
Back when the U.S. ruled Moto G.P. Now there are no U.S. G.P. racers. In F1 we only have 1 driver that won't be back next year,
😊
KING Kenny
King KENNY ❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉
👍
Kok start pakai kaki wkwkkw
フレデイの突っ込み すげぇ！
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
🏁🏁🏁I recommend that you look through to the end🏎️🏎️🏎️
0:49 💟💚💚
👇 👇 👇 👇💯
Kenny Robert's was always a bully
MOOIE sport motor sport wedstrijden wie gaat het winnen moeilijk ===
Ridiculous circuit. I don't think it is still in operation
電子制御のない戦い やはり漢の戦い 多少のマシン差なんざクソ喰らえ
今のレース抜きつ抜かれつがない気がス
Okay
Why did they ride bikes with a duo seat, in those years? Was that a racing class? TWO macho's on a racing bike? Those huge bikes look weird. I do not be believe this was only 40 years ago. It looks like medieval bikes.