1988 Swedish 500ccGP - Eddie Lawson and Wayne Gardner
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- Опубліковано 3 січ 2017
- A FULL grip of 500cc GP machines at the Swedish GP with Eddie Lawson wrapping up the championship ahead of Wayne Gardner - Great commentary from the late Barry Sheene.
Eddie Lawson, one of the all time greats. Four time GP World Champion and the First rider to win back to back Championships on 2 different Manufactures motorcycles. It took a certain Valentino Rossi to duplicate that! In addition to winning the AMA Superbike Title 2 years in a row on just Beastly Dinosaur motorcycles, and winning the AMA 250 cc Championship one of those years as well. In the category of Best Rider of all time, Lawson has to be included. These 500 cc Motorcycles were just Lethal Weapons. What an era, glad I was there.
Agreed: Eddie had the brains and the grit to switch from Honda to Yamaha (and back again)... Eddie never lost the drive. Erv Kanemoto listened to Eddie and Erv Delivered (HRC be damned).There was the catastrophic front brake screw up at Laguna Seca (I was at that race) in 1990 which was the beginning of the end, unfortunately.
yea, rode a TZ750 back in '81, earning enough points to be awarded AMA national number 45 for 1982 - (6 top ten finishes, best finish of 7th at Road America)- they were INDEED a handful
@@matthewhelton1725 yea, but jump right back on that Cagiva and gave them their first win like he said he would -
I was at this race. My dad took me and my brothers to all of the TT:s held at Anderstorp Sweden. Great memories
The Golden Era of 500cc Grand Prix racing...The Aussies versus The Yanks.
(1986 to 1996).
This is/was a little known fact, but back In '77, when we were both in the 250cc novice class, I won my heat race and qualified 2nd next to Eddie at Daytona for the 250cc novice race - me, Eddie, Lance Jones and Scott Shin mixed up for about half the race until I retired with gearbox issues - Eddie won, but I DID lead a couple of laps and probably would have finished on the podium- but it wasn't meant to be I guess, but it sure was cool to line up next to Eddie on the front row anyway
Greetings Steve
Barry Sheene u legend. "Gardners bike steers like an airport trolley"
Legendary bikes and legendary riders. Get it wrong and these things would buck like wild horses.
Boy, Kel Carruthers had that Yamaha working incredibly well as always- that bike was PLANTED- and I'm pretty sure that most of the setup info didn't come from data acquisition or his suspension engineers - 90% of it came from Eddie's feelings from years of experience-
Incredible!
Eddie was my all time favourite ever. The days when they didn't do stupid things like put the leg out going into a corner. Idiots of today.
Love Barry Sheene talking about Gardner's Honda "He's got a thing that steers like an airport trolley"
And then Eddie won the 1989 championship on it!
@@afenijmeijer9027 he was talking about at the end of the race when the tires and suspension have gone off. Plus Gardner won on that bike in '87 and it doesn't mean 'things' didn't change for '89. Barry's commentary was stating that Gardner's main complain was that the brakes didn't last during the "87 and "88 seasons. And the main point was that the engineers seem to have a habit of not listening to the riders complaints/recommendations.
@@afenijmeijer9027 also Rainey even leading early in the season lost because of tyres and gave advantage to Lawson, otherwise would have been a good fight for the title
Lawson had a problem with the brakes when the mechanic forgot to put the brake pin in the caliper and the pads fell out and lawson crashed, after that he said the only guy who works on his brakes will be the same guy who forgot to put the pin in,he said to the mechanic to improve the brakes and the reason he picked him was so the mechanic would learn not to ever make the mistake again on lawsons bike, in the hands of mick doohan the nsr500 screamer is the dominating bike of the 500cc gp beasts, no doubt about it and show me another rider who dominated racing as much as doohan did, lawson, rainey, gardner and shwantz were all awesome champions but doohan surpasses them all
Great race Steady Lawson
I love listening to these old "screamer" 500s as compared to the big bang configurations wholly adopted by the mid 90s. The big bang bikes sounded so much more tame and almost quiet compared to these beasts!
Wish we could see the 1983 Swedish GP so we could see what happened in the last corner between Kenny Roberts and Freddie Spencer.
That #3 chap.......he's pretty good.
Thanks for posting!
Let's not forget big rob weighed about 14 stone. That's a lot of extra weight for tires and brakes etc etc. He was a legend.
The Man
Thanks!
And no, I'm not Freddie Spencer, I earned my handle street racing in the early '70's through the '90's.
steady eddie awesome lawson
i miss barry sheene
Amazingly that was a pretty boring race, but you watch it for Barry Sheene's commentary, which is so interesting and informative.
Now that is rare, watching old sports for the commentary.
Kevin Magee was in this race. Made infamous for ending Bubba Shoberts career by stopping on the race track to do a burnout at a Laguna Seca
I love yamaha. Congrats eddie.
Did you find some old VHS tapes of the late night broadcast ? I used to video it myself. Thanks for posting, really enjoying them .
I was there.
I was there. I don't remember seeing you.
So was i 😉
Now, we can see the footage
Lawson avai déjà roulé depuis 1984 sur YAMAHA, voilà qui arrive Rayner, garner et Honda vs Harley, jamais compris on eu beaucoup de mal à trouver un châssis plus rigide avec leur V4 sur les début 🤩🌠💕
Les Honda été réellement en retard sur le v4, yamaha avait déjà compris les 4 cylindres, hrc restera bloqué longtemps avec leur 3 cylindres, rip Sarron 🤩🤩🌟
FREDDIE SPENCER restera l'homme Honda, car 2 TRIDANT Eddie restera dans la rétine NSR, COMME GARDNER, ON APRI SUR YAM
#4 moto ELF une trajedie 🗯️✔️⭐😍