“Well, I remember doing a wheelie down the front straight of the warmup lap and the wheelie was too long and it blocked the oil pressure, and it popped the oil seal out,” says Roberts, remembering the events of Sunday, August 12th, 1979. “So oil was all over my bike, and I went into the right-hander and almost fell down and went, “Wow, something’s wrong,” and I saw it and I raced back to the start line.

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