My 2021 @araieu helmet. Hope you like the subtle changes we done with @drudi_performance. 🤙
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My #Top9 Insta photos by interaction this year
Last pic of 2020. It’s been a strange one hey! Take care everyone and I wish you all a happy and healthy 21! Thanks for followin…
Last pic of 2020. It’s been a strange one hey! Take care everyone and I wish you all a happy and healthy 21! Thanks for following ✌️
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Aiming for seven: Rea, Lowes and crew chiefs review the 2021 Kawasaki
WorldSBK
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The light at this time of year is always pretty cool. Debating taking the tree down tomorrow. What’s the official date of Xmas t…
The light at this time of year is always pretty cool. Debating taking the tree down tomorrow. What’s the official date of Xmas tree departure?
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WorldSBK at Oran Park in 1989
With Phil Aynsley
After covering the first Oran Park WorldSBK event in an earlier column (1988 Link), this time around we take a look at the second WSBK event to be held in Australia – the 1989 round, again at Oran Park.
The first race was run under wet, then drying conditions and was won by Peter Goddard from Rob Phillis and Fabrizio Pirovano.
The weather had cleared for the second race which saw Michael Dowson take the win followed by Raymond Roche and Rob Phillis. A spectacular coming together by Malcolm Campbell and Fabrizio Pirovano on lap 15 saw both fail to finish.
Fred Merkel on the Honda RC30 went on to take his second consecutive championship.
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Merry Xmas everyone. Sending so much love to those that can’t be with loved ones today as well as all our essential workers! Abs…
Merry Xmas everyone. Sending so much love to those that can’t be with loved ones today as well as all our essential workers! Absolute hero’s! 🎄
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Festive AF! Love her! Merry Christmas ya filthy animals!
THE 2020 JOURNEY – Jonathan Rea
Here you go, huge thanks to @gaz_price for documenting my season. Hope you enjoy this movie. Step by Step – My Journey!
What a crazy season! For the first time ever we’ve managed to document every step of the way to my 2020 title. Directed & Produced By GSP MediaCamerasGary Pr…
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A look back to 1988 when WorldSBK raced at Oran Park
WorldSBK at Oran Park in 1988
With Phil Aynsley
A bit of a look back at the first year of World Super Bike – 1988. The Oran Park round. I’ve recently been informed about a lot of the behind the scenes machinations by a very well placed, on the spot scrutineer at the event which makes for some interesting background!
The Marlboro Team bikes of Doohan and Dowson were actually FZR750R ‘U’ models of which five had been sent from the US to Australia. These used an alloy frame as opposed to Pirovano’s steel framed FZ750, with its handlebars mounted above the fork yokes as per homologation and all 200 FZR ‘U’s made were homologated for AMA racing in the US, which is where they all had been sent.
As a result these bikes were not homologated for WSBK as Yamaha had not made the necessary 1000! This put the FIM technical steward Hans Von Der Marwitz and the rest of the officials in a rather difficult position if they were to avoid a riot in the pits by excluding the team’s bikes.
While they were contemplating their response “information” came to hand that Yamaha had not yet supplied Bimota with 200 engines for their YB4! So how could the FIM allow the Bimota team to continue racing with what in effect were un-homologated bikes, in the championship that Davide Tardozzi was leading at that point (it seems that the FIM inspectors had been shown the same 25 bikes numerous times in-between coffee breaks with the build plates being changed while they were relaxing)…
In a case of “two wrongs making a right” both teams were allowed to race with Mick Doohan and Micheal Dowson finishing 1-2 in both legs and the lap record being broken 21 times over the weekend…
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