Honda should never have let Beattie go . He was young , fast and very comfortable on the Honda . Going to Yamaha was just a disaster and Suzuki was no better for him . A fantastic rider .
50,000 spectators show up on Friday, another 80,000 on Saturday, 120,000 show up for Sunday's event and Moto America is lucky to get 20,000 over the entire weekend combined- what does THAT tell you??
Rainey absolutely thrashing that read Dunlop and Schwartz outbraking them in the chicane. Classic Suzuka and great ride by Beattie and Itoh on their fuel injected rockets. .
No disrespect to Wayne or any of the other riders, but in my unglorified opinion, there's NOBODY from back in the 500cc days that pushed/ leaned on the front tire like KS did - AMAZING