I was there for this race. My first time at Bike Week. I was touring the lower 48 states for seven months. By the time I returned to Anchorage Alaska I had covered over 33,000 miles on my R100 RT.
Dale Singleton one of the forgotten greats that won Daytona two times plus a championship as a privateer it's a shame he was killed in a plane crash he truly was a great roadracing 🌟
In 1983, I didn't get to see it live at Daytona, but I did get to watch it live on TBS! I was and I'm still..., a huge Kenny Roberts fan! IMHO, Kenny was the greatest and most exciting motorcycle racer of all time! Yep, I'm an OG.
Oh hell yes Eddie Lawson21 & Kenny Roberts2 TZ inspired 2-Stroke GP bikes Freddie Spencer & his HRC Factory ride. ... Yep It was all rice and was off the chain back in the day as these guys went to Europe and handed them their asses!!!🇺🇸🏁🇺🇸🏁🇺🇸🏁🇺🇸🏁🌐World Class Dominance by the Yanks!!!🇺🇸🏁🇺🇸🏁🇺🇸!!😉✔
Wow fantastic video! Thanks for posting this! Seeing King Kenny at the top of his game and Lawson stepping out from under his shadow; and then there is Steve Wise! One of my childhood motocross heroes making the jump fro a Honda factory motocross racer to a Honda factory roadracer! Brilliant!
Thank you Heather for sharing with us!!Awesome job this was the hey day of my life interest in road racing! Dave Despain is the ambassador of motorcycle road racing . A class act.
@@jamesholt7340Wrong , they can easily run over 200 mph these days , 180-190 was very possible . Dirt track bikes that run the mile tracks hit 135 in the straights , corners at 90mph…I raced from 1972-1980…
The Announcer Failed To Mention At 1:30 That British Motorcycles Won During The '60's With Dick Mann & Gary Nixon. Honda Won In 1970 With Dick Mann. Thank You For Sharing This Historical Video.
I bought the '85 RZ350 in red & white. Wanted the yell & blk but they they only had the r&w in stock. I sold it in '90 for the same price it cost new. Then bought a '85 RZV500R.
if you had the chance to see that race , observing the OW69 s flyng on the banking ( wether you were there or seeing it on tv) consider you are part of motorcycle intense history.. I was proud to be part of it and still am for also racing on that track on a modified RZ500N .
You could hear the crowd cheering around the track as Kenny was catching Freddy. I was at turn five when he actually took the lead. The crowd was roaring by then.
I was at this race and its cool to revisit..Especially cool to see the Yamaha pull away from the Honda on the high bank....power and style and skill...and CONCENTRATION
I remember this race as well as the Daytona Supercross both aired on The Superstation WTBS (now TBS). I miss the TBS of the mid to late 80's. They also aired the Atlanta Supercross in '82 and '84 as well as the weekly motorsport show with Dave Despain and bob Varsha called Motorweek illustrated. I miss that too.
I seen them at Laguna Seca in 1982. Freddy was riding the infamous oval piston NR500. If I remember correctly, Eddie Lawson, riding for Kawasaki, was the star of that show. Having 2 rides in 2 very different events and winning them both! 250GP class and Superbike. Ironically, we went to see The King! 'King Kenny' I do believe that Randy Mamola won the main event on the Suzuki square four 500.
If memory serves, Randy Mamola beat Kenny while riding with the flu and a damaged finger from a previous GP race. Mike Baldwin was hanging with the two for about half the race then backed off, because Randy and Kenny were riding the tires off the back straight! Great race and great memories from my youth!
OW69 my all-time favourite race bike. Kenny's bike lives in Japan, not sure where Eddie's bike is. A shame Yamaha never made the OW69 a production racer, according to Kenny it was spinning the back wheel around the banking and halfway up the straight. Cojones the size of watermelons those boys, no electronics, crap tires and 200hp 700cc 2 stroke monsters. AWESOME.
If I remember right Roberts lapped the field and was clocked at 197 m.p.h !!! KR was my hero.The back markers still tell the story of being blitzed by the King.
So funny to watch this. I did a 2:15 at Daytona before they changed the track and that was slow. Bikes were so much faster even then, that was early 2000's.
Nitrogen reservoirs on the ow yam front forks back then .i know Kawasaki are only just doing that the couple of yrs .Japanese creatively you cannot nock! always rapid progress 👌perfection
une grosse méchante à l'époque, je m'en souviens ,Puis Honda , cadre Martin , ensuite Gauthier Genou pour Kawa Kenny Roberts l'homme du moment.sur Yam pascal
Easy there buckwheat it was Kenny up to this point 83 good Eddie of one without that flat probably they know who's going to win this year coming from dirt to Daytona there was one other young man Gene Church just two years later even though we had one twice before but still shut down the world champion Marco luccanelli
