This was racing at its best,Barry coming from last place,the leader coming off after leading for 11 laps, numerous overtaking,tiny prize fund and engineers and riders from around the globe. Never to be seen again. Amazing 😁
Great to see again, the commentary though leaves you wondering why they use ex-racers now, when they just need a meeting programme in front of two rugby lads!
The circuit is a bit slower now as they changed the left hander after Druids hairpin to make it slower. You used to change up a gear before powering through it.
It was around 1999 before they introduced the blue flag into motorcycle racing, could have been used here. I wonder who invented knee sliders..... Great footage of Brands too.
Of course not! I am a Marc Márquez fan, And I have enjoyed this race as much as anybody!! I am 53 y.o., I started in this wonderful sport back in 1979 at ThE age of 12...And even though I am from Spain, My top héroe was BARRY SHEENE. Norwadays, I have a Big photo of him in My living room. Over ThE years, without caring for nationalities fanatism, I have admired ThE American generation of Roberts, Spencer, Rainey, Schwantz,...ThE aussies Gardner And Doohan...but now It IS ThE europeans such as Marquéz , Quartararo, Viñales Who rule. In ThE opinión of Roberts, or Agostini, Spencer, etc...Marc IS as good as anyone, And he IS not guilty for being born in ThE technological era. I am sure he would have been in front with these machines. Respect for everybody Who IS good And fast (And Also for ThE rest)
Used to go to Brands Hatch with my late husband ,Raymond, I rode pillion on a Vincent 1,000 Rapide Motorbike ::: It was GREAT I’m now 79 yrs old and would love to do the tonne again on the same motorbike 😃💖🏍💖🏍💖👍
I remember this race vividly! Takes me back and makes me realise how much time has passed me by…….terrifically well fought right to the end. Sadly Dave Potter crashed badly at Oulton park in 1981 and died of his injuries a while late.
"look at Ditchburn's acrobatics, hanging off the bike"...........if only they had known nowadays elbow down is commonplace in bike racing - proof of tyre & suspension development. Balls were bigger in the 70's though!
Proper gutsy racing. I remember Barry Sheen once commenting on a Yamaha LC350 GP and he said they made his riders look like Sunday drivers the way the threw their bike on road tyres 😂
Grant had no idea who had won that....after a few seconds thought he realised it couldn't do any harm to wave in victory...the timekeepers probably had no idea either...so Grant's crafty wave did the trick lol....
I was watching a production bike race at Adelaide international raceway in the 80 's and a bloke came and stood next to me for the final laps of the race . After the race finished we both strolled off, it was only then that I realised it was Mr Barry Sheene himself .....WTF
The smell of castrol-R!:) mineral oil .intoxicating while watching the action! The planet isn't any healthier since two strokes demise. More toxic if anything !
Kawasaki was my favorite as a kid, and by default Mick Grant was my hero. Barry Sheene was cool, but I never felt the quite the same for any Suzuki as Ì did for the Z1 900 and the 750 H2. Ironically I own two Bandits and an extra engine for them now. No knee scraping Kawasaki.
I was at this meeting aged 12.. you could see somebody shunt sheen up the ass on the start...possibly knocking one of the exhausts off one of the cylinders making it smoke like it was and run underpowered..? or jus ran on 3 cyl..?
Love the videos, so many memories of being at Brands Hatch in the 1970s. Can I buy these on DVD from the VHS as would love to sit down and watch them without the net Thank you for posting
I think your best bet is either Duke Video or try ebay. There are some sellers that copy some races from vhs tapes or have old tv footage and copy them onto DVR discs.
Lucky enough to have met Barry Sheene at Brands once. I was in the pits and he stopped next to me after practice and took a swig from my can of coke. Saw him race first at Mallory Park in 1973 in the race of the year. Amazing times
Hang on, nobody watching that finish can tell me they saw who won. I've tried to pause it at the line, it's too blurry. Does anyone know what fraction of a second there was between first & second?
Took me right back to my youth. Riding a cbr600f3-t now, these OLD grand Prix machines on their OLD Rubber tyres, They look so slow. Maybe I could have been a Grand PRIX Contender. 🤔
Cool race. What class is this? Looks like all two strokes. 750cc Kawi, are the Suzuki's RG500? What Yamaha are they running, I'd expect TZ750 but they don't look quite right.
10 abreast on the start line!. You should have been at the North Gloucester meetings at the old airfields in the 80s & 90s. We were 20+ abreast. First corner mayhem, bring it on.
Stefano, Today,s riders are not responsible for having been born in their years. It IS as if John Surtess or Hailwood would say : "I would like to see these guys riding my MV from 1966 with drum brakes, dangerous tyres, breaking engines...they would learn what,s good!" You cant compare Riders of different generations. I am sure Marquéz Quartararo And co. would do It wonderfully
mit meiner R1 hätt ich die nass gemacht, nass gemacht hätt ich die😂😁😇 geil wie die früher gefahren sind, mit was für einer Technik, sagenhaft... keine gelochten Scheibenbremsen, nix... 1982 habe ich mit einer Honda 750 Boldor angefangen, bremste nicht, fuhr nicht geradeaus, nix konnte die🤮 aber, lebe noch👻
Yes that's right mainly Yamaha TZ 750's and Kawasaki 750 H2R's. I think the Suzuki's were RG680's (bored out RG500's) or TR750's. Powerful but the frames, tyres and suspension were not able to handle the power very well, it was more down to how good the rider was.
So which 2-stroke Suberbike series is this? Why not Steve Baker on TZ750 winning it hehe? Here's the faster Brands Hatch Superbike race from 1977: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7scf-XZrSoY.html
MCN Superbike championship.. basically the British F750 championship, but IIRC capacity limit was 1000cc.. in later years some real 1000cc (superbike class) bikes did compete.
The World Champ racing at Brands in a Superbike race. (Yeah I know it's not the same as today's racing format) but still, can you imagine Rossi or Marquez turning up at Brands for something like this today? The riders then would get paid huge start and prize money. I don't think there is much prize money today. The riders just get paid wages from their teams.
What utter bollocks, they got paid peanuts if they got paid at all & yes they just get paid by their teams now but if they get paid so poorly now - please explain how come Rossi is a multi millionaire!
Both appearance and prize money were often paid in cash, in Britain and on the continent, and the better riders often made good money. A lot of riders got caught later by the taxman and there were some quite large settlements.
@@oldbatwit5102: Absolutely agreed & that's a more sensible explanation for how it was back then, but for the op to say " The riders then would get paid huge start and prize money " is absolute fantasy because it wasn't like that at all from what I remember. Those were proper bespoke factory Kawasaki's that Mick Grant & Barry Ditchburn rode & the factory didn't pay them at all, they wouldn't have had any wages if they didn't get appearance & start money & the lesser known riders would have had to win the race to get anything at all but the grids were still packed regardless. If it wasn't for Barry Sheene & Kenny Roberts fighting for riders to get a better deal things might be very different now & those two riders were the first to sell their skills to equipment manufacturers such as Bell (Helmets) Bates (Leathers) etc etc & also Barry Sheene is responsible for the very first back protector made from an aluminium tank & Kenny Roberts I believe was the first rider to ever wear knee sliders as he perfected the knee down style everyone & their dog uses today :-)
@@CaptainScarlet1961 Another thing we tend to forget is that Sheene absolutely loved racing and saw the whole 'game' as great fun. I actually remember him losing a race because he was larking about so much that the second place man was able to overtake him right near the end.
@@oldbatwit5102: Back in the day when it was about the racing & not the money, now it's all about the money & tv rights & advertising & like a lot of other things money has ruined it to a large extent :(
IIRC the MCN Superbike championship capacity limit was 1000cc, but most teams/riders used their F750 homologated bikes. Only in later years weresome 1000cc road-based machines competitive.
FAIRLY SURE MY '05 GSF 650 BANDIT NOT EVEN A BANDIT S, WOULD WIPE THE FLOOR WITH JUST ABOUT ALL OF THESE BIKES. BANDITS ARE MAGICAL, ENGINES MADE BY WIZARDS, JUST WHEN YOU THINK YOU COULD NOT ACCELERATE ANY QUICKER, TURNS OUT YOUR STILL 5,000 REVS FROM THE RED-LINE AT 12,000. BANDITS ARE THE BEST, SHEER BIKING JOY. AND I'M NOT EVEN LYING.
@AC Cobra bet he rolls up on bike night just like "PFFFT, THAT 1100 IS GOING TO NEED THAT TURBO TO KEEP UP WITH MY, LEAN, MEAN 5000RPM FEELS LIKE A MILLION, MACHINE" 😂😂😂
Round a track you would be bouncing all over the shot and probably low side trying keep up. These are track bikes yours is a road bike for beginners lol
I raced a TZ350 for 3 seasons and raced against a few good guys on TZ750's so I know how much faster they were. You my friend have obviously spent too much lockdown time on Pornhub, it seems to have effected your eyesight and your judgement.
A guy on RU-vid was saying the other day that the riders today have no skills and it’s all down to the bikes and electronics... and that back in these days they were real riders with real skills ... I disagreed with him as I said that because of the power of the bikes and speeds they reach today .. they need the electronics or the bikes would be unridable ..?? I said that the riders now have just as much if not more skill !!! ... and watching this lot I’m even more convinced of that .... they look like Novice Group at a Track day !!!!
@dmandhelen have you even ridden a two stroke? There a documentary about them that’s literally called “the unrideables” because they were so hard to handle. The skill needed to control a 750 2 stroke is absolutely ridiculous. It’s not smooth and linear power like today’s 4 stroke racers. If you don’t know when that band kicks in, the bike will try to kill you. Even Rossi would admit they are hard work.
