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As if becoming the youngest 500cc grand prix winner at the time at just 20 years and 196 days of age in 1982 wasn’t enough, his defeating of the legendary Kenny Roberts Sr. a year later marked the arrival of a new shade of American splendor. “It was at the German GP, in the last session on Saturday afternoon, that we made the breakthrough. Spencer also won the Formula 1 and 250cc classes, making him the only rider to win all three divisions in a single year. Anyway, Erv [Kanemoto, Freddie’s race engineer] and the guys got the bike back together again, and I ended up winning the 500 race with my hands broke up after leading every lap. Honda’s NSR500 went on to win nine more World Championships, culminating in Valentino Rossi’s win in 2001. The 250 British GP was the worst planned race I had ever done – period. The Honda NSR500 was debutted in 1984 for the Grand Prix season, and replaced the NS500 a triple-cylinder, running a V4 two-stroke. 1985 Freddie Spencer. Back in 2015, Freddie talked us through the trials behind the triumph. It was the quickest I ever crashed. Browse more videos. Report. Without question the hardest I ever rode (besides when I was battling with Kenny in 1983!) He rode really well and the Yamaha went good, so I realised, hey, this is going to be tough! Spencer is regarded as one of the greatest motorcycle racers of the early 1980s. “It just felt so right, and I dropped my lap time in that one session by a second and a half.

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Australia is one of my favourite places: it’s where I first rode the (HRC) 250 and 500 together at the old Surfers Paradise racetrack. Defending champion Eddie Lawson finished in second with former 250 world champion, Christian Sarron coming in third. Frederick „Freddie“ Burdette Spencer junior, (* 20.Dezember 1961 in Shreveport, Louisiana) ist ein ehemaliger US-amerikanischer Motorradrennfahrer und dreimaliger Weltmeister.Wegen seines Fahrstils wurde er auch „Fast Freddie“ oder „der Außerirdische“ genannt.

Sarron's victory at the German Grand Prix would mark the first 500cc Grand Prix victory for a non-American rider since the 1982 Swedish Grand Prix. “Well, let me tell you that when that 500cc race started, I thought: I’m going to do the complete opposite, I mean I’m going to just GO! It was a privilege for me to be involved with people who have gone on to do so much in our sport, and I am just a small part of that achievement of winning two world titles in the same year with two completely new bikes. Follow. Angel Nieto won his 90th and final Grand Prix victory in the 80cc round in France, at the time second only to Giacomo Agostini, but since surpassed by Valentino Rossi.

He was eighth in 1991, riding a Honda for Two Brothers Racing, and went one better in 1992. No one had done so in such blazing fashion since the great Mike Hailwood two decades before. BMW Motorrad has presented the second member of its new model series for the cru, Honda's all new GROM is headed for Australia in the first half of 2021 and will. Eddie was quicker, but I was second quickest, so now we can go racing! He won all three of his world titles on Hondas with Kanemoto as head mechanic. [1] Spencer went on to finish third in the 1980 Superbike championships and second to Eddie Lawson in 1981. [1], Spencer gained international prominence at the 1980 U.S. versus Britain Transatlantic Trophy match races when he won two legs at Brands Hatch, defeating World Champions Kenny Roberts and Barry Sheene in the process. “I would wake up in the morning, look in the mirror at the age of 23 and think: who in the world ever thought about doing this? I peeled the bike in on the brakes and got halfway in on my lean angle – and then it just went booof! By the mid-80s it all came so easily to him he likened manhandling a 180bhp 500cc two-stroke to “getting out of bed.”. Playing next. 500cc – Freddie Spencer 250cc – Freddie Spencer 125cc – Fausto Gresini 80cc – Stefan Dörflinger (Krauser) The 1985 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the 37th F.I.M. For many years, Spencer operated a motorcycle riding school, Freddie Spencer's High Performance Riding School, until October 2008. [1] In 1981, he split his time between the AMA Superbike series, and the European Grand Prix circuit, helping Honda develop the exotic, oval-cylindered NR500 four-stroke Grand Prix bike. Freddie Spencer, född 20 december 1961 i Louisiana, är en amerikansk före detta roadracingförare, även känd som Fast Freddie.. Spencer blev den yngste världsmästaren genom tiderna i 500-klassen 1983 då han körde Hondas innovativa trecylindriga NS500.Titeln bärgades i hård kamp med Kenny Roberts.