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posted September 27, 2005 05:00 AM
How not to look behind you
Crash video from 05' Le Mans 24 hour race...
http://kalisto95.free.fr/_videos/bol_dor_05_crash.mpg
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posted September 27, 2005 07:56 AM
WOW!! Right in front of the sponsers!
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posted September 27, 2005 11:43 AM
I remember Mamola looking behind him on the Cagiva while backing it out of a corner and gettting high-sided into orbit.
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posted September 28, 2005 07:05 AM
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I remember Mamola looking behind him on the Cagiva while backing it out of a corner and gettting high-sided into orbit.
I remember that one too....LOL
Remember when he looped it on the warm up lap at Assen?
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posted September 28, 2005 12:28 PM
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I remember Mamola looking behind him on the Cagiva while backing it out of a corner and gettting high-sided into orbit.
I remember that one too....LOL
Remember when he looped it on the warm up lap at Assen?
Yes. Another classic for sure by the "Clown Prince" of the GP's. 
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posted September 28, 2005 02:25 PM
So does Kawi get upset at the rider for something like that, even though he won? What is the details of what happened in tha video, I could not find any article on it anywhere on the web.
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posted September 29, 2005 04:36 AM
Le-Lmans is also known as the "La Sarthe" circuit. This is the full citcuit including the Mulsane straight, which is a public road most of the year.
The Bol Dor is the Bugatti circuit. It is the permanent facility at the Le Mans facility. It connects to the La Sarthe Circuit after the small down hill portion under the Dunlop bridge past the first Chicane complex after the front straight. And then comes back into at the start of the front straight by the Ford chicane.
Okay, here's what I found so far...
Bol d'Or 24Hour endurance race
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Just some extra info that you may have missed on the weekend...
We saw David Morillon stand up on the bike and look between his legs at the following riders - the speculation was that he needed to adjust his leathers after the run across the track at the start - but the No.8 Kawasaki had it's front wheel in the air - and when Morillon sat down again the bike carried on rising and looped right in front of the packed main grandstand. We found out later that David Morillon was so pleased at leading that he wanted to show off to his competitors and the crowd but he was lucky to get away uninjured, as the following pack swerved around the fallen bike and rider.
As the "accident" had happened directly in front of the pits, it was fairly easy to get the bike back to the pits for repairs while the safety car was out on track.
While everybody was watching the spectacular Bolliger Kawasaki crash, nobody really noticed that Jean Claude Claperon's Moto38 Yamaha bike, with rider Jean Devoyon, had also gone down, blaming cold tyres, in the final chicane.
The Bolliger No.8 Kawasaki came out...then went back in...then came out again...and went back in...rider Marcel Kellenberger was as white as a sheet after he came in, saying "I have to try as hard to do 1.48's as I used to do for 1.46's...I had many moments, then a big one...I don't want to die on this track...".
Speculation was all about a change in the bike's geometry after the crash (they had to fit a new swing-arm and the mechanics had been busy trying to find little items, for example a new rear light, from other teams) but I heard later that the bike had a hairline crack in the crank-cases and was spraying a fine mist of oil onto the riders foot...and the rear tyre.
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posted September 30, 2005 06:32 AM
If only they'd get rid of those chicanes & let me take the ZX12R down the Mulsanne straight a few times.....
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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posted October 07, 2005 04:43 PM
That's one of the weirdest moves of all time. Definitely a moment of spectacularly bad judgment, and what a time to have such a moment.
From freeze-frame I'm not sure the accident was exactly as described -- true the freeze-frame can't resolve whether the tire might have been an inch off the ground or something when he did the "look under the ass" move, but my impression was that it was not, and the wheelie started as he renormalized his posture to go back to a normal riding position.
I am guessing that with his head having been upside down, and fairly rapidly moving from that upside down position, he was disoriented and did not realize the bike was wheelying. By the time he realized it, it was too late given the rapidity with which it was occurring.
So he won the race despite that? (Beans' post.)
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posted October 08, 2005 02:57 PM
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posted October 09, 2005 07:50 PM
I never tried looking back by standing up and looking under my ASS...
Not sure I want to do that... for MANY reasons...
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