Jimmy Filice racing the factory Yamaha FZR750 in the AMA Superbike round at Mid-Ohio in 1987. Filice is better known for his wins and championships on 250 Grand Prix bikes, yet Filice had a short, but solid career on Superbikes. He raced a factory Yamaha for three years and even though he never won an AMA Superbike race, he scored five-career podium finishes. This during a time when riders like Wayne Rainey, Fred Merkel, Kevin Schwantz, Doug Polen and John Kocinski were in the series. Here in the ’87 Mid-Ohio race he finished third behind Schwantz and Rainey.
Jimmy Filice racing the factory Yamaha FZR750 in the AMA Superbike round at Mid-Ohio in 1987. (Larry Lawrence photo)
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If I remember correctly, this is the year HRC and Yoshimura protested each other. I stood and watched them pull the engines out of the bikes in the AMA teardown area. Yoshimura had theirs removed first!
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Schwantz vs. Rainey, Suzuki vs. Honda. It was pretty intense. Both teams were pushing the limits on the rules and each knew the other was. It was great racing though.
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