Getting passed in a race is bad enough, but getting blown off the track by a rider doing a wheelie as he goes by is sort of motorcycle racing’s equivalent to trash talking. In this case it’s Hyper-Cycle Racing’s Jeff Farmer, or perhaps Tommy Lynch (No. 6) blowing past No. 26 (I think that’s Bob Delie on what is probably a Yamaha FZR400, but I’m not sure what team) in the WERA National Endurance Final at Road Atlanta during the 1989 Grand National Final. If that’s not humbling enough, the FZR rider is just about to get zapped on the other side by Dutchman Racing’s Mike Harth (No. 7). Just one of the hazards of racing the lightweight class in WERA Endurance racing in those days.
Hyper-Cycle Racing’s Jeff Farmer or perhaps Tommy Lynch (No. 6) blowing past No. 26 (I think that’s Bob Delie on what is probably a Yamaha FZR400, but I’m not sure what team) in the WERA National Endurance Final at Road Atlanta during the 1989 Grand National Final. If that’s not humbling enough, the FZR rider is about to get zapped on the other side by Dutchman Racing’s Mike Harth (No. 7). (Larry Lawrence photo)
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Been there, had that done to me!
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Doesn’t look like Bob Delie to me. This guy is too big.
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I remember at IRP in ’81, I was on my bone-stock GS750 coming out of the hairpin at IRP side by side with a guy on a stock CB750F. We turned and looked at each other because we were going down the straightaway at identical speeds. We couldn’t have been more than three or four feet apart when suddenly some guy on a 1000/1100cc Superbike of some sort (I think it was a Quester-Sullivan endurance beast) blew past right between us and sucked the paint off both our bikes. We looked at each other again and shook our heads.
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