GB v USA 1977 Transatlantic Challenge Race 1 from Oulton Park, UK (Part 1 of 2)
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@gregwoodward49912 жыл бұрын
I remember it like it was yesterday. Rode there from Widnes on my 400/4 Honda. And spent the day at.. Knicker Brook....45 years on I still have the (Enamel Badge) I bought on the day, Today its impossible to describe or put across what a Hero or how loved Barry Sheene was by Everybody..AMAZING TIMES
@bikes025 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting this, I was there that day and in '78 too. Pat Hennen was a rising star and would have been world champion in 1978 if he had not come off in the TT that year that ended his career. He didn't want to race as he knew it was a risky track, but he was told by Suzuki GB team boss Maurice White that if he didn't race he wouldn't have access to the team truck or something similar on those lines(inside info from Chip, Pat's brother)
@timcolder27893 жыл бұрын
I have read they did think he would have been the first US world champion ahead of King Kenny if he had not had that accident at the 1978 TT races. Bad year for road tracks that year with several killed at the TT and Tom Herron and John Williams killed in Northern Ireland.
@lewiscollins10455 жыл бұрын
I was there that day, i was 15yrs old. memoris you cant buy them..
@deepfryblue4 жыл бұрын
me & my mate were watching on Lodge basically behind the cameraman on that corner,the best bit of the track i thought to watch Sheene squirming & shimmying that bike all the way thru to keep up with the TZ's--we were 2nd year motor apprentices and mad keen bikers,great days
@gregwoodward49912 жыл бұрын
I was watching at..Knicker Brook... (God do i miss them 2 strokes) A great day in my life !!
@tophand229 жыл бұрын
Great video. Tx for posting this. Barry and Pat were still trying to sort out the XR23 652's during the '77 Transatlantic Races. Barry rode brilliantly in this race, and Pat demonstrated his growing speed. The XR23s were down on power some and the power the 652 engine delivered wasn't very tractable. Very short power band. But it was a beautiful engine to look at and work on. A real beast of a bike. Barry never liked the bike and Pat was never really particularly enamored of it, as well, but eventually got a handle on it and said riding it reminded him of riding a mile dirt track bike on a mile track in the U.S.
@haroldland46202 жыл бұрын
Great footage thanks ! I saw Pat Hennen race at the Cemetery Circuit on the RG 500
@harrystephenson82792 жыл бұрын
Barry sheen lived the life he wanted no bullshit he loved he life he had in those days RIP Barry sheen
@ianjones7266 Жыл бұрын
Fantastic! Sheeny, what a racer! Saw this field a few times at Cadwell. Wow, fantastic footage, the kid in the camo hat! Haha! I thought it was me for a flash. 1977 eh... what a year! I was expecting Phil Read on an MV. Showing my ignorance.
@PvtPopsky4 жыл бұрын
Great to watch that thanks for posting, but Barry’s comment at 13.37 priceless
@robertcostall90544 жыл бұрын
They wiped the floor with us. Then the next year they brought somebody called Freddie Spencer
@stevebigansky93723 жыл бұрын
I love the "FORGET THE ELBOWS" comment - little did he know - RIP Barry Sheene
@joeblow5037 Жыл бұрын
Great stuff! Thanks for posting. I was 19, and had just gotten off a 7 month cruise on the USS Nimitz. (Marine Air) I flew home from our base in S.C. (to OKC) and bought a '75 Triumph Trident (new out of the crate) and drove it 1350 miles back to Beaufort. those where the days :-)
@alanmansell3375 Жыл бұрын
First time I have seen this I to Was there that day fantastic racing thanks for posting 😀
@Saint_Ann4 жыл бұрын
I remember watching Steve Baker at Sidewinders TT track near Portland, Oregon. He had more than road racing skills.
@cabovermike4 жыл бұрын
I seem to recall kenny roberts being asked what he thought about the oulton park track, and he said"" it will be great when they get around to surfacing it" ,.!
@ericacarradus91523 жыл бұрын
Been a regular spectator at Oulton since '83 and seen it evolve. It's only when you watch footage like this you realise how basic it all was back then. Run-off, what's that?
@quartusbuys6831 Жыл бұрын
No tyre warmers, no computers. Barometers for jetting. GOOD OLD BALLS OUT RACING!!!
@mickydebargos8 жыл бұрын
Nice to see the circuit like this before they introduced the chicanes to slow them down.
@staceyroberts60449 жыл бұрын
Remember this at the Transatantic races
@70sboy625 ай бұрын
Wow, some crowd in them days on the bridge and roofs of buildings, we had to go and watch no Internet, Sky or Eurosport then, glory days glad it was my era.
@tomtaylor6163 Жыл бұрын
These races were great but the Factories wouldn’t allow this type of racing nowadays not enough jingle for them I reckon
@CRIZZY1314 жыл бұрын
me my brother and my dad were there at lodge great memorise
@carusmike3 жыл бұрын
I remember spotting the banner "TRANSATANTIC" and I have often thought of that banner. I thought I was the only one who ever noticed.
@fastjaydub3 жыл бұрын
Forget the elbows. Little did he know God rest his soul.
@gitaneVYS491R2 жыл бұрын
Really enjoyed that, good stuff.
@subbiejon63255 жыл бұрын
that looks like Tommy Rob chatting with Barry about the handling
@tonyowen83494 жыл бұрын
I was there I was 9 years old
@keithdawson48044 жыл бұрын
10:55 Surprised to see Roberts' bike wheeled back to the garage as I remember riders still capable to walk would line their bikes up before the finish line to score the lower points for their teams. (Visible in Brands Hatch race in 79)
@simonbarrett60592 жыл бұрын
Aah, Oulton before the chicanes and with some dangerously close Armco!
@kmac5849 Жыл бұрын
What a dump oulton was in those days, trudging through mud on the circuit paths, railway sleepers and bags of straw lining the track 🙈
@A-FrameWedge Жыл бұрын
Kenny Roberts didn’t like Oulton Park, and didn’t feel like risking it all for exhibition races.
@wilspu55904 жыл бұрын
Been back since chaps?
@keithdawson48044 жыл бұрын
11:50 Sheene passing Baker made a two points difference (Barry gains one for GB, Steve loses one for USA)
@michaelsteven10904 жыл бұрын
Back in the days when only one “camera” was on you,...and you knew it..
@harrystephenson82792 жыл бұрын
Those days you had to have nerves of steel to ride these bikes
@ronantonio36315 жыл бұрын
How can you have any kind of challenge when the participants are racing on motorcycles that were not manufactured in the country they were made in?
@Trigsbroom5 жыл бұрын
What??
@dirtydave26915 жыл бұрын
@@Trigsbroom I guess he thinks the Brits should be on Triumphs and the Yanks on Harleys! Obviously not a Moto GP fan.
@pabloperez40634 жыл бұрын
What IS ThE riddle /anatema ??...i dont get you!
@pabloperez40634 жыл бұрын
@@dirtydave2691 italians only with Ducati And Aprilia, spaniards with Derbi And bultaco, french with Motobecane And germans with Kreidler
@georgeclark27214 жыл бұрын
First time I went Cal Raborn was kicking arse on his Harley sure there was a couple more to JPS Norton, BSA and Triumph triples and privateers too, Kawasaki, Suzuki triples in the minority, 1972 ish, is that challenging enough?
@netharad42352 жыл бұрын
Vive LUCAS 👆✔️💕🇫🇷
@maggieandjim19344 жыл бұрын
that announcer is really going out of his way to downplay the american efforts...oh well deal with it......
@shivash10703 жыл бұрын
Hahaha true that
@robdickie92154 жыл бұрын
So many deaths here
@dogstar1674 жыл бұрын
Transatantic :)
@jaydonschneider79714 жыл бұрын
🔥 🏁🏁🏁it's a real pleasure to watch🏎️🏎️🏎️ 1:41 🔥💃 👇👇👇👇👇💯