Eddie Lawson, one of the all time greats. Four time GP World Champion and the First rider to win back to back Championships on 2 different Manufactures motorcycles. It took a certain Valentino Rossi to duplicate that! In addition to winning the AMA Superbike Title 2 years in a row on just Beastly Dinosaur motorcycles, and winning the AMA 250 cc Championship one of those years as well. In the category of Best Rider of all time, Lawson has to be included. These 500 cc Motorcycles were just Lethal Weapons. What an era, glad I was there.

I was at this race. My dad took me and my brothers to all of the TT:s held at Anderstorp Sweden. Great memories

The Golden Era of 500cc Grand Prix racing...The Aussies versus The Yanks.

This is/was a little known fact, but back In '77, when we were both in the 250cc novice class, I won my heat race and qualified 2nd next to Eddie at Daytona for the 250cc novice race - me, Eddie, Lance Jones and Scott Shin mixed up for about half the race until I retired with gearbox issues - Eddie won, but I DID lead a couple of laps and probably would have finished on the podium- but it wasn't meant to be I guess, but it sure was cool to line up next to Eddie on the front row anyway

Barry Sheene u legend. "Gardners bike steers like an airport trolley"

Boy, Kel Carruthers had that Yamaha working incredibly well as always- that bike was PLANTED- and I'm pretty sure that most of the setup info didn't come from data acquisition or his suspension engineers - 90% of it came from Eddie's feelings from years of experience-

I love listening to these old "screamer" 500s as compared to the big bang configurations wholly adopted by the mid 90s. The big bang bikes sounded so much more tame and almost quiet compared to these beasts!

Love Barry Sheene talking about Gardner's Honda "He's got a thing that steers like an airport trolley"

Wish we could see the 1983 Swedish GP so we could see what happened in the last corner between Kenny Roberts and Freddie Spencer.

Eddie was my all time favourite ever. The days when they didn't do stupid things like put the leg out going into a corner. Idiots of today.

Let's not forget big rob weighed about 14 stone. That's a lot of extra weight for tires and brakes etc etc. He was a legend.

Great race Steady Lawson

Thanks for posting!

That #3 chap.......he's pretty good.

And no, I'm not Freddie Spencer, I earned my handle street racing in the early '70's through the '90's.

Thanks!

steady eddie awesome lawson

The Man

i miss barry sheene

Kevin Magee was in this race. Made infamous for ending Bubba Shoberts career by stopping on the race track to do a burnout at a Laguna Seca