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The Roadracers
With a voiceover you would expect for a documentary about the last uncontacted Amazonian tribe, The Roadracers, shot in 1977 and released in 1979, offers a strangely voyeuristic look at three Irish road racers from Armoy: Frank Kennedy, Mervyn Robinson and Joey Dunlop. While billed as a celebration of the skill and tenacity of road racers, certain points of the film seem to paint racing as a frivo...
06 May 2011
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Video: the complete 2010 Macau Grand Prix
Held on the streets of a special administrative region of China, the Macau Grand Prix’s Guia circuit is 3.8 miles long and, at its narrowest point, jut 22.8 feet wide. That last figure is particularly important because that’s not between two nice, soft patches of grass, but between 10-foot tall walls of Armco. Think of Macau as Chinese cross between the Isle of Man and Monaco. A new lap reco...
22 November 2010
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Joey Dunlop, Mr. Careful
"That's one of the backmarkers in that dark place, you have to be careful." "There are a lot of walls around there, you have to be careful." "You have to be careful there, catch the wind coming off the road." Listening to Joey Dunlop softly narrate a 1984 TT practice run on his Honda V4, the warning to be careful is repeated for nearly every section of the course. Screaming down the road through ...
13 May 2010
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Six American riders racing 2009 Isle of Man TT
Six Americans will be racing at the Isle of Man TT this year: Mark Miller, Jimmy Moore, Thomas Montano, Scott Jensen, CR Gittere and James Vanderhaar. Racing starts on the mountain course on June 6.>Leading the way is Californian Mark Miller, whose best lap in 2007 of 121.756mph on the RSV1000 Aprilia makes him the fastest American rider ever to have lapped the 37-_ mile course. With 20 AMA podium...
24 April 2009