<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (CSCVAW @ Jul 13 2007, 03:09 PM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>IsraeliRacer..Thanks Mate & Shalom...I hope everyone realises that Barry Sheen really had to overcome great odds!!!
What with G. Agostini who was the legend in those days, similar to V. Rossi today.....and the contest was vey similar to what Mr. C. Stoner is experiencing today!!! But barry had a vey bad crash at Suzuka where his tyre exploded at 280k’s on the sloping track, he nearly broke every bone in his body (the docs didn't expect him to live) and even the great Agostini was shocked, concerned about Barry that he came to visit him in hospital..and after all that when Barry got better!...what did he do?...
He got straight into racing again...after a while he had a nasty incident at Assen in 1976???...what happened to him?...he came off and broke a few more bones in his body...if I’m not wrong...Wayne Gardner was the rider that rode over him...
So..I ASK YOU how many riders would still be riding after what happend to Barry???...ZILTS...ZERO!!!
Barry was A LEGEND!!! HE GAVE Everything TO THE GP, he was also was such a witty, funny, no nonsense guy, commentator (we know this here in Australia as he commentated the GP’s for years) and called a spade a spade!! I loved his reality, his precision on every aspect of gp racing and foremost his great will to pick riders for their talent...perfect example is Mr. Casey Stoner, Garry McCoy etc etc ...may I say MORE!!!
Thank you for listening!!!
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