Featured In The March 2023 Difficulty:
“King Kenny” Roberts is arguably essentially the most vital determine in motorbike racing historical past: Twice AMA Grand Nationwide Champion, triple MotoGP World Champion, indefatigable fighter for riders’ security and rights, championship-winning crew proprietor, and constructor of the final two-stroke to attain a MotoGP pole place.
Roberts got here of age in 1973 when he wrapped up his first American Grand Nationwide Championship, a sequence that mixed highway racing with every kind of dirt-track—brief observe, mile, half-mile, and TT, which included motocross-style jumps. The title was additionally his first success with Yamaha, which led to a hat-trick of 500cc/MotoGP world titles, from 1978 to 1980, and three extra, as crew proprietor with rider Wayne Rainey, from 1990 to 1993.
The Roberts story began when he was age 13 and studying to be a
cowboy…
—Racing Historical past: “King Kenny” Roberts, by Mat Oxley
It was 50 years in the past that “King Kenny” Roberts received his first main championship, misplaced a testicle, shot himself within the leg and almost wound up driving for MV Agusta. Fairly intense yr. However as Roberts says, “You type of fumble via life…” Examine one in every of highway racing’s best riders of all time’s most intense 12 months of fumbling, within the newest challenge of Roadracing World!
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