Any "hero" stories of broken-bone riders returning early to race?
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From: Poor bloody infantry on 14 Jul 2010 09:27 When Rossi broke his leg, I thought "Sit the season out, or at least three races!" What has he got to prove? He doesn't need to hurry it. Why on earth would he get back in there any sooner? Then I realized that he's a motorcycle racer: where else would he be but on a MotoGP bike? I remember seeing Doohan riding early, falling off, and standing up and climbing on with that leg at a horrible angle. Wasn't there a Japanese rider who raced the day after breaking his ankle, and fell in the race, and got up and continued? Has anyone got a favourite memory of a "hero" return under painful circumstances, to share with someone who was in plaster for six weeks for a bust ankle, and who limped for a year??!
From: sturd on 14 Jul 2010 11:31 Poor bloody infantry asks: > Has anyone got a favourite memory of a "hero" return under painful > circumstances, to share DuHamel 1999? on crutches and won Daytona superbike and supersport. Ricky Carmichael 2004, ACL reconstruction then won every moto in the AMA motocross season. Go fast. Take chances. Mike S.
From: Champ on 14 Jul 2010 12:55 On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 06:27:17 -0700 (PDT), Poor bloody infantry <brafield(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >When Rossi broke his leg, I thought "Sit the season out, or at least >three races!" What has he got to prove? He doesn't need to hurry >it. Why on earth would he get back in there any sooner? > >Then I realized that he's a motorcycle racer: where else would he be >but on a MotoGP bike? I remember seeing Doohan riding early, falling >off, and standing up and climbing on with that leg at a horrible >angle. Wasn't there a Japanese rider who raced the day after breaking >his ankle, and fell in the race, and got up and continued? > >Has anyone got a favourite memory of a "hero" return under painful >circumstances, to share with someone who was in plaster for six weeks >for a bust ankle, and who limped for a year??! I'm certainly not a hero, but I did an endurance race 7 weeks after breaking my collar bone. -- Champ neal at champ dot org dot uk
From: Poor bloody infantry on 14 Jul 2010 13:48 On Jul 14, 8:31 am, sturd <mikesturdevant...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > Poor bloody infantry asks: > > > Has anyone got a favourite memory of a "hero" return under painful > > circumstances, to share > > DuHamel 1999? on crutches and won Daytona superbike and > supersport. Ah, Duhamel --- there was a documentary wasn't there, in his trailer he peeled off the top of his leathers and pulled off a bandage to reveal that a pin-repaired collarbone had started to poke out of his skin --- but he was going to race that day. A hard man.
From: MJRydsFast on 14 Jul 2010 14:05
Toughest guys that spring to mind right away: Duhamel and Doohan: like everyone else, amazed at these guys. Yanagawa- back on bike 3 weeks after coma inducing wreck at Laguna 1998. Marco Melandri- 2006 Ricky Carmichael- Pontiac 2002 Any rider that's ever sawed off a cast to race (1970's) Jay Springsteen- stomach issues (internal are horrible) Wayne Rainey, running a Moto GP weeks after paralyzing himself. Shinya Nakano- 190 mph high side at Mugello when tire blew out in qualifying. Raced next day. Puig, by contrast, quit after similar accident. |