Freddie Spencer

It's hard to imagine a more significant date in Grand Prix racing history than September 4, at least as far as Americans are concerned. On September 4, 1983 King Kenny Roberts won the Italian Grand Prix at Imola. Second place was Honda rider Freddie Spencer. The third place rider that day was Eddie Lawson. The ...

2019 will mark the 71st annual running of the Federation Internationale de Motocyclisme Grand Prix Road-Racing World Championship. First spun up in 1949, the globetrotting circus is replete with amazing, larger than life stories, yet there is one racer who, in his own inimitable way, approach and style, stands alone on that island in ...

Getting On The Track: Forget The Excuses; Questions; Picking The Right Machine; Transporting, Loading, and Unloading Your Motorcycle; What To Bring; Track Day Prep: Track Day Tips, Do's And Don't's; Trackside Improvements, Leveling Up; Track Day Tires vs. Racing Tires; Tire Warmers; Essential Equipment, Soft Barriers And Flags; Exotic Track Day Fun: Leod Escape Tours; $78,000 BMW HP4 Race; Riding Gear:What To Wear; Airbag Suits; Leathers For Women; Why We Wear Gear; Coaching: Keith Code, Reg Pridmore, Jerry Wood, Freddie Spencer; Dual Apex Cone Theory; Coaching Kids; WHO, WHEN & WHERE: Track Day Organization & School Calendar; Racing Organizations; Mini Road Racing; Track Day Locator By State, Map Of Track Locations ...

Motorcycle racing is a team sport. Even when exceptional talents come along, they need help to succeed, from mechanics, from crew chiefs, from the people around them. Freddie Spencer had Erv Kanemoto, Mick Doohan and Valentino Rossi had Jeremy Burgess, Casey Stoner had Cristian Gabarrini. And now, Marc Márquez has Santi Hernandez. The Spaniard has been with Márquez since he moved up to the Moto2 class in 2011. Since then, he has been Márquez' crew chief for the Monlau Repsol team, and the Repsol Honda team in MotoGP. In their eight years together, the pair have won six of Márquez' seven Grand Prix titles, proving the success of the partnership. But Hernandez is not just a vital part of the engineering side of Márquez' success, he has also been instrumental in the other ways in which the reigning world champion has changed the face of racing. Márquez and his crew are renowned for understanding strategy better than anyone else in the paddock. It was Márquez who first ... ...

American Freddie Spencer awoke one Good Friday years ago a virtual unknown outside of America. Later that day, when he took his shoes off and crawled into bed that evening, he was an international racing superstar. When one ponders the success Freddie Spencer earned in his career, memory banks are naturally drawn to his 1983 ...

Honda's Freddie Spencer won the "Nations" GP at Misano on April 15 1984, beating Eddie Lawson and Raymond Roche in what was his first win of the 1984 season. Spencer won the 500cc title in 1983, beating Kenny Roberts, but his 1984 season was as bad as the '83 was good, Spencer was plauged by ...

These wonderful 11.5 x 16.5 illustrations are beautiful in their own right. The detail is simply incredible. However, the limited supply we have now are very special because they are signed by absolute racing legend and three-time world champion Freddie Spencer Want one? Contract us (hardscrabblemedia@gmail.com). All orders come with Soup stickers ...

American Freddie Spencer awoke one Good Friday years ago a virtual unknown outside of America. Later that day, when he took his shoes off and crawled into bed that evening, he was an international racing superstar. When one ponders the success Freddie Spencer earned in his career, memory banks are naturally drawn to his 1983 ...