King Kenny tells it like it was

[firstbuell]

".....Yamaha announced they were going to quit dirt track racing, which blew me away. I thought that was what everyone wanted to do.

They gave me two options: you could stay in America and go road racing with Yamaha and you can ride a Harley Davidson on the dirt - that would have given me a path to winning the championship again.

But for some reason I just wanted to stay with Yamaha. I wanted to be Yamaha. The other option was they would support me in a satellite project from America to go to Europe and race......"


www.crash.net/motogp/interview/893977/1/exclusive-kenny-roberts-senior-interview-part-1

 

[plaid]

good eye. thank you

 

[firstbuell]

moar:

".....Jarama, against Sheene in ’82 on the ‘V’. That was another epic race that I felt no one else could have done. Every lap, every corner, because the tyre wasn’t very good, and the bike was a handful.

I was just aiming at the kerb. I’d hit that and then it would wobble all the way down the straight to the next corner. To do that lap after lap after lap was an experience!....."


https://www.crash.net/motogp/interview/893998/1/exclusive-kenny-roberts-senior-interview-part-2

 

[EastBayDave]

Good read, thanks! :teeth

 

[budman]

Good read... thanks for the share.!