Kenny Roberts VS Randy Mamola Battle Heat1

[Zawan]

Wow wheelie heaven

[triipn]

Don't think front tire wear was a problem by race end since it spent 1/2 the race in the AIR! This was back when the better Rider won races not won by the Computer Programmer who's sitting on his a.ss in the pits during the race.

[MetalBeetle]

Man... they looked like they were having sooooooo much fun riding those beasts! I bet I'd already crashed going down the kink BEFORE Turn 1!

[pansota1000]

greatest ,two stroke beast,

[gijon123]

They cant sopt making wheelies,,,

[BabiRicaRica]

skill talks here. today, everything depend on traction control and all stupid electronic makes it so gay. even schwantz hates it..

[40joel]

The old 2 strokes had so much personality.

[vellotrol]

AWESOME VID PRICELESS!

Thank so much for posting it TOSHI5239

[destructor320]

Muy bueno randy mamola es y sera mi favorito

[dimitrisnas]

i love them. they re always wheeling

[Mahabuhay]

I was there and that day sold me on motorcycle road racing forever; I've never forgotten how thrilling it was and I still get excited when thinking about it.

[smoothee125]

turn the tables...if stoner rode for ducati and rossi with honda....who would win? Ducati get your act together dammit....It is destiny that rossi wins a championship and ends his career on a italian made ducati.....

[MrLuigiFercotti]

This is the old "horsepower" layout for Laguna. The added section after turn was for GP compliance, the track wasn't long enough. I think most riders preferred the old layout  that road both.

First time I went there in the 70s, we parked about 200 yards from the track. Now it's a zoo.

[bangmika]

Oh man I love it, just about every corner exit is like they're winning the race

[motomorfo]

estos son pilotos, estos son motos, esta son carreras....no las mierdas de ahora que tiene todo tipo de control anti-patinage; anti-weelie; anti-derrapaje; control de traccion ;;;; vaya mierda;;;;KENNY THE BEST FOR EVER

[erwinclaus]

Kenny Robatsu

[nurumenokan]

ファンサービスとしてはいいレースですが・・・汚れた英雄？

[MetricHotrodsdotcom]

you know, even to this very day, any time roberts gets a chance to call randy momola crazy during an internview, he does. indy dirt track mile interview, he somehow fit in "crazy like momola" into the interview

[lyclycsms]

oh my god... back then there's no view from air.. when was helicopter invented? (no pun intended)

[tonupharry]

ps stacey moaner needs to be made to watch this

[MrAlucard222]

@tonupharry Well, Stacey Moaner, with that ugly Duc, was able to stay with Vale with the way superior Yamaha, at Laguna Seca 2008... And poor loser Rossi, now with the same bike, with much more development, is only a mediocre normal rider... Rossi=OVERRATED, Moaner=PURE TALENT...

[ElitePower]

@MrAlucard222 Dude, Stoner was expected to win that race by a wide margin. He had the superior bike which is why Rossi had to fight so hard to get back in front immediately after Stoner passed him.Had he not been able to do that Stoner would have gapped him quickly. Had it been a wider track with more places to pass Stoner would have walked away with it but since it was a tight track he had to have to skill to get by and then stay in front of Rossi, which he couldn't do.

[MrAlucard222]

@ElitePower Ducati 2008 is not a superior bike than the Yamaha 2008... And i think that Rossi hide himself a bit in the free practice in 2008... Remeber that Casey always say that his Ducati is a bike with only a trajectory, in almost every circuit, and is very difficult to engage a melee with that Duc, especially with the most agile bike, the Yamaha... Look at Rossi at the corkscrew in Laguna 2011, he looked like a beginner compared to Stoner and the other top riders, guilt of the ugly Duc...

[tonupharry]

sorry dudes i no speeky de lingo,,whos who,too much red i see 3 riders but aint got a danny whos who

[picjusrel]

..haha..this is stunt show,and in some part's it's racing.. :D

[doowaditti]

@picjusrel You are right,and I was there in the early 80's....sittin at the Cork Screw.

KR and Mamola and Spencer were all in F1 at the time.Correct me if I;m wrong

but Laguna Seca was the showboat for Americans.

[kingcoapa]

King Kenny is my personal inspiration, a Man and Machine in almost perfect syncronicity and doesnt need a turbo, those bikes are tought to ride and they take that corkscrew like nothing... MAJOR BRASS BALLS on that era...all hail the kings, I include Mike the bike but he was from different era and engine type

[neochase1]

GOD their wheeling mid corner turn one ! Gods i tell you they were gods lol !

[PJtubes]

Too invasive anti-wheeling!!!

[rider3go]

Thank you for a wonderful image.

Kenny Roberts is my still god.

[rico46davis]

highly tuned 2 strokes are just the thing for those who like to ride the razors edge.

[ummagumma73]

kingo kennyrobartsooo!!!!!!! funny

[jmg893]

This is awesome history. Back before the spectacle-choking invasion of electronic aids.

[Cofresi1202]

I produced this show for Seals Communications/ESPN. I believe you Japanese re-packagers are guilty of copyright infringement. Audio was completely re-edited from a different show. There is no way they could use the real natural sound because it was mixed with the narration track.

[JestTjube]

What's with all the wheelieing

[gloveberg]

@JestTjube

The guys knew that the AMA riders didn't stand a chance against their 500cc GP machines so they just gave the fans a show.

[johnvanoevelen2]

@JestTjube

That's the power of a 500 :)

It kills you if you want to much

[jeffuryca]

@JestTjube It is called a light switch powerband & in very high performance 2 stroke engines that is before they started designing the big bang engines the power band was either on or off & when it is on all you can do is try & get your weight over the front wheel because all it wants to do is flip over. I have ridden many bikes like this, although never a GP500, but I have ridden a RS250 & RS125 both GP bikes as well as many hopped up 2 strokes in my racing days. Kenny even says it is too fast.

[mn2movies]

@jeffuryca i hate that they switched to moto gp/ 4 strokes, its coll, but nothing like a 500, and if you remember in the late 70s they were actually running a tz 750 3 cylinder, also the kawi triple, which was modified by erv kanemoto to be liquid cooled, to bad they dont have any videos about erv on ytube

[deatmeat1983]

escellente cette video je ne suis motard que depuis 2ans et je otruve ces pilotes extraordinaires!!!

respect

[TheLUBRICATORS]

THANK YOU

[twowheelflyercr]

I remember seeing this on TV.These guys were the class of the field.Just messing around until the final laps.King Kenny got serious and pulled away.

[Tinalera]

500 two strokes-land rockets-incredible to watch them again.

[pusz98]

yeah but plz cut that japanese comment!!

[barymire]

first went to see Roberts at Laguna in 1980 , more pleasant setting than today, more dusty fields over to the corkscrew. Moved closer to Monterey finally went last year

much more modern and more turns added of course. doesnt sem so long ago we left Santa Barbara with about 20 of us riding up the coast on our ducati's to sleep out under the stars in tents to watch the races. Things were so different then, who knew or wanted a Ducati then

[deeharr1]

incredible!!!! this is the old layout before all the turns in the infield were added, these guys would literally wheelie the WHOLE section after the first turn! and this is kinda light, i saw a race where baldwin and mamola just swapped positions on 1 wheel for the entire race! oh the glory days indeed

[orangelion03]

Thanks for the memories!!! I was there that weekend =)

[giritablet]

貴重な映像をありがとう。

[Lanny615]

Very nice, many thanks for uploading. Greetings from sunny Jamaica.

[garaldao61]

nice race -I was 24 and owned then an RZ 500 N - I bought the same Dainese leathers as the king and was in love with that bike - I still have it on my Garage - only a few can understand ....

[xzistpo]

@garaldao61

I'm only 28 and still, trust me, I DO understand.

[jraybay]

@garaldao61 My father was the same way... I am his son and his bike was like my brother D:

[DR1ZERO]

@garaldao61 Post some videos of it so we can see and hear her.

Cheers

[MegaLuckydog1]

@garaldao61 sweet bike I remember being passed at lets say mach speeds in a corner by my buddy on one. I had an 85 gsxr

[antontokar2]

@garaldao61 only 26 of 155'021 do

[CGreenbush]

WOW! aren't those 2 strokes. They were getting mad power from those Strokers. Kenny even said that the bike is much faster than he can ride it. Scary.

[RickyJ46]

Great action from Laguna Seca's original and much faster 1.9-mile layout. Not much room for error back then!

[Conneyfogle]

need a bit of weight at the front there boys! Great stuff

[Julian123123123]

@Conneyfogle - youre a gay retard.

[Conneyfogle]

oo ar you must be a van driver from Swindon I'm guessing

[skoop99]

@Julian123123123 What exactly did he say to warrant that comment?

[Julian123123123]

@skoop99 - he didn't say anything. He's a very old friend and I was just joking with him.

[mrprogjazzgto]

Awesome vintage racing..!!

King Kenny on his local track in Monterey..!

Those were the days..!!