Motorcycle crash: Racer hit from behind (Burnout)

Don't know much about this one, please see the comments below for full explanation.

Source:
www.LiveLeak.com

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Keep it on private roads or the race track, and wear proper protective gear.
A full face helmet, leather jacket, gloves and full length boots will save your quality of life in the event of an accident [which is quite likely].

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• cycle
• bike
• crash

[SkateGoats]

wtf is the guy problem waving hand on speed track an idiot!

[RomeoEskobar]

That's what you do when you win a race. The riders who place last don't realise this however, and the race is still on for them :]

[binto100]

How fucking stupid can you be?

[RomeoEskobar]

Well, how stupid must you be not to see a dude doing a big burnout infront of you ;P.

[binto100]

Yea I suppose though it seems like this kind of stuff happens all the time.

[RomeoEskobar]

Yea true, did you see the SBK at Brands, at the end where Toseland almost ran over those fans at the end! It was brilliant!

[mahagga]

@MotoStumpy Shobert was going to be as good at roadracing as flattrack,thank god he survived.There are still a lot of hard feelings from Bubbas friends about that

[MotoStumpy]

This isn't the McGee/Shobert incident. at Laguna. I witnessed that live, was about 100 ft from it along the inside fence between Turns 5 & 6.

[crossfireplaya]

Bubba shobert is in the same motorcycle club. :D LTR!!!!

[jadizm]

@Buelligan88 so was this the Bubba Shobert crash/burnout? cuz that doesn't really look like Laguna Seca..

[VanillaSky68]

This was the 89 USGP at Laguna Seca. Rainey 1st, Schwantz 2nd, Lawson & Magee were battling for 3rd and Magee was ahead until his Yamaha began to sputter due to low fuel. Lawson took 3rd. Magee was upset and stopped in the middle of the track to do burnouts. Lawson and Shobert rode side by side through the smoke from Magee's burnouts. Lawson saw something in front of them and swerved, but Shobert hit Magee at near 100 mph.

[Buelligan88]

This is one of the most infamous accidents ever caught on tape and you got the description as wrong as wrong can be, Romeo.

Kevin Magee was rightly ostracized by quite a few of his contemporaries after his stupidity that ended the careers of one of the most talented motorcycle racers ever.

Poor Bubba Shobert... I thnk all motorcycle racers learned something from that.

[2wheelsteve]

Not a good place to stop to do your burnout was it!!!

[blam29]

Shobert was congradulating Eddie Lawson on a third place finish, he had one of his best finnishes himself and didn't see the idiot Magee stopped in the middle of the track. Rainey won Swantz 2nd, Lawson 3rd. The competive riding ended that day for poor Bubba.