mike hailwood accident

"That's typical of Mike Hailwood.

{{#sender.isSelf}} The lorry driver was to be fined £100.At his funeral Hailwood's pall bearers included James Hunt, John Surtees and Giacomo Agostini.

“He used to come in my motor home and my wife would make him a cup of tea and all that sort of stuff,” says the 1969 250 World Champ.“You know a lot of time, I mean he’d come in there and hide from the crowd. Hailwood was en route with his two children – his son David survived – to pick up fish and chips for the family's dinner when a lorry turned suddenly into the car's path.

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(Michele was killed instantly, while Mike the Bike hung on for two days.) try again, the name must be unique

But when a racing man dies neither in action nor in old age that is awfully hard for us to bear.Known affectionately all over the world as “Mike the Bike” Hailwood was World Champion more times than most people can remember, he won more races in the Isle of Man than most people can remember, and was quite simply the greatest racing motorcyclist that has ever lived, not just because of what he won but more importantly because of the way he won. Walker was close to Hailwood but his judgement is not coloured by friendship – he is just one among plenty who hold up Hailwood as the best man on two wheels, indeed one of motorsport's greats, even if he remains unknown to many beyond his sport.

Not since. At the international races he just had a van and a mechanic guy that drove it around and he’d just show up and he was one of the boys. Log in to update your newsletter preferencesPlease The resultant collision left David slightly injured, killed Michelle instantly and left Mike himself clinging onto life. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later?

I mean he won on all sorts of bikes,” Carruthers says. I mean I don’t think people realize how difficult things like that 500 Honda and the big MVs and that would have been to ride. According to Walker, Mike Hailwood is the "greatest motorcycle rider who ever lived". My teammate Dick Mann, however, won the race on Dunlops, the exact scenerio that Mike had suggested.I’ve always regretted a bit that I didn’t take his advice at the bar that year.I did, though, make the switch later and won the 1972 Daytona 200. "For Murray Walker, Hailwood – "Mike the Bike" as he was known – was a good deal better than even that. When Surtees, another four-time 500cc bike champ, stepped into a Lotus 18 in 1960, it took until just his second Formula 1 Grand Prix to score his first podium, and just his third, at Oporto in Portugal, to take pole and fastest race lap. He was a very kind person and he would talk to everyone from the top managers down to the mechanics; he would hang out with the mechanics. After signing Hailwood for ’71, Surtees knew as a fellow ex-biker precisely how to interpret what Hailwood was telling him, and what questions to ask.