500cc Bike Grand Prix 1987 | Round 12 | San Marino

The grid was packed with riding talent for the 1987 San Marino 500cc Bike Grand Prix and the pressure was on Honda's Wayne Gardner as the season ran towards its end. Gardner was looking nervously across the grid at the improving Yamahas, ridden by Eddie Lawson and Randy Mamola in what was an epic encounter, which unfortunately ended badly for Freddie Spencer and Frankie Chili, who both sustained injury from big crashes.
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Tadahiko Taira (Yamaha) and Sunji Yatsushiro (Honda) were also making inroads into the points and Brits Ron Haslam, Roger Burnett, and Niall Mackenzie, usually proved competitive. Then there was Freddie Spencer (Honda), an enigma if ever there was one. He had had a devastatingly disappointing season, with crashes galore but had since demonstrated that he was capable of getting on the pace.
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