MotoGP - Austrian 500cc GP - Salzburgring 1982.

[@bhaskarwagle4184]

brutal, i bet nobody in motogp has the balls to ride like this today.

[@pabloperez4063]

It is only especulation, my friend

[@samyakchhajed]

Except Marquez

[@ch-ym3md]

Thank you very much for your valuable picture.

[@dungbeetlemovies]

A good start from Barry. Blimey, that's a rarity!

[@westboundbadger]

And then Silverstone 1982,.....

[@carlstark6857]

Barry was a good starter most times RIP

[@waldorfstatler7139]

Das war ein Traum von einem Rennen damals. Bin auf der Böschung oberhalb der Fahrerlager kurve gesessen (wie jedes Jahr seit 1978). Der Jimmy Riegler (Streckensprecher) hat fast durchgedreht, wenn am Schluß in jeder Runde der Streckenrekord gefallen ist.

[@stephenwilliams926]

I bet you was cold with all that snow about.

[@gs1100ed]

Marc Fontan is very lucky that he didn’t get hit at the 2:45 mark. He should have gotten further off the course.

[@ghicaccatta]

...a track for men without fear!!!

[@pabloperez4063]

Amazing 2'30"

[@TurboPascal12]

4:03 There is still snow behind the guardrail. I've been there in 1982. The tickets cost approximately 240 austrian shillings, which is around 18 Euros. Nowadays, it's ten times that much. I was at a MotoGP-Race in 2018 in Spielberg for the very last time. To be honest, I don't like current MotoGP commerce.

[@westboundbadger]

But we earn 20 times more !

[@GeorgeSPAMTindle]

@@westboundbadger No we don't.

[@TurboPascal12]

@@GeorgeSPAMTindle It depends. An average wage for a skilled worker in 1982 was about 1000 Euros. Nowadays, a skilled worker gets approximately 4.000 Euros. That's four times more. There might be persons who earn twenty or even fifty times more than fourty yeats ago but the average salary increase is around 3 % per year - if not less. In relation to the salary increase the increase of the ticket prices is tremendous

[@disyokerr]

Insurance companies get 30 percent of that money if not more. Mafia stinky insurance Mafia and taxes thats all

[@waldorfstatler7139]

@@TurboPascal12 Zitat: "An average wage for a skilled worker in 1982 was about 1000 Euros. Nowadays, a skilled worker gets approximately 4.000 Euros." An average wage for a skilled worker in the paper industrie was 1982 about 1000 Euros. The wage for a skilles worker in the same industrie 2020 was about 2200 Euros. But this does not tell the story. 1 Swiss Franken was then 8 Schilling. In 2002 1 Euro was 13.76 Schilling. Today (2022) 1 Euro = 1 Swiss Franken. This means an rate of inflation for the Euro was since the invention of the Euro 75%. You could buy a lot for Schilling, you can buy muche less for Euros today. I was in Salzburg since 1978, when Kenny Roberts won his first 500 race until the last race bevore they proceedet to the Austrian Ring in Zeltweg. Every race but 1980, when there was 1 meter of snow. LOL

[@Sadowsky1965]

The incident in the last lap was the end of the career of Marco Lucchinelli. He never recovered at 100%.

[@pabloperez4063]

But the begining of the end was to sign w honda

[@mhoppy6639]

No one’s leg is hanging out!! I saw some contemporary motoGP the other day and watched everyone sticking their legs out. I’ve not ridden motorcycles for 30 years and not watched racing for a long time so I had to ask why the riders were hanging their legs out in the run up to the corners. I was informed that they were using this to find the quickest racing line but I have to say some of the old school elegance has gone out of racing just from what I saw briefly the other day. Great memories.

[@yds250]

From the days when 500cc GP racing was still Left Field and not run by a Media Company,now it's Boring Riders and Boring Races !.

[@pabloperez4063]

i am sorry, 250, but I must say toda y (2018), the races are as great as they can be.... I,ve been following the championship since 1979...and the best seasons ever where -1981 -1982 -and the last ones, since the arrival of Marquez. Marquez, Lorenzo, and some more, are as good as Freddie and Kenny were.

[@pabloperez4063]

If It was not Dorna, It would have been some other company, but ThE professionalism of ThE Championship until 1994 was shameful. I can assure you that Carmelo tries his best to improve ThE Championship. Perhaps ThE guilty ones are ThE japanese factories: why dont we have 250cc anymore? Because Yamaha, Honda, Suzuki retired. Then, why do se have only 2 factories in M3? Ask Yamaha, Aprilia, Ducati, Suzuki...? Why dont want to take part?... ThE thing I like less IS ThE disgusting M2....a real shame compared to ThE golden years of 250....there should be open to more manufacturers...but ThE problem IS THEY dont want to enter! I have loved this sport since 1979, And i want to keep on enjoying until ThE day I die...I would say ThE top class IS in excellent health....at least 17 Riders are amazing....But I am really worried what Will happen when ThE normal engines are banned And electricity takes over.....

[@rapid13]

Bring back the 2-smokers!

[@pabloperez4063]

Bring back Barry Sheene? It is useless to ask for impossible

[@SunBroSimo611]

This Is racing

[@SuzukiRG500RacingMyth]

Great victory for Franco Uncini with the Suzuki RG Gamma 500 XR40. Ciao yds250, you have a great channel, is it possible to contact you?🙂👋

[@StèvenWiĺson-z7p]

Straw bales no air fencing or gravel traps in those days

[@chriswebb1148]

the gravel traps are a real killer for bikes

[@markcasey6358]

'The patter of tiny feet' :)

[@javiervazquez-vm4ug]

Y la nieve, en la cuneta

[@RCTUN748]

That's good times of Suzuki

[@StèvenWiĺson-z7p]

I Agree big men on proper bikes

[@lynngrantz7642]

1982 nov. Alicante

[@LilianaMillan-o9q]

barry sheene 11 march 1951

[@javiervazquez-vm4ug]

Que tiempos, la gente casi metida, en la pista

[@matteoghisellinitrombetta5537]

Kenni Roberts

[@netharad-cx1nb]

La poussette des embrayage suzuki été meilleur, que yamaha plus lourde et toujours eu ses problèmes avec un départ, 2023 n'a pas changé 24 h de SPA LE YART 7,☝️❤️✨, ARRIVE AU BOUT ❤️✨🇮🇲😇

[@LilianaMillan-o9q]

Frances bean cobain 18 february 1993

[@matteoghisellinitrombetta5537]

Beri scin rilassi e la tua