Scarborough International with Barry Sheene, Mick Grant and Pat Hennen - Home Movie

Scarborough International with Barry Sheene - Mick Grant - Pat Hennen. Home Movie

[@nervo6321]

Priceless footage of my favourite race track.

[@70sboy62]

Fantastic time piece , forgot how many of us went to these meeting look at the size of the crowd, fantastic times, and not one person on a mobile.

[@martinbrigham8221]

Fantastic, I was there and can still smell the bikes. Love it.

[@raymondchapman8895]

and that year i weelied past barry sheen going home in his roller on my 400 yamaha with a bird on the back not many have weellied past barry sheen,my claim to fame

[@simonnoble7589]

raymond chapman Nice story , thank you . I used to go to Scarborough from York to see My idol Sheena . I had an AP 50 Suzuki

[@starsailor49]

Difficult not to wheelie with a bird on the back of an RD400!

[@markdawson7429]

Great to see not only Barry and Mick but also Tony Coupland, what a great commentator he has been all those years at Olivers Mount!

[@nervo6321]

Middlesbrough Speedway Team Manager Too.

[@redgatelife9985]

I was there .. what a great time. Thanks for the memories

[@alanduffell6820]

We were there, family of 5. Older brother was a mad Sheene fan. I preferred Mick Grant's Kawasaki. The noise after that hairpin bend when they opened up to climb the hill was unbelievable to a 10year old. Remember my father the day after the races driving our Ford Cortina around the track.

[@nervo6321]

Don’t forget Barry was World Champion at this time.

[@ClassicTrialsChannel]

1977 was a great year

[@tophand22]

This brings back a lot of great memories of the non-GP races we did in the U.K. whenever we didn't have a GP (MotoGP) to compete in. This was first time my brother Pat Hennen competed at Scarborough. He finished 3rd in the race and played it pretty safe. Mick and Barry had the track wired and had raced there many times. We really enjoyed racing there. Though a pretty small street circuit, it was a pretty safe track and the locals were wonderful. The track is in a very scenic part of the U.K.

[@chunkybuster7203]

There is an amazing picture of Pat Hennen and Barry Sheene at Brands Hatch. I saw it in realtime,Pat was trying to overtake Barry,along Cooper straight and he got into a slide and the front wheel was 90 degrees to straight,how he never came off l'll never know. Shortly after he crashed at the Isle of Man, and the rest is history

[@ohcrikey9560]

Pat Hennen. Legend. Better rider than Sheene in my opinion. Shame he never got the chance to prove it.

[@markgrice8088]

remember it like it was yesterday, the crowds, the smell of racing tyres and two-stroke, we stoodwhere the bridge is now on what is now Sheene Rise :) , happy days, now i take my kids there, we stand on the bridge, it's just an amazing place Olivers Mount...been going 44 years now

[@tonyjoe5707]

My better half and I were there that day just after the hairpin. Thanks for sharing it brought some really fond memories back for us both. Cheers again

[@rogerwilson6367]

Me too. God I feel old.

[@steveclarke8169]

I went to Scarborough almost 40 years ago for a friends 'stag party' weekend. Just four of us on our respective bikes on one of the race weekends. The town was jumping on Saturday night. We were packed into a local watering hole and some idiot threw some type of explosive device into the bar. Blew a hole in the ceiling and took the top of someone's finger who was standing behind me. A lucky escape. The following day we went to the track and I stood at the same hairpin where most of this video was shot. Got some great photos. Could not believe how tight the track was. Made the IoM look like Silverstone.

[@Jimmie92]

What a fantastic and rare video!!!

[@sobriyah]

Awesome. I was there in ' 76 and ' 77 for the Cock o' the North meetings when I was still in my teens. Thanks for posting this, it's just how I remember it. Anyone recall the Kiwi on the big sit up and beg Kawa ?

[@Instone09ine]

Hi that would be Graeme crosby on the Moriwaki, A.K.A Croz, i recall seeing him at Donington park he was very entertaining!

[@davidbp10]

Fell off my norton commando on the hairpin 1977. Just snapped left footpeg so rode home ok. Great noise with open short megas flying thru the trees. Great track.

[@progx8679]

Ahhh great stuff, you can almost smell the 2 cycle oil fumes ! Hmmmm !!! Lol Dame is miss these bikes & riders !!!! What a crazy tight course !

[@roadracingrelics]

I think this was probably my first time watching a road race event. I remember parking my '73 T120V Bonneville and crossing the track on a bridge just as the first bikes came down the hill to Mountside Hairpin. The sound and smell of those 2 stroke racers, I was hooked there and then. It's ironic that there is now a Barry Sheene Classic event at Scarborough because he was not well liked by the northern race fans who were all routing for Mick Grant. Bazza was a bit too flash for them. I heard tell that people were poking sticks through the fence as Barry raced by. Barry had no time for the Isle of Man, but kept coming back to Scarborough's TT circuit in miniature.

[@robcall5182]

when did Northerners like Londoners? They still don't.

[@bruceryan4160]

I was there too. I have some black and white pictures of Barry doing his victory lap with no helmet on !!

[@jessandlolly]

I was there!!!!

[@scarboroughrider]

Remember this mate. I've got vid somewhere when he was interviewed on seafront for MCN week.

[@mowoggreen1164]

"Don"t wait for the flag !, go when Mick goes" ;) ;)

[@CatherineScarborough]

WOW amazing! - in Australia we have a friend Mick Headland sidecar champ who you may know from Murray Bridge SA xo :)

[@georgealty]

Fantastic!

[@flashriffs]

Great video, I was there in 77 and 78, took some pictures, there on my youtube channel. Olivers Mount Scarborough 78

[@tooyoungtobeold8756]

Such a narrow track. I really liked Mick Grant. Those two strokes almsot made your ears bleed.

[@christopherth]

Mick sponsored me in 1980

[@youtubesharing4073]

Whah what a race all the race fans must have been Yorkie's lol brilliant to see this film, the circuit is very much the same today as in 1977.

[@Nasphotography13]

so was i jim i was a 16 and rode there on my fizzy

[@turboslag]

Have a feeling I was at this meeting! Lived in Sherburn In Elmet at the time, of Squires Coffee bar fame!

[@christopherth]

Used to go there on a regular basis

[@turboslag]

Me too when I lived up there. What was it then, Wednesday evenings and Sundays?!

[@libbyhurdman6041]

Hi christopherth, Would it be possible for me to use 5/10 seconds of this video? you will be fully creditied. my messages are open for a response. many thanks :)

[@christopherth]

Yes of course, it was taken from Mick Grant’s personal video collection, I believe it was recorded on one of the first portable reel to reel video cameras

[@libbyhurdman6041]

@@christopherth amazing thanks very much. Can you let us know what you want written as a credit :)

[@christopherth]

@@libbyhurdman6041 From the video collection of Mick Grant

[@rattusnorvegicus4380]

Shame the placed has shut down,but enjoyed a few visits over the years.

[@ducatiboy4951]

It's back Gold Cup last weekend in September 🏍️

[@AbandonEarth911]

Jarno Saarinen raced and won at the mount in 1972.

[@auchenlynn9984]

I filmed this on one of the first portable video cameras it was a sony camera with reel to reel tape at the time the film boys said it would never catch on Alister

[@pabloperez4063]

imagine the current MGP bikes running there today! all the track in FIRST gear!!

[@markferguson7918]

I go to Scarborough quite often. You hardly ever see a turnout like that anymore

[@christopherth]

I believe the record is 50,000

[@christopherth]

+christopherth GP riders at a British meeting and such a charismatic circuit, will never happen again

[@winksta0]

It looks so much better without the "Farm Bends" section.

[@J4FTobinator]

Crzay how that riding styles changed. They barely lean in or move on the bike

[@peregrinemccauley5010]

That was great . Why couldn't you at the time , just sprinted around the track and shot film from other corners ? Or alternatively hired a helicopter ? Otherwise am happy with this video . Good work .

[@michaelreeve9979]

Wasn't it Oliver's Mount where Phil Haslam was killed? Seem to remember Ron saying he would never race there and think that was the reason ... got hit when he was slwoing doen and his leg got hit as he was sticking it out I think ... anyone know for sure?

[@twizzlestickx7]

yes he got killed there 1974

[@topcat4643]

A terrible dangerous circuit…..no wonder so many riders over the years we’re killed just with a simple fall!!