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Agostini, Roberts, Baker et al | Brothers in Arms

Planets align, stars come out for the inaugural Imola 200 RevivalHoly smokin’ racing rubber! I had been led to believe that everyone understood this wasn’t supposed to be a race. Maybe that was just a hopeful notion; a kind of disclaimer, circulated between organizers and fans to let the insurance guys breathe a bit easier. But let’s be realistic: Cut a bunch of professional racers loose—including a number of world champions—on professional-caliber racing machines and what you get is a race. The racers may be retired and the white-hot force-of-will to win may have cooled a bit, but such men remain capable of going very fast. The bikes—mostly 500cc Grand Prix and Formula 750 machines—are at least as capable. Like the men, their performance belies their age. They might not be MotoGP-fast, but the two-strokes in particular bring with them a certain violence that makes them singularly impressive and downright frightening in a way modern four-strokes are not.


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