I'm riding Spa on Monday, hope it's dry!
Then some of us are riding to the Erzburg rodeo, (extreme enduro) somewhere near Linz in Austria, my son is competing along with some of his buddies.
Then the 2 day Motorrad experience at the 'Ring' next Tuesday/Wednesday, must have a lap with Helmut this year, google Helmut Dahne, super guy, still rides his RC 30 he set the lap record on.
I keep on every year inviting him to Cadwell and Snetterton, I'll try again this year, he's about 72 now!!!
He set the first of his record there in August 1988 with a Suzuki GSX-R at 7:55.07. Then, with a 750cc
Honda RC30 VFR750R, he subsequently lowered it to 7:53.08 in July 1990, to 7:50.71 in June 1992, and on 23 May 1993, using Metzeler ME Z1[SUP]
[19][/SUP] tyres, set yet another record, with 7:49.71.[SUP]
[20][/SUP] After the 1993 event, an onboard-video was produced[SUP]
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[22][/SUP] in which D?hne did another lap, about 10 secs slower, carrying camera equipment on his back. On 2 July 1994, D?hne did not take part in the
Zuvi (which was won by Herbert Mandelartz with 7:55.78 min) as he instead returned to the Isle of Man TT for his 24th, 25th and 26th TT races. He scored a personal best of 19:45, but then fell and shattered his lower leg, causing a one year break.
In 1994, not only
Ayrton Senna was killed, but also riders were fatally wounded on the Nordschleife. No motorcycle contests on the Nordschleife were held after 1994, and with the track homologation for motorcycles not being renewed, no organizer can offer officially sanctioned contests there anymore. Thus, D?hne, holding the track record since 1988, will "forever" be the holder of the official record of 7:49.71 he had set in 1993.[SUP]
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D?hne, while riding for a magazine report, crashed in 1996 at the fast Fuchsr?hre section of the Nordschleife. He continued to be a front runner in circuit racing, but finished only 3rd in the championship standings in 1997 and 1998, dropping further down the order later. While he won two more victories in the 1000 km Hockenheim in 2001 and 2002, another crash in 2004 ended the competitive career of the 60-year-old. Helmut D?hne has appeared in several other videos or magazine articles, comparing bikes to other bikes or cars, and still is active in public relation events.
Fingers crossed I get a go!
