1985 British 500 GP at Farleigh Castle

and now there's four men stuck on the first corner but opening one away [Music] the minute period is still mega righto leading the Italian is truck Nicola sleepovers [Music] leapin jump up the hill they go down the other side of this hill [Music] until the world championship leader with 247 points and he's chasing Jorge obey the builds of number two of the green Kawasaki losing poor position in the championship so mega righto totally totally unexpectedly because he was only 10th fastest in practice this morning he's certainly setting the pace that he's got a clear track in front of it and there are a number of riders and number 42 there is the German bareness Eagle with him he's Yuka Sinton an opposite fir the Finnish rider on the words Haas fauna and his race is virtually run and Thorpe has gotten ahead of Joe babe behind Joby number 54 is the Englishman Murphy and stay on a Honda this is the first lap each lap takes about three minutes so since it's a 14 minute race class two laps it'll be about 13 laps before that plus two sine goes out to till the riders but they are on their last two laps and thought who is sub six foot two tall who weighs 14 stone five pounds who he's so fit I can't tell you he runs ten miles every day he does weight training every day he spends half the day riding his bike he's been doing that since he was six years old because 22 year old Dave fall has been racing for 16 years and there is the leader and behind him is the world championship leader or dreamer layer so mehleb is in second position and that is the target for Dave Thorpe who is riding on his got his home circuit but this barley castle circuit is one with which Dave wolf is well familiar but it's the brilliant built of three times world champion remember in signal position and then crowd is cheering on Dave for number three as you look at the world championship leader Belair he's completing his first flap behind ballet is banger Otto in third position behind mecca righto look for number 52 let's beam in Watson thingy the flourish rider on the Kawasaki with the green bug guard David Thorpe in challenging for that third position as they come to waters now it's matter of leading in second position is beggar Otto there he is there is Dave for number three he's position I mean a babe Watson embarrassment this race has had injuries this season he's recovered well [Music] so now a thought as you can see has taken mega righto and as we expected the races on between number three various day for another one Audrey mother about these bikes way kilograms if they're down to the weight limit they produced 61 horsepower if it's a worked Honda from there single cylinder two-stroke engines and it doesn't seem all that long ago since the great joke rate for North first produced 50 horsepower in a racing single cylinder 500 north and now these motocross machines are producing 10 the horsepower more and they have the most incredible performance and so now the two top live in 1985 motocross number one world championship leader or tame a layer a number 3 who is leading this year's championship our first and second they're teammates but there is an intense rivalry between the tremendously wealthy Belgium who lives in Monaco and his challenger Dave thought I there is the race for PETA lopsided Thorpe is leading and they momentarily stop and you can probably hear the crowd cheering over my microphone bob is now where he intended to be he was three seconds faster than a layer in practice and with with a long long way to go it's going to be a grueling demanding race for these two men tremendously fits manga righto still third on the Kawasaki is fighting back a tree takes the need from Cole the leads hot berry and second place Kawasaki in third position being it on the second lap and watch the form to watch the suspension as caught back in the lead again traps towards as it is mobbed up there's some 13 this is it and falling and that is their justification 22 year old [Music] in fourth position it's still dave watson in fifth position it's Danny Chandler number 21 Danny traveller the American so it is completely Schmidt leading it's a Belgian second Italian very staid once on the virus Valente's fatty Magoo Charlie riding the history of painting behind him in sixth position another Kawasaki that of George Shuba mega righto third Watson Paul Feig's charter in fifth position very Shores show bay in sixth place and here the leaders I've spent steep hill across meadow the sweet here then into a tight right-hander and up the hill towards us default leads world champion manner up second there are 20 points for each race for the winner there are 17 points for the second place down to 1 point for 15th position each race is called a photo it's motocross this used to be called scrambling there are two races so there are 40 points for the top man if he wins both races a day Philip is leading or tame a layer by 15 points and when I tell you $500,000 a year as the world track motocross rider you can see that the financial stakes are enormous and the prestige stinks of riding for a firm like Honda or Kawasaki or Yamaha are equally big to the riders and incidentally ex-world champion of poor cut the carve twist who has won every race he's written enough arne castle is tragically a non-starter here today because he injured his shoulder of practicing on wednesday went out yesterday and decided he was not fit enough to race a great pity because he was probably the only man who could have given the all-conquering for pied Miller a real run for their money here at Party Castle today so the one and two in the world championship placings 1st and 2nd there now let's move on to the end of lap 11 so as you rejoin us ten laps completed before still leads but number one matter of the belgian three-time world champion in second place is starting his charge he started to close the gap between himself and a four ball trying to the gap has carried out from six seconds to four seconds in third position totally against expectations riding superb Lee it's the Italian big Bailey mega righto on the works Kawasaki as thought goes through in fourth place it's big Watson the Irishman on the Kawasaki so there are two hunters and two Kawasaki's in the first four places but chasing they've got some very hard indeed in fifth position at the moment is the Englishman 20-year old Dave nickel on the Austrian KTM so there are a two Englishmen nickel in the top five places and in sixth position behind Dave nickel since Danny Magoo went out temporarily when he came off his bike is Mervyn Anstey three Englishmen in the top six places around nine of the twelve round World Championship the British called Prix here at Farley castle Malley of number one delicately handling that 60 horsepower two-stroke single cylinder water-cooled Honda engine it is distinctive fire engine red bike that's thought on the left there is malleable and this quite a long gap now these two men Englishman Dave thought and Audrey male herb have dominated the World Championship this year the first race of the year in Austria male of 1 and 4 per second Thorpe was third in France Thorpe was second in Sweden with Malaya fourth male 1 in Finland and Thorpe was third in Italy fourth one in Spain belly up 1 and Thorpe was third in Holland Thorpe won and Malaya was second in America a couple of weeks ago Dave Thorpe was second the ballet herb was 4 and there's only 15 points between them in the world championship and there the Belgium on his 11th lap in what we expect to be a 13 lap 13 lap plus two laps race the gap is down to 2.7 seconds what do I mean by 13 lems plus two laps actually this race is run over 40 minutes plus two laps at the end of 40 minutes the board goes out which says two more laps and in their 40 minutes given that the lap time in practice of the fastest man Dave Thorpe was 2 minutes 55 point one seconds we expect the race to run for 13 laps before that board goes out of there his thought number 3 video for the gap was 6 seconds and you can see for yourself that it's much less than that now the two top motocross men in the world won't rape a lair boo drives say very powerful BMW car Dave for food drives an equally powerful Porsche 9 - 8 s as I said earlier on surely must be one of the highest-paid sportsman is the world reputedly earning last year some $500,000 and you could see why because that gap now is one about two seconds and boast as they go up the hill here indeed Thor knows he's gotta back off these notes and the gap in fact is 1.6 seconds back tall so we're staying obviously with the drama at the front the world to top motocross riders Englishman Dave form from Woking cheered on every inch of the way by probably the biggest crowd that's ever assembled at this tremendously demanding Farley castle circuit on the Wiltshire border butcher Dorset border has done now what he wanted to do in the closing stages of the race having watched Dave thought all the way round in front of him and studied where Dave Forks lives take him where he breaks where he changes gear what part of the course he occupies at what place valium knows exactly what to do so there 35 minutes committed five minutes to go before they pass relapse board goes out you can feel the tension here at Farley cast form leads banner up second back urato of the Kawasaki third Dave Watson is still fourth on the Kawasaki still fifth is Kurt Nicoll the English but on the KTM still sinks this bourbon actually so we still have three Englishmen in the top three places and now the crowd is starting to invade the course of that part that was furnished is the power [Music] he's he's trying to battle for me won't do that they thought but 22 years old has got one of the coolest the purest heads on the yatin shoulders and they're scorching their way through the fear the man that they're coming up to number 39 on the green Kawasaki is Gowdy and Giza the Swiss Runa let's hope he doesn't get in the way of this with 20 points stake from the wind 17 points at stake for second place with only 15 points in the world championship separating the leader in the championship and this race and all trained ballet up second in the championship and this race if they stay where they are now they thought will have extended his world championship lead over his teammate Audrey bel-air by three vital points three races to go creep three broad three races to go after the British ball Prix here of party car in Belgium where naturally ballet will get just a stroke and a support as Thorpe is getting here in Luxembourg and the final round like neutral territory is in Switzerland but this is the one the British Grand Prix this is the first of two photos as they call them motocross each over 40 minutes plus two laps how fit you have to be they thought pork has an iron regime which he handles like somebody go to work he gets up in the morning says goodbye to his wife and daughter goes on a ten-mile run not occasionally for everyday and he's been known to wear out some very good athletes but at the end of that 10-mile run after he's had his lunch he goes and does his weight training then after that he gets out of bike like the one he's on now he's got a scrambles course a few minutes away from his home and he practices practices practices every day and this is the result here he comes number three day four number one world champion Audrey bad air both of Japanese works offers these bikes reputedly cost some fifty thousand pounds each I did say fifty thousand pounds and this should be at the end of which we will see that plus two laps I did hurt all that he wasn't being supported you can see that that one of the globe to the six seconds once again [Applause] so really getting it started with the rest of the graph a little fella good afternoon here's done welcome [Music] in position such is the piece of the two in the front and a layer [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] timecamp is not yet completed they are still there in the closing seconds of the 40-minute a--let's at the end of this lap we will see that +2 board go to go out well has all dream a layer number one the world champion getting a pit signal here anything left in reserve be try three wins a lair has had this year in Austria in Finland in Spain 40 minutes has been competing that they have as well as as three wins was second in Holland third in suite form in America to fifth places in France and Italy they fought one in Italy one in Holland three second places in Austria in Sweden in America three third places in France in Finland in Spain is this going to be Dave for further photo width he wants six photos in succession six of the two race rounds at the end of last year a magnificent record go go go Dave the crowd is saying watching my [Music] and I think they fall has practiced I think there has blown it I think made his effort there's gonna be two laps on the end of this one and I don't think that ballet herb has got the resources [Music] the customer is a precinct the gang is now three point four seconds in the lights blue trousers or trailer their bows his gear contrasting further bike chases number three two laps to go come on Dave [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] wait to the last two layers to produce it world champion in 19 days thought now where is malleable Thorpe is definitely pulling out there live must be Tyree comes right off the bike there the man who was world champion in 1980 and 81 who broke his leg in 82 five times from the Italian Grand Prix last year from which he has now he says totally recovered but it looks as though we are seeing with a tall number three but they think solid view photo cross world champion for 1985 he's on his way to 20 points he looked back and that's the man he sees mehleb Ward Raymond a 28 years old Monaco resident he's tiring nobody could have a training regime lot like forked us stopping moment that the red Honda that Ballet have passed there was thought as he disappeared behind the bush but quite quite wrong there is going strongly indeed and day for when he completes the lap which follows the conclusion of this one room which will be the last left off his first 40 minutes plus two laps moto he's going to get a treatment named nurse reception watch it go again that was Chuck number six that he's catchy is Yucca Sid tonin the works has born a rider from Finland well down now then in third place we haven't seen him for a while while we be concentrating on Thor panella is the Italian bikini mega righto he justifies his works Kawasaki ride that's Kurt Nicoll [Music] Kofi's about to start his last lap as Nikhil [Applause] [Music] enormous comparison 11 sickness now so dave horbas according in a serie final two laps was decided to give it best for 17 points for second place but either way Dave Thorpe is on his last lap let's enjoy looking at a potential world champion [Music] watch the impact smooth way he places that comes up the hill for the last time towards us lands just right in between the two scoops visit now the decent you cannot stand up on this decent I tried it yesterday and went all away from top to bottom on my backside that's how steep it is but it's nothing [Music] watch his elbows flex what his knees flex and number eight Kurt Nicoll bouncing a lot behind on the last lap the order is this man the leader nearly home for 20 points for with Dave thought second board Ramallah and just about to start his last lap his banker Otto up in to fourth place now has got Kurt Nicoll Kurt Nicoll he's up into fourth place just starting his last they're going down the galley soon to see mega ATO number 24 Kurt Nicoll number 8 and it's just conceivable that people will catch and pass the works Kawasaki rider the Italian mega water and take third place with Thorpe well on his way to first position in this first moto various at the 8th Kurt Nicoll salmon are biblical he's only 20 years old based off the leader behind him now here is the bad news maker Otto in third position than I do mr. Dingle berry is on the KTM on the KTM turtle Kawasaki third there is taught there's nickel number eight of the of the Austrian meteor so we have to understand second a Kawasaki third this KTM four here is thought [Music] in fifth position behind nickel it's David Watson Lila Irish Rider and in sixth place bourbon XT so it's a wonderful day for the Prince and Dave Fork is almost home he's coming into the last night he does eases his background [Music] raises the programs they cheer [Music] while in a phase two moto of the pretty strong preview [Music] margin from world champion or train ballet or 10 11 the gap between 4 and Mel M is 19 seconds but who is going to be third would have been better Otto the Italian on the Kawasaki the Englishman on the KTM and still the third man the you bet will give you an indication of what a tremendous lead thought and ballet of head as mega Otto is coming into that last right-hander Kurt Nicoll what the KTM number 8 is in 4th position to finish higher he just feels at the first for our home the winner Dean for in second place world champion Andre Manor on the Honda in third position Michaela mega Otto on the Kawasaki in 4 for brilliant 4th Kurt Nicoll on the KTM in fifth position it's number 52 Dave Watson of the Kawasaki and in 6th position it's Mervyn Anstey so there are four British riders in the top six probably not you out of your afternoon slumbers five times second and he rips off he takes off her hip-hop throws it away [Music] crowd he's saying go for it they fight back and he will next watch [Music] to me just a tiny bit ragged compared with thought Thorpe is riding I say well within his limits Ballard will have potential left but the Belgian is just looking that tiny bit ragged compared with trying desperately to break away this is what he did in the first moto he be go through now there he didn't succeed in passing David Thorpe as a result of which he finished second gap between himself and Dave thought now the positions are reversed [Music] thirty minutes gone and we are alone and a new leader number one world champion Andre Malaya has caught and cast david form with an inspired bit of riding but Paul seems to me to be riding more within his limits then now there is both men just before this race began quietly declared that it was their intention to win it because forth having won in the first moto had increased his world championship lead by three points now then it is valid leading Thorpe in second place [Music] position Dave Watson the Irishman on the Kawasaki is hanging off magnificently in 5th place it is rain is starting to come down I don't think it's going to bother the riders over much they're well into their rhythm now they've been tearing off the rip off sections of their goggles to keep their vision clear rules the world says the banner well he doesn't rule it at the moment he's leading the world championship but the world champion is leading here than here he goes not the one Audrey [Music] who sees picked up a bit of tape from the course party well for now can do - Mel Airport ballet have did to him in the first moto he could watch exactly where the Belgian goes he can study is line of where he slows thought just sit where he is for a lap or so and maybe make his break or try for it in the last two laps so when we see the 40 minutes ending that's two laps board going out thin the action will really begin if this is about and it is I'm sure they heard Watson for nickel fifth in six positions to Martin's on the worsens Husqvarna so there are two Honda's leading them to Kawasaki's third and four then the KTM of Kurt Nicoll fifth and then in sixth position the Swedish Husqvarna machine and you're looking at Thor for taking Johnny kanji at the Dutch rider on the Kawasaki now the big leap coming towards us clearing the crest flying through the earth here they come now here before this brake on the front drop break at the back look at the front forks and you will see that the disc brake at the front covered by a shroud a plastic shroud which attaches to the forks to keep out stones but then out you can see on the right-hand side of the front forks [Music] who's coming right up now [Music] completed and the crowd is stupidly coming down to the course to urge the last row where he is the last thing the for peds at the moment his 34 minutes have gone six minutes to the start of the last two laps where they thought I fairly confidently predicts riding round in the wheel tracks of wardrobe now and able to go a lot quicker than he is the worrying situation of knowing the Dave hope is right behind him pushing hard and down the field we've got an interesting situation because while George obey is still third day Watson is still fourth Dave Nichol is still fifth they make a Kurt Nicoll I keep on say Dave nickel which is Kurt's father Kurt Nicoll is in fifth position as he was in the first moto but he's right enough with David Watson who he took a long time to get past in the first moto [Music] [Music] these two men have been so dominant in Grand Prix racing this year Malaya one in Austria Malaya one in Finland for one in Italy Thorpe one in Holland but with those two battling for the lead here is Dave Watson on the Kawasaki who is in 4th position behind George obey his khalasar being confident and behind 52 is number 8 Kurt Nicoll and there he goes twenty-year-old Kurt Nicoll son of X BSA works rider Dave dickham and Kurt is challenging Watson now Watson who is in 4th place had curtain people behind him in the first moto and Kurt told me he had a great deal of difficulty in getting pass for the record he was about three seconds or less faster than him Tom Watson in the first moto but he just couldn't get past the Irishman it's very very difficult to find some way to pass here at Barney Castle and so Kurt Nicoll has got exactly the same problem in this second moto as he had in the first and Thorpe is still 1.4 seconds behind ballet of as they go through to complete another lap and really the marshal should do something about these idiots who are breaking ranks as they come up to the last corner to invade the course and exhort thought to go even faster Dave Watson exhorting himself to go even faster in fourth position tried to keep Kurt Nicoll behind him and at the same time tried to catch the third placement now he is down there is thought this is 13 37 minutes gone so will complete this lap and the next three more laps to go number three Dave will have to call for every ounce of stamina that they've got because it is tremendously punishing to do this they're up on the footrest set down on the saddle they're up on the footrest they've brought with the feet they operated the trouble with the right hand the clutch with the left feet and all the time they're having to flex their knees and and ride the bumps with the motorcycle suspension pick the right line go to the right speed what's their respective then who there are none better than [Music] now what you may say will happen if a lab and thought and thought if it a very urban thought both finished with the same number of points as a result of finishing first and second in the two Moto's each the answer is that the man who finishes higher in this the second moto will take precedence so if all dream a layer that wins this moto this heat this lake he will also win over all the points of course because they will each have 37 points from the wind and a second place but it is going to make a difference to who wins the brick the British Brawl free and since we have had a British rider winning the British motocross born free since david twohy prey of noise won it in 1979 all the thousands and thousands of thousands of spectators with a few notable continental exemptions here today will be one thing three day for the field Batman period [Music] interesting their mouth he looks as though we've still got three laps to go because I'll go past the start/finish there was still 30 seconds to go to the end of the first 40 minutes in this race and that was virtually the situation in this photo so the rain and the dampened circuit of surface have hardly slowed the pace at all it is virtually identical and that is because both of these men are now giving it everything that they've got ballet for two more we estimate an ovary shoulder looks one rider who's just been here is the before position between Dave Watson on the green Kawasaki am in front of Watson is still sure she'll be on the Kawasaki the order then is ballet of leading thought second survey in third position number 52 they're in the black of white helmet with a big company on the front of Italy Watson is in fourth place and with him the man who had difficulty in getting past Watson in the 20 year-old Kurt Nicoll riding superbly he's in fifth position in the world championship the front the battle rages continuously as it has done [Music] riding from 40th and last to first on the third leg on the fourth leg had caught and passed all dream LF Mallory took that lead on lap ten he's held it on lap 11 on lap 12 on lap 13 this is that 40 at the end of this lap we really should see the plus two laps board go out and now for his closing Thorpe is charging Thorpe he's charging he's right up alongside now let me through he's through Dave thought takes the lead he's done it the tough as steel the Earnhardt Englishman has I think now broken [Applause] he's giving Corvus about the inside linebacker neighbors taken the lead again this is bad papers of photographs has Bey thoughts on his peace and speed of tactics too soon [Music] greatest go to cross riders of all time momentarily lost the lead to be more they're coming to is this [Music] Scottie's moved over and let ballet of and thought go through there is no wrong to make a mistake on this far Newcastle course especially here this was a show they had traveled in the first moto well forth has shown a layer now I don't think for his leader tactical mistake but he might just have because he showed me when he could take him and that is exactly where they're able make jolly sure that thought can't take him in this lap or the next one so unless four is double taking the Belgium and that is possible too because this race now is not about machinery it's not about riding skill because the machines are equal and so are the riders it is about tactics it is about braids is about thinking it's about the wheel fifteen this left hand the next left [Music] the crowd is alternately spellbound acidic when they see their English hero from working on day four still only 22 years old and as I have said before this afternoon a man with an incredibly mature cool head on his young shoulders holding that second place he has written an absolutely unbelievable race I'm not belittling Malheur but when you think that thought who was brought down on the first corner at first there and must have stopped for I would think a good 15 seconds clawed his way right through to the lead it's an equal trainable performance now the big leaps I wonder where they fall on that last lap he's going to make his epic and portrayed now there will be wondering exactly the same thing just to keep you in tracks still in third position on the Kawasaki the belt and jaws should show bay still in fourth position the Irishman dave watson on another kawasaki still in fifth position behind watson it's exposition in his province and now they're about to start the last lap with half a secret between numbers they round the corner when the crowd is out there again whilst the English crowd goes mad with enthusiasm and invades the course which they shall do in some countries which have better be nameless it is not unknown for them for the spectators to throw beer bottles at the riders woods last lap last lap bel-air bleeds Thorpe second number one leads world champion number three for leading the world championship this year in the what remains of this last lap banner will win overall although both riders will have the same number of points as far as the world championships in the British called free which would need to say that they thought would still be leading port a manner by 15 points as they go into the last three broad free of the year which are respectively at Belgium Luxembourg and Switzerland and there's there's many of signaler telling the Belgian that this is the last lap the Belgian has ridden and inspired race as has the Englishmen on identical machinery and is still in third position there he is George Ave in third position on the Kawasaki it's still watts of Kawasaki form it's still turning to each other places for power for first and second places it's a really cursed contest right down to second place lastly closing stages where's mal air barriers well there's no turbocharger on a Honda but if there was this would be the time for de fought to give in a turn wideout the boost and go for it but he can't do that and as they come over the jump it's ballet now it's fall now and the lead for ballet is one point four seven seconds as the wheels touch I don't think the day for got a hope of catching the Belgium and it's going to be an overall victory for a man I sure sure they there is still in place moving he's lost it he's lost it found a get away elastic hair done [Applause] disappointed he's in second position in the second moto he's got 30 sanity disgustedly throws away his goggles while we wait for noir sherbe to come home in third position there is the terribly disappointed Dave thought who wanted so very much to win his own British Grand Prix riding home in second place notwithstanding the fact that he got the same number of points as Audrey Valera who has won because he finished higher in the second moto very sure show bay finishing call coming through to finish in third position with bel-air and thought metaphorically under the shower already but it's not so much a question of who's going to be third because there is overheats a question of who's going to be poor Oh Katie oh well very Chauvet third and it's nickel in fourth position behind nickel coming into this last recall is up in the fourth place the outer v goes watson and in sixth position it is Andre Romans so with a big to each winning a stage or moto as Mary likes to call them these days Thorpe and mal herb

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Published: Sat Apr 18 2020