Quote Originally Posted by Mach24
I have to say the Akira Yanagawa years in WSB are some of the fondest memories I have of bike racing. Whenever I hear his name I think of some amazing racing.

I still remember seeing him at Phillip Island for the first time and some of his heroics around the outside at turn one.

Akira is a racers racer!
I remember wondering how the Go-Show's replacement would go and saw Akira come through turn 1 in practice and he clearly looked the fastest out of the field. He was really exciting.


Quote Originally Posted by The Phantom
+1

Yanagawa, Slight, Fogerty, Chili, Edwards, Crafar, Haga, Bostrom, Goddard, Corser (and many others) - talk about the 'glory days'!
Amen to that! I look forward to the 'new breed' coming through in the next few years to hopefully bring back a golden age to WSB.