Tribute to Mick Doohan

Monday, April 25, 2011

Mick Doohan
  Although suffer by many accident. Moving Brake pedal into buttons on the handlebars. But it did not preclude a Mick Doohan to record a phenomenal results in world motor racing event as world champion GP500 5 times in a row. Here is a quick summary of the Maestro travel.

1965. Brisbane, Queensland - Australia, June 4, 1965 birth of a baby boy named Michael Doohan. Later he was better known as Mick Doohan. Start riding a motorcycle in 1974 at the age of 9 years. While the commencement of road racing debut at the age of 19 years (1984) on the Surfers Paradise International Raceway.

1988. Doohan competed in the World Superbike arena. He won the series Sugo, Japan, and at Oran Park, Australia. In Japan, by Yamaha YZF750 Doohan also won the event, TB Road Race at Sugo and Mt Fuji Super Sprint. Not surprisingly, towards the end of the 1988 flood Doohan offer from Yamaha, Honda and Suzuki GP500 to join the team for season 1989.

1989. Doohan finally joined the Rothmans Honda team for his debut year in the 500cc world championship. His team-mates at that time was world champion from Australia Wayne Gardner and Eddie Lawson of the United States. Doohan finished the season ranked ninth in the final result. The best result was finishing third in the West German GP (Hockenheim). In his debut the same three races he lost a finger injury.

1990. This season performance increase with Mick Doohan was ranked third in the end. American rider Wayne Rainey (Yamaha) and Kevin Schwantz (Suzuki). This season is also the first Aussie to win at the Hungarian GP. In addition to the series champion, Doohan also reached the podium twice each as runners-up in the United erikat and Australia, and third podium in Italy and Austria.

1991. Signs of Doohan's going to be the ruler GP500 increasingly apparent. Aside from making a runner-up points behind Rainey, Doohan in the 1991 season on the podium 14 times from 15 series that competed. Obtained 3 times victory (Spain, Italy, and Austria), 7 times a runner-up and 4 times the podium to-3.

1992. Mick Doohan barely won his first world title this season GP500. He won 4 series that took place earlier in Japan, Australia, Malaysia, and Spain. Fifth victory this season and then grabbed the series to the Hockenheim-Germany-7. By then he had led with 53 points while for Rainey who was in a position to-2. Unfortunately, when the qualifying series of the 8th GP Assen, Netherlands, Doohan crashed and broke his right leg. He also must spend the next 4 series. And Rainey finally won the world title in the last series in South Africa with only 4 points difference on Doohan (Rainey 140 - Doohan 136).

1993. This season started with repair surgery on his right foot. But Doohan back suffered a broken bone in his left wrist in a crash while testing session in Malaysia. Doohan also must start the championship 1993 in the conditions that do not fit. He has a limited range of motion in his right foot underneath so I have difficulties when using the rear brake. Results achieved Doohan began to improve after his team managed to modify the rear braking system is to "move" the brake pedal to the handlebars of his bike so that braking the rear wheels can be done by hand. With all the "disaster" that happened, Doohan end the 1993 season in 4th position at the end of series.


1994. Dominance begins! Doohan began the season 1994 at the podium 3rd Australian Grand Prix at Eastern Creek, followed by victory in Malaysia and second in Japan. He then won six consecutive series, in Spain, Austria, Germany, Holland, Italy, and France, followed by second place in Britain. When the series won the 11th circuit in Brno, Czech Doohan clinched his first GP500 world. Doohan completed the 1994 season with 9 wins and always on the podium in the 14 series that competed. He was the first driver to reach the podium in every series since Giacomo Agostini grabbed it in 1968.

1995. The first season of The Crocodile Aussie as defending champion. His position on temporary points was taken over by her compatriot, Daryl Beattie because Doohan had an accident in Spain and Jerman. Doohan rose again and again leads the standings with four races to win the next take on Italy, the Netherlands, France, and Great Britain. He won world titles 1995 (the second in a row) with a winning round of the series 12, the Grand Prix of Argentina in Buenos Aires.

1996. In 1996 Doohan won the 500cc title for the third time in a row the third. He won eight of 15 series, including four in a row in Spain, Italy, France and the Netherlands. Inauguration as third world title with his victory at the Catalunya GP.

1997. Doohan established itself among all GP500 legend when he won the world championship for the fourth year in a row. He has been equated with Agostini and Mike Hailwood as the rider who won four consecutive 500cc titles.

1998. In 1998 Doohan won his fifth world title in a row. Coronation title of his fifth place at the Grand Prix in his own country (Phillip Island circuit.) He won eight series throughout the year. Thus Doohan record of 135 victories 54 times that followed the series since 1989.

1999. Doohan began 1999 with world championship finish fourth in the series premiere in Malaysia, and the second in the following race in Japan. In the 3rd series that took place at the Jerez circuit-Spain, he had an accident in qualifying session. As a result of the incident, the world champion five times in a row suffered a broken right leg and shoulder and left wrist. Doohan was rushed immediately to the United States to undergo the logging operations of San Francisco, which included inserting two plates and 12 screws in his right leg, and one plate again in his left arm. As a result of the injury was Mick Doohan finally announced his retirement from Grand Prix arena towards the end of the season.

2000-2004. As a rider who is very loyal to the manufacturer Honda, after retiring as General Manager Doohan trusted Racing HRC (Honda Racing Corporation). One of the "handiwork" is the orbit as world champion Valentino Rossi 3 times in a row (2001-2003). As Rossi and Jeremy Burgess (his former crew chief) left Honda to Yamaha, Doohan still loyal to the manufacturer's wing logo. End of the legend GP500 2004 season, decided to go when the Honda pulled former rival, a rider Max Biaggi Repsol Honda team principal.

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