He claimed his first victory for them at the Hungarian Grand Prix in the 1990 season. It was a challenge to ride that way.”. “I’d just run for ten minutes in all my gear and survived,” he recalls. When you look at the progression of the record for the most Grand Prix victories by one driver, it once appeared as if Alain Prost’s mark of 51 wins was…, Lewis Hamilton recorded his 91st F1 win at the 2020 F1 Eifel Grand Prix at the Nürburgring to move level with Michael Schumacher on the all-time wins list, Valtteri Bottas is enjoying something of an Indian summer. I was coming through the last left before the last double right and I was lighting up the rear. During testing in ’93 I crashed at Eastern Creek. I did physio at Costa’s and rode an Aprilia street bike around Imola, very gingerly. Read this exciting story from Bike SA May 2020. Replacing it for 2020 is the Tiger 900, an almost ground up new adventure bike with a bigger engine, higher spec and two main variants. They were used to being more aggressive with the throttle with the big bang, whereas with the screamer you still needed to be a little smoother on the throttle. “From there on it got very messy. The performance of the bike was exactly the same as the big bang. This time he knew there was no way to keep going. It was extremely tricky because I didn’t have any feeling from the knee down, so my foot would come off the footpeg and I wouldn’t know until it was floating in the breeze. Doohan in 1999, wearing the number-one plate for the fifth-consecutive season. Within hours Doohan’s leg had compartment syndrome, a pressure build-up that cuts off circulation, with potentially disastrous results. I probably did it a bit in dirt track – you were always playing with the clutch in dirt track. At Laguna Seca he fell and broke a shoulder, the crash caused by the same problem that had had him off at Eastern Creek. We take a look at his amazing career. He wasn’t a well man. My style was a little more traditional in right-handers, but the lower half of my body was still well off the bike. Soon to come... More t-shirts, caps, stubbie holders, medallions, collectable plates, cockoo clocks, watches, and … Working to get back as quick as possible was what kept me going – if I’d been sitting around in hospital for six months it would’ve done my head in. “So you’ve just got to get on with it.”. By the end of 1998 he had won five consecutive premier-class crowns – a feat matched only by Giacomo Agostini and Valentino Rossi. To be honest, it just felt comfortable to me. Doohan wasn’t only struggling because his leg was weak and wonky, he still couldn’t use the rear brake. I don't remember the impact, but I remember being about six foot above the bike looking down at the bike and that was the first time I realized I was offered that happen that quick. The ’90 bike gave me a little bit more feel, then we modified it some more during the season. Once a two-stroke has got a gutful of fuel, rolling the throttle off won’t do anything, because it’s going to burn that fuel, so the engine is still going to spin the tyre. He would pour a litre through this hole, like a big boil-type thing, then flush it back out to get rid of all the crap. The rear sliding wasn’t an issue for me at all, except when it snapped out too quick and you couldn’t catch it. But looking back I wouldn’t change a thing. At Suzuka he had a bright idea: why not design a new brake system that he could operate with his left thumb?