Remembering Wayne Rainey, The Mr. Perfect
Wayne Rainey
Wayne Rainey Profile
Name : Wayne Wesley Rainey
Date of Birth : October 23, 1960
Hometown : Downey, California, USA
When he was six years old, he started running on the circuit with a motorcycle after my father bought a minibike.
In 1977, he started my racing career on a dirt track.
Rainey stepped up steadily and became a featured rider and won the championship in 1983 at the AMA Superbike Championship, where Kenny Roberts and Freddie Spencer fought hard.
In the following year, in response to an invitation from Kenny Roberts, who had just retired at that time, he ran YAMAHA TZ250 in the 250cc class road race world championship and achieved full participation.
Date of Birth : October 23, 1960
Hometown : Downey, California, USA
When he was six years old, he started running on the circuit with a motorcycle after my father bought a minibike.
In 1977, he started my racing career on a dirt track.
Rainey stepped up steadily and became a featured rider and won the championship in 1983 at the AMA Superbike Championship, where Kenny Roberts and Freddie Spencer fought hard.
In the following year, in response to an invitation from Kenny Roberts, who had just retired at that time, he ran YAMAHA TZ250 in the 250cc class road race world championship and achieved full participation.
Unfortunately, in 1984, the first year of full participation, the team system is inadequate, and the season will end with no noticeable activity.
The following year, he returned to AMA Superbike and won the second championship in 1987!
The following year, in 1988, he joined Team Roberts Yamaha again and will fully participate in the World Road Race Championship 500cc class.
Wayne Rainey Race History
1987: AMA Superbike Champion, Daytona 200 Superbike Class Winner (Honda VFR750F)
1988 : 3rd in the 500cc class in the world road race championship (Lucky Strike Yamaha / YZR500)
1988: Suzuka 8 Hours Endurance Road Race Winner (Team Lucky Strike Roberts / Yamaha YZF750) Pair Rider: Kevin Magee
1989 : 2nd in the 500cc class Road Racing World Championship (Lucky Strike Yamaha / YZR500)
1989: Suzuka 8 Hours Endurance Race Retire (Team Lucky Strike Roberts / Yamaha YZF750) Pair Rider: Kevin Magee
1990 : Winner of the 500cc class World Championships in Road Racing (Marlborough Yamaha / YZR500)
1991 : Road race world championship 500cc class championship (Marlborough Yamaha / YZR500)
1992 : Winner of the World Championships in the 500cc class (Marlborough Yamaha / YZR500)
1993 : 2nd in the World Championships in the 500cc class (Marlborough Yamaha / YZR500)
For three years after starting full participation in the 500cc class in the World Road Racing Championship, Wayne Rainey has developed a fierce title battle with Suzuki's competitor Kevin Schwantz since the AMA era, and established a “Rainy pattern” to get ahead. I did it.
Meanwhile, Honda will return to Yamaha for the first time in two years from Honda, where Eddie Lawson won the previous year's title in 1990.
For this reason, the team's ace was originally planned to be Lawson, but Rainey achieved pole-to-win with a big difference in the qualifying and finals in the opening round of the Japanese Grand Prix!
In the second round of the American Grand Prix, Lawson was seriously injured and left the battle line, and it became a Yamaha A-slider in both name and reality.
And, marking 7 wins, which is the highest in all 15 races, and the first title with a big difference of 68 points with Kevin Schwantz who is 2nd place.
After that, Rainey continued to run at a high level in both speed and stability, and suffered several serious injuries, but the third consecutive victory since 1991 and 1992 and Kenny Roberts To achieve.
And in 1993. Rainey was the center of WGP.
Since the opening of the season, he competed with Schwantz for the championship, and jumped to the top of the ranking with his fourth victory in the 11th round of the Czech Grand Prix.
In the remaining three races, the point difference with Schwantz was 11 points, and it was a situation that many people could not help paying attention to achieving Rainy's 4th consecutive victory.