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Title: MAICOS at 1977 Grand National: Almost a clean sweep ...
Post by: Doggy Digger on March 14, 2012, 06:18:51 pm
Here's an alternate set of results, if dual freight trains Anton and Ron hadn't clipped.

(I like statistics!  And - no - I didn't prefer or ride Maicos in the day.)


(http://i1043.photobucket.com/albums/b431/DoggyDigger/MAICOMASSACREcopy.jpg)
Title: Re: MAICOS at 1977 Grand National: Almost a clean sweep ...
Post by: JohnnyO on March 14, 2012, 06:35:35 pm
So Maico really was the bike to have in '77.. they were not such a force in Qld.
Is that Chris Wright 6th?
Title: Re: MAICOS at 1977 Grand National: Almost a clean sweep ...
Post by: Stan S on March 14, 2012, 07:14:23 pm
JohnnyO,
that was Chris Wright.

Doggy Digger,
how come other riders that crashed after Ronnie and Anton came to grief, didn't get their placings reinstated in your hypothetical outcome ;D

Regards Stan.
Title: Re: MAICOS at 1977 Grand National: Almost a clean sweep ...
Post by: Doggy Digger on March 14, 2012, 07:33:37 pm
Careful Stanley .... lest you blow your cover!
Title: Re: MAICOS at 1977 Grand National: Almost a clean sweep ...
Post by: mainline on March 14, 2012, 07:41:17 pm
Quote from: JohnnyO on March 14, 2012, 06:35:35 pm
So Maico really was the bike to have in '77.. they were not such a force in Qld.

Ah, but would the same riders have had different results on another brand?
Title: Re: MAICOS at 1977 Grand National: Almost a clean sweep ...
Post by: JohnnyO on March 14, 2012, 07:44:32 pm
Quote from: mainline on March 14, 2012, 07:41:17 pm
Quote from: JohnnyO on March 14, 2012, 06:35:35 pm
So Maico really was the bike to have in '77.. they were not such a force in Qld.

Ah, but would the same riders have had different results on another brand?
Probably but would they have been as good??
Title: Re: MAICOS at 1977 Grand National: Almost a clean sweep ...
Post by: mainline on March 14, 2012, 07:48:51 pm
Quote from: JohnnyO on March 14, 2012, 07:44:32 pm
Quote from: mainline on March 14, 2012, 07:41:17 pm
Quote from: JohnnyO on March 14, 2012, 06:35:35 pm
So Maico really was the bike to have in '77.. they were not such a force in Qld.

Ah, but would the same riders have had different results on another brand?
Probably but would they have been as good??
or would they have been better ;) ;D
Title: Re: MAICOS at 1977 Grand National: Almost a clean sweep ...
Post by: JohnnyO on March 14, 2012, 09:01:12 pm
Quote from: mainline on March 14, 2012, 07:48:51 pm
Quote from: JohnnyO on March 14, 2012, 07:44:32 pm
Quote from: mainline on March 14, 2012, 07:41:17 pm
Quote from: JohnnyO on March 14, 2012, 06:35:35 pm
So Maico really was the bike to have in '77.. they were not such a force in Qld.

Ah, but would the same riders have had different results on another brand?
Probably but would they have been as good??
or would they have been better ;) ;D
You know you want one..!
Title: Re: MAICOS at 1977 Grand National: Almost a clean sweep ...
Post by: Slakewell on March 15, 2012, 07:52:53 am
KTM filled the first 3 spots in the 250 GP's in 77 and were the European privateers choice, the open class Maico were good in 77 as they were in most.
Title: Re: MAICOS at 1977 Grand National: Almost a clean sweep ...
Post by: jerry on March 15, 2012, 08:28:11 am
Is Greg Flood related to the better known Floods. Bit like Trevor Chappell! J
Title: Re: MAICOS at 1977 Grand National: Almost a clean sweep ...
Post by: JohnnyO on March 15, 2012, 08:47:11 am
Quote from: jerry on March 15, 2012, 08:28:11 am
Is Greg Flood related to the better known Floods. Bit like Trevor Chappell! J
No
Title: Re: MAICOS at 1977 Grand National: Almost a clean sweep ...
Post by: Stan S on March 15, 2012, 07:59:24 pm
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Title: Re: MAICOS at 1977 Grand National: Almost a clean sweep ...
Post by: smed on March 15, 2012, 08:25:45 pm
Shit load of C graders in that lot,you would have to have been good to win that class ;),Brad Jones former V8 super car driver was also a former MX rider it would appear
Title: Re: MAICOS at 1977 Grand National: Almost a clean sweep ...
Post by: JohnnyO on March 15, 2012, 08:31:49 pm
That's cool reading through those old programs, i see a few forum members raced that meeting.
Interesting to see Kiwi Peter Ploen won the Grand National way back in '71.. 41 years ago and he's still quick!
Title: Re: MAICOS at 1977 Grand National: Almost a clean sweep ...
Post by: VMX247 on March 15, 2012, 08:52:36 pm
Great read  8)
C Grade over 300 Suzuki 370 Dave Russell ~ is that the same fire breathing  DR  dare devil from HBBB 2011 ?  :o   ;D
Graham Smythe - Fairfield NSW ??
and Keith Stacker now there's another OBA article  :P
and Ross Martin as C of C.  8)
cheers A
 
Title: Re: MAICOS at 1977 Grand National: Almost a clean sweep ...
Post by: Simo63 on March 15, 2012, 08:58:41 pm
Quote from: smed on March 15, 2012, 08:25:45 pm
Shit load of C graders in that lot,you would have to have been good to win that class ;),Brad Jones former V8 super car driver was also a former MX rider it would appear

Yes he was .. I rode with Brad when I was a young'un .. I think at the time I had just upgraded my XL70 for a CR125M Elsinore ... man did I have a lot to learn.  I recall practicing with Brad at the Albury Wodonga track and thankfully he taught me a couple of things back in those days.  We lived in a house behind my parents shop in Dean St Albury and between the shop and the house was the back of the old hospital servo and a laneway that went down to a couple of workshops.  One of which was Jones and Crib (Brad Jones and Phil Crib) panel shop.  Not sure his brother Kim was there .. I'm certain he was kicking around somewhere.  I did my work experience in that panel shop ... sweeping the bloody floor  ;D

Brad's old man owned the local Volvo Dealership .. Phil Jones Volvo from memory.  And I recall him giving both Brad and Kim an open wheeler race car which I think signalled the end of Brad's motorcross days.  Well, those were my  memories at least .. probably not exactly right but they seem to make sense to me  ;D