BRITTEN ON THE GAS

摘要

Few realize how devas-tatingly well John Britten's V1000 circulated a racetrack. Some may remember that it won a BEARS championship in 1995 and Sound of Thunder at Daytona with Andrew Stroud a few times, but those victories came while competing against other twin-cylinder machines. By 1995,I had raced Jim Hunter's V1000 three times, twice in twins races, carding one win. I then led CCS's Unlimited CP class at Daytona for three laps against some of the biggest AM A teams of the era (on open-class machines) before crashing because of a loose steering damper that jammed into the exhaust system. I was just a journalist and not Scott Russell, proving how good that bike really was.