I saw Kevin Magee ride a Ducati at a race meeting here in Adelaide before he went over to Europe. It was so long ago I cannot tell you when it was. He won of course.
I cannot remember if his injury was down to inadequate run off area or what but it curtailed a great rider.
The best thing, about motorcycle racing, to change in the past 45 years, has been the change to circuits with big run off areas filled with gravel or whatever.
The circuit he raced on here [AIR] has not hosted bike racing in about 20 years and thats a good idea as it is dangerous and cannot be improved for bikes.
I would rather watch live racing from Silverstone on TV, and know that a broken collar bone or so is about the worst that will happen, than go to a local inadequate track and ....well, frankly, watch riders get seriously injured and occasionally even killed.
Kevin Magee commentates on the local TV when the international racing is on and he is always up to speed and knowledgeable and appears to know people and teams.
We are "light on" for decent tarmac circuits but we seem to produce a lot of good riders because we have a lot of riders who can spend 16 hours per weekend from age 6 riding on dirt and just learning to go fast.
