Gary Cowan - Yamaha 250-Sunflower trophy 1989 ( part 2 )
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- Gary Cowan campaigned the 1989 Grand prix trail on the Dutch backed 250 Doc shop Yamaha. He returned to Northern Ireland for the annual end of season Sunflower trophy meeting at Kirkistown. Earlier in the day, Gary easily won the 250 race, and he also entered his machine, just a production TZ 250, in the Superbike races. The organisers tried to talk him out of it, pointing out that Ron Haslam was bringing the Pepsi RG 500 Suzuki, Brian Morrison on the 750 RC 30 Honda, Steve Cull with the super fast rotary engined Norton, Eddie Laycock aboard his 500 GP Honda ... and more! However, Gary brought the 250 to the line in this,the second superbike race.
Sadly, a short five months later, Gary would crash at Daytona, leaving him paralysed from the chest down. - Sport
Fantastic riding from the 250cc rider. Truly impressive. Loved watching it. He truly had the all skill and the most guts. Best race I've seen for a long time.
Nothing in it between 2nd &3rd Class act Gary on the 250 great entertainment Thank You.
gary cowan was an immense talent who had "future champion" written large over everything he did on the track. sadly, never got the chance to show the world what he was certainly capable of.
Young Gary was a world champ in the waiting...
Thanks so much for posting video. I too was at the hairpin that day enjoying the awesome display by Gary Cowan. Along with Smutty Robinson, I firmly believe Gary would have been world champ given his talent and commitment. Alway remember him at one of the bike shows selling memberships or stickers or sun visors or whatever else he could to fund his passion. Joey was my hero but Gary Cowan's accident saddened me so much.
can you imagine that happening now? a epic performance making gary cowan the peoples winner, certainly that day beating one the elite gp machines, basicly the fastest racing bikes in the world, on a reverse seizure tz!! had that same race of been a yr or 2 later (v twin tz) i think gary would have pissed it. on of the most impressive things ive seen in bike racing.
Amazing racing there, look at the crowds of spectators.
The moral of the story...don't under-estimate the little-guy. Awesome racing...simply awesome.
Simply brilliant.
Prove that CC's mean little on the correct track with the correct rider.
Thanks for the upload.
one of my favourite races of all times.
thanks for posting.
cowan was an amazing racer
thats a superb race by cowan,love the 250s...thanks for posting
thats the best race ive seen for ages...
The good old days eh.............
Now he is helping organise it all
It really doesn't get much better than this!
Thanks for posting.
250 GPs kick ass, and that was some phenomenal riding!! Amazing stuff. Thanks for posting!!
My Dad was at that race when he was a kid he says it was the best
Totaly awsome,,best i have ever seen,small against big,2 stroke against 4 stroke,,hats of for the drivers :o)
Racing at its purest
gary cowan you are a legend
thanks m8 for postin that i hve been lookin for years to see that again i was at the hairpin that day anymore good 1s
now thats what ya call a proper race, brilliant
He made them work for that one.
Class act !!!
Absolutely awesome!! Cowan must've melted the discs!!
Incredible racing. Long live TZ.
Fantastic!
ive been watching this video since it was posted, i laugh everytime he out brakes then beautiful piloting
wtf that 250 is incredibly fast! I know they steer well because I got an rgv 250 but I wouldn't have thought that it would actually be a fair fight against a 750 four stroke. and ofcourse the 500 2 stroke powers past all of them!
great racing, too bad they are banning the 250's out of motogp
Awesome
Good Stuff!!
great footage...i am sure rocket ron was well taking it easy on his gp bike..
BEST RACE EU, KEATS FTW
So you reckon Haslam was really trying in the corners when he had a MASSIVE power advantage that gave him at least 50 metres on the run to the final corner, hmmm i wonder why he caught up so rapidly then only made his break right at the end.
Haslam was a great GP racer with many podiums against the likes of Roberts,Spencer, Lawson, Mamola etc etc, he'll have been good enough to just bide his time and unleash that RGV whenever he felt like it.
Cowan on a reverse cylinder tz none the less.
LOL i liked his comments in an old schoolish english accent. Didn't understand a word but most likely because english is not my primary langauge.
Of course Haslam was taking it easy - he'd got such a machine advantage he didn't even have to try, evidence by the way he caught the leaders, but then stayed with them in order to put on a 'show' for the crowd
If wheelying down the finish straight wasn't taking it easy I don't know what is
He was playing with them, just as Schwantz played with the rest of the field at Macau the same year
Haslam WAS taking it easy, you could see that the way he caught up rapidly then hung around, his obvious power advantage was at exactly the section of track where he would have wished it to be and allowed him to go easy.
Also it was a perfect cameo of just what a GP 500 in good hands can do in comparison with big 4 strokes and 250's .