Michael “Mick” Sydney Doohan, AM (produced (1965 06 04)4 June 1965 in Brisbane, Australia) is a former Grand Prix bike road racing World Champion, who won five successive 500 cc World Championships. Only Giacomo Agostini with eight (seven straight) and Valentino Rossi with seven (five straight) have won more highest class titles.
He raced in Australian Superbikes in the late 1980s, as well as won both races as Superbike World Championship seen Oran Park in 1988 along with the next leg of the Japanese round held earlier in the year. In a breakout season Doohan also won the closing Australian motorcycle Grand Prix to be held in the TT structure at Mount Panorama prior to the race became a round of the World Championship the next year and went to Phillip Island. He made his Grand Prix debut for Honda on a 500 cc two stroke bike in 1989. Doohan competed successfully throughout the early 1990s and seemed to be on his approach to winning his first world championship when he was critically injured in a training crash before the 1992 Dutch TT. He endured long-term and serious injury to his right leg as a result of medical complications and, at one period, risked amputation of the leg. At that time, Doohan was 65 points in the lead of the tournament, but cannot compete for eight weeks following the crash. After an arduous healing, Doohan returned to racing for the last two races but cannot keep Yamaha rider Wayne Rainey from winning his third straight title (by four points from Doohan). In 1993 he fought using the healing of his leg as well as the capability to race the Honda at elite level, saying afterwards that in that year it had been all he could do to simply keep his ride at Honda. It was also in this time he changed to your left thumb-operated rear brake, as his right foot is not any longer in a position to conduct this function.
Michael "Mick" Sydney Doohan , Michael Sydney Doohan , Michael Doohan , Michael "Mick" Doohan , Quick Mick , Mad Mick , The Thunder from Down Under
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Gemini
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I use to think all road racers were nuts. You know racing around a track at that speed
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A lot of fun when you get it right but the other side if the coin is when you crash
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Currently maintaining an involvement in GP racing as General Manager of Racing for Honda Racing Corporation. [2005]
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Was considered to be part of the "Golden Era" of motorcycling racing, the late 80s and the early 90s which included Eddie Lawson, Wayne Gardner, Kevin Schwantz, and Wanye Rainey all of them had great skills which made for some vary memorable moments
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After the 1992 crash which almost cost him his life he had his right leg surgically attached to his left leg (which he was in danger of losing) to increase blood flow to speed up recovery
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In 1992 he crashed and broke his right leg and missed four races while recovering from the injury. Left with a restricted range of movement his team created a hand-operated rear braking system to his Rothmans Honda so he could continue racing.
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Began riding motorcycles at the age of nine
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Was considered to be part of the "Golden Era" of motorcycling racing, the late 80s and the early 90s.
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In 1999 he suffered a broken right leg, shoulder, and left wrist, when he crashed his Repsol Honda at 200+km/h at Jerez, Spain. He was immediately brought to the U.S. after the accident for corrective surgery which included inserting two plates and 12 screws in his right leg, and a plate in his left forearm. Toward the end of the year he announced his retirement due to injuries from his crash
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Was looked after by special surgeon Dr. Claudia Costa
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