Sheene, Barry

Sheene, Barry
▪ 2004

      British motorcycle racer (b. Sept. 11, 1950, London, Eng.—d. March 10, 2003, Gold Coast, Queen., Australia), brought widespread popularity to motorcycle racing with his irreverent, playboy reputation and seeming indestructibility and he won two 500-cc world championships (1976 and 1977) while racing for Suzuki. Sheene entered his first motorcycle race when he was 17 years old. In 1970 he won the British 750-cc championship, and he went on to win the European championship in that category in 1973. He had already begun to attract media attention when, while being filmed for a television documentary in 1975, he suffered a horrific crash at Florida's Daytona track; his swift return to racing made him a media darling. In 1978 he was made MBE. Another accident in 1982 shattered his legs; the X-ray of his elaborately reconstructed femurs became a famous sports photo. Sheene retired from the sport in 1985, but in the '90s he began racing successfully on the veterans' circuits. In 2001 he was inducted into the Motorcycle Grand Prix Hall of Fame.

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