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Mike Hailwood Memorial Run & Pictures

Astoness

Astoness

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hi all...here are details of a worthwhile event coming up at the end of this month..

THE MIKE HAILWOOD MEMORIAL RUN.

11.15 AM ON THE 29TH OF MARCH 2009

DEPARTING FROM THE FORMER NORTON MOTORCYCLE FACTORY IN BRACEBRIDGE ST..ASTON.

ARRIVING AT TANWORTH IN ARDEN...WARKS..

THE RUN IS OPEN TO ANY RIDER ON A MOTORCYCLE (EVEN CARS ARE VERY WELCOME)

HOPE TO SEE SOME OF YOU THERE...

ASTONESS:)






 
Re: mike hailwood memorial run

Will pass that on to my twins who are both bikers. I used to work at Portway Bransons Cross many years ago. Jean.
 
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nice one jean...my son is going too.....

ttfn

lyn:)
 
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just a quick reminder that its the mike hailwood run this sunday....

astoness:):):)
 
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Just wondering does Mike's wife and surviving son? still live in Midlands?
 
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hi tali..sorry i dont know the answer to that...i also did not realise that mike had a shop on the tyburn road...its ironic that a man who lived for quite a dangerous sport should die in a road accident along with his 10 year old daughter.....

here hoping there is a good turnout again this year...

astoness:)
 
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I didn,t realise his daughter was with him..I remember passing the scene some time after it happened, total carnage!
 
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yes bob..its was tragic...they were returning home from a fish and chip shop and hit a flat back lorry...apparently no blame was attached to mike..he had no way of stopping....

astoness
 
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The story goes that it was a very foggy night and the lorry did a illegal turn in front of Hailwood's Rover SD1.The driver was fined a £100
I'm not aware of any plaque in Portway marking the spot- i believe they should certainly have one in memory of him and his daughter
 
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Tali which year did he die?. I used to work at Portway and I think Dereklog lives that way I will ask him about the plaque. Jean.
 
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jean the accident happened on march the 21st 1981 and mike died two days later at the birmingham accident hospital...

lyn
 
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Mike died in 1981. His son David is married to a spanish lady and they have a son, named mike. They moved to England in 2008 from Spain. David's mother Pauline has moved back here as well.
 
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For anyone interested mikethebike.com
everything you want to know is there,happy days.
regards dereklcg.
 
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hi all..just a reminder the run starts at 11.15 today....hope theres a good turnout...will post some pics later....

lyn:):):)
 
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Just a reminder for Folks who are not sure.


On Saturday, 21 March 1981, Mike Hailwood set off in his Rover SD1 with his children Michelle and David to collect some fish and chips. He returned along the A435 Alcester Road through Portway Warwickshire near his home in Tanworth-in-Arden. A truck made an illegal turn though the barriers into the central reservation. The Rover hit it. Michelle, aged nine, was killed instantly; Mike and David were taken to hospital. Mike died two days later age 40. David survived. The lorry driver was fined £100.
An annual "Mike Hailwood Memorial Run" takes place in March every year. The start point is the former Norton factory in Aston, Birmingham. The run goes out to Portway, where the accident occurred and then onto the church in Tanworth-in-Arden where Mike and Michelle are buried. The 25th anniversary of this tragic accident was in 2006.
The FIM named him a Grand Prix "Legend" in 2000.
He was inducted into the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 2000 and the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 2001.

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mike hailwood memorial pics

hi folks..well it was a very good turn out for mike hailwoods yearly memorial run from the old norton factory bracebridge st..there were bikers of all ages quite a few classic bikes as you will see from my pics..

hope you enjoy looking at them....

i reckon mike would have been very proud today...

astoness:)


 
thats it for now....my brother took video of the convoy leaving bracebridge st and if i can i will try and get it onto u tube.....

lyn:)
 
i wonder if its possable please for someone to lighten up pics 12 and 13 as they seem a bit dark...

thank you...

lyn:)
 
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