Sliding start

Sliding start (1982): Jack Middelburg (left) and Boet van Dulmen .

When sliding start launching a is motorcycle by pushing referred.

The sliding start was common in races with the start of the motorcycle world championship . The clutch start (with the engine running) was first practiced in 1971 at the Mallory Park Race of the Year . The sliding start was banned in 1987 by the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme and replaced by the clutch start due to the higher safety. Through his "grandiose shift starts" with the Honda NSR 250 was Freddie Spencer famous.

The sliding start is still used today in historical motorcycle racing for starting historical motorcycles and motorcycle combinations.

Web links

• Sliding start in the 1960s
• Sliding start in the 1980s

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolfgang Gruber: Formula 750 . The class of aces. 1st edition. Motorbuch Verlag , Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-87943-523-5 , p. 68 .
2. ↑ Dennis Noyes (Ed.): Motocourse 50 Years of MOTO Grand Prix. Hazleton Publishing 1999, ISBN 978-18745-5783-8 .
3. ↑ Alan Cathcart: Almost Freddie's Favorite. In: Motorrad Classic 6/2015, p. 109.
4. ↑ vfv-historik-motorrad.de German Historical Motorcycle Championship (accessed on May 24, 2015)