Michael Duen: race with death.
Michael Duen: race with death.
Hardly there is less than year back, on March, 12th, in the Australian Melbourn
A certain person has waved the checkered flag signalling about those,
That race is finished. That day on a local ring have opened the
Season motorists of the First Formula and very few people has paid attention,
Who held a panel in hands. And Michael has appeared this person
Duen, in the recent past - the King of speed. With that
Difference that the superman from Australia on the two-wheeled chased
Monsters.
The first signal Duena was met by German Michael Schumacher. As it
Symbolically! The fastest motorcyclist of the end of the century welcomes
The fastest pilot. But somehow sadly suddenly became from words
Michael, told by it after performance of this procedure: "it is strange,
After all I have got used to see this flag from the party ". The fivefold champion
On motorcycle sport in a class of 500 cubic centimetres it is more than world
Never will return on a line after has been collected on
To slices doctor Arthur Tingom, the surgeon-orthopedist from the Dignity -
Frantsisko. All is consequences of the most terrible in a turn of failures,
To which the Australian and its many-many companions got on
To royal motorcycle races.
Yes will excuse me the most popular in technical kinds
Racers-formulisty, but on safety their sports in comparison with
moto sometimes looks like an innocent entertainment. In due time mother
The champion of the world-96 Damon Hilla almost force has set him in
"Formula" if only has fastened with a motorcycle with which the Englishman on
Youth connected the star future. And what to speak, no
At sportsmen on two wheels of any capsules of safety, at
Volume that capacity not always obedient "stallion" almost same!
* * * ... It happens on May, 8th, 1999 at a stage in Spanish
Sherry-de-la-frontera during Friday qualification. Michael went
On the fifth "fast" circle, with which result (it becomes
It is known from intermediate results of timing already then) could
To apply for the first starting place. In one of its turns
"Honda" has got a back wheel on hardly an appreciable stone and, having flied up
In air, has thrown off the horseman in a ferro-concrete chipper. And
Itself, for an instant having hanged in air, hardly has not pressed down
The motorcyclist in the weight. Duen at this time laid already without
Movements. The end? Collisions at ring stages happen regularly,
But such... Fortunately, thoughts on the most terrible has dispelled
The victim who has quickly come to consciousness in "field"
medtsentre. Nevertheless in the press release it has been informed, that at
The racer - some crises of the right hand, and also left
Wrists and clavicles, and Michael's status the heaviest. Others,
Encouraging messages have come of them in the stead only in two days.
For this time of the Australian have transported by helicopter in the Seville
Hospital Virhen de Rosio, therefrom - to London, and then and in the Dignity -
Frantsisko where destiny Duena has been entrusted one of most
Authoritative experts in sports traumatology - Tingu.
Earlier this doctor operated with seven years to the motorcycle racer
The broken knee also has sewn into place both feet, practically
Torn off at a stage in Dutch Assene.
Whether it is necessary to speak about what atmosphere reigned in the meantime
On a ring where competitions at full speed proceeded?
Sympathy for the champion who has got to a trouble, rage on
The organizers who have not taken care properly about safety,
- All has mixed up in one continuous ball of emotions. For those who not
Knows, - any of "koltsevikov" by definition cannot
To avoid sensitive falling on such speed, and consequently
Gloating in such situation is simply inadmissible. However, hardly
The main danger passed, in conversations of competitors zaskvozili
Simplification notes: here five years as Duen did not admit anybody to
To champion crown, and unique possibility to cause a stir on
Motorcycle was to go down "a class more low" - in races by cars with
In volume of the engine 250, and even 125 cubes. Will leave Mik (it
Diminutive nickname of the Australian did not hesitate to use
Even organizers in the reports, so Mik or Michael -
Practically same. - D.L.) or not - from it much
Depends. It has appeared the most eloquent well-known in the past
American Kenni Roberts-senior who has made the statement, that
Duen simply has no right to leave - too many will lose
Then the world of motorcycles. "It the best - and a point!" Then, someone from
Racers has noticed: "Mik has tired out death in deadlock. It cannot
To compete with it in speed! "* * *" and I anywhere also do not leave! "Still
Before operation Duen has hastened to address to the press. In
London Heathrow airport he has said literally the following:
"Leaving is sometime inevitable, but, reflecting on the career end, I
Represented to leave at top, instead of on a hospital cot. Anybody from
Us it is not insured, I have transferred any more one operation, but races
To me still terribly like. So for a motorcycle wheel I will sit down
At once, as I will feel healthy ".
To enthusiasm Duenu its partner on command Alex has added also
Krivill, for lack of the main thing "set all to pepper" on finish
Ill-starred stage in the Sherry.
But in process of approach of autumn it became clear, that Duena in
Business we already never will see. And though the foot and a shoulder have already begun to live, in
Much thanks to special metal plates, a wrist
Still hurt and prevented to operate to it a motorcycle. The racer
Has dared at repeated operation. Mood in "stable" "Hondy"
Was minor. It is good still, that the championship-99 was won by the person,
Krivill!
On a twist of fate in the same year Michael has seriously suffered also
Schumacher who has broken a foot in the British race. The German left on two
The remained stage "simply to drive", and for the following season
Has won the next title.
In December 99th all became clear. Mik has left, having explained, that in
Which case was not afraid. "To chase the same as and earlier, I, alas,
I can not now physically... "* * * we Will return on 36 years ago, and
At first sight will seem, that any it problemless
It has turned out, career Mika. Unlike Hilla, Duena anybody
To dissuade from hobby did not become. As in
Brisbane where on June, 4th, 1965 was born Mik, only - only have found
Popularity arrivals on impassability so the boy has saddled the
The first two-wheeled car already at nine-year age.
It is remarkable, that, chasing together with adults, Duen already through
Year of driving began to win competitions of state of Queensland.
In 1981 the family gets over on ocean coast in
Gold Coast. Probably, since those times there was a love of the motorcyclist
To water, so to say, to a variant of competitions (rare minutes
Rest in the homeland of Mik has a good time that drives on a hydrocycle).
But ahead there were overland successes. A victory on the international
Competitions at the wheel "Yamahas RZ350". With this stamp later
Some years Duen become one of the strongest equestrians
Australia in "quarter" as still name a class 250 cubic see In
To the middle of 1987 young racer personally invite
To participate in superbike competitions in Uintone, where its the fifth
The result has so impressed a cartridge of one of the Japanese commands
"Yamahas" Kozou Morinagu, that is necessary the Australian child prodigy
To get over in the Country of a rising sun for participation in the local
The championship. And in 24 years Duen passes in "a class 500" - in the command
"Hondy" which already never will leave.
Despite the fact that what world champions Eddi were its partners
Lawson and Wayne Gardner, Mik finishes the debut championship on
The ninth place and even gets on a podium to Germany. But the first
The trauma, serious damage of a finger at falling, compels it
To pass the whole three stages. In a year - already the third, in a year
- The second, again the second, then the fourth... It was the bright epoch
Rivalries of two Americans - Wayne Rejni and Kevina SHvanttsa.
It has ended is sad: in 1993, in Italian Mizano
World champion Rejni has not kept "Yamaha" and has broken a backbone and
Now it is capable to move only on an invalid carriage... But
The first serious tests have fallen to also lot Mika: hardly it has avoided
Amputations of feet by efforts of the doctor-American as has broken a bone on
Wrist during tests in Malaysia. The old trauma will give about later
To itself the nobility. All season-93 has an effect also a sick foot,
Practically not capable to brake, however engineers "Hondy"
Establish on its motorcycle a manual brake.
In the winter declare signing of new agreement Duena with
"Hondoj", and from the racer the obligation, that it again is taken
Will lay down under a knife: definitive recover needs to be finished to mind.
The result stunning - on all 14 stages Mik gets to a three
The best, having repeated improbable, apparently, achievement of the well-known
Italian Dzhakomo Agostini chasing in 60. Since this moment
pobitie records becomes business of a life of Michael: on 12 victories in
Season it was not possible to gain earlier to anybody, as well as as much time
To win qualification. The main record - by quantity
Titles successively. On four once was at Agostini and Michael
Hejlvuda. Five was not earlier at anybody. And only on number of victories
In races ahead for a long time remains Agostini (Duen on it
To indicator, 54 first places, - the second with the big separation).
The sports public of Australia names its best whole
Three years on end, and Spanish "Marca" are awarded to it by a rank
Legends of world sports. At various times such honour have received
Pele, Michael Jordan, Alberto Tomba and Harry Kasparov.
* * * Declaring the world about leaving, Mik is not going to to go on
Rest. Now he participates in motorcycle races as the head of the new
"п п?п?п?п commands. One of its wards, is already enough known
Italian Valentino Rossi, became the vice-world champion. Speak, Mik
So it was exhausted in unusual for itself a role of the trainer, that to it
It was necessary to create comfort under the higher category. However, as well as
It is necessary to the superstar. In the motor-houme of the Australian there is a kitchen, a shower,
All audio-and video equipment and even washing machine. And sometimes,
When forces does not remain absolutely, it leaves and sleeps off in the
To smart apartment in Monaco.
By the way, despite the assurances never any more
To sit down a wheel something racing (were also such who
Agitated him to test in "п?п?я п я п п -1"!), Michael has accepted
The "Mercedes" offer to do a bit of travelling in April across Tasmania in quality
rallista. And who knows it, this unruly Duena, maybe,
And "Dakar" will reach?
Dmitry Ljubimov.
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//* an information Source: the Moscow member of the Komsomol, 18.02.01
//* Reg. Nom. - 1110200279.24-------------------------------------------
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