Barry Sheene

[trevor]

New movie coming out??
Hope so...

I guess it's true...

http://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/barry-sheene-motoring-legend-races-to-the-big-screen-in-new-biopic-a3179126.html

[allojohn]

Thanks Trevor - I'm all over that!

[steve murdoch]

That looks promising.
I have an old Heron t-shirt some place that i will have to dig out.

[Guest]

Quote from the article...

The daredevil cockney rebel’s rise from delivery driver to two-time world motorcycle champion is the subject of the new screenplay Sheene by Ian La Frenais, 80, and Dick Clement, 78.

With those two in charge it should be good. I've read Sheene's biography twice and the only problem I see is that the film won't be long enough!

[John Kat]

I would be glad to see the movie!
Barry confided during an interview in Brussels many years ago that he had forgotten where he had parked his Rolls Royce the night before after some partying...
I can't imagine a modern day MotoGP racer ever doing this.

[Buffalo Bill]

Bio movies mostly suck, might be fun for non-riders, the more knowledgeable you are on the subject, the more frustrated you get with inaccuracies.
I liked the BBC homage sum-up of his carrier.
His 2 worst crashes happened during practice: his tire explodes on the Daytona banking, and he rides over a hill right into a crashed bike. Really bad luck.

[tas850g]

So that's what happen to him at Daytona? He did not look good after that one.