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  Wayne Rainey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wayne Rainey (born October 23, 1960) was one of the most successful American motorcycle road racers during the late 1980s and early 1990s winning the 500 cc World Championship three times.
Rainey was well on his way to his fourth-consecutive title in 1993.
Rainey later became the team manager for Marlboro Yamaha for a few years.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wayne_Rainey   (569 words)

  
 Motorcycle Hall of Fame: Wayne Rainey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Rainey continued to struggle in his rookie season and eventually was sidelined with injuries.
Rainey won six of the nine Superbike races (including a then record five wins in a row, later broken by Miguel Duhamel in 1995), yet was still edged out by Honda teammate Fred Merkel, who had been consistent all year while Rainey crashed out at Mid-Ohio.
Rainey came back in 1994 and headed up his own GP racing team, something he did through the 1998 season when he decided to retire from the rigorous travel schedule to spend more time with his family in their home in Monterey, California.
home.ama-cycle.org /forms/museum/hofbiopage.asp?id=86   (1162 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Rainey Wayne
Rainey, Wayne (1960-), American motorcycle racer, the 500 cc world motorcycling champion (with Yamaha) for three successive years (1990-1992).
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Wayne, Anthony (1745-1796), American soldier, born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and privately educated in Philadelphia.
uk.encarta.msn.com /Rainey_Wayne.html   (97 words)

  
 Motorcycle Online: Book Review
Wayne's father Sandy was the early motivator to his son, but in a supportive rather than overbearing way.
Feeding on the competitive energy that was generated by the excellence of those with whom he raced, it was Rainey who was able to harness the skills he had worked so hard to develop, with a razor-sharp insight into the limitations of the bike he was riding.
Rainey tells poignantly of the emotions that suddenly overwhelm him as he watches a pre-season training session earlier this year trackside, his mind cruelly recalling the sensations of riding a 500cc racing bike at the limit.
www.motorcycle.com /mo/mcbeware/rainey.html   (1254 words)

  
 Sport Rider-Obsession: Mick Doohan, Wayne Rainey and Kevin Schwantz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
For Rainey, it was the paralysis he suffered in turn one at Misano, Italy, in 1993.
Rainey: "I was looking for perfection...whether that's technical feedback or tires or changing your riding style a little bit or how you adapt to a racetrack." You can bet Schwantz isn't pondering what he's having for dinner after the race.
Rainey knew the only way he was going to win was if he overrode the machinery.
www.sportrider.com /features/146_0012_win   (2738 words)

  
 Soup :: Interview Wayne Rainey, Part Two
Soup: Wayne, it's admittedly like comparing apples to oranges, but with Rossi beating the Hondas this year, it reminded me of back in 1983 when you beat the Honda V-fours on that old two-valve, air-cooled Kawasaki and won the AMA Superbike Championship.
Editor's Note: In 1983--riding for Muzzy Kawasaki--Wayne Rainey accomplished one of the most stunning feats in the history of AMA Superbike when he won the championship on an aging Kawasaki Gpz750 that was, technologically at least, no match for Honda.
Wayne Rainey showing off his 'surfer look' at Daytona in 2002.
www.superbikeplanet.com /2004/Oct/041027b.htm   (741 words)

  
 Soup :: 'Soup Interview: Wayne Rainey, 2004
Soup caught up with three-time World Champion Wayne Rainey to get his unique perspective on Rossi, his opinions of some of today's other MotoGP riders, and his thoughts on a few other motorcycle roadracing topics.
Soup: Wayne, it's been 12 years since a Yamaha won the World Championship, and, of course, you were the last Yamaha rider to win.
Rainey and Wayne Gardner chat as they walk back from an end of practice plug-chop at Laguna in 1991.
www.superbikeplanet.com /2004/Oct/041026a.htm   (2245 words)

  
 Tribe Yamaha Club Ride with Curtain and Stauffer
Rainey won six rounds of the '91 series on this machine to claim his second world title.
Rainey rode this machine from the opening round of the '93 series to round seven, the Dutch GP, scoring wins in the Malaysia GP and the Japan GP and contributing to Yamaha's eighth manufacturers title.
From round eight, Rainey rode a ROC Yamaha machine (with the same type of frame as the OWC1) constructed in Europe with Yamaha technological assistance.
www.mcnews.com.au /Features/2003/YZR_History/Yamaha_YZR_History_Page7.htm   (1072 words)

  
 Motorcycle Online: Daily News 6/26/98   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Wayne Rainey, the three-time consecutive 500cc Grand Prix World Champion suffered a paralyzing injury that ended his active racing career only to comeback as a team owner/manager, has announced his retirement from motorcycle racing at the end of the 1998 season.
Rainey thrilled a generation of race fans with his fierce riding style, winning the 500cc GP World Championship in 1990, 1991 and 1992.
Yamaha is very grateful to Wayne not only for the three World Championships he achieved with us, but also because he has always been a true gentleman and fair and professional in all his dealings with us.
www.motorcycle.com /mo/mcdaily98/day0626.html   (992 words)

  
 KevinSchwantz.com
I remember on occasion, I think it was the famous Hockenheim race where he was so excited because he felt it was the first time he had raced Rainey the whole length of the race and beaten him.
It was the first time he had outridden him rather than being a case of his tyres had gone off of Rainey's tyres had gone off or an engine gone sick or one of them baulked by a backmarker or something, nothing got in the way of a straight race to the flag.
Starting the last lap Wayne was in front but Kevin would win if he was on his tail crossing the line.
www.kevin-schwantz.com /html/static.php?file=blurredpast9.htm   (827 words)

  
 Multi-Cultural Exchange 2004 Newsletter
Wayne Rainey, event host, is a talented photographer whose work has appeared in national gallery tours.
Wayne has been on the art scene since 1989 and opened his third studio in January 2000 at the monOrchid building, a vision manifested as an interdisciplinary workspace for the arts in downtown Phoenix.
Rainey Studios houses the first and only super-scale photography studio in Phoenix, and the monOrchid also holds and supports multiple photographers, as well as a world-class fine-art gallery, web design facilities, and print/ad design groups.
www.phoenixcvb.com /newsletter/breakfast0704.htm   (575 words)

  
 Motorcycles
The second in the series of the worlds greatest riders, this one is signed by Freddie Spencer, Wayne Rainey, Eddie Lawson, Kevin Schwantz and Wayne Gardner.
Wayne Gardner in full colour on board his NSR Honda 500cc at Phillip Island in 1989, a great and exciting win for all his Austalian fans.
Kevin Schwantz - Suzuki and Wayne Rainey - Yamaha during one of their epic duels in 1991 at the British GP.
www.sportart.com.au /en-us/dept_18.html   (1116 words)

  
 Cycle News Online
Eddie Lawson won the battle of 500cc World Champions when Wayne Rainey ran out of fuel a few laps from the end of the World SuperKart race at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.
Rainey was leading the race when he was forced out two laps from the end of the 30-minute final.
Rainey said part of the difference was the heat.
www.cyclenews.com /ShowStory.asp?HeadlineID=6110   (336 words)

  
 News - Create Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
PHOENIX, AZ - Valley-based photographer Wayne Rainey was recently selected to represent Arizona in PDN's (Photo District News) The Fifty States Issue.
In his interview, Rainey discusses everything from fees, clients and markets to the strong and supportive Arizona photographic community.
A fl and white portrait of architect and philosopher Paulo Soleri is featured in the article and additional images of his work are available for viewing online at http://www.pdnonline.com.
www.createmagazine.com /news.cfm?IssueName=phoenix&NewsID=1157   (272 words)

  
 Crash.Net MOTOGP: Rainey recalls 'favourite' Australian upset.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
After seeing local hero Wayne Gardner take victory for the first two years of the Australian Grand Prix in 1989 and 1990 at Phillip Island, hopes were high for another home victory when the series switched to a new venue at Eastern Creek on the outskirts of Sydney in 1991.
Despite starting from pole position, Rainey was ranked by some locals as an outsider for victory at Eastern Creek - including the race organisers - yet he romped home with a 2.5secs advantage over Doohan, with his Yamaha colleague John Kocinski completing the podium in third place.
Throughout his career Rainey experienced a love-hate relationship with Australian fans and riders alike, with Gardner and Doohan two of his fiercest rivals.
www.crash.net /uk/en/news_view.asp?cid=6&nid=120490   (558 words)

  
 Motorsport.com: News channel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
ROSAMOND, CA -- October 14, 2003 -- Kenny Eggers, Eddie Lawson and Wayne Rainey; three Motorcycle Hall of Fame recipients spanning the half century of Willow Springs existence will serve as Grand Marshals of the track's gala 50th Anniversary Weekend, October 17th through 19th.
By the time he was six, Wayne was riding a Honda 50cc minibike.
In 1987, Rainey won his second Superbike title, in a season-long battle between himself and Kevin Schwantz.
www.motorsport.com /news/article.asp?ID=140119&FS=AMA   (774 words)

  
 National Karting News
I would say Eddie Lawson and Wayne Rainey are definitely the ones.
Wayne lives very close to Laguna, so they've track-tested there a lot.
Eddie and Wayne have both really helped karting, with the people they know from bikes and stuff.
www.nkn.com.au /view_article.cfm?id=954   (1092 words)

  
 SPEEDTV.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Of all these old rivalries, the least personal seems to have been the sixties clash of titans between the legends: Mike Hailwood and Giacomo Agostini, though it was none the less an intense and unforgettable affair.
With Lawson and Gardner and later Rainey and Schwantz it was in-your-face personal.
Alex CrivillĂ©, reunited briefly with Doohan, Rainey and Schwantz at Catalunya, recalls that, “the battle was not only on the track.
www.speedtv.com /articles/moto/motogp/11806   (1509 words)

  
 altpick*com :: Wayne Rainey Gives A New Meaning To Swimsuit Calendar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Altpick.com member Wayne Rainey of Rainey Studios is embarking on a very exciting project this week.
The upcoming Cardinal Cheerleaders 16 month calendar will be shot by Rainey in a very unique way this year.
Venturing away from the standard "beach sunset" shots and taking it to a high-fashion level, Rainey will be shooting for a Pirelli level of calendar standards.
altpick.com /news.php?id=381   (146 words)

  
 Norifumi Abe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He took his first podium finish that year, and his first win and 5th overall a year later.
The team he rode for in 1997 was ran by another former champion, the paraplegic Wayne Rainey, and Abe took regular points finishes over the next 2 seasons, including 4 podiums.
He joined the D'Antin team in 1999, winning at Rio that year, and again at Suzuka a year later, before two seasons on less competitive machinery, in which his solid finisheing ensured that his 100% record of top 10 championship finishes continued.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Norifumi_Abe   (290 words)

  
 Parts Magazine Online:Industry News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Former 500cc World Champion Wayne Rainey is set to make a special appearance this weekend at one of five screenings of the MotoGP movie ‘Faster’ in California.
Rainey, one of the stars of the movie alongside former rival Kevin Schwantz and current stars such as Valentino Rossi, Max Biaggi and John Hopkins, will be at the Rio Theatre in Santa Cruz for the 8pm showing on Saturday and will do an audience QandA with the film’s director Mark Neale.
Rainey won the World Championship three times in the early 1990’s riding a Yamaha before his career was prematurely cut short by a crash while leading the Italian Grand Prix in September 1993.
www.partsmag.com /news_items/2004-May-Week4/5-28/5-28-item3.html   (136 words)

  
 2WF.com - Online and on the Gas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Racing legend Wayne Rainey will make a special appearance at the 8 pm screening on Saturday, May 29th, and will do an audience Q&A with director Mark Neale.
Prominently featured in FASTER for his incomparable contributions to the sport of motorcycle racing, Rainey was the top World Championship 500cc Grand Prix rider of the early 1990s, winning three consecutive World Championships riding for Yamaha.
Rainey's career as a motorcycle racer came to an abrupt end when he crashed while leading the Italian Grand Prix in September of 1993.
www.2wf.com /articles/news/058521D9-864C-4668-BA82-C448DD1F4905.asp   (434 words)

  
 U.S. Grand Prix at Laguna Seca: Roar started with unlikely idea By ISAIAH GUZMAN SENTINEL STAFF WRITER MONTEREY — The ...
Rainey agreed to meet Pomeroy in Monterey where Pomeroy planted the seed then basically disappeared.
She later called Rainey, whom she had never met.
In June of 2003, Rainey and Campbell flew to Barcelona, Spain, to finalize contract details with Dorna officials.
www.santacruzsentinel.com /archive/2005/July/08/sport/stories/01sport.htm   (958 words)

  
 The Inside Track - World Superkart Challenge
The Texan McMillan made an exciting charge from 15th after trouble in the heat race but began running out of fuel over the last two laps and as a result, he was unable to defend the determined attack of Rainey, who made a daring pass for fifth on the final circuit.
In Victory Circle, Lawson was presented with a new perpetual award for the World Superkart Challenge - the Wayne Rainey Trophy.
It was an emotional time for those involved with Laguna Seca and the World Superkart Challenge as Lawson and Rainey are the best of friends and hold a special place in the hearts of everyone at the track.
www.theinsidetrack.com /RACES/2002/OCTOBER/RACE021.HTML   (530 words)

  
 Grand Prix Trivia For Laguna Seca News Article // RoadracingWorld.com
Yamaha riders have taken five victories at Laguna; Eddie Lawson in 1988, Wayne Rainey in 1989, 1990 & 1991 and Luca Cadalora in 1994.
Yamaha and the USA have had three pole positions at Laguna Seca with Wayne Rainey in 1988, 1989 and 1991.
This is the longest run by a Yamaha rider since Wayne Rainey had fifteen successive podium finishes in the 1989 and 1990 seasons, this being a
www.roadracingworld.com /news/article?article=23362   (568 words)

  
 kawasaki.htm
Another racer of great promise, Wayne Rainey, would later join the effort.
I asked him if they were fun to ride or just a lot of work.
Wayne Rainey was also there and said that the time with Kawasaki was a favorite period of his career.
www.geocities.com /superbike21/kawasaki.htm   (494 words)

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