Soup :: 1983 Laguna Seca Archive Images

1983 Laguna Seca Archive Images
images by wayne baker

Photographer Wayne Baker dug up these old Laguna Seca images for us. They are from the 1983 AMA F1-/Superbike round that year. Here ex- Mike Hailwood mechanic and pal Nobby Clark fettles the Yamaha of Eddie Lawson.	1983: when David Beat Goliath. Rainey on the GPz750 Superbike.	Kenny Roberts leads Eddie Lawson and Mark Jones, who was killed later that season at Brainerd.	Fabricator Todd Schuster (left) looks over the factory Honda machines of Mike Baldwin and Steve Wise.
Kenny Roberts leads Eddie Lawson. Pre-USGP at Laguna, the GP stars raced Laguna each Summer as a one-off event.	Eddie Lawson leads Jimmy Filice, Miles Baldwin, Harry Klinzman, Nicky Richichi, Greg Smurz and others.	Flyin' Fred Merkel leads Eddie Lawson and Jimmy Filice.	Mike Baldwin leads Sam MacDonald, both Honda VF750 mounted.
1969 250 world champ Kel Carruthers pushes King Kenny Roberts' Yamaha GP racer.