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Alex Zanardi rides a motorcycle at Monza
If you follow car racing besides motorcycle racing, you may remember Alex Zanardi who used to drive in Formula 1 and in Champ Car (CART) and what happened to him during the German GP at the Eurospeedway at Lausitzring, where he lost both his legs in one of most horrific accidents ever seen.
Zanardi still drives cars and occasionally races and also partecipates in marathons, and thanks to Riders Italian Magazine and BMW Italy, Zanardi was able to feel the thrill of a riding a motorcycle again.
At the famed Monza circuit, Zanardi was given a special BMW HP2 equipped by Guidosimplex with special hand operated gears and brakes, the Italian was able to ride the bike and to everyone’s surprise he continued to improve lap after lap and Zanardi was so happy that he wants to try this adventure again.
Alex Zanardi:
“I want to thank my friends at Riders that involved me and BMW Motorrad Italy in this apparently complicated experiment. I had a fantastic day that let me rediscover such beautiful sensations that I had forgetten. I hope there will be a next time because if I enjoyed the HP2 Sport so much I can’t immagine what an S 1000 RR can do.”
After the jump more pics and the video of Zanardi’s accident.
Max Biaggi - The rider you love to hate
Known as the Roman Emperor or the Black Corsair, his girlfriend for the last five years, Eleonora Pedron, a former Miss Italy calls him The Boss, and Max Biaggi is the rider that you either passionately love or hate.
Adored and defended by his millions of fans, so much so that his Italian fans flooded the Italian network LA7 forum with hundreds of messages demanding that Pierfrancesco Chili, commentator for the WSBK, be fired after what they thought was Chili’s biased treatment of Biaggi during and after the Portimao race. (Chili left the network to manage the Guandalini Ducati team this year).
Controversial, provocative, outspoken a lot of things about Max Biaggi rub people the wrong way, but the February issue of Riders Italian Magazine has Biaggi on its cover and did a great interview touching a lot of bases with the former MotoGP and now WSBK rider.
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