Wayne Rainey

Wayne Rainey
Rainey on the Yamaha YZR500
Born (1960-10-23) October 23, 1960 (age 64)
Downey, California, U.S.
Motorcycle racing career statistics
Grand Prix motorcycle racing
Active years1984, 1988 - 1993
First race1984 250cc Nations Grand Prix
Last race1993 500cc Italian Grand Prix
First win1988 500cc British Grand Prix
Last win1993 500cc Czech Republic Grand Prix
Team(s)Yamaha
Championships500cc - 1990, 1991, 1992
Starts Wins Podiums Poles F. laps Points
94 24 65 16 23 1270.5

Wayne Wesley Rainey (born October 23, 1960) is an American former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.[1] He competed in the FIM Grand Prix motorcycle racing world championships in 1984 and from 1988 to 1993. He won the 500cc World Championship three times and the Daytona 200 once.[2][3] He was characterized by his smooth, calculating riding style, and for his intense rivalry with compatriot Kevin Schwantz, between 1987 and 1993.[4]

Racing history

Rainey began his career racing in the A.M.A. Grand National Championship, a series that encompassed four distinct dirt track disciplines plus road races.[3] In 1981, he finished the Grand National season as the 15th ranked dirt track racer in the country.[5] Following his success in the Novice 250cc roadrace class, Kawasaki hired him to compete in the 1982 AMA Superbike Championship as a teammate to the then defending National Champion Eddie Lawson.[3] The following year, Lawson moved to the Grand Prix circuit and Rainey took over the role of leading rider, earning the 1983 National Championship for Kawasaki.[3]

In 1984, he accepted an offer to ride for the newly formed Kenny Roberts Yamaha racing team in the 250cc class of the Grand Prix World Championship.[3] A less than successful season (1 podium and difficulty push-starting the bike) saw him returning home in 1985 to join the Maclean Racing team in U.S. 250 and Formula 1 classes, and then on to the American Honda team from 1986 to 1987 where he raced Superbike and F1.[3] It was during the 1987 Superbike National Championship that his intense rivalry began with Kevin Schwantz as the two battled it out for the title.[3] Rainey won the Championship, but the fierce rivalry between the two competitors was just beginning. So intense was their rivalry that they continued their battle during the 1987 Transatlantic Trophy match races in which they were supposedly teammates competing against a team of British riders.[3]

Wayne Rainey on a Yamaha YZR500 in 1990

In 1988 Rainey returned to Europe, again joining Team Roberts Yamaha, this time in the premier 500cc division riding the YZR500.[3] His arch-rival Schwantz followed him to Europe, signing to race the 500cc class for Team Suzuki. The two would continue their rivalry on race tracks all across Europe, driving each other to higher levels of competitiveness. In 1988, Rainey won his first world championship race at the British Grand Prix.[2] Also in 1988, he and his Team Roberts Yamaha teammate Kevin Magee won the prestigious Suzuka 8 Hours endurance race in Japan.[6] In the 1989 campaign, Rainey finished second overall behind Eddie Lawson, winning three races and placing on the podium in every race that he finished.[2]

Mick Doohan (3) leads Kevin Schwantz (34), Rainey (1) and John Kocinski (19) at the 1991 Japanese Grand Prix. Schwantz would go on to win the race.

From 1990 to 1992, Rainey hit his stride earning three consecutive 500cc crowns for Yamaha.[2] Rainey was involved in a hard-fought campaign with Kevin Schwantz while seeking his fourth-consecutive title in 1993. He was leading the championship by a margin of 11 points over Schwantz, and leading the GP when he suffered his career-ending crash at the Italian Grand Prix in Misano.[3] He slid into the gravel trap at high speed, breaking his spine against the raked surface designed as a safety feature for car racing. The injury handed the title to his great rival Kevin Schwantz.[2] Rainey's injuries rendered him permanently paralyzed from the chest down.

After turning to Williams team owner and quadriplegic Frank Williams for advice, Rainey later became the team manager for Marlboro Yamaha for a few years.[3] After the 1995 season, Schwantz retired from the Grand Prix circuit, partly due to nagging injuries and partly because losing the one great rival that had fired his competitive intensity made him view his own mortality much more clearly.[7]

Rainey refused to give up racing despite his disability and raced a hand-controlled Superkart in the World SuperKart series based in Northern California.

He lived in Monterey, California in a house that is not far from WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. The nearby circuit named a corner in his honor, Rainey Curve, which is a medium-speed, acute left-hander that follows the famous Corkscrew.[8] Rainey was inducted into the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 1999.[3] The FIM named him a Grand Prix "Legend" in 2000.[9] He was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 2007.[10] In 2003, he was one of the subjects of the motorcycle racing documentary film, Faster.

After several seasons of poor decisions by Daytona Motorsports Group, the organization that operated AMA-sanctioned road racing beginning in 2009, a dispute with Dorna/Infront in 2013 regarding AMA Superbike coverage on shared FIM weekends led to a lack of media coverage for that year's Superbike round at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, as well as the Harley-Davidson XR1200 round at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in both 2013 and 2014, the AMA transferred the commercial rights to AMA-sanctioned road racing to Rainey and his business partners at the end of 2014. The MotoAmerica era of AMA-sanctioned road racing began in 2015.[11]

Rainey lives in Monterey, California, with his wife Shae. They have one son, Rex, who graduated from Pepperdine University and works at CBS Television Distribution with the Entertainment Tonight and The Insider accounts.

Rainey rode his 1992 YZR500 at the 2022 Goodwood Festival of Speed. Yamaha specially modified the bike by moving the rear brake and gear shift controls to the handlebars.[12][13]

Awards

He was inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 2008.[14]

Grand Prix career statistics [2]

Points system from 1969 to 1987:

Position 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Points 15 12 10 8 6 5 4 3 2 1

Points system from 1988 to 1992:

Position 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Points 20 17 15 13 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Points system from 1993 onwards:

Position 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Points 25 20 16 13 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Class Team Machine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Points Rank Wins
1984 250cc Roberts Yamaha TZR250 RSA
NC
NAT
3
ESP
10
AUT
NC
GER
6
FRA
6
YUG
4
NED
12
BEL
NC
GBR
14
SWE
13
RSM
NC
29 8th 0
1988 500cc Lucky Strike Roberts Yamaha YZR500 JPN
6
USA
4
ESP
6
EXP
2
NAT
3
GER
2
AUT
3
NED
7
BEL
5
YUG
3
FRA
5
GBR
1
SWE
5
CZE
3
BRA
Ret
189 3rd 1
1989 500cc Lucky Strike Roberts Yamaha YZR500 JPN
2
AUS
2
USA
1
ESP
2
NAT
DNS
GER
1
AUT
3
YUG
2
NED
1
BEL
3
FRA
3
GBR
3
SWE
DNF
CZE
3
BRA
3
210.5 2nd 3
1990 500cc Marlboro Roberts Yamaha YZR500 JPN
1
USA
1
ESP
2
NAT
1
GER
2
AUT
2
YUG
1
NED
2
BEL
1
FRA
3
GBR
2
SWE
1
CZE
1
HUN
DNF
AUS
3
255 1st 7
1991 500cc Marlboro Roberts Yamaha YZR500 JPN
3
AUS
1
USA
1
ESP
3
ITA
9
GER
2
AUT
2
EUR
1
NED
2
FRA
1
GBR
2
RSM
1
CZE
1
VDM
3
MAL
DNS
233 1st 6
1992 500cc Marlboro Roberts Yamaha YZR500 JPN
DNF
AUS
2
MAL
2
ESP
2
ITA
DNF
EUR
1
GER
DNF
NED
DNS
HUN
5
FRA
1
GBR
2
BRA
1
RSA
3
140 1st 3
1993 500cc Marlboro Roberts Yamaha YZR500 AUS
2
MAL
1
JPN
1
ESP
2
AUT
3
GER
5
NED
5
EUR
1
RSM
3
GBR
2
CZE
1
ITA
DNF
USA
-
FIM
-
214 2nd 4

References

  1. ^ "Wayne Rainey profile". crash.net. Retrieved October 15, 2011.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Wayne Rainey career statistics". motogp.com. Retrieved February 24, 2012.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Wayne Rainey at the Motorcycle Hall of Fame". motorcyclemuseum.org. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved February 23, 2016.
  4. ^ Oxley, Mat (2010), An Age Of Superheroes, Haynes Publishing, ISBN 978-1-84425-583-2
  5. ^ Wood, Bill (August 1983). "Wayne Rainey's road to stardom". American Motorcyclist. Retrieved January 3, 2011.
  6. ^ "1988 Suzuka 8 Hours results". motoracing-japan.com. Archived from the original on March 15, 2016. Retrieved February 23, 2016.
  7. ^ Scott, Michael. (1997). Wayne Rainey: His own story. Newbury Park, CA: Haynes Publications, Inc.
  8. ^ "Three-Time 500cc World Champion Wayne Rainey To Be Honored This Weekend At Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca". roadracingworld.com. July 16, 2007. Retrieved February 23, 2016.
  9. ^ "MotoGP Legends". motogp.com. Retrieved February 23, 2016.
  10. ^ "Wayne Rainey at the International Motorsports Hall of Fame". motorsportshalloffame.com. Archived from the original on August 9, 2018. Retrieved February 23, 2016.
  11. ^ "American Motorcyclist Association to sanction MotoAmerica's professional road racing series in North America". americanmotorcyclist.com. Retrieved February 23, 2016.
  12. ^ "RAINEY TO RIDE YZR500 AGAIN". Just Bikes. March 28, 2022. Retrieved March 30, 2022.
  13. ^ Sell-out crowds witness Wayne Rainey reunited with his YZR500 at Goodwood Festival of Speed Motorcycle News, 1 July 2022. Retrieved 4 July 2022
  14. ^ Wayne Rainey at the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America

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