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In RACER Magazine: The Martian

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In RACER Magazine: The Martian

By Eric Johnson - May 31, 2018, 6:05 PM ET

A dirt-track star who learned to excel on asphalt, Kenny Roberts and his Yamaha YZR500 beamed down in Europe in 1978 and changed the face of grand prix racing. At the 2009 MotoGP finale in Valencia, Spain, Texan Tech 3 Yamaha rider Colin Edwards coined an enduring epithet when he...

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