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词条 Wayne Rainey
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  1. Racing history

  2. Grand Prix career statistics [2]

  3. References

  4. External links

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| name = Wayne Rainey
| image = Wr12.jpg
| caption = Wayne Rainey on the Yamaha YZR500
| nationality = {{flagicon|USA}} American
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1960|10|23}}
| birth_place = Downey, California, U.S.
| death_date =
| death_place =
| GP Active years = 1984, 1988 - 1993
| GP Last season =
| GP Teams = Yamaha
| GP Championships = 500cc - 1990, 1991, 1992
| GP Race Starts = 95
| GP Race Wins = 24
| GP Podiums = 65
| GP Total Points = 1270.5
| GP Poles = 16
| GP Fastest laps = 23
| GP First win = 1988 500cc British Grand Prix
| GP Last win = 1993 500cc Czech Republic Grand Prix
| GP First race = 1984 250cc Nations Grand Prix
| GP Last race = 1993 500cc Italian Grand Prix
}}Wayne Wesley Rainey (born October 23, 1960) is an American former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.[1] During the late 1980s and early 1990s, he won the 500cc World Championship three times and the Daytona 200 once.[2][3] He was characterized by his smooth, calculating riding style.[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 Trans-Atlantic Match Races in which they were supposedly teammates competing against a team of British riders.[3]

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]

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 points 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 over to his great rival, 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 circus, 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 has refused to give up racing despite his disability and now races a hand-controlled Superkart in the World SuperKart series based in Northern California.

He lives in Monterey, California in a house which was built overlooking the Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca circuit shortly before his career ending accident. The nearby circuit has named a corner in his honor, the Rainey Curve, a medium-speed, acute left-hander that follows the famous Corkscrew corner.[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 two seasons of poor decisions by Daytona Motorsports Group, the organisation that runs domestic motorcycle racing, the 2013 dispute with Dorna/Infront regarding coverage of AMA Superbike coverage on shared FIM weekends that lead to a lack of media coverage for the Superbike round at Mazda Raceway and the Harley-Davidson XR1200 round at Indianapolis Motor Speedway for both 2013 and 2014, the AMA transferred commercial rights to AMA-sanctioned road racing for the 2015 season to Rainey and business partners. Rainey began to organise the MotoAmerica group that will run AMA Superbike starting in 2015.[11]

Wayne 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.

Grand Prix career statistics [2]

Points system from 1969 to 1987:

Position12345678910
Points 15 12 10 8 6 5 4 3 2 1

Points system from 1988 to 1992:

Position123456789101112131415
Points 20 17 15 13 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Points system from 1993 onwards:

Position123456789101112131415
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 TZR250RSA
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 YZR500JPN
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
6
189 3rd 1
1989 500cc Lucky Strike Roberts Yamaha YZR500JPN
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 YZR500JPN
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
2551st 7
1991 500cc Marlboro Roberts Yamaha YZR500JPN
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
2331st 6
1992 500cc Marlboro Roberts Yamaha YZR500JPN
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
1401st 3
1993 500cc Marlboro Roberts Yamaha YZR500AUS
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. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.crash.net/motogp/racer_bio/149/wayne_rainey.html |title=Wayne Rainey profile |publisher=crash.net |accessdate=October 15, 2011}}
2. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.motogp.com/en/riders/Wayne+Rainey |title=Wayne Rainey career statistics |publisher=motogp.com |accessdate=February 24, 2012 }}
3. ^10 11 {{cite web|url=http://www.motorcyclemuseum.org/halloffame/detail.aspx?RacerID=86&lpos=0px&letter=R&txtFname=&rblFname=S&txtLname=&rblLname=S&discipline=0 |title=Wayne Rainey at the Motorcycle Hall of Fame |publisher=motorcyclemuseum.org |accessdate=23 February 2016}}
4. ^{{Citation |first=Mat | last=Oxley |year=2010 |title=An Age Of Superheroes |publisher =Haynes Publishing |isbn=978-1-84425-583-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tvgwQwAACAAJ&dq=an+age+of+superheroes&hl=en&ei=Qr8WTt2DDc3F8QOdoakB&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAA |quote=}}
5. ^{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y_sDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA46&dq=dirt%20trackers%20turned%20road%20racers%20american%20motorcyclist&pg=PA45#v=onepage&q&f=false |title=Wayne Rainey's road to stardom |author=Wood, Bill |publisher=Books.Google.com |date=August 1983 |work=American Motorcyclist |accessdate=January 3, 2011 }}
6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.motoracing-japan.com/result/spl/888h.html |title=1988 Suzuka 8 Hours results |publisher=motoracing-japan.com |accessdate=23 February 2016}}
7. ^Scott, Michael. (1997). Wayne Rainey: His own story. Newbury Park, CA: Haynes Publications, Inc.
8. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.roadracingworld.com/news/three-time-500cc-world-champion-wayne-rainey-to-be-honored-this-weekend-at-mazda-raceway-laguna-seca/ |title=Three-Time 500cc World Champion Wayne Rainey To Be Honored This Weekend At Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca |publisher=roadracingworld.com |accessdate=23 February 2016}}
9. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.motogp.com/en/MotoGP+Legends |title=MotoGP Legends |publisher=motogp.com |accessdate=23 February 2016 }}
10. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.motorsportshalloffame.com/Hall-of-Fame-Members/Bio.aspx?q=Wayne%20Rainey |title=Wayne Rainey at the International Motorsports Hall of Fame |publisher=motorsportshalloffame.com |accessdate=23 February 2016}}
11. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.americanmotorcyclist.com/News/14-09-03/American_Motorcyclist_Association_to_sanction_MotoAmerica_s_professional_road_racing_series_in_North_America.aspx |title=American Motorcyclist Association to sanction MotoAmerica's professional road racing series in North America |publisher=americanmotorcyclist.com |accessdate=23 February 2016}}

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| after = Fred Merkel
| title = AMA Superbike Champion
| years = 1983
}}{{succession box
| before = Fred Merkel
| after = Bubba Shobert
| title = AMA Superbike Champion
| years = 1987
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| before = Eddie Lawson
| after = Kevin Schwantz
| title = 500cc Motorcycle World Champion
| years = 1990–1992
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