October 23, 1973
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"Go ina littled
and come out a little
Kenny Roberts, AMA Grand National Champion
It's not cockiness or overconfidence.
Because in addition to being the finest allaround motorcycle rider in America,
Kenny Roberts is also a highly intelligent,
highly methodical young man. He knows
the exact limit to which he can push himself and his machinery. And he operates
at that limit.
And it's not just nerve. You may win
an individual race on nerve. Or on a break.
But there's only one way to win the AMA
Grand National Championship:
Consistency.
Week after week, you have to beat
the best. In road races. Short track races.
Dirt track races; IT's. It takes an unusual
combination of skills. And an unusual
combination of machines. With Yamaha,
Kenny Roberts obviously had that
combination:
Houston Short Track. First.
Dallas Road Race. Third.
Atlanta Road Race. Third.
Loudon Road Race. Second.
Columbus Half Mile. Third.
Colorado Springs Mile. First.
Castle Rock IT Second.
Gardena IT Second.
Peoria IT Second. '.
Pocono Road Race. Second.
Indianapolis Mile. Third.
Charlotte Road Race. Second.
Gardena Half Mile. First.
That's consistency. In fact, there's
another achievement that makes us at
Yamaha almost as proud as winning the
Grand Natiqnal Championship: Out of
the twenty-three AMA National Point races
Kenny Roberts entered this year, he scored
points in all but three. And to anyone
familiar with what profeSSional motorcycle
racing does to machinery, that record is
nothing short of miraculous.
No, it wasn't just the ability to "go in
a little deeper and come out a little faster"
that won Kenny Roberts the' AMA Grand
National Championship. It was c<;>nsistency.
A rider who beat the best, week after 'week.
And a bike that didn't break.
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AMA CHAMPION
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