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15-07-2013, 09:29pm
A motorcycle racer trying to top 480 km/h died after losing control and zooming off a runway at a former air base in northern Maine, the US.
Bill Warner, 44, of Florida was clocked at 460 km/h before he lost control but it was unclear how fast the motorcycle was traveling when it veered off the paved runway and crashed, said Tim Kelly, race director the Loring Timing Association, which hosted "The Maine Event" at Loring Air Force Base.
Warner was conscious and talking after the crash just before 10 a.m., Kelly said, but he died about an hour and 15 minutes later at a hospital in Caribou.
Riding his modified turbocharged Suzuki Hayabusa, Warner previously hit 500 km/h on the same course in 2011, using 2400 metres of pavement. That's considered to be the world land speed record for a conventional motorcycle
Bill Warner, 44, of Florida was clocked at 460 km/h before he lost control but it was unclear how fast the motorcycle was traveling when it veered off the paved runway and crashed, said Tim Kelly, race director the Loring Timing Association, which hosted "The Maine Event" at Loring Air Force Base.
Warner was conscious and talking after the crash just before 10 a.m., Kelly said, but he died about an hour and 15 minutes later at a hospital in Caribou.
Riding his modified turbocharged Suzuki Hayabusa, Warner previously hit 500 km/h on the same course in 2011, using 2400 metres of pavement. That's considered to be the world land speed record for a conventional motorcycle
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