The day a Suzuki GSX-R 1100 visited the Palm Beach crocodiles

Yesterday a series of the most curious photographs came to my hands (well, to the computer screen more specifically). In them it was seen how several guys pulled a Suzuki GSX-R 1100 out of the water or rather, out of what seemed to be a swamp.

I had seen images of Formula 1 races in which a car ended up in the water, something that happened on a couple of occasions on the occasion of the Monaco Grand Prix. But the question that immediately jumped into my head was: where had such a thing happened and who had been the protagonist.

The truth is that it took me quite a while because although the inscription of the team, Team Miami Vice (horny men) appeared on the dome of the Suzuki GSX-R 1100, little more information could be extracted from the images.

But in the end i found the key. The venue: the former circuit called Moroso Motorsports Park, now renamed Palm Beach International Raceway located in Jupiter, Florida. This circuit had a dragster track as well as a perimeter circuit surrounded by swamps and even with a lagoon inside. After its remodeling, the lagoon was filled in but in the previous photo you can see how the track passed dangerously close to the water, too in view of the cover photo.

On the other hand, Team Miami Vice was running the AMA endurance championship quite successfully. In that particular race, corresponding to the 1986 season, the rider wearing the Suzuki GSX-R 1100 with the number 102 was Norman Telder. However, the bike that ended up at the bottom of the water was the second bike, piloted by Rich Daley.

After that, the evil tongues say that Suzuki seriously considered starting to develop parallel to the SACS engine, one with languid cooling (wink, wink).

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