| Fried Anepool's visit to 1977 Luxembourg GP |
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As a fanatic I keep record of the laps of the riders in the program book. Number 1#, Bengt Aberg according to the booklet, is leading and to my big surprise, remains leading. Nobody can stay with him on the very difficult course with steep ascents. I try my best to make good pictures. And I was thinking that the days of the 4-strokes were over..... Also during the second heat Bengt goes like a rocket with his modified Yamaha single. Finally he wins the Luxembourg G.P., ahead of Gerrit Wolsink, Roger deCoster and Heiki Mikkola. This is all history now. Recently I read the story of the HL500 in the (Dutch) magazine KickXTart, the club magazine of the Yamaha XT & SR 500 Club Nederland and then I had to think of my more or less forced visit to the Luxembourg G.P. After that I followed motocross for a while and understood that I had witnessed something special that day. Because after Luxembourg no Yamaha 4-stroke ever won a G.P. (until the new 4-stroke period of course). I “lost” Julie already for years but I am still grateful to her that she dragged me into this.
Finally this. On the pictures, which I made in 1977 you see on the tank “Hallman & Eneqvuist” and not “Hallman & Lundin”. The Aberg machine was actually a HE500, or am I wrong? I am curious if someone knows the answer for this mystery.
Fried Anepool, August 1999
Yes Fried-San, I do know the answer.....! The Yamaha Distributor for Sweden at that time was a Company called: “Hallman & Eneqvist”. Torsten Hallman and Staffan Eneqvist were the business partners. Sten Lundin worked for the company as Service Manager. And both Torsten, Staffan and Sten were former Motocross World Champions!!!!! |
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