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Grand Prix motorcycle racing; Active years: 1983 – 1992: First race: 1983 500cc South African Grand Prix: Last race: 1992 500cc South African Grand Prix: First win: 1984 500cc South African Grand Prix: Last win: 1992 500cc Hungarian Grand Prix: Team(s) Yamaha, Honda, Cagiva: Championships: 500cc – 1984, 1986, 1988, 1989
After 127 Grands Prix and 78 podiums with 31 wins (of which 26 with Yamaha) Lawson retired in 1992.
The Californian won the AMA Superbike Series twice (1981 and 1982) and the AMA 250 Grand Prix Series in 1980 and 1981. When inducted into the Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 1999, Lawson was the only rider to ever win the AMA Superbike and 250GP titles during his career.
Feb 1, 1985 · Grand Prix racing was a whole new bailgame for him, worlds apart from the American Superbike racing that he had dominated in 1981 and 1982.
- Ken Vreeke
Jun 19, 2012 · “Steady Eddie” Lawson lived up to his nickname as he stalked Wayne Gardner and Niall Mackenzie to win the 1988 United States Grand Prix.
Mar 1, 2010 · ROUNDUP. VALENTINO ROSSI SHOCKED GRAND Prix racing when he left Honda for Yamaha in 2002. Thirteen years earlier, in 1989, Eddie Lawson did just the opposite, shunning Yamaha, with whom...
Feb 28, 2023 · Though he chalked the year up to a learning experience, Lawson came back in ´84 with a hunger to win, and that is just what he did. In 1984, he won his first World Title, the first of four, and he would go on to win 31 World Championship races prior to the end of his career.
