I wanted to retain the number 1 plate I’d won the previous season, and thought we - Yamaha - should build a proper dirt track racer, which meant building it around an engine designed for the job - not the XS650 production-based engine we’d been using. For one thing, there were only a limited number of mile races on the AMA schedule. To be honest, I hadn’t been exactly enthused at the idea of building this thing, this overpowered dirttrack miler that used a 750cc four-cylinder twostroke engine from a 170-mph Yamaha roadracer. They know I’ll know exactly which race they’re talking about - the Indianapolis Mile in 1975 on the Yamaha TZ750-powered dirt track racer.
Even today, people will walk up to me and say, “I was at the race” or “I was at the mile.” They don’t have to say anything more or explain what they mean.
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