Throwback Thursday: Steady Eddie vs The Chief
Larry Lawrence | September 12, 2019
Throwback Thursday: Steady Eddie vs The Chief
Eddie Lawson (No. 7) and Scott Russell (No. 1) battle in the 1993 Daytona 200. (Henny Ray Abrams photo)
In this week’s Throwback we go back 26 years to 1993 and an epic showdown at that year’s Daytona 200. Four-time Grand Prix World Champion Eddie Lawson had retired from GP racing the season before, but came back to do the ’93 Daytona 200 with Yamaha. That year he faced Scott Russell, who was coming off his first win in the historic race the year before and was about to embark on his first full season in the World Superbike Championship, which he would go on to win. So, you had one of the all-time greats in Lawson on his way out of the sport, up against one of the best young riders of the early ‘90s in his prime. The race was epic with the race between the duo coming down to the wire, with Lawson drafting past Russell at the checkered flag to win by 5-100ths of the second. Lawson praised the Jim Leonard-built Vance & Hines Yamaha YZF750 for the win. “The bike won – I was just a long for the ride,” Lawson modestly said. Russell’s Muzzy Kawasaki teammate Miguel Duhamel finished third, making it an all former Daytona 200 winner filled Victory Lane.
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