![]() ![]() He expressed his own pride in his “bad-to-the-bone Capco Boys,” saying they “have taken me to the front year after year. “I want her to say, ‘That was my dad who didn’t do that dumb stuff.’ I want to make her proud, make my wife and the rest of my family proud.” I’ve done all I can to overcome it, and that’s all I can do. You let the emotions get the better of you and people will let you remember it always. “This is a high-intensity, emotion-driven sport. And I’ve done my best to change that,” he said. Everybody has seen me go out here and make a fool out of myself multiple times, and it’s something I don’t want her to see. He said, “It doesn’t change you so much as what you want to do, your drive. With seven-month-old daughter Haven Charli now in his winners-circle pictures, his perspective has changed a bit: “All this is important, but being a dad is more important than anything else.” But he figured that he and his Capco Contractors team likely have inspired independent racers with their accomplishments. But I’m going to tell him, ‘You left, and I’m the sheriff now.’”īut he’s aware that victories and championships don’t come easy at all in what he calls a ‘What have you done for me lately?’ sport. He said something about it’s not a comeback because he’s been here before. “Everybody that knows Tony Schumacher – and Tony’s a good friend of mine – knows he has a really big ego, and he doesn’t like it when you kind of trash-talk him. well, everybody else.īut Torrence, with a sly grin, had a message Sunday for Schumacher. Moreover, they want to beat up on Tony Stewart Racing’s Leah Pruett, new privateer Antron Brown, 2021 rookie sensation Josh Hart, young gun Justin Ashley, and. And although the two have recognized they aren’t the only ones in the sport’s headliner class, they’re eager to go head-to-head. Schumacher is returning to full-time action in 2022. ![]() Torrence, a 51-time winner, joins Schumacher, the class all-time leader with 85 trophies and eight championships, on the title-streak list along with Don Prudhomme, Kenny Bernstein, Lee Shepherd, Bob Glidden, and John Force. Torrence has won 81.7 percent of the time in the past five years (263-59). During Schumacher’s run of six straight titles, he won 77.6 percent of his individual races (312-90). Learn who was behind these events with our list of the Most Dangerous Motorcycle Gangs in America.Torrence is the first in 13 years, since Schumacher in 2008, to win at least half the races on the schedule. ![]() Other incidents-like a 2015 gun battle involving hundreds of bikers at a restaurant in Waco, Texas, in which nine people were killed and 18 injured-are reminders that the gangs are both ruthless and here to stay. In fact, two high-ranking members of the Pagans were recently hit with federal charges for allegedly beating a man they thought was aligned with Hells Angels. Along with the Hells Angels, gangs like the Mongols, Pagans, and Bandidos are active to this day. Thompson’s book Hell’s Angels brought the gangs’ ruthless behavior to light, and the popular TV show Sons of Anarchy rekindled America’s interest in the subculture. ![]() “One-percenter” motorcycle clubs-so named because the American Motorcyclist Association has said that 99 percent of motorcyclists are law-abiding-run drugs across the borders and participate in a litany of additional crimes, from contract killing to petty theft.īecause of their prominent role in the American underworld, outlaw bikers have long been mythologized in film, TV, and literature. Today, these dangerous organizations are engaged in criminal activities on both coasts and throughout the American heartland. Outlaw motorcycle gangs have been a thorn in the side of US law enforcement since the 1960s. ![]()
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