The Legends & Heroes of MX 2011 Tour
will be honoring Diamond Don Rainey
at Houston SX
 February 10, 2011 - Merced, CA: Diamond
Don Rainey began his racing career in 1968 on a DT One Yamaha. He
bought first “real” race bike, a 1969 Husquvarna, when he joined the
H&H Music Racing team in 1969 where he raced for about five years.
In
1971, he was the first Texan to race in California. In 1972, he
promoted the first night race at Meyers Speedway in Houston. One of
his career highlights was racing in the Astrodome.
One of his
greatest friendships was with Al Baker whom he met while racing the
InterAms and TransAms. Al was the racing director for Kawasaki from
1972 until about 1975. Don was on Al Baker’s race team at the final
checkpoint when Al won the Baja 1000 in 1982. Diamond had the pleasure
of following him in across the finish line.
Diamond retired from
professional racing in the early 1980’s but took up vintage racing when
he turned 53 and still races today in the 60+ expert class as a member
of AHRMA.
Diamond Don’s National Vintage Motocross race is the
largest vintage race in the US, drawing over 800 race entries each
year. Racers from around the world attend this extravaganza. Gary
Bailey will be recognized as event legend this year at Don’s race in
Jefferson, Texas April 15th through the 17th. He will be joined by
legend greats Marty Tripes, Brad Lackey, Danny LaPorte, Chuck Sun,
Tommy Croft, Marty Smith, Steve Wise, Trampas Parker, Billy Liles and
John Desoto.
Check out www.DiamondDon.com for more information on Diamond Don Rainey…
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