Marco Wrote:Hi to all. It has passed more than one year from that 02.06.1939 evening in which the official BMW rider Karl Gall had his accident at Ballaugh Bridge during his first lap in Senior TT practice. 13.06 will be 70 years from his death happened in the Ramsey hospital eleven days after the accident.
As many of you certainly know Gall practiced also for the 1938 TT races as official BMW rider but he had a bad accident at Gooseneck on open roads that put him out of the game for that year. Well, question for the TT experts: was he riding that day the official BMW Kompressor racing machine?
Thanks in advance!

Hi Marco, wouldn't call myself a "TT expert",but I'm quite sure that the crash in 38 happened when he was testing his supercharged race bike, the purpose was to sort it out rather than learning the circuit. I think Schorsch Meier once said that the accident happend when Gall actually rode against the race direction, i.e., downhill towards gooseneck. Have this story in one of my mags but no idea how to find it with a reasonable effort....