Rennmax Wrote: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....

Thanks Rennmax. It's what I had thought: on the BMW racing machine. There is also a bit of mistery about Gall's fatal accident at Ballaugh Bridge the year after. Freddie Frith had overtaken Gall and his BMW team mate Jock West and Gall, practically a TT newcomer, wanted absolutely to follow the brithish rider, one of the greatest TT specialist of those days. The history also tells about a racing machine that Gall tried and overtake just before Ballaugh Bridge. Who was the rider of that machine? Can we exclude that it was Frith himself?