(Mr MC posting)
What relevance or significance is anyones sexuality? these guys ride with hideous injuries that would lay most of us up for months, and seeing riders that can barely walk be lifted onto a bike, to then ride it like something superhuman is part of the appeal of the sport.
Not motogp, mere british superbikes, but I thought leon camiers crash in '07 would end his career, and could very well have been what we refer to as "life changing" injuries-he dominated the '09 season and is now a challenger in World Superbikes.
NOT for the sqeamish
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9DhGIuLIQo
Yukio kagayama very nearly died (of septicaemia) after a crash (also at cadwell) that broke his pelvis in 2003, and it was humbling to see him being lifted onto a bike to race not long after. He won both rounds at that circuit in 2004 and I watched him do a burn out at the corner that nearly killed him through teary eyes.
Macho, yes. Straight, gay, who cares?!
WCA-genius, spat my wine when I read that.