STEALING SPEED: The biggest spy scandal in motorsport history

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However, this wasn’t the case for Godspeed, as he possessed enhanced senses by the speed force, which enabled him to perceive the world faster. Phasing: Bonds hit his last home run on Sept. 24, 1981, for the Cubs -- he connected against Jesse Orosco, still playing for the Yankees. His main shortcoming was strikeouts -- his 189 K's in 1970 remain the single-season record -- but that approach to hitting is commonplace now and Bonds' productivity helped make striking out acceptable. In 1970, he still hit .302 with 72 extra-base hits and scored 134 runs. Zoom’s body can sustain the pressure of traveling at superhuman speeds for extended periods without growing exhausted or weak. Superman agility:

Zoom possesses superhuman agility, balance, and physiological coordination. This ability allows him to perform fast moves and leap large distances while traveling at incredible speeds. Swift healing time: In the new graphic novel, the risks taken by Degner’s wife and children — who were smuggled out of East Germany in the trunk of a car at a precisely coordinated moment — are even more harrowing than Degner’s escape; all he had to do was slip the rest of the MZ team, which surely included a few Stasi "minders," and drive his car onto a ferry from Sweden to West Germany. But when their star rider Ernst Degner was poised to win the world championship he defected and sold MZ’s secrets to Suzuki, while his wife and children were drugged and smuggled to freedom through the Berlin Wall. Zoom is significantly more robust than any human, sustaining tremendous kinetic impact pressures that would easily crush or kill a human without suffering any external or internal injuries. Zoom’s WeaknessBobby Bonds didn't have a long enough stretch of excellence to be considered for the Hall of Fame (his last good year came at 33, due in part to alcohol problems that plagued him during his career), but he's a vastly underrated player. Consider: Oxley's book is a thrilling history of one of the most important moments in motorcycle racing. Lucidly written, the book recounts the events that shaped Kaaden, the two-stroke engine, and Degner, and went on to change the world. Oxley explains both the function and the developments which Kaaden brought to bear on the two-stroke engine in a clear and easy to understand way, and explains just why this was such a big deal.

Here in the United States, we sometimes assign the term "graphic novel" to any high-concept comic book. Oxley and Papazoglakis’ new "Stealing Speed" is much more than a comic book with a hard cover. Oxley neatly summarizes all the key points of the factual, historical account as the excellent journalist he is. He impressed me even more with the imaginative writing needed to put the "novel" in "graphic novel." In this article, we enumerate a comprehensive list of the superpowers and abilities of Godspeed and Zoom. You can then decide for yourself who’s a more powerful character if you have no previous bias, of course. Godspeed Vs. Zoom Recently, Mat republished his work as a graphic novel, illustrated by Christian Papazoglakis. Despite the artist’s Greek surname, he’s actually Belgian. So, he grew up in the land of Tintin; a country where graphic novels are treated as a serious form of literature and art.

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Kaaden developed MZ two-strokes that combined disc-valve induction with expansion-chamber exhausts. The modern expansion chamber was Kaaden’s invention. (There were some pre-Kaaden exhausts that took the general bulbous shape, but only he understood the principles of resonance, pressure waves and all the stuff that made them work.) But Degner's betrayal went anything but smoothly. On August 12th, 1961, the day that Degner had planned for his wife and children to cross into West Germany from Berlin, the East German authorities announced the end of the relatively free transit that had existed between East and West Berlin, the one route which still existed to the West, and the erection of the Berlin Wall. Escape using the original plan, traveling by S-Bahn - the Berlin subway system - was now impossible. nobody thought it would happen this soon. I lost a childhood hero -- we grew up in the same town, my dad was his coach and his mom Godspeed can steal the speed of other speedsters, create, construct and even be at two places at a time. All of these are what zoom doesn’t know. Godspeed has a massive capacity to deceive people. He proved this when he deceived everyone at STAR labs, including Barry Allen, by acting as Flash’s partner. Speed force knowledge:

August could duplicate himself at any given time with his new godlike speed, creating the impression that he and Godspeed were two different people. Who Is Zoom? He experiences even more pain when he steals the speed of another speedster. This pain is more significant than that experienced when he clones as he almost died at his first attempt of stealing speed. Zoom’s Powers Time altering ability:Suzuki, then Yamaha and Kawasaki, used Kaaden’s know-how to build world-dominating race bikes and create legendary street machines that made Japan the global force in motorcycling. Godspeed possesses extraordinary agility, balance, and bodily coordination. This ability allows him to navigate with ease, even when going at high speeds. Superhuman reflexes: Degner's pursuit of wealth and freedom did not bring him happiness, though. Despite realizing his dream of becoming world champion in 1962, Degner was badly burned in a race accident at Suzuka. He eventually died of heart failure at the age of 52, after a lifelong struggle with morphine addiction, acquired in the aftermath of that accident.. For those who don't know this amazing tale... This is the amazing true story of how one of Japan’s biggest motorcycle manufacturers stole a Nazi secret-weapon engineer’s secrets from behind the Iron Curtain to win the motorcycle power race and conquer the world

I love the way Papazoglakis hid the sound of the two-stroke motor in the cloud of oil smoke trailing from the bike. Photo provided by Mat Oxley.The success of MZ in Grand Prix racing was played up by the official East German propaganda machine. While the marque was justifiably proud that the very best riders of the day (Mike Hailwood included) lined up to ride their 125 and 250 cc racers, they also groomed a home-grown communist star in the form of Ernst Degner. Communists, he suffered horrific injuries in a fiery racing accident and died in mysterious circumstances.