Damn that’s sad. On a bike, too.
I went to the Race of the Year at Mallory Park in 1974, an amazing field with Read and Bonera on the MVs and Ago on a Yamaha, plus Sheene, Smart and all the usual suspects.
I think Paul was leading when his brakes failed going into the hairpin. I wandered down there during the subsequent red flag, and was very concerned to see him being treated on the track, with legs pointing in directions that they definitely shouldn’t go in.