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Doohan to face assault charge
7Aug06
POLICE have charged former world motorcycle champion Mick Doohan with
assault after an incident at a Darwin strip club on the weekend.
Darwin police said Doohan, 40, from the Gold Coast, was arrested at 3am
on Saturday and charged with assaulting a bouncer and refusing to leave
licensed premises.
He has been bailed to appear in the Darwin Magistrates Court tomorrow .
Police said Doohan, who is in the Top End for today's running of the
Darwin Cup, was at The Honey Pot strip club at closing time when a
bouncer asked him to leave.
He then allegedly head-butted the bouncer, smashing his nose.
Doohan's manager, Mike Porter, said his high- profile client did not
want to comment on the incident because 'certain processes are in
place'.
The Honey Pot club is attached to the Top End Hotel on the corner of
Mitchell and Daly streets, in Darwin's nightclub precinct.
The club opened in November last year, and is billed as Darwin's 'only
five-star adult venue'.
The decor is styled on old Monte Carlo and the Moulin Rouge.
The late-night venue features male and female performers and has
private dancing areas.
Club owner Anne-Maree Oates refused to comment about the incident, but
said the club rarely had any trouble and was one of Australia's most
upmarket adult venues.
Doohan is one of the Gold Coast's most successful sporting exports.
He made his road racing debut as a 19-year-old at the Surfers Paradise
International Raceway and went on for a magic career on the track.
The 41-year-old is a five-times 500cc world champion, taking out the
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The incident obviously aged him.
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title every year between 1994 and 1998.
He notched up a massive 54 wins from 137 starts between 1989 and 1999.
He also made the podium 95 times, won pole position 58 times and set a
world record in 1997 when he won 12 grands prix in a single season.
Once seemingly unstoppable, Doohan was forced to retire from racing in
1999 when he sustained massive injuries in his 28th crash .
The 200km/h spill in Spain left him needing two plates and 12 screws in
his already weakened right leg and a plate in his forearm.
As a youngster, he started dirt-biking around the Hinze Dam
construction site, where his father worked as an excavator.
But at 11, he lost enthusiasm for dirt-track competition after his
father died, but two years later, he was back in the saddle when his
brother Colin gave him a second-hand motocross bike.
He entered a motocross race, won it and the rest is history.
Doohan's brilliant racing career wasrecognised with an Order of
Australia in 1996 and he was named Australian Male Athlete of the Year
three times between 1995 and 1997.
In April this year, he married his sweetheart Selina Sines in a lavish
but private ceremony on Hamilton Island.
The couple have two children, Allexis, 6, and Jack, 3.
They live in an expansive 1260sqm mansion on a 16ha private estate at
Coomera, which, among other luxuries, boasts a helicopter pad and
hangar.
In March, Doohan put the helicopter to good use, flying another of the
world's fastest men, seven-time Formula One champion Michael
Schumacher, to the Sirromet winery.
Doohan now juggles family commitments in Australia with business across
Europe.
He also owns a home in Monaco.
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