Here’s another image that stood out as I was looking through older catalogs for Suzuki shots. Many who have been in the MotoGP paddock longer than I will remember this man very fondly.

Though I never got to know Charlie Moody well, I had some idea of who he was just from how others spoke about him. Crash.net wrote a detailed piece on him after he passed away in November, 2011.

In 2009, I was still a greenhorn in MotoGP, and found that as a newcomer, I could move through the paddock as if nearly invisible. No one knew me, I was not yet part of the small society that travels from location to location to contest the Grand Prix championships.

But even then, in my first year as an aspiring MotoGP photographer (I covered five rounds in 2009), there were a handful of people who were friendly for no reason other than that they were friendly people. Charlie Moody was one of those, just a friendly guy at heart. But also one who had seen more of top level racing than the majority of people of other people in the paddock.

Even today his name sometimes comes up, and just those words, ‘Charlie Moody,’ are enough to make people smile.