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13 June 2018

Where are they now? Steve Parrish

Steve Parrish – Tractor mechanic turned motorcycle racer and team owner

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12 June 2018

AMCN Revolving Racer - Brayden Elliott

I came to the UK two years ago as an Australian champion and with the best wishes of some of our greatest riders; Troy Bayliss, Jason Crump, Chris Vermeulen and Shawn Giles. Now, just one round into this year’s British Superbike Championship my contract with Mission Racing ha

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08 June 2018

Not Forgotten - Jack Forrest

Jack Forrest was the bloke with the most famous ‘elbow’ in Australia

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05 June 2018

Remembering Kenny Blake

The 37th memorial lunch for Aussie racing legend Kenny Blake will be held at the Laurel Hotel, Ascot Vale on the 9 June from 12:30pm.

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03 June 2018

Grid talk with Rebeka Powditch

The matriarch of an Aussie family obsessed with land speed racing brings us up to date on the recent history-making exploits of Team Powditch

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30 May 2018

He did what? The Sandman

If you can dream it, it can be done… right?

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26 May 2018

Two-wheel ball tampering

Burgess and his Aussie cohorts decided a bit of rubber leading off his row-three starting slot might help his launch

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20 May 2018

Where are they now? Gary Coleman

Gary Coleman successful racer turned long-time Grand Prix mechanic

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20 May 2018

Full & cool

We were on our way to Bathurst, NSW, when we stopped for a feed at Pie in the Sky at Bilpin, on Bell’s Line of Road in the Blue Mountains. We had a good yarn over the counter with the maker of the pies (what a righteous thing to be!), followed by an excellent chicken-and-corn p

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18 May 2018

AUSSIE RACING TALENT - THE FAST 78'ERS

Four decades ago, a throng of Aussie racing talent bit the bullet and headed to Europe to try their luck

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13 May 2018

Big yellow taxi

As I battled my way to Sydney airport, Joni Mitchell’s  Big Yellow Taxi cooed plaintively out of the hire car’s sound system. Seventies longhairs remember these words: “Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got ’till it’s gone….” It

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11 May 2018

Where are they now? - Laurie Alderton

Laurie Alderton The first Aussie to enter and complete an AMA motocross series