SMOKING THRILLS

AS AUSTRALIAN TOBACCO advertising restrictions tightened throughout the 1980s, ‘big tobacco’ poured more and more money into motorsport, with the consequence that Wayne Gardner’s 1987 World Championship was as big…

KIRK MCCARTHY

KEITH STACKER

GEORGE BOLTON SNR

FREEWHEELIN' FRANK

KEVIN CASS

SUNDAY'S STUNTS, MONDAY'S SALES

PHIL IRVING MBE

ROY DENISON

Ken Blake, Tony Hatton, Graeme Crosby, Roger Heyes, Jim Budd, Dennis Neill, Garry Thomas and Mick Cole count among the elite production racers of the 1970s. But…

THE GP BIKE THAT TIME FORGOT

Here’s a simple question. Name the Italian motorcycle manufacturer synonymous with transverse, overhead-valve V-twins since 1965? Yes, it’s Moto Guzzi. Now name the Italian company…

Where are they now? Doug Robson

In an era when speedway was often headlined in the sports pages, the sidecar contingent was a breed apart, and one bloke stood alone. Abrupt, uncommunicative and committed, Doug Robson…

Indian Speed King

Half-way through the bloody campaign that would later define the ANZAC tradition, the curtain of censorship denied Australians any real means of understanding the real state of affairs in Çanakkale.