Pierfrancesco ‘Frankie’ Chili, the Tiger of Bologna, was a recent visitor to Australia for the International Festival of Speed at Sydney Motorsport Park. These days the former top-level…
Question: Valentino, you’re a keen student of motorcycle grand prix history. Who are your favourite riders from the past, and what do you know of Jarno Saarinen?…
As was the practice prior to World War II, testing road racing machinery was often conducted on public roads. This as much for the convenience of the participants as…
The Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated on re-entry, killing all seven crew members; this was the second tragedy in the program after Space Shuttle Challenger had exploded shortly after lift-off…
The truth may never be known as to the cause of George Parsons’ attendance at the official opening ceremony of the Mt Donna Buang Bridle Track. Nor much…
What got you into bikes? My dad Kevin was into bikes and so was my brother, but in the middle of the minibike boom I only rode…
Lets take a look through the archives at AMCN Vol 21 No 13 15 cents On sale 23 December 1971 Editor: Leslie Swallow News…
It was one of the blackest weeks in the history of American road racing. Two of its brightest young stars were lost to the world in the…
John Titman was a big part of the Golden Era of speedway What got you into bikes? I was born in Brisbane and when we went to…
What got you into bikes? My dad Keo raced at Mount Druitt back in the day, but I didn’t really have an interest in bikes when I…
When President John F. Kennedy made his momentous announcement on 25 May 1961 that the US would put a man on the moon by the end of the decade, it…
Many country lads were swept up in the motorcycle boom of the late 1960s, and one of them was the supremely talented Terry McDonald.
