Three-deep into Doohan Corner during the 2006 Australian Grand Prix, I rubbed my eyes because Makoto Tamada on the Kawasaki was leading the race by fifteen lengths from Alex Hoffman…
Many MotoGP fans may think it a left-field decision to have Triumph providing the engines for Moto2 from next year, but it makes total sense for many of us former…
I will be heading over to the International Six Day Enduro in Chile in a few days with Tayla Jones and Mackenzie Tricker. I haven’t seen the girls all year…
There was something missing from the finish line of the Thai GP. It was Jorge Lorenzo’s Ducati, which might even have won the race if, er, circumstances hadn’t intervened. Actually…
It’s been a great year for me. It started with two race wins and the overall points score at the Phillip Island International Challenge (Davo’s result gave Team Australia their…
As Appeared in AMCN magazine Vol 68 No 07 I’m really looking forward to the ASBK final at Phillip Island. The racing’s gone to another level this season in all…
MY LAST COLUMN about the 1980s got a few people talking about that decade. But here’s something they don’t want to talk about: what it cost to live back…
The other day someone told me that by the end of this season I will have clocked up 700,000km in travel while racing in ASBK. It’s only…
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…
There are times when I forget how long this magazine has been around. And then I take a phone call from one of the many great characters…
The documentary WAYNE, celebrating the life and times of Wayne Gardner, has created a flurry of interest in just a few preview outings. It hits local film…
We had been warned before the commencement of the practice day that, while the track was dry, the ripple strips were still wet from the overnight rain.
