Melissa Bruce – Growing up, I was not the kid racer with doting helicopter parents. I was the kid that was destined to grow up a ‘failure’.
I’m having one of those love/hate relationships with single cylinder bikes at the moment – actually it’s a fair bit more hate than love. For what seemed like…
The celebrations were long and hard on the Queen’s Birthday weekend in 1997 when Stephen Greenfield took his first Finke Desert Race victory. He’d previously made the podium…
In fact, those aren’t the exact words Valentino Rossi chose to describe French parvenu Johann Zarco. But that’s only because he’s aware he needs to guard his words,…
The first will be a well-used Record brand engineer’s bench vice with raised letters on the side proudly proclaiming ‘Made in the UK’. That vice will probably have…
Mount Druitt Marathon – AFTER the success of Australia’s first 24-hour production car race, exuberant Mount Druitt track promoter Belfred Jones hit up the NSW Auto Cycle Union…
COVER Wayne Gardner flying the Aussie flag at home. AMCN GP Edition $3.50 – 95 pages On sale 14 April 1989 …
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?…
It was hard to ignore the kerfuffle when young property tycoon Tim Gurner suggested young Australians would have a better chance of getting into the housing market if they lightened…
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…
