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Scotland has only had two road racing world champions, Fergus Kenrick Anderson and John Robert Taylor, better known as Jock Taylor. Both were later killed taking part in the sport they loved. Chris Carter takes up the story. 

After Freddie Spencer won his first 500cc title in 1983 at 21, making him the youngest person to do so, Honda created the radical NSR500 V4 for the following year. Teething problems and a broken collarbone relegated him to fourth in the championship, despite three race wins. Fast Freddie tells Alan Cathcart about the road…

Held on March 22, on this year’s Pioneer Run every machine was at least 100 years old.  

In early-1970s Germany, popularity of 250cc and 350cc machines increased. At Munich-based Zündapp it was decided to fight the growing army of Japanese strokers, though, sadly, the resulting machine never made it to production.  

This event, which started at the BSA works in Small Heath, marked the midway point in a steady process of standardisation across all the big reliability trials in the Midlands. 

The Beeton family name was well-known in sidecar racing. Many a racer fruitlessly pursued Lincolnshire three-wheeled ace Jackie Beeton and, in another era, his son Pete. Now Pete Beeton is once more a leader, only this time, it’s Ariel Leaders he’s interested in.