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  • Lazzarini – Small bore assassin

    Lazzarini – Small bore assassin

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    In the ultra-lightweight classes Eugenio Lazzarini was a force majeure, with 27 GP victories, two 50cc titles and another in the 125cc class. He was runner-up eight times and won four Italian crowns. As if

  • Jay Springsteen – Forever Fast

    Jay Springsteen – Forever Fast

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    There have been many popular riders in American dirt-track racing across the decades but none have exemplified timeless competitiveness in the Grand National championships across three full decades of continuous racing in the Expert class.

  • What might (and should) have been: John Kirkby and the Alpha Centauri engine

    What might (and should) have been: John Kirkby and the Alpha Centauri engine

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    How two men pointed the way to Britain’s racing future, but were eventually beaten by bureaucrats Words by: Pete Parnham Pictures by: Mortons Archive Lincolnshire’s John Kirkby was an extremely able racer and a man

  • FROM OUR ARCHIVES: Bob Smith – the peoples’ champion

    FROM OUR ARCHIVES: Bob Smith – the peoples’ champion

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    EVERY now and again there arises a rider who could hop on any bike and blast the hell out of his peers. Mike Hailwood was one, Bill Ivy another. But there’s another example – albeit

  • Transatlantic Trophy: Part 4

    Transatlantic Trophy: Part 4

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    As the world moved into a new decade in 1980, the Transatlantic Trophy (or the Anglo-American Match Races as the series was also known) was about to celebrate its own first decade in existence when

  • Classic GP: Anderstorp 1974

    Classic GP: Anderstorp 1974

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    Drama rears its racing head for Barry Sheene and Giacomo Agostini in Sweden. Words and photographs: Jan Burgers The eighth round of the 500cc World Championship took place at a quiet, open place in the

  • Vince French: Mechanic to the superstars

    Vince French: Mechanic to the superstars

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    There is an old saying that ‘behind every great man there is always a great woman’. But on the motorcycle racing scene, while women have always been plentiful, that saying should be more suitably paraphrased

  • Barry Sheene: A Long Way To The Top

    Barry Sheene: A Long Way To The Top

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    From our 2016 archive Jan and Hetty Burgers lived the gypsy life, travelling with the Continental Circus during the 1970s and recording some great images of just what it was like to live that exciting

  • Paul Goldsmith: Right place – right time – right man

    Paul Goldsmith: Right place – right time – right man

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    When the Davidsons offered him a ride in the 1940s it was a gateway to a life of racing on the ragged edge. And a beach. And alongside life-taking fireballs. By Norm DeWitt Born in

  • John Surtees tribute: Four Wheels and the remaining interests

    John Surtees tribute: Four Wheels and the remaining interests

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    Having through the years renovated a lovely 16th century Tudor house near Lingfield, Surrey after the competitive part of his career, John now built up a property business, while devoting time to motorsport consultancy, and


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