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  • The day I didn’t say hello to Mike Hailwood: a Daytona opportunity missed

    The day I didn’t say hello to Mike Hailwood: a Daytona opportunity missed

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    22 September 2026

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    Mark Lancaster

    You know those moments when you later think “Why didn’t I do that?” Philip Ridley recounts one of those incidents in his life. I lived in Toronto, Canada, for ten years throughout the 1970s. I was then and still am interested in motorcycle road racing, as is my brother, Ralph. Ralph went to live in…


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