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Feel the noise! // DATE: AUGUST 28, 1967 // LOCATION: OULTON PARK And smell the smell too! A field of (largely) two-stroke 250s fire up, with Phil Read quickest on the draw, already aboard the 250ccYamaha and heading off to chase another victory during the season in which he was four times a GP winner and top scored jointly with Mike Hailwood (Honda) for the 250cc world crown, Read losing out by virtue of Hailwood's five wins.

Read was runner-up in the 125cc class, too, this time to team-mate Bill Ivy; but the Prince of Speed reaped his revenge the next season with Honda and Hailwood both retired from the scene, he bested Little Bill in both 125 and 250cc classes.

Joining Read on the grid at Oulton Park are, among others, 14 DerekWoodman on the works MZ twin, with

2Tommy Robb, 3 Cliff Carr, the antipodean pair 29 Jack Findlay (Australia) and 16 Ginger Molloy (New Zealand), all on 250cc Bultaco singles.

It's possible to pick out another Bultaco or two in the background, too.

In the world championship, Woodman placed fifth, Molloy seventh and Robb 10th - so it's a high calibre field pushing off at the Cheshire circuit.

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// DATE: JUNE 3, 1978 // LOCATION: ISLE OF MAN There's going to be no TT this year, nor Classic TT/Manx GP either, so we'll reflect on quite possibly the best ever TT ride of all time, Mike Hailwood's 1978 Formula One race victory.

Stanley Michael Bailey Hailwood MBE, GM, hadn't raced at the TT in 11 years, he was 38 years old, had a dodgy leg and was riding a Ducati, a maker which had

only two wins under its belt, with 250cc proddie bikes in 1969 and 1970. Add to that the Duke was a V-twin, giving away two cylinder and engine capacity to its Honda and Kawasaki opposition, and there was no chance of a fairy tale. Surely?

But there was you know.

In the stuff of dreams, on lap one Hailwood did his fastest everTT lap, and was rapidly

closing in on old adversary Phil Read, pre-event favourite and pantomime villain, who'd started well in front of him.

Hailwood then swept past.

Read's Honda broke down on the fifth lap anyway, but by then Hailwood was surging on, to TT immortality. As reported in the last issue, a film is planned - but surely the plot is too implausible even for Hollywood?

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// DATE: MAY 14, 2000 // LOCATION: DONINGTON PARK The 2000World Superbike championship comes to Donington Park, where Neil Hodgson and Chris Walker renew their British championship domestic rivalry on the world stage, with both wildcarding - and both more than demonstrating they were moe than capable of mixing it at that level.

Here, Hodgson (Ducati) leads, the Samurai of Slide, Noriyuka Haga.Yamaha R7, follows, then just lurking

behind him is what looks to be a pair of Reve Red Bull Ducatis, James Haydon leading John Reynolds. As the trio finished third, fourth and sixth in race one, with Reynolds 10th, that's maybe which race this is. Colin Edwards (Honda VTR) won, with Frankie Chilli, Suzuki, runner-up. Race two -which this also could be - Hodgson won, with Walker second, and Chilli third; Haydon was again sixth.The Brits really could

compete with - and beat-the best, at home anyway.

The Donington meeting was one of three British World Superbikes rounds, with two later in the year at Brands Hatch; Hodgson ran out a winner there, too. He moved to the world series full time (on Ducati) the next year, while Walker went into 500cc GP, on the Shell NSR500, before, Kawasaki mounted, joining his old sparring partner in world supers in 2002.

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