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Ask any of the competitors who raced regularly against Austin Hockley and the most common description they give him is ‘fearless’.

Chris Carter charts his varied career.

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n a career lasting 12 years Austin has had a great deal of success. He was the British 125 champion in 1972, took the British 250 crown the following year and was runner-up in the 125cc series the same year. He also crashed a great deal, robbing him of even more success and breaking a total of 22 bones.

Born in Stapleford, Nottinghamshire on January 18, 1947, he was a pillion passenger from time to time on the BSA Gold Star ridden on the roads by his uncle, Bob Barson.

Austin, his parents and another uncle, Fred Parsons, who owned a car, went to many race meetings at Alton Towers, Mallory and Cadwell Park.

When he was 16 Austin bought a motorcycle to get him to his job as an apprentice at Rolls Royce in Derby and in 1966 he began to marshal at places like Mallory and his interest in the sport grew.

Like many others before him, speeding on public roads persuaded Austin to start road

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racing. After fracturing his knee in a spill on his road bike, a Triumph TR6 Austin, he began a friendship with sidecar racer Ron Coxon, from Burton-on-Trent, who took him around while his leg was in plaster.

That road accident actually put paid to Austin’s first planned road race meeting, where he was to have raced the Triumph, but instead Coxon sold Austin an outfit and he built a Triumph motor to go in it. Sidecar racing wasn’t a success! “The problem was you could never get passengers who were happy to help out with expenses, all they wanted to do was go racing,” complains Austin.

He only raced about half a dozen meetings on the sidecar in 1967, at Aintree, Brands Hatch, Snetterton and Cadwell Park. He finished in just one. The engine blew up frequently. He had two passengers, Mick Wilkinson and Mick “Fluke” Sills, who remains a good friend to this day, still riding bikes with Austin on the roads. The lack of reliability and the cost of racing an outfit were

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Tony McGurk blames the media frenzy around Giacomo Agostini for costing him a podium finish in the 1968 Senior TT. John Watterson explains.

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ow aged 73, McGurk was a mere 12 seconds off eventual runner-up Brian Ball when he approached the old roadside pits, in front of the Grandstand on Glencrutchery Road, for fuel at half distance.

His own pit was obscured by cameramen who had swarmed the area for Ago’s stop alongside and McGurk was initially unsighted.

When he did spot his crew he braked hard and came down like a ton of bricks on the metal drainage grids, snapping a footrest off his G50. It put him out of the race.

“I was up to sixth place behind Brian Ball, who lost considerable time in the second half with mechanical problems and eventually finished more than eight minutes adrift of Ago,” explains Oldham man McGurk.

“I’d overtaken eventual third place finisher Barry Randle at Barregarrow on lap three, but the remainder of the top six, with the exception of Agostini, retired.”

The 1968 Senior was indeed a race of considerable attrition, with just 37 riders from a total field of 85 completing the distance.

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John Hartle, who had been a non-starter for the Junior after a first lap mishap at Windy Corner in the Production race at the start of the week, also came off the MV-3 at Cronk-ny-Mona, leaving Alan Barnett (Kirby Metisse), Griff Jenkins (Matchless), Derek Woodman (Seeley), Peter Williams (Matchless) and Malcolm Uphill (Norton) to chase the runaway works MV. Barnett and Williams retired and Uphill slowed considerably, so John Cooper moved into second place ahead of Kel Carruthers and Percy Tait. Brian Ball moved onto the leaderboard in fifth, one place ahead of McGurk who was riding his own Matchless fitted with the front brake offTom Kirby’s 7R AJS. Woodman slowed on lap four, and with McGurk sidelined, Barry Randle and Jim Curry were elevated into the top six. With less than two laps remaining, Agostini led Cooper by almost four minutes, with Ball up to third.

Cooper lost his chance of a best ever TT finish when he was forced to retire at Sulby Bridge, leaving Ball and Petty Norton-mounted Randle to battle it out for the runner-up spot.

At the close, the gaping distance between first and second was eight minutes and 29 seconds, but the margin between Ball and Randle was reduced to a mere four-tenths of a second as Ball nursed his Seeley to the line with gearbox problems.

This (1968) was the year that Ago completed the first of his four Junior/Senior TT doubles.

He won the Junior at a record average speed of 104.78mph from Renzo Pasolini on the works Benelli, with Bill Smith third on a Honda following the retirements of Heinz Rosner (MZ) and Kel Carruthers (Aermacchi) on lap three.

January/February 2016 Issue 177 EDITOR

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he 1968 Tokyo bike show saw a seismic event in motorcycle development – the launch of the Honda CB750. With stunning looks, blistering performance, technical sophistication and an attractive price tag, the GP inspired four-cylinder, five-speed rocket ship instantly made everything else look and feel obsolete.

Unsurprisingly, it wasn’t long before some road racers adapted CB750s for the track and in Europe early success was achieved at the 1969 Bol d’Or. However, it was the American market that every manufacturer wanted to rule, and Honda knew that the best way to further increase their rising share of it was by success in the Daytona 200.

Honda top brass were worried that the

BSA/Triumph and Harley-Davidson factories, which had piled enormous resources into the race over the previous few seasons, would defeat them and dent the reputation of the CB750, which was seen as an unnecessary risk with the bike already selling like hotcakes.

There it may have remained were it not for Bob Hansen, Honda America’s national service manager. Hansen’s initial approach to Honda top management was predictably rejected on grounds of the damage that defeat would do to the CB750’s standing.

Hansen knew that several CB750 privateers were already planning a shot at the 1970 Daytona race and pointed out that the only way to be in with a chance of victory was through a full-blown factory effort. Eventually Honda were convinced and

appointed Yoshio Nakamura to take charge of the effort, a decision not entirely to Hansen’s approval given that Nakamura’s background was Formula 1, not motorcycles. Honda duly went to work on a full race spec CB750 and the CR750 was born.

Nakamura elected to hire three top European riders well known to the factory: Ralph Bryans, Tommy Robb and Bill Smith and as a contingency Honda decided to give a fourth machine to Hansen, who selected leading AMA rider Dick Mann, who already had three Daytona second places under his belt.

Hansen’s mechanic, Bob Jameson, reckoned the Achilles heel of the engine was that the rubber cam-chain tensioner was prone to wear under race conditions. He painstakingly rebuilt ‘his’ engine immediately prior to the race but Nakamura’s crew chiefs didn’t follow suit, a decision that was to see all three machines drop out with top end issues.

Despite the rebuild Mann’s engine also began to falter but he managed to struggle home just two seconds ahead of Gene Romero on a factory Triumph triple, thereby breaking a 15-year run of Harley or Triumph victories.

It has been described as the most important single race victory, ever, for any manufacturer. That may well be true – certainly it could be argued it was the beginning of the end for BSA and Triumph, while Harley-Davidson changed their emphasis from sports bikes to cruisers after their comprehensive defeat. As for Honda, the 1970 Daytona victory elevated them to the top of the USA sales charts and enhanced their status in the global marketplace.

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n display at the Earls Court Show in 1954 was Rod Coleman’s successful AJS 7R, on which he took victory in the JuniorTT. This was no ordinary 7R – while the customer AJS 7Rs had to manage with two valve cylinder heads, Coleman’s factory 350 boasted three, two exhaust and one inlet.

Development started in 1951 on the 75.5mm bore and 78mm stroke threevalve engine with Ike Hatch in charge.

Named by the factory the AJS 7R/3 the motor was making a respectable, for the time, 36bhp.

Initially the new 350 did well enough but it was a disappointing second year for the works team. For 1954 the legendary Jack Williams developed the bike further, lowering the engine in the frame, and doing development work on the engine, which ultimately produced an impressive 40bhp at 7800rpm From the start of the 1954 season, the results of Williams’ effort were obvious, with the 7R/3 winning the first two rounds of the World Championship and Rod Coleman taking the bike to an impressive JuniorTT victory.The three-valve engine was never used in the customer 7R and when the factory withdrew their support and with it the works team, the innovative bike was parked up.

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FANTASTIC DONATION

During the Carole Nash Classic Mechanics Show in October the Guest of Honour, John McGuiness, accepted a cheque on behalf of the Manx Grand Prix Supporters Helicopter Fund for £10,655.92.

The money was raised from the sale of special Jurby Festival T-shirts, signed by McGuinness, Conor Cummins and Michael Rutter, to celebrate the hugely successful Jurby Festival, which forms an important part of the Classic TT and Festival of Motorcycling.

Festival sponsor Wemoto, the UK’s leading online motorcycle parts and accessory company, provided the T-shirts. They cost £10 and were sold from the Wemoto marquee at Jurby Festival and also online.

The cheque was handed over by Rupert Murden, representing the Isle of Man VMCC, the organisers of the Jurby Festival.

SCARBOROUGH DATES 2016 The dates for the Oliver’s Mount, Scarborough, for 2016 have been announced. The season, at the challenging Yorkshire circuit, kicks off with the Spring Cup Bob Smith Trophy Road Races on April 16-17, named after the late Bob Smith, who enjoyed so much success at the track.

The Cock O’ The North Continental Road Races follow on June 18-19, The Barry Sheene Road Races on July 23-24 and The Steve Henshaw International Gold Cup on September 24-25.

The Auto 66 club is also hoping to organise two bike rallies at the Cock O’ the North and the Barry Sheene meetings. The Cock O’ the North rally is for European machines and the Barry Sheene for Japanese machines.

HISTORY REPEATS

Regular readers will remember the 125cc Machin Yamaha featured in our pages sometime back, now owned by former Lincolnshire racer Pete Parnham.

During the bike’s restoration Pete had called on the memories of two of its original builders, Don Briggs and Dave Saunders. And now, in a wonderful twist to the tale, they are carrying out a complete restoration.

Just as he did back in the day when they built the diminutive machine with the late Steve Machin, Don Briggs is rebuilding the header tank, an integral part of the frame, and a re-welding of the fuel tank, while Dave Saunders is doing a complete rebuild of the engine, just as he did all those years ago. It goes without saying that Pete Parham is delighted.

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Pictured, left to right, receiving the cheque is Noel Johnston, Clerk of the Course at the Ulster Grand Prix, with William Dunlop, Joey Dunlop’s son Gary and Russell Sheils.

NEW JOEY STAND AT DUNDROD Northern Ireland’s Russell ShielsTyres have raised over £2000 towards the cost of replacing the Joey Dunlop Grandstand at the start/finish line of the famous Ulster Grand Prix circuit in Dundrod.

The owner of the Magherafelt business, Russell Shiels, a long-time road racing fan, produced and sold 1000 car air fresheners that replicate Joey Dunlop’s iconic yellow Arai helmet to raise the funds.

Russell said: “I’m a massive Joey fan and when I heard that the Dundrod and District Motorcycle Club would have to erect a new Joey Dunlop Grandstand to replace the existing structure, I wanted to do something to help the Club towards the cost.

“Together with my wife Sharon and with kind permission from Linda Dunlop, we decided to design and produce a mini replica of his famous helmet in the form of an air freshener. It was a great success and

although it is just one small gesture we’ve been able to make a big donation thanks to the all of the support we’ve received.”

Gary Dunlop, Joey’s eldest son said: “My dad loved racing at Dundrod and he had some close battles there over the years, so it’s great to see people like Russell raising money to help continue his legacy at the circuit.

“It means a lot to the family and we’re glad that even though the old grandstand had to come down, its replacement will continue to be named after my dad and be part of the Ulster for years to come.”

Noel Johnston, Clerk of the Course at the Ulster Grand Prix said: “On behalf of the Club I’d really like to thank Russell Shiels for his efforts and I’d also like to thank Linda Dunlop, who has also raised more than £1000 for the same cause by hosting a night at the races at Joey’s Bar in Ballymoney. It’s a fantastic amount and we’re very grateful.”

CLASSIC NEWARK RETURNS The Carole Nash Classic Bike Guide Winter Classic returns to Newark Showground for its fifth edition over the weekend of January 9-10, 2016.

The now traditional kick-start to the new classic motorcycling year, the show offers something for all motorcycling tastes. With the whole showground in use hundreds of trade stands and autojumble plots are already booked for the two-day show.

As ever there are some great classic motorcycle club stands booked in too, and the growing Scooter World returns for 2016, with two dedicated scooter halls, which will include a skills area and an engine rebuild competition. Former British scooter and sprint champion Norrie Kerr will be the special guest for the weekend. Scooter World will also

see a special standalone charity evening on Saturday night and a charity auction on Sunday lunchtime.

The Guest of Honour is rising BSB star and the Isle of Man TT’s fastest-ever newcomer, Peter Hickman, who will appear on stage on both days with compere and former TT winner Steve Plater. Hicky, as Peter is known to his growing legion of fans, has just signed for Kawasaki for the 2016 season of BSB and Road Racing, and hopes to bring along one of the team bikes.

The gates open at Newark Showground on Saturday 9am-5pm and Sunday 9am-4pm. A one-day adult ticket costs £10 on the gate or £8 in advance. Entry is free for children under 12. For more information, call 01507 529529 or go online at www.classicbikeshows.com

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JOHN BLANCHARD My brother, and ex-road racer and short circuit scratcher from the Sixties, John Blanchard, passed away in October - he was 73. Though affected by various mobility issues, his passing was attributed to natural causes.

Working as a motorcycle dispatch rider in London he met Arthur May – a sidecar racer, and John was soon assisting him with the occasional ride in the chair. When the opportunity arose to try out a solo race bike on an old airfield it motivated him to try his hand at solo racing.

A borrowed 350cc Manx at Brands Hatch resulted in a first win. A Triumph Norton was built the following year and at its first meeting at Thruxton he won a heat and the final. An AJS 7R started to bring him to the attention of the motorcycle press as he was competing with and beating established stars. The MGP in 1964 resulted in a fourth place on an Aermacchi and the following year he made his TT debut with a ride in the Junior race.

With Bill Ivy moving on, John tied up with Geoff Monty and then, after Derek Minter decided to return to his Nortons, John was signed by Colin Seeley to ride his AJS and Matchless machines. His first outing resulted in a third place in the 350cc race at the 1966

Hutchinson 100 at Brands behind Hailwood and Minter.

A fluent German speaker, he became friends with Helmut Fath and through that tie up with Colin Seeley a solo version of the URS was created, which resulted in John getting a fourth place after starting from the back of the grid in its first Grand Prix at the 1966 Ulster. After the association came to an end John reverted to his own Seeley’s, sponsored by Bill Chuck. He was then offered the role of team manager based in Germany for the newly formed Munch/URS team, which resulted in Horst Owesle/Peter Rutherford winning the sidecar title for the team in 1971.

John became the owner of URS equipe when the team was disbanded and he renovated them to a high standard and spent a couple of seasons parading them. He continued to compete, riding a variety of mostly original and replica Seeley machines in the VFV German series and also parades both in the UK and Europe until 2006.

A successful businessman in several spheres he retired and split his time between the UK and Thailand.

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I have no idea how many of you follow modern motorcycle sport, but you can hardly have failed to have caught the stories of the fraught conclusion to the 2015 MotoGP championship.

Obviously, the pages of Classic Racer are not the place to fuel the flames of what became a very heated subject in the media, but it set me thinking about rivalries and squabbling team-mates from the classic era.

Everyone of a certain age will remember the well-documented, bitter rivalry between Yamaha team-mates Bill Ivy and Phil Read in the 1960s. Of course, there are always two sides to every story, but I don’t think anyone who was following the sport back then sat on the fence, just as they haven’t this season.

Sadly, with the MotoGP rivals grabbing the column inches, the fact that Britain has a premier class World Champion, Danny Kent, for the first time since the late Barry Sheene way back in 1977, has been somewhat overshadowed.

Of course, Sheene’s last World title came n the 500cc World Championship, which is now MotoGP and Kent’s in Moto3, so I much prefer to compare his win to that of the late Dave Simmonds, who claimed the 1969 125cc World title.

So often throughout the history of our sport the spotlight has been on the ‘big bike’ classes, sometimes at the expense of the lightweights, but back then, just has it is now, competition was even hotter in the smaller classes, with many more potential winners.

I think we have something for all tastes in this packed issue and I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I have putting it together.

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>>SOLO STARTERS DOWN UNDER

A chance encounter with an Australian in the Isle of Man during the ClassicTT in August has given Chris and Fiona Hawksley, of Solo Starters, the opportunity to attend the prestigious classic race meeting on Phillip Island in Australia.

The well-travelled duo fly to Melbourne early in January and will be taking a trade stand at the meeting on January 23-24. A container with all their equipment is already on the high seas.

The meeting will also give them a chance to catch up with ex-pat Brit Pat Mooney, who has lived in Florida for many years, and who Chris raced against for many years in the USA with AHRMA. Pat is racing as a member of the American team.

>>DESIGNED TO RACE BACK IN PRINT

Due to popular demand Peter Williams’ fascinating autobiography, Designed To Race, is back in print. The high quality hardback tells Peter’s compelling story and comes highly recommended.

For more information or to order a copy go to info@peterwilliamsmotorcycles.com

MILESTONES 2016 CALENDAR Journalist, artist and motorcycle enthusiast Rachael Clegg has stripped bare once again and braved the cold Isle of Man air to create the 2016 edition of her Isle of Man TT Races calendar ‘Milestones’.

Rachael said: “Everything in the calendar means something. My father and grandfather were TT racers so that course is very special to me. I wanted to celebrate some of the wonderful stories that form the race’s history. The images are surreal and often incongruous with their surroundings yet they all make sense, each and every

prop, composition and location is carefully chosen so as to depict an historical tale.

“We took new pictures this year with photographer Ian Parry, which I am really pleased with. I’ve presented the images in ‘stereo’, which gives an animated feel to every page and gives the calendar a photo-documentary feel.”

On the back of Milestones Rachael has also created calendar for the Nurburgring, among other art directing commissions and has her own range of motorsport-related products available at www.rachaelclegg.com

LANSDOWNE CLASSIC SERIES 2015 The Lansdowne Series featured at seven meetings in 2015, which amounted to 23 races, plus a support race at MotoGP at Silverstone.

The host clubs where the CRMC, Bemsee, North Glos’ and MSV. The action started at Easter with the CRMC at Pembrey and ended in October with the CRMC at Snetterton.

The support race during MotoGP at Silverstone was quite a coup for the series, with the crowd enjoying a full grid of unsilenced singles. The race produced the closest finish of the weekend, with Duncan Fitchett winning by 0.061sec from Mike Russell.

After the 23 races Spike Edwards, pictured, came out the winner of the Bonhams-sponsored British Historic GP Championship, riding a Ripley Land G50 Matchless, becoming a British Champion once more. In the National Motorcycle Museum-sponsored WRR Lansdowne Championship, Peter Crew, on Robert Lusk’s Manx Norton, was a clear winner over the season.

Avon Tyres sponsors the Avon 350cc Lansdowne Championship and throughout the season Ian Lucas, riding Jack Gooch’s Manx

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Norton, managed to keep his nose in front of all others. The Classic Motorcycle-sponsored TCM Lansdowne Championship for pre ’55 Goodwood specification machines was dominated this year by Tony Perkin on his very reliable and quick Rudge.

The Lansdowne Series’ hard-working organisers wish to thank all the riders, series sponsors, individual sponsors, the organising clubs and all the marshals that stand out every weather.

Words: Richards Adams Photograph: Russ Lee.

2015 CHAMPIONSHIP POSITIONS Bonhams Lansdowne British Championship 1st Mike Edwards, G50 Matchless.

2nd Chris Firmin, Molnar Manx.

3rd Mike Russell, Works Norton.

Avon Lansdowne 350cc Championship 1st Ian Lucas, Manx Norton.

2nd Jeff Bing, Manx Norton.

3rd Mick Baldwin, Manx Norton.

Motorcycle Museum WRR Championship 1st Peter Crew, Manx Norton.

2nd Seb Perez, G50 Matchless.

3rd Gordon Russell, Manx Norton.

3rd Mike Farrall, Works Norton.

The Classic Motorcycle Championship 1st Tony Perkin, Rudge.

2nd Mike Farrall, Rudge.

Winner of the Karl Heinz Lansdowne Cup Peter Crew.

THE SLIDEY GIRLS CALENDAR FOR CANCER At the CRMC Donington Classic Festival, Carol Klatkiewicz and a few of her slidey lady friends, (that’s female sidecar passengers to you and I), no doubt fuelled by a glass or two of wine, came up with the idea of doing a Calendar Girls-style calendar of their own.

The first shoot took place at the CRMC meeting at Lydden, again with the help of liquid lubricant, and was wrapped up at the club’s final meeting of the year at Snetterton, with the total support of the CRMC. With her clothes back on, Carol said: “The whole idea is to raise money for Pink Ribbon Breast Cancer Awareness. Unfortunately, I lost my younger sister, Annie, to cancer on September 23 this year, after being diagnosed only seven months earlier. My promise to her was to finish and sell this calendar.”

The man behind the camera was John Stanley, who Carol says did a fantastic job. The calendar will be priced at £9.99 plus £2.99 postage and packing and you can get more information from Carol on paulandcaroldts@tiscali.co.uk and view the calendar at http://ducatitechnicalservs.wix. com/d-t-s and http://carolklat.wix.com/slideygirls

ENDURANCE LEGENDS CLASSIC 4 HOURS OCTOBER 18, 2015

The inaugural Endurance Legends 4 Hour Race, run on the Snetterton 200 course, and organised by Endurance Legends and the Classic Racing Motorcycle Club, proved to be a huge success.

The carnival atmosphere was added to with classic bike track sessions, a special Suzuki GSX-R750 and RG500 anniversary, race bike displays and parades featuring Trevor Nation, who was reunited with his Norton Rotary race bike.

Among the 16 teams entered was the legendary triple World Championship winner, Phase One Endurance. Conditions ranged from wet to greasy, and the first shock came when pre-race favourites, Sweatshop Phase One, crashed out at the Bomb Hole after completing just 11 laps.

For the next two hours Gordon Russell, Mike Russell and Chris Barfe, GSXR750, looked set for victory, until Barfe crashed at Murrays, leaving Team Manx, Andy Stewart, Steve Ault and Clive Ling, GSX-R 750, trying to hold off the fast-closing Team SCERT, Steve Clark/Steve Boam, Harris XR69.

At the flag the experienced SCERT took the overall win by 61 seconds after 129 laps of hard racing, with Team Manx the first F2 team home. A fluctuating Formula 3 battle eventually saw a hard-earned victory for the FZ600 of Team Broken, Gary Wheeler, Ian Courts and Grant Goodings.

The organisers were pleased with the first Endurance Legends event, commenting: “New events are always hard work, but the whole weekend has had a real buzz about it and the atmosphere during the race was incredible! We’d like to thank everyone for their support in this first year and especially our sponsors Suzuki GB, Continental, CRMC, MOTO71, the National Motorcycle Museum and Allen’s Performance.

RESULTS:

TTRA LUNCHEON The new TT Riders’ Association president is David Madsen-Mygdal, who received his chain of office from outgoing president Roy Hanks at the Annual Luncheon held at the National Motorcycle Museum on October 28.

Once again Malcolm Barber, Co-Chairman of Bonhams, assisted by Ben Walker, International Motorcycle Department Director, did the honours with the auction, which proved hugely successful, with close to £10,000 raised as Classic Racer goes to press, all of which, and more, will go to help injured and infirm TT riders and their families.

The date for the 2016 Annual Luncheon is Wednesday, October 26. For more information email Frances Thorp at francesthorp@manx.net

Dave Madsen-Mygdal rides in to the TTRA luncheon.

F1 Superbike 1st: Team SCERT – Suzuki XR69 (Steve Clark/Steve Boam) 2nd: Muzzi Moto – Moto Guzzi Le Mans ‘Dr John’ (Chris Firmin/Glen English/Tony Jimenez) 3rd: Marlin Elf Racing – Harris Kawasaki (Mark George/Steve Dobbie) Formula 2 1st: Team Manx – Suzuki GSX-R750 (Andy Stewart/Stephen Ault/Clive Ling) 2nd: Tagg Racing/21st Moto – Yamaha FZ750 (Paul Stonebanks/Rob Francis) 3rd: Practical Sportsbikes Magazine – Honda VFR750 (Jim Moore/Jonathan Bentman/ Rob Wittey) Formula 3 1st: Team Broken – Yamaha FZ600 (Gary Wheeler/Ian Courts/Grant Goodings) 2nd: LG Racing – Ducati Pantah 500 (Ian Draper/David Weight) 3rd: Red Mist Racing – Yamaha FZ600 (Mark Foster/Fran Fletcher/John Sutton)

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AUSTRALIAN HISTORIC TITLES

MALLALA MOTORSPORT PARK, OCTOBER 9-11, 2015 A two-stroke charge at the recent Australian Historic Road Racing Championships will give fresh impetus to January 2016’s Phillip Island International Classic, Hamish Cooper reports.

In only his second meeting on Terry McKinnon’s 1979 TZ750 Yamaha, ex-GP privateer Johnny Allen made a clean sweep of the Period 5 750cc class at Mallala Motorsport Park, South Australia, on October 9-11.

He set a new lap record in the process and then led a trio of TZ750s into a scrap for podium finishes behind ex-BSB racer and Triumph factory tester Paul Young in the Period 5 Unlimited class, which had the biggest grid of the meeting. This is the first time TZs have finished so strongly in the championships. It also sets the scene for an exciting new era in vintage racing.

Lap records were smashed in many classes at the biggest motorcycle road racing meeting held in SA for two decades. The event brought nearly 200 riders out on more than 350 motorcycles, covering all periods of racing from Pre-Second World War up to 1990.

Allen may have put the big-bore four-strokes on notice but, make no mistake, they still have the upper hand. The proof? Paul Young was barely challenged for his three championship race wins on Rex Wolfenden’s Harris Honda F1 (featured in the last issue of Classic Racer).

So what motivated him to keep riding as fast as he could? With the early withdrawal of reigning champion Cam Donald after a practice crash, Young began a weekend-long pursuit of the lap record.

By the end of the meeting on the dusty 2.6km circuit he had hacked 4.42secs off the old time held by Mat Childs on a McIntosh Suzuki. “I’d be happy with that time (1min11.6secs) on a modern Supersport in pre-race practice,” he said. Allen’s best time was 1:12.8 in the Period 5 Unlimited, a huge step up from his lap record of 1:13.7 in the P5 750cc class.

The TZ tussle for third place in P5 Unlimited was a duel between Adam Senior and Craig Ditchburn. The last leg of the championship chase came down to a brave braking duel at the oil-covered Northern Hairpin.

“The lap before I ran in deep over the oil,” said Ditchburn. “The next time I got a good run on Adam through the Sweeper and made sure I got all my braking done before I tipped in,” he said.

Senior gave an insight into racing a TZ750 hard. “I couldn’t roll through the oily corner (to maintain typical two-stroke racing momentum) so I had to use first gear and that is a dangerous thing to do on a TZ.” These big two-strokes have a new lease on life Down Under with most of the major engine parts (crankcases, gearboxes and crankshafts) being produced by Australian firms. TZ expert and former GP racer Barry Ditchburn was instrumental in getting Consortium Racing to replicate crankcases in Australia. His son, Craig, came second to Allen in the P5 750cc class and was third in P5 Unlimited.

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Johnny Allen leads the field on the TZ750.

It wasn’t to be for Cam Donald, as a practice spill put him out.

Using the Wolfenden Harris Honda as intended, Paul Young ran away from the field.

On the meeting’s most expensive motorcycle, Ron Angel’s Paton, Tom Bramich enjoyed a record-breaking weekend.

A crash in the final race for Brendan Roberts on a P3 G80 special derailed the potential upset of the meeting.

Real roads racer David ‘Davo’ Johnson, the fastest Aussie ever at the Isle of Man TT in 2015, was one of the meeting’s headline acts. He won a whole new legion of fans with some heroic riding on his father’s Post Classic Triumph Trident 750cc. ‘Davo’ won the Period 4 750cc title with a new lap record and stunned racers in the final P4 Unlimited race, finishing third and lapping within 0.6secs of championship winner Simon Cook (big-bore CB750 Honda).

This race was perhaps the most exciting of the weekend, with Cook coming from third to pass Johnson and then overtake Dean Oughtred (CR970 Honda). Kiwi rider Terry Martin (Trident) was third overall.

Several reigning champions from Lakeside 2014 successfully defended their titles, including Phil Paton in Period 3 350cc, Bruce and Graham Marston in Period 3 Sidecars and Lindsay Donai and Christine Menzies in Period 4 sidecars.

Records were broken in 13 classes.

Most notably Tom Bramich rode the Ron Angel Paton, the meeting’s most expensive motorcycle, with a new benchmark of 1:20.5 in Period 4 500cc. His effort on the DOHC twin-cylinder four-stroke made an interesting

comparison to Adam Senior’s new record of 1:20.1 on his TR3 Yamaha two-stroke in P4 350cc. History repeating perhaps.

Brett Simmonds set new lap records in P6 250cc and P6 750cc, while Dean Oughtred’s 1:14.397 in P6 Unlimited on a 1989 GSXR1100 was a gutsy effort on a model not noted for its handling prowess.

Historic racers ate now looking forward to their next big event, the 2016 Island Classic.

Among the first on the grid will be Johnny Allen. “I’ve missed the racing scene so bad,” he said of his eight-year absence from road racing. “What a weekend. I’ve now got a 25-hour drive back home to get the smile off my face. When you get to my age you see a lot of friends talking about the ‘what ifs’. This is my passion. I drove down from Brisbane by myself (a 2500-mile round trip) rather than fly because I wanted to do it like we all used to in the old days.”

The Island Classic, held on January 22-24, sees Ireland joining teams from Australia, defending champions UK, New Zealand and the US. American Dave Crussell will be bringing out several TZ Yamahas but defending champions UK will be hard to beat being the most organised and strategic team last year.

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NZPCRA SHORAI BATTERIES INTERNATIONAL HAMPTONS DOWNS, OCTOBER 24-26

Cam Donald bounced back from his Australian national titles crash to set the Hampton Downs circuit alight in New Zealand a few weeks later. He won all his Pre-82 Senior races on Ken McIntosh’s F1 Suzuki at the NZPCRA Shorai Batteries International meeting.

Dean Oughtred, fresh from his second placing in the Oz titles, was Donald’s closest challenger. Donald eventually recorded the meeting’s fourth-fastest time, just ahead of Oughtred. “Apart from

current race tyres, this McIntosh-framed Suzuki is just as it was when it was raced in the early 1980s,” said Donald. “It would be interesting to see how such an original spec bike would go at the Classic TT.” The organisers of what is now New Zealand’s biggest historic racing meeting, refocused the event to create longer races.

The result was huge fields, with qualifying required for the pre-89 class to keep the grid to 40.

The BEARS support class, introduced for

the first time this year, saw 39 riders front the starter. Alex Phillis, son of Superbike hero Robbie, made a clean sweep of the F2 class.

Australia successfully defended its International Team trophy and the rematch will be at the Barry Sheene Festival of Speed in Sydney on March 17-20. A highlight of that meeting will be seven GP legends on track at once.

Words Hamish Cooper Photographs Damir Ivka and Hamish Cooper.

CLASSIC DIRT BIKE SHOW Hagon Shocks are the new sponsors of the Classic Dirt Bike Show, which runs over the weekend of February 20-21, 2016.

Held at the Telford International Centre, the show has plenty to offer enthusiasts of both classic on and off-road sport.

The show traditionally attracts a host of big sporting names and some legendary machines.

Confirmed as one of the guests is Nick Jefferies, a man who definitely has a foot in both camps, having won the Manx

Grand Prix, Isle of Man TT, Manx Two-Day Trial, and ISDE Gold Medal. There will be a Classic Racer Paddock, with a twist, with the opportunity to meet Nick and other road race celebrities during the weekend.

For more information or to book a trade stand (you will need to be quick as stand space is almost sold out) contact Richard Graham on 01507 529470 or rgraham@ mortons.co.uk. For advance tickets go to classicbikeshows.com or call 01507 529529.

REVIEWS OF FFICIAL MOTOGP SEASON REVIEW JU ULIAN RYDER e of the most dramatic MotoGP seasons One in th he history of the sport is covered in the 12th edition of the Official MotoGP Seasson Review, not least Danny Kent’s cham mpionship victory in Moto 3 to become the first British champion since Barry Sheene, way back in 1977.

Th he Official MotoGP Season Review is edite ed by BT Sport commentator Julian Ryder with h contributions from some of the most resp pected journalists in the paddock.

Ju ulian Ryder has been a motorcycle jourrnalist since 1980 and editor of the Official

MotoGP Season Review since its inception in 2004. In the late 1980s Julian was running Road Racer magazine when he was invited to Eurosport’s studios to see a motorcycle Grand Prix being broadcast. The regular commentator was stranded at another event so the producer gave Julian the microphone.

From then on commentating has been mixed with writing and nowadays Julian is on BT Sport’s MotoGP commentary team.

The Official MotoGP Season Review is on sale now from all good booksellers or direct fro bli hi

JIM CURRY A LAP OF MY LIFE Jim Curry’s A Lap of My Life is one of the most fascinating autobiographies I have ever had the pleasure to read. I’ve been lucky enough to have heard some of Jim’s racing tales first hand, so I was expecting an interesting read, but this meaty tome – all 600 pages of it – goes way beyond interesting.

Jim has a great, natural, writing style and although a huge part of his life has hinged around motorcycle racing, there is some wonderful social history in there too. The book

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is well illustrated, with some 200 photographs from Jim’s personal collection and many from the Mortons Archive.

The large format A Lap of My Life, which costs a bargain £25, with UK postage adding £7, can be ordered direct from Jim at jimcurrypublications@gmail.com or from Steve Carthy at stevecarthyracing@googlemail.com For more information visit Jim’s website jimcurrypublications.com ISBN; 978-9934425-0-6

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CHEEKY MONKEY Dear Malc I thoroughly enjoyed reading your recent coverage of the late, great Geoff Duke who was one of my boyhood heroes, and it brought back to my mind the first time I saw him. It was at a practice evening for the 1950 Ulster Grand Prix when as a 13 year old I set out to get his autograph.

For practice the works Norton team were based, not at the pit area, but on the run-off at Clady corner.There they carried out plug tests and other settings, and I suspect it was also an attempt to deceive the opposition over lap times.

I soon realised the difficulty of actually getting Geoff’s signature when I witnessed other young lads with the same objective being harshly chased away by the awesome Joe Craig. So a plan quickly hatched in my brain the next occasion Geoff arrived at base.

There he was sitting astride the Norton with the menacing Joe standing beside him as I approached. Just as I was about to receive the

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‘get away with you’ treatment, I held out my autograph book and said “Can I please have your autograph Mr Craig?” Joe was so taken by surprise that he signed for me, and when he handed the book back I turned and said to Geoff “And yours too please?”

As I happily walked off Joe gave me a look that clearly said ‘You cheeky young monkey,’ and

Remember to keep sending in your letters. We want to hear your stories and find out what you think of the magazine. Each issue we’ll pick a star letter, the writer of which will win a superb package courtesy of Duke Video!

REMEMBE Dear Malc.

How good it is to see a tri u issue 176. I got to know er visits to her Cherry Orc Birmingham in the ear y .

These regular visits McCleod, my collea t assembly shop. I sh in Charles Road, S l Olga’s stories were ev extreme, and so well re She was invariably mo in hearing my warI learnt a great deal on introduced to many in th t I enjiyed real coffee, lace w brandy; always a good co v

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Dear Malc Both issues 175 and 176 of Classic Racer raised my attentive interest in two separate articles which referred to the background history of the BSA A10 Rocket.

Issue 175, under Hailwood’s Hutchinson 100, motivated me to dig out some history from 1959 and issue 176, under Eddie Dow Mr Gold Star, forced me to put finger to keypad by resurrecting an article I wrote in 1994 for the Gold Star Owners Club magazine when Bill Price was editor.

As for Classic Racer, it is the only magazine I buy regularly because of the excellent articles from my own era of racing 1957 to 1961, of which the two delightful articles referred to above, give me great satisfaction to quote Max Boyce and say ‘I know because I was there’!

Kindest regards and keep publishing a great magazine.

Dear Malc Regarding the Keeler engine featured in issue 176, this engine was not two 7R engines put together, it was a specially built engine design by Tom Mortimer, the last works race engineer still alive.

Tom worked out the design with Arthur Keeler and Tom then machined up all the parts to his design and took them to Arthur Keeler’s where it was assembled in Keeler’s spare bedroom. The chassis was Tom Mortimer’s, the forks on loan from Geoff Monty.

Tom said Russel’s helped with the parts, too. Although a joint effort, most of the work was done by Tom, but Arthur Keeler took the credit. If you look at the pictures in Mick Walker’s book of the bike at Brands Hatch, Tom is the one in the overalls.

Tom worked mainly for Jack Williams at the factory as an engineer and he also worked for Tom Kirby, part-time at weekends, eventually leaving AMC to work for Kirby. He went on to do other things, which he still does at the age of 82, but maybe let him tell you himself.

I have asked him if he would talk to you about his engine and life as factory works race mechanic as I thought it may be interesting

Brian D Dunn.

Via e mail

CLASSIC TT RESULTS Dear Malc One thing I really miss in the Classic TT race reports in recent years is the race finishers’ list. I am sure that I’m not alone in wanting to read the complete race finish list. The machines they rode and the speed they averaged for the complete race. This information would make the race report so much more interesting for the readers.

Terry Birch Nottingham

to see the other side of racing, not just the riders. At events like the TT races riders queued up to get work carried out on their machines and the race mechanics had to keep the candles burning to keep up.

Arthur Lewthwaite Via e mail Thank you so much for getting in touch Arthur and what a fascinating story Tom will have to tell. I will be in touch. Malc

TERRY WINDLE Nice to hear from you Terry. The reason we haven’t run the full race results in recent times is twofold.

Firstly this information is available on the internet immediately the race has finished. And secondly, without giving over space to the results we are able to have a much more in-depth race report and use fantastic images larger. Malc

Dear Malc I was sorry to read about the death of Terry Windle in issue 176. Way back in 1984 I was Terry’s first sidecar passenger. We did Cadwell, Croft, Mallory and the Southern 100.

I soon learned that the passenger has to know the circuit as well as the driver, and I recall now how on occasions Terry had to pull me back into the chair when I had misjudged.

David Bedlington Via e mail

MEETING LEGENDS Dear Malc I am a long time buyer of Classic Racer. I always eagerly look forward to it appearing at the Barnes and Noble book sellers here in Seattle. It’s by far my favourite magazine.

I am a 69-year old New Zealander who has lived in the States since my early twenties.

I remember seeing Hugh Anderson race at my local home track of Levin, New Zealand. I have just e-mailed Hugh to get a copy of his book advertised in the Sept/Oct Classic Racer.

I also noticed a Readers Write in the Sept/Oct issue from Peter Wilson mentioning Silvio Grassetti. I must have missed the Classic Rider article about Silvio.

I was very lucky to be introduced to Silvio by members of the Benelli Club at an ASI Moto Show at Varano de Melegari track in Italy in 2008.

He was riding his Benelli 350 that day. What an incredible guy, incredible bike and incredible event.

Dennis Merwood Seattle USA Thanks for your kind words Dennis; I am delighted you enjoy Classic Racer so much.

Perhaps you should take out a subscription, then you won’t miss another issue. Malc

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