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On Any Sunday. Now Available Online In The USA
US online video site Hulu has just made “On Any Sunday”, Bruce Brown’s famous 1971 documentary about motorcycle racing, available for free online. However it’s only available to those that live in the States. For …
Williams Honoured At Goodwood Festival Of Speed 2009
I said this last year, but next year I am definitely going to the Goodwood Festival of Speed. It has to be worth twenty something hours on a plane.
I just spoke to my old mate …
Wayne Gardner and Barry Sheene Discuss How To Crash
Who better to talk about the best way to crash than Barry Sheene. It seems Barry loved a good stack and in this video he discusses the best techniques with Wayne Gardner.
Ever the realist, Barry …
Abarth. The Scorpions Tale
This is a zippy trailer about an upcoming documentary about the legendary Italian racing brand Abarth. Abarth is set to tell its story, from its establishment in 1949 by Karl Alberto Abarth to its …
Indy 500 Goes Down To The Wire 1982
The top video is a great story featuring interviews with Gordon Johncock and Rick Mears about their battle for the 1982 Indy 500.
The 1982 race was memorable for several reasons. Firstly, in practice Gordon Smiley …
Ronnie Peterson and the Bee
You don’t see this type of thing much these days.
F1 Drivers hanging out with each other and having a chat and a laugh about racing.
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Piquet and Salazar Have a Bit of Biffo
Back in 1982 Nelson Piquet is driving for Brabham as the current world champ. Chilean racer Eliseo Salazar is a back marker who clearly should have gotten out of the way.
The result is a crash …
Gilles Villeneuve Crash Zolder 1982
Not much you can say about this. Just watch in horror.
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Best Daytona 500 Finish Ever? 1976
Being Australian, I have to confess that up until this point, I have struggled to understand NASCAR. But I get it now!
Until recently we didn’t get it on TV and of course we didn’t know …
Vic Elford Alfa Romeo 33TT3 Targa Florio 1972
The thing I love most about racing from years past, particularly the 60s and 70s is that the drivers drove so many different machines in a single season.
It allowed drivers to show how talented they were and not be …
Peter Brock and Larry Perkins race a Porsche 956 at Le Mans 1984
Images: Brock at the wheel during Le Mans 1984, Bob Jane T Marts promotional poster, Pit stop at night, More fule goes into number 34
Given Australian motor sport fan’s love of endurance racing, you would have thought that …
Onboard With Rohrl In The Audi Quattro E2
Just how in the zone must Walter Rohrl have been in this video of him on the way to third place during the Rally Of Portugal in 1985!
Rohrl won two World Rally Championships: the first in …
Glenn Seton Slides Around Bathurst 1987
This is some classic race cam footage of Glenn Seton slithering around during a storm, on slicks, in his Peter Jackson Nissan Skyline at Bathurst in 1987.
There is something magical about Bathurst. Somehow the race …
Patrick Depailler Long Beach Grand Prix 1978
Here is some dramatic on board footage of Frenchman Patrick Depailler during practice for the 1973 Long Beach Grand Prix.
He goes out hard from the pits and then really pushes during the second lap. It’s great …
Dale Buggins Aussie Daredevil
Long before anyone had come up with the idea of Freestyle Motocross or the Crusty Demons there was world famous daredevil, Evel Knievel. In Australia we had a guy with a far more spectacular name…Dale Buggins!
This …
