Legends: King Kenny Roberts
August 30, 2010 – 11:38 AM | No Comment

It’s 32 years since Kenny Leroy Roberts hit the world 500 championship, shaking it from its previous Euro-centric axis.
Roberts was 26 — a cocky, race-savvy, mentally tough twice AMA national champion from a dusty part …

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Senna interviewed after winning the Detroit Grand Prix 1987
April 9, 2010 – 2:29 PM | One Comment
Senna interviewed after winning the Detroit Grand Prix 1987

1987 was a pivotal year for Ayrton Senna.  For his third season with Lotus, the team had managed to secure Honda engines, the same power-plants that Williams had used to win the Constructors Championship in …

Croz’s first Oz Race: Castrol 6 hour 1975
April 7, 2010 – 11:56 PM | 2 Comments
Croz’s first Oz Race: Castrol 6 hour 1975

“My first race on Australian soil was at the 1975 Castrol Six Hour. I travelled over in the belief that I could find a ride and I thought that Kawasaki Australia would help a little …

Last lap battle: Eddie Lawson vs Randy Mamola Assen 1987
April 5, 2010 – 8:20 AM | One Comment
Last lap battle: Eddie Lawson vs Randy Mamola Assen 1987

It’s no wonder motorcycle racers are considered the maddest and bravest of them all.
Just watch this  final lap battle between four time 500cc World Champion Eddie Lawson and the flamboyant Randy Mamola at the 1987 …

SIDI: 50th Anniversary 1960-2010
March 31, 2010 – 7:02 AM | No Comment
SIDI: 50th Anniversary 1960-2010

If you are a Motocross fan then you would be very familiar with the iconic Italian brand SIDI, which is celebrating its 50th Anniversary in 2010.
In 1960 SIDI commenced production as a single craftsman in …

Classic Rallying Video: The 60s, 70s and 80s
March 30, 2010 – 7:40 AM | 3 Comments
Classic Rallying Video: The 60s, 70s and 80s

Rally fans will really love this tribute to the kings of sideways action.
The video takes us from the production based late 1950s cars thought to the epic flame spitting Group B monsters of the 1980s.
Just …

Australian Double At The ‘Ring
March 25, 2010 – 9:42 PM | No Comment
Australian Double At The ‘Ring

The full 22.8km Nurburgring is daunting. Throw in rain and mist and it’s scary. But forty years ago, it was the venue when, for the first time, two Australian recorded Grand Prix victories at the …

Video and Photo Special: Celebrating Ayrton Senna on his 50th Birthday
March 23, 2010 – 12:58 AM | One Comment
Video and Photo Special: Celebrating Ayrton Senna on his 50th Birthday

Brazilian Formula 1 superstar Ayrton Senna would have been 50 years old today.
The triple world champion exploded onto the  Formula 1 scene during his well documented test with Williams in 1983 and enchanted, shocked …

Insane Vintage Hill Climb Images from Jeff Decker
March 22, 2010 – 12:57 PM | One Comment
Insane Vintage Hill Climb Images from Jeff Decker

Check out these immensely impressive vintage motorcycle hill climb images from the 30s via Jeff Decker.

Retro Porsche Advertising
March 18, 2010 – 3:01 PM | No Comment
Retro Porsche Advertising

This piece of retro advertising opens with a dream. A dream that I am sure we all share in one form or another: that of finding our perfect car resting peacefully in a barn somewhere, …

Santiago Herrero: OSSA’s favourite son
March 17, 2010 – 9:01 AM | One Comment
Santiago Herrero: OSSA’s favourite son

OSSA, the fabulous Spanish motorcycle brand is back. After closing in 1985, the firm is back with an innovative Trials bike, the stunning TR280i.
The companies popularity and commercial success boomed in the mid to late …

Retro Moto Sketches
March 15, 2010 – 8:20 PM | One Comment
Retro Moto Sketches

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have a modern dirt bike, but with the look of a classic machine from the 70s or 80s?
Well Oberdan Bezzi has been thinking about it, …

Indy 500 1983: Sneva’s last-gasp success
March 11, 2010 – 11:28 AM | No Comment
Indy 500 1983: Sneva’s last-gasp success

Watch this video of the last 10 laps of the 1983 Indianapolis 500 and you’ll quickly realise why the climax to America’s biggest race that May is remembered as one of the best.
The 67th running …

Seventh Heaven: Barry Sheene – The legend Lives On
March 10, 2010 – 9:06 AM | 3 Comments
Seventh Heaven: Barry Sheene – The legend Lives On

Today is the 7th Anniversary of the passing of Motorcycling legend Barry Sheene.
When Barry Sheene decided to up stumps from his country mansion in England and move his entire family to the Gold Coast in …

Jimmy “The Flying Greek” Koufos attempts world record bus jump
March 8, 2010 – 6:51 AM | 2 Comments
Jimmy “The Flying Greek” Koufos attempts world record bus jump

It’s always good to start your week with a laugh, and I nearly fell off my chair with the sheer absurdity of this crazy feat.
Watch in amazement at this hilarious footage of Jimmy “The Flying …

Chad McQueen talks about being on the set of Le Mans
March 7, 2010 – 8:35 AM | No Comment
Chad McQueen talks about being on the set of Le Mans

Here a couple of lovely videos featuring Chad McQueen talking about being on the set of Le Mans with his Dad, Steve,  in 1970.
In the first video, Chad talks about sitting on his Dad’s lap …

Renault Going Retro in 2010
March 5, 2010 – 2:12 PM | No Comment
Renault Going Retro in 2010

Renault is going retro in 2010, working hard to recapture its historic allure with new livery based on classic Renault designs.

Retro Martini Racing Gear
March 3, 2010 – 9:00 AM | One Comment
Retro Martini Racing Gear

Maxpart Racing has created  officially licensed replicas of the evocative Martini Racing gear of the 1970s.
Star of the range is the uber retro light blue jacket, famously worn by Argentinian legend Carlos Reutemann. The jacket …

Ignazio Giunti: The avoidable crash
February 28, 2010 – 11:29 AM | No Comment
Ignazio Giunti: The avoidable crash

This has to be one of the most ridiculous and completely avoidable crashes I have ever seen. The tragic part is that it claimed the life of popular Italian driver Ignazio Giunti
Giunti, from Rome, made …

Rex Beauchamp 70s Flat Track hero
February 26, 2010 – 10:52 AM | One Comment
Rex Beauchamp 70s Flat Track hero

In the days when the AMA Grand National Championship included road races, Rex Beauchamp stayed on the dirt and came close to winning a championship anyway.
Inducted into the Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 2007, Beauchamp …

Sammy Miller MBE: Trials legend
February 24, 2010 – 9:17 AM | One Comment
Sammy Miller MBE: Trials legend

The motorcycling bug bit Sammy Miller whilst watching motorcycle racing in Ulster. He went on to compete and win his first event in 1953. The rest as they say, is history.
Millers career was an …

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