Sam Hewitt

YEAR: 1978 // LOCATION: Brands Hatch There comes a moment in every racer’s life when he’s sure he’s passed the slippery stuff – when he’s seen the obstacle in front of him, identified the course of action needed to avoid it and ridden the correct line. In the F750 event at Brands, Jeff Sayle (Yamaha)…

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Throughout the 1970s, John Williams was one of the UK’s leading racers and although he only had one year as a fully-fledged factory rider, 1976 saw him not only claim a 500cc Grand Prix victory but also become the first rider in history to lap the Isle of Man TT Mountain Course at more than…

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You don’t get to this level of racing thought and execution without being able to tap into some top-flight thinking. The result… amazing… Words: Alan Turner Photographs: Gary D Chapman and Mick Robinson Exactweld is a business partnership formed in the late Seventies by Guy Pearson and John Baldwin. Providing specialist welding facilities and expertise…

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If you want to be rapid, get along to Minnovation. Words: Ross Mowbray Photographs: Gary D Chapman WHAT’S MINNOVATION RACING? Minnovation Racing first started back in 2004, as an offshoot of its main business Minnovation Ltd which specialises in mining equipment. Although it might seem like a slightly strange transition from the outside, a sincere…

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Words: Jeffrey Zani Photos: Jeffrey Zani and Don Morley It seemed all beautifully wrapped up for Graziano Rossi, but in reality it wasn’t. A few corners to go and the Italian had the lead of the 1979 250 British Grand Prix at Silverstone comfortably in hand. Sitting more than a second ahead of Kork Ballington,…

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Words and photographs: Phil Aynsley This month in our Iconic Metal series it’s the turn of the factory Suzuki XR88 to fall under Phil Aynsley’s lens. This was the motorcycle campaigned by both Nobuatsu Aoki and Yukio Kagayama. Aoki took it out on GP500 world duty (note how the colour scheme, still very much official…

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Words: Terry Stevenson Photographs: Ginger Molloy, Jim Scaysbrook archives and Terry Stevenson. Anything can happen when two goliaths take to the track in search of victory, especially when the ultimate prize is on Australia’s most famous circuit. It’s one thing to win at Bathurst, yet quite another to be first across the finish line after…

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