Sam Hewitt

Space age on a shoestring

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Sam Hewitt

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25th July 2019

How Suzuki went racing with a cardboard box Words: Michael Scott Photographs: Don Morley I think it might have been me who called it ‘the cardboard box’, and the name stuck. Because that is what the chassis most resembled – a sharp-cornered structure of folded planes, in a sandwich material. The sheets enclosed aluminium honeycomb…
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Five things you didn’t know about Apollo 11’s return

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Sam Hewitt

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24th July 2019

Fifty years on, the programme to take the first humans to the moon is arguably our single greatest achievement.
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Fast Down Under

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Sam Hewitt

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23rd July 2019

Rain ended play early, but Sydney’s International Festival of Speed hit the Forgotten Era lap record out of the park. Words: Hamish Cooper Photography: Phil Aynsley Ex-Grand Prix racer Jeremy McWilliams and Aaron Morris, one of Australia’s most under-rated riders, took Aussie classic racing to a new level at Sydney’s QBE International Festival of Speed.…
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CRMC NEWS: Marquee of things to come?

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Sam Hewitt

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17th July 2019

At the CRMC Pembrey meeting in May the Carmarthenshire circuit was able to retain the marquee pit lane garages from an earlier meeting for the benefit of CRMC competitors. Will the success of the marquee garages resurrect the BARC plans for a permanent set of pit lane garages at Pembrey? Be nice if it did!…
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Moon Eyes The John Cooper Story

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Sam Hewitt

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16th July 2019

At long last the overdue story of one of the UK’s most popular racers, John ‘Moon Eyes’ Cooper, has been published by Classic Racer’s parent company Mortons Media. John Cooper raced through perhaps the hardest-fought period of short circuit racing – the 1960s and 70s, and beat the best along the way. He will always…
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Belgium Classic Celebrates seven decades of MotoGP

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Sam Hewitt

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15th July 2019

With 70 years of MotoGP as the main theme, Bikers’ Classics promises to have something for everyone when it returns to the iconic Belgian venue of Spa this summer as part of the A-XOC series. Organised by Classic Racing Motorcycles Belgium (CRMB) – the only Belgian club fully dedicated to old competition bikes – the…
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Barry Randle

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Sam Hewitt

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14th July 2019

One of the UK’s top short circuit and TT racers Barry Randle passed away in May after a long illness. Barry raced through the 1960s, firstly on Manx Nortons but successfully made the switch to Yamaha, winning many races along the way. A retired newsagent from the Midlands, Barry maintained his passion for the Isle…
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Tom Loughridge

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Sam Hewitt

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13th July 2019

Words: Charlie Williams Starting in 47 TT races, Tom Loughridge was the epitome of a motorcycle road racer who, in his own words ‘Lived to race at the TT’. Although having a particular affinity with Suzuki, it was on Aermacchi machines that he made his Isle of Man debut in the1966 Manx Grand Prix. Two…
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Remembering Rodney

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Sam Hewitt

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12th July 2019

Dear CR Hope this note finds you well and continuing with your great endeavour of producing the wonderful magazine that is Classic Racer. It’s always a good day when my subscription arrives in my mailbox here in Canada. I wanted to send in this letter for a well known motor-sport figure and bike racer (and…
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‘Come on then, stop us striking!’

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Sam Hewitt

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11th July 2019

YEAR: 1982. // LOCATION: Nogaro circuit, paddock gates, France. Things had been growing tense in the world of motorcycle racing – on the riders’ side frustrations were rising to almost pique in Grand Prix. Riders were fed up with a promoter-biased recipe of dangerous tracks and poor money. By the late 1970s Kenny Roberts tried…
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