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Welcome

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Go-getting Grant

HOWARTH HAS IT

Championship for Chris

BOOK CORNER

THE PINHARD TROPHY

TED MELLORS • Talented racer and pilot, Ted ended up on a Nazi hit-list and died in mysterious circumstances just after the Second World War.

SAINT MICHAEL’S MOUNT! • Alan Cathcart enjoys a landmark ride at Germany’s Oschersleben circuit on one of the two West German-built NSU Sportmax 250s, on which Mike Hailwood took 4th in the 250cc World Championship in 1958.

POLISHED PRIVATEER • If you wanted a chance to win on the roads in the early 1990s, there really was only one choice: Honda’s RC30…

1995 HONDA NSR500

A family affair • Families often race together and friends who help out often become part of that family. We at Classic Racer want to shine a light on these ‘racing families’ so, read part one of the Morris family’s story, by Neil Morris.

CLASSIC RACER RACING LIFE

FB MONDIAL 250 BIALBE • Absolutely gorgeous and correct in every detail, this isTarquinio Provini’s 1957 mount.

AT THE DOUBLE! • Thirty-five years ago, ‘Fast’ Freddie Spencer did a remarkable feat – he took the 500cc and 250cc world crowns.

No more Mr Nice Guy!

DOBLE DELIIG! • Twenty-six years ago, Scotland’s Ian Simpson became the first man to win a British Superbike title on a Norton and the last man to win both the Superbike and Supersport titles in the same year. This is the inside story of his incredible achievement.

Hated Hailwood! • ‘What a lot of people don’t remember, is that Mike Hailwood was hated at that time because he was so rich’ – Don Morley

GREEN MEANIE • Kawasaki’s 750cc four cylinder racers were the choice of champions and privateers alike in the 1980s through to the 2000s: this replica is a little different…

The Go-Show