Motorcycle Journo. National road racer at Oliver's Mount and Aberdare in 2025.
Scotland
Joined April 2009
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You can get me here now, loved all the connections on twitter, but this place "smelt of pubs, wormwood scrub and to many right wing meetings" as well as bots, nudes in bio and endless shit adverts that I will not buy.
RS ing around. The backbone of privateer Grand Prix racing at the time were riders like Kneubuler, Billotti, Fischer and Papa. They had no chance, aside from possibly scraping a point against the factory bikes. I was a huge fan of them.
Armstrong developed competitive steel framed 250/350 racer in Grand Prix. The "works" bikes also used an aluminium swinging arm. The next giant leap came with the CF250. Fully carbon chassis seen here with Roland Freymond who tried it in practice at the British GP.
Rear of that year. Johnny K trying out the Mockett designed TZ250 bodywork for size on the Lucky Strike Kenny Roberts rig.
Lovely to see that the 250cc Adriatica is alive and well. What an innovative machine. Piloted at one point by Walter Villa.
The Privateers retweeted
La Historia de los Mooneyes no empieza en Japón... 😉🙂
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A charismatic driver in a charasmatic era. Great read, good to know a bit more about his background. Loved the Hesketh livery, very much of its time.
The charismatic F1 and Le Mans driver Rupert Keegan has died at the age of 69.
Andrew Marriott recalls a serious racer who also revelled in having "a great time":
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THE PRIVATEERS - A new book out from one of the best privateer racers of his era John Woodley. John is battling MND but has produced a book about his career. I have contact info if you want to get in touch. Just DM for contact details. Pictured here with his great pal Stu Avant.
Great to have @DannyWebb99 on the @WorldSBK coverage today. Really measured and informative with his comments on the racing.
A great image of Irishman Tony Carey. A real seat of the pants privateer. Raced Euros and GP as well as many far flung events in Europe. He was based in Amsterdam for a long time. There was a nice article in the UGP programme years ago detailing a bit of his career.
There is nothing better than listening to @ManxRadioMSport @ManxGrandPrix @CarolynnSells Good hunting to everyone especially the newcomers.
Brilliant coverage of the jewel of the valleys. Greenlight and @DaveMooreTV have been doing a brilliant job with the @KingOTRoads series this year. Looking forward to racing back there next season.
📺 So the broadcast may have aired ahead of schedule, but how awesome was episode one of @KingOTRoads at #AberdareParkRoadRaces 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣4️⃣?🤩
➡️ Click here to watch the episode on ITVX itv.com/watch/king-of-the-ro…
📅 Episode 2️⃣ is scheduled to be aired this Thursday at 9pm on ITV4 (Well we think so) 😜😂🏁🏴
#Aberdare #AberdarePark #RoadRacing
The Privateers retweeted
📺 So the broadcast may have aired ahead of schedule, but how awesome was episode one of @KingOTRoads at #AberdareParkRoadRaces 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣4️⃣?🤩
➡️ Click here to watch the episode on ITVX itv.com/watch/king-of-the-ro…
📅 Episode 2️⃣ is scheduled to be aired this Thursday at 9pm on ITV4 (Well we think so) 😜😂🏁🏴
#Aberdare #AberdarePark #RoadRacing
What a racer, and that is a fantastic image from Brno. The Last King of a Wild Frontier. The Privateer.
Such a great tribute to Pat Hennen, he was the first of the gang, glad he is being remembered by the Track house team today.
Pat Hennen – 3 Grand Prix wins
Pat Hennen was born on April 27, 1953 in Phoenix, Arizona and became the first ever American rider to win a World Championship race in the 1976 500cc Finnish Grand Prix at the Imatra circuit. Despite having had considerable success on road courses in America, his victory was unexpected - the organizers did not have a recording of the American national anthem to play on the podium - at the time Pat was lining up on the grid against his teammate, future World Champion, Barry Sheene and riders like the then eight time World Champion, Giacomo Agostini. However, his win came off the back of his increasing competitiveness aboard British privateer Rod Coleman’s Suzuki RG500 and two more podiums in his rookie season gave Pat third in the World Championship and marked him as a star for the future.
His rise continued in 1977 with four podiums and a win in the British Grand Prix at Silverstone – the first time Silverstone hosted the British Motorcycle Grand Prix. Pat again finished third in the World Championship.
1978 saw Pat start the season strongly with three second place finishes and his third GP victory, at Jarama in Spain, in the five opening rounds before a life-changing head injury, suffered in a high-speed crash at the Isle of Man TT, forced this star of American motorcycle racing into retirement.
Pat was an easy-going, quiet, man who was popular with the fans and became a largely ‘forgotten man’ after his retirement. His record, in three short years racing in the 500cc Grand Prix World Championship, make Pat an enduring star who, despite sadly passing away on April 7 earlier this year, will be honored as part of the 75th MotoGP Championship celebrations at a track he made his own 47 years ago.
Photo credits – grateful thanks to the Larry Lawrence archive and Suzuki USA
Simply the very best, on point, uncluttered and for Fausto. Beautiful. @GresiniRacing @MotoGP
