EX-RACER & TEAM MANAGER RACE INSIDER
Hello all! No doubt you’ll hate me for this, but I was on my way to the airport just as the snow began to fall in Blighty, so I escaped all the chaos! I’m writing to you from the Sheene household in Australia, but first off I had a stop in New Zealand. It was to visit a race track called Hampton Downs, which has had some money spent on it, been extended and also enjoys a new pit complex. It even has a corner named ‘Double Bastard Corner’! It was bought by a fella called Tony Quinn, as Aussie who made a load of cash from pet food, as he worked out he could feed kangaroo meat to pets. As they’re considered a pest and there are lots of them, he ended up with a bucket of dosh. He loves motorsport and this is actually the second track he owns.
There was a round of the New Zealand Superbike series on, which was actually hotly contested, and they had an old duffer race squeezed in. it was me and people like Randy Mamola, Kevin Magee, Graeme Crosby and a few more bombing around on old two-strokes. I actually finished second, but it was a bit of a demo race, although I did set a new lap record there in a bus!