Steve Parrish
EX-RACER & TEAM MANAGER
RACE INSIDER
It’s been a busy old month for me again, this time going halfway around the world! I took part in the Barry Sheene speed festival at Eastern Creek in Australia. It’s got bigger and bigger over the years. We had me, Kevin Schwantz, Freddie Spencer, Graham Crosby and loads of others, even Maria Costello, bless her…
I’d never been there before, but loved the place. It was a cool event and we got to rip bikes around. An old mukka of mine called Stewart, who used to race when I did, gave me a 1982 Suzuki RGB500 and it was mega – we tore the arse out of it! I did jump the start a bit, but then I’ve got ten years on all those sods and you should get a ten second head start if you’re ten years their senior, and that’s me and the bike! At least we were all as fast as each other afterwards – in the bar.