Wayne Gardner Feature Documentary

[GeneralFilms]

Hi all,

I'm a researcher with GFC Films. Our team is working on a feature documentary about 1987 500cc world champion Wayne Gardner to be released in cinemas next year. Directed by Jeremy Sims (Last Cab to Darwin, Beneath Hill 60) and produced by the company that made McLaren (2017), the film will tell the exhilarating story of Wayne’s triumphant, improbable journey from a 5-dollar dirt bike to the international summit of sport.

We are gathering archive for the film and are interested in any footage/photographs that you may have of Wayne or his associates. I’ve attached a spreadsheet of a timeline of Wayne’s career and events that might jog your memory. Rows highlighted in green are of particular interest to us. Please feel free to get in touch with me at tom@gfcfilms.com
Thanks and looking forward to hearing from you.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12RvER2lwh7DrndcNB_ZgT4c_VU907yC6WgmZssAuer8/edit?usp=sharing

[T.W.R]

If you can get hold of a copy of TwoWheels January 1981 there's a pretty thorough article on Wayne's career upto that point...6 full pages worth from a school kid at Illawarra riding mini bikes through to racing the Mentor Motorcycles CB1100R and Peter Molloy's Cb900F :niceone:

[Voltaire]

I recall watching the moto GP 500 on SBS when I was living in Sydney in 1985/8,at the time a bit of Wayne Fan. I went to the

UK in 1988 and went to Donnington to watch. I don't recall a lot of the racing but I do remember a Spitfire doing a fly past.

Some rather blurry photos in a box somewhere of the racing.

Went to Europe the following year for a 4 month bike trip and stopped at Hockenheim thinking you could get tickets on the

day....yeah right. Great beer fueled atmosphere in the adjoining carpark/forest/campground though....:eek5:

[GeneralFilms]

If you can get hold of a copy of TwoWheels January 1981 there's a pretty thorough article on Wayne's career upto that point...6 full pages worth from a school kid at Illawarra riding mini bikes through to racing the Mentor Motorcycles CB1100R and Peter Molloy's Cb900F :niceone:

Thanks for the recommendation. Do you have a copy of this TwoWheels edition and could it be digitised?

[T.W.R]

Thanks for the recommendation. Do you have a copy of this TwoWheels edition and could it be digitised?

:rolleyes: Yeah I've got that issue and could probably dig quite few more articles up on him through to about 88.
But recently upgraded my computer and the scanner & printer etc that I've got wont work with it (they're too old to match the current technology) and as of yet haven't got around to upgrading them as I've had more important things to deal with.

[T.W.R]

If this will be of any use here's some pics of the article

[T.W.R]

Do you have a copy of this TwoWheels edition and could it be digitised?

here's a few more articles.
You try and trackdown some info on when either his PR manger or one of the support crew unoffically borrowed his NSX that HRC had given him and shoved it under a truck ;)

[T.W.R]

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[T.W.R]

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