Aussie Castrol Six Hour 1978

[merv]

Found on Soup today this one will bring tears of joy to your eyes crasherfromwayback, story here http://www.superbikeplanet.com/2012/Mar/120323g.htm:

[willytheekid]

Found on Soup today this one will bring tears of joy to your eyes crasherfromwayback

Great post merv!

Gotta love the running start! ...that was the ONLY thing that stopped crasher from going pro! lol

[roogazza]

Cheers Merv !
Loved that era the best.

[Crasherfromwayback]

Gotta love the running start! ...that was the ONLY thing that stopped crasher from going pro! lol

Nah. I used be be able to run plenty fast being a skinny white boy from Wainui mate! It's only blowing my ankle into 20 bits at Wanganui in '05' that put an end to that!

[jasonu]

[QUOTE=merv;1130291514]Found on Soup today this one will bring tears of joy to your eyes crasherfromwayback, story here http://www.superbikeplanet.com/2012/Mar/120323g.htm:

Great stuff. Some good old names in that one.

[short shins]

From Soup
"Added bonus: the bike which began billowing deathsmoke after the start but never seemed to get black-flagged."

They forgot to add that it won the race.
Bit desperate of Tony Hatton blaming 100 octane causing the CBX to break

Good times makes me feel old... Oh I am old...

[Macontour]

Geez, some of the bikes even had horns!! And where was all the safety gear arond the track? And BMX bikes have wider tyres now!! Classic.

[merv]

With all that talk of smoke I was expecting that the H2s were still racing lol.

[roogazza]

Geez, some of the bikes even had horns!! And where was all the safety gear arond the track? And BMX bikes have wider tyres now!! Classic.

Production racing hard man and giant killer Joe Eastmere (not sure if spelling correct) was disqualified for no horn on his T315 Suzuki in the 71 Castrol. The claim was that he might get better cooling as well.
Production meant production in the Australian Six hour.

[merv]

Eastmure Gaz.

Here's the story http://www.bikeme.tv/bm_articles/rid...entury-vii.asp