Editor’s welcome

Firstly, a couple of apologies!

Thanks to the pandemic we’ve had to play fast and loose with the magazine when it comes to events and reports of race meetings, as we simply don’t know if they will happen! To this end you’ll notice that we have dropped our Yoshimura part two feature until the next issue, this is so we can cram in the CRMC meeting at Cadwell Park and the Spring Cup at Oliver’s Mount.

What I would like to say to any classic racing club secretary out there is ‘give us a bell’ or drop us an email so we can try and get your events and rescheduled race calenders into our pages.

This brings me neatly on to my next call to arms: this is your magazine. You’ll notice we’ve two new sections which are very much embryonic at the moment! Firstly, ‘Back in the Day’ should be something about pictures of racers or from races that you went to ‘back in the day’. So anything stretching back through the decades will do. Secondly, the ‘Show Us Yours’ is aboutyour race bike, new (well, classic, clearly) or a machine you once raced way back when.

Of course, we want to get some prizes together (we’ve got S-DOC on board already) so please start sending in your submissions for both sections: it can only work with your input. And that’s what we want here at Classic Racer: more input from you.

This issue we have Steve Parrish in the spotlight, a man who probably doesn’t know the meaning of the word ‘behave’. We’ve also got part two of our Ron/ The Haslams story, the final part onyvon Duhamel, and Wayne Gardner on his time with the Moriwaki team. Enjoy the issue!