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Whatever happened to? ROD COLEMAN

The Rainey Season • Wayne Rainey was arguably the greatest 500cc rider in a golden age of greats. He speaks to Classic Racer about that fateful final season when he was aiming for his fourth straight world 500cc Grand Prix championship.

Sexy and single! • Single-cylinder machines are often considered to be the epitome of two-wheeled race machines, but rarely do they look quite as good as the Ducati Supermono from 1993. Alan Cathcart talks about his 30 year romance with La Ducatina!

ICONIC METAL #41 1964 MOTO MORINI 250

1964 BENELLI ‘PROVINI’ 250/4 • Benelli would work through various 250cc four-cylinder racers before being able to win the 1969 World Championship. From the early 1960s, the 250/4 – including this 1964 example – would be developed by Italian ace Tarquinio Provini

SO LONG, SUZUKI • After a brilliant first half of the 1980s, the funds begin to dry up and the Heron Suzuki team ends its life as a shadow of its former self. Here’s the Team Heron Suzuki GB story: 1982-1990

Czech’s mate • It was a relationship that promised so much – but ended in tragedy. Frantisek Feigl tells of the Czech people’s love and respect for Bill Ivy, and of how his final race season with the country’s Jawa factory unfolded.

SIMMO! • A five-time British champion and triple TT winner, Ian ‘Simmo’ Simpson won his first title two days after breaking his back, and later won both the British Superbike and Supersport titles in the same year. In the first of our two-part series, Simmo looks back on the early years of his career: 1986-1994.

CADWELL PARK • In the third part of our series on classic British racing circuits, we look at Cadwell Park – one of the quirkiest and most extreme circuits in the country.

Stavros stung! • Here’s the bike that started it all for Stavros – and even made him partially deaf! His very own Yamaha TD2B from the early 1970s which he raced in black and yellow.

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