Classic Racer

Classic Racer takes you so close you can actually smell the Castrol R. With the world's finest archive, and an editorial team who live and breathe the sport, the only way you'll get closer will be to put on your leathers.

Classic Racer

In a cloud of dust, they depart... • YEAR: YOU TELL US // LOCATION: A ROCK IN THE MIDDLE OF THE IRISH SEA

Wearing out a Dunlop • YEAR: 1983 // LOCATION: ASSEN

WIN • Many congratulations to Classic Racer on reaching the 200th issue!To mark the occasion, here’s a jumbo-sized crossword grid with a smattering of ‘200’ clues thrown in.

CLASSIC / VINTAGE... UMM... OLD?

readers write

Classic TT The future

Frankie for Newark Show

Welcome • The moment is important

Classic Racer product placement

CHRIS SWALLOW

Classic giants merge

HERE’S THE NEW AJR TSS 350 MK2 • It’s a bit of art wrapped up as a replica

A roller-coaster ride

CLASSIC RACER ICONIC METAL

KEVIN SCHWANTZ LONE STAR • Icon. Maverick. Fan’s Favourite. Call him what you want, but you could never call #34 dull.

The end of something

AGAINST ALL ODDS: THE CHEVALLIER HONDA RS500 • This just couldn’t happen today.... The plan almost sounds impossible. But it happened. If the desire to take on and defeat the factory teams from Honda andYamaha by winning GPs with motorcycles you constructed yourself was put into a film script, nobody would buy into it. Then to do that in a small workshop attached to your house, fuelled by your wife’s home-cooking and cups of coffee brewed in the kitchen next door, only adds to the quixotic, filmic achievement even more. This is the real-life story of the dramatic Chevallier Honda 500...

From the basement…

Specifications CHEVALLIER HONDA RS500

Clive Wall: Always in the picture • Rubbing shoulders with Grand Prix legends and challenging the stars, Clive Wall’s career epitomised an era, as Pete Crawford discovered – while discussing tuning tips from Saarinen and stick from Barry Sheene.

Factory support

PURE BEAUT Y • CAGIVA’S C591 GP500

GOODWOOD REVIVAL 2019: MOTOGP MEETS ALL OUR YESTERDAYS • For the 2019 Goodwood Revival in September, the 14 Isle of Man TT race winners on the grid (with a total of 84 victories between them) were joined by another three-time world champion from Spain – the man who, until his retirement from racing at the end of last season, rivalled Valentino Rossi as MotoGP’s most experienced rider – Dani Pedrosa.

Dani Pedrosa talks about the Goodwood Revival

MASTER AND APPRENTICE • The winners’ enclosure alongside the TT Grandstand has been the theatre of many dreams over the decades, but few occasions have been as remarkable as this year’s Lightweight Classic TT.

Chris Swallow

Proving ground • This year sees the 40th anniversary of the successful Classic Racing Motorcycle Club (CRMC).This is the story of how it all started.

RAID THE BANK • Charterhouse to hold Historic Motorcycle Auctions at the IOM Classic TT

NOVA RACING • QUICKFIRE QUESTIONS WITH MICK DEARLOVE

WHAT’S NOVA RACING?

KNOCKING ON THE DOOR • As the speeds crept up, Donington Park proved itself a brilliant hub of the classic scene once again

A PACKED SCHEDULE • The CRMC’s 32-race programme provided the perfect complement to the Donington Classic Motorcycle Racing Festival, where Graham Lawlor and Pete Morris were on hand to enjoy the spectacle alongside a big turnout of race fans.

GETTING SERIOUS • The CRMC was at Mallory Park for its penultimate 2019 meeting and with club and ACU championships coming to the boil the competition was intense, as reported by Graham Lawlor and Pete Morris.

THE LAST HURRAH

TWISTIES SUIT TYLER...