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

As if on rails.

Making it look easy.

Team. Mates.

Bunch of racers

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ON THE SUBJECT OF ALIENS

readers write

GOSSIP FROM THE CRMC PADDOCK

WAYNE RAINEY ...rides again

Brits enjoy classic success in Europe

Minnovation win at the double

Lean, mean and lime green • Volume Two – Racing with Kawasaki The Superbike Years 1978-1983

Italian legends arrive in E-Book range

Welcome • Peace and good will

Goodbye, Percy

Bikers’ Classics

Dick Hawes

Heroes

In memory of Chris... thank you

Bristol Show at 40

Guests confirmed for the Classic Dirt Bike Show

STAFFORD SUCCESS

FRANKIE SAYS JUST DO IT

CLASSIC RACER ICONIC METAL

THE MAKING OF SILVER DREAM RACER • Silver Dream Racer remains the biggest movie ever filmed about bike racing.

DEVIL IN DISGUISE DR JOE’S 350 EMC • In 1948 the Grand Prix world was changed by a small bike that showed everyone the way to go – even if it never made it to the grid, proper.

EMC 350 GRAND PRIX Specifications

Joe Ehrlich – A true original

Go see Sammy’s stuff

Gianni Rolando The Hunter • When Gianni Rolando stepped into motorcycle racing, he knew nothing about it.

REGARD THE ELF5 • In 1988 the NSR V4 500cc-powered machine took to the Grand Prix grid. It was the final design in an intriguing series of bikes begun by Andre de Cortanze – one of the unique engineering brains from Renault’s race department in the mid-1970s. Talk about left-field Grand Prix thinking!

Hangin’ with the Trailblazers • Every April, the gathering of the extended motorcycle family that is the Trailblazers happens in Carson, California. Last year saw the 75th banquet held to celebrate the most influential characters from motorcycle racing’s past. To exhibit the demand for tickets, all 800 were sold within one hour.

HOW TO BUILD A CLASSIC TT RACE BIKE MOLNAR MANX NORTON • SeniorTT race winner Dean Harrison will be racing a Molnar Manx Norton at the 2020 Classic TT. To find out what it takes to build the thoroughbred race machine, we sat down with the brains behind the bike, Andy Molnar of Molnar Precision Limited.

Dean Harrison’s Molnar Manx (owned by Nigel Woolerton)

Let’s go racing! • So, what do you do when you’ve lined up a new racing championship? What else but sort the calendar and get going with the on-track action.

THE NORTH WEST A History • 2019 saw the International North West 200 road races celebrate their 90th anniversary. Whilst it had humble beginnings, that certainly isn’t the case now as the event has grown into Northern Ireland’s biggest outdoor sporting event and one of the most important road races on the calendar.

Close encounters

Later years

The 1980s

Roll of Honour

40 YEARS OF THE CRMC

JOHN KOCINSKI SPEAKS! • Little Rock’s avant-garde GP assassin goes on record – as you’ve never heard him before