The Roaring Season

October 5, 1980. At just before 9.30am, Dick Johnson, in the big blue XD Ford Falcon with the Tru-Blu signage emblazoned down each flank, and the Queensland map on the roof, clunked his top-loader into first gear. Sat on the outside of the front row ...

As wonderful and magical as historic racing is, if there is one thing lacking, its that the surroundings don’t match the cars. Historic racing events the world over are held on race tracks that, year-round, ...

If only championships could be won purely on ambition and big thinking. Then surely Dennis Leech would be 1972 British Saloon Car Champion. Leech’s slightly unorthodox approach to trying to topple the established heavy hitters in the BSCC, ...