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REPLICAS TO CELEBRATE HAILWOOD COMEBACK

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This year’s Isle of Man TT will mark 40 years since Mike Hailwood’s legendary comeback victory in the 1978 TT, following an 11-year break from racing there while he pursued a car racing career in Formula 1. And to mark the milestone, Vee Two Australia, based in Nannup, Western Australia, the world’s leading specialist in bevel-drive Ducati engines, is producing 12 exact replicas of Mike the Bike’s victorious Ducati 900 TT F1 race bike, the production run quantity commemorating Hailwood’s victorious #12 TT racing number.

Vee Two Australia has secured the original technical drawings for the

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