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    Paddock Gossip

    Oct 15, 2018 4 minutes
    Compiled by Malc Wheeler
    Photograph:
    Colin Port
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    Mortons Archive

    Fast Freddie stars at Newark

    Freddie Spencer, universally known as ‘Fast Freddie’, will be the guest of honour at the Carole Nash Classic Bike Guide Winter Classic, bringing a real international flavour to the season starter.

    After a hugely successful career in his native USA (the 1978 AMA 250cc Championship being his first big series win), Freddie progressed through AMA Superbike and got his first taste of international racing as part of the USA team in the 1980 Transatlantic Trophy Match Races, winning two races at Brands Hatch and beating world champions Kenny Roberts and Barry Sheene

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