V FOUR VICTORY
May 15, 2019
3 minutes
PHOTO: HALF LIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY
The first World Superbike Championship race I went to was at Oran Park, south-west of Sydney, in 1988. Australia was the second last round of the inaugural series before the fledging show moved on to New Zealand. The big drawcard, for me anyway, was the expected appearance of former World 500 Champion Marco Lucchinelli riding the radical liquid-cooled DOHC eight-valve Ducati 851.
I was a Ducati tragic even then, and the all-new V-twin was a huge
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