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“I was so saturated, every time I got on the gas my hand would slip out of my glove”

HAVING WON THE 1967 Unlimited AGP on his home track at Surfers Paradise riding the Brian Payne-built, Bonneville-powered Tranzac, John Warrian followed up with a win at Mount Panorama before swapping mounts to a new BSA Rocket 3, a fringe benefit to his new job as BSA salesman for Bennett & Wood in Sydney.

With several Queensland Grand Prix titles to his

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