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    Feb 16, 2021 5 minutes

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    Dear CR

    What a great issue for November/ December. I’m a little young for the Hailwood years but have always wondered what made Mike so well loved considering the set-up he had. I think Phil Read said it would have been easy to dislike Mike if he wasn’t such a great bloke, or something similar. So many thanks Stuart Barker for enlightening me.

    Ian Simpson was one of my favourite racers of the 1990s and seemed to be on the road to greatness before injuries halted his career. In 1999 I bought him a pint of Guinness in

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