“It was the first time I’d raced a bike with brakes!”
IT WAS ONLY a Friday-night practice session, but the moment 17-year-old Johnny Dewhurst witnessed the action at Tracey’s Speedway in Melbourne’s Maribyrnong, he was hooked. He scratched 50 quid together and bought a tired old JAP on which to join the then-thriving speedway scene.
Just three years later he’d been talent spotted as a potential international recruit, receiving several attractive
