Dave Watkins

DAVE WATKINS DIED on 6 September 2021 from a suspected heart attack, he was in his mid-70s. A potential British Olympian in the 1960s, he started as a bicycle tyre tester.

“He was an absolute gentleman; a Dunlop man through and through,” said Motorcycling Australia president and 1997 world endurance champion Peter Goddard, who raced ASBK, WSBK, in Japan and 500 GP.

“Always consistent