Many Aussie kids dream of winning big in sport and the few that make it do so through more than just luck. It takes skill, dedication and a need to meet self-set goals that drives them to keep on trying until they hit the top. A very good living can be made racing motorcycles if you're good enough, and the top of the tree would be racing overseas for a big name team in motocross or road racing. Many of the top Aussie road racers who succeeded on the international stage had their beginnings on dirtbikes and it's a pretty safe bet just about that any top Aussie road racer from the past 30 years had a solid run of success racing on the dirt.
Tom Drane is another who looks to be on a similar path having started from the young age of two and a
