‘Wildman’, ‘crazy’, and ‘crasher’ were some of the descriptions thrown at Yvon Duhamel during his rough and tumble career. Born in Montreal in 1939, Duhamel’s love affair with two wheels started aged 13 when he opened a small backyard bicycle shop.
His first taste of competition came with ice racing when he was 17. He took up dirt-tracking in 1959, kicking off his reputation as a real hard-charger. By the mid-1960s he had turned his hand to road racing at Loudon, New Hampshire. Duhamel debuted at Daytona in