Tom Gibson’s flat track style was deemed too dangerous for Mount Panorama: ‘Motorcyclists in two race crashes!’ screamed the headline of Brisbane’s Sunday Mail newspaper on 2 September 1967. It was a real beat-up.
No press snapper captured either crash and the nonsensical caption under the front-page photograph read: ‘Competitors flash past the wrecked motorcycle of Terry Gibson, which stalled at 100-miles-an-hour on the Surfers Paradise Circuit yesterday.’
Had the reporters been doing their job, they’d have known the
