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2015 BARRY SHEENE FESTIVAL OF SPEED OR, DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY GREMLIN REPELLENT? EVENT
WORDS THE BEAR/ STUART WOODBURY PHOTOS ZANE DOBIE

Happily, sometimes, something happens that reminds you just how much fun motorcycle racing used to be. The 2015 Barry Sheene Festival of Speed, held by the Post Classic Racing Association NSW at Sydney Motorsport Park was the event to do that, and it was not to be missed.

Even just judging by the number of cars in the carpark and spectators walking around it was a hit. I haven’t seen so many cars, parked all the way up to the hill at Turn 2, for many, many years. If you went to the Australian super bike racing a week later, it was like a ghost town, so classic racing is alive and swelling at the gills. It’s not just bikes. You only need to look at the car racing scene a few years ago, which had dwindling numbers attending the “main” game. Yet muscle car racing was huge – and much the same thing is happening with the bike racing scene. Maybe the super bike promoters need to look at a classic bike support class?