at Monza I got a third, so we were peaking. Monza is a big night out sort of place so it was time for a right old party. After the race we hit the first bar pretty hard from the off. The only beer they had was this incredibly strong red coloured stuff, like

, but the blokes who owned the Transit were still in the pub... Well, it was club racing after all!

out the gearing and given this thing a theoretical top speed of about 200 mph. So suffice to say it was a bitch to get off the line. The race day was the funniest thing I've seen in ages! 3 x 3 lap races were held at a superb local kart track. All

choreographed demonstrations and staged races of everything from V8 dirt oval stock-cars to 800 horsepower rally-cross weapons.... Now, I usually find it hard to get excited about cars, but one of the said demos was by a club running races for cars on grass

AT FIRST I thought a scuffle had broken out. I'd seen a similar thing when I drummed for The Po' Boys in some of the less salubrious local clubs. The first thing you see from the stage is the crowd part slightly, and then your eyes zero in and you

The end of season racing were shit, basically. I went to Imola and was feeling OK, I wasn't injured or anything but I had problems with the bike so was happy to finish fourth, although it could have been better. The problems I had were tyres

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dealing with I kinda half recognised. He was called Ryan I think, and it turned out that he used to race Supermonos, and he had a Honda jacket on and that. Initially he was looking at me dead funny like. The lad had said to me, "It's James Whitham isn

, and Maio, the team boss gave them a little reward at the test. Luigi, one of the guys who does PR for the team, took his own club racing bike with him, so that he could get a few laps in, and right at the last hour of the tests, when I had tested everything

in the field behind his garden. Sure enough there was this great big helicopter in the garden! It was complete with flash new stripes and these huge 'Jim Moodie Racing' logos on it. Simmo said to me afterwards, "I haven't had the heart to tell him he hasn