(24-01-2015, 08:27 PM)ian charlton Wrote: Looking through a few various threads and cant help but notice how often Mike is referred to,after all these years he,s still with us,just what made the man so special?A complete one off to whom all are rated,on any sort of track.I wonder if we,ll ever see the like again.

Motorcycle racing is so specialised today that it's unlikely we'll ever see the likes of the great Mike Hailwood again. Could you imagine Marc Marquez competing and winning in a British championship round on one of our short circuits on a borrowed (not a works) machine? Hailwood did it regularly. I'm just grateful I saw him in action both on the short circuits and at the TT. I also saw him race cars in Formula 5000 and he was good at that too.