BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
WILL BE ONE TO REMEMBER
he New Zealand Classic Motor Cycle
Racing Register's annual Classic
Festival hits 40 years at Pukekohe
on February 2-3, 2019. New
Zealand’s biggest and most famous classic
motorcycle racing festival celebrates its
40th anniversary at Pukekohe on February
2-3 next year and it promises to be a
birthday party to remember.
Originally formed in 1979 for “the
preservation and racing of pre-1963 British,
European and American motorcycles”, it
now includes all pre-1989 racing machines,
including Japanese bikes.
Over the years the races have attracted
World Champions – Geoff Duke, Umberto
Masetti, John Surtees, Giacomo Agostini
and Kevin Schwantz, all competing on
some of the world’s most rare, valuable
and famous racing machines.
This year 200 riders and 300 bikes
are expected from New Zealand and
around the world, and the organisers,
the NZCMCRR, will be asking all riders
and supporters who have raced at the
festival over the last 40 years to help the
society create an historic poster and film
celebrating 40 years of Classic Racing at
Pukekohe by sharing their memories,
photos and film.
The festival atmosphere that has
become legendary around the world –
with seriously fast racing, free pit access,
displays of machines never normally seen
by the public and it will include a lunchtime
display on Sunday of a WWII Spitfire and
P40 Kittyhawk.
Tickets are available at http://www.nzcmrr.
com/index and for further information
contact Ken McIntosh on 022 0196522.
New Zealand’s biggest
and most famous classic
motorcycle racing festival
celebrates its 40th
anniversary at Pukekohe on
February 2-3 next year
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