Lifted from the "MiniMan History"

"...once I finished school I got into Motor cross racing motor bikes at the Redland motorcycle Club. Not that mum or dad liked it at all but there was nothing they could do, I was 18 years old & “in charge” of my own destiny. Well, quite a few “big” wins & more than my share of “BIG” stacks & that put an end to my bike racing days. I’d smashed my right collarbone, cracked my right shoulder blade & corked nearly my entire body…OUCH!!! I figured that all my life I’d played squash & had won tournaments all over the place, so if kept up with bike racing I’ll have kill my squash…& I loved my squash!!!

So, back to racing minis, and speedway was the new thing for me. I raced mini panel vans at Archerfield, Gold Coast & Toowoomba for about 8 years & took many feature race wins against all sorts of methanol injected V8s & 6 cyl cars. This racing is so much fun & used to be quite cheap to do, these days it’s a bit harder to win with rotaries & multi valve twin cam injected jap cars taking line honours."