![]() ![]() Wayne Gardner became the first Australian to win the 500cc World Championship. I was dispatched by the BBC to the City, where just two weeks before, the Grand Prix had made world headlines because of a radiation leak. Two days after we flew back to London war was declared between Britain and Argentina.įive years later the first Brazilian Grand Prix was held at Goiania. ![]() Stumbling across thousands of mothers in a Buenos Aires square protesting about the disappearance of their sons, - Los Desaparecidos. ![]() Our 1500km Che Guevara style motorcycle trip across the Pampas to the border of Chile high in the Andes. The record books will illustrate a fantastic 500cc race between two great World Champions Kenny Roberts and Barry Sheene with a young Freddie Spencer spearheading the return of Honda in third place. My first Grand Prix outside Europe was in Argentina in 1982. Over two months later the Buddh circuit becomes the 75 th circuit to stage a Grand Prix when India becomes the 31st country to stage a World Championship race. In July the central Asian Sokol International circuit in Kazakhstan stages its first Grand Prix. Kazakhstan and India are included in the 21 Grands Prix schedule that visits 18 countries in a frantic eight months. Next season is a prime example with two new countries staging MotoGP™ races for the very first time. Discovering new countries and cultures in places and areas you would never dream of going to. Of course, there is the racing, after all, that is why you are there but there is so much more. You see whatever your role, circumnavigating the globe supporting such a fantastic World Championship is a rather good way to earn a living. Whether you are a gladiator, team manager, mechanic, journalist, commentator, circuit builder, cook or doctor you will be thinking, and then planning, 2023. Enjoy and overindulge over Christmas and the New Year with family and friends but then your mind wanders. I am sure those exhausted global MotoGP™ travellers spending their first proper weekend at home for many a month would not agree now, but it will not be long before they start getting itchy feet. ![]()
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