Are the engines or the bikes themselves completely stripped after every meeting?
A. Not completely stripped, but we certainly have an inspection of anything that’s likely to require replacement. There’s a lot of work to do between meetings. If they are comparatively short meetings such as Oran Park or Amaroo, we may not take the cylinders off prior to the next meeting, but if it happens to have been a meeting where we would do say 480 km of racing, normally we would take the cylinders off and have a look at them. Unless there has been any problems we wouldn’t dismantle the crankcases. We dismantle the crankcases every 800 km as a matter of course anyway. So that basically what we do is on a distance basis and that seems to work very well. Q. What about cranks. Have you ever broken any? A. Cranks are a thing we’ve never had any problems with at all – we’ve never broken a crankshaft. The only thing we’ve ever had happen that relates to the crankshaft is that one of the magneto failures I mentioned was caused by the short shaft the rotor fits on to shearing off where
