of the Year trophy and see your name now engraved beside riders like Jake Lewis and Shane Richardson, it is really humbling. I’ ve been lucky enough to learn from both of them, not only as a racer but as a person. While Shane is no longer with us after the tragic accident at Oulton Park a few weeks ago, the influence people of his calibre have on you really does continue to have an impact throughout your life. We managed to achieve some excellent results in 2024, nationally and internationally. One of the highlights was definitely winning the 600 championship at home at Teretonga during the Burt – it doesn’ t get much better than that. We then carried that momentum into our European racing which turned out to be a huge season.” Buchanan, who competes in the Moto3 World Championship, has been an ambassador for The Burt Munro Challenge for the past six years, helping spread the word about the iconic event. If you haven’ t been following the Moto3 racing, you are doing yourself a disservice, it is absolutely awesome. Hard, fast, close racing action with the best young guns on the planet and seeing them go into corners five-wide and nobody backing off … there is simply nothing quite like Moto3.
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