Reet champion!
Time to introduce someone here to CMM’s pages: Paul Brookes. Don’t know the name? Then read on…
Now, if you look down the roll-call of British Supersport 600 championship winners over the last two decades you’ll see the likes of Cal Crutchlow, Sam Lowes, Karl Harris, Jim Moodie, Phil Borley, Ian Simpson and – way back in 1990 – John Reynolds on the Kawasaki ZZ-R600. Legends all!
But, one year before JR’s win on the sports-touring ZZ-R was one Paul ‘Brookie’ Brookes, a chirpy lad who took the 1989 Supersport 600 title on a Yamaha FZR600. He stayed in the paddock and raced many other machines and even hung around in the BSB championship as a very talented photographer. Well, he still goes out on track, and – one day – he woke up and decided he needed a large dollop of nostalgia in his garage. Brookie, it’s over to you…
