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Motorcycling Victoria’s case against David and Peter Large.

After the conclusion of racing at the Southern classic meeting, Saturday 2004 I was approached by
David Morgan the MA representative. He asked to see our licences as he believed we were unhicencecj.
I pointed out that our licences were produced at scruiteneering that morning but he was welcome to see
them again. He then asked for insurance certificates. I produced mine but Pete had left his at home. He
then took us to talk with other officials from MV who insisted that Pete go home and get his insurance
document. As racing had finished for the day and Pete had had a couple of beers he quite rightly
refused to ride home. The 3 MV officials and the MA official then said that we were in breach of the
regulations and could not ride on Sunday.

We produced the letter from MA chief executive stating that it was ok to use a Scottish licence in
Australia providing we had adequate insurance. The officials ignored this official MA document. We then
gave our bikes to other riders to use on the Sunday. We did not argue with the officials even though we
knew we were right. The next morning We were told by the steward that they had reconsidered the
matter and it was ok to ride. We did not ask for our bikes back and so missed the first southern classic
that we did not ride in since the beginning of the event many years ago. As Pete had won the four
previous sidecar southern classics and was likely to win his 5th, naturally he was a bit upset.

Several weeks later Peter received a hand written letter from a person we did not know. The letter was
not on an official letter head and stated that this person was investigating the alledged breach of the
rules. I contacted the race secretary to ask him to try to find out from MV who this person was and what
right he had to question us. The race secretary was informed by MV that the investigator, Dale Wylie,
was authorised by MV to investigate the case. The race secretary passed this information to us but as
we were soon to leave to go to the UK to race we did not respond further. When we returned from the
UK 7 weeks later we were informed by MV that they had carried out an extensive investigation which
found that we were unlicenced and uninsured. MV imposed a fine of $3000 each and banned us from
racing for two years from the date of payment of the fine.

At no time was I contacted by MV regarding the charges. Peter Wright of MV claimed they did not have
my adress. He only had to look at the entry form, a copy of which was given to MV be the race secretary.
All information I had regarding the charges against us came from Peter Large. We do not believe we
were given an opportunity to defend ourselves.

We decided to appeal and paid $750 to lodge an appeal stating the reasons for the appeal. We
contacted a barrister who gave advice on how to proceed at the appeal. While we were in the barristers
office he rang MA to make enquiries as to how the appeal process worked. He was told that as we had
a good case and it was probably a routine that had to be foliwed there was no need for us to be
represented. We attended the appeal the following night.

The chairman was a barrister hired by MA and there were two MA members on the jury. MV was
represented by Peter Wright, with Dale Wylie and Andrew Winter as the witnesses for the prosecution.

Dale Wylie gave his evidence and agreed that at no time had he spoken to us during the course of his
extensive investigation. He then left, claiming he had to work the next day. We also had to work the
next day, Pete at 5.30 am and me at 3.30 am. We were willing to stay to the end. The” ~ndependant
chairman” insisted on taking a break even though we objected and he left the room with the MV officials.
We don’t know what they talked about.

We produced the Scottish licence and a letter from the Scottish ACU confirming our membership. The
chairman would not accept these as he stated that there is no such place as Scotland and so the
documents must be false. MV stated that they had contacted the ACU in England and there was no
record of us. Again we pointed out that the Scottish ACU is not the English ACU. The “independant
Chairman” on behalf of MV stated that they had spent hundreds of man hours and thousands of dollars
envestigating the case. Despite this massive waste of members resources they were unable to locate
page 42 of the ACU handbook. Thats the page that lists the Adresses and officials of the Scottish
ACU and affilliated clubs.

He also stated that as his own insurance did not cover motorcycle racing the nobody elses would either.
My death Cover was for $425000 and Peters was for 318000, both much better than that offered by MA
and both valid for racing. Andrew Winter stated that the sidecar riders are a law unto themselves and
did their own scruteneering on Friday and so we did not show our licences. He was not asked to
produce any evidence to support this lie. We were not there on Friday.

Several weeks later after the 2005 Southern Classic Peter contacted MA for a decision. He was told that
the decision was made weeks ago but the result was not released until after the Southern Classic. The
outcome was that we were fined $1000 each for having no insurance and banned for two years.

In compiling this report I have stuck to the facts and have not offered any opinion as to why MV and MA
are so keen to ban me from racing. It is unfortunate that Peter is caught up in this persecution as he
would have had another 35 years of racing ahead of him.

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