Wayne Michael Gardner AM is an Australian former professional Grand Prix motorcycle and touring car racer. His most notable achievement was winning the 1987 500 cc Motorcycle World Championship, becoming the first Australian to win motorcycling’s premier class. His success on the world motorcycle road racing circuit earned him the nickname The Wollongong Whiz. Both of his sons, Remy and Luca, are motorcycle racers.
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Wayne Michael Gardner AM is an Australian former professional Grand Prix motorcycle and touring car racer. His most notable achievement was winning the 1987 500 cc Motorcycle World Championship, becoming the first Australian to win motorcycling’s premier class. His success on the world motorcycle road racing circuit earned him the nickname The Wollongong Whiz. Both of Gardner’s sons, Remy and Luca, are motorcycle racers. Gardner was born in WollONGong, New South Wales, Australia. He began his racing career in 1977 at the age of 18, riding a second-hand Yamaha TZ250 bike in the Australian championship and finishing second on debut at Amaroo Park. He went on to record his first win a few weeks later at Oran Park Raceway. In 1981 Gardner was hired by Mamoru Moriwaki to race in theAustralian Superbike championship aboard the Moriwki Kawasaki Kz1000s. Gardner’s impressive results earned him a contract with the Honda Britain racing team. In 1984, he won the British 500cc national championship for Honda and was able to compete in five Grand Prix world championship races. In 1989, Wayne Rainey won his home race at Phillip Island, just edging out Christian Sarron at Laguna Seca. Gardner had a frustrating season in 1990, winning three rounds and only 5th in the World Championship.
Ironically, he joined on with fellow Australian Michael Doohan in 1989 to win his fourth World Championship at Jerez in Spain. He was also part of the team that won the inaugural Australian motorcycle Grand Prix in 1989. He is the grandfather of two-year-old son, Luca Gardner, who was born on November 17, 2001. He has two sons, Lucan and Remy. He currently lives in Sydney with his wife, Lisa. He also has a daughter, Lizzie, who is a professional motorcyclist and a mother-of-two. Gardner is the uncle of Australian Formula One driver, Michael Gardner, and Australian Formula Two driver, David Gardner. Gardner has a son, Luke, who has two children, and a step-daughter, Charlotte Gardner, a professional Formula One racer and a former Formula One racing driver. He won the Australian 500cc World Championship with Honda in 1987. In 1988, Gardner was hampered by the Honda NSR500 not being easy to ride. He finished second in the championship behind American Eddie Lawson who rode for the factory Marlboro Yamaha team. He still managed wins in the Netherlands, Belgium, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia.
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