Don,

I must admit I did find it strange he didn't get a mention on Honda's own 'History of' site.

Many names are mentioned from 1954 when the Special Projects dept. was formed and the work they did, which changed the road racing map for ever, post 1959.

Engineers, project bosses, and riders, and lots of detail about the San Paolo, races.

Honda raced outside Japan at Interlagos, for the first time in their history, and riders actually carried their stripped down bikes as 'HAND LUGGAGE'. The sea freight charges were too expensive for the race department to pay out of their limited budget..

One of the riders crashed and injured himself in practice and didn't qualify for his start money. This left the team so short of funds they had to sell their machines locally in order to get home to Japan.