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Doug Chivas

Motorcycle racing identity DOUG CHIVAS died at his mother’s home on the New South Wales Central Coast on Thursday, August 20 after a several years-long battle with cancer. First bowel, then lung.

Doug is probably the only racer to have driven in the 1000-kilometre race at Bathurst (at age

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