Kevin Cass

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Kevin Cass

Nationality	Australian

Grand Prix motorcycle racing career
Active years	1965 - 1967
Teams	Bultaco
Grands Prix	3
Championships
Wins	0
Podium finishes	1
Career points	8
Pole positions	N/A
Fastest laps	N/A
First Grand Prix	1965 250cc Spanish Grand Prix
Last Grand Prix	1967 125cc Ulster Grand Prix

Kevin Cass is a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer from Australia. He is best known for his motorcycle racing career in the 1960s in both Australia and Europe racing at Brands Hatch, the Isle of Man TT and various European Grand Prix events riding both Cotton and Bultaco motorcycles in the 125cc and 250cc classes. Returning to Australia in 1968 with his first wife Virginia, he continued racing and then opened a bike shop, Kevin Cass Motorcycles in Wollongong, New South Wales.

Also an accomplished mechanical engineer, he designed and built numerous championship racing bikes^[1] and supported the likes of Peter Stronarch, Dave Burgess, Murray Sayle, Warren Willing and the young Wayne Gardner in their racing careers. His bikes had particular success at the Castrol 6 Hour race.

In the 1980s, Kevin Cass became increasingly involved in the restoration and re-building of vintage motorcycles. Sponsored by Australian Geographic, he re-created the first 1925 circumnavigation of Australia on a motorcycle, a 16,000km journey which took place on a 1924 Douglas^[2].

Kevin lives with his wife Helen in Wollongong and continues to restore vintage motorcycles. He has three children and four grandchildren.