Maxwell Boyd is in the driver's seat for fifty minutes of flat-out motoring on road and track around the world with six men who came to the top in motor sport in 1968.
Vie Elford began a new career on the race circuits after winning the Monte Carlo Rally.
A Kenya garage mechanic Nick Nowicki beat the world's best drivers to come home first in the East African Safari.
Victor in the Isle of Man Junior and Senior T.T., Giacomo Agostini was the year's top man on a motor-cycle.
Helsinki student Hannu Mikkola became the fastest of 'the flying Finns'.
Graham Hill was world champion racing driver for a second time.
And there was a £10,000 prize due to be collected in Australia last week by the winner of the London to Sydney Marathon.
Written and produced by Brian Robins