A snapshot taken in the press room at Phoenix International Raceway in 1998. Then AMA Superbike Media Manager Larry Lawrence (me) interviewing (from left to right) Aaron Yates, Anthony Gobert and Mat Mladin after the Superbike race, which Gobert won. The tension in those press conferences with Gobert and Mladin was palpable. To say the two Aussies didn’t like each other would be a supreme understatement.

Superbike press conference at PIR in 1998 with Aaron Yates, Anthony Gobert and Mat Mladin.