Family Confidential

The Janes (1x2)

: 22, 2010

Bob Jane’s name and face is one of Australia’s most famous brands, but the cost of this fame and the lifestyle it brought, has been significant. The country’s leading ‘revhead’ made it out of tough working-class Brunswick in Melbourne to motor racing fame and a multi-million dollar tyre empire . But the flamboyant racing king has paid a large personal price along the way. Broken marriages,, family tragedy and sensational headlines in a bitter public court battle has left him a wiser, more sanguine man than the “toughest little bastard in Brunswick’’ he was named at the tender age of 14. Now 80, his crash and burn approach to life has slowed, but the fire in his belly still burns for a good ride around the track.