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Frank had a pssion for road driver training and had commenced to do that at Bob Jane's Calder Race Track in Melbourne. In 1990 he founded his own Performance Driving Centre between Brisbane and the Gold Coast in Queensland and was awarded an Australian Order (the equivalent of a knighthood in the UK). Before taking up motor racing he had been an unbeaten boxer and champion surf life saver (Captain of Whale Beach and participated in South Africa), could have been a professional golfer and was a motorcycle racer.
Frank was an intelligent engineer as well as an accomplished racing driver, which helped him in both his racing career and as a team owner and manager. He was also a brilliant public speaker and could hold a crowd with his fund of hilarious and often risque stories about his own experiences and other drivers and characters within motor racing.
In 1973 Patrick Stephens Ltd., published a book penned by Gardner entitled "Racing Drivers Manual" in collaboration with Castrol Oils Ltd. This book was a mixture of useful advice for the budding racing driver punctuated by Frank's autobiographical and often hilarious recollections of his early life and many racing experiences.
In 1980, Gardner published a book titled Drive to Survive. It is still in print 25 years later.
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