Malcolm Campbell is arguably the best exponent of two-wheeled road racing to ever come out of Tasmania. At the time of his induction he had just won the Australian Superbike Championship for the third time, despite having a round of the championship still to run.Campbell started racing as a 16-year-old in 1972, venturing across Bass Strait in 1974 where he was placed against top competition in graded racing.After a number of seasons on a variety of machines Campbell tasted victory in Tasmanian and interstate production bike events, before securing a factory ride.

In 1981 he blasted into the national and international limelight by winning the New Zealand Castrol Six Hour Endurance Race. In the years that followed Campbell was invited to compete overseas in road races and superbike events in Asia and Europe, and was signed as Team Honda Australia's lead rider. Campbell's ability was also recognised by Honda in Japan and he was used to test new revolutionary technologically advanced machines for the first time in the world in a number of instances.

During the mid and late 1980s and early 1990s Campbell also competed in limited rounds of the World Superbike Championship and World 500 cc Grand Prix Championships with distinction. Over his illustrious career up until the time of his induction Campbell had won three Australian superbike championships, one Australian Castrol Six Hour, one New Zealand Castrol Six Hour, one Malaysian Grand Prix, one Australian Grand Prix, one Swann International Series (beating world champion Wayne Gardner), one Australian endurance championship, and two Australian road racing championships. He had also been placed in numerous Australian and international championships, attained many pole positions in Australian and overseas events, and set new lap records all over the country and around the world. Campbell has also broken a number of bones, but in the true fighting spirit of a champion, has continued on to race another day - and win!

Unfortunately he was never able to secure a full factory-backed ride in the world 500 cc Grand Prix Championship. Many considered he had more than enough talent, but was just unlucky not to have the right breaks with sponsorship and support at the right times to chase a world championship.