Roberts won the 1968 Datsun 3 Hour Trophy at Sandown in Melbourne with Bob Watson, giving the Holden HK Monaro GTS327 a debut victory.
During the 1970 Hardie-Ferodo 500 Roberts was involved in a sensational incident late in the race when, after losing control, he launched his Ford XW Falcon GTHO Phase II backwards over Skyline before tumbling down the hillside.
[3] Roberts was born Antony Martin, on 17 November 1938 at home in Walmer, Kent, England, the eldest of two sons.
In 1951 at the age of 12 years, Roberts, his parents and younger brother migrated to Australia as ten pound POMS.
Combined with type II diabetes that was poorly managed, Roberts died at home in 2000 at the age of 61.