Cecil Ashby

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Cecil Thomas Ashby ( 1897 or 1898 - June 10, 1929 in Douglas , Isle of Man ) was a British motorcycle racer .

In his career he won two European motorcycle championships .

Career

Cecil Ashby debuted in 1924 on a 350 cc - Montgomery with fourth in the junior class at the Tourist Trophy on the Isle of Man , the then most difficult bike race in the world. In June 1925 he won his first international race on P&M with the half-liter run at the swimming pool race in Swinoujscie . A few weeks later he won the first German Grand Prix on a Zenith in the 250cc race at the Berlin AVUS .

In 1927 Ashby achieved the best TT placement of his career in third place behind Wal Handley and Luigi Arcangeli in the lightweight race. On the first weekend of July, as part of the Grand Prix of Germany at the newly opened Nürburgring the motorcycle championship in 1927 extended. Cecil Ashby won the 250 cc race on OK-Supreme ahead of the German Walfried Winkler on DKW and the Austrian Hugo Höbel on Puch and thus crowned himself European Champion. In the half liter he finished third behind compatriot Graham Walker ( Sunbeam ) and the Irishman Stanley Woods ( Norton ) on a Rudge . A short time later, the Briton won the quarter-liter pool race on OK-Supreme- JAP , which this time took place in Kolberg .

The following year, Ashby defended his quarter-liter European title by winning the Swiss Grand Prix at the Circuit de Meyrin in Geneva . In August of that year he also won the swimming pool race for the third time in his career, this time on Ardie in the half-liter class, and in September also the 250th Austrian Grand Prix held in Vösendorf .

Deadly accident

On June 10, 1929, Cecil Ashby had a serious accident in the Junior TT race. He fell with his New Imperial at Ballacraine and sustained serious head injuries, of which he died that same evening in Noble's Hospital in Douglas .

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SURNAME Ashby, Cecil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ashby, Cecil Thomas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British motorcycle racer
DATE OF BIRTH 1897 or 1898
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 1929
Place of death Douglas , Isle of Man