Guy Martin (racing driver)

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Martin 2010
Martin 2013 on Suzuki GSX-R 1000

Guy Martin (born November 4, 1981 in Kirmington , North Lincolnshire ) is a British motorcycle racer and television presenter. Guy Martin mainly drives road races .

Career

Guy Martin's role model as a racing driver was his father Ian, who raced as an amateur in the 1970s.

After a great success in his debut year, in which Guy Martin won the Cock o'the North Trophy and the international Gold Cup race at Oliver's Mount , he joined the Uel Duvan Racing Team in 2004 . 2004 was another successful year for him. He won the Gold Cup race again and finished seventh in his first race at the Isle of Man TT in the senior class. His fastest lap was an average speed of 122.10  mph (196.5  km / h ). In the 2005 season, Martin was the only driver to have all five races of the Isle of Man TTfinish in the top six. In addition to his first podium at the TT, he also achieved fourth, two fifths and one sixth place. He was able to increase his average speed to 126  mph (203  km / h ). In addition to the Isle of Man TT, Martin took part in the international Gold Cup for the third time.

Towards the end of his career, having raced on both Yamaha , Honda and Suzuki , he drove BMW in the 1000s and Triumph in the lower displacement classes. In 2015, Martin announced that he would be retiring from active racing. In January 2016, however, he announced that he was only pausing the 2016 Tourist Trophy to ride a mountain bike race that was taking place at the same time; he has not completely retired from motorcycle racing and does not rule out a start in the TT in the following years. The BMW Tyco team also confirmed that Martin could start for the team again at any time. In January 2017 it was announced that Martin would join the Honda factory team as a further driver alongside John McGuinness in the 2017 TT. His vehicle will be a Honda CBR1000RR Fireblade SP2. Since 2017 he has been actively participating in road races such as the Cookstown 100 and finished second in the TT Zero behind Bruce Anstey . He wanted to take part in the senior race on a Honda. However, the team canceled the start due to limited training units due to the adverse weather conditions. On July 26, 2017, he again announced the end of his career.

On the Triumph Infor Rocket Streamliner equipped with two modified Triumph Rocket III engines, it reached a speed of 441 km / h on August 8, 2016 on the Bonneville Salt Flats , making the machine the fastest Triumph ever built.

Race wins

year class machine run route
2006 Supersport race 1 Yamaha Ulster Grand Prix Dundrod Circuit
Supersport race 2 Yamaha
UGP race 1 Yamaha
UGP race 2 Yamaha
2007 Supersport race 1 Yamaha Ulster Grand Prix Dundrod Circuit
2009 UGP race 2 Honda Ulster Grand Prix Dundrod Circuit
2011 Superbike race 2 Suzuki Ulster Grand Prix Dundrod Circuit
2012 Superbike race 1 Suzuki Ulster Grand Prix Dundrod Circuit
2013 Supersport race 1 Suzuki Ulster Grand Prix Dundrod Circuit
2013 Superbike race 1 Suzuki Ulster Grand Prix Dundrod Circuit
2013 Superbike race 2 Suzuki Ulster Grand Prix Dundrod Circuit

Film and television appearances

Outside the circuit, Martin has appeared as a presenter on British TV series. TT3D: Hart am Limit (original title: TT3D: Closer to the Edge ) by Richard de Aragues was a documentary about the Isle of Man TT races. In the film, racing drivers Guy Martin and Ian Hutchinson were accompanied during the 2010 season. Martin probably attracted the attention of TV producers through his sometimes eccentric behavior.

In 2011, the BBC produced the History Magazine documentary series The Boat That Guy Built , in which Martin restored an old boat using techniques from the Industrial Revolution .

A year later, a similar documentary series entitled How Britain Worked followed on Channel 4 , which illuminated the working conditions of the Industrial Revolution. There was a companion book for the series, published by Random House .

From 2013 further series followed, also on Channel 4. In the total of 16 episodes of Speed ​​with Guy Martin , the goal was to break several speed records. The documentation Guy Martin's Spitfire accompanied him during the two-year restoration of a Spitfire . The two-part series Our Guy In India was about Martin's tour of India on a motorcycle and the five-part series Guy Martin's Passion For Life dealt with the racing driver Martin and the passion for this sport.

Web links

Commons : Guy Martin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Guy Martin: 2015 is my last Tourist Trophy. Speedweek May 1, 2015. Accessed September 13, 2015 .
  2. ↑ http://www.motorcyclenews.com/sport/tt-road-races/2016/january/guy-martin-to-sit-out-2016-isle-of-man-tt/
  3. ↑ Bikes - Isle of Man TT 2017: All winners & results. motorsport-magazin.com. Retrieved June 9, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Double for Sheil, at KDM Hire Cookstown 100 race meeting. Internet presence of the organizer. Retrieved April 30, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Oli Rushby & Matt Wildee: Exclusive: Guy Martin calls time on road racing . MCN. July 26, 2017. Retrieved July 26, 2017.
  6. ↑ Triumph Infor Rocket Streamliner becomes the fastest ever Triumph on the Bonneville Salt Flats , website "triumphlandspeed.com" (accessed on October 15, 2016)
  7. ^ The Boat that Guy Built. BBC History Magazine. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; accessed on September 7, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.historyextra.com
  8. ^ How Britain Worked. The Randomhouse Group. Retrieved September 7, 2015 .
  9. ↑ Speed ​​With Guy Martin. Channel 4. Retrieved September 7, 2015 .
  10. ↑ Guy Martin's Spitfire. Channel 4. Retrieved September 7, 2015 .
  11. ↑ Our Guy In India. Channel 4. Retrieved September 7, 2015 .
  12. ↑ Guy Martin's Passion for Life. Channel 4. Retrieved September 7, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Martin, Guy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British motorcycle racer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th November 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirmington , England