Mick Grant

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Mick Grant
Mick Grant in 2007 veterans race
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Mick Grant (born July 10, 1944 in Middlestown , Yorkshire ) is a retired British motorcycle racer . He mostly drove road races .

Career

Grant grew up as the son of a miner . According to his own statements, he started riding a motorcycle at the age of eleven. Lacking money for fuel, he pumped these cars out of parked cars at night.

In the late 1960s he started professional racing on Triumph . Grant sporadically took part in the motorcycle world championship and was able to take two Grand Prix victories in the quarter-liter class and eighth place in the overall standings in 1977 . However, he was able to record his greatest successes in road races. In 1972 he won the Thruxton 500 for Norton . In the all-time list of the Isle of Man TT , he ranks ninth with seven wins. His most successful year was 1977 on a Kawasaki . In addition to road races, he also competed in the national Superstock Cup until he retired from active racing in 1985. Mick Grant remained connected to motorcycling as the manager of Jamie Whitham , Steve Plater , Craig Jones and Chris Vermeulen . In 2010 he published his biography "Takin 'the Mick". In 2014, Norton announced they had hired Grant for their racing team.

Victory statistics

year class machine run
1974 Production 1000 triumph Isle of Man TT
1975 Senior Kawasaki Isle of Man TT
1975 500 cc Kawasaki North west 200
1975 750 cc Kawasaki North west 200
1977 Classic Kawasaki Isle of Man TT
1977 750 cc Kawasaki North west 200
1977 750 cc Kawasaki Macau Grand Prix
1977 250 cc Kawasaki Dutch TT
1977 250 cc Kawasaki Swedish Grand Prix
1978 Classic Kawasaki Isle of Man TT
1980 TT-F1 Honda Isle of Man TT
1975 500 cc Suzuki North west 200
1981 Senior Suzuki Isle of Man TT
1975 Superbike race 2 Suzuki North west 200
1985 Production B Suzuki Isle of Man TT

References

literature

Web links

Commons : Mick Grant  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Motorbike racer Mick Grant releases autobiography. The Huddersfield Examiner, October 5, 2010, accessed September 28, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Legendary TT Racer Mick Grant teams up with Norton for TT 2014. www.iomtt.com, accessed on September 28, 2015 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Grant, Mick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British motorcycle racer
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Middlestown , Yorkshire