Mick Grant Mick Grant is an English former professional motorcycle road racer and TT rider. A works-supported rider for Norton , Kawasaki , Honda and Suzuki , he is a seven-time winner of the Isle of Man TT motorcycle race on various makes, including 'Slippery Sam', a three-cylinder Triumph Trident . The son of a coal miner , the soft-spoken, down-to-earth Yorkshireman from Wakefield , was a sharp contrast to the brash, playboy image presented by Londoner Barry Sheene during the 1970s.Race career Grant began his racing career as a privateer , entering his first Manx Grand Prix in 1969 on a Velocette 500 cc, and his first TT in the following year, again using the Velocette and placing 18th in the Junior class on a Lee-sponsored Yamaha TD2 .Clive Padgett, heading Padgetts of Batley, on TD2 250 cc and TR2 350 cc Yamahas, and Brian Davidson of John Davidson Group on TZ Yamahas , he was equally versatile on either two- or four-stroke machines.Peter Williams and Phil Read , part of the first Norton factory team since the Norton race-shop was disbanded in 1962, headed by ex-racer Frank Perris . In 1972 , he teamed with Dave Croxford to win the Thruxton 500 endurance race on a 745 cc Norton Commando , and finished second to Williams in the 1973 F750 TT .1974 , Grant was the chosen rider for the then-new, UK-based Boyer Kawasaki Racing Team , based on two air-cooled triples . Stan Shenton, head of motorcycle business Boyer of Bromley, previously having a long background of racing Triumphs, was Team principal. They were one of a selected network of regional Kawasaki dealers, part of a controlled expansion and roll-out to establish a UK dealer-network. As part of the development process, Grant's racing included Ontario, California in late 1974.1975 , Grant completed the first-ever 120 mph lap of the North West 200 circuit. Also in 1975, it was Grant who finally broke Mike Hailwood's absolute TT lap record for the Isle of Man Snaefell mountain course , set in 1967 on a 500 Honda, raising the average-speed of one lap to 109.82 mph on a Kawasaki KR750 two-stroke triple entered by the Boyer team and Stan Shenton. Although Grant failed to finish the race, retiring at the Gooseneck with a broken chain caused by a mis-aligned rear wheel spindle, he won the 500 cc Senior TT race. In 1977 , Grant raised the lap record to 112.77 mph, again on a 750 cc Kawasaki.Portrush , 1975Grand Prix motorcycle racing circuit in 1977 for the Kawasaki factory team alongside teammate Barry Ditchburn and the following year with Kork Ballington and Gregg Hansford . In 1979 , Honda chose Grant to help develop their exotic oval-cylindered NR500 , unfortunately with disappointing results. Grant also won the Macau Grand Prix in 1977 on the Kawasaki KR750 and again in 1984 , riding a Heron-Suzuki.number 10 and carried the initials JL on his helmet, even after retirement from competition, as a tribute to his early sponsor – mechanic, fabricator and frame-builder Jim Lee of the 'Dalesman' marque.Grand Prix motorcycle racing results[the Isle of Man TT web site"/>]Points system from 1969 onwards:Position 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Points 15 12 10 8 6 5 4 3 2 1
Year Class Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Points Rank Wins 1970 350cc Yamaha GER YUG IOM NED DDR CZE FIN ULS NAT ESP 0 – 0 1970 500cc Velocette GER FRA YUG IOM NED BEL DDR FIN ULS NAT ESP 0 – 0 1971 350cc Yamaha AUT GER IOM NED DDR CZE SWE FIN ULS NAT ESP 4 36th 0 1972 250cc Yamaha GER FRA AUT NAT IOM YUG NED BEL DDR CZE SWE FIN ESP 0 – 0 1972 350cc Yamaha GER FRA AUT NAT IOM YUG NED DDR CZE SWE FIN ESP 10 17th 0 1972 500cc Kawasaki GER FRA AUT NAT IOM YUG NED BEL DDR CZE SWE FIN ESP 10 17th 0 1973 250cc Yamaha FRA AUT GER IOM YUG NED BEL CZE SWE FIN ESP 9 23rd 0 1973 350cc Yamaha FRA AUT GER NAT IOM YUG NED CZE SWE FIN ESP 9 22nd 0 1973 500cc Yamaha FRA AUT GER IOM YUG NED BEL CZE SWE FIN ESP 0 – 0 1974 250cc Yamaha GER NAT IOM NED BEL SWE FIN CZE YUG ESP 18 10th 0 1974 350cc Yamaha FRA GER AUT NAT IOM NED SWE FIN YUG ESP 18 11th 0 1974 500cc Yamaha FRA GER AUT NAT IOM NED BEL SWE FIN CZE 0 – 0 1975 250cc Kawasaki FRA ESP GER NAT IOM NED BEL SWE FIN CZE YUG 0 – 0 1975 500cc Kawasaki FRA ESP AUT GER NAT IOM NED BEL SWE FIN CZE YUG 15 14th 1 1976 500cc Kawasaki FRA AUT NAT IOM NED BEL SWE FIN CZE GER 0 – 0 1977 250cc Kawasaki VEN GER NAT ESP FRA YUG NED BEL SWE FIN CZE GBR 42 8th 2 1978 250cc Kawasaki VEN ESP FRA NAT NED BEL SWE FIN GBR GER CZE YUG 17 14th 0 1978 350cc Kawasaki VEN AUT FRA NAT NED SWE FIN GBR GER CZE YUG 16 14th 0 1979 500cc Suzuki VEN AUT GER NAT ESP YUG NED BEL SWE FIN 1 35th 0 1979 500cc Honda GBR FRA 1 35th 0 1984 500cc Suzuki RSA NAT ESP AUT GER FRA YUG NED BEL GBR SWE RSM 0 – 0
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