Encyclopedia > Jock Taylor

Article Content

Jock Taylor

Jock Taylor World Champion Motorcycle Sidecar Racer

Scottish born motorcycle sidecar racer, Jock Taylor and his passenger Benga Johannson won the world championship in 1980. In 1982 Jock Taylor and Benga Johannson raised the Sidecar lap record on the Isle of Mann to 108.29mph, a lap record which stood for 7 years.

He was killed in the 1982 Finnish Grand Prix.

All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!

Featured Article

Grateful Dead

... of the Grateful Dead. With the exception of 1975, the Grateful Dead toured regularly around the USA from the winter of 1965 until July 9, 1995 - with a few detours to ...