Barry Sheene
Barry Sheene
Barry Steven Frank Sheene MBEwas a British World Champion Grand Prix motorcycle road racer, who remained as Britain's last champion in 1977 until Danny Kent in 2015...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMotorcycle Racer
Date of Birth11 September 1950
giving income inspector per resent tax
I do resent giving the income tax inspector 83 per cent.
circuits
It's not as if there's a noise problem, because they use the same circuits as Formula One.
It wasn't about the money. I just wanted them to admit it was their fault.
carry taken within yard
I'd get to within a yard of that door you walk through and the thing would go mad. I used to carry an X-ray in my briefcase, to show them. But I had all the metal taken out.
I decided there and then to sue the bastards.
years two race
I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow.
doe endless bores
Endless motorbike talk can and does bore me.
deserve
Nobody within motorcycling has or deserves any respect.
japan world ridiculous
They were ridiculous times. After I won my World Championship in 1976, I went to Japan.
suicide racing missions
I thought: This is not racing, it's a suicide mission.
rain advantage ifs
The advantage of the rain is that, if you have a quick bike, there's no advantage.
men world championship
I vowed I would do everything I could to stop the Isle of Man counting towards the World Championship. And it was stopped, so they love me in the Isle of Man.
stress swimming waiting
Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out and meet the bloody thing.
again both came engine following races second seized third weekend won
The engine seized and I crashed. But I came third in my second race, then won both races the following weekend, and again the weekend after that.