Who is it.......NO 4

[JimmyC]

Italian Trev....you'll get this with yer eyes closed.....

 

[GS TRV]

please tell me it's Tom Herron

 

[JimmyC]

Tom Herron...............one of the top privateers in the mid seventies World Championships

 

[blobbs]

I was at the North West wi me Da the day he was killed. I wasn't very old at the time. What year was that?

 

[GS TRV]

Tom Herron...............one of the top privateers in the mid seventies World Championships

phew

I was there the day he died as well but think I was about 7 so can't really remember all that much. Wasn't there someone else that died at the race that day as well?

 

[Coolcarbon]

Wasn't there someone else that died at the race that day as well?

wikipedia...


After the fourth round of the 500cc world championship, Herron returned back home to compete in the North West 200, where, in the previous year, he won 2 races, and he set a lap record of 127.63 mph. The course record still stands due to alterations made.

The 1979 North West 200 will always be remembered as "Black Saturday"; as it claimed the lives of Scottish man Brian Hamilton, Armoy man Frank Kennedy, who died of injuries months later, and Herron himself. In the last lap of the last race, Herron had been fighting for third place along with Jeff Sayle, Steve Parrish and Greg Johnstone, when he crashed at Juniper. He died later in Coleraine hospital, leaving behind his wife and two daughters.

Herron's death was a tragedy, and Ireland's place on the Grand Prix scene has never truly been replaced

 

[blobbs]

I was 14 . Didn't think I was as old as that. Anyway from what I remember it was a great race.

 

[billy56]

That the first NW200 i was at, Off all places juniper hill. I can still remember it well

 

[GS TRV]

I was 10 then - near enough