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DerekR · Forum Member Joined: 24 Jan 2009 Posts: 50

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Steve 'Hizzy' Hislop (January 11, 1962 - July 30, 2003) was a Scottish motorcycle racer. Hislop won the Isle of Man TT eleven times and also the British 250cc Championship (1990) and British Superbike championship (1995 and 2002).
Eleven times TT winner, ‘Hizzy’ rode into the history books in 1989 as the first rider to lap at over 120mph. His first win came in the 1987 TT Formula 2 Race on a Yamaha. In 1989 and 1991 he won three races in a week - the TT Formula 1, Senior and Supersport 600. British fans loved him in 1992 when he took the Rotary Norton to victory in the Senior TT, the first time the famous trophy has been won by a British bike rider since 1961. He last rode in 1994 when he took the Senior and Formula 1 titles. He had many memorable battles during his tremendous TT career with the likes of Fogarty, Dunlop and McCallen and remains a popular and often emulated modern day hero of the Mountain Circuit.

Hislop died in a helicopter accident near Teviothead, Roxburghshire in July 2003 and was interred in the village of Chesters near his birthplace of Hawick, Scotland.

A memorial was unveiled in Wilton Lodge Park, Hawick near that of Jimmie Guthrie.
There is a bronze statue in memory of Steve Hislop on Onchan Head, Isle of Man.

DerekR · Forum Member Joined: 24 Jan 2009 Posts: 50

DerekR · Forum Member Joined: 24 Jan 2009 Posts: 50

DerekR · Forum Member Joined: 24 Jan 2009 Posts: 50