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Senior TT winner Georg Meier. The 1939 Isle of Man Tourist Trophy was the last races until 1947 due to the interruption by World War II.It was also the last of ten Isle of Man TT victories for the 34-year-old Stanley Woods [1] in which he won the Junior TT on a Velocette at 83.19 mph and also finished in 4th place in the Senior TT race.
Frederick Lee Frith OBE (30 May 1909 – 24 May 1988) [1] [2] was a British Grand Prix motorcycle road racing world champion. [3] A former stonemason and later a motor cycle retailer in Grimsby, [4] he was a stylish rider and five times winner of the Isle of Man TT. Frith was one of the few to win TT races before and after the Second World War. [5]
Harry Rembrandt 'Rem' Fowler (1882 – 1963 in Birmingham, England) was a British motorcycle racer famous for winning the twin-cylinder class of the inaugural 1907 Isle of Man TT races [3] A skilled toolmaker by trade, [ 2 ] H. Rem Fowler competed as a trials rider between 1903 and 1923 riding Ariel, New Hudson , and Rex motor-cycles and ...
Georg "Schorsch" Meier (German pronunciation: [ˈɡeːɔʁk ʃɔʁʃ ˈmaɪɐ] ⓘ; 9 November 1910 – 19 February 1999) was a German motorcycle racer famous for being the first foreign winner of the prestigious Senior TT, the Blue Riband race of the Isle of Man TT Races, in 1939 riding for the factory BMW team and the first motorcycle racer to lap a Grand Prix course at over 100 mph. [1]
In 1939 he finished fifth in the Junior TT and twelfth in the 500 cc Senior TT, in which he competed for the first time. In the first post-war TT in 1947, Whitworth finished second to his teammate, Bob Foster, in the Junior TT, the best TT result of his career. He retired from the Senior TT race. On 2 May 1948, he won the prestigious, pre ...
Senior TT winner Freddie Frith at Quarterbridge (pictured during the Junior TT, in which he finished 2nd). The 1937 Isle of Man Tourist Trophy saw Freddie Frith break the 90+ mph lap for the first time during the Senior TT with a speed of 90.27 mph on his Norton beating Stanley Woods by only 15 seconds.
When motorsports activities resumed following the conclusion of the Second World War, Foster won the first post-war Isle of Man TT race to be held – the 1947 Junior – when he averaged 80.31 m.p.h. on a Velocette and finished four minutes ahead of the second-place finisher. [8] He finished second to Freddie Frith in the 1948 Junior TT. [9]
That double win was the first time a rider had won two TT races in one week. [23] In 1926 he came second in the Senior TT, and third in the Junior TT, with a DNF in the Lightweight TT. In 1927 he came first in the Lightweight TT, with a DNF on the final lap in the Junior TT when in the lead.