Barry Steven Frank Sheene (11 September 1950 – 10 March 2003) was a British professional
motorcycle racer
Motorcycle racing (also called moto racing and motorbike racing) is the motorcycle sport of racing motorcycles. Major varieties include motorcycle road racing and off-road racing, both either on circuits or open courses, and track racing. Oth ...
. He competed in
Grand Prix motorcycle racing and was a two-time
world champion
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, winning consecutive 500cc titles in
1976
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and
1977
Events January
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.
Sheene's 1977 title remained as Britain's last solo motorcycle world championship until
Danny Kent
Danny Ray Kent (born 25 November 1993) is an English motorcycle racer, best known for winning the 2015 Moto3 World Championship. In doing so he became Great Britain's first Grand Prix solo motorcycle world champion since Barry Sheene in , as wel ...
in
2015 in the
Moto3
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category.
After a racing career stretching from 1968 to 1984 he retired from competition and relocated to
Australia, working as a
motorsport commentator and
property developer
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.
Early life
Sheene was born off the
Gray's Inn Road
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,
Bloomsbury, London, the second child of parents Frank, who had been resident engineer at the
Royal College of Surgeons
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, and was himself a former competitive rider who retired in 1956 and an experienced motorcycle mechanic.
[redbull.co]
"Remembering Barry Sheene"
Retrieved 3 January 2014 and Iris. He grew up in
Queen Square,
Holborn
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The area has its root ...
, London.
Before entering road racing Sheene found work as a messenger and delivery driver.
Career
Sheene began competitive motorcycle racing in 1968, winning his first races at
Brands Hatch
Brands Hatch is a motor racing circuit in West Kingsdown, Kent, England, United Kingdom. Originally used as a grasstrack motorcycle circuit on farmland, it hosted 12 runnings of the British Grand Prix between 1964 and 1986 and currently host ...
riding father Frank's 125cc and 250cc
Bultacos.
He improved to second behind
Chas Mortimer in 1969 in the 125cc class on the
Bultaco.
By 1970, Sheene had become the British 125cc champion at age 20, riding a former
Suzuki factory racing team motorcycle that he purchased for £2,000. The 1967 Suzuki RT67 twin-cylinder motorcycle had previously been ridden by Suzuki
Factory-backed
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rider,
Stuart Graham in the 1968 Grands Prix and in selected 1969 events. In
1971, still riding the same Suzuki twin, he finished second in the 125cc World Championship, probably missing the title due to injuries sustained in a well-paid non-championship race at Hengelo (Netherlands) and during the Race Of the Year at
Mallory Park
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(compression fractures of three vertebrae and five broken ribs). His first Grand Prix win coming on that bike at the
Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium, soon followed by a win on a 50cc
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Kreidler at the
Czechoslovakian Grand Prix
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held at the
Masaryk Circuit
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The original street circuit was made up of public roads, and at its longest m ...
, where he finished over two and a half minutes ahead.
For the
1972
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season, Sheene was signed by
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to ride a factory-supported Yamaha YZ635 for the 250cc World Championship under the French Yamaha importer Sonauto's banner. There was no Yamaha factory team at the time, but Sheene was one of six riders receiving support from the factory. However, at the third round in
Austria
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, after losing a sprint to the finish line to the Australian
John Dodds for third place, he voiced his displeasure to team management about the performance of the bike. The next Grand Prix was the
Grand Prix of Nations at
Imola
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at the end of May, but Sheene crashed in practice and broke his collarbone, preventing him from taking part in the race, and in the Isle of Man TT as well (which was the fifth Grand Prix of 1972). The next seven races of the world championship all took place in close succession in June and July and Barry was not fit to take part in them.
After the
Yugoslavian Grand Prix, Sheene's factory-supported Yamaha YZ635 was given to
Jarno Saarinen
Jarno Karl Keimo Saarinen (11 December 1945 – 20 May 1973) was a Finnish professional Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. In the early 1970s, he was considered one of the most promising and talented motorcycle racers of his era until he was kil ...
, already a Yamaha factory rider in the 350cc class, who went on to win four races and the 250cc World Championship that year. Once back to fitness, Sheene would get factory-supported Yamahas back for British races over the summer (Silverstone, Scarborough, Mallory Park) and for the last Grand Prix of the season, at the
Montjuïc circuit
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in Spain on 23 September, where he scored a third place in the 250cc class.
Sheene was signed by Suzuki during the off season 1972–1973 and won the newly formed
Formula 750 European championship for them in 1973. As a works Suzuki rider Sheene had two contracts, with the World Championship events taking precedence over his Suzuki GB contract for home and international events, if any race dates clashed.
For
1974, Suzuki introduced the
RG500 which Sheene rode to a second, third and a fourth scoring 30 points and finishing sixth in the World Championship. A spectacular crash at the
Daytona 200
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in the
1975 season threatened to end his career, breaking his left thigh, right arm, collarbone and two ribs, yet he recovered and was racing again seven weeks afterwards.
Again riding the RG500 he scored an impressive first 500cc victory in June at the
1975 Dutch TT, edging out
Giacomo Agostini.
In the
1976 season, he won five 500cc
Grands Prix, bringing him the
World Championship
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.
He took the Championship again in the
1977 season with six victories.
For the 1977 season Sheene was partnered by
Steve Parrish
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Racing career
P ...
, who rode Sheene's 1976 Suzuki 500cc machine.
Sheene's battle with
Kenny Roberts
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at the
1979 British Grand Prix at
Silverstone has been cited as one of the greatest motorcycle Grand Prix races of the 1970s.
After the 1979 season, he left the
Heron-
Suzuki factory
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team, believing that he was receiving inferior equipment to his teammates. He switched to a
privateer
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on a
Yamaha Yamaha may refer to:
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machine, but soon started receiving works equipment. In
1981
Events January
* January 1
** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union.
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, Roberts was the reigning World 500cc Champion for the third time in succession. Sheene, by now on a competitive Yamaha, was determined to take the championship from him. Sheene and Roberts battled all season and let Suzuki riders
Marco Lucchinelli of Italy and American
Randy Mamola beat them for the top two spots. Roberts finished third and Sheene fourth in the final World Championship standings. Sheene's win at the 1981
Swedish Grand Prix would be the last win for a British rider in the top category until
Cal Crutchlow
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's debut win at the
2016 Czech Republic GP.
In a crash at
Silverstone when riding his Yamaha, Sheene hit the unsighted machine of fallen Frenchman Patrick Igoa during practice for the
1982 British Grand Prix.
His injured legs were saved by orthopaedic surgeon Mr Nigel John Cobb
FRCS
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at the nearby
Northampton General Hospital
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History
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. This largely ended his potential as a title threat and he retired in
1984
Events
January
* January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888.
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. He remains the only rider to win Grand Prix races in the 50 cc and 500 cc categories.
Sheene was known for being outspoken in his criticism of what he considered to be dangerous
race track
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s, most notably the
Isle of Man TT
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course, which he considered too dangerous for world championship competition.
He was a colourful, exuberant character who used his good looks, grin and London accent to good effect in self-promotion, and combined with an interest in business was one of the first riders to make a lot of money from endorsements.
He is credited with boosting the appeal of motorcycle racing into the realm of the mass marketing media. He also tried his hand as a TV show host, including the
ITV series ''
Just Amazing!
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'', where he interviewed people who had, through accident or design, achieved feats of daring and survival (including the former RAF air gunner,
Nicholas Alkemade, who survived a fall of 18,000 feet without a parachute from a blazing
Avro Lancaster bomber over
Germany
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in March 1944). Sheene and his wife Stephanie also starred in the low-budget film ''
Space Riders
''Space Riders'' is a 1984 British sports drama film directed by Joe Massot. It stars Grand Prix motorcycle racing world champion Barry Sheene as himself. It tells the story of Sheene's pursuit of the world title, including his recovery from a ...
''.
Personal life
Finding fame and wealth through racing, Sheene had houses in
Putney
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History
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, in south-west London, and in
Wisbech
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,
Cambridgeshire
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, and in 1977 he purchased a 700-year-old
manor house
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in
Charlwood
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,
Surrey once owned by the actress
Gladys Cooper.
He was contracted by
Faberge to promote their
Brut aftershave lotion.
In 1975 while on crutches, Sheene met fashion-model-turned-
glamour-model Stephanie McLean, who was ''
Penthouse'' Pet of the Month for April 1970 and Pet of the Year in 1971, while they were working together on a photoshoot for
Chrysler. She left her first husband for Sheene
and after she had divorced, the couple married in 1984, having a son and a daughter.
Sheene enjoyed a lavish lifestyle, socialising with friends such as
James Hunt
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,
Ringo Starr and
George Harrison,
drinking and smoking heavily. He even had a hole drilled through the chin-bar on his
full-face helmet allowing him to smoke right up to the start of a race.
Relocation to Australia
The Sheene family moved to Australia in the late 1980s, in the hope that the warmer climate would help relieve some of the pain of Sheene's injury-induced
arthritis, settling in a property near the
Gold Coast
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** Portuguese Gold Coast (Portuguese, 1482–1642)
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.
He combined a property development business with a role as a commentator on motor sport. He began on
SBS TV
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then moved to the
Nine Network with
Darrell Eastlake
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, and finally followed the TV broadcast rights of the
Grand Prix motorcycle series to
Network Ten.
Further to this, on Network Ten Sheene co-hosted the weekly motor sport television show
''RPM'' from 1997 to 2002 with journalists
Bill Woods and
Greg Rust and was involved in Ten's coverage of other motor sport including
V8 Supercars
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Supercars events take place in all Australian ...
for several years.
In the 1990s, Sheene appeared in a series of well-known and popular television
advertisements
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for
Shell
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* Seashell, a hard o ...
, with Australian motor sport icon
Dick Johnson.
In later years, Sheene became involved in historic motorcycle racing,
often returning to England to race at
Donington Park. Sheene competed in his last UK race at the
Goodwood Revival
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The first Revival t ...
in 2002. He was also chosen to run with the
Queen's Baton in the run-up to the
2002 Commonwealth Games
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held in
Manchester
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, England.
Death
In July 2002, at the age of 51, Sheene was diagnosed with
cancer
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of the
oesophagus
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and
stomach
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.
Refusing conventional treatments involving chemotherapy, Sheene instead opted for a
holistic
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approach involving a strict diet devised by
Austrian healer
Rudolf Breuss, intended to starve the cancer of nourishment.
He died at a hospital on Queensland's Gold Coast in 2003, aged 52, having suffered from the condition for eight months.
Sheene and his wife Stephanie had two children, Sidonie and Freddie.
Honours and awards
Following reconstruction of the
Brands Hatch
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Circuit in England for safety concerns after requests by the
FIM, the Dingle Dell section was changed for safety, and shortly after Sheene's death the new section was renamed Sheene's Corner in his honour. The FIM named him a Grand Prix "Legend" in 2001. For the 2003 season,
V8 Supercars
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Supercars events take place in all Australian ...
introduced a medal in honour of Sheene, the
Barry Sheene Medal, for the 'best and fairest' driver of the season. A memorial ride from
Bairnsdale
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to
Phillip Island
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,
Victoria
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* Victoria (mythology), Roman goddess of Victory
* Victoria, Seychelle ...
is held by Australian motorcyclists annually, before the MotoGP held at the island.
He was the subject of ''
This Is Your Life'' in 1978 when he was surprised by
Eamonn Andrews
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at a motor racing cycle exhibition in London's Victoria.
In popular culture
A song titled "Mr. Sheene" that describes "Mr. Sheene's riding machine" was recorded by comedians
Eric Idle and
Rikki Fataar and released in 1978 as the B-side of the single "
Ging Gang Goolie
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" under the names Dirk and Stig, their characters in Beatles-parody band
The Rutles
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.
Sheene is also featured on a vase by ceramic artist
Grayson Perry entitled ''My Heroes'' created in 1994.
In the UK television series
Queer as Folk, the main characters Stuart and Vince reminisce about their teenage attraction to a photo of Sheene "On his motorbike! In his leathers..."
Career statistics
Motorcycle Grand Prix results
The following is a list of results achieved by Sheene.
(
key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)
Complete British Saloon Car Championship results
(
key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap.)
† Events with 2 races staged for the different classes.
Complete European Touring Car Championship results
(
key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)
References
Further reading
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External links
Barry Sheene career statistics at MotoGP.com*
Barry Sheene profile at iomtt.comwith
Stephanie McLean on her husband, Barry Sheene
Barry Sheene's Penultimate Race article at visordown.com
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