Geoff Duke was a British multiple motorcycle Grand Prix road racing world champion, born in St. Helens, Lancashire, on 29 March 1923 and died on 1 May 2015. He was a Royal Signals White Helmets team sergeant who became a prominent racer in the 1950s, winning six world championships and six Isle of Man TT races. He won three world titles for Norton, then moved to Gilera in 1953 and won three consecutive 500 cc world championships there, and he raced Norton, Gilera, BMW, NSU and Benelli machines. His support for a riders' strike led the FIM to suspend him for six months. After retiring from competition he was a businessman based in the Isle of Man.
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