Tommy Robb

Tommy Robb was a Grand Prix motorcycle road racer from Northern Ireland, born on 14 October 1934, who died on 12 December 2024 at the age of 90. He began in trials and scrambles in 1950, won six national titles on Irish grasstracks between 1954 and 1956, and moved to tarmac road racing in 1957. After finishing third in the 1957 Ulster Grand Prix and second in 1958 he was backed by tuners Geoff Monty and Allen Dudley-Ward, and from 1962 he rode for the works Honda team as one of the first non-Japanese riders the factory hired. He won his first world championship race in the 1962 250cc class at the Ulster Grand Prix and finished second to teammate Jim Redman in the 350cc world championship that year. In 1973 he won the Lightweight 125 TT on a Yamaha, and he was a five-time winner of the North West 200. He later ran a road-race school.