Classic Racer

Whatever happened to? BRIAN STEENSON

In 2020, two memorials were created in Co Down. One, a mural on the gable wall of the Corner Inn, Crossgar, was unveiled on September 6, the other, an inscribed tablet is to be placed in the grounds of Killyleagh Castle, both in tribute to one of Northern Ireland’s brightest racing hopes who died 50 years earlier.

On the third lap of the 1970 Senior TT, when in a three-way battle for 2nd place with Peter Williams and Alan

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