PEOPLE
There’s not much Nick Jefferies hasn’t done on a motorcycle.
Nick, a former factory Honda trials rider in the 1970s, won the Manx Two-Day trial in 1976 before switching to road racing and winning the Senior Manx Grand Prix in 1983 and the Formula 1 TT race in 1993.
He remains the only man ever to have achieved this unique hat-trick across radically different riding disciplines. But perhaps Jefferies’ most impressive feat was to return to the TT Mountain Course in his mid-60s and get back on the podium in the 2015 Manx GP Supertwins race, exactly 40 years after making his MGP debut.
Comeback rides aside, Jefferies’ retirement from racing came at around the same time that his nephew, David Jefferies, lost his life in a tragic accident at the TT, although he says that wasn’t the sole reason he hung up his leathers in 2003. “There were lots of reasons for retiring,” he recalls. “My marriage had failed, I was busy running a new business, and I had promised my two daughters that I wouldn’t race while they were taking their A-levels. By the time they'd finished I had taken up golf and managed to make a clean break from racing and was quite happy. A lot of former riders had told me that it’s very difficult to make the break in the first place but that, once you’ve made it,
