PEOPLE
By the early 1970s, Len Perry had achieved almost legendary status in his native New Zealand, and halfway through 1973 it looked quite possible that his son Geoff might emulate his successes.
Geoff had begun to make his name racing a home-tuned and developed T20 Suzuki, later progressing to a TR500. In 1971 he finished 5th at Daytona and won the Singapore and Malaysian GPs plus the 250cc and 500cc classes of the New Zealand TT. That December he harried Giacomo Agostini at the Oran Park meeting in New South Wales, led the 1972 Daytona 200 until his TR750 broke its drive chain on the penultimate lap, and finished 2nd in the Ontario 250-mile race to Paul Smart’s Seeley-Kawasaki. Such performances brought him to the attention of the United States Team
