Guy Martin
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Guy Martin (born 4 November 1981) is a British former motorcycle racer and heavy vehicle mechanic who became a television presenter.[2] He retired from motorcycle racing in July 2017.
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Nationality | British | ||||||||||
Born | (1981-11-04) 4 November 1981 (age 42) Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England | ||||||||||
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Martin started racing in 1998 and in 2004 competed on a road circuit for the first time at the Isle of Man TT.[3] He has a total of 17 podium finishes at TT events over several years.[1] He has broken his back twice in racing accidents,[4] in the 2010 TT and the 2015 Ulster Grand Prix.
In August 2017, Martin joined Formula 1 car team Williams' pit-crew for the Belgian GP.[5] Martin returned to road racing in May 2019 at the Tandragee 100 in Northern Ireland.[6]
Martin starred in Closer to the Edge, a 2011 documentary on TT racing. He has since presented programmes on various engineering topics, as well as the Channel 4 series Speed with Guy Martin when he set speed records in a variety of human and engine powered vehicles. He has written four books, and competed in mountain bike pedal-cycle races.