Mike Hailwood lies alongside his daughter, Michelle, in the churchyard of St Mary Magdalene in the Warwickshire village of Tanworth-in-Arden. A black gravestone records the names and age of the two, the nine-year-old girl and her father, aged 40. There is also an inscription for each. Hailwood’s reads simply: “Too good in life to be forgotten in death.”
For Murray Walker, Hailwood – “Mike the Bike” as he was known – was a good deal better than even that. According to Walker, Mike Hailwood is the “greatest motorcycle rider who ever lived”. Walker was close to Hailwood but his judgement is not coloured by friendship – he is … More
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