Interview: Jeremy McWilliams, Still Racing & Still Winning At 58

Interview: Jeremy McWilliams, Still Racing & Still Winning At 58

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Featured In the November 2022 issue of Roadracing World:

 

        When Valentino Rossi retired from MotoGP at the end of the last year he had been racing motorcycles for 31 years. Amazing, eh? But what about Jeremy McWilliams, who’s been racing on and off for 35 years and is still going strong? The 58-year-old Northern Irishman is a gnarly old warrior, whose hands and fingers (what’s left of them) are such a mess that they look like he’s gone a few rounds with a shark. 

        Just 18 months from now he will be able to claim his free over-60s bus pass in the UK but still he comes back for more: Earlier this year he won a race at Daytona International Speedway and stood on the podium at the North West 200… 

 

            “I Still Have A Need To Go Racing,” by Mat Oxley

 

Jeremy McWilliams contested MotoGP when the paddock was a wild place full of wild men. And at age 58 he’s still racing and still winning, on a 640-pound, 180-mph Bagger! Read the wild man’s tale of his need for speed—it’s in the latest issue of Roadracing World!

 

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