'Pocket Rocket' Leon Haslam, son of 'Rocket' Ron Haslam, is a motorcycle racer from Smalley, Derbyshire, England. He had raced in most of the significant British and international championships whilst still in his teens, spending the whole 2000 season with the underprepared ItalJet team in the 125cc world championship, then racing a 500cc Honda in 2001 (the youngest ever to compete in the series), and a 250cc Honda in 2002.

Damon Graham Devereux Hill OBE (born 17 September 1960 in London) is a British former racing driver from England. He was the 1996 Formula One World Champion. As the son of the late double Formula One world champion Graham Hill, he is the only son of a world champion to win the title. Damon Hill came to professional motorsports relatively late: he began racing motorcycles in 1983 at the age of 23. The following year, he won the 350 cc Clubman's cup at Brands Hatch.

John Paul Herbert (born June 25, 1964 in Romford, England) is a British former racing driver from England. He competed in Formula One, where he won three races, and more recently in sports cars. He enjoyed much success in lower-level motor racing but never managed to achieve the same level of performance at the top level of motorsport. During the mid-1980s, Johnny Herbert was widely regarded as a coming man of motor racing, likened by some to the Scot Jim Clark.

*Shane Byrne (born 10 December 1976 in Lambeth, London), often known as Shakey or Shaky, is a British motorcycle road racer. Shane emerged in the British Superbike Championship in 1999, initially on a private Kawasaki. In 2001 he was 8th in the championship with 5 top-5 finishes, and was comfortably champion of the Cup for privateers - he was the privateer winner in 22 races out of 26. He then joined Renegade Ducati for 2002, taking his first BSB win, …

Matt Neal (born December 20, 1966 in Birmingham) is a British motor racing driver. He won the British Touring Car Championship in 2005 and 2006. He has also won an ETCC race. He is 6'6" tall, making him almost entirely unable to race single-seaters. He first entered the BTCC in the early 90s with his father's Team Dynamics squad. He won the Total Cup for drivers without manufacturer support in 1993, before joining Mazda for a season cut short by a huge crash at Silverstone.

Ryuichi Kiyonari is a Japanese motorcycle racer. He is the current British Superbike champion, and rides for the factory Honda team. He was runner-up to Gregorio Lavilla in 2005, but went one spot better in 2006. He has a reputation for being at his best when leading races from the front. He raced in MotoGP for most of 2003 for Fausto Gresini's Telefónica Movistar team, but he received little support within the team, …

Fabrizio Giovanardi (born December 14, 1966) is a racecar driver. He was born in Sassuolo near Modena in Italy. Fabrizio began his career karting before switching to Italian Formula 3. In season 1989 he switched to Formula 3000 to compete with First Racing and won the race in Vallelunga. A move to touring cars brought more luck, as he claimed the 1992 Italian championship.

Dr. Jonathan Palmer (b. 7 November 1956, London) is an entrepreneur and former racing driver from England. Educated at Brighton College, he won the 1981 British Formula Three Championship and the 1983 Formula Two championship. He participated in 87 Formula One grands prix, debuting on September 25, 1983. In 1985 he started for the German Zakspeed Formula Racing of Erich Zakowski. He scored a total of 14 championship points, with a career best finish of 4th.

Joseph Siffert was a Swiss race car driver. Affectionately known as "Seppi" to his family and close friends, Jo Siffert was born in Fribourg, Switzerland, the son of a dairy owner. He initially made his name in racing on two wheels, powering his way to the Swiss 350cc motorcycle championship in 1959, before switching to four wheels with a Formula Junior Stanguellini. Siffert graduated to Formula 1 as a privateer in 1962, with a four-cylinder Lotus-Climax.

Karl Muggeridge is an Australian motorcycle racer, born 20th April 1974 in Tweed Heads. He is married to Isobel, and has one son, Ryan. He won the World Supersport Championship in 2004, and has raced in World Superbikes ever since, joining the Alto Evolution Bertocchi team for 2007 alongside countryman Josh Brookes. After several years of Motocross, "Muggaz" began circuit racing in 1994, finishing 4th in his homealnd's 250cc series a year later on a Suzuki.

Tommy Hill is a British motorcycle road racer, born 9 February 1985 in Lingfield, Surrey, who races for Virgin Mobile Yamaha in the British Superbike (BSB) championship. Hill's early racing life included a near-fatal motocross accident in which he lost a kidney and his spleen. As a result, medical problems including a bout of food poisoning in 2006 have dogged his career.

John Reynolds is a retired British motorcycle racer who won the British Superbike Championship in 1992, 2001 and 2004. His first domestic success lead him into the 500c World Championship on a Padgetts Yamaha, taking 8 top 10 finishes over two seasons. He joined Revé Kawasaki in World Superbikes for 1995, qualifying 2nd at Brands Hatch and taking 3rd place finishes there and Assen, en route to 10th overall. In 1996 he rode a Suzuki to 12th overall.

Will Power (born March 1, 1981) is a motorsport driver from Toowoomba in Queensland, Australia. He won the 2002 Australian Formula Holden (Formula 4000) championship by winning 7 times and achieving 3 pole positions. He tested a Minardi Formula One car in 2004 with fellow Australian Will Davison in Italy. During 2005 he competed in the World Series by Renault for the Carlin Motorsport team, where he proved very competitive.

Rob Huff of Britain is part of Chevrolet's WTCC motor racing team, driving the Lacetti alongside the more experienced Alain Menu and former Formula One driver Nicola Larini. A Christmas Day birth in 1979, he had a long junior career in karting. He won the 2000 Formula Vauxhall championship, and class B of the 2001 Ethyl MG Championship (also finishing as runner-up in this series in 2000). His father's Chartered Surveying firm has been one of his main sponsors.

James Ellison (born 19 September 1980 in Lancaster) is an English motorcycle racer, and was the only British rider in the premier class of the 2006 MotoGP season. James Ellison started racing motorcycles at the age of 15, riding 80 cc machines. After racing in junior championships such as Superteen, he entered the European Superstock series in 1999, winning the title in 2000 and 2001. In 2002, he raced in the World Supersport championship, …

Carl Fogarty (born 1 July 1965, Blackburn, Lancashire) is the most successful Superbike racer in terms of the number of championships and number of race wins. Fogarty, known to his fans as 'Foggy' has now retired. He is renowned for his high corner speed riding style, combined with an aggressive competitiveness, which netted him 59 victories and four World Superbike Championships (1994, 1995, 1998 and 1999) while riding for the Ducati factory team.

Matthew Halliday (born July 14, 1979) is a motor racing driver from New Zealand. He currently competes in the Champ Car World Series for Conquest Racing. Following two seasons in Formula Holden, he moved to the United States and ran in both the Indy Lights and Toyota Atlantic series in 2001. In 2002 he moved to the Infiniti Pro Series but was injured after two races.

Khalil Beschir, (born 18 June 1983) in Bahersaf, Lebanon is a racing driver who currently races in the A1 Grand Prix series for A1 Team Lebanon along with Basil Shaaban. Beschir began racing in 1998 when he went into karting. But didn't race again until 2004 when he competed in Belgian Formula Renault. His best finish was 6th at Spa-Francorchamps after starting 32nd on the grid.

Charlie Kimball (born February 20, 1985 in Chertsey, England) is an American racecar driver currently competing in the World Series by Renault championship. Kimball's single-seater career started in 2002 when he took part in the American Formula Dodge national championship, finishing the season in 10th place overall. He also won three races in the SCCA Formula Ford series. For 2003 he moved up to Formula Ford USA, …

James Sutton (born October 20, 1985 in London) is a racing driver who, in 2006 and 2005, competed in the Formula Renault championships for the Fortec Motorsport team. Sutton's single-seater career began in 2004 where he won two races in the Formula BMW championships, again with Fortec. In the same year Sutton became an accepted member of the BRDC, as a 'Rising Star'.

Jan Heylen (born May 1, 1980 in Geel) is a race car driver in the Champ Car World Series. He began karting in 1992 and was the 2005 Renault Megane Eurocup champion. He also won the 2002 Formula Ford Festival at Brands Hatch and has competed in the Formula Three Euroseries and Formula 3000. He beat out Nicky Pastorelli for the 2006 season at Dale Coyne racing by bringing sponsorship from the Muermans Group and BergHOFF Worldwide.

Rick Ravon Mears (born December 3, 1951 in Wichita, Kansas) is an American race car driver. He is the third of three men to have won the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race four times (1979, 1984, 1988, 1991), and the current record-holder for pole positions in the race with six (1979, 1982, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991). Mears is also a three-time Indy Car national champion (1979, 1981 and 1982). Mears was raised in Bakersfield, California, and began his racing career in off-road racing.

Brian Henton (born September 19 1946) is a former racing driver from England. He won both 1974 British Formula Three Championships, and the Formula Two championship in 1980. He participated in 38 Formula One grands prix, debuting on July 19, 1975, but never scored any championship points.

Julian Bailey (born 9 October 1961 in Woolwich, London) is a former Formula One driver who raced for the Tyrrell and Lotus teams. Although born in the United Kingdom, he was raised in Spain, and became an accomplished Formula Ford 1600 racer in Britain, winning the important Formula Ford Festival at Brands Hatch. In 1986 he got his chance to race in Formula 3000 in a GA Motorsport Lola, in which he won his third F3000 race, …

James 'Jamie' Whitham (born September 6, 1966 in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England), is a former professional motorcycle road racer. He won the 1991 MCN TT Superbike Challenge, with Suzuki; and for Yamaha in 1993 both the British Superbike Championship Supercup and the ACU TT Superbike British Championship. In 1994 he raced full-time in the World Superbike Championship for Ducati, taking a race win at Sentul and finishing 7th overall.

Desiré Randall Wilson is a former racing driver from South Africa, one of only five women to compete in Formula One. She entered one F1 World Championship Grand Prix in 1980 with a non-works Williams FW07 prepared by Brands Hatch Racing, but failed to qualify. She also raced in the 1981 non-championship South African Grand Prix. She became the only woman to win a F1 race of any kind, when she won at Brands Hatch in the short-lived British Aurora F1 series, …

Brian McGuire (December 13, 1945 in East Melbourne - August 29, 1977 at Brands Hatch, UK) was a racing driver from Australia. He travelled over to the UK from Australia with another hopeful young driver, Alan Jones, but did not enjoy his countryman's success. McGuire entered two Formula One British Grands Prix. With his privately-run Williams FW04 at the 1976 British Grand Prix, he found himself as a reserve entry and was denied a chance to compete.

William David (Bill) Ivy (27 August 1942-July 12 1969) was a British Grand Prix motorcycle road racer from Maidstone, Kent. Ivy started racing motorbikes at Brands Hatch in 1959. His first races in the Grand Prix motorcycle racing championship came towards the end of 1965, where he finished fourth in two 125 cc races and third in a 250 cc race. In 1966, he raced for the works Yamaha team. He won the first race of the year at the Montjuich Circuit in Spain, …

Paul Jason Warwick (born January 29 1969 in Alresford, Hampshire, England - died July 21 1991 at Oulton Park race circuit, Cheshire) from Alresford, Hampshire, England was an English racing driver. Warwick died in a crash at Oulton Park racing circuit, England whilst contesting the fifth round of the British Formula 3000 championship.

Bernard Unett (b. 1936 - d. 2000) was the British saloon car champion (now called touring car champion) in 1974, 1976 and 1977. Unett was born on July 22, 1936 in Wolvey, Warwickshire. His parents ran a farm. He joined the Rootes organisation and became a development engineer - known as 'The Set 'em Alight Boys' because of the antics they got up to. He was deputy head of the department for the development of the 'series' Sunbeam Alpine in 1958 - 1959.

Adam Khan (born 24th May, 1985), is a British racing driver of Pakistani descent from Bridlington, Yorkshire, who represented Pakistan in the A1 Grand Prix series. Eddie Jordan endorsed Adam Khan's career when Khan was 17 years of age. Khan competed in various races in the British F3 championship whilst undertaking studies at school.

Nikkala Stott (born 16 December, 1983) is a Page 3 Girl from Middlesex, England. Stott first posed for Page 3 on 6 July 2000, and still models for them today. She has modelled for many 'lads mags' such as FHM, Zoo, Maxim, ICE, Loaded, for "Body in mind" and was a Soccer AM Soccerette (20 January, 2007). She is a model under "Girl Management" which she co-owns with other Page 3 Stars.

John Sachs (born 1957) is a British voiceover and commentator known for his narration on the popular ITV show "Gladiators" and as a long time DJ on London's Capital Radio John Sachs has been involved in the entertainment industry for the past 25 years. For 17 years John has been a radio and television broadcaster 12 of those years spent on Capital Radio, where he won numerous awards, …

Geoff Boss (born April 26, 1969) is an American Champ Car driver from Narragansett, Rhode Island who drove in the 2003 season with Dale Coyne Racing. In a total of 12 starts he finished in the points twice, with a best of 9th place at the Lexmark Indy 300 in Australia. He ran in the Indy Lights series from 1997 to 2001, winning the 1999 Toronto Grand Prix from the Pole position. He also had podium finishes at Long Beach (twice) and Detroit (twice).

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