Steve Webster

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(born 7 January 1960), is an

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racer who has won six

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Sidecar World Championships and four world cup, making him the most successful

racer ever.Whatever happened to Steve Webster MBE?
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'', 9 February 2016. Retrieved 5 August 2016

Career

Born in

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, North Yorkshire, Webster began as a 19-year-old racing at club level, first racing at the Elvington Airfield circuit near York,SUPERSIDE: Steve Webster retired after Assen race
, motorsport.com, 7 September 2005. Retrieved 5 August 2016 and quickly moved up to national and then world championship in 1983, winning his first world championship in 1987 while partnered with Tony Hewitt, riding an LCR-

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machine. From 181

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and World Cup races entered, he has had 62 wins, 37 second places and 27 third places as well as 82 pole positions. He has won the

Sidecar World Championship on 10 occasions (1987, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, and 2004), with Tony Hewitt,

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, David James and Paul Woodhead. In 1985 Webster and Hewitt had a massive crash at the

Dutch TT The Dutch Tourist Trophy, also known as the ''TT Assen'', is an annual Dutch motorsport event established in 1925 for road racing motorcycles held on the TT Circuit Assen, also known as the ‘Cathedral of Speed'. The event attained world champ ...

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, shown many times on television where the sidecar left the track at high speed, slid along the grass before hitting a drainage ditch. The accident caused the pair to miss most of the season. Webster was the recipient of the

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in 1991. The same year, he was awarded the MBE. In 2004 Webster won British, European, and World titles, but in 2005 Webster announced his retirement after health problems prevented him finishing the season. In 2006, Webster received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the

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. In 2015, Webster was reunited with Hewitt on track, the pair taking part in a test event at

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.Hansard, Natalie (2015)
Sidecar Racing Legends Webster and Hewitt Back on Track
, malloryparkcircuit.com, 16 March 2015. Retrieved 5 August 2016

References

Living people English motorcycle racers Members of the Order of the British Empire Segrave Trophy recipients 1960 births Sidecar racers People from Easingwold {{England-motorcycle-racing-bio-stub