Steve Parrish

Saturday 26th Oct 2019

location_city The Plowright Theatre, Scunthorpe

Steve Parrish

"Steve Parrish raced at the highest level of motorcycle racing, becoming British Champion in 1976 and 5th in the 1977 500cc World Championship, as team mate to that year's champion Barry Sheene. Barry who met Steve in 1975 is quoted as saying "if he was to set up his bike as well as his victims and had put as much effort into the bike as he did the intricate pranks he pulled on people he would certainly have been a World Champion."

Steve then dabbled with sports car racing before moving to truck racing "because it was less painful than riding bikes" where he won 5 European Truck Racing titles for Mercedes Benz.

Steve is currently the BBC commentator for Motor GP and has been commentating since 1988, but he is equally famous in the world of motorsport for his pranks."