Barry Sheene

Farewell to a childhood hero. I was a bit too young really to appreciate the heyday of his racing career, but I remember being amazed as a primary school kid at what a nutter he must have been to have acquired all the metal plates and screws that famously held him together. I remember him as one of my 1980s equivalents to the Boy’s Own figures of earlier decades, that defined what I wanted to be when I grew up, along with Evel Knievel and Bryan Robson.