A desperate Mick Grant works out how to get to the top

º After two years of club racing, Mick Grant was getting nowhere. Desperate, he decided to take all his homemade gofaster improvements off his Velocette 500 to see what happened. Suddenly he was fast, and bike-builder Jim Lee offered him a ride. Two years later Mick was a Norton factory rider. Three years after that he won his first GP.€