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Derek Minter
Derek Minter (27 April 1932 – 2 January 2015) was a British former Grand Prix motorcycle and short-circuit road racer. A versatile rider, he rode a variety of machinery between 1955 and 1967 at increasing levels of expertise and in varying capacities and classes. His best season was in 1958 when he finished the year in fifth place in the 500cc world championship.〔(Derek Minter career statistics at MotoGP.com )〕 In 1960, Minter won the North West 200 race in Northern Ireland. In 1962, he won the Isle of Man 250cc Lightweight TT〔() IOM TT Database. ''Minter Profile''. Retrieved 2013-05-13〕
==The Early Days==
Derek Minter was an electrician who worked evenings and weekends as a farm labourer to earn the extra money needed to buy his first bike in 1948, a 350cc BSA which he also used for trials riding.〔
After National Service in the Royal Air Force, Minter worked for motorcycle dealer Ray Hallet at Hallets of Canterbury. before retiring as a professional road-racer in 1967.〔Motorcycle Mechanics, January 1968, p.20, ''Full Chat''. "''After declaring his retirement from road racing after the final meeting of the season at Brands Hatch this year, Derek Minter has been offered a chance to ride the new Read—Weslake racer.''" Accessed 2014-01-02〕 Hallet had been a road race and grass track rider and Minter accompanied him to the Isle of Man as his mechanic for the Manx Grand Prix.〔 Hallet provided Minter with a CB34 500cc BSA Gold Star which was prepared for racing and stripped of unnecessary weight, but retained the standard, roadster-based equipment and had no race fairing〔Mick Walker, the BSA Gold Star. Accessed 2013-05-13〕
Minter raced the Gold Star in 1955, initially entering non-expert races then progressing to expert races where the competition rode Manx Nortons and Matchless G45s. His performances in 1956 impressed Ron Harris, MV importer and proprietor of Wincheap Garages, who employed Minter as a car mechanic and created a team providing Minter with 350cc and 500cc Manx Nortons〔
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