Dave Molyneux (born 21 November 1963 in Douglas, Isle of Man) is a Sidecar TT racer with 13 Isle of Man TT wins and he has had more TT wins than any other sidecar TT racer.
Biography
Moly as he is generally known, also has set the fastest sidecar race time of the Snaefell mountain course, set at the 2005 TT, of 59 minutes and 6.39 seconds an average race speed of 114.91 mph for 3 laps. Dave Molyneux and Craig Hallam during Thursday afternoon practice session for the 2006 Isle of Man TT Races crashed at Rhencullen after the sidecar outfit experiences a 145 mph Donald Campbell "bluebird style-flip."[2] The racing sidecar outfit is destroyed in the resulting fire and Dave Molyneux is unable to compete in the 2006 TT races due to injury. He is also a builder of road racing sidecars under the name DMR, Dave Molyneux Racing, and has supplied sidecars to many other Isle of Man TT winners including 10 time TT winner Rob Fisher and 2006 double winner Nick Crowe. In 2007 Dave Molyneux is competing in Superside, the world championship for sidecars on a Suzuki powered Windle and at the Isle of Man TT on a Honda powered DMR both with passenger Rick Long. Moly won both 2007 Sidecar TT Race "A" and Race "B". This now makes him the equal 3rd most successful IOM TT rider of all time with John McGuinness, behind Joey Dunlop and Mike Hailwood, and one of the greatest living TT legends.
TT career summary
| Finishing Position |
1st |
2nd |
3rd |
4th |
6th |
10th |
DNF |
| Number of times |
13 |
4 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
10 |
9 |
Sources
- ^ TT News 2005 Issue 3 - Isle of Man Newspapers
- ^ TT News 2006 - Edition 1 Isle of Man Newspapers
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