Jock Taylor
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Jock Taylor (March 9, 1954 - August 15, 1982) was a British World Champion motorcycle sidecar racer.
Born in Pencaitland, East Lothian, the motorcycle sidecar racer Jock Taylor - with his passenger Benga Johannson - won the sidecar World Championship in 1980, winning 4 races, and finishing on the podium in all seven events.
Two years later, Taylor and Johannson raised the sidecar lap record at the Isle of Man TT to 108.29 mph (ca. 175 km/h), a lap record which stood for 7 years.
In the 1982 Finnish Grand Prix, held under very wet conditions, Taylor and Johansson's bike slid off the road and collided with a telephone pole along the course. Taylor was killed in the accident. He is buried in the churchyard at Pencaitland.