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Nationality | English | ||||||||||||||
Born | Watford, England | 3 September 1947||||||||||||||
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Barry Woodland is a British former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. [1] [2]
Woodland won the "Grovewood Award" in 1976. [3] The award was given by the motoring press to the rider showing most promise as best young rider of the year.
In 1977 he was sponsored by Mitsui UK, [4] the British Yamaha Importers, on both 250cc and 350cc machines. He competed in Europe, North and South America up until 1985.
Woodland won the Production D class at the Isle of Man TT three times in a row ( 1986, 1987, and 1988). [5] [6] His most commonly used bike was the Loctite Yamaha. [7] [5]
Woodland retired from motor bike racing in 1991.