GUY MARTIN RACING - ABOUT GUY

DOB: 14-11-81
Hometown: Kirmington, Lincolnshire.
Bikes owned: Kawasaki AR50 plus Whyte 46, Orange 224, Orange Hitman mountain bikes.
First race: Cadwell Park 1999. New Era club race on a 1997 CBBR600.
First win: Cadwell Park, Lincolnshire Yellowbelly meeting, 2000.
Favourite circuit: The Mountain Course, Isle of Man.
Hobbies: Steam engines, motorcycle engine building, downhill mountain biking, spanner collecting.
Favourite food: Chicken Tikka bhuna, peshwari naan, boiled race. Beans on toast and Lea and Perrins.
Favourite drink: Twinings Earl Grey Tea.
Favourite films: Dumb and Dumber, Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs.
Favourite book: Tuning for Speed by Phil E Irving.
Favourite music: Queens of the Stone Age, Rage Against the Machine.
Favourite tool: Snap-On tech angle torque wrench.
Favourite pants: Red Torpedo Turner.
What you'd save in a fire: My Snap-On 28-drawer toolchest.
Best piece of advice: "Go big or go home" and "You don't get anything in this life without working for it".
Top five achievements in 07: Two podiums at the Centenary Isle of Man TT, Fifth Scarborough Gold Cup win, tuning the engine that took Chaz Davies to fourth in the Daytona 200, three wins at the Southern 100 road races, setting the Isle of Man TT Supersport 600 lap record on a bike I tuned myself.