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27/08/1939 – 20/12/2020 PETER WILLIAMS Obituary
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|February 2021
Britain’s Peter Williams, often acclaimed as the finest GP racer/engineer of modern times, passed away quietly on December 20 in his sleep, after a long illness. He was 81 years old.
Not many men can have turned down the chance to race for the works Suzuki team, forfeited a ride with the Honda factory, and declined an offer to work as a designer for Yamaha, whether for reasons of patriotism or loyalty - but Peter Williams did all three. Instead, except for a brief link with MZ - for which he scored the East German factory's final GP race victory in the 1971 350cc Ulster GP, which was also his own solitary World Championship race win - he raced exclusively aboard British bikes during his ten-year racing career, which ended in 1974 with his tragic Oulton Park accident on the spaceframe F750 John Player Norton.
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