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Rider Profiles

Name: Tom Grant

Series: European Superstock 600

Team: Team Triumph SC

Nationality: British
Date of birth: May, 22 1988
Place of birth: Shiptonthorpe
Residency: Shiptonthorpe
Weight: 78 kg
Height: 1m75

Scuderia Triumph-SC delivered the riders who will contest, on the Triumph 675 Daytona, the 2008 600 Superstock European Championship, the prestigious series promoted by FIM and FG Sport for the young guns of World motorcycle, reserved to Under 20 riders.

The riders who will up-hold the Triumph’s colours are the English Tom Grant, nineteenth year old, and the Scottish Robbie Stewart, just sixteenth year old, two of the most promising and brilliant riders contesting the Bennet British Superbike Championship.

Tom Grant, born the 24 May 1988 in Shiptonthorpe near York, began his racing career at the age of four when he first rode a Yamaha PW50, before moving to compete in moto-cross championships between the ages of four and seven, until a broken leg forced to move to kart racing. However, at the age of fifteen, Tom returned to the world of motorcycle racing but this time in the form of road racing.

After a few rounds of the Aprilia Superteen Challenge he started to compete in the British GP125 series. Tom’s talent and aptitude shone through at his first meeting in this series and 2004 season saw Tom compete the British GP 125 series in full with him achieving a number of top-10 finishes. His pursuit of this championship continued in to the first half of the 2005 season until, at the age of seventeen, he made the move to a four-stroke machine to contest the highly competitive Virgin Mobile R6 Cup. Although out a the title hunt, success on the track came quickly with podium finishes within four races. Winning the 2006 Virgin Mobile Cup was quite an achievement for the talented Yorkshire guy. With only three years pedigree as a motorcycle racer, and most on two-stroke, Tom dominated the 006 Cup clinching the title at Silverstone, with three race victories and ten podiums and with a race to spare.

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