Peter Williams RIP

Really sorry to learn of Peter's death.  He presented me with my "best 2 stroke" award at the Bristol Show in 2018.  I talked to him for some time when he was on the Norton stand and found him to be really interesting in his views on all things engineering and racing.  Another hero lost.

It was watching Peter race at Mallory Park that got me interested in Norton's , he was a great engineer and superb rider , he will be greatly missed

I spoke to him a few times. Once I told him that I remembered a piece that he had wrote in MCN, that he was riding through the trees on the IOM, and the sun light was flashing flashing through, on and off, bright then dark,,, and he felt an out out of body experience, above what he was doing.

I told him that everytime I ride through trees and get that on/off flashing I thought of him and that piece  he wrote. The conversation made him happy and we shook hands.

That's my recollection of the Great Peter Williams. 

Our Belgian friends have put together a superb montage of images of Peter.

Click on the link and hover over the bottom left-hand corner of the picture to use the arrows to navigate.

Link https://nortonclubflanders.be/peter-williams-in-memoriam/

One of my favourites below (which shows the picture navigation arrows):

BBC Documentary film from 1973 featuring Peter Williams.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-SOXVVdIZ4

enjoy!

Thanks for posting that  Gordon, I spent many hours watching him race both on the mainland and the IOM and was there that fateful day at Oulton Park. He was without doubt the most stylish rider I have ever seen.