Roy Hanks (D.O.B. 30/04/48)
Roy has been racing sidecars since he was 12 years old, first scrambling (now called moto-cross) and then road-racing when 16 years old, which makes this his 42nd season of racing, only interrupted by an enforced lay off after breaking his ankles and leg at the TT Races in 1988 where passengered by  Tom Hanks (Roy's nephew), they flew off the side of the mountain at the 33 rd milestone. Tom sustained a fractured femur.
Roy is co-director with his sister Beryl Daniel of Fred Hanks Motorcycles.
Roy, up until the end of 2005 had been a member of the ACU Road Race Committee for 14 years, and a Director of the ACU since 1997.
Roy is also Chairman of the TT Supporters Club.
Roy's achievements over his racing years are too numerous to list, suffice to say , he has been at the sharp edge of  sidecar racing in the Open class and latterly the F2 class for ever.
Roy has won 40 Isle of Man TT replicas in this time, including winning the 1982 Sidecar TT overall, passengered by Vince Biggs, and remarkably in his 31st year of competing at the TT Races in 1997,won Race A, passengered on this occasion by Phil Biggs, (nephew of Vince).
2006 will be Roy's 40th consequtive Isle of Man TT Races.
Since the 2000 season Roy's passenger in the Nationals has been Dave Wells.
In the past 4 years the "flying grandads" have confounded their younger competitors, culminating in 2004 by winning the ACU/FSRA Super F2 Championship.
In the 2005 and 2006 series they were relegated to 3rd spot , and in 2007 with new Suzuki GSXR600 engines,from a slow start they improved to take 5th in the series.
In  2008 improving to 2nd in the British Championship series.

Sponsors
Thanks for the support of Owen
DORWINGEAR  -  Birmingham
Rose Hanks    - Wife, long suffering
Scrubbers   -   Lancaster
Fred Hanks M/c  - Birmingham
JJ Engineering  -  Birmingham
Rangemore Guesthouse  Isle of Man
Bob Heath Visors  -  Walsall
Hamstead Press  -  Birmingham
Body Active Sports Injuries- B'ham

Dave Wells (D.O.B. 16/06/50)
Dave is married with two daughters, Sarah (28) and Claire (24)
By trade he is a painter and decorator, who enjoys life to the full.
Dave used to drive his own outfit in 1971, taking up passengering in 1984.
As passenger to Mick Boddice Snr, Dave has won the TT twice and the F2 British Championship twice.
The next time you young whipper-snappers come in from a race feeling worn out, look at Roy and Dave, and weep.

Rose Hanks

Has got to be Roy's biggest supporter (literally), but she understands what drives him on because she was passenger to brother-in-law Norman, and she became the first woman to stand on the rostrum at the TT Races, when she finished  2nd in the 1968 750 cc Sidecar TT.