Jock Taylor - Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland
Posted by: 
creg-ny-baa
N 56° 06.236 W 003° 10.183
30V E 489443 N 6217659
Memorial to World Sidecar Champion Jock Taylor, at Beveridge Park in Kirkcaldy, on the site of the racetrack that ran around the park's perimeter.
Waymark Code: WM195BC
Location: Northern Scotland, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 11/28/2023
Views: 0
Jock Taylor was born in Pencaitland, East Lothian, Scotland on March 9th 1954 and took up motorcycle sidecar racing as a passenger at the age of 19 in 1974. The following year he became a driver and in time would go on to be British, TT, and World Sidecar Champion. He died in a crash during the Finnish Grand Prix on August 15th 1982, and a memorial was erected in Beveridge Park in the Fife town of Kirkcaldy.
Beveridge Park was bequeathed by former town Provost Michael Beveridge and opened in 1892. A racetrack ran around the perimeter of the park from 1948-88 and featured Formula 3 and motorcycles. The memorial stands at the Railway Bend on the eastern side of the park near the main entrance on Abbotshall Road. It features a plaque on a stone plinth and reads as follows:
'IN MEMORY OF
JOCK TAYLOR
WORLD SIDECAR CHAMPION 1980
Erected By His Fellow Members
Kirkcaldy & District Motor Club.'