Fergus Anderson

Record type: Motorsport Biographies

Biography: Mount: Lightweight – Guzzi

Fergus Anderson is 42, lives at Orpington, Kent, and is a professional racing motor cyclist.

He is well known all over the Continent as the most successful "Circus" rider since the war, having won more International races than any other two riders put together. Of the "Classics" his chief successes were winning the 350 class of the 1947 European Grand Prix and the 500 class of the 1951 Swiss Grand Prix.

He has done most of his racing on Velocette, A.J.S. and Guzzi machines. On a 250 of the latter make he is often very much in the running in the 350 class, and is also the only British rider to win a 250 race in Italy for 25 years.

He rode in the Isle of Man in 1939, when he finished in the Senior race - last but one! He is the holder of the world's 250 c.c. two-hour record.

Hobbies: Golf, journalism, and "quoting rider Ernie Thomas."

He is his own entrant for both races.
(TT Special, 6 June 1951, p.6.)

Lightweight - Guzzi

Age 43, Fergus Anderson, now living in Italy, is a professional motor-cyclist and is recognised on the Continent as the most successful “Circus” rider since the war, having won far more international races than any other rider. Of the “Classics” his chief successes were winning the 350 class of the 1947 European Grand Prix and the 500 event of the Swiss Grand Prix of 1951.

In the 1951 Lightweight T.T. Fergus has a clear lead over Tommy Wood, the eventual winner, of 34 secs at the end of the first lap. He increased the lead to 1 min 31 secs at the halfway mark, and then he was forced to retire at Ballig with engine trouble. However he had previously put up the fastest lap – and a record one too – of 83.70 m.p.h.

He has done most of his racing on Velocette, A.J.S., and Guzzi machines. On a 250 Guzzi he often much in the running in 350 c.c. races, and has the honour of being the only British rider to win a race in Italy for 25 years.

Fergus rides in the Lightweight T.T. this as a member of the official Guzzi team.
(TT Special, 9 June 1952, p.6.)

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