Ray Fay

Record type: Motorsport Biographies

Biography: Mounts: Junior – A.J.S.
Senior – Norton.

Age 28, Raymond Fay is a motor cycle engineer, and comes from Liverpool.

His first Isle of Man rides were in the 1952 and ’53 M.G.P., and he turned to the T.T. in 1954.

He retired on the third lap of the Junior T.T., but in the Senior event he rode his 350 c.c. Norton and finished 43rd to win a Bronze Replica.

In 1955 he was 41st in the Junior T.T. and 42nd in the Senior. At Rhydymwyn he had a win in a 1,000 c.c. race.

A 19th place in the Junior event and a second lap retirement in the Senior race was his T.T. score in 1956.
(TT Special, 5 June 1957, p.11.)

Age 30, Raymond Fay is a motorcycle dealer from Liverpool. He has won races at Kirkby Mallory and Oulton Park and has been placed at Aintree and Silverstone. He has ridden in both Junior and Senior races since 1954 and has finished in six of the ten. His best place was in the 1956 Junior when he was 19th on a B.S.A at 81.13 m p.h. winning a Silver Replica. In 1957 he retired in the Junior but was 24th In the Senior at 86.69 m.p.h. with a "Bronze." Last year he was 21st in the Senior, with a Silver Replica.

(TT Special, 8 June 1959, p.20)

Mounts: Junior—Norton.
Senior—Norton.

Age 25, Raymond Fay is a motorcycle engineer and comes from Huyton, Liverpool. This is his first ride as an “International,” but he is no newcomer to the Island, having ridden in the 1952 and 1953 Manx Grands Prix, finishing 27th in the 1953 Senior.

He is riding a 1953 Junior Norton in both races. Earlier this year, at Altcar, he was sixth in the 350 c.c. race and eighth in the 500 c.c. class on this machine.
(TT Special, 16 June 1954, p.12.)

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