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In
1992 after having struggled for over a season and a half
with budgets to finance the Roton, Brian Crighton teamed up
with Colin Seeley and between the two of them the fortunes of
the team turned around quite quickly. |
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Duckhams
sponsorship for the race team was attained and with the
extra backing the team was renamed as Crighton Norton.
From
this point on the team got better and better, Colin Seeley
persuaded rider Mark Farmer to ride the bike and the results
slowly came in. |
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For
1993 following the tragic death of Mark Farmer, Jim Moodie
took over the ride at the Crighton Norton team and kept the
momentum going to the point where the team had achieved 22
rostrum positions for the season. |
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A
larger budget meant that the team could launch a full scale
two rider assault on the domestic championships for 1994,
riders Phil Borley and Ian Simpson were signed up to ride
the now very competitive Crighton Norton and with the demise
of the factory Norton’s they were the only British bike
team competing against the Japanese and now Italian
machinery on the track. |
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1994
proved to be the last year for the Crighton Norton team with
both Brian and Colin going on to other projects. It may have
been the final season for the British bike team, but they dominated with Ian Simpson winning the British Supercup
Championship and Phil Borley taking 3rd spot. |
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Over
the 93 / 94 seasons the Crighton Norton’s proved to be
very very competitive taking 74 rostrum positions in two
seasons! The factory team even with the grand prix
experience of Ron Haslam slipped out of the limelight and
into oblivion, the factory team ceased while Brian Crighton
carried on. |
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Which
begs the question what would have happened had Brian
Crighton not left the Norton factory in 1990, maybe the team
would have dominated the world, maybe the factory
would still be producing bikes the answer to that we will
never know, but one thing was for sure, Brian Crighton
proved his point that his way did make the bikes go quicker! |
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