Editing Jock Taylor (section)

==Racing career==
Taylor was the Scottish Sidecar Champion with passenger Lewis Ward in 1977. He won races at East Fortune near Haddington, [[Beveridge Park]] in Kirkcaldy and at Knockhill near Dunfermline as well as events in England with some success. In 1978, he decided to tackle the odd Grand Prix race and the British Championships and parted company with Ward and teamed up with a new passenger from nearby Haddington called Jimmy Neil. It took some time for the new partnership to gel, but by the end of the season they were regularly winning races in England. In 1979, Taylor acquired a Seymaz hub steering type outfit. He found it not to his liking after two accidents that left Jimmy Neil with a fractured wrist and caused the death of stand-in passenger Dave Powell at Oulton Park in a high-speed crash. With Neil still injured, Taylor used veteran passenger Jimmy Law for the German GP at Hockenheim on his old Windle framed Yamaha, where they finished fifth. Although Neil returned to Assen in Holland, it was when he teamed up with Swedish former125 cc rider Benga Johansson that Taylor took his first Grand Prix victory at the Swedish TT at Karlskoga shortly after. There were further successes towards the end of 1979 in Britain, where he finished runner-up in the British Championship behind Dick Greasley. In 1980, Taylor and [[Bengt-Göran Johansson|Benga Johansson]] won 4 Grand Prix races, and finished on the podium in all seven events they finished. He won the British Championship and won the Isle of Man Sidecar B race to win the Sidecar TT overall. In 1981, he retained his British title and went on to become a four-time TT race winner. In 1982 Taylor and Johansson raised the sidecar lap record at the [[Isle of Man TT]] to 108.29 mph (174.27 km/h), a lap record which stood for 7 years.