Eric Briggs
Record type: Motorsport Biographies
Biography: Mounts: Junior – Norton
Senior – Norton
Age 30, Eric Briggs, from Ilkley, Yorks., has the distinction of being the only rider ever to win three races over the T.T. course in one season. In 1947, he won the Senior Clubman’s T.T. in June, and both Senior and Junior Manx Grand Prix races in September. Eric started riding in the Island 1938 in the Manx Grand Prix Junior, in which he finished fifth.
The same year he retired in the Senior, and in 1946 had bad luck again – he retired in the Junior and finished twentieth in the Senior after lying third until close to the end.
In 1948, he made his first appearance in the International T.T. races and was a member of the official Norton team. He finished sixth in the Junior at 77.13 m.p.h., but retired on the first lap of the Senior.
Last year, he finished ninth in the Junior T.T. on a Velocette, being the first private entry home.
He also scored a number of successes in the “Continental Circus,” winning the 500 class of the Circuit de Limbourg and the 350 class of the Mont Venteux Hill Climb. He was also third in the 500 classes of the Circuits de Floreffe, Mettet and Gedinne.
(TT Special, 5 June 1950, p.18.)
Competed in
| Race | Position | Time | Speed | Machine |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 Senior TT | 7 | 3:05:04.60 | 85.63 | Norton |
| 1950 Senior TT | R | Norton | ||
| 1950 Junior TT | R | Norton | ||
| 1949 Senior TT | R | Norton | ||
| 1949 Junior TT | 9 | 3:18:34.20 | 79.81 | Velocette |
| 1948 Senior TT | R | Norton | ||
| 1948 Junior TT | 6 | 3:25:27.60 | 77.13 | Norton |
| 1947 Senior MGP | 1 | 2:53:26.00 | 78.34 | Norton |
| 1947 Junior MGP | 1 | 3:02:01.00 | 74.64 | Norton |
| 1947 Clubman Senior TT | 1 | 1:55:08.00 | 78.67 | Norton |
| 1946 Senior MGP | 20 | 3:38:22.00 | Norton | |
| 1946 Junior MGP | R | Norton | ||
| 1938 Senior MGP | R | Norton | ||
| 1938 Junior MGP | 5 | 3:01:29.00 | 74.86 | Norton |