Born: 9th September 1965,
Hometown: Castle Douglas, south west Scotland

Tony Began riding motorcycles at the age of four on a homemade bike with a lawnmower engine. His first race was at the age of ten at Barrow in Furness, Cumbria finishing third (the same position that he finished in his first Legends race in 2007 at Knockhill). In the following nine meetings he was never off the podium and so began a phonominal career in schoolboy Motocross.

He reigned supreme in schoolboy competition winning Club Championships in every class. All his riding was done south of the border since that was where the competiton was and in 1978 he entered the Scottish Championship winning all eight rounds.

In 1981 four days after his 16th birthday he achieved his ambition by winning the British Schoolboy Champion of Champions title where he was competing against works sponsored riders. Talks started that day and within a week he was employed by Honda UK as a works rider winning his first adult race and being a team mate of Dave Thorpe the reigning World Champion.

A serious training accident a few years later ended his career just as he was preparing to join the World Grand Prix circuit with Honda.

His record includes Scottish Schoolboy Motorcross Champion, Scottish Senior Miotocross Champion, Scottish Saloon Car Champion and Northern National Saloon Car Champion making him so far as we know the first person to win a national title on both two wheels and four.

His career in Saloon cars has brought him a good measure of local success winning the Northern Saloon car 2000cc Championship no fewer than five times. His first serious race in a hired Legends Car in 2007 at Knockhill saw him, from the back of the grid in all three races, take third place overll winning him man of the day award. Tony followed that result up with a third place in the final of the Winter Trophy at Brands Hatch.