Biography
Moly as he is generally known, has set the fastest sidecar race time of the Snaefell mountain course, at the 2009 TT, of 58 minutes 59.28 seconds an average race speed of 115.132 mph for 3 laps.
Dave Molyneux and Craig Hallam crashed during Thursday afternoon practice session for the 2006 Isle of Man TT Races at Rhencullen after the sidecar outfit experienced a 145 mph Donald Campbell "bluebird style-flip." The racing sidecar outfit was destroyed in the resulting fire and Dave Molyneux was unable to compete in the 2006 TT races due to injury. He made a remarkable comeback the following year taking a double victory, bringing his tally of wins to 13.
His 14th victory came in 2009, when he also became the first winner of a TT sidecar race on a Suzuki powered machine. The lone race of 2009 saw him set a new race record on his Suzuki, (see above).
Moly did not compete at the TT in 2011 (although he rode the ex-Biland / O'Dell Seymaz Yamaha in the classic parade, with former TT passenger Karl Ellison), but he returned to the TT in 2012 on a Kawasaki powered machine, winning both races. The first 2012 Sidecar race also made Molyneux the first ever competitor to win TT's using all four of the major Japanese manufactures engines (Yamaha, Honda, Suzuki & Kawasaki).
He is also a builder of road racing sidecars under the name DMR, Dave Molyneux Racing, and has supplied sidecars to many other Isle of Man TT winners including 10 time TT winner Rob Fisher and 2006 double winner Nick Crowe.
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