"Competing for the First Time in the Isle of Man TT Race"
Young Men Put All They Have into this Challenge to the World

On May 5, 1959, the members of the Honda team arrived on the Isle of Man, holding passports indicating they were temporary employees of Okura Trading Co. The group of nine included the team leader Kawashima, the riders Giichi Suzuki, Naomi Taniguchi, Junzo Suzuki, and Teisuke Tanaka, the mechanics Hisaichi Sekiguchi and Shunji Hirota, the manager Yoshitaka Iida, and an American, Bill Hunt, who was a rider and their interpreter. Read more ...