![]() ![]() I did promo work with Suzuki and Honda but Honda stopped it because I used to fall off too often! They’d get me and Wayne Gardner and Ron Haslam and Joey to turn up and do stuff for magazines but it always turned into a race. The stuff we got up to, you simply wouldn’t get away with now! Did you always ride road bikes? I felt I had the upper hand on the short circuits but Joey took his riding to another level on the roads. ‘Leave off Bazza – it’s mine!’ You were team-mates with Joey Dunlop – how hard was he to beat? ![]() To go to the Lyceum Ballroom in London, in front of 2000 people and have the trophy presented to me by David Essex? That was just an amazing year. But my proudest moment was being voted MCN Man of the Year by the fans ahead of Ron Haslam and Barry Sheene. I won the British championship, I won the Formula 1 championship, I won the Ulster Grand Prix – MCN was calling me ‘win-a-week Marshall’ at the time and it was brilliant. Once I got that ride in 1982 there was no way they were going to take it away from me. I’m proud that I came from a council house in the Grimsby area and ended up as a factory rider with Heron Suzuki. What do you consider to be your greatest achievement in racing? It was the only way I could afford to go racing. I did a full season as a passenger in 1970, sharing all the expenses. I couldn’t afford to race on my own so I went 50/50 with a mate and we bought a sidecar outfit. But I overtook three riders and the circuit commentator didn’t know what the hell was going on. As the riders went past on their final lap I was supposed to follow them at a respectable distance to check that the track was clear for the next race. I had a 600 Norton Dominator Featherbed so they asked me to do it. One day the travelling marshal didn’t turn up. I was poorly paid as an apprentice so me and my mates used to marshal at Cadwell to get a free packed lunch. ‘We had some titanic battles’ Why did you start racing? My dad was waiting for me and he just looked at me and said “Hmm, didn’t take you long, did it?” I pushed the bike home and both it and me were pretty beaten up. Yes, it was the very first time I rode a bike on my 15th birthday! My dad watched me as I rode off down our street and disappeared from sight but at the very first corner I came to I didn’t even know to shut the throttle and I went over a kerb, through a hedge, and all I could see was sky, grass, hedge, sky, grass, hedge… That was less than a mile from my house. ![]() You could ride on the road at 15 back then so I saved my wages from being an apprentice electrician and bought a 250cc BSA C10 as soon as I turned 15. From that day onwards all I ever dreamt about was being a racer. My dad took me to Cadwell Park when I was about seven and I was absolutely smitten. He minored in BioTech at Penn State University, and holds a BA degree in Asian Studies from Sophia University in Tokyo.‘The stuff we got up to, you’d never get away with it now’Įx-factory rider now BSB rider representative Roger Marshall on crashing, riding with Joey and being MCN Man of the Year How did you get into bikes? He began his career in various human resources consulting and management positions with international companies based in Tokyo.Ī native of Pennsylvania, Roger is fluent in business and social Japanese. Roger was founder and president of PENN International Associates, a Tokyo-based management consulting and executive search firm.īefore establishing PENN, he was Director in KPMG Consulting, with responsibility for building the firm's practice in Japan and Korea. He has exposure to a range of industries, with a core focus on the consumer sector, life sciences, and professional services, among others. Roger works with both western and Japanese multinational companies to develop their leadership teams in APAC and globally, building their business potential and formulating human resource strategies. Roger Marshall is based in Odgers Berndtson’s Tokyo office, Roger is an American who has worked in Japan since 1975, Roger helped to build and has led operations in Japan since 1991.
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