Chas Mortimer wins the 125cc Class Spanish Grand Prix at Circuito del Jarama in Madrid, Spain.
Charles 'Chas' Mortimer has his hand's full in Madrid as he wins the 125cc, comes in third in the 250cc and barely misses the podium with a fourth place finish in the 500cc Class.
Chas began his racing career at Brands Hatch in 1965 at sixteen on a 250cc Greeves borrowed from his dad's racing school (Charles Mortimer Race School) based there.
In a racing career that would span twenty years Chas Mortimer would win FIM Grand Prix races in the 150, 250, 350, 500 and 750 World Championship classes.
His maternal grandfather was the chief test pilot for Vickers Armstrong in Weybridge and flew the first test flight on the Spitfire. He was also the pilot who did all the tests with Barnes Wallace on the bouncing bomb, a weapon that succeeded in destroying the Ruhr dams (Operation Chastise) with the No. 617 RAF Squadron in 1944.
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