Les Graham was part of that special breed of motorcycle racer whose careers were interrupted by the Second World War. That was quite a life: to race on lethal street circuits in the 1930s, fight and survive a war and then happily stare death in the face all over again.
There were many hundreds of racers – on both sides – who lived this extraordinary life, but only one of them became a 500cc/MotoGP world champion.
Germany's pre-war grand prix winners George Meier and Ewald Kluge both continued racing after the war, but they were on the way down, not on the way up. Graham, however, finally got the chances he should've got before the war and went on to win the inaugural 500 world championship in 1949.
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