Neil Hodgson
Neil Stuart Hodgson (born (1973-11-20) 20 November 1973 (age 39) in Burnley, Lancashire) is a former British motorcycle racer who won the 2000 British Superbike Championship, and the 2003 Superbike World Championship titles. Neil then went on to have a moderately successful 4 years in the American Superbike Championship, with a best 5th place championship finish. Neil has since returned to the British Superbike Championship on the Motorpoint Yamaha for the 2010 season. However On the 22nd April 2010 Hodgson announced that he was retiring from British superbikes and competitive motorcycle racing, due to the shoulder he injured in a motocross accident during the previous AMA season. Hodgson then aggravated the injury in the first round of the British Superbike Championship at Brands Hatch Indy.
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“With his mother gaunt and lean
In the valley warm and green,
Full of baby wonderment,
Blinking out of silly eyes
At a hundred mysteries;”
—Ralph Hodgson (c. 1871–1962)