Mellor, from Shelley, near Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, died after an accident at Doran's Bend during the 1989 TT races on the Isle of Man.

[4] Road race results included three wins, seven podiums and a total of 34 appearances at the Isle of Man TT.

[5] He also competed at the NW200, Ulster GP, won the 1978 Newcomers Lightweight Manx Grand Prix and scored a fifth place at Macau.

The popular Yorkshireman has a Trophy named in his honour at the Gold Cup races held at Oliver's Mount,[6] a road-based circuit through parkland, in the North Yorkshire east coast holiday resort of Scarborough.

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