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- Birth nameStephen J. Parrish
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- Stavros
- Steve Parrish was born on February 24, 1953 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Sheene, Space Riders (1984) and Mercedes-Benz Truck Racing (2000).
- Motorcycle and truck racer turned commentator.
- In their heyday, Parrish and team-mate Barry Sheene were notorious for plenty of on and off-track mischief including trashed Rolls-Royces, major wind-ups and identity switches. Parrish once famously qualified on behalf of his hungover team-mate by wearing Sheene's leathers.
- Steve Parrish is a British former professional 500cc World Championship motorcycle racer from1977 to1985. From 1986 he started a successful truck racing career, winning the 1987 British Open Truck Racing Championship. Parrish took both the European and British Truck Racing championship titles in 1990, then held the British title for four years and retained the European title for three years driving for the 'BP-Mercedes Benz' team. He is now a motorsport television commentator and speaker/entertainer.
- Steve Parrish is a practical joker and is known to have carried out various pranks. In one such incident, he " accidentally " bombed a brothel following the Macau Grand Prix. A seemingly harmless stunt involving some firecrackers in a dustbin escalated into a major international incident when the bin - with lid shut firmly - exploded violently, blowing out all the windows. Parrish promptly did a runner to Hong Kong, an hour away by ferry, and only returned after the police had arrested his crew and impounded the bikes. Some of them ended up spending a week in Jail. He was permanently banned from the Portuguese territory of Macau (as it was until 1999). It's since become a Chinese administrative region of Macau.
- Parrish is still up to his pranks now. He's famous for owning a selection of utility vehicles, including an ambulance and a fire engine - but putting out fires or running emergency cases to hospital are not among their functions. He occasionally used the ambulance to park on double yellow lines with the doors open, like an ambulance driver would in a real emergency (However he did it when he wanted to pop to the bank). The fire engine's last job was to hose down the inside of a packed pub one Sunday afternoon. The landlord was a friend of his. He isn't any more.
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