WORDS: LARRY’ SCOOP’ CARTER IMAGES: TONY TODD / FB ARCHIVE
Emmett’s led an exciting life on track and off it.
Immortalised in these very pages when the magazine was almost as lawless as he was, the toothy Londoner belonged to a generation where hell-raising was standard fare in the race paddocks of the world. He was one of the most naturally gifted riders of his era as demonstrated by his stratospheric rise from club racing to Grand Prix stardom in just four years, followed by a journeyman route back through BSB, and then a fall from grace almost of Hollywood proportions; if they ever get a ound to doing a film on Emmett, it’ll break all records.