page_title: Ben and Tom Birchall
hierarchical_section_title: Ben and Tom Birchall
caption_attribution_description: English: Ben and Tom Birchall racing at Donington Park in 2015
context_page_description: Ben Birchall and Tom Birchall, from Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, are English motorcycle-with-sidecar road race World Championship-winning competitors in both F1 category and F2 category and again in the 2017 season – when all competitors used 600 engines.
  The brothers are nine-time TT winners in 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. and absolute lap and race record holders set in 2018, 2017 and 2015 respectively.
  During the 2017 season the reigning F2 sidecar champions campaigned in the World championship and British championship as Team Mansfield with IEG Racing, using an LCR F1 outfit powered by a Yamaha R6 600 cc engine. For the 2017 Isle of Man TT races in June and the island's Southern 100 races in July they used a smaller LCR short chassis, as required by regulations, powered by a Honda 600 cc engine.
  In May 2019, Ben was elected as a Mansfield District Council Councillor in the Kings Walk ward for the Mansfield Independent Forum.
context_section_description: Ben Birchall (born 21 January 1977) and Tom Birchall, (born 23 December 1986), from Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, are English motorcycle-with-sidecar road race World Championship-winning competitors in both F1 category (2009 and 2018 seasons) and F2 category (2016, officially known as F2 Sidecar World Trophy, using 600 engines running concurrently with 1000-engined outfits) and again in the 2017 season – when all competitors used 600 engines.
  The brothers are nine-time TT winners in 2013, 2015 (twice), 2016, 2017 (twice), 2018 (twice) and 2019. and absolute lap and race record holders set in 2018, 2017 and 2015 respectively.
  During the 2017 season the reigning F2 sidecar champions campaigned in the World championship and British championship (600 Cup) as Team Mansfield with IEG Racing, using an LCR F1 outfit powered by a Yamaha R6 600 cc engine. For the 2017 Isle of Man TT races in June and the island's Southern 100 races in July they used a smaller (F2) LCR short chassis, as required by regulations, powered by a Honda 600 cc engine.
  In May 2019, Ben was elected as a Mansfield District Council Councillor in the Kings Walk ward for the Mansfield Independent Forum.
caption: Ben Birchall (driver) with Tom (passenger) racing at Donington Park in 2015 using a long (F1) chassis with rear-engine behind the driver
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