New speed run in Manx Classic

July 7, 2014

A new event, using the final mile of the TT course through the streets of Douglas, will be the opening competition on the 2010 Manx Classic. Three speed events on the closed public roads of the Isle of Man will make up the April 22-24 competition.

The new sprint course will start at the TT grandstand and run the opposite way to the motorcycle course through Governer’s Bridge. The following day is the Sloc Hillclimb, near Port Erin, and on the final day is the Lhergy Frissel Hillclimb, which is based at Ramsey on part of the TT course.

The island’s racing heritage dates from the 1904 Gordon Bennett Races, held on a 72-mile road circuit.

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Paul Lawrence

Here is a man who goes racing every weekend from March to October. Paul’s passion for the sport goes back to when he was a child of the 1960s. He has organised, competed in and marshalled on scores of events, and has written about the subject for 20 years. He is as at home in the paddock at Brands Hatch as in a Welsh forest or at Shelsley Walsh.

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