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First rider
ever in the history of the Manx Amateur Motor Cycle Races (1923
- 1929) and Manx Grand Prix (1930 - 2008) to win three races in
one week: Newcomers, Junior and Ultra Lightweight
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Senior Manx Grand Prix
Glen Helen lap one, McGurk was ahead of Fulton
on the roads, but initially it was McCullagh on time by two seconds,
until Barclay arrived and took the lead by the merest of margins,
0.34 of a second.
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Lightweight and Ultra Lightweight
Brian Mateer and Sam Dunlop were the first pair
away in the Lightweight race, whilst Joe Phillips and Rab Davie
got the Ultra-Lightweights started.
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Saturday
30th
August: race preview
It’s the final day of racing in the Manx Grand
Prix, with two three-lap races on the Snaefell Mountain Course. First
will be the Senior at 12pm,
to be followed by the 3 lap Lightweight / Ultra Lightweight race.
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Junior Manx Grand Prix
Four and a quarter hours after
the scheduled start the 2008 Junior Manx Grand Prix, the race reduced
from four to three laps got underway at 5.30pm.
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Classic Junior and Classic Lightweight
3.00pm and the flag set off Paul Coward on his
own followed ten-seconds later by Alan Oversby and Wattie Brown,
the fastest in practice and Monday's Senior winner, Ryan Farquhar
on a Honda Drixton this time out.
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Wednesday
27th August: race preview
It’s the second day of Manx Grand Prix racing
on the Snaefell Mountain Course, with a further two four-lap events.
There is a field of nearly 100 for the Junior and Lightweight Classic,
which is for machines of 350cc and 250cc respectively.
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MGP Supporters Club Function
(27th August)
Lightweight Manx Grand
Prix front runners Brian 'Scone Ranger' Spooner, Daniel Sayle and
Sam Dunlop were on hand to officially receive the proceeds from several
fund raising activities...
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Special
Announcement
(Tuesday 26th August)
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Classic
Senior
The sun actually managed to break through as the Silver Jubilee
Classic Senior race got underway at 6.00pm, over a reduced race
distance of three laps, 113.19-miles.
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Newcomers:
Class A and C
Six and a quarter hours after its original
start time the 2008 Manx Grand Prix races finally saw the opening
race of the meeting get underway as numbers 1& 2
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Monday
25th August: race preview
Two four-lap races open the Manx Grand Prix programme
on the Snaefell Mountain Courser today.
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Practice
week review
(Sunday 24th August)
When the weather was with the organising
Manx Motor Cycle Club, competitors were out in force with well over
300 in each session circulating and learning, or re-learning the 37.73-mile
Snaefell Mountain Course. Full
report and practice leaderboards.
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Practice
report: Saturday 23rd August
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Practice
report: Friday 22nd August
Conditions for the fifth practice session for the 2008
Manx Grand Prix were the best so far, with bright sunshine, clear skies
and a light breeze.
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Practice
report: Thursday 21th August
Conditions for this evenings practice session were described
as ideal by the Practice Controller.....
(including speed trap times)
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Practice
report: Wednesday 20th August
(including speed trap times)
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Practice
report: Tuesday 19th August
(including speed trap times)
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Practice report: Monday 18th August
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Mylchreests:
60 years of supporting the MGP
(23rd August 2009)
2008 marks the
60th consecutive year that the Mylchreests
Motor Group have supported
the Manx Grand Prix by providing course cars for the event. For more
information click here
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Manx
Grand Prix 2009
(22nd August 2008)
Steam Packet passengers can now get
information and book space for sailings for the MGP 2009, which runs
from Saturday August 22nd, to Friday September 4th.
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Newcomers’ at 30!
(16th August 2008)
The MMCC Newcomer’s Races reach their thirtieth anniversary on Monday
25th August when the first pair of
riders set off down Glencrutchery Road to commence their ‘Manx Grand
Prix’ racing career.
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Prohibited areas
(12th August 2008)
Click here to download diagrams and photographs of Mountain Course
restricted / prohibited areas (17Mb).
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VIDEO:
Our race meeting needs you......
(24th July 2008)
Featuring Barry, Nigel, John, Bill
and Megan......
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2008
NEWS ARCHIVE
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