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The Manx Grand Prix features modern and classic bikes from 125cc to 1000ccracing around the 37.73 mile Snaefell Mountain Course otherwise used by everyday traffic.
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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


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.

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.

  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.

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.

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.

  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.

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...



  Special Announcement
(Tuesday 26th August)

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.

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

  Monday 25th August: race preview
Two four-lap races open the Manx Grand Prix programme on the Snaefell Mountain Courser today.

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.

  Practice report: Saturday 23rd August

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.

Practice report: Thursday 21th August
Conditions for this evenings practice session were described as ideal by the Practice Controller.....
(including speed trap times)

Practice report: Wednesday 20th August

(including speed trap times)

 


Practice report: Tuesday 19th August
(including speed trap times)



Practice report: Monday 18th August




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

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.


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.

Prohibited areas
(12th August 2008)
Click here to download diagrams and photographs of Mountain Course restricted / prohibited areas (17Mb).

VIDEO: Our race meeting needs you......
(24th July 2008)
Featuring Barry, Nigel, John, Bill and Megan......

 

 

2008 NEWS ARCHIVE

 
     
"Racing is living (16th August - 29th August, 2008), everything before or after is just waiting"(30th August - 21st August, 2009)
   
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