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St John's, Isle of Man: Course St John's Short Course 15 miles (24 km), 1,470 yards (25.49 km) Organiser Auto-Cycle Union, Tynwald: Clerk Freddie Straight 500 Single & 670 Twin Open Class; First Charlie Collier, Matchless: Second Harry Collier, Matchless: Third Walter Creyton, Triumph: Fastest lap; Harold Bowen, BAT 17min. 51sec. 53.15 mph (New ...
The 1931 Isle of Man Tourist Trophy was again dominated by the battle between Rudge, Sunbeam and Norton motorcycles. The 1931 Junior TT Race was run at a very fast pace by Jimmie Simpson riding for Norton who completed the first lap in 30 minutes and 49 seconds and was 6 seconds ahead of fellow Norton teammate Stanley Woods in 2nd place and 18 ...
The first Isle of Man TT race was held on Tuesday 28 May 1907 and was named the International Auto-Cycle Tourist Trophy. [6] The event was organised by the Auto-Cycle Club over 10 laps of the Isle of Man St John's Short Course of 15 miles 1,470 yards for road-legal 'touring' motorcycles with exhaust silencers, saddles, pedals and mudguards.
Retired on last lap due inlet valve trouble. Six plugs gave up. DNF 21: John Bashall 2¾ hp Humber 345cc 2 3 Retired on last lap due lubrication and tire troubles, sooted plugs. DNF 24: Rex Mundy 2¾ hp Douglas 350cc 2 2 Retired on lap 3 due puncture on mountain road. DNF 3: Les Bailey: 2¾ hp Douglas 350cc 2 1 Retired on lap 2 at Hairpin due ...
The Honda team-mates of John McGuinness and Ian Hutchinson occupied 2nd and 3rd places, Martin Finnegan in 4th place riding an MV Agusta motor-cycle and 5th place Conor Cummins who now held the record for the fastest local Isle of Man competitor after lapping at 18 minutes and 10.78 seconds from a standing start on lap 1 of the 2007 Superstock ...
A third lap of over 130 mph for the 2009 Isle of Man TT races was recorded by his Suzuki teammate, Bruce Anstey in 17 minutes 23.79 seconds an average speed of 130.129 mph. In the Supersport class, Michael Dunlop set an even faster time for the Junior TT during Thursday practice in 17 minutes and 55.45 seconds an average speed of 126.299 mph.
The first event was the 350cc 1957 Junior TT race held on the Snaefell mountain course.The race was initially led by Bob McIntyre riding a Gilera motorcycle who beat the lap record for the Junior TT race from a standing start in 23 minutes and 14.2 seconds, an average speed of 97.42 mph and 42 seconds faster than the lap record set by Ray Amm in the 1954 Junior TT Race. [2]
In the same Junior race, Jimmie Simpson set a new lap record of 35 minutes and 5 seconds at an average speed of 64.54 mph (103.87 km/h) on an AJS – the first average lap-speed over 60 mph. The Lightweight and Senior TT races were run in conjunction, and Eddie Twemlow (brother to Ken Twemlow) riding a New Imperial won the six-lap race in 4 ...