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The TT Course was first used as an automobile road-racing circuit for the 1908 Tourist Trophy event for racing automobiles, then known as the Four Inch Course. [2] For the 1911 Isle of Man TT race motor-cycle races, the event was moved from the St John's Short Course to the Four Inch Course by the UK Auto-Cycle Club, and became known as the ...
Listed are fatalities of riders in the World Grand Prix Motorcycle Racing Championship races since its foundation in 1949. In total, 104 riders have died from incidents that occurred at Grand Prix motorcycle racing events, with Ben Drinkwater being the first in 1949.
Four riders died: Ian Ogden and Alan Jarvis in training and Andy Cooper in the Senior TT race at Ballig. Gene McDonnell died in what has been described as "the most horrific accident ever witnessed at the TT", when a horse was startled by a helicopter, jumped into the road and collided with McDonnell. Both horse and rider were killed instantly. [2]
He was killed while competing in the 1970 Isle of Man TT. [3] References This page was last edited on 11 February 2025, at 23:01 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
On 30 May 2018, during qualifying practice for the 2018 Isle of Man TT, [127] Kneen died after an accident at the Churchtown section of the circuit, 22 miles (35.2 km) into the lap. [128] As a result, Kneen became the 147th competitor to be killed at the Mountain Course during an Isle of Man TT meeting, [ 129 ] and the 256th competitor when ...
He was a five-time winner of the North West 200 race in Northern Ireland and a four-time winner at the Isle of Man TT. [ 7 ] Williams won the 500 cc race in the 1978 Ulster Grand Prix , but died from injuries suffered after crashing at Wheeler's Corner in the inaugural TT Formula One event later that same day.
Dunlop crashed his Tyco Suzuki Superbike in the final race of the week at the 2014 Isle of Man TT, during the Senior TT event. He led the race on time briefly during the first lap, but ran wide through the Graham Memorial corner on the mountain section on the third lap, running off the road up against the adjacent embankment, resulting in two fractures to his left leg.
On 30 May 2018, an experienced TT rider, Steve Mercer, [59] [60] was seriously injured during a head-on collision with an official Course Car at Ballacrye. The car, being driven at high speed, [61] [62] was conveying police officers to officiate at the scene of a fatality involving Dan Kneen. Mercer was unconscious for five days and ...