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In 2022, Manx Radio AM 1368 'The Best Biking Station in the World' began to give coverage of the TT races, broadcasting locally on AM & FM around the course and online. The station features the familiar mix of music, TT news, TT events and travel info. The name Radio TT is only used for the broadcasts of racing and practice sessions.
Rebecca Brahde - BBC News, Isle of Man. December 23, 2024 at 1:37 AM ... In 2013 the Classic TT was launched to run alongside the Manx Grand Prix, held under the Festival of Motorcycling umbrella ...
Claare ny Gael is a bilingual radio show presented by Robert Corteen Carswell and broadcast on Sunday evenings each week on Manx Radio. [1]Both produced and presented by Carswell since the programme's inception in the late 1970s, [2] the show mixes music from the Celtic Nations with presentations on issues of interest to the Isle of Man, including the Manx language, history, contemporary ...
It was the first Isle of Man TT event since 2019. [1] The event was broadcast live for the first time in its 115-year existence on the new TT+ online service. [2] Peter Hickman dominated the event with 4 wins, [3] with Michael Dunlop taking the remaining two solo races. The Birchall brothers extended their win streak with two Sidecar TT wins. [4]
The section of the Mountain Course from the Cronk-ny-Mona road junction to Governor's Bridge was first adopted for the 1920 Isle of Man TT motor-cycle races and the Manx Grand Prix in 1923. [4] This included the Signpost Corner road junction, ‘Bedstead Corner’ and the section known as the "old road" of the TT Course from the Nook to ...
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 ...
2014 saw him take his 17th TT win in the second sidecar race. He led the first race by more than 20 seconds until an engine misfire caused him to stop on the final lap. He is also a builder of road racing sidecars under the name DMR, Dave Molyneux Racing, and has supplied sidecars to many other TT winners including 10-time winner Rob Fisher ...
Motor racing began on the Isle of Man in 1904 with the Gordon Bennett Trial and originally was restricted to touring automobiles. As the UK Motor Car Act 1903 placed a speed restriction of 20 mph (32 km/h) on cars within the United Kingdom, the Secretary of the Automobile Club of Britain and Ireland approached the authorities in the Isle of Man to seek permission to race cars on public roads. [5]