MANX GRAND PRIX CENTENARY CELEBRATIONS REVEALED

The 100th anniversary of the Manx Grand Prix will celebrate some of the event’s greatest ever competitors as part of a series of special events and five-race programme across the 2023 August Bank Holiday Weekend.

The weekend’s headline attraction will take place on Saturday 26th August with the ‘Legends of the Manx Grand Prix’ lap, paying tribute to some of the greatest riders to have competed in and graduated from what started out as the Manx Amateur Road Races back in 1923.

Motorcycling greats from the early years of the ‘Manx’ including Harold Daniel, Freddie Frith, Bob McIntyre and Geoff Duke will be represented whilst Mick Grant, Charlie Williams, Ian Lougher, Phillip McCallen, and Ian Hutchinson are just some of the names who will celebrate their connection to the Manx Grand Prix themselves.

Fans will be treated to the sights, sounds and smells of classic machines, modern bikes, 2-strokes, 4-strokes and even a rotary Norton as part of a near twenty-strong line up.

The demonstration lap is scheduled to take place between Saturday’s Junior Manx Grand Prix for Supertwin bikes and the Classic Senior Manx Grand Prix for pre-1973 machinery, previously won by John McGuinness MBE, Josh Brookes, Dean Harrison and, most recently, Lee Johnston.

A Show and Shine display of past and present MGP machinery will also take place on Sunday 27th August, and 100 years of the Manx Grand Prix will be marked by the introduction of a special commemorative coin and the release of a commemorative stamp.