FLITWICK MOTORCYCLES RETURN FOR MGP 2024
Long-time Mountain Course exponents Flitwick Motorcycles will field Adam McLean, Joe Yeardsley and Lancelot Unissart at this year’s Manx Grand Prix as they contest three of the classes on the race programme.
Both McLean and Yeardsley, last year’s Senior MGP winner, will ride 500cc Royal Enfield’s in the four-lap Classic Senior race and both will be pushing hard for the podium after Northern Ireland’s Mclean took a fine fifth place twelve months ago just 12 seconds adrift of second-placed John McGuinness. He also lapped at an impressive 109.584mph.
For Manxman Yeardsley meanwhile, this will be his first appearance in the Classic races at the Manx but is no stranger to the Royal Enfield after taking victory on the machine at the Pre-TT Classic earlier this year. The Laxey resident enjoyed a strong maiden campaign at the TT in June with eighth in the opening Supertwin race his best result.
In addition to the Classic Senior, McLean and Unissart will also compete in the re-introduced Classic Junior, with the former on a 350cc Honda and the latter on a 350cc Ducati, which gets the race programme underway on Friday 23rd August. McLean will also ride the hub-centre GTS1000 Yamaha, which Flitwick’s owner Steve Linsdell took to sixth place in the 1995 Formula One TT race after finishing eighth the year before.
Bedfordshire’s Linsdell enjoyed a chequered career around the Mountain Course which started in 1981 when he finished second, on an Enfield, in the Senior Newcomers race. He went on to take seven podiums at the TT, including two runners-up positions, and five in total at the Manx, the last of which was third in the 2007 Classic Senior race.
Son Olie also enjoyed a fine career on the island with two wins on his Manx GP debut in 2007 and victory in the inaugural Classic 500cc TT race in 2013.
If you want to see Team Flitwick and the rest of the MGP entry take to the Mountain Course this year, check out Duke Travel for packages from the UK and further afield, Horst Saiger for German Tours and the Isle of Man Steam Packet for race day day trips.
