A ‘Made at the Manx’ lap will be part of the special events being held to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Manx Grand Prix on Saturday 26 August 2023.
The demonstration lap is scheduled to take place at 3pm 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.
The lap will feature the 17 most successful riders, who started out at the Manx Grand Prix, with a mixture of the riders themselves, or other riders representing those unable to take part, riding machines synonymous with their careers.
The riders represented in the ‘Made at the Manx Grand Prix’ parade won 27 World Championships and 131 TT races.
Starting with the 1930s, riders represented in the parade lap will include Harold Daniell who was victorious in the 1933 Senior Manx GP before going on to win numerous races at TT. The next rider to be featured will be Freddie Frith, who won the junior race at the Manx just two years after Daniell and then went on to be a 4-time TT winner and British World Champion.
Others riders represented include Cecil Sandford, Geoff Duke, Bob McIntyre, Phil Read, Mick Grant and Charlie Williams. See the full list here.
A ‘Show and Shine’ display of past and present MGP machinery will also take place on Sunday 27 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.
Race details
The Manx Motor Cycle Club has confirmed details of the classes for the five-race programme.
Six days of qualifying get underway from Sunday, 20 August 2023, with the revised Lightweight Manx GP being the first race away on Friday the 25th. The rules have been opened up to support the field of increasingly rare – and increasingly expensive – two-stroke machines.
The Lightweight Race will now also cater for 401cc to Unlimited single-cylinder four-stroke machines such as the KTM-derived Krämer EVO2, as well as four-stroke machines between 200cc and 400cc.
This will include Moto3, Junior Supersport, and the older Supersport 400 machines that were a mainstay of road racing in the late 1980s and early 90s, with an award for the highest-placed finisher on these machines.
Saturday 26 August will see the Classic Senior and Junior Manx Grand Prix Races which remain unchanged, featuring classic bikes up to 500cc and Supertwin machines respectively.
The event reaches a climax on August Bank Holiday Monday, 28th August, with the Senior Manx Grand Prix for Supersport machines and the Classic Superbike Race, featuring pre-1997 machinery from a golden era of superbike racing.
Manx GP on YouTube
In a new series on the MGP Official YouTube channel, a selection of competitors from the event’s modern era reflect on how the Manx Grand Prix helped shape their career. They include Ian Hutchinson, Jason Griffiths, Ryan Farquhar and Richard ‘Milky’ Quayle.
