The Isle of Man TT or Tourist Trophy races are an annual motorcycle racing event run on the Isle of Man in May and June of most years since its inaugural...
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list is of fatal crashes on the Isle of Man TT Mountain Course used for the Isle of Man TT races, Manx Grand Prix and Classic TT races. The TT Course was...
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In the 1948 Isle of Man Tourist Trophy festival Harold Daniell, lap record holder since 1938, failed to finish the 1948 Senior TT on his Norton, and victory...
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fastest lap of each race. There would be five classes: 500 cc, 350 cc, 250 cc, 125 cc and 600 cc sidecar. The historic Isle of Man TT would be one of those...
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during the Isle of Man TT festival, an annual event traditionally held over the last week in May and the first week in June. The Senior TT is the blue...
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entertainment. The annual Isle of Man TT motorcycle races start and finish in Douglas. It is generally agreed that the toponyms of English Douglas and Manx...
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Tony Jefferies (category Isle of Man TT riders)
Jefferies (24 April 1948 – 29 December 2021) was a British Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. He won the 1971 Isle of Man TT 350cc Junior TT. He won two more...
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Supertwin TT is a motorcycle road race that is a part of the Isle of Man TT festival - an annual motorcycle event traditionally held over the last week of May...
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Omobono Tenni (category Isle of Man TT riders)
championship in 1947. He put in a respectable performance at the 1948 Isle of Man TT where he set the race's fastest lap and led the race before mechanical...
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Jimmy Simpson (motorcyclist) (category Isle of Man TT riders)
in both the Senior TT and Junior TT races on the Isle of Man, as well as the Sidecar TT, in which he finished fifth. In the Senior TT he failed to finish...
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The Isle of Man Railway (IMR) (Manx: Raad Yiarn Vannin) is a narrow gauge steam-operated railway connecting Douglas with Castletown and Port Erin in the...
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2007 Indy Pro Series. Dave Molyneux,(Born 1963) (sidecar rider). 17 Isle of Man TT wins A.P. Penketh (1865–1932), rugby union player, took part in the...
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Tom Herron (category Isle of Man TT riders)
in Northern Ireland. He specialised in street circuits such as the Isle of Man TT and the North West 200. Herron's career started in 1965 when he competed...
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Geoff Duke (category Isle of Man TT riders)
championships and six Isle of Man TT races. First entering the Isle of Man Manx Grand Prix in 1948, he retired after four laps of the Junior race. He came...
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Waterworks, Isle of Man, sometimes known as Waterworks Corner, is a point on the Snaefell Mountain Course used for the Isle of Man TT races on the Snaefell...
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Bob Foster (motorcyclist) (category Isle of Man TT riders)
his first Isle of Man TT race riding a New Imperial in the 1935 Lightweight TT where he failed to finish. Foster won his first Isle of Man TT race the...
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Les Archer (category Isle of Man TT riders)
at the Isle of Man TT with a best finish of fourth place at the 1934 Senior TT, aboard a Velocette. He retired after the 1948 Isle of Man TT, in which...
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machine the performance of a 650 twin cylinder bike." Several CB500 machines were entered in the Production TT races on the Isle of Man in the early 1970s...
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Leslie Graham (category Isle of Man TT riders)
In 1947, on an AJS Porcupine, he managed 9th place in the Senior Isle of Man TT In 1948 he managed a seventh in the Junior, but did not finish in the Senior...
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Ted Frend (category Isle of Man TT riders)
parts. In 1947 Frend came fourth in the 1947 Isle of Man TT, and AMC offered Frend a place in the 1948 AJS works team. He proved an all-rounder, not...
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The Isle of Man Steam Packet Company Limited (abbreviated to IoMSPCo or, locally, The Steam Packet (Manx: Phaggad Bree Ellan Vannin) is the oldest continuously...
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Twenty-six of the fatalities occurred on permanent circuits; seventy-eight fatalities took place on street circuits, with 36 fatalities at the Isle of Man TT, which...
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Freddie Dixon (category Isle of Man TT riders)
within a year was competing in speed and hill climb events. His first Isle of Man TT race was in 1912 on a "Cleveland Precision" motorcycle but the machine...
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Manx language (redirect from Gaelic language of Isle of Man)
native to the Isle of Man speak Manx as a first language, there has been a steady increase in the number of speakers since the death of Ned Maddrell in...
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Denis Parkinson (category Isle of Man TT riders)
racer of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, and a founder member and President of the Wakefield and District Motor Sports Club, and won the 1947 Isle of Man TT Clubmans...
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BSA Gold Star (section Isle of Man TT wins)
July 2018. "Race Results - Isle of Man TT Official Website". www.iomtt.com. Retrieved 4 July 2018. "Race Results - Isle of Man TT Official Website". www.iomtt...
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Bob McIntyre (motorcyclist) (category Isle of Man TT riders)
patches of loose gravel, and he won three of the four races he entered. For 1952 he rode a BSA to second in the Isle of Man Junior Clubmans TT, averaging...
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The Junior TT is a motorcycle road race that takes place during the Isle of Man TT festival; an annual event at the end of May and beginning of June. Between...
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David Whitworth (category Isle of Man TT riders)
competed in the Isle of Man TT for the first time, which was thought at the time to be the toughest race in the world. In the 250 cc Lightweight TT race, he...
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John Draper (motorcyclist) (category Isle of Man TT riders)
Scottish Six Days Trial. A few weeks later, he competed in the 1951 Isle of Man TT 350cc and 500cc Clubman's races for amateurs and posted two third-place...
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