Images Dated 4th October 2019

A replica - for six and three quarter laps!

In the 1935 Lightweight, H G Tyrell Smith came round Kate's Cottage on his seventh and last lap, to find the road had been opened in error. Touring through the crowds making their way back to Douglas, he appealed to the Stewards, was given the same lap time as his sixth, and ended up with a replica for eleventh place on his Rudge

1904 - the first car race on the Island

Selwyn F Edge takes his 13.7 litre Napier round the Bungalow in the Gordon Bennett Qualifying Trials, the first ever motor race on the Isle of Man. Julian Orde, Secretary of the Automobile Club (later the Royal Automobile Club) was looking for a venue to run trias and the Isle of Man accepted the challenge. The course was 52.15 miles length