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2023 Pre-TT Classic Races Schedule :

May 14, 2023 by TomBoyNI

2023 Pre-TT Classic Races Schedule :

The 2023 Blackford Pre-TT Classic Road Races will run from Friday 26th May – Sunday 28th May 2023 with racing happening on all three dates.

Note though, that this year will see no Monday racing session for this event.

The Pre-TT Classic Road Races came into being in 1988 at the request of the then TT organisers, the then Auto Cycle Union, Classics having first appeared on the Billown course twelve months earlier at the popular Southern ‘100’ Road Races.’ The first TT Classic Races were held on the 31^st May1988, the meeting consisting of four races, 250cc/350c; 500cc; Unlimited and Sidecars and attracted 115 entries in all.

Honour of being the first race winner went to Graham Godward of Royston in Hertfordshire, riding a 350cc Aermacchi, whilst the 250cc category was dominated by ‘local’ classic man Mike Cain from Onchan on his 250cc Suzuki. Dave Pither, Seeley Matchless took the 500cc race from Richard Swallow on Syd Lawton’s Aermacchi with Alan Dugdale third. Riding a BSA Metisse, Stroud’s Robert Price finished first in the Unlimited race, whilst the controversial MV Agusta sidecar outfit of Mark Kay and Richard Battisson took the chequered flag in the final race of the day. The Classics had arrived at Billown!

Thirty plus years on, the Blackford’s Pre-TT Classic Road Races is rated as one of the most popular and ‘must do’ events in the annual Classic calendar attracting well over 250 entries for its nine-race event.

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2023 Isle of Man TT Visitor’s Guide

June 13, 2023May 14, 2023 by TomBoyNI

2023 Isle of Man TT Visitor’s Guide :

TBNI.Blog have compiled the most useful and popular of our posts in relation to the Isle of Man TT Races in order to bring you a basic 2023 Isle of Man TT Visitor’s Guide, to give you an idea and some knowledge of the course, the races and their preplanned times and some of the other racing events on the Island over the period of the TT Festival.

Isle of Man TT Course Map : https://tbni.blog/2022/05/17/isle-of-man-tt-course-map/

Isle of Man TT Course Map : 2023 Isle of Man TT Visitor's Guide

2023 TT Schedule : https://tbni.blog/2022/09/29/2023-tt-schedule/

Please note : This is the provisional schedule and subject to change.

2023 TT Schedule : 2023 Isle of Man TT Visitor's Guide

Manx Radio 1368 : https://www.manxradio.com

2023 TT Races Prize Fund : https://tbni.blog/2023/03/15/2023-tt-races-prize-fund/

Road Racing Flags and Their Meanings : https://tbni.blog/2022/05/18/road-racing-flags/

Road Racing Flags and Their Meanings : Isle of Man TT Visitor's Guide

2023 Pre-TT Classic Races Schedule : https://tbni.blog/2023/05/14/2023-pre-tt-classic-races-schedule/

Official Sites :

Isle of Man TT Races

Pre TT Classic Road Races

Manx Radio

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NW200 Statement over FHO Racing Withdrawal from 2023 Event :

May 14, 2023 by TomBoyNI

NW200 Statement over FHO Racing Withdrawal from 2023 Event :

As reported here, FHO Racing have withdrawn all entries from the 2023 NW200 Road Races following being disqualified from the Superbike Race on Thursday evening over an issue with the wheels on the BMW Racing M 1000 RR Superstock machine.

In the interests of fairness and completeness it is also important to cover the replying statement from the North West 200.

The Event Organisers have issued a statement explaining their situation :

STATEMENT FROM THE ORGANISERS OF THE fonaCAB AND NICHOLL OILS NORTH WEST 200 :

The technical regulations of the Motorcycle Union of Ireland (Ulster Centre), under which the fonaCAB and Nicholl Oils North West 200 is run, state that carbon wheels are not permitted for use at any MCUI road race event.

Those regulations, which are implemented by the MCUI Stewards of the Meeting, were approved by the sport’s governing body in January 2023 and published on the North West 200’s website at that stage.

The FHO Racing BMW team were informed by the MCUI’s Stewards after qualifying on Thursday afternoon that their riders, Peter Hickman and Josh Brookes, would be excluded from the Briggs Equipment Superstock race as their machines were fitted with carbon wheels.

The NW200 organisers were informed of the Steward’s decision, which is final and binding upon the event, at 21.30pm on Thursday night during the final Steward’s meeting.

No such action had been discussed with the NW200 organisers prior to this time despite the machines having been scrutineered on both Tuesday and Thursday morning.

We deeply regret the FHO Racing BMW team’s decision to withdraw from the event tonight as a result of this action, a sentiment we know will be shared by all NW200 race fans.

Peter Hickman was interviewed during the BBC coverage on Saturday’s event and made the point, ‘Just copy the TT’s Regulations.’ On this, I have to agree. Disqualifying a stock bike for running with stock wheels is just a nonsense. It’s a shame that that is how the event ended for FHO.

Hopefully FHO Racing return to the event and hopefully the MCUI take a look at the current regulations and either modernise them or bring them into line with the those of the TT.

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