2023 Pre-TT Classic Road Races Results :
The 2023 Pre-TT Classic Road Races were held on the Billown, Southern 100, circuit on the Isle of Man over the 26th – 28th May 2023.
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 31st 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.
Saturday 27th May 2023 :
Race 1 : SP-R Singles Race
Race 2 : A D HEWETT DENTAL PRACTICE 1100cc Race
Race 3 : GEOFF DUKE Junior Post Classic Superbike
Race
Race 4 : 3 WHEELING Sidecar Race 1
Sunday 28th May 2023 :
Race 5 : GREYSTONES LLC Senior Classic Race
Race 6 : QUINE & CUBBON 250cc Classic Race + 125
Post Classic Race
Race 7 : VINTAGE MCC (IoM Section) 350 Classic Race
Race A : 350/500 Classic Consolation :
Race B : UGGLY Post Classic Superbikes
Race 9 : 3 WHEELING Sidecar Race 2
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