This yr’s Greystone LLC 500cc Race would seem like a wide-open affair with final yr’s winner Adam McLean absent, nevertheless the successful rider could also be lacking, however the successful machine is returning, with Manx Rider Joe Yeardsley within the saddle. Joe took his maiden victory on the Colas Billown Course in 2023 within the Senior Put up Basic Superbike, setting a brand new lap document within the course of, so he shall be out to show the Royal Enfield win twelve months in the past was no fluke.
There shall be one other twenty-nine rivals, who shall be all after passing the chequered flag first, together with the opposite two podium place-men, Alan Oversby on the five hundred Honda-4, and Andy Hornby on the Black Eagle 500 MV Agusta-3 cylinder.
Add to the combo Mike Browne, Steven Elliott, Gary Hutton, Will Loder, Barry Davidson, Stuart Robinson, and Paul Cassidy amongst others and you may be assured that the seven-lap race is not going to be a boring affair – removed from it!
The six lap Quine & Cubbon Printers Light-weight Basic and Extremely Light-weight Put up Basic Race has attracted twenty-two entries and as soon as once more it could seem that Keith Shannon would be the man to get the higher of on his 250cc Suzuki T20. The St Helen’s man can have Andy Hunt, and Barry Davidson (2nd & third in 2023), together with Geoff Bates, Richard Ford, and Brian Mateer and others to maintain at bay in his try to get to the chequered flag and retain his trophy.
Within the Put up Basic 125cc class, solely podium man from final yr entered is second place man Simon Lehane, however he can have opposition from Dan Sayle, Owen Monaghan, Mark Herbertson amongst others.The Classic MCC (IOM Part) 350cc Junior Race, has all the time offered some quick, shut, thrilling racing and with a full grid once more, made up primarily of the protagonists from the opening 500cc Senior race, sparks will fly from the change of the lights! Hornby, Oversby, Browne, McGahan, Elliott, Ford, Hutton, Loder, Davidson, Shannon, Bates, Moore – pull a reputation from a hat and you can be on a winner.
The Blackford Monetary Providers Comfort Race offers people who did not qualify to start out within the 350cc Junior, 500cc Senior, Junior and Senior Put up Basic Superbikes and Limitless races, the possibility to take pleasure in a six-lap race across the Colas Billown Course, with the first 500cc rider house receiving the Ian Bainbridge Trophy.
The UGGLY Put up Basic Superbike Race can have one other thirty rivals vying for the winner’s laurels, they embody final yr’s winner Joe Yeardsley, who set a brand new lap document in 2023 at 106.535mph throughout a hard-fought race with Yorkshireman Jamie Coward. Coward and Paul Jordan are having a sabbatical this yr, so it is going to be as much as the likes of Rhys Hardisty, Andy Hornby, Paul Cassidy, Mike Browne, Marcus Simpson, Dennis Sales space, Hefyn Owen, Marc Colvin, and Darren Creer plus others to maintain the Manxie trustworthy in the course of the final solo race of the assembly in what must be an thrilling race.
The second Sidecar race at this yr’s Blackford’s Pre-TT Basic Highway Races, deliver the curtain down on the primary race day, Sunday.
With final yr’s winner taking part in away with trendy equipment, second and third place crews Jack Gristwood and Alice Smith and Danny Quirk, with new passenger Sharon Reeves, who’s a newcomer to Billown, will little question have their eyes on the highest spot of the rostrum. Once more, the rest of the field have the identical ambitions, taking the chequered flag first, they embody earlier winner Mike Bellaby and Dave Gristwood, Tony Thirkell and William Moralee, Kenny Howles and Jordan Forrest and former Southern 100 Sidecar champion Greg Lambert with Andrew Haynes within the chair amongst others. Will or not it’s a repeat of Saturday’s race, or will there be a brand new ending?
As soon as the racing is concluded, the main target strikes to the Castletown Market Sq. for the distinctive outside Prize Presentation, commencing at 7.30pm, the place you possibly can be a part of within the celebrations of the award winners and present your appreciation of all of the rivals, who can have given their all to entertain the followers and spectators in the course of the thirty seventh anniversary of the first operating of the Pre-TT Basic Highway Races in 1988.
