Qualla: Manx Grand Prix https://qualla.com/manx-grand-prix en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Manx Grand Prix https://qualla.com/manx-grand-prix Manx Grand Prix: Introduction https://qualla.com/manx-grand-prix/ Late summer on the Isle of Man, when the TT crowds have gone home and the autumn weather is starting to bite, the same 60.70-kilometre Mountain Course closes for racing again. This time the bikes are older, or smaller, or carried by riders who pay their own way and work day jobs. This is the Manx Grand Prix, born in 1923 as the Manx Amateur Road Races and renamed seven years later. The crowds are smaller and the atmosphere is famously relaxed. The risks are not.

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/u/manx-grand-prix-wp/gcsu-manx-grand-prix-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Manx Grand Prix: The Amateur Road, Eventually https://qualla.com/manx-grand-prix/ The first running in 1923 was billed as a meeting for amateurs, a learning ground for riders who could not yet compete with the professionals on the Snaefell Mountain Course. Defining what an amateur actually was, however, turned out to be impossible. The rules were extensive and...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/u/manx-grand-prix-wp/gcsu-manx-grand-prix-sixty-kilometres-of-public-road.mp3 0:06 3 full Manx Grand Prix: The Women Who Broke Through https://qualla.com/manx-grand-prix/ In 1989 Gloria Clark became the first woman to race in the Manx Grand Prix. Two years later she entered the Guinness Book of Records as the fastest lady on the TT Circuit. Twenty years on, in the 2009 Manx Grand Prix, Carolynn Sells did something nobody, male or female, had quite...

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