2007 Isle of Man TT
John McGuinness on the start line for the 2007 Senior TT Race
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| Date | 26 May – 8 June 2007 | ||||||||||||
| Location | Douglas, Isle of Man | ||||||||||||
| Course | Road Course 37.733 mi / 60.20 km |
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The 2007 Isle of Man Tourist Trophy was the Centenary event which ran between 26 May and 8 June 2007. The first event was held on Tuesday 28 May 1907 and was called the International Auto-Cycle Tourist Trophy run by the Auto-Cycle Club on the St. Johns Short Course in the Isle of Man.
For the Centenary TT Races, a number of special events where held to commemorate 100 years of the Isle of Man TT Races. The first of these events occurred on Saturday 26 May 2007 with a display by the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight over Douglas Bay.
The first motor-cycle event for the Centenary TT Races occurred on Friday 25 May 2007 with the first practice session of the Pre-TT Classic Solo and Sidecar Racing on the Billown Circuit in Castletown. The first practice session on the Snaefell mountain course for the Centenary TT Races was a Solo Newcomers' speed controlled lap on the first evening practice session on Saturday 26 May 2007. The first two competitors to start practice for the Centenary event from the TT Grandstand included Steve Plater and Keith Amor on their Solo Newcomers' speed control lap followed by an untimed practice session for Solo competitors and sidecar crews.
The main races for the Pre-TT Classic Solo and Sidecar where run on Sunday 27 May 2007 on the Billown Course to accommodate the Centenary TT celebrations held on Monday 28 May 2007 at St. Johns. The races held in mixed weather produced a third successive straight win for Chris Palmer, a regular Manx Grand Prix and TT Race competitor in the Senior Classic event riding a 500cc Manx Norton in 27 minutes and 00.833 seconds at an average race speed of 84.956 mph. Fellow TT competitor Guy Martin rode a 750cc Triumph Trident to first place in the 850cc Classic Race at an average race speed of 87.852 mph which also produced an exclusion from third place overall and first in the Post Classic category by the former German TT competitor Peter Rubbatto riding a three-cylinder 1986 OW31 Yamaha as the event was for pre-1976 motor-cycles only. The Sidecar Classic Race was won by Nick Houghton/Paul Thomas riding a 900cc Windle outfit in 20 minutes 58.697 seconds at an average race speed of 72.933 mph from Ralf Englehardt/Winnfried Viecenz riding a 980cc Busch BMW outfit. Former Manx Grand Prix winner Roy Richardson won the 350cc Junior Classic Race at an average race speed of 81.260 mph and former TT competitor Geoff McMullan won the 250cc Lightweight Classic Race in 28 minutes and 17.904 seconds an average race speed of 82.402 mph.
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