By 70 plus riders are set to take part in tomorrow’s Senior Manx Grand Prix, as a host of rising roads stars, next generation Mountain Course talent, seasoned event exponents battle for blue riband race honours.
Favourites for victory include Mylchreests Junior victor James Chawke, practice week pace setter Matt Stevenson, Dean Osborne, Stephen Parsons plus Ultra Lightweight, Lightweight race 1 victors Andy Farrell and Darryl Tweed.
Others extremely capable of contending for placing’s on the podium include Stephen Smith, Steven Procter, Brad Vicars, Gareth Evans, Wayne Humble, Dave Butler and Martin Bullock Manxsport’s Brendan Fargher.
Photo by Mark Corlett
Alongside Port St Mary’s Fargher others to pilot 750 Suzuki machinery are PRF Racing’s Ryan Maher, Melton Mowbray’s Dan Ingham, Damian Horan, Andy McPherson and Marc Colvin.
Eight newcomers are entered including Nathan Harrison and PRB Racing backed Grant Gaskell whilst in total 14 nations enjoy representation.
The present full start list for the 2018 Senior Manx Grand Prix, is as follows:
1 David Lumsden
2 Dean Osborne
3 Brad Vicars
4 Andy Farrell
5 Steven Procter
6 Matt Stevenson
7 Darryl Tweed
8 Gareth Evans
9 Brendan Fargher
10 Stephen Smith
11 Wayne Humble
12 James Chawke
13 David McConnachy
14 Dave Butler
15 Stuart Hall
16 Damian Horan
17 Stephen Parsons
18 Morgan Govignon
19 Andrew Fisher
20 Victor Lopez Santos
21 Dan Ingham
22 Francesco Curinga
23 Michael Browne
24 Marc Colvin
25 Miroslav Sloboda
26 Adrian Hartog
27 Michael Hand
28 Shaun Evans
29 Jason Corcoran
30 Chris Cook
31 Nathan Harrison
32 Gaz Evans
33 Leon Murphy
34 Dennis Booth
35 Dave Quine
36 Steven Horne
37 Teddy Bresson
38 Callum Ward
39 Andy Lovett
40 Erik Kjuus
41 Rodger Wibberley
42 Nicolas Pautet
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44 Kevin Barsby
45 Richard Stubbs
46 Ryan Maher
47 Nick Southerwood
48 Tommy Henry
49 Andy McPherson
50 Colin Croft
51 Nige Rea
52 Stuart McCann
53 Ross Orchard
54 Steve Moody
55 Andy Hayes
56 Chris Sarbora
57 Robert Nelson
58 Jason Heritage
59 Grant Gaskell
60 Peter Creer
61 Herve Somson
62 Ben Shuttlewood
63 Iain Hill
64 Sebastian Witt
65 Andreas Psychogyios
66 Paul Battersby
67 Christian Slater
68 James Reveley
69 Peter Moore
70 Noel Carroll
71 Andrew McAllister
72 Jordan McFerran
73 Richard Duncan
74 Ben Plant
75 Fabrice Faivre
Words by Stevie Rial
