Welsh Road Race

[babelfish]

Looking forward to this: Welsh Road Race

[RemaL]

Yes very good news. heard this over the weekend. And local'ish to me

[BobSaunders]

https://www.welshroadrace.com/

track video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7Gf5Sl1h7s&fe...

Made up of 5.25 miles of Welsh MOD Roads and beautiful Welsh countryside.

It is our intention to stage racing in various classes, including:

Ultra Lightweight motorcycles – 125cc to 250cc capacity
Lightweight Supertwin motorcycles – 650cc capacity
Welsh RR Zero Electric Race
Supersport motorcycles – 600cc capacity
Superstock motorcycles – 1000cc capacity
The event will also incorporate a parade of classic & exotic machinery.
The event will also incorporate a parade of classic & exotic machinery.

Each class will consist of a maximum of 40 machines, with 2 motorcycles setting off together at 10 second intervals. Each machine will be timed in order to produce an eventual winner in their respective categories.

[robinh73]

It is fantastic news, so good that a new road race is being allowed. I sincerely hope that it is a success. I have just registered as a competitor, so fingers crossed I get in!

[graham22]

Taff TT !!


That looks good. Liked Plater's commentary (don't worry about the sheep .....). One for our diary next year I think.

Presume this could have been used before as MoD land rather than public highway.

Still looking for a road to close in Cornwall to run a hill-climb on - personally think this is the future of closed roads racing in the immediate future rather than full blown road racing.

[kingb]

saw this at the NEC - What are the nearest towns - I want to sort a hotel!!

Looks excellent!

[Packrats]

Builthwells or Llandrindod wells..

Virtually 20mins from my house ..looking forward to it


This place is decent also to stayin
http://www.thewhitehorsebuilthwells.co.uk/

Edited by Packrats on Monday 20th November 11:48

[obscene]

They need to get a supermoto class in there, I reckon that'd be great on those roads having seen the vid with Steve Plater.

[thepawbroon]

graham22 said:

Taff TT !!

Presume this could have been used before as MoD land rather than public highway.

I was a bit intrigued by this, as far as I understand the roads are Private (i.e. owned by the MoD and not the council) with some permitted public access when the Army aren't doing exercises. I think the straight from the start to Picadilly is public access, and is shown yellow on the OS map. The roads have frequently been used for stage rallying, and currently closed-public-road rallying is not permitted in Wales. Rallying on Epynt is so famous and so notorious that there's a book about it:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Epynt-Rallying-History-Ma...

But the article seems to imply that the Welsh Road Race has been enabled by the new legislation. Which isn't in place in Wales yet (although it is in England).

[555 Paul]

It looks interesting, narrow difficult new track to negotiate with no hedgerows to follow. My inlaws live in Aberystwyth and we normally make our summer visit to see them on the last weekend of July, suffice to say that I've suggested that we delay it by a week next year Hopefully the weather will be decent again and I can meet the wife there, me on a bike, her in the car.

[RemaL]

always the same. local to me and the week i'm out of the country

[Zarco]

Anyone know if there is an official campsite for this? The website is a bit confusing.

[taffyboy]

30 minutes from my house. It would be rude not to go...

[Zarco]

taffyboy said:

30 minutes from my house. It would be rude not to go...

2hrs from mine. Same thought!

[trickywoo]

Looks like its doubtful.

https://www.motorcyclenews.com/sport/tt-road-races...

Shame if it doesn't run.

[WaferThinHam]

Not a surprise IMO. To get canned will be that proposed circuit in NI.

[Zarco]

Facebook post this morning confirming its cancelled for this year at least.

Shame as I had tickets!

[Kneedragger95]

Why they started selling tickets before actually having the circuit getting the green light is beyond me.