Ulster GP Road Race (North Of Ireland)

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Still spaces on a popular well known ferry service from stranraer £20 Day trip return food included. (Great food at that)

Ulster Grand Prix's new website has been launched.

SEE HERE: Ulster Grand Prix Official Website 2009

"The Ulster Grand Prix 2009, in association with Causeway Digial will be available to watch Live online.

For the first time, the UGP will be available Live, worldwide from UlsterGrandPrix.net.

More details about this exciting enhancement to the 2009 event will be available soon".


History
The Ulster Grand Prix has had a long and chequered history since the first event, a handicap race, organised by the Ulster Motorcycle Club way back in 1922. This race was run over the 20.5-mile Clady Circuit utilising the Seven Mile Straight that ran from Muckamore Corner to Clady Corner, where machines ran flat out (could today’s production based racing machines cope with seven miles flat to the stop action)?

Situated in close proximity to Belfast, massive crowds lined the circuit and the race soon became established on the world scene, eventually gaining international recognition in 1926 when the handicap tag was dropped in favour of 250cc, 350cc, 500cc and over 500cc classes – racing ten laps of the Clady Circuit. Incidentally, the very first winner of the ‘Prix’ was Hubert Hassal riding a Norton averaging 60mph.