Sand racing

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Sand racing events are staged in Jersey by the Jersey Motor Cycle and Light Car Club. The club was formed in 1920, initially solely for motorcycle events.

Sand racing was introduced at Greve d'Azette, later at St Brelade's Bay, Millbrook and St Ouen, which is where the majority of events are now held.

Sand racing is held approximately once a fortnight from May through to September and includes junior and senior motorcycle competitors. The majority of cars are production cars in classes of 1300cc, 1600cc and 2000cc and recently these have proved to be most entertaining and popular with both competitors and spectators.

Three motor cycle greats, Gordon Bisson, Jimmy Lees-Baker and Mac Daghorn

  • Crowds watch 1970 racing at St Ouen

  • A 1958 event

  • Racing on St Aubin's beach in 2002

  • Sand racing in 1936

  • Sand racing in 1960

  • Sand racing in 1948

  • Racing in 1947

  • A 1961 crowd at St Ouen's Bay

A very rare photograph of sand racing at Beaumont in the 1920s

  • A phone card showing racing at St Brelade's Bay in the 1920s

  • A motor cycle race in the 1970s

  • 1939

  • 1939

  • 1939

  • 1939

  • 1936

  • 1959 - Picture Evening Post

  • 1937 - Picture Evening Post

  • 1939 - Picture Evening Post

  • 1960s

  • 1937

Bernie (Bernard James) Turpin (1925-2020) on his Rudge Ulster, receiving the winner's cup on 18 July 1946

  • The start of a race in 1956. Picture Evening Post

  • 1965

  • 1965

  • 1977

  • 1977

  • 1977

  • 1967 - Picture Jersey Evening Post

  • 1976 - Picture Jersey Evening Post

  • 1976 - Picture Jersey Evening Post

  • 1976 - Picture Jersey Evening Post

  • 1976 - Picture Jersey Evening Post

  • 1976 - Picture Jersey Evening Post

  • 1977 - Picture Jersey Evening Post

  • A Mini competing in 1979

  • 1973 programme

  • Spectators in 1970

  • F19SandRacing.jpg

  • 1980s

  • J20SandRace1.jpg
  • J20SandRace2.jpg

  • 1950s

  • 1950s

  • 1950s

  • 1936

  • 1977

Aston Martin 1½ Le Mans formerly owned by Mr Scott-Nickey, who lived at Longueville Manor pre-war, racing in St Ouen's Bay before the war, when the coast was lined with weekend bungalows. Scott-Nickey ran up a number of debts at St Helier Garages and managing director Harold Briginshaw, assisted by Len True, served a writ on the owner and took the car in payment. Harold Briginshaw sand raced and hill climbed the car in the 1930s, and replaced the chassis at least once. Previously the car had been a competitor in the Mille Miglia, but did not finish. It was finished in blue and grey, and is still that colour today. It was sold and bought by a member of the Colley family and survived the war, having been taken to the UK in the late 1930s. It still survives in the USA
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