Sand racing

Sand racing

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

Three motor cycle greats of the 1960s, Gordon Bisson, Jimmy Lees-Baker and Mac Daghorn

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.

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  Crowds watch 1970 racing at St Ouen
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  A 1958 event
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  Racing on St Aubin's beach in 2002
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  Sand racing in 1936
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  Sand racing in 1960
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  Sand racing in 1948
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  Racing in 1947
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  A 1961 crowd at St Ouen's Bay
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  1958
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  A UK competitor in the motor cycle and side car race in 1976
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  Mac Daghorn also raced cars. He was pictured in his Cooper in 1960
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  1960s - an interview by a BBC film crew

A very rare photograph of sand racing at Beaumont in the 1920s, or perhaps this was just a posed photograph not connected with a race

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  A phone card showing racing at St Brelade's Bay in the 1920s
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  A motor cycle race in the 1970s
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  1959 - Picture Evening Post
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  1939 - Picture Evening Post
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Bernie (Bernard James) Turpin (1925-2020) on his Rudge Ulster, receiving the winner's cup on 18 July 1946

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  The start of a race in 1956. Picture Evening Post
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  1967 - Picture Jersey Evening Post
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  1976 - Picture Jersey Evening Post
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  1976 - Picture Jersey Evening Post
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  1976 - Picture Jersey Evening Post
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  1976 - Picture Jersey Evening Post
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  1976 - Picture Jersey Evening Post
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  1977 - Picture Jersey Evening Post
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  A Mini competing in 1979
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  1973 programme

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  Spectators in 1970
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  Racing past beach chalets in St Ouen's Bay
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  Denis Morin, one of the most successful bike riders in the early 1970s

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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  On the start line for the first meeting of 1937. This race was won by Pat Oxenden in her Jaguar SS - car No 9 ...
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  ... which is seen here racing past beach chalets, which lined the coast at the time
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  The same car with members of the Oxenden family in later years
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  7 April 1947 - Picture Evening Post
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  2 April 1956 - Picture Evening Post
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  1958, Jimmy Langlois
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  1956
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  Terry Le Main
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  1956 - a crowd of over 2000
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  1958 Evening Post photograph of Jimmy Langlois at the wheel of his sand race special
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  The wreck of the car in which Raymond Alluto was killed in 1956 - Evening Post photograph
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  W Alluto in this 1953 Evening Post photograph

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  Medical officer Dr David Scott-Warren and St John Ambulance personnel attend to a casualty in 1956
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Evening Post photographs of pre-war and post-Liberation events

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The 50-mile race in August 1938

Jersey Grand Prix

A special event named Jersey Grand Prix was staged in 1936 and 1937 Evening Post photographs

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The start line for the 1937 event - Picture Evening Post