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Last Time a Vincent Twin Raced in the Isle of Man?
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<blockquote data-quote="Len Matthews" data-source="post: 37015" data-attributes="member: 178"><p>Re. Vincent Twins in the TT. As members will possibly recall, the TT races were at one time part of the World Championships and the Sidecar event was limimted to 500cc machines. At one stage a second non-championship sidecar race was added to the TT programme for machines of up to 750cc wihich ovbiously excluded 998cc Vincent powered outfits.John Renwick built a cut-down Twin engine especially to compete in this event and both Peter Gerrish and the late Mick Farrant had a go with their Comet outfits.</p><p> Chatting to Peter Russell, he of Dolphin Motors fame, who had been very successfully racing his 998cc Vincent kneeler on short circuits, he expressed his frustration of not being able to enter his machine in the 750 Sidecar TT whereas most mainland events were billed as "Sidecars and Three-wheelers up to 1,300cc."</p><p> He was of the opinion that the line at 750cc was deliberately drawn to exclude 998cc Vincent outfits by the ACU due to pressure from a number of sidecar racers, mainly from the Midlands, who were racing parallel twin outfits, BSA, Triumph, ect. Because of this limit on engine size us Vincent enthuiasts were denied the sight and sound of Vincent powered outfits on the Mountain Course although some have competed in the Southern 100 races in more recent times.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Len Matthews, post: 37015, member: 178"] Re. Vincent Twins in the TT. As members will possibly recall, the TT races were at one time part of the World Championships and the Sidecar event was limimted to 500cc machines. At one stage a second non-championship sidecar race was added to the TT programme for machines of up to 750cc wihich ovbiously excluded 998cc Vincent powered outfits.John Renwick built a cut-down Twin engine especially to compete in this event and both Peter Gerrish and the late Mick Farrant had a go with their Comet outfits. Chatting to Peter Russell, he of Dolphin Motors fame, who had been very successfully racing his 998cc Vincent kneeler on short circuits, he expressed his frustration of not being able to enter his machine in the 750 Sidecar TT whereas most mainland events were billed as "Sidecars and Three-wheelers up to 1,300cc." He was of the opinion that the line at 750cc was deliberately drawn to exclude 998cc Vincent outfits by the ACU due to pressure from a number of sidecar racers, mainly from the Midlands, who were racing parallel twin outfits, BSA, Triumph, ect. Because of this limit on engine size us Vincent enthuiasts were denied the sight and sound of Vincent powered outfits on the Mountain Course although some have competed in the Southern 100 races in more recent times. [/QUOTE]
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