Isle of Wight Speed Trials Island Car Centre Sandown Sprint is set to return to Culver Parade on the weekend of 20th – 21st April 2024.
Island Car Centre Sandown Sprint – the Isle of Wight’s premier motorsport event.
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Sandown Sprint 2025
- Sandown Esplanade
- 20 - 21 September 2025
The Isle of Wight Speed Trials event is set to return to Culver Parade in 2025.
About Sandown Sprint
In 2017 Motorsport UK successfully lobbied for a change in the law which would allow a Local Highways Authority to suspend the Road Traffic Act. This opened the door to allow motor racing on closed public roads for the first time.
Isle of Wight Speed Trials aimed to bring motorsport to the Island starting with a sprint in Sandown. It has teamed up with the Isle of Wight Car Club, other regional motorsport clubs and local businesses. The IOWCC is affiliated to MSA. This is one of the few speed events to run on closed public roads in England under the new regulations.
The first event planned under the banner of the Isle Wight Speed Trials was planned in 2020 as a sprint based in Sandown – the Island Car Centre Sandown Sprint 2020. National restrictions due to the pandemic forced the postponement of the proposed 2020 and 2021 events, with the first sprint taking place in April 2022.
Isle of Wight Speed Trials
Harking back to the days before national speed limits on UK roads, the Island Car Centre Sandown Sprint will evoke a sense of nostalgia as vehicles compete once again on Culver Parade.
Pathe Newsreels still provide a record of the 1951 Isle of Wight Rally that was held on public roads. It used places like The Cascade in Ventnor and the Esplanade in Sandown shown here. It’s likely that these events were just simply run with the permission of the local Chief Constable and that outright speed was not the objective.
This screenshot from the newsreel shows a 1948 Bristol 400 being driven by L.F.Parham, along Sandown Esplanade, who won the up to 2000cc Closed class.
The sprint certainly brings back the spirit of these earlier events as well as adding some real speed to the proceedings.
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