Motor Sports
Guernsey also enjoys various motor sports covering production cars, sports cars, racing cars, motor cycles, motorcycles with sidecars, quad bikes, karts and historic cars and bikes
- Off Road
- Motor Cycle Trials
- Hill climbs
In season, regular races take place on the sands on Vazon beach on the west coast.
Le Val des Terres, a steeply winding road rising south from St Peter Port to Fort George, is often the focus of both local and international hill-climb races.
The 2005, 2006, and 2007 World Touring Car Champion Andy Priaulx is a Guernseyman.
see http://www.gmccc.co.uk/
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Famous quotes containing the words motor and/or sports:
“What shall we do with country quiet now?
A motor drones insanely in the blue
Like a bad bird in a dream.”
—Babette Deutsch (1895–1982)
“Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports.”
—Lesley Visser, U.S. sports reporter and announcer. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 82 (June 17, 1991)