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SPORTS AND ACTIVITIES
MAIN IMAGE Riders tackling the jumps at the Tandragee Motocross
Circuit BELOW (left to right) Spectators waiting for the start of a
race; bikers racing through the streets at Tandragee
4 MORE RACES TO RIVAL THE
ISLE OF MAN TT RACES
SKERRIES, REPUBLIC OF IRELAND Head to Ireland for the
spectacular racing Skerries has to offer. The fact that the people
are extremely friendly and it isn’t far from Dublin provides an
additional motivation to visit.
THE MACAU GRAND PRIX, MACAU, CHINA This is an
unusual alternative to Irish road-racing. The race is held on
the Guia Street Circuit and sees riders actually race through
the city. Instead of fields on each side of the road, there are
walls and barriers.
SCARBOROUGH, NORTH YORKSHIRE, UK Another unusual
“road race,” these races are held in a park with the riders racing
on a narrow lane which makes up the Oliver’s Mount Circuit.
LANDSHAAG, AUSTRIA The only pure road race in Austria is
this awesome one held sometime in mid-April. The race takes
place on a mountain course which is short but narrow, bumpy,
and very difficult.
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