1937 Isle of Man TT
Appearance
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The 1937 Norton beating Stanley Woods by only 15 seconds. Frith also beat Wood in the Junior TT but only with a second placing.
The popular
Mountain Course, is now known as the Guthrie Memorial.[1]
Norton
tuned by his brother-in-law, Steve Lancefield which gave him a fifth place, a finishing position he also achieved in the Junior TT.
In the Lightweight TT Omobono Tenni becomes the first foreigner to secure a victory in an Isle of Man TT race on his Moto Guzzi.[2]
Senior TT (500cc)
Rank | Rider | Team | Speed | Time |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | ![]() |
Norton |
88.21 | 2.59.41.0 |
2 | ![]() |
Velocette | 88.09 | 2:59.56.0 |
3 | ![]() |
Norton | 83.97 | 3:08.44.0 |
4 | ![]() |
Velocette | 86.68 | 3:09.24.0 |
5 | ![]() |
Norton | 83.61 | 3:09.33.0 |
6 | ![]() |
BMW |
81.5 | 3:14.28.0 |
7 | ![]() |
Norton | 80.26 | 3:17.28.0 |
8 | ![]() |
Velocette | 76.96 | 3:25.55.0 |
9 | ![]() |
Norton | 76.73 | 3:26.22.0 |
10 | ![]() |
Norton | 75.62 | 3:29.35.0 |
Junior TT (350cc)
Rank | Rider | Team | Speed | Time |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | ![]() |
Norton | 84.43 mph | 3.07.42.0 |
2 | ![]() |
Norton | 83.29 | 3:10.17.0 |
3 | ![]() |
Norton | 82.54 | 3:12.00.0 |
4 | ![]() |
Velocette | 82.33 | 3:12.30.0 |
5 | ![]() |
Norton | 78.77 | 3:21.12.0 |
6 | ![]() |
Velocette | 78.63 | 3:21.34.0 |
7 | Henry Tyrell-Smith |
Excelsior | 77.25 | 3:25.10.0 |
8 | ![]() |
AJS | 76.82 | 3:26.18.0 |
9 | ![]() |
Norton | 75.98 | 3:28.25.0 |
10 | ![]() |
Norton | 75.4 | 3:30.11.0 |
Lightweight TT (250cc)
Rank | Rider | Team | Speed | Time |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | ![]() |
Moto Guzzi | 74.72 mph | 3.32.06.0 |
2 | ![]() |
Excelsior | 74.5 | 3:32.43.0 |
3 | ![]() |
DKW | 73.17 | 3:36.36.0 |
4 | ![]() |
New Imperial |
72.98 | 3:37.09.0 |
5 | ![]() |
DKW | 72.47 | 3:38.42.0 |
6 | ![]() |
CTS | 69.25 | 3:48.52.0 |
7 | ![]() |
New Imperial | 67.39 | 3:55.10.0 |
8 | ![]() |
Excelsior | 66.3 | 3:59.03.0 |
9 | ![]() |
Cotton | 65.1 | 4:03.26.0 |
Only 9 finishers
Notes
- Stanley Woods has an incident with a dog at the bottom of Bray Hill on the 1st lap of the 1937 Junior TT Race and also loses the rear brake at the same place.[3]
- During lap 1 of the 1937 Junior TT Race, H.Pinnington riding a Norton crashes at the NSU is disqualified for illegal refuelling.[3]
- Omobono Tenni is called "Tombone" by fellow competitors who cannot pronounce his name. On the first lap of the 1937 Lightweight TT Race, Omobono Tenni slips of at Governors Bridge on lap 1 and leaves part of his exhaust of his Moto Guzzi behind. On lap 5, Ewald Kluge retires his DKW at Ballaugh with a broken throttle wire and Stanley Woods on lap 6 his DKW retires at Sulby. H.G.Tyrell Smith breaks down at Creg-na-Baa when his Excelsior breaks a connecting-rod on lap 6.[3]
- On the last lap of the 1937 Senior TT Race, Freddie Frith and Stanley Woods are posted as a dead-heat.