Rivalry will be renewed between two well known Sidecar crews at the 63rd Steve Henshaw International Gold Cup Road Races being held at Oliver’s Mount, Scarborough on Saturday and Sunday 14th & 15th September.

With 16 Sidecar TT victories to his credit, Dave Molyneux, the Manxman is the fourth most successful Sidecar driver at Oliver’s Mount with 18 wins to his tally at present, the most recent during the final Sidecar race last year.

Moly’s main rival at the picturesque North Yorkshire circuit will be Ian Bell who now has his son Carl in the chair as passenger. Ian tops the list at Oliver’s Mount with no less than 56 race wins to his credit, taking his maiden sidecar race victory back in 1994 in the second leg of the Formula 2 race at the Gold Cup meeting.

Ian and Carl headed home Dave and his passenger Patrick Farrance twice during the ‘Gold Cup’ meeting last year.

However, having made his Sidecar racing debut at the Steve Henshaw event last year, Michael Dunlop with experienced winning TT passenger Dan Sayle in the chair soon leant the art of sidecar racing taking seventh in his first outing and followed that with a fifth and finally a magnificent second behind Molyneux and Farrance in the third and final race of the meeting.

The Ulster-Manx pairing return on Nick Crowe’s F2 outfit and could be contenders for taking the chequered cloth at least once over the two-day meeting.

Setting the rivalry aside between the Manxie and the Northumbrian other serious contenders for the threewheel honours at the feature meeting of the year at Oliver’s Mount include three other long time enthusiast supporters of the Auto 66 organisers, Conrad Harrison and Lee Patterson; Carl Fenwick and Jason Crowe and Greg Lambert with Dean Kilkenny in the passengers seat.


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