Visit North Yorkshire 80th Anniversary Gold Cup
The Line-Up
Friday, Saturday & Sunday — 4–6 September 2026
England’s only real road racing circuit turns 80 this September — and we’ve pulled together one of the biggest weekends in Oliver’s Mount history to celebrate it. Here’s everyone confirmed for the 80th Anniversary Gold Cup.
On Track
Dean Harrison
TT Winner & Oliver’s Mount Legend
Peter Hickman
TT Legend & BSB Winner
Davey Todd
TT Winner & British SuperStock Champion
Mike Browne
TT Rider
BPE by Russell Racing team-mate to Richard Cooper, with TT top-ten form and multiple Armoy wins including the Race of Legends.
Ben Birchall & Mark Wilkes
Multiple TT Winner
With sidecars banned from real roads at the TT and Southern 100 this season, Oliver’s Mount is the only ACU venue running them on real roads in 2026.
Shaun Anderson
TT Rider
54 TT starts, a member of the 130mph Club, and 25th fastest TT competitor in history. 2024 Senior Classic Manx Grand Prix winner.
Johnny Stewart
4× 2026 Manx Grand Prix Winner
An Oliver’s Mount ever-present, currently leading our Pro SuperSport championship, off the back of a historic four wins at a single Manx Grand Prix. He arrives looking to secure both the 2026 Pro SuperSport and King of The Mount titles.
Rob Hodson, Joey Thompson & Tom Weeden
Oliver’s Mount Specialists
Our regular circuit specialists, stepping up in 2026 to take the fight to the visiting challengers head-on.
F2 Sidecars: the only real roads sidecar racing to be seen anywhere this
year — Birchall & Wilkes take on local champions Carl Fenwick & Jake Roberts,
Steve & Matty Ramsden, and new challengers Kieran Clarke & Rob Coppock.
Heritage Parades & Chat Shows
John McGuinness
TT Legend
Bringing his lap-record Vimto Honda 250 (1m 49.3s, set 27 years ago) and the HM Plant Fireblade he set the first 130mph TT lap on.
Steve Parrish
GP Rider
Our regular Barry Sheene Festival host, and Saturday’s Riders Chat Show host.
Glenn Irwin
BSB & NW200 Legend
Mick Grant
TT Winner & GP Rider
One of the main Oliver’s Mount legends of the last eight decades, and instrumental — alongside Eddie Roberts & Andy Hayes — in resurrecting the circuit back in 2019.
Eddie Roberts
Road Racer
Instrumental with Mick Grant and Andy Hayes in resurrecting the circuit back in 2019.
Ivan Lintin
One of the most dominant riders in Oliver’s Mount history — a Gold Cup winner who beat John McGuinness to the trophy.
Dean Ashton
3× Gold Cup Winner
Winner in 1993, 1995 and 1996, with over 25 race wins at the Mount — one of the finest “Mini TT” specialists of his generation.
Steve Plater
TT Winner · BSS Champion
2009 Senior TT winner and British Supersport Champion, mentored early in his TT career by Mick Grant — who’s now lending him the ex-Sanyo bike he bought from Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler. Friday’s Riders Chat Show host.
Ian Simpson
3× TT Winner · 5× NW200 Winner
“The Dalbeattie Destroyer” — British Superbike and Supersport champion in the same year (1994), and winner of the very last TT race he ever competed in.
Evening Entertainment
Friday 4th, 18:30 — The Riders Chat Show, hosted by Steve Plater,
with guests from announced line up.
Saturday 5th, 18:30 — The Riders Chat Show, hosted by Steve Parrish,
with guests from announced line up.
Live bands both evenings, plus a charity auction on Saturday night in aid of
Garry Broughton — an Oliver’s Mount ever-present, seriously injured at the 2025
Manx Grand Prix.
