This weekend I attended the Weston Beach Race. I didn't go on purpose, but if UK's biggest off track motorcycle event is held on your doorstep plus I can use my volunteer privilege to get on the See Monster and see it from a birds eye view I'm not going to turn down the opportunity right?
The Beach Race is in it's 39th year and is held on our beach along a 6km long race track for motorcycles and quads. It starts off with a 2km long straight stretch along the seafront where hundreds of bikes roar ahead trying to gain advantage position. I live 10 minutes walk away from the beach, and yesterday I heard the roars at home that went on for ages so I was really looking forward to see it live. The main motor cycle race, the adult solo, was on Sunday afternoon and there were over 730 contestants. I arrived at the top of the See Monster in time to see the start of the race. It was an amazing sight hearing and smelling so many motor cycles come out from the parc ferme to the starting line, revving their engines like a pack of wasps. From the moment the gates opened it was absolute carnage! Check out my video below.
The riders does a sprint about 100m followed by a hairpin bend, either over the sand dunes or further towards the end for a smooth turn and avoid crashing into one another. Most opted to turn over the sand dunes and in my video below you will see a bit of the carnage on the bottom right of the screen. It was absolute madness!!
From there on, it s a 2km sprint along the sea front which I'm told is what makes this whole race so exicting.
The remaining part of the track goes up and down along the beach. One section has 10 massive sand dunes which have been piled up purposely over the past couple of weeks. Then the contestants do a hairpin turn (more carnage) and the next section consists of many smaller sand dunes. And finally they reach the large sand dune to arrive back at the starting point to complete a lap. Each lap takes around 10 to 15 minutes for the pros, with the best rider taking 8 minutes only, and they race non stop for 3 hours.
I hanged around for about half an hour and headed back down to ground level to check out the rest of the venue. The venue and camp site takes up the entire seafront and sadly it was ticket only. The ticket price was £25 which I found rather expensive. I get it there's a lot going on and logistic wise it's a very big event, but since I got some awesome footage already, I wasn't going to pay £25 to take some photos of food stalls, and people enjoying themselves.
I took a video of the start of the race, hopefully you will find it as exciting as I did watching it live.
And if you're interested to see what the track is like, here's a video of it from the organizers. It's introduced by Todd Kellett, five times winner of this event, the last win being this afternoon!! Congrats Todd!
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Holy thats a lot of bikes. Looks like chaos at the begining. Cool event. You had a great vantage point up on the sea monster.
Us locals normally avoid town during these events as there are thousands who come during the weekend, but I figured I'm never going to get such a fantastic view of things, and I've never seen the beach race before, couldn't pass on the opportunity. So glad I come
Wow man ! This a huge beach and lot of players racing at the same time.I have never seen this racing , only played in games.😂😂 It is awesome watching it live.
Thanks for sharing livinguktaiwan
It absolutely was great watching it live, great view but a little too far away for the rest of the action at the sand dunes, but great even neverthless
OMG, that looks totally bonkers!
Those 730 bikers roaring out was crazy!
lol, i think you had not only the best view, but the safest too!!
This is incredible! How come I never heard of the race before? I would love to watch the 40th one! So many bikes and so much adrenaline! You lucky girl 🤩
You need to come down more often!! If you have time in the next two weeks, I'd highly recommend the See Monster https://peakd.com/hive-163772/@livinguktaiwan/a-tour-of-the-see-monster. I think you'd love it from a photography pov, and your kid would love the slide, they all do!!
I think so too!
Never heard of that event before, looks quite cool !
To be very honest, I've never heard of it before, partly because I've been living away from my home town for so many years, and partly because we avoid going into town when there are major events going on
A fun fill weekend
Wow… what a spectacle @livinguktaiwan 😊😎 never seen anything like that. Very cool.
And to have that on your doorstep, so to speak. Definitely worth investigating.
Thanks for sharing it with us.
Have a great new week!
Thanks for dropping by @littlebee4 , hope you had a great weekend yourself
You are welcome @livinguktaiwan 😊 the weekend was great thank you.
Have a wonderful mid-week. 👋🏻☀️
Such a beautiful place 😍😍😍
Thanks
Wow! Never saw such race before
It's the first time for me as well even though it's been held for so many years
It should not be surprising that a long track specially prepared for the coastline creates such excitement. Even while watching the video, it would be very enjoyable to watch the roaring engines pass on those muddy sandy curved roads. The bird's eye view is legendary. Then let's congratulate both you and Todd :))
Me standing there at the top watching it live was amazing, I could smell the fumes of over 700 motor cycles, smelly but exiciting
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wuaoo what an extraordinary event and to see everything from the place where you were is very exciting, a luxurious view thanks to the good will to help.
No need to see the food stalls, no need to see the people, good thing you didn't overpay.
You showed what was most interesting to see, greetings and thank you. @livinguktaiwan
If the ticket was cheaper, I definitely would have gone in, but £25 was tooooo expensive!
Pretty cool to have seen this live!! I hope there were not too many accidents as there were so many participants. You certainly had a great vantage point. That very "dune-y" track must have created a lot of excitement and tears for some.
I know a lot of bikes got stuck at the very first hair pin bend, you can see a bit of that in the video at the bottom right, but no major accidents that I'm aware of. Maybe the sand helps to less any impact.
A beach race? Wow! Never heard of it but it looks really cool! :)
First for me as well, even though I'm local. Normally I wouldn't be too interested in it to be honest, but with such a great vantage point that would never be available again, I had to go and watch it
That looks sick! And here I am being a naive Aussie thinking the UK have no beaches and sand dunes
We have beaches in UK but nowhere as nice as the ones you guys have, yours are so famous. The sand dunes aren't natural, especially since our beach here is known to be quite muddy. They bought a lot of digge in to build the sand dunes, and were still here today to knock them back down
This is great when the vibe draws you out of the house and you look forward to it! Of course, 25 is not small, especially if you already had a good view, and the videos look like a lot of action! :D I would probably never dare to do it myself haha.