The entry list for this year’s Sandown Sprint, sponsored by Island Car Centre, has been confirmed with almost 100 competitors set for high-octane action along Culver Parade. Motorsport will return to Sandown on 20th/21st April 2024, building on the previous successes of both 2022 and 2023. There are a few changes to the Sprint format event this year; competitor cars will now all be based in a new Race Village at Fort Street, rather than out at Yaverland as in previous years. This will create a spectacle much closer to the town centre and encourage more people to enjoy getting up close to the cars and drivers as they prepare for the start line. The course itself has also been slightly extended at the finish and this year access to the Browns enclosure will be open to all ticket holders. Stand-out entries for 2024 include former Sprint winner Damien Bradley in his Subaru Legacy and his closest rival Will Nicholls, who will be competing in an ex-Petter Solberg Subaru WRC this year. Steve Harris will be bringing a Ford RS200 Evolution to the Island and Dave Kedward will showcase a Group B Lancia 037. The Pontiac Ascar Grand Prix of Lee Maddox will be an unusual sight not to be missed. 
“I think we are in for a very exciting weekend. I find it hard to believe what a variety of cars we have entered this time. Ranging from an Austin 7 Special, through 60s and 70s stalwarts such as Austin A40, Ford Anglia, Minis, and Escorts to fire-breathing monsters such as a Pontiac Grand Prix and Vauxhall Firenza Can Am. There are also out-and-out performance vehicles such as the Mitsubishi Evo 9, Fiesta R5 and Subaru WRC. “This Sprint was always intended to encourage motorsport on the Isle of Wight and I am very pleased to see that nearly half the entries are from Islanders”.
Tickets are available from www.isleofwightspeedtrials.co.uk. The full entry list can be found at https://isleofwightspeedtrials.co.uk/competitors/sandown-sprint-results/. 
Loads of idiots down low in their cars, not forgetting chavy caps pointing up to the sky & usual gormless nothing there expressions.
So, the road is safe enough for these cars to speed along when it is to ‘amuse’ a few bored wannabees YET the Police spend much of their time sat by the Zoo, with a speed camera van, watching if someone dares go above 30mph on a Winters day when there is few if any people about and the road is as straight as a yard of pump water and all business entrances are easy to see as on one side and a huge concrete high wall the other.
So, what gives, why not go to roads that are accidents waiting to occur, easy money imo. Seems that road safety is not their top priority and imo they ought to hide themselves on roads where people are milling about and junctions are more numerous and harder to spot at speed.
The IDIOTIC Council are encouraging speeding on the island
Wait until their Elite Bosses make them make the island
20mph
Majority of UK now experiencing such rules.
Bring it on, make the island a safe place for our children and their children.
Great to see the Island doing their bit for the climate
and encouraging speeding on this lawless Island.
20mph is plenty
So glad you are so narrow minded! 20mph creates more pollution and bringing an event like this generates hundreds of thousands if not millions in additional local business
Majority of local businesses have closed down.
Look at the state of Sandown, Ukraine looks much
better, and they are at war.
King Charles who cares for the climate will not be happy such
events are taking place that do so much damage to the climate.
Years of damage done by just 1 event.
Does the Island not care for the climate?!
I wonder how many of the drivers will be under the influence
You lot are unbelievable, typical nimby’s. All banging on about climate change, I’m hazarding a guess that more pollution is caused by shipping your bananas from Costa Rica than this event. There are bound to be a few doughnuts in amongst them (much like commenters on IE) that’s life, hopefully it will be well organised and policed and all will have a good time.
If slack jaw bored wish to see speeding cars just stand at the canoe lake in Ryde most evenings. Even more exciting as on rare occasions the Police might turn up too.
Grow up. Plonk your bored kid in front of a screen and leave roads as they are intended for travelling on.
They couldn’t Police a Zebra crossing on the island, have you
seen the state of the traffic entering Ryde McDonalds!
TRAFFIC CONTROL DOSS NOT EXIST ON THE ISLAND,
Speeding does though
The real irony is the the winner is very likely to be electric.
Do anyone commenting on here even know anything about motorsport? Oh the poor street, the poor climate, blah blah blah, get on your bike and head to the mainland for the weekend that it’s on and stop your moaning, it’s people like yee and stupid speed limits and restrictions have young people revving up public streets because they want to get involved in motorsport but yee won’t allow such on the island. Any how this event is professionally organised, professionally run and fantastic entertainment for anyone in to motorsport, cars and great weekend to be had for families, great way to get young children interested in motorsport as well. So if you have no interest, well off ya pop and find another way home pizza boy.
Sounds like a fantastic event, will be great to see so many high powered, highly developed, heavily modified, high octane and uber safe cars being put through their paces for all to see.
The Island is a great place to visit Steve. Mostly fantastic, welcoming people. As a tourist destination I’m sure the event will be well received by the majority. A great boost to the local economy!
The Island is boasting that they are taking delivery of a fleet of
Electric Buses and then they allow a load of petrol guzzling
climate damaging vehicles take place in races.
What Moron runs the Island?, I cannot wait for his or hers Mainland bosses
to contact them and demand the island rolls out 20mph islandwide
It’s happened in Wales and London, it is coming.
20mph is only going to do one thing and that’s wreck your engine and gear box, how can it help the climate when your engine is revving out doing 20 up a hill or along a road that’s fit for 40 to 50 let alone 30 and not 20. You do know their are bio fuels out there that some race and rally cars use that are harmless to the environment? You do know that this event is not going to tip the world into oblivion. People like you are the reason youths speed around on off road bikes because there’s no access to motorsport for them. Grow up its one weekend of motorsport, don’t like it, don’t go.
You have a lot to learn
20mph is coming soon, only a matter of time,
make the most of speeding while you still can.