Former Southern 100 sidecar champions Greg Lambert, John Holden and Dave Molyneux were all in attendance at the 2022 launch last Friday.

This July’s meeting will mark 60 years since chairs were first introduced to the Billown Course in 1962. The title sponsor for the S100 will once again be Isle of Man Steam Packet Company.

Blackford Financial Services are to continue their association with the Pre-TT Classic between Friday, May 27 and Bank Holiday Monday, May 30.

Book-ending the TT, the one-day Post-TT road race meeting on Saturday, June 11 is to be sponsored by DAO.

Young guns Nathan Harrison and Paul Jordan both had their 2022 machines on show at the Morton Hall launch night.

Local star Harrison, winner of the Junior/Senior Manx Grand Prix double in 2019, will be making his TT debut this year, whilst making a return to the 4.25-mile Billown Course that he first rode on in 2019 (at the Post-TT), gaining a fourth in the 600cc race at the S100.

Jordan will be riding R1 and R6 Yamahas for John Preston’s local team, Prez Racing, this year. He has only ridden the Post-TT event once and not the Southern 100 proper as yet.

The latter event will take place between Monday, July 11-14. It is the Steam Packet Company 36th year of sponsorship at the Southern.

Rob Hurdman of Greenlight Television confirmed that the Southern 100 would return to ITV4 this summer.