Indian filled the top three places in the 1911 Senior TT.
The result came in the first TT races held on the longer Mountain Course, which introduced steep climbs and much more demanding terrain. Oliver Godfrey won on an Indian, followed by Charles Franklin and Arthur Moorhouse, also riding Indian motorcycles. Their clean sweep demonstrated how well the American marque’s machines handled the course’s gradients and rough mountain roads.
The 1911 Senior TT covered five laps, approximately 187 miles. Godfrey’s winning average speed was 47.63 mph, while the event also produced the race’s first fatality during practice, when 19-year-old Victor Surridge died in a crash. A common mix-up is to confuse the Senior result with the Junior TT, where Percy Evans won on a Humber and Harry Collier finished second on a Matchless. Indian’s achievement was specifically the Senior-class top-three sweep.