Wednesday Qualifying Schedule

Roads Close - 18:00 hrs Until No Later Than 21:00

18:20 ~ 19:10 - MGP Senior / MGP Junior / CTT Lightweight / CTT Superbike / Newcomers A

19:15 ~ 20:00 - CTT Junior / CTT Senior / MGP Lightweight & Ultra Lightweight / Newcomers B & C

Evening Practice Coverage on Manx Radio AM1368 :

Saturday 18th – Thursday 23rd August : 6pm - 9pm (Saturday coverage begins at 5pm)

Staying dry and bright this evening with some sunshine and fairly light or moderate north-westerly winds.

Clear spells tonight and temperatures gradually falling to around 11 Celsius later.

A bright start tomorrow but soon becoming cloudy with the chance of showers by about mid-morning, then turning mostly bright again into the afternoon with sunny intervals.

Highest temperature around 17°C, with a freshening westerly wind.

18.00 - Roads close around the course

18.20 - 19.05 MGP Senior/ MGP Junior/ CTT Lightweight/ CTT Superbike (no newcomers)

19.10 - 19.45 CTT Junior/ CTT Senior/ MGP Lightweight & Ultra Lightweight

19.48 - 20.00 MGP newcomers accompanied by experienced riders

Clerk of the Course Gary Thompson has confirmed that the race organisation will now use the additional qualifying session on the afternoon of Thursday 23rd August, which was provisionally scheduled in the race authorisation. This will mean that there will be two qualifying sessions on Thursday 23rd to ensure that the riders have enough time to practice before the first scheduled race day on Saturday 25th August.

Thursday’s qualifying programme will see roads close around the course at 12.30pm with the first qualifying session running from 1pm to 3.55pm. The roads will then open again at 4.30pm around the course and close again at 6pm for the scheduled evening qualifying session.

16:45 - RTA at Guthries- Mountain Road Closed while Emergency services attend the scene

The Bungalow at 17:00hrs Wednesday

18:10 - RTC Investigation on Incident at Guthries ongoing. SO - Potential Delay to start !!!

18:45: - Still no update on a start for tonights practice session.

19:15 - Still no update

19:18 - 19:30 start (hopefully)

Those that got 1 lap in on Saturday night will go.

CTT Junior/ CTT Senior/ MGP Lightweight & Ultra Lightweight

 MGP newcomers

19:30 - Guthries still not fit for racing, so yet another delay until it is swept again.

19:47 - Newcomers only with experienced riders will go.

19:54 - And this shortened session eventually gets underway.