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Revamped Schedule Proposed for 2020 Isle of Man TT Races - Malcolm - 29-10-2019 It is proposed that the 2020 Isle of Man TT Races, promoted by the Department for Enterprise, will be run on a revamped schedule designed to improve spectator entertainment and mitigate the demands that are placed on teams, riders, volunteers including the TT Marshals Association and local residents. The proposed schedule will mean some changes to road closure periods and the established racing schedule.
Rob Callister MHK, Political Member with responsibility for tourism and motorsport, commented: "The proposed new schedule has been designed to optimise qualifying conditions and offer shorter race days, reducing the pressure placed on competitors, teams, volunteers and officials. This new format is also designed to minimise the impact that racing has on local residents and businesses with more clearly defined road closure schedules including the more definitive first weekend qualifying timetable and cutting the duration of road closures during race week which result in clearer, easier to follow road closure timetables. This will bring benefits to rider, visitors and locals throughout the TT period." The proposals mean:- The 2020 Isle of Man TT Races will begin a day later than previous years, starting on Sunday 31st May with an afternoon Qualifying Session. Evening Qualifying Sessions will then run as before from Monday 1st June to Thursday 4th June with the final session moved from the evening to a new afternoon slot on Friday 5th June. Provisional sessions remain in the schedule on Thursday afternoon and Friday evening now becomes a provisional session. The new TT Race day format Starts with a single lap ‘Morning Warm Up Session’ for solo competitors before the opening race of the week - the RST Superbike Race - which gets underway at midday on Saturday 6th June followed by the first Sidecar TT Race at 3pm. Monday’s and Wednesday’s Race days – featuring the two Supersport Races, the RL360 Superstock and the Bennetts Lightweight Race – will also begin with a Solo Morning Warm Up Session, with a single lap Sidecar Shakedown Session added to the running order on Wednesday ahead of Friday’s second Sidecar Race and the Senior TT Race. ACU Events Ltd, as race organiser for the TT Races, will now submit the programme to the Isle of Man Government Department of Infrastructure for consideration and approval. This proposed new schedule will be integrated with a new off track entertainment programme that will be announced on Saturday 16th November at Motorcycle Live in Birmingham. Full details of the proposed 2020 TT Races schedule can be found here.
QUALIFYING WEEK
SUNDAY 31ST MAY 13:00 Roads Close 13:30 Newcomer Slighting Laps 13:50 Superbike / Superstock / Supersport Qualifying 15:30 Supersport / Lightweight Qualifying 16:30 Sidecar Qualifying MONDAY 1ST JUNE 18:00 Roads Close 18:20 Superbike / Superstock / Supersport Qualifying 20:05 Sidecar Qualifying TUESDAY 2ND JUNE 18:00 Roads Close 18:20 Superbike / Superstock / Supersport Qualifying 19:25 Supersport / Lightweight Qualifying 20:05 Sidecar Qualifying WEDNESDAY 3RD JUNE 18:00 Roads Close 18:20 Superbike / Superstock / Supersport Qualifying 20:05 Sidecar Qualifying THURSDAY 4TH JUNE 18:00 Roads Close 18:20 Superbike / Superstock / Supersport Qualifying 19:25 Supersport / Lightweight Qualifying 20:05 Sidecar Qualifying FRIDAY 5TH JUNE 12:30 Roads Close 13:00 Superbike / Superstock / Supersport Qualifying 14:10 Supersport / Lightweight Qualifying 15:05 Sidecar Qualifying RACE WEEK SATURDAY 6TH JUNE 10:00 Roads Close 10:30 Solo Morning Warm Up - 1 Lap 12:00 RST Superbike TT Race - 6 laps 15:00 Sidecar TT Race 1 - 3 laps MONDAY 8TH JUNE 10:00 Roads Close 10:30 Solo Morning Warm Up - 1 Lap 11:45 Supersport TT Race 1 - 4 laps 14:45 RL360 Superstock Race - 4 laps WEDNESDAY 10TH JUNE 10:00 Roads Close 10:30 Solo Morning Warm Up - 1 Lap 10:50 Sidecar Shake Down - 1 lap 11:45 Bennetts Lightweight TT Race - 4 laps 14:45 Supersport TT Race 2 - 4 laps FRIDAY 12TH JUNE 09:30 Roads Close 10:30 Sidecar TT Race 2 - 3 laps 12:45 Senior TT Race - 6 laps RE: Revamped Schedule Proposed for 2020 Isle of Man TT Races - kilbil - 30-10-2019 Traditionally Thursday afternoon was the highlight of practice week when all the fast laps were set. Glad to see its back. Kilbil RE: Revamped Schedule Proposed for 2020 Isle of Man TT Races - dommyman - 07-11-2019 What is meant by "Warm up lap" ? Seems to be a lot more waiting around for spectators and Marshalls before racing starts |