An additional Festival of Motorcycling qualifying session will be held on Thursday afternoon after the first three sessions of this year’s event were hit by poor weather.
Roads will shut around the course at 12.30pm tomorrow with the day’s first qualifying session running from 1pm to 3.55pm. Roads will then open again at 4.30pm around the course and close again at 6pm for Thursday evening’s scheduled qualifying.
Organisers have made the decision to use the additional time after Tuesday evening’s practices were called off because of low cloud and mist.
Monday’s session was also lost to poor visibility and Saturday’s opening night curtailed by the same issue.
The weather is meant to clear up for this evening, Wednesday, with the qualifying programme now as follows:
6pm Roads close around the course
7.10pm to 7.45pm CTT Junior/ CTT Senior/ MGP Lightweight & Ultra Lightweight
7.48pm to 8pm MGP newcomers accompanied by experienced riders