Friday night’s observe periods for the 2024 Manx Grand Prix has been cancelled because of rainfall simply moments earlier than operating was because of get underneath means.
The organisers for the 2024 occasion have been battling unseasonably unhealthy climate all week on the Isle of Man, with all of Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday’s observe periods canned because of this.
A day session was in a position to run on Thursday, earlier than that night’s operating needed to be cancelled as a result of climate, whereas the identical factor occurred on Friday.
Friday night’s periods had been because of get underneath means at 6:30pm, earlier than a 10-minute delay was put in place as travelling marshals had been dispatched to verify circumstances across the Mountain Course following reviews of rain.
However at 6:30pm, the Clerk of the Course introduced that the night session has been cancelled.
Friday was meant to characteristic two periods for every class in a bid to make up for misplaced monitor time, however the 10:15 begin time was pushed again to 1:45pm to permit the course to dry.
All courses bought a full observe on this afternoon, with Dominic Herbertson setting the tempo on his Kawasaki within the Traditional Superbike class.
He clocked a 122.6mph lap, although this was slower than the benchmark set by Mike Browne on Thursday afternoon at 123.225mph.
High honours within the remaining courses went to Paul Jordan (Traditional Junior), Stuart Corridor (Light-weight), Shaun Anderson (Traditional Senior), Chris Prepare dinner (Senior Manx GP) and Andrea Majola (Junior Manx GP).
As a result of a poor forecast for Sunday, it was introduced earlier on Friday that three races can be staged on Saturday and three on Monday.
The schedule for the rest of the occasion is now:
Saturday 24 August
9:30am – Roads Shut
10:15am – Traditional Senior / Traditional Junior / Light-weight qualifying
11am – Traditional Superbike / Senior / Junior qualifying
1pm – Traditional Senior Manx Grand Prix – 3 laps
3pm – Junior Manx Grand Prix – 3 laps
5pm – Manx Grand Prix – 3 laps
Monday 26 August
10:15am – Heat-Up Lap
11:30am – Traditional Junior Manx Grand Prix – 2 laps
1:15pm – Senior Manx Grand Prix – 4 laps
3:30pm – Traditional Superbike Manx Grand Prix – 4 laps
