2024 Manx Grand Prix: Monday racing schedule in major reshuffle due to delays

Poor weather forces race schedule overhaul

2024 Manx GP
2024 Manx GP
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The final day of racing at the 2024 Manx Grand Prix has seen a major schedule overhaul due🔴 to severe weather delays.

Theꦛ 2024 event has been hampered severely by the weather, with practice cancelled f🙈rom Monday through Wednesday, while Thursday and Friday evening’s qualifying were also scrapped.

The Sunday contingency sessions for racing were also abandoned due to rain, while red ൲flags on Saturday brought racing to a premature end.

Asꦺ a result, no full race💧s have been completed, with Monday originally set to feature all six contests.

Roads were due to close at 9:30am local time on Monday morning, with the one-lap Clas꧑sic Junior Manx▨ GP getting under way at 10:10.

However, wet roads and low clouds over the mountain brought about an initial one-hour delay, before the Clerk of the Course announcing a provisional road closure of 12:30 to allow a band of wet weather to pass over the islan♍d.

Racing was due to get going at 1:10pm with the Classic Junior, followed by th෴e Senior Manx GP a💖t 2:15pm.

However, further ཧdelays have pushed the road closure back to 2pm.

Due to a lack of flexibility in the timetable now, the Classic Senior and Clas𓆏sic Junior classes have been combined for a one-lap race due at 2:40pm.

The Senior Manx GP will go at 3:45pm, with the Lightweight race scheduled for 5:1🐼0pm. 

The Classic Superbike r♑ace is due to close out the event at 6:40pm. All three race💖s have been shortened to two laps.

The red-flagged Junior Manx GP has been scrapped from Monday’s schedule, with a result decla🧸red. Andrea Majola is the winner.

Two riders crashed during Saturday’s aꩵbandoned Junior Manx GP.

Chris Moffitt suffered an incident at Ballacrye on the second lap of the race, which br👍🐎ought out the red flags.

His condition is reported as serious but stable.

Wayne Axon had a separate incide﷽nt at Creg-ny-Baa and is reported as being in a serious condition.

The 2024 Manx GP was marre🔯d on the opening day last Sunday when Irish racer Louis O’Regan sadly died in an incident during practice. 

Picture credit: Manx Grand Prix Press

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