18.20 - 19.05 : MGP Junior / Senior & CTT Lightweight / Superbike (No MGP Newcomers)

19.10 - 19.45 : MGP Lightweight & CTT Junior / Senior (No MGP Newcomers)

19.48 - 20.05 : All MGP Newcomers

Mostly dry at first today, although the mist and fog will linger into the afternoon with any brightness most likely around the north and west.

Later on this afternoon into the evening the murk starts to lift but, at the same time, some showery bursts of rain are likely.

Winds, becoming east or southeast will be mainly light to moderate with , temperatures at best around 21 Celsius in sheltered brighter spots

The Mountain at noon on Tuesday.

He has been advised by Ronaldsway Met Office the threat of rain later in the day is reducing so, currently, tonight's session will go ahead as planned.

There will be a further assessment and update of conditions at 5pm.

15:50 - Not exactly looking good for a GO, on the mountain.

17:00 - It looks as if the mist will lift, so Roads will close at 18:00 for a GO at 18:20

18:22- And Tuesday Practice is GO

---

We'll be on air at 6pm with practice coverage from Chris Kinley and Chris Palmer at the Grandstand.

Listen online at manxradio.com, via the MR Smartphone app, AM1368, 87.9FM in Douglas and 100.6FM in the north #iom #iomtt #mgp

The infamous ‘Manannan’s Cloak’ lifted around the Isle of Man allowing the second qualifying for the 2017 Classic TT presented by Bennetts to go ahead after Monday’s session was cancelled.

Ahead of the session, Clerk of the Course Gary Thompson advised competitors of a number of damp patches following the earlier rain, notably at Ginger Hall, Ramsey Hairpin, on the exit of the Bungalow, Graham’s, Hillberry and Governors Dip.

The session got away on time at 6.20pm and the Classic TT Superbike machines were first on the track. The machines lined up on the grid in the order that they will race in Monday’s Motorsport Merchandise Superbike Race with Australian David Johnson, carrying the number one plate on the Team York Suzuki, first away down the iconic Glencrutchery Road stretch of tarmac, although a number of riders switched order behind him.

Jamie Coward (4.41.492) was fastest to the first timing point at Glen Helen on the Mistral Racing Kawasaki a fraction of a second ahead of Dean Harrison, also Kawasaki mounted on the Silicone Engineering machine with Austrian Horst Saiger, who posted the fastest lap in Saturday’s opening session, five seconds behind the leading pair.

Lee Johnston (Team Classic Suzuki) and Bruce Anstey on the Padgetts Motorcycles YZR 500 Yamaha, on which he won the 2014 race, completed the top five at the opening timing point. However, Michael Dunlop on the Team Classic Suzuki was reported as an early retirement at Ballacraine on his opening lap of the meeting.

Coward’s lap of 120.824 was the fastest opening lap but Anstey was on the pace with a 119.724 and it was clear that the Kiwi was finding his feet as he was twenty seconds quicker on his second lap to Glen Helen.

Anstey (121.932) duly posted the fastest lap of the session on his second lap with Ivan Lintin (121.094) on the Kraus Racing Kawasaki and Derek Shiels (121.04) and Horst Saiger (120.89) - both on Greenall Racing Kawasaki’s – all going over the 120mph mark, as did David Johnson (120.11).

In the Lightweight Class, Ian Lougher on the Laylaw Racing Yamaha (113.994) topped the board. Bruce Anstey, last year’s race winner, went out later in the session on his Padgetts Motorcycles.com Honda after his Superbike exploits and clocked a 113.010 with Dan Sayle on the Steelcote Solutions Yamaha also going well with 112.131.

Chris Moore (110.601) on the Dafabet Devitt Racing Yamaha and Gary Vines (110.130) on the Online Lubricants Yamaha completed the top five in the Lightweight class for the session. Michael Dunlop, after his earlier Superbike retirement, posted his first lap of the meeting with a 102.656 on the Turner Racing Yamaha

It was then the turn of the Senior and Junior machines and Dominic Herbertson on the Davies Motorsport Honda was quickly on the pace with an opening lap of 104.606 in the Senior session which ultimately proved to be the fastest lap of the class, less than two seconds quicker than James Cowton on the Dave Kenah Racing Norton (104.476) with Dean Harrison, the 2015 Race winner, on the Black Eagle Racing MV Agusta third fastest 500cc machine on the night with a lap of 103.397.

Experienced campaigner Phil McGurk on the Chris Hughes Honda was just shy of a 100mph lap with 99.967 but was nevertheless the quickest in the Junior session from Jamie Coward who followed up a strong Superbike lap with the second fastest Junior lap (99.397) with Alan Oversby, who finished third in the 2014 Junior Classic TT Race, completing the top three on the night

New Zealand rider Grant Dalton came off at the Verandah but was unhurt in the Superbike session while Elwyn Fryer at Parliament Square and Dean Osborne at Governors dip were also reported to be without injury after accidents in the same session.

The infamous ‘Manannan’s Cloak’ lifted around the Isle of Man allowing the second qualifying for the 2017 Manx Grand Prix to go ahead after yesterday’s session was cancelled.

Clerk of the Course Gary Thompson advised competitors of a number of damp patches following the earlier rain, notably at Ginger Hall, Ramsey Hairpin, on the exit of the Bungalow, Graham’s, Hillberry and Governors Dip, where a number of newcomers were caught out in Saturday’s opening session.

The session got away on time at 6.20pm and the Senior and Junior machines were first on the track.

Local rider Michael Evans on his Martin Bullock Motorsport Senior machine – a Suzuki GSXR 750 – was first to Glen Helen from Bishop Auckland based Richard Charlton, the Isle of Man’s Brendan Fargher and Tom Robinson who were all riding Junior MGP 600 bikes.

Evans, as he had in Saturday’s session, topped the overall board with a lap of 116.347, which he posted on the first lap. Robinson, from Barwick, posted his fastest lap of the week to date (116.135) on his second lap to top the Junior board from Australian Royce Rowe (115.203) and Fargher (114.885) with the Isle of Man rider Glenn Harrison (114.692) and Charlton (114.465) completing the top five.

Colchester’s Gary Vines was the fastest Lightweight machine on the night with a second lap of 110.130, less than a second ahead of Spain’s Victor Lopes Santos (110.059) with local rider Jamie Williams (109.834) the third fastest on the night.  Cheshire rider Jonathan Perry (109.416) and Royce Rowe (108.639), were fourth and fifth respectively.

The MGP newcomers enjoyed their first timed laps after Saturday’s untimed session and the top ten riders in the Newcomers A session all posted 100mph laps with Manchester’s Mike Norbury topping the board with 109.138 from Darryl Tweed (108.959) and Brad Vicars (106.209) while in the Newcomers B David Quine showed his local knowledge with the only 100mph lap of the class.

Nick Anderson was taken to Nobles hospital with a shoulder injury after an incident at Ramsey Hairpin on his Lightweight machine while Newcomer Matt Stevenson was reported as uninjured after an accident at Governors.

Mike Norbury, Ballaugh Bridge, MGP Tuesday 22/08 qualifying,
Photo Credit: Dave Kneen/Pacemaker Press