12.00 : CTT Junior Classic TT Race (3 Laps) - Start List

13.40 : Classic Racer Magazine Classic TT Retro Parade (1 lap)

13.50 : Steve Plater Honda 6 Parade lap (1 lap)

14.40 : CTT Superbike Classic TT Race (4 Laps) - Start List

17.00 : Roads open around the Course

18.00 : Roads close around the Course

18.15 : MGP MGP Newcomers Race A&B (3 Laps)

19.40 : Manx Grand Prix Junior & Lightweight Qualifying (1 lap)

20.10 : Roads scheduled to open around the course but no later than 21.00

Detailed forecast
Issued on Tuesday, 29 August 2017 at 7:20am by Ronaldsway Met Office

Mostly dry today with some hazy sunshine and just the slight risk of a light shower later in the day.

Light or moderate west or northwest winds will back west or southwest this afternoon.

Temperature up to 17 Celsius at best.

Bungalow looking North @ 10:50

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12.00 : CTT Junior Classic TT Race (3 Laps) - Start List

(Original Designations)

3, 10 11, 18, 21, 23, 24, 28, 36, 43, 45, 46, 49, 51, 53, 54, 57, 62, 66, 68, 71, 72, 74, 76, 86, 87

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12:05 - The Junior Classic TT is GO

14.40 : CTT Superbike Classic TT Race (4 Laps) - Start List

Mostly dry today although often cloudy, with just a little hazy sunshine at times and only the slight risk of a light shower later this evening.

Light or moderate westerly winds, and temperature just about 16 Celsius at best.

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14:28 - 10 minute delay to the start

14:50 and the Superbike Classic is GO

18.15 : MGP MGP Newcomers Race A&B (3 Laps)

Detailed forecast
Issued on Tuesday, 29 August 2017 at 4:05pm by Ronaldsway Met Office

Mostly dry this evening and tonight, with only the odd passing shower possible in one or two places between dusk and midnight, then a few clear intervals.

Temperatures dipping to a rather cool 9 Celsius overnight.

 18:15 - The Newcomers A & B race is GO

Michael Rutter beat the Lee Johnston in a head to head of former race winners in today’s Sure Junior Classic TT Race, the third race in the 2017 Isle of Man Classic TT presented by Bennetts.

After the race Rutter revealed how pleased he was after a tough week:

“It’s been a hard week so I’m really happy to get the win. You’ve got to have good corner speed with these bikes.  I knew things were going well because I was getting the thumbs up around the course.  Once I got the lead I just had to treat the bike with respect and not over rev it. Jamie (Coward) helped on the last lap as I was getting a tow and the spectators should have seen some good wheel to wheel stuff.”

After a short delay to get marshals in position around the Mountain Course, the race got underway at 12.05pm.

With the race reduced to three laps following yesterday’s postponement, the pre-race debate centred around the impact that pit stops would have on the thirstier multi-cylinder bikes compared with the ability of the twin machines to go without refilling and so it proved with Rutter, having run straight through, narrowly holding off Johnston who pitted at the end of the second lap.

Gloucestershire based Dan Cooper, riding the CSC Racing Honda, was first away followed by fastest qualifier Jamie Coward, riding the 1980 Ted Woof Honda Craven K4 with a twenty second gap to fourth placed starter Michael Rutter on the Ripley Land Racing 1972 Honda K4 Drixton following Michael Dunlop’s withdrawl.

Jamie Coward was first to Glen Helen but Lee Johnson, from a starting place of thirteenth on the grid, jumped to the top of the leader board almost three seconds ahead of Coward with Rutter, the 2015 race winner three seconds behind the race leader in third. Hefyn Owen, riding an Owen Racing Honda and Dean Harrison, Johnston’s Black Eagle Racing teammate, completed the top five.

Coward was still first on the road to Ramsey but Johnston’s lead has grown to 8 seconds with Michael Rutter holding third a further second back.  Dean Harrison moved up to fourth place with Dominic Herbertson, riding a Davies Motorsport Honda, now in fifth.

Michael Rutter moved up into second place ahead of Coward by the Bungalow and at the end of the opening lap Rutter trailed Lee Johnston, the 2014 Junior Classic TT Race winner, by almost fourteen seconds with Coward (101.125mph) who was first through the Grandstand holding third and Harrison (100.953) and Herbertson (100.180) completing the top five.

Dean Harrison splash and dash fuel stop at the end of the opening lap dropped him  a place by Glen Helen with the gap to race leader Johnston, his Black Eagle Racing teammate, growing to fifty-five seconds.

Meanwhile Alan Oversby was enjoying a remarkable ride having stopped just after Quarterbridge to make adjustments.  He moved from 20th place at Ballaugh to be sixth by the Grandstand with an opening lap of 98.381.

Coward moved ahead of Rutter by Ballaugh on the second lap but Rutter came back at him to move almost four seconds ahead of Coward on the run in to Ramsey. However Johnston was dominating proceedings and his second lap of 103.421, slowing into the pits gave him a twenty-five second lead over Rutter (102.525) with Coward holding the final podium position after his second lap of 101.966.

All eyes were on Lee Johnston at the Grandstand as he came into the pits for the critical second lap fuel stop and, with a pit stop of thirty-nine seconds, attention switched to Glen Helen where Rutter was revealed as the new race leader twelve seconds ahead of Johnston. Coward was a second and a half back in third with Herbertson and Harrison fourth and fifth respectively.

Although Johnston had cut Rutter’s lead to six seconds by the Bungalow, Rutter last lap of 104.002 gave him the race win in a time of 1:06.09.267/ 102.660mph by ten seconds from Johnston (1:06:19.519/ 102.395) with Coward third in 1:06:33.428/ 102.039).

Herbertson (1:07.07.356/ 101.170) and Oversby 107.24.368/ 100.753) – who moved infront of Harrison (1:07.28.658/ 100.647) on the last lap to complete the top five.  Phil McGurk took the privateers award with an eighth placed finish in 1:08.32.911/ 99.074.

Bruce Anstey broke the outright lap record twice in today’s Motorsport Merchandise Superbike Classic TT Race, the final race of the 2017 Isle of Man Classic TT presented by Bennetts but had to settle for second place as Dean Harrison won a thrilling race by sixteen seconds, breaking the race record in the process.

At the start of the race, riders were advised of a number of damp patches around the course following yesterday’s rain ahead of the delayed Motorsport Merchandise Superbike Race, the final race of the 2017 Classic TT Races presented by Bennetts.

Australian David Johnson the Team York Suzuki was first away from the grandstand at 2.50pm followed by Bruce Anstey, riding the Padgetts Motorcycles.com Yamaha YZR 500 and Michael Dunlop, the fastest qualifier, on the Team Classic Suzuki machine.

Ahead of the start, Anstey stated that he intended to try and establish an early gap from Michael Dunlop but the Northern Ireland rider was ahead of Anstey, albeit only marginally by less than a second with Johnson a further six seconds back.

However, Dean Harrison, on the Silicone Engineering Kawasaki ZXR 750 was the early race leader – almost four seconds ahead of Dunlop on the clock at the opening sector. Horst Saiger, promoted up the order from an original start number of 16 following a strong qualifying session, was fourth on the Greenall Racing Kawasaki, two seconds behind Anstey, with Jamie Coward on the 1992 Mistral Racing Kawasaki completing the top five.

Anstey moved ahead of Dunlop at Ballaugh with Dunlop clearly experiencing problems, dropping to eleventh place by Ramsey with Saiger moving into the final podium place but at the front of the field Harrison extended his lead to over six seconds.  David was leading teammate Gary in a Team York Suzuki battle of the Johnsons for fourth and fifth.

Harrison’s opening lap of 126.387 put him almost eight seconds ahead of second placed rider Bruce Anstey (125.450) with Horst Saiger (123.837) completing the top three a further fourteen seconds back from Anstey.  Jamie Coward’s lap of 123.258 put him in fourth place ahead of David Johnson (123.122) and Gary Johnson (122.549).

However, Michael Dunlop pulled in at the Grandstand at the end of the opening lap. James Hillier on the Oxford Products Ducati was also reported as a retirement at Ballacraine on his second lap when running in 13th place.

However, at the front of the field the top three were unchanged at Glen Helen on the second lap but behind the leading trio Jamie Coward was reported as a retirement at the Vaaish on the run in to Glen Helen moving David and Gary Johnson back into fourth and fifth respectively.

Anstey broke Michael Dunlop’s lap record from last year with his second lap of 126.995 but held the record for less than a minute with Harrison clocking 127.212mph on his second lap, giving the Bradford based rider a lead of almost ten seconds.  The times were all the more remarkable as the leading pair were slowing down coming in to the pits.

Harrison’s Silicone Engineering team gained time on the Padgetts Motorcycles.com outfit in the pits with a fifty-seven second turn around to Anstey’s time of 1 minute 11 seconds, with the two stroke requiring more fuel than the four strokes, and Harrison’s lead duly grew decisively to almost thirty seconds by Glen Helen on the third lap.

Saiger maintained third place ahead of the Team York Suzuki pair David and Gary Johnson in fourth and fifth with Ivan Lintin on the Kraus Racing Kawasaki in sixth and Dan Kneen, Coward’s Mistral Racing Kawasaki teammate, enjoying a remarkable charge through the field up into seventh from seventeenth at the end of the first lap.

Josh Brookes, riding the Advanced Performance Coastings Rotary Manx Norton, retired at Glen Tramman when running 8th while Gary Johnson was also reported as a retirement at the ‘Mountain Mile’.

Harrison maintained his decisive lead with a third lap of 119.983 to Anstey’s 117.974 with Saiger (118.414) holding third place ahead of David Johnson. New fifth placed man Dan Kneen was almost thirty seconds ahead of fellow Manx rider Conor Cummins on the Padgetts Motorcycles.com Yamaha with Lintin reported as a retirement at the Mountain Mile.

Harrison’s last lap of 125.970 secured the race in a new race record (124.815/ 1:12.32.923) with Anstey having the consolation of regaining the lap record with a last lap of 127.496 to finish in 124.357/ 1:12.48.971. Horst Saiger held third place to gain his first Mountain Course podium with David Johnson fourth and Dan Kneen completing the top five.

Dan Stewart, riding the Wilcock Consulting Kawasaki was the leading privateer in 11th place.

Brad Vicars followed in the footsteps of illustrious names such as Ivan Lintin, Michael Dunlop, Ian Hutchinson and Carl Fogarty in winning the Newcomers Manx Grand Prix Race, the opening race of the 2017 Manx Grand Prix.

After the race Vicars revealed that he had a narrow escape:

“I’m over the moon.  I could see Darryl (Tweed) pretty early on and was catching him on the first lap by Glen Helen so I just kept with him or just in front and we actually had a coming together at the Greg Ny Baa.”

Brad Vicars Newcomers A Winner

The first race of the 2017 Manx Grand Prix got underway on time at 6.15 after being delayed from the previous day. Jimmie Guthrie was the race starter and the Manx Grand Prix guest of honour, fifty years after he won the Senior Manx Grand Prix race.

Riders across both the Newcomers A - primarily Junior 600cc bikes and B categories – Supertwin 650’s - lined up according to their fastest qualifying lap times, which saw some of the faster B riders going off the line ahead of some of the A category field.

Based on their qualifying laps a three-way fight was expected between fight between Daryl Tweed, Brad Vicars and Andrew Fisher in the Newcomers A Category while in the Newcomer B class, Manx rider David Quine started the clear favourite based on qualifying times.

As fastest qualifier Tweed from the famous road racing Ballymoney town in Northern Ireland, had the honour of being first away from Glencrutchery Road followed by Tadcaster’s Vicars and Fisher from Kettering, who lost a bit of time by stalling on the line as he was due away.

However, news came through of a red flag incident at Braddan Oak and the bikes were brought back to the Grandstand under stationary yellow flags.  The grid then reassembled and the race was restarted at 7.05pm.  Rider Nicolo Capelli from who was involved in the incident was taken by ambulance to Nobles Hospital, a short distance away, where he was reported to be in serious condition with leg fractures but his condition was not thought to be life threatening at this stage.

Vicars led the restarted race at Glen Helen by over five seconds from Fisher with Stephen Parsons holding third less than a second back and a second ahead of Tweed with David McConnachy from Northumberland, a further two seconds back, completing the top five. 

Darryl Tweed moved up into second place by Ballaugh but the gap to leader Vicars had grown to almost ten seconds with Fisher less than half a second behind the Ballymoney rider in third. Mike Norbury moved into the top five, behind Stephen Parsons but was already six seconds behind the fourth placed man.

Vicars was first through the Grandstand with a stunning opening lap of 118.786 an MGP Newcomers lap record – from a standing start - breaking Tim Venables time from 2010. Tweed, who was also inside the old record, clocked 117.993 to trail Vicars by seven seconds with Fisher (116.303) third. Parsons (116.198) and Norbury (115.401) completed the top five.

In the concurrent Newcomers B class David Quine had established a lead of almost nine seconds by the first timing point from Derek Wilson with New Zealand’s Ben Rosendaal only a tenth of a second further back.

Quine extended his lead to over fifteen seconds ahead of Wilson by Ballaugh but the Manx rider went through the Sulby speed trap at only 60mph and retired shortly after at Sulby Bridge leaving Wilson the clear leader by five seconds at Ramsey from Rosendaal with Lee Bass a further nine seconds back in third.

That remained the top three at the end of the first lap with Wilson’s 103.299 giving him a ten second lead from Rosendaal ((102.502) with Bass (101.334) holding third place.

With the race reduced to three laps, Clerk of the Course Gary Thompson imposed a compulsory pit stop at the end of lap 2 to reduce the risk and confusion of inexperienced riders pulling out of pit lane onto oncoming bikes.

Coming into the pits at the end of lap 2, Vicars’ second lap of 117.881 gave him a lead of over seconds from Tweed who posted a near identical 117.885 with Parsons now up into third place after a second lap of 116.518. Fisher (116.156) and Norbury (116.191) completed the top five.

Vicars enjoyed a decisive pit stop and was timed at 37 seconds to Tweed’s 48 seconds to lead by seventeen seconds at Glen Helen on the final lap with Parsons a further twenty-one seconds back in third.  That proved to be the order as the three crossed the line with Vicars taking the chequered flag in 116.464mph/ 58:18.785 from Tweed (116.168/ 58:27.728 with Parsons (115.270/ 58:55.047) clinching the final podium place.

Derek Wilson - Newcomers B Winner

In the Newcomers B race Wilson second lap (103.467) gave him a thirteen second lead from Rosendaal (103.236) with Lee Bass (102.206) third. However there was drama with Wilson picking up a thirty second penalty for a pit lane infringement which meant that at Glen Helen Rosendaal was the new race leader almost ten seconds ahead of Wilson with Bass third.  

However Wilson fought back and was back in front at Ballaugh and duly took the chequered flag in a time of 101.703/ 1:06.46.619 from Rosendaal (010.495/ 1:06.54.816/) with Bass (100.062/ 1:07.52.309) securing the final podium place.  

Matteo Bardelli was reported to be unhurt after an accident at Quarterbridge while Arnaud Seydoux complained of groin pain after an accident at the 11th milestone and was taken by airmed to Nobles Hospital