Wednesday June 8th

Roads Close

Mountain - 09:30 & TT Course - 10:00

Race Schedule

10.45 - Monster Energy Supersport Race 2 Four Laps
12.45 - Sure Sidecar TT Race 2 Three Laps
15.00 - SES TT Zero Race One Lap
16.00 - Subaru Demonstration Lap
16.45 - Arai Parade lap

Variable amounts of broken cloud giving bright or sunny intervals today.
However there will also be a few scattered showers drifting over the Island at times, possibly quite heavy in places.
Temperatures slowly rising to 14 or 15C at best / around 58F.
With the light or moderate southwesterly breezes freshening from the west later in the day.

Fresh westerly winds tonight and for much of tomorrow, with occasional scattered showers.

Check the view from the Bungalow at 07:30 - Terrible.

For updated views - Click on this LINK

07:40 hrs:

The whole programme for today has been put back by one hour due to poor visibility on the mountain.

Road Closures will be put back, meaning Roads Closed from 10:30 instead of 09:30


09:50

Visibility improving on the mountain, but still very wet up there.
Broken clouds with patches of blue sky showing, around Douglas with the roads drying.

10:00

New Schedule:

11.45 - Supersport - 3 laps
13.45 - Sidecar - 3 laps.
16.00 - TT Zero.
17.00 - Subaru lap.
17.45 - Arai Parade lap

11:10

Arai Parade Lap to commence at 11:45 followed by a further announcement

It is proposed that the Supersport 2 Race will start at 12.30 over 3 laps

11:30

Manx National Anthem Played

Travelling Marshalls (2 of em, apart) are out on the circuit

Conditions are vastly improved around the circuit

11:52

The Arai Parade Lap gets underway with Hutchy leading off, then Cal Crutchlow and Nicky Hayden, and also Josh Brookes

Just started to rain at at the Grandstand

12:20

Supersport 2 now projected for a 12:40 start

13.00

Race stopped with Red Flags shown due to standing water and light rain starting to fall.

13:15

Prolonged stoppage (at least) projected due to large/heavy rain showers coming in from the West
and it looks like that is going to be it for the rest of the day. (From the Met office)


Peel webcam at 13:20


14:00

Racing has been abandoned for today

Supersport 2 will go again tomorrow at 12:15

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