{"id":597047,"date":"2026-08-18T13:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T13:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/597047\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T13:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T13:04:11","slug":"mgp-rain-may-affect-evening-qualifying-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/597047\/","title":{"rendered":"MGP: Rain may affect evening qualifying session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/329846-1.JPG\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Picture credit: Manx Radio<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Organisers issue update as showers expected\n        <\/p>\n<p>Manx Grand Prix organisers say tonight&#8217;s qualifying session could be affected by the wet weather.<\/p>\n<p>Light showers are forecast this afternoon, and further rain is expected this evening.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the plan tonight is for roads to close at 6pm with the session getting underway at 6:30pm.<\/p>\n<p>See more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manxradio.com\/news\/tt-news\/mgp-roads-due-to-close-at-6pm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">HERE.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, a further update and a decision on whether the session will go ahead will be issued by 3pm.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, it&#8217;s also been confirmed that tomorrow&#8217;s contingency session (Wednesday, 19 August) will be used, with roads scheduled to close at 12:30pm.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re told we can expect a full schedule for tomorrow afternoon and evening &#8216;in due course&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Picture credit: Manx Radio Organisers issue update as showers expected Manx Grand Prix organisers say tonight&#8217;s qualifying session&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,19531,61,60,19528,19529,19530,278,43,1342],"class_list":["post-597047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-fun","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-isle-of-man","tag-manx","tag-manx-news","tag-music","tag-news","tag-presenters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}