{"id":741878,"date":"2026-08-18T13:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T13:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/741878\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T13:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T13:22:10","slug":"mgp-rain-may-affect-evening-qualifying-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/741878\/","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\/uk\/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":741879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,758,755,756,757,128,50,759,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-741878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-fun","tag-isle-of-man","tag-manx","tag-manx-news","tag-music","tag-news","tag-presenters","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}