After bad weather forced an early end to Monday's action - with only the speed-controlled laps forꦚ Newcomers completed - a revised Isle of Man TT schedule sees Free Practice moved to this evening, in place of what should have been Qualifying 1.
The Tuesday evening schedu🥃le - featuring all five classes, starting with the Sidecars - is as follows:
18:00 - All Roads closed
18:30 - Sidecar (Untimed)
19:10 - Supersport, Supertwin (Untimed)
20:15 - Superbike, Superstock (Untimed)
Tomorrow's action will see the first timed sessions of the ﷽we😼ek with Qualifying 1 for the Superbike, Superstock and Supersport classes beginning at 18:30 followed by the Sidecars at 20:10.
Qualifying 2 will be held on Thurs🍃day and Qualifying 3 on Friday.
The chequered flag is out.
The main news of the 🌌evening is reigning Superstock TT winner Davey Todd missing out on any laps in the Superbike/Superstock se♎ssion, after a technical issue during the Supertwin/Supersport session left him stranded out on track.
Michael Dunlop is heading out for one moreꦇ lap, with 2m 30s to go.
Hickman takes his time to🌳 pass Herb😼ertson, who now gets a chance to try and follow the lap recorder holder.
8mins to go and Michael Dunlop is also in the pits, speaking to the Hawk team. The record TT winner takes off his helmet, 🎶it's not clear if he'll try for one more lap.
John McGuinness is back in the Honda pits, getting🐼 some changes made to the Fireblade.
J🦄ames Hillier: "Amazing! It's been a bit stressful to make it all happen, but I remember why I do it all now! I've got a big smile under the helmet. The bike was behaving itself, even if the conditions aren't great with the damp patches and bugs."
Steve Plater confirms riders are taking it easy tonight with the tricky conditions, which in🀅 turn leads to groups of riders forming on track.
However,🐲 the l♐ikes of Hickman and Dunlop are riding alone.
Ramsey꧃ Hairpin is one of the damp areas, and the big bikes are being careful with the throttle.
Meanwhile, Michael Dunlop he꧂ads🃏 out on the Rokit BMW.
Davey Todd is repo🦂rted to have a problem with his Supertwin at the e♋nd of the previous session, and is now losing valuable track time in this session.
The final session of the day, Superbike and Superstock, begins. Josh Brookes is first out.
By contrast Michael Rutter, who 𒁏is not in the next session, rushes back out for another lap with 1min to go.
3mins of the session to go and a lot of riders are already back in the pits to prepare for the following Superbike, Superstock session.
Josh Brookes: "The second lap was better ⛦but there's still a lot of damp patches, but we knew that. It was fun becau🅘se Hutchy and Harrison came past and we were all in a bit of a group.
"We've made some changes to the big bไike for sta🌼bility and I'm looking forward to trying that out next."
11mins to go until the chequered flag for the Supersport, Supertwin session. Warning flags for the damp patches are still in place.
Michael Dunlop is carving his wಌay past other riders on the ex-Aruba Ducati WSS machine.
Peter Hickma𒉰n's rear hugger (mudguard) is broken as he returns to the💫 pits.
A quick pit stop and Michae♈l Dunlop heads back oꦇut, now on the MD Racing Ducati.
Mile Browne crosses the line to complete his first Supersport lap, next on track Mich♈ael Dunlop pits on the Paton.
🌠Dean Harrison, Davey Tღodd, Ian Hutchinson etc continue.
By contrast, last year's double Supertwin winner 🦹Michael Dunlop looks smooth and coဣmfortable.
A massive unplanned wheelie for Maurizio Bottalico forces the Italian to shut the throttle to bring the Paton back u🌺nder control.
The damp patches and lack of official timing mean this evening is very much about settling in for the weeks ahead, including a s🦩hakedown to make sure everything is running correctly.
Mike Browne is leading the way on 🐻the road from Michael Dunl🐈op.
Michael Dunlop pullsꦉ out of pitlane on the MD Racing Paton Supertwin, perhaps suggesting he's already happy with the Ducati Supersport bike.
