Festival of Motorcycling revs up for Classic TT

Sat, 27 Aug 2016

The first race day of the Festival of Motorcycling will get underway this morning.

From 11.30am the Senior Classic TT will kick things off, followed by the MGP Senior, Junior and All Newcomers qualifiers at 1.25pm.

The Vintage Motorcycle Club parade will do one lap of the Mountain Course, before the Lightweight Classic and Supertwin Lightweight qualifiers.

Clerk of the course Gary Thompson says the Classic TT is a firm favourite with bikers: