The organisers of the Manx National Rally, Round 2 of the Protyre Motorsport UK Asphalt Rally Championship, say they are bowled over by the response to the event after receiving more than 180 entries in a few hours.
The 8/9 May closed-road rally on the Isle of Man is set to make a new record for the biggest entry on the island in more than 60 years of rallying after entries flooded in for this year’s rally.
The first entries arrived within a few seconds of entries opening at 19:00 yesterday evening (Monday February 9) and in a matter of hours 187 entries had been received.
The response to the event is a huge boost to the organising team from Manx Auto Sport, which has developed a fresh route for 2026 covering 137 stage miles from a new base at the Andreas Rally Village in the north of the island.
“We’re absolutely delighted with the response,” said Mark Ellison on behalf of Manx Auto Sport.
“We can start a maximum of 170 cars. Previous experience suggests that there will be some dropouts and so we expect everyone who has entered so far will get to start the rally. In fact, we would encourage anyone who has not yet entered to still place an entry, as we may well have spaces available nearer to the event.”
The huge level of interest in the rally is further evidenced by the fact that the stage maps have been viewed more than 62,000 times since they were added to the Manx Auto Sport website.
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