Entries are now open for this year's Chris Kelly Rally which takes place on Friday and Saturday, October 2-3.

The 2026 edition boasts a fresh look and will offer 93 stage miles for an entry fee of £825.

Manx Auto Sport’s second closed road stage rally of the year will start at 6pm on the Friday evening before continuing on the Saturday, with cars due back at the finish from around 4pm.

The event will be based at the TT Grandstand, although service on Friday evening will be at the Round Table.

Regulations have been published and entries are now open, with the first 40 of 100 places already taken.

The opening day features a loop of three stages, including the town centre stage in Port Erin, a new version of Pooill Vaaish and a Corlea stage, which takes in some of the route used on the Manx National Rally in May.

There will then be the aforementioned service at the Round Table before the loop is run twice more in the dark, with all cars starting the stages at 30-second intervals.

Saturday's action will be based from the TT Grandstand, with the opening stage running up from the Baldwins over Injebreck and down through Druidale.

Next comes a stage called Ballavoddan before the famous Tholt-e-Will stage running uphill. These three stages will each be run three times at 30-second starts before the rally finishes back at the TT Grandstand at around 4pm.

Mark Ellison, president and event director of Manx Autosport, said: 'We're really pleased to have extended the Chris Kelly Rally to run on Friday evening and through Saturday.

'We've been able to use some fabulous roads, some that were used in May and some that weren't, and it should be a great event for anybody looking for really good value closed road rallying.'

Regulations are available at www.manxautosport.org while entries can be made at www.rallies.info/webentry/2026/chriskelly/webentry

PAUL LAWRENCE