The 2024 North West 200 will run over the week of 6th – 11th May 2024 on the Triangle Circuit of Northern Ireland’s beautiful north coast. The circuit starts in Portrush, and skirts Portstewart and Coleraine before bringing itself back to one of the island’s most famous seaside towns

A detailed visitors guide for the event can be found here and covers a brief history of the event, details and pricing of grandstand tickets, paddock passes and the new Fan Zone as well as circuit details, directions to the event and other useful information such as the meanings of the flags used around the course and links to all Official sites.

As a result of this event all roads used as part of the circuit will be closed to all non official or authorised traffic – as well as all roads that approach and join the course. Full details will be posted on the relevant roads, which will also be marked as closed, manned by Marshals and security. Police will also be in attendance. 

Road closures are legal and backed up by a road closure order. Breaching a road closure is a criminal offence. A link to the full road closure order can be found below.

A road closure order is in place for the 2024 North West 200 for the following times on each day :

Wednesday 8th May 2024 : 09:00 – 15:00 (Practice Sessions)

Thursday 9th May 2024 : 09:00 – 15:00 (Practice Sessions) & 16:45 – 21:00 (Thursday Evening Race Session)

Saturday 11th May 2024 : 09:00 – 19:00 (Race Day)

Contingency Days :

The Road Races (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 has now been approved by the Northern Ireland Assembly and received Royal Assent.  The changes to the road closing legislation now give the organisers of the North West 200, in exceptional circumstances, the ability to move a practice or race day, either one day forward or one day back, giving 24 hours notice to the Department for Infrastructure.

Should extreme weather be forecast, the 2024 contingency days will be:  Wednesday 8^th May and Friday 10^th May 2024.

In lieu of using one of the above full contingency days, organisers may also extend the road closing times on Wednesday 8^th and Saturday 11^th May 2024 as follows:

Any subsequent amendment to the race week schedule will be advised to the public via the International North West 200 website, BBC NI TV & Radio and the NW200 Facebook and Twitter feed.

The full road closure order can be viewed here : https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2024/91/pdfs/nisr_20240091_en.pdf

Please follow directions of the Marshals and Security at all times.