Ulster Grand Prix clerk of th🐟e course Noel Johnston hopes changes to the legislation surrounding Road Closing Orders will prevent further race cancel🧜lations in the future.

Thursday's Dundrod 150 meeting, a support card of races at the Ulster Grand Prix, was𓄧💦 called off as a result of heavy rain.

In May, the North West 200 was also cancelled due to poor weather, sparking calls for more flexibility in the law𒁃s governing the closure of roads for race meetings in Northern Ireland.

Five years ago, the Ulster Grand Prix was abandoned for the first time in its history due to adverse weat♔her.

The government launched a public consultatio🎀n process in July in response to demands for greater flexibility and Johnston expects c๊hanges to come into force next year.

"We would like 🐼more flexibility and obviously it seems to be going that way," he said.

"Sunday is the day we would be looking at to fall ▨back on if we ever get another day like we had in 2008, when it wasn't possible to run any races.

"We would only look to move racing to a Sunday as a fina🎉l option and once all other avenues were exhausted.

"This option won't be in place until 2014 if the pro🏅posals are successful, but I feel some sort of flexibility will be available next season to combat bad we💃ather.

"When the Ulster Grand Prix didn't run in 2008 we lost a whole year's planning and it cost us ?600,000 to put the event on," he ad🏅ded.

"Every time we get b🤪ad weather on the Saturday it always seems to be good on the Sunday. The event is too big to allow it to be ruined 🎃by one day of bad weather."

The main Met𒁃zeler Ulster Grand Prix is scheduled to take place at Dundrod tomorrow, with the latest forecast predicting rain in the morning but drier, brighter conditions in the afternoon and early evening.