[quote=Don Simons]

The Audi TT was to commemorate Tazio Nuvolari who drove their grand prix cars, he was famous for winning the Ulster TT in an MG. The car's name TT has nothing to do with the IOM TT because as everyone knows Nuvolari was unfairly prevented from starting there because he was carrying an injury; a policy which has not been applied evenly over the years, if anyone can remember Robert Dunlop one time throwing away his crutch at the prize giving ceremony.

Don, will you for Gawd's sake stop peddling that nonsensical Nuvolari story.

You've seen the photo of him on the Island with his hand/fingers in enormous splints, and you admitted to me that you wouldn't have let him out.

The ACU have always been able to make unfair/stupid/cretinous decisions all on their own, without the need for more to be fabricated!!

OH NO !

Helen you can do referee on this one.
I'm staying well out of it

Big fight special

Don The Destroyer V Larry The Lasher

Tickets on sale at all good outlets

Heehee... go to it boys... no holding, no rabbit punching and anyone failing to rise after the count of 10 is out!

Better make it 20.............they are both getting on a bit now and slowing down

Don Simons Wrote:Told you so, back on the 24th Jan:

"TT 2012 will be under new sponsorship and will be known as the Audi TT. The road closing car will be an Audi product. This will ensure an income stream which was not available in the past where parochial interests, who will remain nameless, were not charged sponsorship fees."

Of course that was idle speculation but if you want my real opinion, then I don't think the TT needs a course CAR at all; a brightly painted sidecar or solo bike would do just as well.

The Audi TT was to commemorate Tazio Nuvolari who drove their grand prix cars, he was famous for winning the Ulster TT in an MG. The car's name TT has nothing to do with the IOM TT because as everyone knows Nuvolari was unfairly prevented from starting there because he was carrying an injury; a policy which has not been applied evenly over the years, if anyone can remember Robert Dunlop one time throwing away his crutch at the prize giving ceremony.

I think a major beer sponsor will be next.
Ahhhh The Fosters TT, that would go down well.
But then again one of the locals would probably claim royalties on the use of his name.

oh don what are you on about,,are you sitting comfortably,then i will begin ,NECKARSULMER STRICKMASCHINEN UNION,,started in 1879,,were taken over by audi in 1969 or vw if you prefer,,and the vw k70 was a nsu design and vws first front wheel drive car,,now being a lucky boy i was at the 54 TT riding but thats another storey,,and was priveleged to see the great werner hass win the 250 on his nsu twin,,which shook everyone,,,it must have interested mr honda,leading link forks, pressed frames ,twin cylinders, ohc.and of course nsu were there before the war with supercharged twins,,,,now if don you trot down to neckarsulm to audis museum you will see PROUDLY displayed the nsu racing bikes,the germans never forget their heritage,,,so rthey called their audi TT after werner hass and his triumph and not nuvolari,,,i havent found a TT car owner yet who knows any connection with the TT,,,,BYE

Where's Harry Hill when you need him? !

I think you can find him on TV' Blurp or what ever its called now, which is exactly where you will find the video of Larry and Don's fight. Current odds are Larry 10-1 Don about quarter past twelve... thats the times they will probably get up, but actual odds are Larry 2-1 on and Don 100-1 just because he is so far away we can call him the outsider.......

A clean shaven Larry faces up to Don. Apparently the shave is to avoid the wily antipodean catching him by the short and curlies!

No Larry I would not have let Nuvolari start that is true, but then again I would not have let Robert Dunlop start either.
But when I am standing in the pub on the corner at Ramsey watching the riders approaching Parliament Square and one rider appears lap after lap riding with only one hand it is pretty hard to erase the thought of one of the best motorcyclists of his time not being allowed to start in the very British TT.
The whole Italian team in the year in question is reported to have been depressed by both the food,the weather and the frosty, officious Anglo Saxon reception they received.
Some even wanted to return home.
Where is Marco when I need him?

And as to the Audi TT being named after an NSU motorcycle rider, well I suppose only the Audi marketing executives know the answer to that one.

[quote=Don Simons]
No Larry I would not have let Nuvolari start that is true, but then again I would not have let Robert Dunlop start either.
But when I am standing in the pub on the corner at Ramsey watching the riders approaching Parliament Square and one rider appears lap after lap riding with only one hand it is pretty hard to erase the thought of one of the best motorcyclists of his time not being allowed to start in the very British TT.

What you're telling us, Don, is that the ACU of those years was a lot more sensible than in more recent times.

But we knew that anyway!!

To settle all the arguments over the course car.
Why not let the Chief Travelling Marshal do the job on his motorcycle, with full headlights on, flashing indecators and wearing a reflective orange jacket instead of the yellow one worn for normal marshalling duties.

Isn’t it an ironic situation that the once Anglocentric TT now sees fit to replace the cozy but long standing arrangement by bringing in a foreign firm who are willing to actually pay to advertise their automobiles at the worlds greatest motorcycle road race. I would be spitting chips too if I was DM..
Yes Larry,the Nuvolari / Robert Dunlop analogy at seven decades distance was drawing a long bow but parochialism is alive and well on the Island and in Rugby. Only avarice and commercialism are stronger.
Love and hate on the IOM are a strange mixture, note the hysteria when any bike with a whiff of UK credentials (Rotary Norton with a NSU designed engine or the NZ Britten which almost sounded like Britain) makes an appearance.
Then if an outspoken ex TT winner from the old empire tries to get an entry without enough brownie points on the ACU/insurance inspired TT course licence he is told where to go.
However if the famous Nigel Mansell brings his loot to the Island he is universally despised.
Even more mysterious is how the government has turned against their own establishment to give a free hand to vested interests from across the water.
More irony is that, if allowed to continue, the course car this year would have been from an Indian owned manufacturer.
Still if Max Mosely can go to bed with the Germans, why not the ACU and the DTL?

Don Simons Wrote:Still if Max Mosely can go to bed with the Germans, why not the ACU and the DTL?

I don't think he actually went to bed with them, Don, and indeed I believe that they were only make-believe Germans

larryd Wrote:I don't think he actually went to bed with them, Don, and indeed I believe that they were only make-believe Germans

Himmel!! Ich haf spoke it before - Don't mention the lady of the night!!

Ok Don, maybe you are taking it all a little too personnally... but then again what if the Peel P50 can be used as the course car, but then again it would take a day to open the roads and it is TT WEEK and not TT MONTH.

Well the Peel P50 had a German engine so I am afraid that it would not qualify. My choice if we must have a car would be a Reliant Simitar or perhaps the Cooper Mini S - Oh no, damn, they are made by BMW now. Well at least Larry would be happy he rides the two wheeled variety.
Seriously though, I did love to see that big Jag roaring around the course and old David could certainly point it.
Thank you God, I have won one point this week, those girls were indeed Germans, sorry Mr D.

Arr but their uniforms were made in France.. and as for the whips ... well its over to Cargo for the best place to buy them ......






Only kidding I have no idea where their uniforms are from .... honest ..... but their boots were probably made in Manchester (I think), but thats getting it from that film .....

I agree with Rocket Man and use 2 wheels to open the roads after all it a m/cycle event maybe a star of the past could be involved? only my opinon.

STOP DIGGING ..........