I believe the loss of the 125/400 race and the bull headed attitude shown by the orginisers is the first nail in the TT's coffin.

After 97 years the event is in complete turmoile, entries returned to riders for not disclosing bike frame numbers, yet certain riders were TBA in the programme, Scrutineers that dont know one end of a bike from the other and do more talking amongst themselves than checking machines, Scrutineering bay that resembled Quantanamo bay, Black numbers on blue backgrounds were strenousley enforced in the TT regs, then replaced with white ones, Production Bikes, What are they.??? the TT scrutineers dont know, "but dose it have a unleaded filler sir"?

The races are being delayed due to reasons other than saftey, it's not that the medical helicopter can't fly, But the Duke Video Chopper can't film the racing, and traffic que's in Douglas etc.

At least 80%+ of the paddock are privateer's just a few teams supported by the manufacturers, not even Dunlop or Arai bothered to show this year..

The new reg's has made most of the current machines obsolete, so for Cretin to say the new format will save the competetors having to build special machines for the TT is complete rubbish, where are all the new 600's going to come from, and how will Tommy Cooper's team of scrutineers police them????

Will the TT survive with a entry down by 80%?
I personaly dont think the TT was a spectical this year, and as for the programm of events, its been the same for 10 years as I know it.
I for one wont be supporting the TT from now on, Daytona has a far greater attraction, and I don't have to buy the Steam Packet to get there, ...

The TT is now just a PR exersise for the TT committee and the government, Foot and mouth didn't stop the festival so why should the racing affect it...??????