My letter to the editor for all the good it wil do .. !

"Sir,

Your article titled " Isle of Man TT: It has killed 200 people. But still they come. Maybe that's why they come " is insulting to all TT fans ! To suggest that fans attend the TT in such great numbers each year to watch people being killed is utter rubbish and rather insulting. Your correspondent obviously has no idea of the real reason why people attend these races each year. It is very clear that he hasn't even bothered to ask fans why they attend the TT preferring instead to take a cheap shot at the TT using the easy option of gathering a few figures & quotes in an attempt to sensationalise the article. There was not even any attempt to put these figures in perspective say with the number of fatalities in other sports such as mountaineering,fishing ,sailing etc to name but a few ! The whole article was cheap & totally unbalanced looking at the TT from a purely negative standpoint. Sadly, this is not uncommon and until journalists such as this do their job properly and actually attend the TT and speak with the fans to discover the real reasons why they are there in such large numbers, the same old sensationalist rubbish will be spouted year after year !

Yours disgusted,

Guy Kerr