Yes due to a series of tragic circumstances, I can also remember in the following year at the TT that true gentleman secretary of the ACU, Derek Jackson doing a lot of cajoling to get us to ride at the first British GP at Silverstone, I think that place is were the planners got the idea for the M25.

Derek, a great bloke died at a very young age of a brain tumour, a man who would jump through hoops for the benefit of riders.

Sadly Ian, "to last as long and still going fairly strong" I think is a sad but very true reflection of the TTs former glorious and halcion days.

Hair raising battles like the wheel to wheel, side by side, start to finish duel through the mountain mist in the 350 Junior of Hailwood and Hocking on MVs, the like of which spectators are unlikely to see again