At the riders briefings all competitors were told that anyone "Touring" would be disqualified from the meeting.

There was more than a little anger in the paddock when no action was taken over riders who broke the rule.

A rider, with many years experience at the TT and MGP, told me "If it had been any of us," from the lower half of the grid, "we would have been hung, drawn and quartered and then staked out on the Terminal Building"