O, it now appears that I was wrong!

The email address I sent my application to was actually the mans old personell one

He did contact me about it, and he did give me a name and a different email address for this person, but also suggested that they could talk about it on my behalf

As this person had said in the email to me, that they could discuss it for me, I guess I am guilty of assuming that this man new my passion for the TT races, and that his role is also very important there, that he would have forwarded my application onto the correct dept in there own industry, knowing exactually how passionate about the TT races I am.

Maybe I should have known better than to assume that one dept would talk to another dept