So everyone is working flat out to make the TT better and better; top teams, top riders and passengers, quality fields, new image - and now this rubbish raises its head again.
Have there been serious submissions put in by the rider’s representatives, the DTL (i.e. the Manx Government) to withdraw this little piece of bureaucratic nonsense?
Is everyone going tug their forelock to the ACU and allow them to insidiously devalue the TT by robbing it of name riders, remember the Shaun Harris affair, and now Andy Smith?
If the ACU are not confronted on this issue by people in positions of responsibility on the IOM now the men from Rugby are going to walk all over them for evermore.
It really beggars the imagination that a sovereign state can tolerate such outside interference in something so closely integrated with the heritage of the country as the TT races.