Isn’t it an ironic situation that the once Anglocentric TT now sees fit to replace the cozy but long standing arrangement by bringing in a foreign firm who are willing to actually pay to advertise their automobiles at the worlds greatest motorcycle road race. I would be spitting chips too if I was DM..
Yes Larry,the Nuvolari / Robert Dunlop analogy at seven decades distance was drawing a long bow but parochialism is alive and well on the Island and in Rugby. Only avarice and commercialism are stronger.
Love and hate on the IOM are a strange mixture, note the hysteria when any bike with a whiff of UK credentials (Rotary Norton with a NSU designed engine or the NZ Britten which almost sounded like Britain) makes an appearance.
Then if an outspoken ex TT winner from the old empire tries to get an entry without enough brownie points on the ACU/insurance inspired TT course licence he is told where to go.
However if the famous Nigel Mansell brings his loot to the Island he is universally despised.
Even more mysterious is how the government has turned against their own establishment to give a free hand to vested interests from across the water.
More irony is that, if allowed to continue, the course car this year would have been from an Indian owned manufacturer.
Still if Max Mosely can go to bed with the Germans, why not the ACU and the DTL?