I really hope we don't see any more TT races around Billown again. The entry was poor and the spectacle wasn't great. I would agree with Guy Martin's comments, races at Billown are simply not TT races. I agree with the comments above, great start to the 250 race, but it wasn't a TT race. The Southern 100 club has been pulled to pieces over the last 9 months and at times it hasn't been very rosy. Another 12 months of that will have a real impact, sod that.

I would say this is the final opportunity to run the 2 strokes on the Mountain. How about a large prize fund for a 125/250/400 race. It could potentially attract 40 250's, 25 125's and 25 400's, a higher entry than any of this year's races. See this year's NW200 stats below - 95 started the races. The race would only require two thirds of them and they would all turn up for a good prize fund and the chance to race around the Mountain. You could set them off based on their overall qualification time and have 3 separate races? Set them off in pairs to avoid them being caught too early. It's one idea anyway. Practice and Neil Tuxworth would be the biggest difficulties to overcome, the latter being the biggest problem, especially with his birthday coming up.

Paul Phillips said on Manx Radio that the 2 stroke problem is not individual to the TT and that the same problem exists throughout the sport. I was trying to think of one other road race in the UK which doesn't have a 2 stroke race, there isn't one. The two strokes are at every event except the TT. In fact, 2 stroke racing at the other International road races has been brilliant over the last couple of years.

Number of race starters at the 2008 NW200:

125's 28
250's 39
400's 28

Total: 95