FC Wrote:Early morning practice has finished and will not return, logistics firms have their depots in a few of the places that are not accessible during the roads closed and these firms now take deliveries from the boats from 5am to 8am. We would not get enough marshalls for the mornings, most of the old boys that loved the mornings are no longer with us, times change so we must move forward and as for practice for the two strokes you will have to accept they are finished on the mountain, the experiment at Billown this year proved that they cant get enough entries, sorry but that's the way it is.

Another idea that might work is shut the mountain for a couple of afternoons, riders like to have roads to set bikes up, run engines in etc. It would not take many marshals to run the mountain area and it could be policed quite easily, after all riders that wished to use the facility had completed their run over the mountain they could be escorted back over to a starting point by the TMs.

FC,

I have not heard that one about the depots before. You may have a point but I wouldn’t mind knowing which parties would be affected? My point still stands on the marshalling issues. This year’s feedback would indicate the there would be adequate marshal coverage. I too think morning practice will never be reinstated but I think it is far more realistic than a date change.

I think there is plenty of scope for at least 60 bikes on the grid for a 2 stroke race. In fact, I’ll post 60 names this weekend on this thread. The 2 strokes at Billown were not a real test at all and a ‘Green TT’ is not a real substitution.

Shutting the Mountain section only for the afternoon sounds like complete and utter chaos. What will competitors do when they get back to the grandstand? How are they going to get the transporters in and out of the paddock? How are they going to get back to Ramsay - think about the legality? The rest of the circuit would be bedlam. Reinstatement of Thursday afternoon practice would be a better solution. The removal of this session is yet again another good example of TT organisers shooting themselves in the foot.