Love the 250/125 list. I too am a big fan and I have suggested the same in the past about allowing MGP riders in. We need to see some more racing machinery, the solos this year were boring.

Re the point of this thread, I can't help feeling that reduced practicing is down to the organisers - losing early morning practices (for me, one of my favourite things about TT) and Thursday afternoon has caused these problems. Too many "come-overs" who buy a house and then realise they'll get woken up at 6am. It's only 7 times a year and it's not like 6am is THAT early. But I don't believe we'll ever see a return of the early morning practices now.

Re dates, if TT was held later, it would mean that our school children wouldn't have to sit exams while races are on, as GCSE's and A levels would be finished before the TT ran. Surely that's a good thing?

I have to agree with Chris though, why is more practice time needed when you only need a 600 and a 100 to compete in every race. Dedicate a whole session to the sidecars or perhaps bring back early mornings just for them? Practice would be well attended. Sidecars need more priority - after all they provided the best race of the week and are the only race bikes left.

Colin, my understanding was that Jurby wasn't available for testing this year during TT?