This thread appears to be about changing things for the better at the TT. Adding more practice time, improving the spectical by offering a different class etc. I think you need to realise that the TT is so inflexible it won't happen. Certainally won't happen if the paying public are suggesting it.

At the end of the day a 2-stroke or thundersport race is absolutely possible around the mountain circuit with very little effort. Just state publically now that one will be introduced next year subject to sufficent interest being shown by the end of February 2009. If there isn't the interest, just pull it. Look at the Billown races, announced very late, the format even later, poor entry and poor spectacle as a result.

To the average Joe there is too much practice now. Every night you see the roads empty at the end of a session long enough for the top men to get 6 laps in. Then we have more in race week. Thursday or Friday afternoon should be reinstated. There are more than enough marshalls at that time and the conditions are more similar to race conditions. It should never have been removed, the oddest of odd decisions.

If more practice is still necessary close the roads 1 hour earlier. Working hours can be changed by 1 hour for a week and the TT organisers could even partner with the CoB to get this done.

Compare the amount of practice to the levels at other events. It seems that there is more practice than racing at the TT because it is important that newcomers break the lap record in 2 years.

All this requires a bit of flexibility, negotiation and thought. It won't happen.