Can anyone else understand an administration of a country with such a heritage of motorcycle road racing (and early car motor sport) not fully capitalising on it?
It is not that they don't do anything but the nod to nostalgia seems to be very luke warm and only in the margins.

Just click on the Goodwood Revival page below and try to imagine the net income from that event.
http://www.goodwood.co.uk/site/content/r...eSupport=1
Once you have looked at the video and read the list of participants just go back and note how often the IOM TT is mentioned. Then watch the bike segment, they are not Moto GP bikes they are TT and Manx bikes. So Goodwood is cashing in on the TT in a big way.
If the TT has such a powerful hold on tradition and nostalgia why isn't nostalgia being exploited in a big way on the Island? We hear about the Young Guns, Branding, New style, new wave, new,new, new but Old sells very well also.
The cradle of road racing with no museum and an admin. dedicated to a breath of fresh air? Hasn't anyone on the Island got the foresight that, perish the thought, there will be no TT one day? Only then they will suddenly realise the potential of nostalgia.
NOSTALGIA should be on the front burner now, nowhere else in the world has got a tenth of what the Isle of Man is squandering.

Also what better way of honouring those who have gone before than by keeping the thousands of stories, memories and names of the TT and MGP alive each year.
Perhaps an Historic week preceeding the TT races, including Billown. Stretch the tourist season, the longer they stay the more they spend!

"It will stand wherever you throw it."