(28-07-2009, 12:04 PM)Manx Mist Wrote: Apparently its the ACU Road Race Committee who have brought this in, not the FIM.

I had my mate on the phone this morning blowing his stack after receiving the memo with his entry, he'd been chasing people on the phone trying to talk some sense into the powers that be, and asking them for suggestions on how to keep a highly strung 250 to 60kph successfully without needing a plug change at the end of the pit lane!

It gets worse.......we've now heard a rumour that the 60kph limit starts at the end of the police station road!! which is the very beginning of the concrete apron for the pits, if this is the case we will have a combination of bikes slowing to 37mph on the actual road itself and traffic going straight through doing around 145 - 150mph within a few feet of the slowing bikes.

Hmmm that'll make for safer racing then!!

More rumours-Have heard there will be a line painted down the road-incoming riders keep to the left, and riders not coming into the pits will keep to the right of this line. A rumour about the exit of the pits is that a line will be painted down the road as far as the bridge by the paddock return lane. Riders exiting the pits keep to the left of the line, and riders who are on a 'flying' lap keep to the right of the line.