Pat regarding the photo you mention of Mike kicking the MV i already have that as Barry Wood kindly sent it to me along with the one i wanted of Mike paddling the MV down the hill to restart it. My mate reckons that he was talking with a Marshall who was on duty that day and the marshall told him that Mike restarted the MV in a side road/track and then got back on to the course, but as far as i know there is no side road/track at that point and i can not see Mike trying to find somewhere off the course or trying to push start the MV uphill wasting time and losing the lead as the adrenalin would be flowing and the bike would be picked up kicked straight and rolled down hill - started - turned round and away uphill back in the race. full marks to the those that turned a blind eye to this and who would report Mike anyway. This topic came about because of Rossi restarting his bike against the race direction when he crashed at the esses at Donnington in this years Moto GP, mate reckons Rossi should of been disqualified, it was at that point i mentioned about Mike doing a similar thing in the 65 TT the rest you know.

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these are the photo's Barry sent me