(04-09-2015, 02:42 AM)Superbike Wrote: It's harsh on the riders incurring such a high penalty would 5 seconds not be enough or a warning the first time?. It will be a shame to see the old board go as part of the attraction for me and many others is the history and the 'old skool' ways and feel of the Iom and everyone pulling together to create the worlds best race just like the scouts getting involved folk opening up there garden or fields for spectators. The led's and all the flash F1 style boards will never be the same, I know we all have to make use of new technologies but some things should be left as is traditional and to keep the character of the yesteryear alive.

If the scoreboard is removed and is replaced by a digital thingy, I sugest that it is not destroyed but part of the scoreboard should be erected behind the Grandstand, perhaps to the side of the TTRA building. I did speak to a MHK whilst I was in the IOM last week and he did tell me that NO decision had yet been made, however he did say that some of the wooden construction has rotted. I have also read somewhere on this site that somebody commented that their riders light did not come on, I remember riders lights not coming on and also the indicator fingers showing where the rider is on the course not being moved on and this was during world championship F1 and F2 races in the 1980's, but we coped !