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eman1948 · 05-06-2019, 06:43 PM

I have been to the island many times and was there on the Friday in 1972 when Gilberto Parlotti lost his life on the mountain. I was at Governor`s bridge watching and the weather was atrocious, Parlotti had pulled out a huge lead on Charles Mortimer who was an excellent TT rider so the only way he could have done that was over riding the conditions and the end result was he killed himself. You will always get riders pushing to hard in the wet conditions so they need protecting from themselves, is the racing entertaining in filthy conditions certainly not, short circuit safety has improved to the extent some riders push the limit to see how far they can go before they crash knowing if they do they will walk away ( look at Marquez ) the TT has not improved in that way and never will. I love the TT and the riders are heros but the weather is killing it and I don`t want to see the weather killing the riders. The TT is in the lap of the Gods but the decisions made this week have been the right ones unfortunately the weather may dictate the future of the TT and whether the costs to the riders involved are worth it and also the cost to the the spectators. When I was younger perhaps my thinking would be different but now I am older and don`t find wet racing good or entertaining , that`s my personal opinion.

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