Great stuff fellas - enjoyed reading it all.

I agree that the makeover was needed and appears to have worked. Its fantastic to watch the stars of tomorrow gradually building up their speeds. Davey Todd and Jamie Coward are two notables in a similar way to Peter Hickman was a few years back. Mike Booth and Paul Jordan were also pretty quick this time round too.

Some of the changes this year have been ultimately OK (the new live timing for example started rubbish but was actually quite usuable at the end) while others have been a disaster (Radio TT changes).

The government are however spending a lot of cash on their personnel. The Director of Motorsport commands a salary of up to £90k (see here for published payscales and payband 38 https://hr.gov.im/media/1040/ntnsp-pay-a...n-2019.pdf ) fire in a few more and the wage bill for the civil servants alone must be close to £500k.
I'm not going to suggest that they don't work for their cash, but they're putting on an event in which riders risk their lives to entertain the public and many are kipping in the back of vans down in the paddock. This largesse and the £1500 a pop for a lap in a car aren't good bedfellows for the poor privateers.

The bit of government work I think is poor is their customer engagement. All you guys are the customers. It's your tourist pound that is the target. Events should be based around your wants and needs and then sponsorship fits in accordingly. They seem to be too focused on the sponsors and branding etc and are forgetting who the customer is. If you guys stopped coming, the event would die quite quickly. This year, the Radio TT change was al about their corporate sponsors and the changes were made with little or no customer engagement - sadly this is the norm for IOM Gov.