(06-11-2022, 12:50 PM)H2pots Wrote: I'm torn with the scoreboard. I get that the TT should be up to date and current with the tech etc. But also, it's an event steeped in history and tradition.

Fwiw, i think the old scoreboard should have been retained, tradition can live alongside technology.

I went up to the startline at the TT and the manx and missed the old scoreboard, I've been casting an eye on it for 36 years.

Indeed H2, I was lucky enough to work on the boards and control tower as a Cub and Scout with my mates back in the 70's & early 80's and not having the boards means a lot of people are missing out on a uniquely exciting experinence.
The other thing that annoys me is that the boards except for the simple hand turned clanky clocks were basically wood and scaffolding tube fixed together - just how difficult would it have been to construct a 2022 wood and scaffold scoreboard replica incorporating some modern tech to use in the short term ? would be more cost effective too and look a whole lot better than the screen lash-up we have now...