(10-06-2024, 02:16 PM)civ Wrote: We can't help the weather - we'd almost certainly have lost the senior under the "old" format and ended up with everything else crammed in to Thursday as we saw in 2019.

Great to see history being made, a new king of the mountain, some new faces to watch in the future, drama during the races that nobody could have predicted and fans old and new arriving in numbers rarely seen for decades. Most importantly, all riders going home to their families. In a few years, we'll remember all of that but not the weather

Indeed, great to see everyone go home, although we dealt with a nasty one on the mountain. We wouldn't have lost the senior under the old format. It would have run on the Saturday as has happened before. The old format allowed for the Senior to slip a day, the new one doesn't, plus most of us have to get home for work on a Monday and racing until Saturday reduces the window to be able to get home. The number of marshals was already reducing by Thursday.