Embargoed until tomorrow, I am jumping the gun to relay to all TTFans that this years TT Races are to be run in an anticlockwise direction.

ian huntly Wrote:Embargoed until tomorrow, I am jumping the gun to relay to all TTFans that this years TT Races are to be run in an anticlockwise direction.

Cheers, Ian!

Joking aside, I've often wondered what it would be like racing the other way round the TT course, would it be better or worse? Safer or more dangerous? Quicker or even alot slower??
I guess we'll never know but it does ake you wonder eh? ;-)

Spoke to a guy in Australia recently who said he actually WALKED around the course (in the proper direction) once. Wonder how many folk have actually done that.

I walked the course a good few years back and it took me a full, full day and I was completely done in. I slept all the next day. The worst parts were the run in to Baaregaroo and the section up and past Gooseneck. I couldn't do a lap now but I would love to try it !! The traffic is much more now than it was all those years ago so it is not safe to walk.

No, the April Fool announced that Shearer is to manage Newcastle, Honda or Norton but only the first one is true..

It had us all larfing until it was confirmed.

I remember they once had a Backwards at Brands Hatch meeting. If my memory is correct a certain SMB Hailwood won it.

You're not wrong. The Hutchinson 100 used to be run in the reverse direction. And going off at a slight tangent, some car races used to run the wrong way round Mallory. I think more than a few of them ended up in the lake!

Jan, I don't know if it's still run but on the Sunday before practice there used to be a marathon race around the TT course that finished down by the war memorial, so not only have people walked it but plenty of mad buggers have actually run it!!

We humans do funny things. I think my Aussie mate started the walk at 3 am and finished at 11 pm, so I guess that sounds about right. He was not a young man when he did it either. Ian, you did well.

Impromptu quiz question - The British mainland has only two anti clockwise race circuits.

They Are?

Manx Mist Wrote:Impromptu quiz question - The British mainland has only two anti clockwise race circuits.

They Are?

Scarborough and Aberdare. Do I get a prize?

desmophile Wrote:

Manx Mist Wrote:Impromptu quiz question - The British mainland has only two anti clockwise race circuits.

They Are?

Scarborough and Aberdare. Do I get a prize?

Correct!! You win a pint of John Fosters Guinness

Ok then, which rider allegedly set off in the wrong direction at Monza during his first test with a team and had to be flagged down at the start/finish line and turned around by the team?

Manx Mist Wrote:Ok then, which rider allegedly set off in the wrong direction at Monza during his first test with a team and had to be flagged down at the start/finish line and turned around by the team?

Any guesses? or do we need clues?

what about Rockingham?

sticky Wrote:You're not wrong. The Hutchinson 100 used to be run in the reverse direction. And going off at a slight tangent, some car races used to run the wrong way round Mallory. I think more than a few of them ended up in the lake!

Jan, I don't know if it's still run but on the Sunday before practice there used to be a marathon race around the TT course that finished down by the war memorial, so not only have people walked it but plenty of mad buggers have actually run it!!

yup,and i rode in it! in i think around 1968/69? in the 250 race on my ducati,paddock bend was awfull the other way round.
memories fading now but remember seeing hailwood on the honda 6? running away with it,and i can still remember the SOUND me!.
dennis

For you Renzo and anyone else who loves Honda sounds !!

http://www.honda.co.jp/SoundofHonda/engine/index.html Try the groups of bikes top left column

http://www.honda.co.jp/SoundofHonda/engi...rc146.html This one is cracking !!!

http://www.honda.co.jp/SoundofHonda/engi...rc149.html But this one is the best one !!

Baylon McCaughey Wrote:what about Rockingham?

Baylon, yes mate I forgot all about Rockingham!!

Do they still run any bike events there? dont seem to hear much about it nowadays.

Manx Mist Wrote:Impromptu quiz question - The British mainland has only two anti clockwise race circuits.They Are?

Another one was Staverton airfield circuit (long time ago)

Hey Gordon Staverton wasn't that long ago, I had my first race there. OK maybe it was.

tripod Wrote:Hey Gordon Staverton wasn't that long ago, I had my first race there. OK maybe it was.

Now you really got me wondering "tripod" ??? - give us a clue...
Yes - had my first win there too - about '76 or '77 on the spondon 125...
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