Ultimately it comes down to time and money. Two things I don't have enough of!

For me the TT set up worked I got to race against the best riders, got good value for money and it only needed two days off work. The amount of track time you got made the cost worth while. With the steam packet set up it would have cost me a lot more for 1 shorter race.

The programme might be evidence enough but the results aren’t 1000 and 125/400 race results showed similar number to TT results, there were a lot more 600's but only 1 or 2 more big names. None of the results I looked at would have been full grids. I think its personal perspective, what you prefer to see.

I’ve looked at the Southern for the last few years as I really wanted to race the Billown course but it come back to time and money again if I do the Southern I don’t do the Manx.

If the new sponsor was able to fund a similar arrangement I would definitely go again. I didn’t care that it was a TT or not I just wanted to race against the best on a great course.