(17-06-2015, 01:19 PM)Deek Wrote: Does anyone else think this is a stupid ill-informed thread?  So Guy doesn't have the mental aptitude to win and Hutchy is a tw@t.  Not very objective views.

Everyone to their own I suppose.

yeh I'm ill informed - only been involved in motorsport for 52 years, born into a racing family - raced myself in 3 different disciplines (2 and 4 wheels) and quietly sponsored several winners including 2 british champions and marshalled at the tt since 1979- and to be fair Guy hasn't won on the island he wasn't anywhere near this year and I doubt he ever will now despite me really wanting him to.

I didn't start the hutchy bashing - my point was that the winners would have gone past whilst there was a chance of a better position or a podium I was not saying that the way they would get past would be ungentlemanly - I'm not sure that when MD held back he was giving up the chance of a better posiition.

I'm afraid the sport is now attracting too many of the prawn sandwich, bucket list, towie watching  x factor wanabees that keep the mountain road shut and the hospital full sadly many of them have been drawn by Guys telly antics and the current craze for "personality" sadly not many of them know anything really about the sport only what they get from twitter and PR spin doctors.

They are also the type that have caused Malcolm to close this forum and deprive a lot of knowledgeable and experienced followers to lose the facility - you can always spot them they are the ones that think they can put offensive words into posts and if they use an @ in it it becomes unoffensive - thanks Malcolm hope you sort the baddies out and name and shame them if they live on the island publish their address and we can all go round and 'water' their gardens for them after the forum meet.