Hi Guy's
Can anybody tell me what races are on on which days at this years meeting.
Cheers Dave.

Anyone know when the rider numbers will be issued.

Are there any fans that use this site planning to go to Skerries and the Southern travelling from England if so can anyone explain how is the easiest way to make the trip? and as far as i know the last boat to Douglas is 10;30 sat evening with the next ferry on Wed, any suggestions please. Just to add to the confusion Scarborough is the same week but its all real road racing so i will attempt to fit them all in.

Does anyone else feel that the various prints of Joey Dunlop that are being offered for sale are of ordinary quality. Are the likenesses accurate? Admittedly we have only seen photos of the statue, but is this Joey? What do other people think?
It all seems a bit sad, perhaps the artists have the best intentions but dosen't the great man really deserves better than this.

Hello,

I would like, if anyone can help, to be pointed in the right direction of any copyright free TT pictures i can use on my none-profit website, and of course a credit will go up to whom ever i got the pics from.

Also, I need a map of the circuit, same as above, credit etc.

Thanks very much

Is it possible to get a complete list showing the lap by lap times and speed of all the competitors in last weeks races. I have looked on iomtt.com, but this only seems to gives the race results, time and speed?

To my way of thinking you all seem very eager to hang the O'kane team on the word of who SIOUX and what he says who is he has he an axe to grind who knows i say WELL DONE TO THE O'KANE RACE TEAM for a good weeks racing at the TT

After a weekend at East Fortune for the annual Bob Mcintyre memorial races i felt compelled to write about Dennis. Not only has this man raced the great Bob Mac himself he turned in a great perfomance over the weekend including a few visits to the podium,
Just like to wish him all the best and the next time anyone races agains him dont let his age fool you!

Foret, Casoli and Whitham were all excluded for rule infringements.

Harvey T.

I am certain Mick Grants ideas about sidecars will not be put in place. Although different to solos they are a big part of the TT. I watched the sidecar A race from May Hill and they were truly awsome! I would be gutted if I could not see that spetacle each year.

The Joey Dunlop Injured Riders Fund made use of the Hailwood Centre this TT week to try to sell goods to raise money for what I consider to be a good cause. Unfortunately, if my own experience is anything to go by, this was a bad move.

I had arranged with a prominent member of the committee, who I know personally, to go to the centre to pick up and pay for some goods I had asked to be put aside for me.

As I approached the path to the Hailwood Centre on Friday (Senior Race Day) I was stopped by an official who said I couldn't go any further without a Paddock Pass. I tried to explain that I had business at the Hailwood Centre but was simply ignored and informed that, no matter what, I couldn't go further without a pass but would be allowed in after the race had finished. She employed that well worn phrase, "I'm just doing my job."

I returned when the race had finished to be told, by the same person, that I couldn't come in without a pass. All attempts at rational discourse with this person were fruitless. In a less than happy state of mind, I was just leaving when someone who knew me came and asked me what was going on. They gave me their pass and I went to the centre where the staffed but, obviously, very unbusy JDIRF stall had my goods.

Had the Fund opted to have a "pitch" in the traders area, they would have had to pay a pretty hefty site fee and compete, in terms of visual prominence, with all the commercial traders. At least, however, it would have been permitted to have custom during the racing period.

The really stupid part, in my mind, is that the precious pass that I was supposed to have to reach the centre can be obtained by just about anyone on any pretext as long as they know someone involved in the racing or its organisation i.e. they serve no useful purpose in keeping the paddock secure and the riders free from autograph hunters and sight-seers. They DO stop riders' charities getting bothered by customers when you have "jobsworth" security geeks, however.