Some excellent points, Paul, and good for responding.

Paul Phillips Wrote:In addition that though, we are scouring Europe for talented riders who will compliment our event, and we are back into the States to talk to one or two more. Thank God for the internet!

If you want more North American riders to think about the TT, maybe you could talk to Duke/Greenlight to see if they could actually sell TT coverage to an American broadcaster for similar same-night feeds that ITV had this year. Being 5 to 8 hrs behind, they could even do an American-biased feed with the extra hours if you get more American/Canadian racers entered

I'm a member of a very large American-based message board, and get great interest from my personal reporting on the TT (photos, write-ups, etc), but every year there are a large number of comments regarding which channel in the US is showing the TT - I'd imagine that you are missing out on a possibly very large market over there . Maybe find out from Road Racer X magazine on how their coverage of TT 2006 by Gary Khalil sold in the States?