Before i start on this post , can i make it clear that i love the TT (and indeed road racing in general )and wish its future to survive for another 100 years to come , to answer your question on my vocation H & J i own a stained glass company in Wigan UK and therefore the corporate side of things is well known to me and this is something that i think benefits the TT in as much as it does allow people who wouldnt normally go to an event such as this and see for themselves how much of an extraordinary and enjoyable week it is , i know also that in this kind of enviroment you also get free loaders who dont give a monkeys what the event is as long as they got their share of the free stuff , this kind of behaviour is common all over the corporate world and is something that we have to put up with in order to allow the genuine people to have a beneficial effect on the TT. I cannot believe that a course which is 37.75 miles long cant accomodate both corporate and non corporate spectators comfortably. Personally i love to sit in the normal viewing places with everyone else , last year (2002)i particulally enjoyed seeing DJ blast through the St Ninnians crossroads at full tilt , awesome.

In reply to Steve , i never said that the TT festival of 2001 was a success , in actual fact because it was a failure cements my point even further.

To reiterate my initial point , this war of words between racing teams and the orginisers has to somehow be addressed , in my experience ( non racing ) if its not nipped in the bud right from the off it will esculate into something out of all preportion to the point when both parties actually forget what they are fighting for and start to fight each other.