I was always nervous about the mandatory teatime road opening because if things slide back, much after 3.30pm then you have to start either cutting laps off the senior or waiting till after the tea break, the open road period gives the opportunity for all sorts of randomness - RTCs, spillages and non race 'emergencies'. Remember watching the senior in 2012 ish at Brandywell - sat in the field from 10 am and were straining to see the bikes at 8'30 pm. I think if a single lap gets cut from the senior to allow zero interest or subaru laps the paying customers (yes it costs me about £1200 to be there) know what the organisers think of them - can't control the weather but messing up the whole event for vanity reasons is unforgiveable - head torches at the ready chaps