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RE: Start Numbers
Thank you Chrisp and DBD for echoing my sentiments.
The whole job is a fiasco, and as stated, i have no intention of ever watching any race there under the present system.
Re the favoured numbers,. it's not really that, because the top 20 at the TT  and Classic TT are seeded, and thus are taking nos 1-20 whether they like it or not. 
I watched the Senior Manx, ( there is no number 1-20 seeding), and watching the leading riders (and every other rider ) was completely baffling.
As I have said, the ONLY way to follow the race, is to look at an App, which if you're on the fence watching live kinda defeats the object, AND is incredibly dangerous.
It would be like going to a football match, and following the game on a live blog.
I haven't even begun to discuss the dangers of qualifying during practice. Riders are being forced to put fast laps in, before they or the bike are ready, just in order to get a lower start number............as if that matters.
Back to the 1984 TT, having won the Senior MGP in 1983, the ACU gave me riding number 73 for the Senior, and no. 80 for the Premier Classic (not a classic race like today).
I set off in those races without ever querying the numbers, and finished 7th and 9th. And although an RG500 wasn't as fast as today's bikes...... they were still fast! The following year I was number 18!
27-06-2018, 03:01 PM
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Start Numbers - by DBD 34 - 26-06-2018, 11:45 PM
RE: Start Numbers - by Chrisp955 - 27-06-2018, 10:56 AM
RE: Start Numbers - by Splashdown - 27-06-2018, 03:01 PM
RE: Start Numbers - by kilbil - 27-06-2018, 04:12 PM
RE: Start Numbers - by eman1948 - 27-06-2018, 06:07 PM
RE: Start Numbers - by Steve Linsdell - 28-06-2018, 11:26 AM
RE: Start Numbers - by AntG - 28-06-2018, 12:18 PM
RE: Start Numbers - by veefour - 28-06-2018, 12:30 PM
RE: Start Numbers - by c iom tt - 28-06-2018, 02:10 PM
RE: Start Numbers - by ericcane - 28-06-2018, 03:41 PM
RE: Start Numbers - by AntG - 29-06-2018, 10:18 AM
RE: Start Numbers - by HammerHead - 28-06-2018, 03:03 PM



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