Lee, it's not really correct to say that the TT is growing in popularity. There will be a blip this year because of the Mountain Course centenary but generally I would say that visitor numbers are dropping off and those that do come are mainly coming for a long weekend. I'm not going to chuck any statistics at you - it's just an opinion I've formed based on what I see.

Sure, it's being marketed more aggressively but I sometimes get the impression that the event management would prefer to have 'virtual' fans on Facebook or Twitter than real ones...

I guess it depends on how you define popular...

What's happening to the Manx is that the govt have now stuck their oar in and are trying to fix something that wasn't broken.