Thank you Malcolm for allowing us to continue the thread.
I SO wanted to inform Kursaal Flyer that Eddy was incorrect re the No 78 win being a mass start. IT WAS NOT!
It was in fact perhaps the most famous TT win of all time, the 1957 EIGHT lap Senior won by the legendary Bob McIntyre on the Gilera four, setting the first ever 100mph lap (101.12).
And just to remind everyone, Bob also won the Junior that year, (also on a Gilera 4), and what do you think his starting number was? SEVENTY NINE!! And, yes, it was NOT a massed start.
Eddy what were you thinking? There have been very few massed starts in the TT. Late 40s 250 Lightweight. All Clypse Circuit races (1954-59), and the Production Races of 1967-76, which were in fact a Le Mans start.
If we could contemplate Le Mans style starts in the 70s, surely it's not asking too much to expect racers, (yes RACERS) to set off at 10second intervals, and do a spot of overtaking on their merry way round the course.
I am sure that there are many more like me who will not want to watch a TT race with ill flawed, badly planned, confusing system.
Many will convert to the Classic TT and the Manx Grand Prix, where the system was used once, and done away with. I wonder why?