on this I agree Nick 100% and have said so many times

For the purpose of this posting, FORGET the nos 21 to 80(?). Let's just concentrate on the first 20, who as we know have priority numbers given to them.
I wonder, have we got the final practice qualifying times for 2014 to see what order they WOULD have started had they not had their priority numbers?
For instance M.D. (No6?) was he the fastest? And so on. Because, if it was so important to have this numbering sequence, why aren't the fastest riders, (i.e. those most likely to be in a winning position), placed in the order of qualifying, just as we were for the Senior a few years ago?
It seems a ridiculous dichotomy to place the higher (slower) numbers in order of qualifying, and turn a blind eye to the faster riders who perhaps become badly baulked by riders travelling only marginally slower than themselves.

one for all and all for one   a level playing field equal opportunity for all , based on the most up todate information available ,


as forthe not having to pass 77 riders
I made the comment to  emphasise that it is a Time Trial a fact that I know you and some others don't like , but I feel has a huge impact on how things are run , and rightly so in my opinion , and as I said in that post I don't know how things were run in the fifties , all I remember of that period was being taken to Scarborough to I think it would be the Gold Cup meeting expecting to see one Mr G Duke on a much talked about Gilera V8 and he never turned up , one very disappointed little boy

"now Nick can I ask how much difference there is between riding one of todays  200 + BHP superbikes and a bike from the fifties through to the early seventies , you will have far more idea than me ??"

Last point above -