Not 'heat of the moment' at all Colin - I always try to think before I post anything, and that's exactly what I have done this time. I will expand on my feelings in more detail when I have a little more time.

In the meantime, I will copy below part of a posting I made regarding the TT Course Licence issue in November 2005, which will give a clue as to how I felt then - let alone now after several subsequent events. What I said then didn't go down too well with some, but I still stand by every word:

The simple fact is that racing on the roads is incredibly dangerous no matter how many rules and regulations you bring in. Put bluntly, people have been killed on a regular basis ever since road racing began and will continue to be killed on a regular basis for as long as road racing continues. Changing licence conditions will have absolutely no effect on this fact whatsoever. The only way that deaths in road racing will stop is to stop road racing. But with all the hassle, heartache and misery that the sport brings, maybe that wouldn't be such a bad thing.