Bigfeesh
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https://www.manxradio.com/news/isle-of-man-news/2021-isle-of-man-tt-races-cancelled/, it looks like they still want the Classic/Manx GP to go ahead tho.
2021 IoM TT Races Cancelled
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Kickback
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It's an understandable decision but I'm very disappointed. I've never managed to get there, maybe the classic will run? If not I'm determined to make it in 2022 but that sounds a long way off!
Dellortoman
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laverdas said:
I don't think sea levels are rising that fast.
CLEMTOG
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my booking for Chevy truck and caravan has been transferred from 2019, couldn't go due to sickness and then to 2020, couldn't go due to Covid and now...??? no races in 2021,.
I have a strong gut feeling (nothing official) that this could well be the death Nell of the famous IOM TT races,. there are plenty on the island that don't tolerate it well, and there are those that campaign because of the death of riders, which is carefully recorded, and also the death of spectators, not such an easy statistic to record (due to foreigners returning home by ambulance) and not hardly publicised in the media at all.
In addition the equipment and infrastructure will have been sat there unused for how long? There is a long tradition of those that organise and volunteer as well as paid ACU and IOM officials, of knowing what they will be doing, and when they retire from it, of handing it on to someone else, nothing like that simple I know, but the longer there is a "void" the harder it will be to re-start, not the same thing but just look what happened to Donnington Park, and the labour and effort to get it going again.
I think this time I will have my money back, its into four figures, just for a ferry crossing, and then there is a months residence fees on a campsite, which although good, certainly doesn't have to compete with campsites anywhere else, so read, costly. Discount for a longer than 14 day stay? in my case 26 days??? no chance
CLEM
I have a strong gut feeling (nothing official) that this could well be the death Nell of the famous IOM TT races,. there are plenty on the island that don't tolerate it well, and there are those that campaign because of the death of riders, which is carefully recorded, and also the death of spectators, not such an easy statistic to record (due to foreigners returning home by ambulance) and not hardly publicised in the media at all.
In addition the equipment and infrastructure will have been sat there unused for how long? There is a long tradition of those that organise and volunteer as well as paid ACU and IOM officials, of knowing what they will be doing, and when they retire from it, of handing it on to someone else, nothing like that simple I know, but the longer there is a "void" the harder it will be to re-start, not the same thing but just look what happened to Donnington Park, and the labour and effort to get it going again.
I think this time I will have my money back, its into four figures, just for a ferry crossing, and then there is a months residence fees on a campsite, which although good, certainly doesn't have to compete with campsites anywhere else, so read, costly. Discount for a longer than 14 day stay? in my case 26 days??? no chance
CLEM
Bigfeesh
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Agree with your thoughts and the D word (discount) is not in the Manx language anyway!