Should the isle of man TT be banned?

IIRC it was an official that got in the way for Lee.

 

you wont see spectators stood in the road trying to get photos at the TT.despite the fact that the iom is very liberal toward roadracing you'll get arrested if you are on the track.

 

did he hit the marshall?

 

the TT not got a great history??? you must be joking right,either that or you know **** all about it

 

I assumed he meant it hasnt got a good safety history.

ps 37 people died at the tt in 10 years, 33 more than at the nurbergring.

 

Now that I have woke up properly I have remembered it wasn't even the tt. It was the 24hr race in Belgium. He did have an accident at the tt. He hit a Marshall who was retrieving something from the track, about 150mph.

It was a long time ago, more like 20 years now I think about it.

 

The key thing for me is whenever there is a death in another sport there seems to be a concerted effort to improve safety (boxing, F1). The attitude in the TT seems to be it's just one of those things.

 

there are more racers killed on the roads of Ireland than the TT,The people that choose to do it do so because for them its the ultimate,The TT senior race is the blue ribband of road racing.
spectators also know the risks,luckily its extremely rare any spectator is involved,the simple reasoning is if people don't like,then don't watch it,dont attend and don't race there,leave it for those think otherwise.

 

you are wrong mate,the tt organisors every year bring in new restrictions,especially for the spectators.You cant watch from half the places you could 20 years ago.

 

Don't smoke, eat healthy food, don't drink, never ever ride a motorcycle or drive fast in a car.

Die anyway. Probably senile in a pool of your own blood and piss.

 

I think the number you are looking for Supertyke is 16 deaths on the TT in the last ten years. The other races are the Manx Grand Prix and the Southern 100 ,these are different races at different times of the year, one race on a different coarse,although this is unfortunate it is the life they chose, as Richietyke suggests you could be pissing your pants tomorrow without the aid of a safety barrier

 

That is ballox mate, the safety aspect is far far better now than it was in 1979 when I first went.
I cant remember anyone saying MotoGP should be banned because Simmoncelli died last year ? Or that the Tour De France should be banned because Tommy Simpson or Cassartelli died?

 

Fair enough mate, to be honest I was largely going on the responses of some in this thread which seems exactly that attitude. I wasn't saying it should be banned but I can't help but think of F1:The Killer Years documentary and the Sid Watkins period after Senna/Ratzenberger and the huge leaps in safety of F1, and how that was instigated by the drivers whose attitude was that no-one should die in their sport. If a circuit was deemed to risky it was dropped.

I know very little about MotoGP but seem to remember there being a similar response to Simoncelli's death, and wasn't safety concerns one of the reasons behind Stoner quiting?

 

stoner definitely didn't quit on safety grounds,in fact he is the opposite,I saw him in a live interview where he said he'd come back if the raced 700cc 2 stroke,,,which if you didn't know are annimals compared to 4 stroke superbikes.

simoncellis death was caused by a big high-side and then being struck by other bikes.his helmet also came off in the incident

 

Fair enough Dek, as I say I don't know enough about it and you guys do, just thought I'd read Stoner had been affected by the birth of his daughter and changed his priorities.