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Originally Posted by toastyroach
ISLE of man is one the craziest fn courses... those guys are fucking insane for riding there. Imagine if they had a MotoGP race there??
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They used to hold a leg of the 500cc GP`s there until the 70`s but Giacomo Agostini led a rider boycott for safety reasons and it was pulled from the series. Shame- although you can`t really blame them- people were killed regularly. In the TT they`re riding against the clock (they start at 10 second intervals) which makes it a bit safer although it`s not infrequent for people to die whilst competing. For some reason the Irish tend to do very well in the TT!
Mostly it`s amateurs that snuff it on "Mad Sunday" when anyone can ride their bike round the circuit- kind of like the running of the bulls in Pamplona.