Results per class from tonight’s (Thursday 24th August 2017) Classic TT practice session :
TT Races
Has Guy Martin Quit Road Racing? The Full Story…So Far…
The internet has went crazy today reporting on Guy Martin retiring from Road Racing. As a Guy Martin fan, that is of course devastating news, and I honestly believe that most pure fans of road racing will also agree that Guy was / is good for the sport and its profile. However following an ‘exclusive interview’ with MCN it looks like his road racing days are over…
With huge publicity surrounding the partnership of John McGuiness and Guy Martin on the new Honda FireBlade things looked perfect for the 2017 season.
Then it all started to unwind. A poor Tandragee 100 started the season with Guy crashing out on his first lap, followed by an uneventful Cookstown 100 and North West 200 (at the same time as losing team mate John McGuinness to a horrific crash) which led us to the Isle of Man. After the ‘box of neutrals’ incident Honda withdrew from the rest of the event. Guy went onto a second place in the TTZero with Team Mugen, his team mate Bruce Anstey taking the win in that event.
Then the press release came that Honda and Guy would not be participating in the Ulster Grand Prix, a circuit that has brought Guy great success as well as proving almost deadly in 2015.
At this point I think most of us thought the writing on the wall was now here.
Guy Martin’s Road Racing days are over.
Explaining his decision to call it a day in an exclusive interview with MCN’s Matt Wildee, Guy said: “Racing’s been good to me, but I’m bored of it. You spend the early part of the year preparing for the season – testing, racing, talking about it, and then doing it all over again. It’s like Groundhog Day. It’s time to stop.”
Or are they?
TomBoyNI 2017 Isle of Man TT Statistics
If you are interested in this sort of thing (which I am) I found my twitter stats pretty awesome for the 2017 TT Races.
I covered the fortnight, practice week and race week – live and had great fun doing so.
Then I had a look at the analytics for the fortnight and was pretty shocked.
I found the following :
@TomBoyNI had 57,408 Organic Impressions for the TT Race fortnight.
24,941 were for Senior TT Coverage! That’s just one race!
1402 Unique Hits from the UK and Isle of Man for the Senior Race Coverage!
So if you followed me during the Races or Practice, thank you. If not make sure you do so next time. I’ll be doing my best to keep you all up to date during the Armoy Road Races and the Ulster Grand Prix.
Isle of Man TT Races Schedule for Friday 9th June 2017
The schedule for racing tomorrow (09/06/2017) looks like this : Let’s keep our fingers crossed that the weather gives us a break and we good a good Seniors’ Day – I think we all agree we need it!
UPDATED : 12:00pm : Isle of Man TT Races Schedule for Thursday 8th June 2017
No Monster Energy SuperSports Race 2 today.
TTZero Teams are in consultation with the Clerk of the Course.
NO RACING TODAY!
Update will follow.
OUTDATED : Isle of Man TT Races Schedule for Thursday 8th June 2017 – See Updated Post
UPDATE : https://tbni.blog/2017/06/08/updated-1200pm-isle-of-man-tt-races-schedule-for-thursday-8th-june-2017/
Three-hour delay to Thursday racing :
Poor weather pushes back road closures
Delays have been announced to today’s TT racing schedule.
Organisers have consulted with the Met Office and Clerk of the Course Gary Thompson has confirmed there’ll be a three-hour delay to proceedings.
The wet weather this morning means roads around the course will now remain open until 1.45pm when Barrule Park in Ramsey to the Bungalow will be shut.
From 2pm the Bungalow to the Creg ny Baa will be closed, before roads around the rest of the course follow suit half an hour later at 2.30pm.
An further update on the day’s schedule is expected at midday.
The Monster Energy Supersport Race 2 and the SES TT Zero Race are due to take place today.
http://www.manxradio.com/news/isle-of-man-news/three-hour-delay-to-thursday-racing/
OUTDATED : Isle of Man TT Races Schedule for Thursday 8th June 2017 – See UPDATED POST
UPDATE : The schedule has been updated – for current situation please see :
https://tbni.blog/2017/06/08/updated-isle-of-man-tt-races-schedule-for-thursday-8th-june-2017/
The schedule for racing and practice today (08/06/2017) now looks like this :
Isle of Man TT Races Schedule for Wednesday 7th June 2017
With the weather playing havoc on this year’s races the schedule is getting very busy as each day passes! The schedule for racing and practice today (07/06/2017) now looks like this :
(Fingers crossed for a good break in the weather) :
Live Tweeting Throughout the 2017 Isle of Man TT Festival!
Make sure to follow me on Twitter as I will be live Tweeting throughout the 2017 Isle of Man TT Festival.
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#iomtt #iomtt2017 #iomtt17 @iom_tt incident at the #gooseneck and another near to the 11th Milestone.
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