2022 would have marked the 100th year the famous and historic TT scoreboard had stood in its latest position on Glencrutchery Road. After a brief spell on Bray Hill, and then another few years at St. Ninian?s crossroads, it was moved to the middle of Glencrutchery Road in 1922, where it stood until it was dismantled in 2020 to make way for a new, much more modern version. Are you sad to see the back of a genuine piece of motorsport history" Or do you think it?s time the TT was dragged into the 21st century"

I?m all for tradition. And I know, for a lot of motorsport fans, tradition is mega important. Especially when you are talking about an event like the Isle of Man TT, which has been around since 1907. And the old scoreboard, operated by local Manx Scouts, is for some, one of the most iconic and traditional things about the TT races. It?s true that is one of the only things about the TT that?s remained largely unchanged, in the last 100 years. The circuits been altered, the bikes might as well be from another planet, and there?s not one current TT racer that was alive when the old scoreboard was originally constructed.
In with the new

But there has to be a point when you say enough is enough. There has to be a point where a sport has to ?get with the times?. And unfortunately, the old scoreboard wasn?t really fit for purpose in modern-day TT racing. I don?t know whether it was because there has been too many bikes on the course, that they?re too ...