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How a much-needed 'revolution' is key to a motorsport gem's future

OPINION: The Isle of Man TT is one of motorsport’s oldest events and one of its most revered. After a COVID-enforced two-year hiatus, the TT is back in 2022 and for the first time will be broadcast live, a much-needed move that will help to address some of the fundamental problems it faces

The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic has wrought much misery since it invaded our lives two years ago. While it is trivial against the backdrop of the human horrors the virus has caused, it led to the cancellation of many sporting events.

On this front, one of the hardest losses from the annual sporting calendar was the absence of the Isle of Man TT. Staged since 1907, a survivor of the Second World War in the 1940s and the 2001 foot and mouth outbreak, the TT is in this writer's view the greatest spectacle in all of motorsport. It is the most visceral, the most thrilling, the most dangerous.

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