IOM TT TV coverage

[yamafitter]

ITV4 has coverage of the 2015 IOM TT starting at 21:00 ZMT (Greenwich Mean Time). The ITV media player has a geoblocker but if you have access to a VPN like the free Hola app and set it for Great Britain you can get around it.

ITV4 player

Hola app

The practise session today was cancelled due to weather.

 

[LKLD]

Velocity Channel doesn't show anything until next week. Is that when it starts?

 

[yamafitter]

The actual races start with the first Superbike race this Saturday. This week is all practise and qualifying. Typically for the practise sessions the marshals start closing the roads at about 16:30 local time and then the sessions start at 18:00 and run for about 3 hours weather permitting. Tomorrow's ITV4 coverage will be a pre-race show about the 130 Club, the riders that have averaged over 130 mph on the Mountain Course.

If you have the IOM TT app there is a pretty good video of a lap by one of the new riders with commentary about various braking points and such. Cool stuff.

 

[El Toro Joe]

Velocity starts broadcasting this Saturday at 11:00 eastern time.

 

[LKLD]

Another sad story from IOM

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/motor-racing/franck-petricola-dies-isle-of-man-tt-rider-suffers-fatal-crash-in-practice-10295990.html

I also heard Dunlop switched from Yamaha to BMW.

 

[El Toro Joe]

So who's FJR made it on tv. Saw one in the background on the Velocity broadcast.

 

[Bugnatr]

Have you been watching? Awesome coverage this year, love the slo-mo shots of the sidecars carrying the outside tire in the air through corners.

 

[LKLD]

Maybe it's me, but I'd like to see more racing, with more cameras. The limitation of 1 hour makes it difficult, I know, but they make the race last 15 or so minutes and it feels extremely condensed. That said, I still love to watch what I can. Also, by tomorrow I'm hoping to understand what Guy and Michael are saying in their interviews.

 

[LKLD]

Here's a video I found, presumably 2014, that shows the immense focus and concentration required, not to mention the mental and physical exhaustion that accompanies it. This is one full lap btw.

 

[timk]

McGuiness is badass.

 

[yamafitter]

Just found this footage from the 2015 IOM TT.

 

[FJRRYDER]

I've been watching IOM last year and this year; great racing! I record everything and watch it later. My wife watches MotoGP with me, (we are both huge Rossi fans) but not IOM, cause I keep rewinding it, stopping/starting, slo-mo, frame-by-frame, etc. It annoys her no end, but I can't get enough of fast bikes on narrow public roads! Kudos to IOM for allowing this kind of thing. I guess Ireland also has a TT race, but I can't find it on TV, and don't like viewing on line, my home computer too old and slow. That McGuinness is a riding machine. Poor Guy Martin can't catch a break.

 

[08FJR4ME]

Doesn't seem humanly possible. That's screamin fast.

Dave

 

[TripperMike]

You know sometimes it's easy to say that if only given the opportunities and the right environment, I could do that too.

But when I watch a video like what LKLD posted, there is no freaking way, not even in my most wild fantasies, could I say that I could ever do that. My brain just isn't wired to run that fast. Watching other IOM videos it has never occurred to me just how much running in and out of shadows that quickly would probably overload my optical nerves. Those riders are as amazing as that course is.