YOU WOULD THINK AFTER three long years away from the fabled Isle of Man TT course, riders would ease into things and maybe speeds would be slower than before Covid halted proceedings in 2020 and 2021.
But no! Some speeds went higher, records were broken and Peter Hickman, star rider of the Gas Monkey FHO Racing BMW team, would become one of a very small group of riders to have ever won four TT races in one week.
Back in the day the only way you could watch the TT, other than being there, was to buy a VHS or DVD to watch it when Duke Video brought one out a month or so after the event. In recent years, a team of over 100 TV people brought you the day’s action that evening in a one-hour show.
For 2022 the TT would be live streamed. For a cost of 30 something dollars you could log in and watch it live. I (and Stuart) chose to go that way and although the first few days were a bit patchy here and there due to internet issues on the IOM, by the end of practice week it was great. You got to watch up to three hours of action each day, plus previously filmed
