When you ride millimeters away from catastrophe around the 37.73-mile Isle of Man TT race track, which doubles as public roads for the rest of the year, you need emergency teams that can react as quickly as the riders are going—well, almost as quickly because essentially no one could round the course as fast as Michael Dunlop last year—because unlike MotoGP, where the marshals are spread around the track, at the IOM TT, they follow.
For the past few years, volunteer riders who specialize in incident management have ridden Honda CBR1000RR-R Fireblades. But for the next three years, including this racing season, marshals will be on BMW S1000RRs, and the two Liaison Officers, John Barton and Richard ‘Milky’ Quayle, will be atop M1000RRs.
