Sir Mark said he was also struck by how much the races had evolved. <\/p>\n
“Seeing the change since Paul Phillips and the team took over, just how far it’s come, how modern it is compared to when I first came,” he said.<\/p>\n
After a few days into practice week, he said this year’s atmosphere was “buzzing”, especially with the filming of a feature film taking place.<\/p>\n
“The whole island’s buzzing about that,” he said.<\/p>\n
Production is underway at this year’s TT for an Amazon MGM Studios movie starring Channing Tatum.<\/p>\n
The Hollywood star has been spotted in various locations alongside actor Eve Hewson.<\/p>\n
Sir Mark also pointed to the increasing pace of racing on the Mountain Course, after Honda Racing rider Dean Harrison set the fastest superbike lap on Wednesday, posting a speed of 133.712mph. <\/p>\n
“It’s just getting faster and faster,” he said.<\/p>\n
The TT is considered to be one of the world’s most dangerous races.<\/p>\n
Competitor Daniel Ingham died in a crash at Doran’s Bend on Wednesday during a qualifying event. <\/p>\n
The fatality followed a crash on Monday in which eight spectators and one rider were injured. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir Mark said he was also struck by how much the races had evolved. “Seeing the change since…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-609966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}