Perhaps the hardest challenge in motorcycle racing is learning your way around the Isle of Man TT course, with the process of learning the 37.73 mile circuit more of an apprenticeship than the usual circuit learning process.
The adage of two years to learn it, five years to race it remains as true as ever - so to show the way around it, you need to recruit someone who's not just rode the Snaefell Mountain circuit but succeeded at it, which is why The Race drafted in podium finisher Dom Herbertson for the ultimate TT course guide.
Simon Patterson jumped on the back of a BMW street bike with Dom for a slightly more sedate lap of the course than he's used to - but one in which the TT racer had the time to point some of the many totally unique insights to going fast around the circuit and share some incredible anecdotes from racing here.
