About The Snaefell Review
The Snaefell Review is an independent magazine about the Isle of Man TT and the Snaefell Mountain Course. It covers the circuit, the races and the practical business of watching and photographing road racing, together with the island that hosts it. The site sells nothing, carries no advertising and is not affiliated with any club, promoter, team or media organisation connected with the event.
What the site covers
The magazine is organised into four sections. The Course explains the 37.73 mile Mountain Course, its named corners and its sections, from the drop at Bray Hill to the descent past Creg-ny-Baa. The Races covers the TT as a competition, its classes and its history, and the Manx Grand Prix that shares the same roads. Watching the TT deals with the fortnight, the road closures and the choice of a vantage point. The Island introduces the Isle of Man itself, its towns, its government and its sights.
Each section opens with an index and each article answers a question a reader is likely to have. The guides are written to be read in order or picked up individually.
How the articles are written
The Snaefell Review editorial team writes each article in the third person and names the public sources it relies on. Organisations, clubs, riders and events are described as they are, never as the site itself. Where a figure is quoted, such as a lap record or a course measurement, it is attributed to the body that publishes it, and the date of the record is given.
The site does not claim to be an official source. It is a magazine, and its role is to explain a public subject clearly. Where the racing is dangerous, the guides say so plainly, because the absence of run-off areas on a public road circuit is a fact that shapes everything about the event.
Who the site is for
The magazine is written for people who follow road racing and want the course and the event explained in one place, for spectators planning a first visit to the island, for photographers who want to know where to stand and how to work, and for readers interested in the history of the TT and the Isle of Man.
No prior knowledge is assumed. A reader who has never watched a road race can start from the guide to the Snaefell Mountain Course and work outward. A reader who already knows the course can go straight to the corner guides or the records.
Editorial independence
The Snaefell Review is not affiliated with the race organisers, the Isle of Man government, any motorcycle club, any team, any manufacturer or any other publication. It carries no advertising and takes no payment for coverage. Where the magazine describes an organisation, an event or a service, it does so in the third person and on the record, not as a partner or a representative.
The site also declines to imitate the personal photograph site that once occupied this domain. That site was the work of an individual, and its identity is not reused here. What is carried forward is the subject: the TT, the Mountain Course and the island that hosts them.
Images and sources
The illustrations on this site are produced for the magazine and are not photographs of identifiable people or of specific race incidents. Where an article refers to a published record, a measurement or a date, it names the organisation that maintains it. Readers who want the primary sources will find them linked in the relevant articles.
Corrections and contact
Corrections are welcome. A reader who spots an error, a broken link or a figure that no longer matches its source can write to the editorial team at [email protected]. Messages are read by the editorial team, and a correction that is confirmed is applied to the article rather than noted at the foot of it.
The site does not run a newsletter, does not collect accounts and does not sell anything. It exists to explain a subject, and the measure of whether it succeeds is whether a reader finishes an article knowing more than they did at the start.