Shrieker wrote:I thought it was an old tradition to run the motorcycle gp's in Assen on saturdays so it won't coincide with sunday's church meeting. IIRC there's a cathedral nearby and at the time the old folks didn't want the shrieking sound of 2 stroke bike engines rock the place Hence, Assen is called "the Cathedral of Speed". I could be completely wrong though lol.
They race on Saturday because Sunday was a religious day, no work or play, at lest back then it was.
Now it's just tradition the last Saturday of June, I'm sure the noise had something to do with that