Details of plans to celebrate next year's centenary of the TT are expected to be released in the next few weeks.
Although the races will be 100 years old, the Mountain Course wasn't used for the first time until 1911.
The original circuit was around the St. John's area, and Tourism Minister David Cretney says events to mark this will be included (audio file attached):
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