Next year’s Classic TT will celebrate one of the greatest riders in the TT’s illustrious history, Steve Hislop, who set the first 120mph lap in 1989.

Back to the Future: ’The Hizzy Years’ will focus on the popular Scotsman’s career 30 years after his milestone achievement.

It will feature a pop-up museum, including several of the bikes Steve raced, and a parade lap with guest appearances from some of his friends and rivals, notably Carl Fogarty.

Presented by Bennetts, the 2019 Classic TT promises to live up to the Daily Telegraph’s billing as ’One of the best biking events on the planet’.

On and off track entertainment will blend into a packed four-day festival including the return of some of the most famous marques to the Mountain Course, and others long since forgotten, alongside live music, displays, a Show and Shine competition and a number of chat shows.

The on-track action comes thick, fast and not to mention loud, with final qualifying and the paddock carnival a precursor to the weekend on Friday, August 23.

Modern-day stars such as John McGuinness, Michael Dunlop, Dean Harrison, Lee Johnston, James Hillier and Conor Cummins will do battle in the races, which start on Saturday, August 24 with the Bennetts Senior Classic.

The 500cc capacity class will see a multitude of pre-1975 designed machines go head-to-head in a nostalgic contest between Italian marques such as Paton and MV Agusta up against the might of Japan’s Honda and Yamaha multis and the best of the British singles like Norton, Matchless, BSA and Royal Enfield.

The welcome, and evocative, return of the Lightweight 250 machines to the Mountain Course completes day one’s programme, with a sensory assault from the nimble, agile two-strokes delivering the unmistakable sight, sound and distinctive smell of Castrol R to fans in the Grandstand and all round the course.

Bank Holiday Monday’s race programme begins with the Junior Classic; a field dominated by Honda although the traditional British manufacturers are well represented with Velocette, Norton, BSA and Matchless machines.

The meeting reaches its climax with the RST Superbike Classic TT, and you don’t even need to be long in the tooth to have witnessed these bikes in their heyday. With a cut-off date of 1993, these machines display strong links to their modern equivalents with lap times to match.

You can enjoy the best of the action at the very heart of the event with a VIP Classic TT Experience, not only giving access to the TT Grandstand on Glencrutchery Road, but also giving fans chance to catch their breath in comfort from the packed schedule. Alternatively it is possible to upgrade to a Platinum VIP Hospitality Experience complete with grid access and course car lap.

Bisecting the race action, the Classic TT off-track festival maintains the buzz with the traditional Classic TT Party on Saturday night. Next year will feature the Counterfeit Stones - delivering their own nostalgic tribute to match the trackside retrospective.

The festival action moves north for Vintage MCC’s annual Festival of Jurby on the Sunday, where thousands of like-minded bikers can share their mutual passion.

Sunday evening features the RST Classic TT Heroes Dinner where tales of derring-do are swapped by fans and legends cheek by jowl in the VIP Hospitality Unit.

Free paddock screening of four widely different cinematic classics from the era at the Sundown Cinema - the appropriately titled ’Back to the Future’ from 1985, the tub thumping ’Commitments’ (1991) ; 1992’s pop culture classic Wayne’s World; and Bill Murray’s definitive appearance as an egotistic reporter in Groundhog Day - wrap the four-day festival in a celluloid frame.

l Tickets for the 2019 Classic TT are now on sale via the official iomttraces.com website, including official Grandstand tickets, VIP Hospitality Experiences and official entertainment events including the Counterfeit Stones Classic TT Party performance.