New Isle of Man TT winner: “You can’t afford a lapse or the worst could happen”

“It’s an eerie feeling, it’s scary"

Dunlop, Todd, Hickman
Dunlop, Todd, Hickman

Davey Todd has given an exhilarating insight int🌠o winning a race at the fabled Isle of Man TT.

Todd won the only Superstock race of this year’s event♉, then also won the S𒁏enior TT.

They we🥂re his first victories around the Mountain Course.

“G🐠etting two wins was a dream come true,” Todd told .

“Afte🙈r a race-long bat🔥tle with Michael Dunlop and Peter Hickman it was the perfect way to win my first one.

“Nobody had any problems or retꦗirements or anything like that, it was a straight-up battle.

“To come out on top was a dre🦂am come true for my first win.

“Normally, a win like British Championship or anything like that is an awesome feelingꦦ, but it s🌳ort of goes away in the next day or two.

“But that fe✤eling from winning the TT is still with me a good few months later.

“I still think about ♛it throughout the 📖day, probably nearly every day.

“What in the🌟 world can you possibly compare the TT to? What else requires that amount of concentration for just shy of two hours?

“You can’t afford to lapse in c🌸oncentration or the worst could happen.

“There’s no other sport or anything in the world that will be the෴ same as that.

“It’s an eerie feeling, it’s scary. When you’re out there you’ve no ti𝐆me to think about anything else. You don’t have time to actually feel anything as such.

“You’re so concentrated on what you’re doing, thinking about🎶 the next corner and the next corner, and being on the right line and missing a bump that’s there or making sure you’re doing everything correctly, not making mistakes.”

This year’s TT was most notable because Dunlo꧅p registered a 29th victory, setti൩ng a new all-time race win record to eclipse his legendary uncle Joey.

But Todd’s emergence into the fastest group of riders - and his first two race wins - is significantღ for the future of the TT.

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