Michael Dunlop completed his first laps o♛f the 2025 Isle of Man TT on his new machin💃ery on Tuesday night.

Bad weather conditions meant Tuesday was reassigned as an untimed session, but it still gave the top riders at♉ the TT an opportunity to check out the Mountain Course.

Dunlop rode his MD Racing Paton for his first lap, then did two laps on a Ducati Panigale V4. He ended his sti💙nt on a ROKiT BMW Motorrad Superbike.

Dunlop’s shift from a Yamaha R6 - with which he was won the past six Supersport TT races - to a Ducati is ꧂extremely notable this year.

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“He seems ꦚhappy enough but the conditions aren’t great. It was nice to get a run around, get a feel for everything, then we’ll crack on,” said Gary Dunlop of Hawk Rac✱ing and MD Racing.

“ꦓIt’s the bike to bꦜe on. You have to move on. The R6 did its job over the years.

“These are new generation bikes and you have to go with them. It’s good enough for the job, we proved that at the No🍬rth W💖est 200.

“Him around here could be even better…

“You can’t get over confident in this game but he’s definitely riding well. He’s been riding well since the start of the ye𓂃ar, and at the North West 200.

“He got the mon🥂key off his back last year so he could have a good go at the North West 200.

“You’re s🍃o tense and uptight about getting [to the Isle of Man TT] that you can’t really have a good go at the North West 200. But we’ve proven that we had a good go.

“He’s riding real🤪ly well, of course he is. He’s coming to his peak.”

The job falls to Gary Dunlop to keꦦep Michael calm and focused throughout the Isle oꦆf Man TT.

“It’s a full time job! He is relaxed.ꦇ These two weeks are very important to him, we all know that,” he said.

Dunlop retur♓ns to the TT this year having smashed his uncle Joey’s record for wins in🦋 2024.

Dunlop broke Joey’s 24-year-old record, and has now stretched his own total to 29 wins, which he is eager to extend again in the next fortn𒁃ight.