After finishing third in the second Superstock race at the 2025 Isle of Man TT, Michael Dunlop s🌞aid he’s been dealing with problems on the BMW M1000 RR “all week”.

﷽The Ballymoney rider is yet to win a 1,000cc race at this year’s TT, having switched to BMW machinery for this year after spending 2023 and 2024 on Ho♔ndas in the Superstock and Superbike classes.

Although BMW has dominated in the ‘big bike’ classes in recent years, that dominance has been broken somewhat by Honda and Dean Harrison in 2025, who have won both Superstock races, while Dave💙y Todd was able to take victory over Dunlop in the Superbike TT on Monday.

Todd, too, has complained of electronics issues on his Superstock BMW at the TT, and Dunlop admitt𒀰ed after the second Superstock race that he is still encountering issues of his own.

“We’ve just had problems all week with the bike,” Dunlop said 🐲after Superstock Race 2 i෴n his post-race parc ferme interview.

“It seems🧸 like an electronical issue. We’v🐽e been struggling a little bit.”

Dunlop added that he knew he’d lost the win after two corner𓄧s of the race as a result of a run-on.

“I ran on on the first lap, two corners in, and once I knew I’d done that i♋t💜 was game over,” he said.

“So, we just had to battle away just to get back to th𓄧e podium.

“I saw ‘James’ on my board so I knew I must have been dicing with James [Hillier], so once I saw him down the road I knew I ꧅was fine, so I just sort of got him within sight and went sort of steady, there was no point of stressing on.

“I knew Dean [Harrison[ would’ve been out ♏the blocks fast, and I saw [Todd] in the pits, I think it wouldn’t start, so I knew then that Dean was gone so there was no point even trying🏅 to fight for that one.”

Dunlop added that a lack of track time𒊎 had contributed to his struggles on the Superstock and Superbike machines.

“It’s just bee𓄧n a hard week, especially 😼on the big bikes this week,” he said.

“With little track ൲time, we’ve just struggled to get going. But it’s ju🅘st the way the cookie crumbles.”

Victory in Supertwin

Later in the day, Dunlop🦹 was back on the top step in the Su♏pertwin race, beating Davey Todd by over 25 seconds to sweep the class for the 2025 edition of t✅he TT.

The victory included a new Supertwin lap record on the final la♍p, that Dunlop admitted afterꦡwards he was surprised about.

“The bike’s been good, we didn’t do a big pile of laps on it, obviously – we didn’t have the chance to anyway, really,” Dunlop said in his post-race TV interview, refer🦹ring to the weather in practice week.

“The last lap [time] I was surprised 💞because ༒I backed off [to] maintain the bike to try and make sure everything was alright.

“The Pa🔯ton boys have done a great job, I’d like to thank those boys.

“The main thing for me is winning races. Everybody says you need a Paton so the boys have got 🐼Patons, so I’m glad to still be🦹 at the front.”

Senior focus

Dunlop also said after the S🥀upertwin race that he still has some issues to resolve on his Superbike💟 ahead of the Senior TT on Saturday.

“Lack of practice really, if I’m honest with you, has hindered us a bit o🎃n the big bikes, and probably the 600 [Supersport], too,” he said.

“But, the main thing is ༒[Saturday]. I’m looking forward to it.

“Let’s see what the weather’s going to be and hopefully the changes we’ve ma🍬de– we made changes for the practice lap that didn’t really work, so hopefully we can m꧙ake something to make it work.”