Who's going to the TT this year?

[PorkInsider]

wormus said:

Star of the day was newcomer Davey Todd who managed 9th in the senior. Pretty impressive!

Very impressive, yes. Was watching some footage of him on the super sport on YouTube and he looked quick and accurate.

[zeb]

Incredible stuff

Every respect to hickman for that last lap

[Zarco]

ilovequo said:

Nope...
Put in a 131 on his last lap.
Thats well down on his best, def somehing holding him back...

Bike looked unstable (wobbling around on the straights).

[trickywoo]

Zarco said:

Bike looked unstable (wobbling around on the straights).

Should have been on the Suzuki again this year. It was on rails last year.

Really strange not to see any top guys running one this year as I thought it looked really smooth in all the road races last year. Ideal for the TT.

[Cfnteabag]

I think dunlop said last year that it was a bit behind the other bikes last year and he had to work it too hard to get the results.

Really exciting racing this year and the combination of perfect conditions and really hungry younger riders smashed all the times!

Robinh73 you might be the best to answer but does anyone know why there are no ducatis? The superbikes are now closer the bsb spec, the ducati has been pretty dominant in BSB and Glenn Irwin won on one at the NW200.

[PorkInsider]

I would guess no Ducatis is just because there’s only really PBM who’d be in a position to bring a bike capable of winning, which would mean Glen Irwin as the rider and presumably he doesn’t want to?

Teams without factory support would need very deep pockets to run Dukes capable of winning, too.

[chunder27]

Historically Ducati's are less than decent on the Island, especially the modern versions.

They have obviously raced there, and maybe won the odd race in the post 888/916 era, but theya re quite fragile. Maybe also the tanks are not big enough? Don't know.

I think the Supermono won the odd singles race however.

[bogie]

A good article here on why no Ducatis at the TT ...but mostly about money and actually building a Ducati that could last 6 laps of a TT

http://www.motorcycle.com/ask-mo-anything/why-are-...

[robinh73]

That article is very good and covers pretty much everything about Ducatis and the TT. They are expensive to buy, build and run and they don't really like the fact that a lot of the TT is on wide open throttle at high rpm for prolonged periods of time.

[Zarco]

trickywoo said:

Should have been on the Suzuki again this year. It was on rails last year.

Really strange not to see any top guys running one this year as I thought it looked really smooth in all the road races last year. Ideal for the TT.

I think it was poor set-up rather than a fundamentally bad bike.