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Todd beats Dunlop in close duel as TT 2025 racing kicks off

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Davey Todd has taken first blood in the opening race of the 2025 Isle of Man by coming out of the starting blocks in the Superbike TT and leading from start to finish in the rescheduled and shortened four-lap race - despite the best efforts of a late charge from Michael Dunlop only halted by tyre woes.Todd, whose team-mate and co-owner of 8Ten Racing Peter Hickman was ruled out of this year’s event earlier this week after a practice crash, made …
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Late race start and early leadership change Due to two diesel tracks on the Mountain Course, the start of the race was delayed to 12:00 local time. Todd took the lead early on – already at Glen Helen he was 0.044 seconds ahead of Harrison. Dunlop, on a BMW M 1000 RR of the team MD Racing, was 2.8 seconds behind at this time. The Top 6 completed Nathan Harrison (H&H Motorcycles Honda), Mike Browne (KTS Racing by Stanley Stewart BMW) and James Hin…

Davey Todd won the first race of this Isle of Man TT on Monday afternoon. The Englishman achieved his third TT victory in the Superbike class after an exciting duel with Michael Dunlop, in which the difference between them was less than two seconds for almost the entire race. On Monday afternoon at 12:00 the first race of the 2025 edition […] The message Todd wins first Isle of Man TT race of 2025 after exciting Superbike duel with Dunlop appear…

With the Superbike race, the race week was opened at the Tourist Trophy. After an exciting duel Davey Todd barely keeps the upper hand over Michael Dunlop. Lukas Maurer becomes a considerable 18.

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SPEEDWEEK broke the news in on Monday, June 2, 2025.
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