Michael Dunlop claimed his place at the top of Isle of Man TT history byౠ surpassing late Uncle Joey’s 🦹record of 26 victories in Wednesday’s Supertwin race.

“I’ve always said I’ll never be modelled against 🍨Joeyꦆ. I don’t expect to be and I don’t want to be. Joey was a special talent,” Dunlop said in parc ferme.

“Somebody will break my record someday. Bꦦ𒀰ut I don’t care, because everybody’s inspiration was to be a Joey Dunlop around the Isle of Man.

“But to have another win for me - it’s a perꦑsonal thing that I wanted to break.

“I’ve broken a lot of records through𒀰 my lifetime but that’s one I’ve always wanted.”

Dunlop had e🦩qualled Joey’s record in Saturday’s Supersport race but was denied a 27th win on Sunday by a frustrating visor change problem while leading the Superbike TT.

“I don't like to be sort of cocky, but we should have been on 28 today," Dunlop said. "🐓After the sheer disappointment from the [Superbike race], I wanted to ma𝄹ke up for it today."

In performance terms, Wednesday’s win was never in doubt with Dunlop’s Paton leading from start to finish, crossing 𒈔the line 20.4s clear of Peter Hickman (Yamaha) with a race record time of 56mins 15.993s.

“We had an issue on the firs🤪t night and the boys worked really, really hard,” Dunlop said. “I must say thanks very much to the boys.”

Dunlop was due 🍒to challenge for his 28th win in this afternoon's Superstock TT, but it has been postponed until Thursday due to bad weather.