Davey Todd admits not being factored alongside the Isle of M✅an TT’s ‘big three’ names prior to the 2024 event “fired 🎶me up” to take his maiden wins.

The English rider made his TT⛎ debut in 2018 and꧃ quickly established himself as a name to watch out for with his speed.

Scoring a first TT podium in 2022, a switch from Padgetts ♚Honda to TAS Racing BMW for 2024 helped propel him to his first wins.

He took a maiden victory in the Superstock TT, before capping off race week with a stunning ride in the Senior to tally up his second win and a fi﷽rst for TAS in the class since 2004.

Coming into the event, Michael Dunlop, Peter Hickman and Dean Harrison were positioned as the event’s ‘big three’ names given their recent winning records - something Todd a🍌dmits sat in his mind.

“I guess, to b🅷e honest, a lot of things contributed to it,” he said during the TT Live podcast.

“2023 wasn’t the𒉰 year that I wanted it to be൲. ’23 was, I actually wanted ’23 to be what ’24 was, and that was the goal.

“I just had a nightmare of a year in 2023, I just had a few bike issues, a fꦗew other issues. I ended up getting sick in race week and it wrote me off for like half the races.

“So, just didn’t really go as I’d planned. So, I was pretty fired u🧸p going into ’24 because of tꦉhat reason.

“In all honesty, not that I said to anybody, but in the back of my mind it did fire me up a little bit, the bi🎃g three thing.

“Every🌟 time I 𓄧heard it it fired me up inside that everyone was talking about the big three and nobody even thought I could do it.

“It felt to meꦑ if you were lucky you’d get a podium. I just 🧸wanted to prove that I can win races at the TT.

“So, I guess that lit a bit of a fire. From practice 🧸week I felt good, I felt happy with the bike. I felt ready for it.”

Having put in some promising pace during practice week, Todd believes this started t𒈔o change perceptions of where he was in the pecking order.

“🦂Probably before the end of practice week definitely a lot of people… not that I’d said anything,” he added.

“But people came up to me and said ‘everyone is talking abou💛t the big three, maybe we should have called it the big four’.

“But I’d alread🐠y got my mind set on it, that little thought had already got stuck in my head.

“There’s a l🎃ittle bit more attention, but you don’t 📖think about that.

“You know as a rider it’s just part🅠 of it, and your mindset is on what you’re doin𓃲g and the racing and thinking about getting out there and trying to go as best you can.

“But at the same🌞 time, practice 🌟week doesn’t tell the full story.

“You’re not laying down your best laps.

“Nobody is necessarily laying it all down in practice, so you can’t be too confident because you probab🦹ly alwa▨ys leave a bit in there for the races.

“I knew I had a bit 🎐more, but trying to think does Pete have a bit more, does Michael have a bit more? You just have to get out there and do what you can dꦅo.”