Michael Dunlop completed his first laps of the 2025 Isle of Man TT on his new machinery🧜 on Tuesday night.

Bad weather conditions meant Tuesday was reassigned as an untimed session, but it still gave th๊e top riders at the TT an opportunity to check oᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚut the Mountain Course.

Dunlop rode his MD Racing Paton for his first lap, then did two laps on a Ducati Panigale V4. He ended ꦏhis stint on a ROKiT BMW Motorrad Superbike.

Dunlop’s shift from a Yamaha R6 - with which he was woꦉn the past six Supersport TT rac♕es - to a Ducati is extremely notable this year.

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“He seems happy enough but the conditions aren’t great. It was nice to get a run around, get a feel fﷺor everything, then we’ll crack on,” said Gary Dunlop of Hawk Racing and MD Racing.

“It’s the bike to be on. You have to move on. The R6 did its job over the🤪 years.

“These are new generation bikes and you have to go with them. It’s good enough for the jo🉐b, we proved that at the North West 200🌠.

“Him around here could be even better…

“You can’t get over confident in this game but he’s definitely riding well. He’s been riding well si♐nce the start of the year, and at the North West 200.

“He g🥀ot💃 the monkey off his back last year so he could have a good go at the North West 200.

“You’re so tense and uptight about getting [to the Isle of Man TT] that you can’t really have a good go at the North West 200. But we’ve proven t🅘♏hat we had a good go.

“He’s riding reall🧔y well, of course he is. He’s coming to his peak.”

The job falls to Gary Dunlop to keep Michael calm and focused throughout the Isle ಌof Man TT.

“It’s a full time job! He is relaxed. These two weeks are very important ꧑to him, we all know that𒆙,” he said.

Dunlop returns to the TT this year having smashed his uncle J🐽oey’s record for wins in 2024.

Dunlop broke Joey🐎’s 24-year-old record, and has now stretched his own total to 29 wins, which he is eager to extend again in the next fortnight.