Davey Todd says he feels just like the Senior TT has been “taken away from me” however agrees with the Isle of Man TT organisers in cancelling the race.
Saturday 7 June was meant to see the grand finale race of the 2025 Isle of Man TT – the Senior TT – run over six laps from 10:45am native time.
However in a single day rain left the circuit in an unusable situation, with an preliminary four-hour delay carried out earlier than the race was pushed again to 7pm native time and diminished to 4 laps.
A course inspection lap was run at 6pm native time, with the final suggestions from the riders being the wind was too excessive for them to soundly race.
Simply earlier than 7pm, the Clerk of the Course introduced that the Senior TT had been cancelled.
8TEN Racing’s Todd got here into Saturday’s finale as a favorite, having gained the Senior final yr and brought victory within the Superbike TT earlier within the week.
He mentioned he’d “by no means expertise driving a motorcycle” like he did through the inspection lap and agrees with the choice to name it off – even when he admits it hurts.
“I’ve rode in a lot stronger wins mile-per-hour-wise, however I’ve by no means ridden skilled driving a motorcycle like that. The situations are loopy on the market,” he informed Manx Radio.
“I’m so torn in my thoughts as a result of it’s the race I wished to win all week, the Senior, I wished to come back again and win that race once more after successful it final yr.
“We’ve had some dangerous luck this week and I simply mentioned to the boys and sponsors ‘don’t fear, we’re right here to win the Senior and I’m so determined to win that one’.
“I simply really feel like I acquired it taken away from me, however I do know actually it’s the precise choice.
“In my head it’s the precise choice to do that, to not race, as a result of in that warm-up lap I used to be everywhere in the street and never going that quick – in all probability doing a 129mph lap.
“It’s unpredictable, the wind’s the other way to what it’s been all week. It was actually onerous to regulate a motorcycle.
“I’m gutted for everybody. I’m gutted for the followers, the organisers and all the opposite riders as a result of we’re all right here to race, particularly within the Senior TT.
“It’s the large one, it’s what we’re all right here for, and to not get it’s so disappointing.”
He added: “I’m in full confidence with the organisers right here on the TT, they’re the perfect organisers on this planet.
“There’s nowhere higher than right here, so if these guys assume it’s not the precise choice to race then I do know it’s the precise choice.”
