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Richard Petrie
BBC Sport at the Isle of Man TT
Everyone has known for some years that Davey Todd has had the potential to make it to the very top of the road racing game and this week that potential has been fulfilled.
The Yorkshireman’s awning in the paddock has become one of the most popular in the paddock for the fans to visit, visitors to the racing flocking to the Milwaukee BMW Racing set-up to catch a view of this year’s first-time winner, have a selfie taken with one of their heroes, gather an autograph, or take a photograph of the impressive machinery on display.
Recent years has seen much talk of the ‘big three’ at the TT, the trio of Peter Hickman, Michael Dunlop and Dean Harrison, having won 26 of the past 27 solo races, other than TT Zero races, prior to this year’s event.
Todd interrupted that sequence by taking victory in Thursday’s delayed Superstock race one to claim his maiden TT success, having finished runner-up twice earlier in the week.
The 28-year-old is certainly a present, and future, force, at the Isle of Man TT.