DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN – The 2026 edition of Isle of Man TT belonged to SBS's Partners In Racing. Across the headline solo races of the week, SBS-supported riders and teams locked out the podium time and again, finishing P1, P2 and P3 in the Superbike, Supersport, Senior and Sportbike contests on the Mountain Course. It was a week of speed, control and racecraft. It was also a week that underlined a simple truth: when the pressure is highest at the TT, the riders chasing victory must trust their brakes. They trust SBS. 

That story started with Dean Harrison, who arrived on the Island in sharp form and never let it go. He opened qualifying by setting the fastest-ever opening qualifying lap in TT history at 133.925mph, then continued to top the times as race week took shape. Harrison looked comfortable, decisive, and fully in tune with the Mountain Course from the first run. By the time the race week began, he had already shown the field where the benchmark would sit.

Harrison then delivered in race trim. In the RST Superbike TT, Harrison took command from the front and never blinked. Riding for Honda Racing UK, he won by 15.5 seconds, set the fastest lap of the race at 134.892mph, and led home Peter Hickman in P2 and Michael Dunlop P3 to give SBS a full podium sweep in one of the week’s biggest contests. It was Harrison’s first Superbike TT victory, and his sixth TT win overall, but more than that, it was the ride of a man fully locked in with the circuit.

The Supersport class told a similar story. In Race 1, Michael Dunlop overhauled Harrison after the opening lap and powered away to win by 24.47 seconds, with Hickman completing the podium in P3. Dunlop also set the fastest lap of the race at 127.672mph. In Race 2, the pattern repeated: Harrison hit the front early, Dunlop was relentless, and pit work plus outright rhythm swung the race his way. Dunlop claimed his 35th TT victory in Race 2, beating Harrison by 26.1 seconds, with Hickman again in P3. For SBS, it was another pair of podium lockouts in one of the TT’s most fiercely contested classes.

Then came the blue-riband race. The Senior TT is the one every rider wants. It has been the TT’s showpiece since 1911 - the race that carries the greatest weight in the paddock and the deepest legacy in road racing. This year’s edition was shaped by disruption, weather pressure, and a revised race schedule designed to protect the event’s headline contest. Even then, the drama did not stop. The original running of the race was red-flagged on lap two with Harrison already over 14 seconds clear and running at a pace that threatened the outright lap record. The race could not be declared on Friday because less than half the distance had been completed, but after the event’s conclusion, Harrison was officially declared the winner based on the positions at the end of lap one of the original start.

That result mattered. Harrison’s opening lap of 135.166mph from a standing start was blistering. He was already stretching the field, already on lap-record pace before the stoppage, and already making the Senior race his own. The final classification gave him his seventh TT victory, his second Senior TT success, and a second double-winning week in succession. Behind him, Peter Hickman took P2 and Josh Brookes finished in P3, sealing yet another SBS clean sweep of the podium in the race that matters most. Even with the race modified by circumstance, the message was clear: SBS was at the front together with our Partners In Racing when the stakes were highest.

If Harrison was the week’s pace-setter on the big bikes, Michael Dunlop remained the relentless force of the equally epic classes. Riding for MD Racing, Dunlop continued to build on one of the greatest records the event has ever seen. Before race week, the Ballymoney rider was already being framed as the man to beat, with 33 wins and 100 starts in sight. By the end of the week, he had extended that legacy once again. He won both Supersport races and added the first Sportbike TT of the week aboard the Paton by MD Racing, setting a new lap record of 124.530mph in the process. In that race, Mike Browne took P2 and Paul Jordan P3, making it another all-SBS podium.

That Sportbike result was especially telling. Dunlop did not merely win; he controlled the race. He built the gap sector by sector, broke the class lap record, and crossed the line 28.775 seconds clear. Behind him, Browne and Jordan fought all the way to the flag, with just 0.663 seconds covering second and third. It was pure TT racing: flat-out commitment, narrow margins, and SBS riders occupying every step of the podium.

Jordan’s week also added another layer to the story. In the Superbike TT, he became the 31st member of the 130 Club with a lap of 130.656mph, another reminder of the level required even to break into the TT’s inner circle. It was one more sign of the pace carried by SBS-supported riders throughout the week - not only race winners, but a broader frontline of competitors pushing the standard upwards on every lap.

And no TT story is complete without John McGuinness. The Honda Racing veteran may not have stood on the podium this year, but his presence still framed the event. Now 30 years on from his first TT, McGuinness remains one of the race’s defining figures - a rider who knows every camber, every jump and, as they say in the paddock, every stone on the Mountain Course. He is a 23-time TT winner, a seven-time Senior TT winner, and the man who first broke the 130mph barrier around the Island back in 2007. His special 1996 tribute livery this year connected the present field to the deeper history of the TT itself.

That is what makes SBS’s 2026 TT impact so strong. It is not just about winning races. It is about winning with the riders and teams who define the event. Harrison brought outright speed and authority. Dunlop added more chapters to a record-breaking career with MD Racing. Hickman remained a constant factor at the sharp end. Brookes, Browne, and Jordan all played their part. McGuinness carried the event’s heritage forward. Across the classes, across the week, SBS was present at the front of the field and on every major podium.

For a brand built on racing, that matters. The TT is not a controlled circuit. It is not forgiving. It is 37.73 miles of walls, bumps, crests, and consequences. To win there means handling speed and pressure in equal measure. To dominate there means earning trust from riders who are chasing the hardest victory in road racing. In 2026, that trust was visible in both the qualifying and race week. SBS did not just show up at the Isle of Man TT. SBS owned the Mountain (through its Partners In Racing).

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