Thisཧ year, with the schedule increased to 10 races, he is aiming to start every one to break his own record of eight ra𒆙ces from 2022.

His entry into both so🎶lo and sidecar races will give him a unique opportunity - he has raced three times at this yඣear’s event already, and plans to enter the next seven too.

"2020♈ was going to be the first attempt at doing all the races but Covid scuppered that," Russell told the .

"You are only permitted to do so many laps in the day but the ACU [the event organisers] looked at it 🔯and said we could do ꦛit, the schedule they had laid out for the event allowed for it.

"We managed to put together a full stable of bikes and I started all eight races last year, finishing 🅘sev𓂃en of them.

"It was very physically and mentally demandi൩ng and I was running on adrenaline by the end of the week.

"Unfortunately, a minor technical issue, a bolt, thwarted me finishing the Senior and I was quite emotional about it, I felt really deflꦆated.

🗹"I was in tears when my machine broke down but I regrouped, came back to the paddock and me and my team had some champagne.

"The ꧙TT is the toughest challenge on man and 🐻machine so I'm under no illusions how difficult it is to finish any given race."

Part of the allure of Russell’s recordꦍ-seeking is that competes in both solo and sidecar categories.

“Jumping from smaller bikes to b𒊎ig bikes is difficult,” he said.

“They are very different in terms of how you sit, how you react, and the b꧟raking markers vary so much.

"Vicky Cooke is my sidecar passenger this year, she is be🌞hind me so she is my re🀅sponsibility, and that is something I take very seriously.

"Riding a solo y𓆏ou have that suspension but the battering you take in a sidecar is ridiculous. It requires a different mentality."

Russell is 42, an RAF serviceman. Gordon Blackley, a fellow serviceman and a TT rider, ent💝iced him to compete on the Mountain Course for the first time.

Russell won the Senior Manx ﷺGrand Prix in 2009, started racing at the TT in 2010, and started in sidecars in 2018.

"I know it's a dangerous event but that's�▨� part of the thrill of it,” he said. “We're doing something that not everyone can do.

"The aim is to start e🤪very race but it's also to finish them all too."