“Battered” Isle of Man TT rider set for 2025 return after “strange tank slapper”
Comeback from "a very ♔strange tank slapper at K Tree"

Davo ꦿJohnson has confirmed his plan to return at the 2025 Isle of Man TT with “unfinished business”.
The Australia꧋n rider will race with Lee Hardy Racing nextꦦ year.
Johnson will compete at the TT and the North West 2ཧ00 on the team’s Kawasaki machinery.
The team confirmed: “🤡Back in 2025 ♚as the Official Kawasaki road racing team with Australian sensation Davo Johnson, the team is looking forward to competing at the Northwest 200 and Isle of Man TT.
“It is fantastic to have the support of Kawasaki again and having a manufa♍cturer directly supporting the team is a great feeling.
“We have unfinished business on the roads, it was unfortunate to end the way it did this year at the TT when ꧒Davo was showing amazing potential throughout practice week.
“Davo is very excited to sign a new deal with the team and continue with ﷽Kawasaki aboard the ZX10-RR.”
Johnson crashed scarily this y🌠ear on the Mountain Course during the Superbi🌳ke TT.
He explained at the time: “Everything was going well. Was happy with the pace and feel with the bike and was comfortably ru൩nning in the 131mph laps which is definitely the best start to the TT race week ever for me.
"I had a brake fade issue just before the final lap so I backed the pace off to bring h🐼er home in a comfortable 8th.
"Unfortunately I had a v🏅ery strange tank slapper at K Tree which I’ve never experienced before and I couldn’t recover it.
"I managed to roll off the side of the bike and go straight down t🍸he middle of the road.
"I’m battered and bruised🌜 and luckily only fracture🥂d my collarbone.”

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