Davey Todd admits not being factored alongside the Isle of Man TT’s ‘big three’ names prior to the 2024 event ♓“fired me up” to take his maiden wins.

The English rider made his TT deb🅘ut in 2018 and quickly established himself as a name to watch out for with his speed.

Scoring a first TT podium 🧜in 2022🍒, a switch from Padgetts Honda to TAS Racing BMW for 2024 helped propel him to his first wins.

He took a maiden victory in the Superstock TT, before capping off race week with a stunning ride in the Senior to tally up his sᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚecond win and a first for TAS in the class since 2004.

Coming into the event, Michael Dunlop, Peter Hickman and Dean Harrison were positioned as the event’s ‘big three’ names given the💛ir recent winning𒅌 records - something Todd admits sat in his mind.

“I g♚uess,🅠 to be honest, a lot of things contributed to it,” he said during the TT Live podcast.

“2023 wasn’t the year that I wanted it to be. ’23 was, I actually wanted ’23 to be what ’24 was, and that was the✅ goal.

“I just had a nightmare of a year in 2023, I just had a few bike issues, a few other issues. I ende🍎d up getting sick in race week and it wrote me off for like half the races.

“So, just didn’t really go as I’d ♎planned. So, I was pretty fired up going into ’24 because of that reason.

“In all honesty, not that I said to anyꦜbody, butജ in the back of my mind it did fire me up a little bit, the big three thing.

“Every time ⭕I heard it it fired me up inside that e🌠veryone was talking about the big three and nobody even thought I could do it.

“It felt to me if you were lucky you’d get a podium. I just wanted𝕴 to prove that I c🅘an win races at the TT.

“So, I guess that lit a bit of a fire. From practice week I felt good, I felt hapꦬpy with the bike. I felt ready for it.”

Having put in some promising pace during practic🦋e week, Todd believes this started to change perceptions of where he was in the pecking order.

“Probably before the end of practice week definitely a lot of people… not that I’d said anythܫing,” he added.

“But people came up to me and said ‘everyone is talking about the big three, maybe we should have൩ called it the big four’.

“But I’d alr🔜💯eady got my mind set on it, that little thought had already got stuck in my head.

“Therಌe’s a little bit more attention, but you don’t think about ꦅthat.

“You know as a rider it’s just part of it, and your mindset is on what you’re doing and🍌 the racing and th🌳inking about getting out there and trying to go as best you can.

“But at the same time, practice week doesn🦋’t tell the fu🧸ll story.

“You’re not laying down your best laps.

“Nobody is necessarily laying it all down in practice, so you can’t be too confident because you probaꦅbly alway💞s leave a bit in there for the races.

“I knew I had a bit more, but trying to think does Pete have a bit more, does Michael have a bit ꦓmore? You just have to get out there and do what you can do.”