By “It’s learning every lap for sure, that what’s the Classic TT is about as well it’s about getting more bike time, getting more familiar with the circuit.”
Three years now a TT Races exponent, IOM shores-based Jorge Halliday is race on race building his confidence with real road racing’s most known, famous, and historic circuit, the Snaefell Mountain Course.
A highly creditable eighteenth in last week’s F1 Superbike Race, Stanford Racing’s Halliday was out of luck in his remaining Classic TT contests, failing to finish both the Historic Senior and showpiece four-lap Senior encounter.
2022 Thundersport GB Pre-National 600 Sport Champion, TT 2026 would yield top forty finishes x2.
Surmising Sportbike action with 660 Daytona Triumph metal, the son of ex Sidecar TT racer Mark Halliday, stated:
“We ran the Triumph 660 in the Sportbike class, and it was a bit of a learning year, with the new Sportbikes and with the old Super Twins which are getting phased out as such.”
Moving onto the topic of TT 2027, he emphatically issued his desire to be again on the TT Races entry-list.
“100 percent, yeah definitely, I think I will probably stick with the Supersport 750 Suzuki, that was a cracking bike and just try and build on, we made good steps with it this year so just try and build on that and see what we can do for next year.”
Whilst the TT is Halliday’s main roads scene priority, he is not discounting in the future Irish road racing explorations.
“I’d love to have a go at some of the Irish road racing and the Northwest 200 maybe.”
Photo credit: Nick Wheeler
Words by Stevie Rial #dontletfearcontrolyou
