By Twenty first in both the RST Superbike, opening Monster Energy Supersport races, Austria’s top TT pilot Julian Trummer is having a much more fulfilling time on IOM shores than he experienced in 2025.
“Last year was bad, now I’m in a great position now, great bikes and the team is great, we all get on well with each other.
To be honest, I couldn’t ask for much except a bit better handling BMW, then I will be happy, so we’ll see.”
Aiming for ‘130 Mph Club’ membership, the 2016 Newcomers (A) Manx Grand Prix runner-up admitted qualifying week with M1000RR BMW tackle, has been challenging.
“The BMW is really hard work, we just can’t get it to work, its super twitchy, super unstable, if I ride it at 70 percent, its-kind-of doing pretty-good lap times but I can’t’ push it.
So, we have tried a couple of things already and couple more things tomorrow and hopefully we’ve found kind-of like a direction.
But it’s there, it’s definitely a really quick one and I think we will be flying once we sort the handling but at the minute the bike is all over the place as soon as I try to push on it.”
Before a first TT venture with former Motocross front runners, Smith Racing, Trummer competed at the Cookstown 100 and Northwest 200.
His main takeaways from these events were:
“We treat it all as getting to know each other and just see what the bike feels like and chip away.
But it’s been good, good progress so we just try to get better day by day.”
Southern 100 bound in July (event newcomer), potentially sampling the Armoy ‘Race of Legends’, the affable Austrian, reply to the question of whether his popularity is growing back home, was:
“I’d say I’ve got a good couple of supporters, fans and followers but in all honesty, I think it’s even more here on the Island and England then back home, it’s not the biggest sport in Austria but I don’t mind really.”
Photo credit: Nick Wheeler
Words by Stevie Rial #dontletfearcontrolyou
