By Huge, huge Southern 100 news this morning, as fourteen times TT winner, Mountain Course lap-record holder Peter Hickman, is set to join Motor Isle Billown Course racer ranks next month.
Thirty-five times a TT rostrum finisher, Hickman, whose 8TEN Racing team, have suspended remaining 2026 BSB expeditions, machines array for his maiden S100 campaign, is BMW (M1000RR – 8TEN Racing – Monster Energy titled supported), Triumph (Swan Racing/PHR Performance) vibed.
Notorious for learning new circuits quickly, roads scene insiders, aficionados will be super monitoring how he takes to one of the sport’s most adored circuits (4.25 miles in distance – Billown course).
The latest coup for S100 organisers, one cannot but praise them for the entry-list, they have attracted.
Hickman’s start confirmation means now that seven of the top ten finishers, from this month’s RST Superbike TT, are Castletown bound.
Photo credit: Nick Wheeler
Words by Stevie Rial #dontletfearcontrolyou
