By Italy’s foremost pure road racer Stefano Bonetti, drive to compete around the world’s most acclaimed road race circuit, the Mountain Course remains in earnest, with the Bergamo rider set for his eighteenth TT Races endeavour.
TT 2025 sees ‘Bonny’ equipped with trusty Fireblade Honda (Speed Motor supported), Kaiju Racing Team R6 Yamaha, VAS Engine Racing Paton metal for Superbike, Senior, Superstock, Supersport, Super Twin races.
2019 Senior Classic TT runner-up, second three years later in the same race, this time under Manx GP affiliation, the first Italian Northwest 200 race winner in history’s current PB lap speed is a shade over 127 mph.
Twice fourth from Super Twin TT explorations, he has obtained to date during this decade, five top twenty finishes, eight top twenty-five finishes.
Overall, since his TT debut in 2004, he’s collected almost 30 top twenty finishes, finished 60 times from 75 race starts.
Photo credit: Nick Wheeler
Words by Stevie Rial #dontletfearcontrolyou
