By At last! News aligned to TT 2026, lead twenty 1000cc race bouts starters.
Taking the No.1 plate again is Honda Racing UK’s John McGuinness MBE.
Scheduled to speed off ten seconds behind him is ex-teammate, next gen IOM talent Nathan Harrison (H&H Motorcycles Honda).
Superstock winner x2 in 2025, eyeing a long awaited first SBK race triumph, Dean Harrison (Honda Racing UK) follows with the three-plate.
Fellow Yorkshireman Jamie Coward (Rapid Honda with DriveLife) keeps plate No.4.
Kawasaki’s top runner David ‘Davo’ Johnson (Platinum Club Racing) goes at five.
Next up is TT wins record-holder Michael Dunlop MBE, lining up on factory backed Ducati exotica (V4RS Panigale).
DAO Racing’s Josh Brookes, BMW’s official representatives 8TEN Racings’ seventeen times TT winners combined Davey Todd (No.8), Peter Hickman (No.10), Republic of Ireland’s quickest Mountain Course exponent Michael Browne (No.11 – Boyce Precision Engineering-Russell Racing Honda) wrap up the first ten starters.
2009 Senior Race runner-up, IOM solo TT racing doyen Conor Cummins (Bathams AJN Racing – M1000RR BMW) takes the eleven-plate.
Sixteen times TT victor Ian Hutchinson (Team RST BMW), Dominic Herbertson (KTS Racing Powered by Stanley Stewart BMW), 2025 Tandragee 100 ‘Man of The Meeting’ Shaun Anderson (Penz13.com BMW) respectively are designated plates twelve to fourteen.
Concluding the seeded riders for 2026 are SMT Racing stalwart Rob Hodson, Jackson Racing Powered by Prosper2’s Paul Jordan.
New seed Dafabet Racing’s Michael Evans, triply Handtrans-Nigel Appleyard-AgriWash UK supported Phil Crowe, Roadhouse Macau BMW equipped Brian McCormack and Austria’s foremost international road racer, Smith Racing’s Julian Trummer.
Other racers outside the above-featured, to divulge their start numbers include:
Never Be Clever Racing’s Amalric Blanc (21), AJ Venter (26), Eddy Ferre (26).
Martin Morris (57), Timothee Monot (33), European Hill Climb Championship all-time great Maurizio Bottalico (40) and Ryan Whitehall (50).
TT 2026 – Superbike/Superstock/Senior top 20 plate-holders re-cap:
No.1 – John McGuinness MBE
No.2 – Nathan Harrison
No.3 – Dean Harrison
No.4 – Jamie Coward
No.5 – David Johnson
No.6 – Michael Dunlop MBE
No.7 – Josh Brookes
No.8 – Davey Todd
No.9 – Michael Browne
No.10 – Peter Hickman
No.11 – Conor Cummins
No.12 – Ian Hutchinson
No.13 – Dominic Herbertson
No.14 – Shaun Anderson
No.15 – Rob Hodson
No.16 – Paul Jordan
No.17 – Michael Evans
No.18 – Phil Crowe
No.19 – Brian McCormack
No.20 – Julian Trummer
Photo credit: Mark Corlett
Words by Stevie Rial #dontletfearcontrolyou
