By Finally! News regarding top twenty seeded TT 2026 riders.
Today’s first twenty starters update covers the four-lap Monster Energy Supersport race bouts.
P1 plate reigns are-assigned to Steve Henshaw Gold Cup, Armoy ‘Race of Legends’ winner Michael Browne (Boyce Precision Engineering by Russell Racing – YZF R9 Yamaha).
No.1 plate runner in 2024 and 2025, new Cookstown Supersport lap-record holder Paul Jordan (Jackson Racing Powered by Prosper 2 – V2 Panigale Ducati) is next scheduled to buzz down Glencrutchery Road.
Honda Racing UK’s Dean Harrison, who has shone in BSB/support class tests at Donington Park and Oulton Park, starts next.
Jamie Coward leading Rapid Honda’s maiden TT Races tenure goes at four, then its Adelaide ace David ‘Davo’ Johnson (CD Racing – Kawasaki).
The remainder of the pending first ten starters feature fifty TT wins between them!
Michael Dunlop MBE (Scars Racing – Ducati), Josh Brookes (Uggly & Co Racing – Suzuki), Davey Todd (Swan Racing by PHR Performance – Street Triple 765 RS Triumph), Michael Evans (Dafabet Racing – Triumph) and outright lap-record holder Peter Hickman (Trooper Triumph/PHR Performance).
Conor Cummins (NLC – Suzuki), V2 Panigale Ducati switcher, sixteen times TT Champion Ian Hutchinson (BE/RK Racing) carry the eleven, twelve plates with the 13-plate retained by factory Triumph speedster, Dominic Herbertson.
Shaun Anderson (No.14 – Stanford Racing by ARD – Suzuki), Rob Hodson (No.15 – SMT Racing – Ducati), Nathan Harrison (No.16 – H&H Motorcycles – Honda), all have the core speed, Mountain Course expertise to unlock sparkling results.
Same notion applies to seeded competitors seventeen-nineteen, EM Building Yamaha equipped Michael Sweeney, SpinArena.net sponsored, 750 Suzuki apparated Joe Yeardsley, the Senior Manx Grand Prix winner of 2023.
TH Racing’s Joey ‘Yorkshire’ Thompson whilst there is no starter with the twenty-plate, originally intended to-be-used by 2024 IRRC Supersport Championship runner-up Adam McLean, who is now a non-starter, after a recent operation.
Outside the seeded riders, additional made public start numbers include:
Never Be Clever Racing’s Amalric Blanc (21), Eddy Ferre (26), Pierre Yves Bian (36).
Maurizio Bottalico (40), Croatian history maker Loris Majcan (34), MGP to TT graduates Ryan Whitehall (48) and Toby Shann (56).
TT 2026 – Supersport encounters top 20 starters re-cap:
No.1 – Michael Browne
No.2 – Paul Jordan
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 Evans
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 – Nathan Harrison
No.17 – Michael Sweeney
No.18 – Joe Yeardsley
No.19 – Joey Thompson
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Photo credit: Mark Corlett
Words by Stevie Rial #dontletfearcontrolyou
