By • Eric Wilson’s Reckle55 Racing team’s RS660 Aprilia will feature this year, across the Tandragee 100, Southern 100, Armoy Road Races and Manx Grand Prix, with confirmed Mountain Course debutant, Scottish female racer Ashley Robson on board.
• 2002 Senior Manx Grand Prix victor, Mark Parrett who hopes to join the one hundred TT starts club in June, leads Reckle55 Racing team’s Sportbike TT pursuit.
• 2025 Oliver’s Mount Supersport, Classic Superbike Champion, current King of The Mount Aran Sadler is Manx GP bound in August.
Commenting via his own team’s Facebook page, the County Durham rider said:
“This week I received the email confirming my acceptance to the Manx GP 2026 Newcomers Weekend, so it’s now full steam ahead.
2026 is shaping up to be a huge challenge, with a busy race calendar ahead, limited funds and a tight budget, it won’t be easy, but fingers crossed we can make it happen.”
• Thomas ‘Uccio’ Altendorfer (Racetastic4 by Datziii #55 Road Racing Team), IRRC race winner Markus Karlsson (set to be Sweden’s first Mountain Course competitor in this decade) have additionally announced first-time MGP competition projects.
• TH Racing have attained a new sponsorship partnership with Fuchs Silkolene.
• Maria Costello MBE’s 2026 race season is title backed again by Galgorm Resort. The 2016 Classic TT podium finisher is targeting a seventeenth TT Races voyage.
• Supersport Manx Grand Prix top three finisher, Isle of Wight ace Ryan Whitehall has bagged yesteryear Superbike apparatus for the Pre-TT Classic, Classic TT, having signed for Motorcycle Photography Racing to race their FZ Yamaha.
• News is expected soon from BE/RK Racing regarding 2026 roads scene plans.
• Five times TT winner Dean Harrison celebrates today his 37th Birthday.
Quotes via Aran Sadler Racing Facebook page.
Photo credit: Nick Wheeler
Words by Stevie Rial #dontletfearcontrolyou
