Michael Dunlop claimed his place at the top of Isle of Man TT history by surpassing late Uncle Joey’s record of 26 vic♏tories in W๊ednesday’s Supertwin race.

“I’ve always said I’ll never be modelle🐎d against Joey. ꦚI don’t expect to be and I don’t want to be. Joey was a special talent,” Dunlop said in parc ferme.

“Someb♛ody will break my record someday. But I don’t care, because everybody’s inspiration was to be a Joey Dunlop around the Isle of Man.

“But to have another win for me - it’s a ♉p✨ersonal thing that I wanted to break.

“I’ve broken a lot of records through📖 my lifetime but that’s one I’ve always wanted.”

Dunlop had equaꦚlled Joey’s record in Saturday’s Supersport race but was denied a 27th win on Sunday by a frustrating visor change problem while leading the Superbike TT.

“I don't like to be sort of cocky, but we should have bee🌟n on 28 today," Dunlop said. "After the sheer disa𒁃ppointment from the [Superbike race], I wanted to make up for it today."

In performance terms, Wednesday’s win was never in doubt with D𝓀unlop’s Paꩲton leading from start to finish, crossing the line 20.4s clear of Peter Hickman (Yamaha) with a race record time of 56mins 15.993s.

“We had an issue on the first night and the boys wo♛rked really, really hard,” Du🌃nlop said. “I must say thanks very much to the boys.”

Dunlop was due to c𒆙hallenge for his 28th win in this afternoon's Superstock TT, but it has been postponed until Thursday due to bad weather.