Davey Todd admits not being factored alongside the Isleও of Man 🍷TT’s ‘big three’ names prior to the 2024 event “fired me up” to take his maiden wins.

The English rider made his TT debut in 2018 and quickly establishedဣ himself as a name to watch out for with h🍸is speed.

Scoring a first TT podium in 2022, a switch from Padgetts Honda to TAS Racing BMW for 2024 helped propel him to his first wins🌜.

He took a maiden victory in the Superstock TT, before capping off🌼 race week with a stunning ride in the Senior to tally up his second win and a first for TAS in the class♕ since 2004.

Coming into the event, Michael Dunlop, Peter Hickman and Dean Harrison were positioned as the event’s ‘big t♈hree’ names given their recent winn🍒ing records - something Todd admits sat in his mind.

“I guess, to be honest, a lot of things contributed to it,” he sai༒d during the TT Live podcast.

“2023 wasn’t the year that I wanted it to be. ’23 was, I actually wanted ’23 to be what 🤪’🃏24 was, and that was the goal.

“I just had a nightmare of a year in 2023, I just had a few bike issues, a few other issue🌊s. I ended up getting sick in race week and it wrote me off for like half the races.

“So, just didn’t real🌄ly go as I’d planned. So, I was pretty fired up going into ’24 because of that reason.

“In all hon𒐪esty, not that I said to anybody, but in the back of my mind it did fire me 🥀up a little bit, the big three thing.

“Ev𓂃ery time I heard it it fired me up inside that everyone was talking about the big♑ three and nobody even thought I could do it.

“It felt to me if you were lucky ෴you’d get a podium. I just wanted to prove that I can win races at the TT.

“So, I guess that lit 🐈a bit o🅰f a fire. From practice week I felt good, I felt happy with the bike. I felt ready for it.”

Having put in some promising pace during practice week, Todd believes this started to change perceptions of where he was in the pecking 🅰🌠order.

“Proba✅bly before the end of practice week definitely a lot of people… not that I’d said anything,”𝓀 he added.

“But people came up to me and sai💮d ꧑‘everyone is talking about the big three, maybe we should have called it the big four’.

“But I’d already got my mind set on it, th🏅at little thought had alreadyꦰ got stuck in my head.

“There’s a littlಞe bit more attent💮ion, but you don’t think about that.

“You know a🀅s a rider it’s just🦄 part of it, and your mindset is on what you’re doing and the racing and thinking about getting out there and trying to go as best you can.

“But at the same time, practice week doesn’ꦉt tell the full story.

“You’re not laying down your best laps.

“Nobody is necessarily laying it a꧑ll down in practice, so you can’t be too confident because you probably always leave a bit in there for the races.

“I knew I had a bit mor🎶e, but trying to think does Pete have a bit more, does Michael have a bit more? You just have to get out there and do what you can do.”