Four podiums for Hickman at the Isle of Man TT

Louth road racing star Peter Hickman claimed four podium finishes in the 2026 Isle of Man TT races where the inclement weather played a large part in delaying and cancelling of some races and returns home with five silver replicas and the outright lap record still intact.

Hickman eased himself into the 37.75 mile Mountain course during qualifying gradually building up speed throughout the week and completing the Superbike and Supersport classes as the second fastest rider, the Sportbike third and due to technical issues was 12th in the Superstock class.

Bad weather conditions cancelled the Superstock race which was due to run on Saturday so the competitors went straight into the gruelling six lap Superbike race on Sunday where Hickman recorded a fine second place.

The weather again interrupted the schedule on Tuesday when it was expected that three races would be run during the course of the day. Rain delayed the start of the Supersport race until it finally got underway at 3pm.

Riding the House of Swan Triumph 765 RS by PHR Performance, Hickman was running in fifth place at the Glen Helen checkpoint on the opening 37.75 mile lap and by the time he got to the run across the mountain he had made up ground to fourth.

Going into the final two laps he overtook Paul Jordan and went on to complete the race in third with an advantage of over 11.5s over Jordan to pick up another TT trophy to add to his rapidly growing collection. He also surpassed his personal best lap time with a 127.215 mph lap time.

Hickman said: “I am really happy to get the Swan Triumph on the podium. Those were not my conditions at all out there. It is the wettest I have ever ridden the TT course. However, I don’t think even if I was 100% fit and it was perfectly dry the result would have been any different as Michael (Dunlop) and Dean (Harrison) were that bit faster than me.”

With the weather closing in the rest of the day’s programme was postponed and there was no racing on Wednesday or Thursday either.

On Friday a break in the weather meant that three races could be held that day and Hickman went out in Supersport race on the Triumph Street Triple 765RS machine and held third place throughout the three laps to cross the finish line for his third podium finish of the week. He said: “I am well happy with that result. The little trumpet with the Trooper livery on this time is going really well. The speed needs to come from me using less brake and more throttle really but I am really happy to be on the podium again.”

The Sportbike race was up next and reduced to two laps with Hickman just missing out on another podium and completing the race in fourth place.

The Senior TT which Hickman has won on three previous occasions was brought forward from Saturday and reduced to four laps. Although he was running in a strong second place on the second lap the red flag brought the race to an early end. There were hopes of a rerun the next day but the weather put paid to that and the results declared on positions after the first lap on Friday with Hickman clinching his fourth podium of the week.