2006 TT line-up

The 2006 Isle of Man TT takes place between May 27-June 10, 2006, and there’s a strong line-up of teams and riders, including three British Superbike teams, one World Superbike team, and two AMA Superbike riders.

Current outright lap record holder and eight-time winner John McGuinness will ride for the HM Plant Honda squad in all four solo races, along with Stobart Honda rider Ian Lougher, and Hawk Kawasaki’s Carl Rennie. Martin Finnegan will ride for the Austrian Klaffi Honda squad, who also run a World Superbike team, while AIM Racing Yamaha will field Guy Martin.

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Also riding will be Japanese star Jun Maeda on a Honda. Yamaha also have Team Racing’s Adrian Archibald, plus Jason griffiths and Raymond Porter. And for TAS Suzuki will be Bruce Anstey and Ryan Farquhar.

Other notable riders will be former European Supersport champion, Angelo Conti, and American Superbike racers Mark Miller and Jeremy Toye. Both American riders have experience of road racing from the Macau GP. And 20-year-old William Dunlop will make his TT debut in 2006.

In the sidecars, HM Plant’s Dave Molyneux and Craig Hallam will be favourites, with Molyneuz already holding 11 wins and 18 podiums. They’ll be challenged by Nick Crowe and Darren Hope, Steve Norbury and Scott Parnell, Klaus Klaffenbock and Christian Parzer, and Tom Hanks and Phil Biggs.

Both Klaffenbock, and British driver Andy Laidlow, will be using revolutionary new F2 chassis sidecars designed by Louis Christen. Laidlow will be partnered by passenger Patrick Farrance in Team Laidlow Farrance Racing, managed at the TT by 10-time world champion Steve Webster MBE.

(Pictures copright Stephen Davison/Pacemaker Press International).