Three-time Isle of Man TT winner Davey Todd is set to test for AutoRace Ube Racing this weekend ahead of a potential Suzuka 8 Hours debut at the weekend.<\/p>\n
The AutoRace Ube Racing outfit was due to field Hannes Soomer as part of its line-up in this year\u2019s Suzuka 8 Hours.<\/p>\n
However, he injured himself during an IDM Superbike Championship race on 6 July and has been ruled out of the Suzuka endurance classic.<\/p>\n
The team has lined up two potential replacement options: Ivo Lopez, who races in the Spanish Superbike Championship, and Todd.<\/p>\n
Both riders will complete a test day on Wednesday 30 July to determine who will get the ride alongside ex-MotoGP racer Loris Baz and Uramoto Naomichi.<\/p>\n
Lopez was recommended by the team\u2019s current riders, while Todd was given the nod by BMW.<\/p>\n
\u201cDavey Todd, a potential replacement for Hannes Soomer, has arrived in Japan,\u201d an Instagram post from the team read.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe’s been recommended by BMW and will be auditioning at the test run on Wednesday, July 30th!<\/p>\n
\u201cTodd won the Superbike class at this year’s Isle of Man TT race aboard a BMW.\u00a0 He also won two classes at the Isle of Man last year.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot only that, he also won the BSB Pirelli National Superstock championship last year and is competing in the British Superbike this year!<\/p>\n
\u201cThis will be his first time at Suzuka, so we’re excited to see what kind of performance he puts on.\u201d<\/p>\n
Todd won the Superbike race at this year\u2019s Isle of Man TT, to add to his triumphs in the Superstock and Senior races in 2024.<\/p>\n
Following another title success in the the National Superstock series last year, Todd has moved to British Superbikes with 8TEN Racing – the team he co-owns with Peter Hickman.<\/p>\n
After last weekend\u2019s Brands Hatch round of BSB, Todd 22nd in the standings having so far scored just a point.<\/p>\n
Todd also enjoyed winning success at the Southern 100 earlier this month, but was kept from a return to Armoy last weekend due to his BSB commitments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three-time Isle of Man TT winner Davey Todd is set to test for AutoRace Ube Racing this weekend…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,28425,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-29939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-road-racing","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}