{"id":655583,"date":"2026-05-07T13:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T13:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/655583\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T13:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T13:35:09","slug":"davey-todd-still-aiming-to-race-isle-of-man-tt-despite-north-west-200-setback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/655583\/","title":{"rendered":"Davey Todd still aiming to race Isle of Man TT despite North West 200 setback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Despite being forced out of the North West 200, Davey Todd says his \u201cfirm goal\u201d is still to race at the Isle of Man TT this year.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Todd was ruled unfit for the North West 200 on Tuesday following on from his Daytona 200 qualifying crash in February when he suffered fractures in both legs as well as numerous other injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The three-time Isle of Man TT winner missed both official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/bsb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BSB<\/a> tests in April as well as the first round of the season at Oulton Park last weekend (2\u20134 May), but he was able to ride in Valencia, so arrived at the North West 200 hoping to be able to line-up and race for the first time this season.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Being rules unfit at the Northern Ireland race also puts Todd\u2019s TT in doubt, but he is still hopeful of being able to race there.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThat\u2019s still the firm goal right now,\u201d Todd told BBC Sport NI head of the Superbike practice session on Thursday morning when asked if he is still aiming to be back for the TT <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/road-racing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">road races<\/a> that begin on 25 May.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cOf course, I wanted to be on the grid here [North West 200].\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI needed the signature from here as well to get my Mountain Course licence. We\u2019re going to have to find something else in the next couple of weeks before the TT to get that signature for my Mountain Course licence; maybe BSB at Donington, maybe somewhere else.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe\u2019re figuring some things out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI\u2019m sure I can get passed, medically be fit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI rode at Valencia last week and actually felt good on the bike, so as long as I get passed fit I feel ready to go and more motivated than ever to be back on the grid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Todd explained that the injuries he sustained in Daytona, in particular his fractured femur, could have ended his season were it not for the work he put into his recovery.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIt could definitely be a season-ending recovery,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWith a simple femur break it\u2019s usually five or six months, and mine was a lot more complicated than that, it wasn\u2019t a nice break.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cCould\u2019ve been much worse, but we\u2019ve worked so much on the recovery and everything I could possibly do\u2013 I worked on the fitness in the gym, and the strength of my leg in the gym, with all kinds of physiotherapy and every other therapy under the sun that I don\u2019t even remember the name of, to be honest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI was going and laying in bed on a night plugged into two or three different machines that were making my blood flow better and making everything heal a little bit faster.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThere wasn\u2019t a stone unturned.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite being forced out of the North West 200, Davey Todd says his \u201cfirm goal\u201d is still to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,28425,85],"class_list":["post-655583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-road-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655583","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=655583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}