{"id":711045,"date":"2026-06-02T20:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T20:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/711045\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T20:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T20:07:10","slug":"peter-hickman-praises-isle-of-man-tt-organisers-after-wettest-ever-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/711045\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Hickman praises Isle of Man TT organisers after \u2018wettest ever\u2019 conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Peter Hickman has praised the way the Isle of Man TT organisers handled Supersport Race 1, which took place in the \u201cwettest\u201d conditions Hickman thinks he\u2019s faced so far.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The 14-time TT winner finished third in the opening Supersport outing of race week at the 2026 TT <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/road-racing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">road races<\/a>, finishing behind Dean Harrison and Michael Dunlop in a race that was delayed by four hours due to bad weather.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Hickman admitted afterwards that the damp conditions did not suit him, but praised the race organisers for the amount of information given on where the track was damp.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/hickman-nw-2.png\"   type=\"image\/png\" alt=\"Peter Hickman, 2026 North West 200. Credit: Pacemaker Press\/North West 200.\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.47\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Peter Hickman, 2026 North West 200. Credit: Pacemaker Press\/North West 200.<\/p>\n<p> \u00a9\u00a0Pacemaker Press<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cNot my conditions at all, them,\u201d Hickman told the TT+ broadcast after the Supersport race.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIt\u2019s probably the wettest I\u2019ve ever ridden the TT circuit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe organisers obviously always do a great job, they give us loads of information as we roll up through that \u2018no man\u2019s land\u2019 before the start, and honestly they filled the board with wherever it was wet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cJust not my thing at all.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cNot saying I could go and win [otherwise], because I genuinely don\u2019t think I could. The two boys first and second are absolutely on the money: Dean\u2019s [Harrison] riding brilliantly in the British Supersport Championship as we know; Michael\u2019s [Dunlop] always been a small bike rider, he\u2019s so fast on the small bikes, he\u2019s got that Ducati absolutely singing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cSo, I don\u2019t think even if I was 100 per cent fit and it was perfectly dry that the result would be any different to be totally honest. But really happy to be here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Hickman lost time in the pit stop during the race, and spent the entirety of lap two regaining the ground he lost to Paul Jordan in the battle for third.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He revealed afterwards that it was an issue with the fuel cap on his Triumph Street Triple 765 RS.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe fuel cap wouldn\u2019t come off, so we\u2019ve obviously got some sort of problem with either the valve that allows the fuel tank to breathe or not, or there\u2019s a pipe kinked or something,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIt basically sucked the fuel cap down, so they couldn\u2019t actually take the fuel cap off.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cEnded up getting some pliers and actually ripping the fuel cap off and putting another one on, and funnily enough it\u2019s actually done the same thing now.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cSo that slows the bike down as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cHonestly, again, it wouldn\u2019t have made any difference to the result, the boys are absolutely on it and I\u2019m just really happy to be on the podium again to be honest.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Peter Hickman has praised the way the Isle of Man TT organisers handled Supersport Race 1, which took&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711046,"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-711045","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\/711045","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=711045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}