{"id":717196,"date":"2026-06-05T15:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/717196\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T15:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:36:07","slug":"2026-isle-of-man-tt-live-sportbike-race-1-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/717196\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Isle of Man TT LIVE: Sportbike Race 1 updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Live updates from Sportbike Race 1 at the 2026 Isle of Man TT which is due to start at 15:15 local time. The Senior TT is also scheduled for today.<\/p>\n<p>Sportbike Race 1 is set to be the fourth race this week on the Isle of Man after a series of delays that have prevented racing from taking place since Tuesday, when it was only the Supersport class that got a race in, and even that over a reduced three-lap distance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Sportibke \u00a0race will also be over a reduced distance, this time two laps.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Michael Dunlop won both Supertwin races last year in fine style and is the favourite for victory in this first Sportbike race, back aboard the Paton S1-R.<\/p>\n<p>Dean Harrison and Peter Hickman joined Dunlop on the podium earlier today in Supersport Race 2, which Dunlop won. Harrison doesn&#8217;t contest Sportbike, but Hickman could be a contender.<\/p>\n<p>A win this afternoon in Sportibke would mark Dunlop&#8217;s 36th TT win, taking him 10 clear of Joey Dunlop.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s schedule also includes a \u00a0four-lap Senior TT, although as ever it will be weather-dependent. The schedule has been delayed by one hour today as a result of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/rr\/news\/1096822\/1\/road-traffic-collision-adds-list-2026-isle-man-tt-delays\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">road traffic collision on the mountain road this morning<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Live updates from Sportbike Race 1 at the 2026 Isle of Man TT which is due to start&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":717197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-717196","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-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717196","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=717196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}