{"id":730079,"date":"2026-06-11T17:23:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T17:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/730079\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T17:23:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T17:23:13","slug":"john-mcguinness-reveals-how-dean-harrison-hammered-everyone-at-isle-of-man-tt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/730079\/","title":{"rendered":"John McGuinness reveals how Dean Harrison “hammered everyone” at Isle of Man TT"},"content":{"rendered":"

While John McGuinness produced one of his best Isle of Man TT displays during the 2026 Superbike race, the Honda<\/a> Racing UK rider said team-mate Dean Harrison \u201chammered everyone\u201d in the \u2018big-bike\u2019 classes.<\/p>\n

This came after Harrison dominated the full-length Superbike TT and the Senior race, prior to the blue ribbon event being declared a result following one lap.<\/p>\n

The Senior race was red-flagged on lap two when Erno Kostamo crashed at the 11th Milestone. At that stage, Harrison had already built a lead of over 15 seconds to Peter Hickman shortly after the first lap was completed.<\/p>\n

\"Dean <\/p>\n

Dean Harrison, Honda, 2026 Superbike TT<\/p>\n

\u00a9\u00a0Isle of Man TT<\/p>\n

Speaking after the Senior TT race last Friday, McGuinness said: \u201cDean [Harrison] was strong last year in winning those two superstock races on the Fireblade, he knows what he wants from a motorbike, we worked out what to ask for and Honda delivered.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s so unique racing the TT and we all want exotica here but Dean is a realist, he knew what he wanted and asked for this hybrid superbike to be built.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt shows just how good the stock bike is for him to have done what he\u2019s done this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m proud to be part of this jigsaw and super happy to be in this fantastically solid team.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAll the guys here on the spanners want to be here, we\u2019ve been in each other\u2019s pocket for two weeks and we still get on.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now 54 years of age, McGuinness produced one of his better displays at the TT after setting his fastest ever six-lap race time during the Superbike TT, culminating in an impressive fifth-place finish.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\"John <\/p>\n

John McGuinness, 2026 Isle of Man TT<\/p>\n

\u00a9\u00a0Isle of Man TT<\/p>\n

McGuinness managed to outpace the likes of Ian Hutchinson, Jamie Coward, and Nathan Harrison, after setting an average speed of 129.497mph over the six laps.<\/p>\n

Speaking about the support he received, McGuinness added: \u201cThe support we\u2019ve had has been amazing too, from sponsors, friends of the team and from fans.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve all chipped in but it\u2019s important to remember who is holding the handlebars and at the end of the day, Dean hammered everyone.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI backed him up on the amazing RS250 \u201996 replica bike, had amazing feedback from everybody and the fans clapped at me like I was winning.<\/p>\n

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\"Special <\/p>\n

Special 30th anniversary John McGuinness livery<\/p>\n

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\u201cNobody has ever been clapped to a fifth place in a TT like I was this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI wore a replica of my old kit, rode a mint superbike that looked like the first bike I raced here, everyone enjoyed some sunshine and the icing on the cake was seeing Dean win.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While John McGuinness produced one of his best Isle of Man TT displays during the 2026 Superbike race,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,308992,914,42847,806,805,803,804,28425,85],"class_list":["post-730079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-dean-harrison","tag-honda","tag-john-mcguinness","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\/730079","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=730079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}