Hickman ended the event by winning its most pr🔯estigious race, the Senior TT, which also denied Michael Dunlop the joint all-time record for🍬 most wins.

Hickman also set an outright lap record of 13🉐6.358mph after his second Superstock win - but he then had to bat off protests from an uᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚnconfirmed rival for using an illegal earpiece and ECU.

He told : “People don’t realise what goe𒈔s on, do they?”ඣ 

“Both Superstock results got prot🦹ested before we had even left the winners’ enclosure with stupid s***✤.

“I g💝uess that just means I’m in their head, more than they are in mine.”

Hickman’s pace on his Superstock bike raised the possibility 𝕴that he mightꦡ use it, rather than a Superbike, in the Senior TT.

A late d🍷ecision ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚto go for the Superbike paid off in the end.

💝“The bike wasn't right until this morning's warm-up lap,” he said.

“My plan was to get my head down and try and break the others. It seemed to work and I knew I had a bit more held back if need🧸ed.

“I can't thank all my team and sponsors for their supp♋ort. They've worked so hard to get the bikes right.

“Four race wins ou🎀t of eight, three second places꧒ and a fourth makes for one hell of a TT.”