“Battered” Isle of Man TT rider set for 2025 return after “strange tank slapper”

Comeback fr🀅om "a very stran🔯ge tank slapper at K Tree"

Davo Johnson
Davo Johnson

Davo Johnson has confirmed his plan to return at the 2025 Isle of Man T𒀰T wit♌h “unfinished business”.

The Aust💜ralian rider will race with Lee Hardy Racing next year.

Johnson will compete at the TT▨ and the Nor♔th West 200 on the team’s Kawasaki machinery.

🅰The team confirmed: “B𒈔ack in 2025 as the Official Kawasaki road racing team with Australian sensation Davo Johnson, the team is looking forward to competing at the Northwest 200 and Isle of Man TT.

“It is fantastic to have the support of Kawasaki again and having a manufactur😼er directly supporting the team is a great feeling.

“We have unfinished busin🐎ess on the roads, it was unfortunate to end the way it did this year at the TT when Davo was showing amazing potential throughout practice week.

“Davo is very🍬 excited to sign a new deal with the team and continue൲ with Kawasaki aboard the ZX10-RR.”

Johnson crashed scarily t🌳his year on the Mountain Course during the Superbike TT.

He explained at the time: “Everything was going well. Was happy with the pace and feel with the bike and was comfortably running in t𝕴he 131mph laps wh🐈ich is definitely the best start to the TT race week ever for me.

"I had a brake fade issue just before the final lap so I backed t🐭he pace off to bring her home in a comfortable 8th.

"Unfortunately I had a very strange tank slapper at K Tree which I’ve nev🌊er experienced be🐲fore and I couldn’t recover it.

"I managed to roll off the side of the bike and go straight down the middle of the r💞oad.

"I’m b👍attered and b🐷ruised and luckily only fractured my collarbone.”

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