Hickman ended the event by winning its most prestigious 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 136.358mph after his second Superstock win - but he then had to bat off protests from an unconfirmed rival for♚ using an i🌜llegal earpiece and ECU.

He told : “People ♉don’t realise w🌌hat goes on, do they?” 

“Both Superstock results got protested before we had even left the winners’ enclosure with st🌺upid s***ܫ.

“I guess that just means I’m in their head, more than tಌhey are in꧋ mine.”

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

A late decision to 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 needed.

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

“Four race wins out of eight, three second plaꦜc🦂es and a fourth makes for one hell of a TT.”