After winning the largest pr😼ize in road racing, the Senior TT, TAS Racing will withdraw from♏ road racing in 2025 focus on the short circuits.

The decision coincides with a move from BMW, with whom TAS first began itဣs partnership almost 10 years ago in 2015, to Ducati and the Bologna brand’s Panigale V4 R Superbike, as well as its Panigale V2 Supersport machine.

“This is exciting for us,” said TAS Raci🐟ng team principal Philip Neill when speaking at the recent Motorcycle Live show in Birmingham.

“You need to find new challenges ไI think after a certain 🌳amount of years, and this one came about through circumstance.

“But I can’t 🉐say how happy I am really. Dꦜucati is an iconic brand; I’ve always admired them from a distance and can’t wait for the opportunity to see what we can do.”

The🎉 switch to Ducati means that TAS, which this year won the Senior TT (among numerous other road races) with Davey Todd, will not contest any road races in 2025.

Neill doesn’t rule oꦇut a re⛎turn to the roads for the Northern Irish team, but said that the focus of the team’s attention now is on winning the BSB title — something Ducati has done on three occasions since the original V4 R hit the British Championship in 2019.

“What’s the saying, never say never,” Neill said of TAS’s r🍌oad racing f👍uture.

“It's in our blood, we enjoy that side of things.

“But it is time for us right now to ꦰfocus on British Superbikes. We want to win tha🔯t championship.

“We’ve had lots of success in the other categories, in Superstock and Supersport, and have come very close in Superbike several times. But now w🌌e need to put our focus and effort in to try and win Superbike.”