Lee Joh🦄nston has announced he will not be doing any road racing in 2025 after signing a deal to race for IN Competition Sencat in British Supersport.

The Isle of Man TT, North West 200 and Ulster Grand Prix winner has been sidelined since suffering serious inju𒆙ries at the North 🅰West in 2023.

While he’d planned to be back for 2024, a brok𒐪en leg during testing meant he was forced to 🦄miss most of the road racing season again - though was able to compete at the Manx GP and the Macau GP.

With Aschourt Racing pulling out of racing 🧸at the end of the year, Johnston has been able to secure a ride in British Supersport - in whi🧔ch he was also competing in 2024 - with IN Competition Sencat.

The squad is expanding its support class presence in British Superbikes alongside its top class team with Lew🍰is Rollo.

However, Johnston confirmed on his YouTube channel that he will not be do💃ing any road racing this year.

He says the team doesn’t want to do it whiꦉle others he spoke to didn’t have enough experience for him to be able to commit.

“As of 2025, I am not going to be doing a🐽ny road racing,” he said.

“So, that’s no North West 200, no Isle of Man TT, and t𒁏his is not me having a big retirement speech.

“This is not me saying I’m retired from road racing. It’s just no﷽t possible to do that c♏orrectly next year.

“I spoke to quite a few teams over the past four or five months, trying to get💯 as much information i💜n as I possibly could to try and make the plans for the future.

“This team does not want to go road racing and that’s their decision and th🏅at’s their✃ call. And I completely stand by that.

“Some of the oth♔er teams that I spoke to that di🐷d want to go road racing didn’t really have any road racing experience.

“They had a little bit. I’ve been in a g🅷ood team for quite a🧔 few years, so to take a step back would be pointless.

“With me missing the roads for a few years, the biggest thing I felt I 🦋need🤡ed was a genuine top team that knew how to do everything and there was no worry or extra risk added.

“So, I thought it was better not to do the job if I couldn’t do it properly than just to go and make up tꦓhe numbe♛rs or just be circulating and things not be right because I think that would frustrate me even more than the fact I’ve not been fit to do it.

“So, that is th𝕴e plan for 2025. We will not be doing any road racing, but the꧑n that makes us concentrate really hard on the British Supersport Championship. So, I’m super excited about that.”

Johnston will race a Triumph 765 next season.