Tom Birchall Retires

[SoCal250]

Tom Birchall has announced his retirement - 14-time TT winner, TT course record holder at 120.645mph, 4-time World Champion, British sidecar champion
https://www.iomttraces.com/latest/news/tom-birchall-retires/

An impressive career to say the least!

[SoCal250]

Ben has a new passenger for the next TT
https://www.iomttraces.com/latest/news/new-era-as-rousseau-joins-birchall/

[stresa]

@SoCal250
In my opinion he got the best available passenger. Let's see if they harmonize.
The only question mark is that Kevin Rousseau has not much experience at the TT, it will be his 2nd time there.
I am curious if Ben Birchall will do a World Championship season also. But then he needs another passenger as Kevin is racing there with Harry Payne. But the World Championship is not confirmed anyway. The promoter gave back his rights. So the FIM will do 3 rounds of the championship themselves and for further 3 rounds they are in negotiations with the old promoter to work something out. But it looks not good for the WC.
Regards Uwe

[SoCal250]

Interesting Uwe. That does add some twists to this new pairing.

[stresa]

World champions Todd Ellis/Emmanuelle Clement will have their first TT also. So could be quite interesting.
I am a bit sidecar biased as my daughter is deeply in there as a passenger which culminated in a World Championship campaign in 2018. Sadly after 3 meetings money dried up. Now she is racing in our clubsport series and sometimes helping out in other series.