Nineteen-time TT Race winner Michael Dunlop will ride for Paul Bird Motorsport on board the team’s VisionTrack Ducati V4R at the 2020 Isle of Man TT Races fuelled by Monster Energy.
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The 30-year-old from Ballymoney teased the announcement on social media the evening before the first day of the second British Superbike Championship at Jerez, Spain.
Last year was not a vintage year for Dunlop, who struggled with a wrist injury sustained in testing prior to the Isle of Man TT Races and North West 200. He was then involved in a four-wheeled crash at the Donegal Rally where he sustained “serious” injuries which were then compounded by a nasty high-side crash at the Southern 100 Road Races in July.
Nevertheless, Dunlop still secured his 19th TT victory in the Bennetts Lightweight Race and took top six finishes in the RST Superbike, RL360 Superstock, Monster Energy Supersport and Senior TT Races.
The deal between Dunlop and the PBM Team is for the 2020 RST Superbike and Senior TT Races, with Dunlop riding for his own MD Racing Team in the RL360 Superstock and Monster Energy Supersport TT Races.
The Penrith-based PBM Team – who have taken seven British Superbike Championships – are no strangers to the Isle of Man TT, making their most recent appearance in 2015 when Ian Hutchinson finished second in the Superbike, third in the Senior, and won the Superstock Race riding Kawasaki ZX-10R machinery.
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