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08-05-2025
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'It's been a nightmare really' - Hutchinson after NW200 podium
Ian Hutchinson says he "kept believing" that he could return to being competitive in motorcycle road racing after suffering adversity in the form of a number of serious injury and illness setbacks which threatened to derail his career completely. The Yorkshireman was speaking after finishing third in Thursday's Superstock race at the North West 200 in Northern Ireland. The 45-year-old had multiple operations after suffering compound fractures to his leg in a crash at Silverstone in 2010, the same year that he won a record five races in one week at the Isle of Man TT. Hutchinson displayed unimaginable resilence by heroically bouncing back to take his overall tally of TT wins to 16 in subsequent years but a major crash in the 2017 Senior TT saw him suffer another crushing blow in the form of a fractured femur. After two lost years because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the three-time North West winner then suffered a stroke in 2023 which resulted in him have his racing licence revoked. He returned to road racing action again in 2024 but had to settle for a series of top-15 TT finishes. "It's been a nightmare really. Eight years of being nowhere near the pace but I kept believing in myself," Hutchinson told BBC Sport NI. "I carried on going, training hard, everything, its been hard. "I hope my daughter is watching and has seen that Daddy can still ride." Hutchinson was riding for the MLav Racing team, who were making their bow at the North West under team manager Michael Laverty. "MLav gave me a ring in November about doing this project and it sort of came together in the last four weeks or so," he explained. "It's been very rushed but we've got there and I've been believing ever since my 2017 crash that I could come back. "Two years after that I was bad with a frame on my leg, then there was Covid, then I had the stroke. "This [the podium] is massive."
BBC News
08-05-2025
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- BBC News
'It's been a nightmare really' - Hutchinson after NW200 podium
Ian Hutchinson says he "kept believing" that he could return to being competitive in motorcycle road racing after suffering adversity in the form of a number of serious injury and illness setbacks which threatened to derail his career Yorkshireman was speaking after finishing third in Thursday's Superstock race at the North West 200 in Northern 45-year-old had multiple operations after suffering compound fractures to his leg in a crash at Silverstone in 2010, the same year that he won a record five races in one week at the Isle of Man displayed his resilence by heroically bouncing back to take his overall tally of TT wins to 16 in subsequent years but a major crash in the 2017 Senior TT saw him suffer another crushing blow in the form of a fractured two lost years because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the three-time North West winner then suffered a stroke in 2023 which resulted in him have his racing licence returned to road racing action again in 2024 but had to settle for a series of top-15 TT finishes. "It's been a nightmare really. Eight years of being nowhere near the pace but I kept believing in myself," Hutchinson told BBC Sport NI."I carried on going, training hard, everything, its been hard."I hope my daughter is watching and has seen that Daddy can still ride."Hutchinson was riding for the MLav Racing team, who were making their bow at the North West under team manager Michael Laverty."MLav gave me a ring in November about doing this project and it sort of came together in the last four weeks or so," he explained."It's been very rushed but we've got there and I've been believing ever since my 2017 crash that I could come back."Two years after that I was bad with a frame on my leg, then there was Covid, then I had the stroke."This [the podium] is massive."
BBC News
26-04-2025
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- BBC News
Hutchinson and Browne confirmed with MLav Racing
Sixteen-time Isle of Man TT winner Ian Hutchinson and Republic of Ireland Mike Browne have been confirmed as the riders for MLav Racing's debut appearance at the Isle of Man team is owned by former British Supersport champion and 10-time British Superbike race winner Michael Laverty and has competed in the Moto3 World Championship and Junior categories, including the FIM Junior GP Championship and British Talent will have both Superbike and Superstock BMW M1000RR machinery available for the Superbike, Senior and Superstock races, with Browne opting to concentrate on a Superstock-spec bike for all four 1000cc will also contest the two Supersport races on machinery that has yet to be 45-year-old missed the 2023 TT after suffering a stroke but returned last year with the Milenco by Padgett's team, securing 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th place clinched his second TT podium in 2024 thanks to a third position in the second Supertwin Killeagh rider finished inside the top 10 in all seven of his races."Anyone who knows me knows I've always loved the TT and even though I never raced the Mountain Course, it's the pinnacle of our sport," said team boss Laverty."Plans for setting up a new team started with a casual conversation back in September and although initially, I was approached to assist a team, the more I thought about it the more it made sense to do it ourselves. "My Grand Prix commitments keep me busy, and it's taken me a bit longer to get everything boxed off in terms of sponsors, team personnel and infrastructure, but I spoke to a couple of riders, getting Hutchy signed up first and then Mike."
