Road Races, official: Ian Hutchinson returns to racing with team Padgett's

We anticipated the news in recent weeks, but now comes official confirmation. The 2024 road racing season will see Ian Hutchinson back in action, full-time, as he tackles the biggest international events. “Hutchy” has undergone medical checks and has now been given the OK by doctors to compete in the world’s most extreme road racing discipline.

Hutchinson and team Padgett's together again

The 44-year-old, already a legend in the road racing world, will be wearing the colours of a team with which he has already written an important page in the history books. We’re talking about team Padgett's Racing, with which he will compete in both the North West 200 and the Tourist Trophy, riding the Honda CBR1000RR-R Fireblade SP and CBR600RR fielded by Clive Padgett’s squad.

It was with Padgett's that Hutchinson won all five of the Tourist Trophy races in which he competed in 2010 (Superbike, Senior TT, Superstock and both Supersport races), setting a record of five wins at a single edition, one that still stands today. Though he has little to prove, considering the sixteen TTs and three North West 200 races he has won to date, climbing back on the Honda of the same team will undoubtedly motivate “Hutchy”, who may well make life difficult for the likes of Hickman, Dunlop, Harrison and Todd, around the Triangle Circuit but particularly on the Mountain Course.