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40 TT WINNING BIKEHOW TOBUILDA TT WINNERFOR THE TT THAT NEVER WASArticle by Mat OxleyPics by Oxley and iomtt.com
41Life can be full of cruel jokes. Last summerPeter Hickman and his Smith’s Racing crewfinished prepping their BMW S1000RR superstockbike in the paddock at the North West200, two hours before practice got underway. Thisyear they had both the stocker and the superbikeready to go by mid-March; ten weeks before 2020 TTpractice was due to start and just a few days beforethe entire event was cancelled.Hickman and team manager Darren Jones stillhope the Isle of Man government changes its mindand allows a slimmed-down TT race programmeto take place during the Classic TT and Manx GP atthe end of August. But in case that doesn’t happenthey’re already making the most of the downtime.“We’re taking the positives,” says Jones, who isalso Hickman’s crew chief. “We’ve got time to dothings for which we never had time before – like havinga proper test programme with all our TT bikes.”Meanwhile Hickman stays sharp riding flat trackand minibikes, awaiting the start of the BSB and theroads seasons, whenever that may be.Smith’s Racing – now backed by Milwaukee tools– is based in an industrial unit in Louth, Lincolnshire.Jones is a local and Hickman lives in his motorhomenext to the unit. They both work full-time, employingother staff for racing, development and so on. Theyare lucky that team owners Alan and Rebecca Smith– who run a Gloucestershire-based waste-managementcompany – allow them to run the team prettymuch as they like.“Daz and I had been in other teams, but you won’tachieve what you want to unless you’ve got the rightpersonnel, which most teams don’t,” adds Hickman.“We’re lucky that Alan and Rebecca have allowed usto mould their team into what we want it to be.”Thirty-three-year-old Hickman and Jones haveworked together for a decade.“Daz owned a bike shop, and in 2010 I went in therebegging; that’s how it started,” grins Hickman, whoduring our chat is repaying favours by making coffeefor the entire crew.“When I started working with Peter he wore allmy old clothes, he slept on my sofa and my missuscooked us dinner every night,” recalls Jones. “And Iused to get used slicks from Pirelli for him to race.Genuinely, he didn’t have a pot to piss in.”The pair first hooked up with Smith’s in 2017, whenthe team was close to quitting racing.
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