Ian Hutchinson, 14-time winner on the Isle of Man, will be joining the Motor Sport team for the next podcast in association with Mercedes-Benz.
Hutchy, the first rider to win five TTs in the same week, was awarded the Royal Automobile Club’s Torrens Trophy for outstanding contribtion to motorcycling earlier in 2016, beating world champions Danny Kent, Jonathan Rea and Tai Woffinden. Six years earlier, the Yorkshireman was told by surgeons that his leg would need to be amputated following a crash at Silverstone. Five years later he won three more races on the Isle of Man TT, and three more this year. In between times, in 2013, he won at Macau…
The sometime British Superbike Championship rider also lists a North West 200 victory on his impressive CV.
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