HIGHLIGHTS 3wheeling media Sidecar TT Race 2 2025 Isle of Man TT Races

No time then for the three-wheeling.media sidecar TT race two. The big question on everybody's lips is can anybody get anywhere near these two? Ryan and Callum Crowe. They won both races last year. They had a dominant victory with a lap record in race one this year. This was the pairing which was closest to them. Ben Burcham and Patrick Rosney off the line and they will be swiftly followed by Lee Crawford and Scott Hardy. That was the order of the podium in race one. As I head off down Bray Hill for the first time. Awesome on-board shot. Look how low it is to the road. Not a hint of a lift at the bottom of the hill cam either. That is Kieran Clark and Andrew Johnson off the line on their Yamaha CES. Followed swiftly by Todd Ellis and Emmanuel Clement. You're back with the Crows out front now. Callum Crowe tucked in. Just look at those body movements. Look at the commitment. Pushing with the feet. Bracing with the hands. Swap to the other side. His toe is off the back Cam. You can see here hanging off the back of this outfit. You can see just the toe of a boot underneath. The physicality, the gymnastics of the passengers around this course is incredible. Yeah of course and no warm-up. So they've just jumped straight on these outfits and they are in at the deep end immediately. The amount of physical effort by that passenger. Sideways on the exit there. That's something you don't see obviously with the Solos. These with a flat slick tire on the rear. It's it's very un-bike bike isn't it? Especially on the right-hand corners where that weight goes on the sidecar wheel. The drive wheel is off the ground. Ryan and Callum Crowe coming down towards the first of our splits. Which will be towards. They're literally never in a straight line. Even when they're in a straight line that outfit is bouncing left to right. Drifting, sliding. Constantly on the move. Look at the handholds Cam. One down the bottom here in the center of your screen. Up at the top look. Ducking in round. Literally hanging you behind off. Look how close as well. The driver's judgment of where the passenger is overhanging the left side is incredible. Yeah it is. It's really two working as one. Look at this Glen Helen section. Now that feels narrow on a solo bike but look how narrow it is with the width of a sidecar outfit. Ben Birchall, Patrick Rosny. Second new passenger in two years isn't it? And that's Crawford and Hardy coming through. Night Cam. 9.5 seconds at Glen Helen on lap one. The Crows have gone out here like a bullet out of a gun. There is no lifting is there? No there isn't. Only no one speed. They've already set an outright lap record this week. I wonder what they can do in this one from the standing start. You're on board with John Saunders and Vicky Cook. It's hard on the engines Cam isn't it? They're 600cc but carrying two people and then the full throttle. It's tough on the machinery. It's brutal on the machinery. It's also brutal on that driver and passenger. Look at the bumps they're crossing coming through Kirk Michael. That front shot just shows how much that outfit's kicking around. To the compression and the crest there Cam. You know if you're hanging on as the passenger you've got to know where each of those crests are as the machine goes like. Here we go. And the exit here. It was the bumps here. Watch the watch the dip into the crest here. It's fascinating here. And then off the ground with just minimal suspension travel as you see. It's so hard isn't it for for Birchall and Rosne to get up to the pace that Birchall and Birchall were on. You know Ben and Tom grew up together as brothers but in the sport together. They went quicker. 1.15, 16, 17. The lap record at 1.20. You do that together and then somebody else comes in and jumps on with you and you're expecting them to be able to do the same thing. It's going to take time. It is a relationship and it takes time to build one that's capable of winning a race around the TT course. There's Blackstock and Oscar Lawrence. Look at this. You'll get an idea. See where the feet are jammed in. All the different and again here there's what I would refer to as skateboard grip tape on a lot of parts of the side of the outfit. Over the kerb on the inside for Birchall and Rosne. The passengers see the physios more than anyone else Cameron and it's not a big surprise really. Up to the bungalow comes Ben Birchall and Patrick Rosne. They're running second on the road remember. And there was a pretty big gap it's fair to say to these two Ryan and Callum Crowe and it's up to 30. 30.9 about two, three, three quarters of the way around the first lap. Amazing. These boys are just so comfortable with each other, with their outfit and that confidence just keeps building. On to the start finish straight. 30 seconds up the road plus the 10 they started ahead. They're in a different postcode. Ryan and Callum Crowe over the start finish line and that is the fastest ever lap we've seen from a standing start in a sidecar. 119.950. Birchall and Rosne coming through. A wonderful section you just see the attitude in the the chairs as they're called. Yep, Birchall and Rosne up over the jump. Still these two are locked together out on the roads. Clark and Johnson, Ellis and Clement seemingly either unable or unwilling to close that gap down between the two. Maybe they're just that closely matched. Yeah, well they're in a position in the race where probably just as well to hold their position now on this final lap. Riding on board. Thornton and Hardy coming down through Caramore. Super, super bumpy section as we just see. This really is where the outfit does walk across the road. This really is a dream pairing. A dream situation. Ryan Callum Crowe, their father Nick Crowe, TT winner. Dave Molyneux, 17 times TT winner. Most successful sidecar driver of all time and sidecar engineer. Helped this team develop that outfit. They're on board now. You look underneath it, you can see just the various different lumps sticking out from the air. Oh no, Saunders and Cook have lost drive. They've lost driving here. The engine revs spiking up. They're gonna have to pull that over the side of the road just before Ginger Hall. It's the end of the Solby Straight. At least it's only a short walk to the pub for them. Yeah, good shot. That's where Peter Hickman ended up last year, wasn't it? Up to the hairpin. Virtua and Rosny, 54 seconds down now, but good progress in terms of their lap pace. Coming through the same section. Yeah, you don't see the amount of aero underneath. I'm gonna have to go down and have a look at the Crowe's machine at some point. I want a good look underneath it. Not sure I'm gonna get it. I think that's the sort of thing that's gonna be well hidden. I think Andrew could be in line behind a few of the other sidecar competitors at the moment because they'll be scratching their heads at how this young pairing are just achieving the unachievable. Yeah, 100%. Here it is. Look again. Look underneath. You see just the little bits? I'm intrigued by it. Out then, on to the final straight. It is a second sidecar TT win here for the Crowe brothers. Ryan and Callum at home on the Isle of Man and it is their fourth in a row. Double victors last year, double victors this year. They are dominating the category. The Crowe brothers take their fourth sidecar win in a row. Great to see the Manx flag on the top step of the podium. Ben Birchall and Patrick Rosny, P2 after 116.5 in terms of their race pace and Lee Crawford and Scott Hardy get third.