MOLYNEUX REUNITES WITH SAYLE AND HAS FIRST RUN OUT IN PREPARATION FOR 2016 TT

The two most successful individuals in the history of the sidecar TT are teaming back up together for the 2016 Isle of Man TT Races fuelled by Monster Energy.

Dave Molyneux and Dan Sayle have 25 TT wins between them. They last raced together in 2009 when they won the only chair race to be completed. Previous to that they also won one in 2005 and both sidecar races in 2004. Sayle is widely acknowledged as the best passenger of the modern age on the course.

He partnered Nick Crowe to the long-standing outright sidecar lap record in 2007, only beaten this year by Moly and Benjamin Binns, before going on to win three TTs with Austrian Klaus Klaffenbock and another with Tim Reeves in 2013. He finished second and third with John Holden this year when standing in for the injured Andy Winkle.

Sayle has partnered Crowe, Klaffenbock, Reeves and Holden to their fastest laps of the Mountain Course. Molyneux, who has raced with no fewer than 12 passengers in a TT career stretching back to 1985, teamed up with Ben Binns for this year's race. The Manx pair led the first Sure Sidecar TT race before retiring and finishing runner up to the Birchall brothers in the second, establishing a new outright lap record of 116.785mph in the process.

Speaking to Isle of Man Newspapers Sports Editor John Watterson earlier in the week, Molyneux said:

"I've got a couple of good years left in me I hope. I'm 52 in November and I've still got a few more wins in me. Dan is the best of the lot to partner me as I've got a few unticked boxes to complete before I'm too old."

The dream team were re-united for the first time in six years at Silverstone this weekend when they, the Birchalls and reigning British F2 champions Alan Founds and Tom Peters were guest crews in the British F1 championship race. The Manx pair, although at a considerable disadvantage compared with the F1 machines, finished 12th and 9th, with a fastest lap of 2m 22.603 which was believed to be the fastest by an F2 machine around the Silverstone circuit.