Peter Hickman Reveals Cause of Frightening TT Crash and Provides Injury Update

According to a report from The Race, 14-time Isle of Man TT winner Peter Hickman has revealed that a component failure on his 8Ten Racing BMW was the cause of the crash that took him out of contention at this year’s race. The incident occurred during a practice session at Kerrowmoar on Friday evening, and Hickman has now broken his silence over two weeks after the crash.

As The Race reported, Hickman crashed at Kerrowmoar during the Friday evening session of practice week, bringing out the red flags and initially being described as conscious and stable. He was later discharged from hospital a few days later and returned to the paddock to celebrate team-mate and team co-owner Davey Todd’s Superbike TT victory.

In a video posted to his social media on Monday morning, Hickman detailed the extent of the broken bones suffered in the fall. “Condition wise I’m not too bad,” he explained. “I’ve got quite a lot of broken bones. I’ve broken my left collarbone, my left scapula, the shoulder blade down the back is in three pieces, I broke three ribs and four vertebrae in my back.”

Hickman also expressed his gratitude to the marshals and medics who looked after him at the time of the crash. “I don’t remember a lot about it, because I was knocked out,” he said. “I don’t remember the lap leading up to it; in fact, the first thing I properly woke up, I woke up in hospital, which is a bit of a new experience for me in my 25-year career.”

There was initial speculation after the crash that the cause was equipment failure on his new 2025-spec BMW M1000RR, something in part fuelled by both TV footage from the seconds before the crash of the fairing hanging off and of reports from the initial part of his lap of the bike smoking. However, Hickman explained that those weren’t contributing factors, and instead, it was the failure of an exhaust bracket that caused the 140mph crash.

“I crashed at Kerrowmoar,” he added. “Actually, just past the Kerrowmoar left at the next right, and unfortunately it was component failure and not actually my fault. The team are doing some more analysis at the moment, but it wasn’t the fairing like was speculated at, and it wasn’t oil although I know a lot of people thought they saw smoke. Unfortunately it was the bracket that holds the exhaust in place. It didn’t come loose, it broke and pushed the exhaust into the rear tyre and popped it.”

As The Race reported, Hickman has been competing at the Isle of Man TT for ten years, and this is the first major problem that he’s ever had. “It’s just one of those things, and I have to thank the 8Ten Racing team because they looked after me loads,” he said. “It’s none of the guys’ fault; the bike was faultless. But it was a brand new bike to us, we hadn’t done a lot of testing, and these things can happen.”

The incident highlights the risks involved in competing at the Isle of Man TT, and Hickman’s injury update will be of interest to fans and fellow competitors alike. As reported by The Race, Hickman is expected to make a full recovery, and his team is already working to get him back on track as soon as possible.

For more information on the incident, and to view Peter Hickman’s video update, please visit The Race.



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