The trio will debut the up to date Honda CBR1000RR-R Fireblade SP on the roads subsequent season, with three-time TT winner Dean Harrison a headline signing having left DAO Racing Kawasaki earlier within the yr.
Dean Harrison will compete within the main street racing occasions, together with the North West 200 and the Isle of Man TT, plus the British Superbike championship, on board Honda equipment within the Superbike, Superstock and Supersport classes at each the NW200 and the TT.
Dean Harrison will type a three-rider assault for Honda together with 23-time TT winner McGuinness – who heads into his thirty fourth season of bike racing – and Nathan Harrison who was dominated out of the vast majority of his debut season on the workforce as a consequence of harm.
“I can’t wait to start a brand new chapter with Honda Racing UK and I jumped on the probability when this chance took place,” Dean Harrison stated. “If I am sincere, it hasn’t sunk in but and I don’t suppose it should till I get to journey the bike for the primary time in Honda colors.
“It seems like a very good time to have a refresh and now’s pretty much as good a time as any for a change. I’ve all the time been a Honda fan, and Honda is the best way I wish to go. I’m additionally actually wanting ahead to being a part of a multi-rider workforce after driving in a solo workforce for therefore lengthy. To have the ability to see one another’s information and collaborate on concepts goes to be of nice worth to me.
“The quick circuits are an enormous a part of my season and I believe that working with Andrew and the workforce will assist to deliver me on and push me to the subsequent degree. Then on the roads, to work with John and Nathan, each of whom I’ve an awesome working relationship with, is basically thrilling. I believe that the Honda bundle, with the brand new bike, could possibly be the lacking hyperlink that I want.”
Dean Harrison has been a frontrunner on the TT lately in opposition to formidable opponents Peter Hickman and Michael Dunlop, ending third in 5 of his six TT begins this yr and the opposite being runner-up within the Senior TT to Hickman, along with his final win coming within the 2019 Senior TT.
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Nathan Harrison, Havier Beltran, John McGuinness, Dean Harrison
Dean Harrison will companion Andrew Irwin in Honda’s BSB rider line-up, with Jack Kennedy additionally coming into the workforce to symbolize Honda within the British Supersport championship with the brand new CBR600RR.