This year, with the schedule increased to 10 races, he is aimi🥀ng💖 to start every one to break his own record of eight races from 2022.

His entry inꦍto both solo and sidecar rꦬaces will give him a unique opportunity - he has raced three times at this year’s event already, and plans to enter the next seven too.

"2020 was going to be the first attempt at doing all the races but 🍒Covid scuppered that," Russell told 🉐the .

"You are only permitted to do so ma❀ny laps in the day but the ACU [the event organisers] looked at it andꦫ said we could do it, the schedule they had laid out for the event allowed for it.

"We managed to put together a full sta🐠ble of bikes and I started all eight races las♓t year, finishing seven of them.

ꦺ"It was very physically and mentally demanding and I was running on adrenaline by the end of the week.

"Unfortunately, a minor technical issue, a bolt, thwarted m🌳e finishing the Senior and I was quite emotional ab🍒out it, I felt really deflated.

"I was in🦂 tears when my machine broke down but I regrouped, came back to the paddock and me and my team had some champagne.

"The TT is the toughest chall🐈en🌄ge on man and machine so I'm under no illusions how difficult it is to finish any given race."

Part of the allure of Russell’s record-seeking is that competes in both solo and sidecar 𓂃categories.

“Jumping from smaller bikes to big bikes is difficꦜult,” he said.

“They are very different in tꦇerms of how you sit, how you react, and the braking markers vary so much.

"Vicky Cooke is my sidecar passenger this year, she is behind me so she is my responsibility, and that is something I take very seriousl🐓y.

"Riding a solo you have that suspension but the battering you take in a sidecar is ridicu🌌l🔴ous. It requires a different mentality."

Russell is 42, an RAF serviceman. Gordon Blackley, a fellow serviceman𒉰 and a TT rider, enticed him to compete on the Mountain Course for the first time.

Russell won the Senior Manx Grand Prixꦫ in 2009, started racing at the TT in 2010, and started in sidecars in 2018.

"I know it's a dangerous event but that's part of ꩲthe thrill of it,” he said. “We're doing something that not ever﷽yone can do.

"The aim is to sta🐻rt every race b෴ut it's also to finish them all too."