A tribute has been paid to a father and son who died at the Isle of Man TT.
Roger Stockton, 56, and son Bradley, 21, died after an incident during a race at the TT on Friday, June 10. The incident took place a mile into the final lap of the pair's second race at the event and took the overall death toll at this year's event to five.
On Sunday, their team - Dennis Menace Racing - paid tribute to Roger and Bradley, from Crewe, Cheshire, in a post on Facebook. The post also revealed that the team will no longer race following the incident.
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Dennis Wakeling, of Dennis Menace Racing, posted on the team's Facebook page. He wrote: "My thoughts and deepest sympathy goes out to all of Roger and Bradley’s friends and family members. This is a tragic and shocking time and my heart is broken as I am sure that your hearts are broken too.
"I can only take some small piece of comfort that they are together. Please remember in your darkest moments, it was their dream to race together at the TT and they managed to live their dream."
The team was set up in 2016 and its aim was to allow Roger to return to TT race action and for Bradley to join him when he was old enough. Dennis added: "We had several years racing at club level very successfully winning several championships and collecting many beautiful trophies.
"Recently the team stepped up a level where I helped the lads to purchase some better equipment and enter the British Championships and in their first year, they were happy to finish 2nd in the F2 Cup. In their first race together on the island, they managed to finish 8th - an incredible achievement and I know the lads were enjoying the riding, it was their life long dream to ride together at the Isle of Man TT.
"We need to remember that this was their life long dream and unlike most people they managed to achieve it. Everybody that races at the TT or attends the races know of the dangers and risks involved. Racers are special people and not lay people like me, they understand the risks and dangers and somehow are able to still take part in these events."
Dennis continued: "Dennis Menace Racing, as a team was in my view Roger and Bradley and I have decided to send the team with them to heaven, where one day when the time comes I will join them and we will race as a team once again. If you look up at the stars on a clear evening you will see them racing on a shooting star, they are racers, they will always race….that’s what they do."
