The 2014 TT Festival held a Lap of Honour of the Snaefell Mountain Course in memory of Simon Andrews who earlier had suffered a fatal crash during the 1000 cc Superstock event of the 2014 North West 200 races in May.

[1] As with the 2013 Isle of Man TT races, the first part of the 2014 Practice Week was again dominated by inclement weather with the first evening session on Saturday 24 May cancelled due to heavy rain and mist on the Mountain Section of the course.

The Wednesday session on the 28 May held in cloudy and overcast conditions was red-flagged due to an incident at Barregarrow after the solo competitors had completed only one lap.

The rest of the Wednesday evening session was cancelled after rainfall returned to the northern sections of the Snaefell Mountain Course.

The Sidecar class started the Thursday evening session before being red-flagged after 20 minutes due to a civilian medical emergency in the Quarterbridge area of Douglas.

In contrast, the Friday evening practice session was held in good weather and a number of solo competitors completing five laps of the Mountain Course.

The Sidecar TT produced another maiden winner, with Race 1 being won by Conrad Harrison/Mike Aylott on a Shelbourne Honda 600 cc outfit at a race-average speed of 113.987 mph.

The Vernon Cooper Trophy for Fastest Newcomer was won by Peter Hickman, riding a 1000 cc BMW, during lap 6 of the Senior TT with a time of 17 minutes, 32.078 seconds at an average speed of 129.104 mph.

After completing a number of practice laps, Mark Higgins broke his own car record for the Snaefell Mountain Course driving a 2015 Subaru WRX STI with a lap time of 19 minutes, 15.88 at an average speed of 117.510 miles per hour (189.114 km/h) [5] A fatal accident to veteran Manx Grand Prix and TT competitor Bob Price occurred at Ballaugh Bridge during the Supersport TT Race 1.

[6] Former British Supersport champion Karl Harris crashed fatally at the 26th Milestone while competing in the Superstock TT Race.