For the second time at the 2013 Isle of Man TT Races, the Formula Two sidecar event saw debut winners with former World Champions Ben and Tom Birchall leading from start to finish to take their first ever victory around the Mountain Course. Having been forced to retire from Saturday’s three-lap encounter, the Nottinghamshire brothers made no mistakes this time ...
- Motorcycle Sport
- TT & road races
- 05 June 2013
Michael Dunlop took his first ever Superbike TT victory on Sunday afternoon, taking the lead at Ballaugh on the opening lap and going on to take a commanding 40 second victory from fellow Honda riders Cameron Donald and John McGuinness, the latter overcoming a one-minute pitlane penalty to set a new outright lap record of 131.671mph on the final lap. ...
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- TT & road races
- 02 June 2013
Four times World Sidecar Champion Tim Reeves powered to his first ever Isle of Man TT victory on Saturday afternoon, when he took the opening Formula Two sidecar race by almost 20 seconds. Together with passenger Dan Sayle, the duo took the lead at the end of the first lap and with Reeves recording his best ever TT speed on ...
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- TT & road races
- 01 June 2013
At the fourth time of asking, practice for the 2013 Isle of Man TT races went ahead exactly as scheduled and with conditions around the Mountain Course ideal, the lap times soon edged close to the 130mph mark with John McGuinness topping the session at 129.323mph, just ahead of Bruce Anstey on 129.144mph. BSB star and circuit newcomer Josh Brookes ...
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- TT & road races
- 31 May 2013
For the third day in a row, conditions on the Isle of Man worsened as the hours ticked by and just when Wednesday evening’s practice session was due to commence at 6.20pm, rain in the North of the Island led to a delay in proceedings. The earlier sunshine was a distant memory and with wet roads between Milntown Cottage and ...
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- TT & road races
- 30 May 2013
Tuesday evening’s practice session at the 2013 Isle of Man TT Races was cancelled after conditions slowly deteriorated during the late afternoon. The weathermen's prediction of rain to be falling by 6pm proved to be exactly right and with steady drizzle falling at the Grandstand and at various other parts of the course, the feeling amongst competitors in parc ferme ...
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- TT & road races
- 29 May 2013
Michael Dunlop took victory in Saturday's North West 200 Supersport race although heavy rain meant conditions were treacherous and the result declared at the end of the second lap after four riders crashed out, fortunately without injury. "A win's a win, I guess," said Dunlop "but it was hard going and there's no grip at all. I tried to take Station ...
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- TT & road races
- 18 May 2013
Bruce Anstey won one of the most thrilling races in Isle of Man TT history when he took the first Supersport race on Monday afternoon from fellow Antipodean Cameron Donald by just 0.77s. Once long time leader Michael Dunlop retired on the third lap, there was never more than a couple of seconds between Anstey, Donald and Gary Johnson with ...
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- TT & road races
- 04 June 2012
With the beautiful weather returning to the Isle of Man once more, expectations were high going into the final evening’s practice session on Friday but it all came to nothing as an oil spill left the course unrideable. With the top to the bottom of Barregarrow and Ballaugh sections affected, only two laps of solo practice were possible and the ...
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- TT & road races
- 02 June 2012
Ryan Farquhar got his 2011 road racing season underway in perfect style on Sunday when he dominated the Ian Watson Trophy races at Oliver’s Mount, Scarborough. The KMR Kawasaki rider was again in imperious form around the woodland circuit and won all seven races that he started including the feature trophy race for the fourth consecutive year. With the 2.43-mile ...
- Motorcycle Sport
- TT & road races
- 18 April 2011
