Dean Harrison lit up the Mountain Course, the Honda Racing UK rider lapping at 135.484mph on his Superstock machine.
Having topped every qualifying session, Harrison will head into Saturday’s three-lap Superstock race as the clear favourite, especially as his 135mph+ lap was a short lap as the session concluded, rather than a flying lap. His lap puts him almost half a minute quicker than the second fastest Superstock rider, Josh Brookes.
Unlike the morning session, most riders went with their Superstock bike first as they looked to make any last-minute changes to setup ahead of tomorrow’s race, one of the major exceptions being Peter Hickman, the 8TEN Racing rider clearly hoping to make further improvements after his earlier comments that the Superbike BMW M1000RR still needed to be refined.
John McGuinness (Honda Racing UK) was out on his Superstock bike, the team having changed engines on his Superbike in between sessions, but it was Michael Dunlop (MD Racing BMW) who led the field away ahead of Ian Hutchinson (Team RST BMW), Brookes (DAO Racing Honda) and Harrison.
The Honda Racing rider was six seconds quicker than anyone else on the nine-mile run to Glen Helen, with just over a second covering the riders in second to fifth, Dunlop, Hickman, Brookes and Hutchinson.
At 3.15pm, the final qualifying session at TT 2026 got underway with the Supersport and Sportbike machines getting their final chance to refine set-up ahead of Tuesday’s races, Dunlop, Brookes, Hickman, Dominic Herbertson and Michael Evans all out early on their Supersport mounts. Dean Harrison was a notable absentee though, his work for the day done.
Dunlop was quickest on the Scars Racing Ducati to Glen Helen, 2.7s quicker than Hickman (Swan Racing by PHR Performance Triumph) with Coward on the Rapid Honda in third ahead of Brookes (Uggly & Co. Racing Suzuki), Hutchinson (Burrows Engineering/RK Racing Ducati) and Evans (Dafabet Triumph).
Dunlop stretched his advantage through every sector with an opening lap of 128.719mph further cementing his status as the hot favourite for Supersport honours.
