Michael Dunlop has increased his record number of wins at the Isle of Man TT to 36 by taking victories in Supersport race two and Sportbike race one on Friday.
Dunlop continued his dominance of the Supersport class at the renowned international road race by taking his second victory of the week in that category and followed that up with a record-breaking success in the Sportbike two-lapper.
The Northern Ireland rider’s double in the Supersports means he has won 17 Supersport TT races, and remarkably the past 10 in succession. That unbeaten run stretches from 2022 to the present day.
Race two in the middleweight class followed a similar pattern to Tuesday’s first race as Dunlop trailed Honda Racing’s Dean Harrison in the early stages but a quicker pit-stop by the Scars Racing/MD Racing rider’s crew saw him assume the lead and gradually extend his advantage to claim a convincing success.
The 37-year-old’s eventual winning margin after three laps of the 37.73-mile Mountain Course was 26.126 seconds, with Triumph-mounted Peter Hickman a further 13.5 seconds further back in third to make it the same podium as in race one.
The Senior TT got underway this evening for a four lap race but it’s now rescheduled to tomorrow after it was halted in the early stages following a red flag incident.
