Michael Dunlop secured a win double in the Supersport and Superstock classes in Thursday night’s racing at the North West 200.
The victories were the Northern Ireland rider’s first at the event since 2016 and took his overall career tally of North West successes to seven.
Dunlop clinched a dramatic win in the opening Supersport race by blasting past eventual runner-up Richard Cooper on the run to Mather’s Cross on the final lap and went on to win by a margin of just 0.378 seconds.
For the 36-year-old, it was only his second victory in the class at the North West, although he has dominated the middleweight category at the Isle of Man TT, where he has won a record 13 Supersport races.
Dunlop set a new lap record on his final circuit at 118.65mph, with Davey Todd taking third behind Cooper, and Dean Harrison, Peter Hickman and Jamie Coward making up the top six leaderboard.
Earlier in the evening, Davey Todd led from start to finish to claim his first Superbike win at the North West 200 on Thursday night.
Riding a BMW for the 8TEN Racing team, the Yorkshireman had just two tenths of a second to spare over runner-up Dean Harrison at the finishing line.
Todd’s team-mate Peter Hickman, the pole position man, was a further 1.4 seconds adrift in completing the podium places, with Michael Dunlop, Ian Hutchinson and Jamie Coward completing the top six.
