KIWI RIDER 06 2018 VOL.2 | Page 68

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HARRISON

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With the fastest ever times in all six sectors now under his belt, having not held one before the race, Harrison led by 17s at Ramsey and as he came in at the end of the lap for his first pit stop, he stopped the clocks at 134.180mph. His lead was a healthy 16.3s over Dunlop, who lapped at 133.513mph. Cummins was still in third after setting a new personal best lap of 132.589mph as Hillier, David Johnson and Gary Johnson maintained the fourth, fifth and sixth places. At half race distance, Harrison’ s lead had been cut by 11.5s as Dunlop began to make his charge. The race was really hotting up and by Glen Helen on the fourth
lap, Dunlop had taken a further 2.5s out of his deficit, the difference now just nine seconds. Harrison still led on the road at Ballaugh but all was not well as he lost over five seconds on the run from Glen Helen and the gap was just 4.6s over the famous hump-backed bridge. And shortly afterwards, news came through that Harrison’ s superb race had ended with retirement at Sulby Crossroads. Dunlop took the chequered flag for his 16th TT win with Cummins equalling his best ever result in second as he took his seventh podium. Hillier rounded out the podium, the 11th time he has been on the rostrum.

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