BEN & TOM BIRCHALL
SIDECAR FORMULA 2 TT
Ben and Tom Birchall took their seventh
Isle of Man win on Saturday evening
when they blitzed the record books in the
opening Locate.im Formula Two Sidecar
race at the 2018 Isle of Man TT Races
fuelled by Monster Energy, shattering both
lap and race records.
The Mansfield brothers broke their own
lap record on each of the three laps,
moving the outright lap record to an
astonishing 118.694mph, and they came
home 47.1s clear of John Holden/Lee Cain
with Tim Reeves/Mark Wilkes completing
the podium in third.
After the race Ben revealed that they
had to work hard for the win and paid
tribute to his brother and team. He said,
“You never know what pace you can run
on the Isle of Man. Tom’s been incredible
– faultless. We had a bit of a moment at
Windy Corner – I’m blaming the wind.
We’ve got a great team and Chris builds
some great engines.”
SUPERSPORT TT RACE 1
Michael Dunlop (MD Racing Honda)
took a record-breaking win in Monday’s
Monster Energy Supersport race, coming
home 10.2s clear of Dean Harrison
(Silicone Engineering Kawasaki). Dunlop’s
second lap of 129.197mph shattered
his own lap record from 2013 and it
propelled him to his second win of the
week and 17th in total. Harrison’s second
place went some way to make up for
the disappointment of retiring from
Saturday’s RST Superbike race with the
same applying to Peter Hickman (Trooper
Beer Triumph) who took third.
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