Man TT – The first for Michael Dunlop

After dominating qualifying, Dunlop won after 1h10 of effort at a terrifying average of 218 km/h. He crossed the line more than 12 seconds ahead of Peter Hickman and Dean Harrison on his Yamaha R6 prepared and entered by his own MD Racing team.

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Now a 22-time winner on the Isle of Man, all categories combined, Michael Dunlop only ceded control of the race very briefly to Dean Harrison at the start of the event. He managed to increase the pace after his stop on the second lap to win at the end of the 4 loops on the program for this inaugural race of the 2023 edition on the Isle of Man.

This victory, his third in a row in the Supersport second division of the “Stock” categories, brings him within one victory of John McGuinness and into second place in the ranking of the most victorious drivers all time behind his uncle Joey Dunlop who has 26 victories. With 7 races remaining for Dunlop, including the second Supersport race on Wednesday after the first Superbike round today, this record could fall at the end of next week.

Asked about the prospect of closing in on his uncle Joey's record, Dunlop remained characteristically taciturn, a family trademark, simply admitting that he wanted to ride and see what happens throughout the remaining seven solo races this season. week.

“I don’t know,” he just conceded when he got off his motorcycle,  I keep driving and what has to happen will happen. My pleasure is to win races here, on bikes that I prepared myself. This is what makes me happy. It's not the easiest place to do it, but when you do it you have this unique feeling of having achieved something very important. »

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