chris palmer has most isle of man tt wins.
chris palmer has most isle of man tt wins.
who has most isle of man tt wins?
chris palmer
the blue riband event of race meeting the senior tt race was won by john mcguinness and raising his tally of victories to 20 isle of man tt wins and also breaking the outright course record in the superbike tt with a lap at an average speed of 131.671. the event was dominated by michael dunlop winning the superbike tt race, supersport tt races 1 & 2, the superstock tt and the joey dunlop tt championship with 120 points from john mcguinness and bruce anstey in third place. the sidecar tt race produced a maiden isle of man tt wins for the two former sidecar world champions with tim reeves / dan sayle winning sidecar tt race 1 and ben birchall / tim birchall winning sidecar tt race 2. the lightweight tt for 650cc twin-cylinder motor-cycles produced another maiden win for james hillier and michael rutter scored a hattrick or wins in the tt zero class for electric powered motor-cycles after winning for the third consecutive year.
2013 isle of man tt
the lap 2 pit-stops proved to be dramatic as bruce anstey promptly retired with a slipping-clutch and guy martin retired at the quarterbridge after his pit-stop with a failed alternator. this left john mcguinness with a 4-second lead over the suzuki of cameron donald on lap 3 and a 34-second lead over ian hutchinson in 3rd place. as the pace of the senior tt race increased, the lead that mcguinness held fell to 2.0 seconds at ballaugh bridge on lap 3 to a lead of 0.1 seconds at the ramsey hairpin over cameron donald. at the start of lap 4, john mcguinness held onto a lead of 0.78 seconds at the tt grandstand which he held until ramsey on the same lap. the run over the mountain section proved to be crucial as with bruce anstey on lap 1 his suzuki teammate, cameron donald claiming a lead of 3.1 seconds over the honda of john mcguinness at the official timing-point at the bungalow. a lap of 129.231 mph by cameron donald gave him a health lead going into the second pit-stop at the end of lap 4. despite, john mcguinness having a slightly faster pit-stop he remained in 2nd place and the deficit was increased to 4.12 seconds at glen helen on lap 5 and by ramsey this had increased to 6.74 seconds. as the australian, cameron donald was on course for a prestigious hat-trick of tt wins on the last lap of the senior tt the 6.74 second lead at the tt grandstand fell dramatically to a 9.27 second deficit as the honda of john mcguinness became the new leader at glen helen on lap 6. as cameron donald slowed his pace with an oil-leak from a split crankcase on the last lap, john mcguinness produced the fastest lap of the race in 17 minutes and 28.54 seconds an average speed of 129.517 mph which was only 6.73 seconds slower than the 130.354 mph outright record set during the 2007 centenary tt races. after 6 laps of the snaefell mountain course, john mcguinness won the 2008 senior tt race in 1 hour, 46 minutes and 47.69 seconds at an average race speed of 127.186 mph, the most dramatic senior tt race since 1992 when steve hislop won the senior tt after beating carl fogarty. after claiming his 14th isle of man tt win and equalling the record of mike hailwood, in the winners enclosure john mcguinness said that;- "it was the closest big-bike tt race i have been in...i was relieved to hear the british national anthem as i was getting tried of listening to the new zealand and australian ones."
2008 isle of man tt