Wednesday, June 5

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They're away with Moly leading them off down Glencrutchery

John Holden follows, then it's Tm Reeves, next the Birchall boys,

Conrad Harrison, Gary Bryant, Dougie Wright is next


Birchalls leading T Reeves at Ballaugh by some 5 secs.

Birchalls clock 144 mph through the Sulby Speed trap

Ramsey Lap 1

Birchalls
T Reeves
C Harrison
Moly
J Holden
D Wright
G Bryan
G Lambert
R Handcock
F Lelias

Tony Baker / Fiona Baker-Milligan park up at the hairpin.
Birchalls are + 10 at the Bungalow

End of Lap 1

Birchall boys + 10.7
T Reeves
Moly
C Harrison
J Holden
G Bryan
D Wright
G Lambert
R Handcock

Karl Bennet/Lee Caine in at the pits making adjustments
48 retires at Windy

Birchalls are 11.5 up at Glen Helen
Moly is 8 secs behind Reeves
At Ballaugh, Moly slips into 2nd place (Has Reeves got a problem ??)
Yes, Reeves has retired at Ballaugh.
43 retired at May Hill

Ramsey Lap 2

Moly through first on the road, then come the Birchalls

Birchalls + 20
Moly + 7.0
C Harrison + 23
J Holden
D wright
G Bryan
R Handcock
F Lelias
G Knight

Moly pulls 3 secs back on the Birchalls by the Bungalow
54 retires at Union Mills

End of Lap 2 - Start of Last Lap

Moly first on the road

Birchalls + 16 (114.66 lap)
Moly
C Harrison
J Holden
D Wright
G Bryan
F Lelias
R Handcock
G Knight

Birchalls are +18 at Glen Helen
Birchalls clock 144.9 through the Sulby Speed trap

Ramsey Last Lap

First through on the road is Moly
Where is D Wright ??

Birchalls + 20
Moly + 16
C Harrison
J Holden
G Bryan
F Lelias
G Knight
R Handcock

Birchalls keep a 17 secs lead at the Bungalow
D Wright retired at Kirk Michael
G Lambert retired

End of Lap 3 & The Finish Line

Moly first through on the road

Birchalls take the win
Moly
C Harrison
J Holden
G Bryan
G Knight
F Lelias
W Lockey
D Banks
M Donovan
J Saunders
R Hanks





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For the second time at the 2013 Isle of Man TT Races, fuelled by Monster Energy, the Sure Formula Two sidecar event saw debut winners with former World Champions Ben and Tom Birchall leading from start to finish to take their first victory around the Mountain Course.


Having been forced to retire from Saturday’s three-lap encounter when leading, the Nottinghamshire brothers made no mistakes this time around and took a 17.3s victory from Dave Molyneux/Patrick Farrance with Conrad Harrison/Mike Aylott having to settle for third on this occasion.

The Birchalls signalled their intentions from the start moving into a two-second lead at Glen Helen on the opening lap, with first race winners Tim Reeves/Dan Sayle slotting into second and Harrison a further one and half seconds back in third. Molyneux lay in fourth from John Holden/Andy Winkle and Gary Bryan/Jamie Winn.


There was no change at the top of the order over the remainder of the lap and a lap of 114.490mph gave the Birchalls a 10.7s lead over Reeves/Sayle with Molyneux/Farrance now moving up to third. Harrison/Aylott slipped back to fourth with Holden/Winkle and Bryan/Winn still in fifth and sixth.

Circulating ahead of Reeves/Sayle on the roads, the Birchalls extended their lead to 11.5s at Glen Helen on the second lap and that soon increased when the first race winners were forced to retire at Ballaugh. That promoted Molyneux/Farrance and Harrison/Aylott up into the podium places with Holden up to fourth and Dougie Wright/Martin Hull now getting the better of Bryan/Winn for fifth.


The Birchalls second lap was their personal best at 114.662 and although Molyneux/Farrance also lapped in excess of 114mph, they were now 16s behind. However, they were a similar distance clear of Harrison/Aylott with the top six remaining the same.

On the final lap, the Birchalls were able to maintain their advantage over Molyneux/Farrance and they took a superb victory thus following in the footsteps of Reeves in adding a TT victory to their World Championship success of 2009.

Harrison/Aylott took their fifth TT podium together with Holden/Winkle comfortable in fourth. Wright/Hull retired at Kirk Michael on the final lap and so Bryan/Winn took fifth with Gary/Dan Knight wrapping up their excellent TT campaign with sixth. Frank Lelias/Charlie Richardson did likewise in seventh with Wayne Lockey/Luke Capewell in eighth ahead of Dean Banks/Ken Edwards and Mick Donovan/Aaron Galligan, all of them achieving their best TT results.




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