Monday 29th August

1015 - Okells Brewery Junior Classic TT Race - 4 laps - Start List

1210 – 1305 - MGP Senior, Junior, Supertwin & Lightweight qualifying - 2 laps

1400 - Motorsport Merchandise Superbike Classic TT Race - 4 laps  - Start List

1600 – 1630 - Classic Racer Magazine Classic TT Lap of Honour - 1 lap

1700 - Newcomers MGP Race - 4 laps - Start List - Start List

Roads close at 0930 until no later than 2100

Issued on Monday, 29 August 2016 at 8:20am by Ronaldsway Met Office

Today will be dry with good sunny spells during the morning and early afternoon, but with the threat of some patchy hill fog which will gradually lift during the day. 
The light west to north-westerly wind will back to the southwest during the day with afternoon temperatures reaching up to 19°C at best.

Click on the Graphic for Manx Radio AM Coverage

The Bungalow at 08:30

Michael Dunlop won a thrilling Okells Junior Race in today’s Isle of Man Classic TT Races presented by Bennetts, the opening race of the day.

The debate on the start line was focused on the impact of refuelling but ultimately it didn’t prove decisive with Dunlop, who pitted at the end of the second lap prevailing over Rutter, who didn’t. 

The Northern Ireland rider clawed back a deficit of over thirty seconds to take the chequered flag in a new race record for the class of 103.061 (1:27.51.735) for the class, beating Chris Palmers time set in 2013 by over a minute.

Ex-GP World Champion Freddie Spencer got the race underway on time at 10.15 with Clerk of the Course Gary Thompson advising that conditions were excellent with good visibility all round the course apart from damp patches at Glen Helen, Ginger Hall and Ramsey Hairpin.

Dunlop, who topped the qualifying board on the Black Eagle Racing MV Agusta with 102.567, undoubtedly started favourite but Jamie Coward on the Ted Woof Honda Craven K4, brother William riding a Davies Motorsport Honda, Classic Racing specialist Alan Oversby on the Davies Motorsport Honda and last year’s race winner Michael Rutter on the ’72 Ripley Land Racing K4 Drixon Honda all posted 100+mph laps in qualifying.

As expected Michael Dunlop lead at the opening checkpoint by seven seconds from Rutter but there was disappointment for brother William who retired at Ballacraine on the opening lap.  Coward held third place by 2 seconds from Oversby with James Cowton riding a ’62 Honda completing the top five and Cameron Donald, riding the Ripley Land Racing AJS was back in sixth almost ten seconds behind Coward.

Dunlop moved ahead of Rutter to lead on the road by Ramsey by over ten seconds but behind the leading pair Donald moved into the top five when Cowton retired on the run into Kirk Michael on the opening lap.

Dunlop maintained his ten second lead with his opening lap of 103.775/ 21:48.864 from Rutter (102.913/ 21:59.836) who in turn had a lead of over 27 seconds from third placed Jamie Coward (100.818/ 22:27.253).  Oversby (100.458/ 22:38.31) and Donald (97.794/ 23:08.923) completed the top five with veteran campaigner Dave Madsen Mygdal on the Team Gimbert Racing Honda holding sixth a further 9 seconds back on the fifth placed rider.

While Dunlop was powering ahead at the front of the field on the second lap, his Black Eagle Racing teammate Dean Harrison was reported to have clutch problems and the Bradford rider duly retired in the pits at the end of the opening lap.

Rutter edged back in front of Dunlop on the road at Cronk-ny-Mona, reducing the deficit to under ten seconds in the process, and with Dunlop coming into the pits at the end of the second lap and Rutter running straight through, Rutter’s lead was over 35 seconds at Glen Helen on the third lap.

Coward (102.087), Oversby (101.728) and Donald (100.209) also ran straight through at the end of the second lap with the deficit between Coward and Dunlop reduced by Dunlop’s pit stop. Oversby maintained his fourth place, ten seconds off the final place with Donald over a minute behind Oversby completing the top five.

However, Dunlop was clearly on a charge on the third lap and Rutter’s lead was down to 23 seconds by Ramsey. Coward was reported as a retirement at Kerrowmoar, which saw Oversby slot into the final podium position, Donald up to fourth and Dan Cooper move into the top five.

Rutter lead was only fourteen seconds going into the last lap and was down to four seconds by Glen Helen.  The Northern Ireland racer duly moved into a two second lead by Ballaugh Bridge, moved in front of Rutter on the road and took the chequered flag by 10.053 seconds from Rutter.  Alan Oversby’s last lap of 101.116/ 22:23.294/ clinched third place in an overall time of 101.340/ 1:29.21.268 with Cameron Donald fourth in 98.844/ 1:31.36.622 and Dan Cooper (98.012/ 1:32.23.348) completing the top five.

Alex Sinclair on the SCS Racing Drixon Honda took the prize for leading privateer finishing 7th overall in 97.531/ 1:32.50.684.  Maria Costello followed up her third place in the Bennetts Senior by winning the Phil Read Classic TT Trophy as the first 250cc to finish.

Cameron Donald on the Ripley Land Racing AJS, took the Peter Williams Trophy fashioned using a genuine titanium con rod from the original Wagon Wheels Matchless Arter.  The trophy was awarded to the highest placed AJS or Matchess in the Senior and Junior, with Cameron’s 4th place beating Hefyn Owen’s 11th from Saturday’s Bennetts Senior Classic TT Race.

Michael Dunlop took first place in the Okells Junior Classic TT Race riding the Black Eagle Racing 350 MV Agusta replica

Michael Rutter took a well earned second place finish on the Ripley Land Racing Honda Drixton twin 
in the Okells Junior Classic TT Race

Third place went to Alan Oversby in Monday's Okells Junior Classic TT Race. He was riding a Davies Motorsport Honda.

350cc Junior Classic TT Race (4 laps)   -  Results   -  Lap-by-lap

Michael Dunlop at the Creg-ny-baa on his way to winning the Motorsport Merchandise Superbike Classic TT 
on the 1100cc Team Classic Suzuki XR69 replica

Dean Harrison on the Silicone Engineering Kawasaki ZXR750 at the Creg-ny-baa 
during the Motorsport Merchandise Superbike Classic TT

James Hillier on the Greenall Racing Kawasaki ZXR750 at the Creg-ny-baa 

Superbike Classic TT Race (4 laps)   -  Results  -   Lap-by-lap

Revised Results - Results 

The Isle of Man’s Michael Evans continued the form that saw him dominate qualifying for the MGP ‘Newcomer A’ class to win the opening race of the 2016 Manx Grand Prix meeting.

After the race the clearly elated Manx rider who receives the Atcheson Trophy said:

“First lap I thought I was in a good place but I was down but I thought I just needed to keep my head.  This is the only reason I started racing – this was the dream – twenty-three years in the making.  There were lots of people waving but I tried not to get too excited and make sure I just got across the line. It doesn’t feel real.”


However, their was drama in the Newcomer B Race when Cheshire’s Jonathan Perry, who had built up a lead of over 16 seconds after the opening two laps, had a disastrous pit stop and lost the race to Australian Paul Van Der Heiden.

After a delay of ten minutes the IMGold Manx Grand Prix newcomers A and B Race got underway at 5.10pm.  Conditions were excellent all round the course although damp patches were reported, notably at the exit point of Laurel Bank.

In a change to previous policy, the riders were seeded based on their qualifying times which meant that the Isle of Man’s Michael Evans was first away following his sensational times during practice – most notably Saturday’s 119.758 followed by fellow Manx competitor Brendan Fargher.

Although Evans was first to Glen Helen, opening up a gap of 4.4 seconds over Fargher, it was actually Wayne Humbles, the third fastest qualifier, from Cumbria who was fastest to Glen Helen, leading Evans by a second and a half.  Jamie Williams from the Isle of Man was ahead of Fargher by Glen Helen on the opening lap but Fargher moved into third place by over three seconds at Ballaugh with Austrian Julian Trummer completing the top five.

However, all eyes were focused at the front of the field where Evans had cut Humble’s lead to half a second by Ramsey with Fargher only a further two seconds behind the leading pair in third.

Evans moved into the front of the field at Cronk Ny Mona and his opening lap of 116.291 / 19:27996 gave him a lead of 2.3 seconds from Humble with Fargher (115.538) a further five seconds back in third.  Jamie Williams (115.170) remained in fourth at the end of the opening lap, just under four seconds behind Fargher with Trummer completing the top five and Spain’s Raul Torras Martinez (114.044) in sixth a further ten seconds behind the Austrian.

Sean Montgomery, who had been running in 9th place, was reported off at Sarah’s Cottage but unhurt.

Williams lost time on the opening sector of the second lap, which saw Trummer move five seconds ahead of the Manx rider but Evans continued to set the pace and by Ramsey on the second lap he had extended his lead to over six seconds from second placed Humble.

Coming into the pits at the end of the second lap, Evans’s 117.034 gave him a healthy lead of over 12 seconds from Humble with Fargher a further nine seconds behind in third and Trummer maintaining his fourth place.

While Evans continued to maintain a healthy advantage over Humble, there was battle for the final podium places with Humble, Fargher and Trummer with the gap between Fargher and Trummer only 2 seconds by Ballaugh on the third lap.

Evans continued to press and by the end of the third lap he had increased the gap over Humble to a decisive 24 seconds. However, behind the leading pair, Trummer moved into third and opened up a gap of over six seconds from Fargher, the majority of which came in the final sector from Cronk Ny Mona to the Grandstand.

Evans clinched the win with a final lap of 115.848/ 19:32.465, which gave him a race time of 115.196/ 1:18.36.409.  Trummer’s late charge saw him focus his attention on second placed Humble and he had closed the gap to just over 3 seconds by Ballaugh. The Austrian moved ahead of Humble at Ramsey, albeit by less than a second.  That remained the gap at Cronk – Ny – Mona and Trummer held on to take second place with a race time of 114.591/ 1:19.01.334 by only 0.4 seconds from Humble 114.579/ 1:19.01.798.

In the Newcomers B Race, Cheshire’s Jonathan Perry was narrowly outside the class lap record on his first lap, clocking 109.301/ 20:422.699 which gave him an eleven second lead from Van Der Heiden (108.299/ 20:54.192 with Marc Ironside (107.335/ 21:05.460 a further eleven seconds behind the Australian in third.

Perry went even quicker on his second lap and even though he was slowing down for the pits, he still posted a lap of 110.1309, which gave him a lead of over sixteen seconds. However, Perry had a disaster in the pits, taking over 2 minutes and forty-two seconds as a result of a blown starter fuse, which meant that Van Der Heiden moved into the lead by Glen Helen, ten seconds ahead of Marc Ironside with Dave Butler moving up into third.  Perry rejoined the race but was over a minute and thirty seconds off the final podium place.

Van Der Heiden’s third lap of 105.422 (21:28.418) gave him a lead of over ten seconds from second placed Ironside but behind the leading pair, Perry was fighting back.

Van Der Heiden clinched the Braddan Bridge Trophy in a new race record of 108.574/ 1:23.24.077 ten seconds ahead of Scotland’s Marc Ironside (108.351/ 1:23.34.364) who had the consolation of a new lap record of 111.101/ 22:22.564 on the last lap. In the battle for the final podium place, Perry was only a second behind Butler at Glen Helen and by Ramsey he’d opened a twelve second lead over Butler on the last lap, eventually taking the final podium place in 105.967/ 1:25.27.175

Newcomers A   -  Results  -   Lap-by-lap

Newcomers B  -   Results  -   Lap-by-lap