James Hind put the disappointment of being forced to retire when leading the MGP Junior Race earlier in the day behind him to win the Manx Grand Prix Supporters Club Lightweight MGP Race in the setting sun on the Isle of Man after rain delayed the race to the early evening.

The Market Rasen rider tore up the record books with a lap record from a standing start and then shattered his own record slowing down for the pits at the end of the second lap.

With Andrew Farrell a late withdrawal following his podium in the earlier Junior MGP Race, Mark Purslow was first away at 6.30pm, flagged away appropriately by three time TT Race winner Alex George who won the MGP Lightweight Race fifty years ago.

The anticipated head to head between the two fastest qualifiers quickly emerged with Italian Francesco Curinga - the fastest qualifier - on the Bemar Racing Team Paton, first to Glen Helen 2.6 seconds ahead of Hind.

And Curinga seemed to have a problem in the second sector – possibly held up by a rider in front of him – and Hind moved into a four second lead at Ballaugh Bridge and improved that lead to eight seconds by Ramsey with Dave Butler almost two seconds further back in third. Mark Purslow was fourth at the opening timing point with Chris Moore completing the top five. Gary Vines, runner up in last year’s MGP Lightweight Race 2, was an early retirement at Quarterbridge.

Hind, as he had in the Junior, set a new lap record on the opening – standing start – lap of 115.20 which gave him a ten second lead ahead of Curinga with Butler almost five seconds further back in third, Purslow fourth but already forty seconds off the race leader with Michael Rees a further two seconds back in fifth.

Hind’s second lap – 116.453 - destroyed the competition, shattering his own lap record in the process as he came into the pits for the compulsory pit stop. Although Curinga made up fourteen seconds in the pits on the race leader, Hind still held a 29 second lead heading out for the third and final lap. Butler maintained third place with a comfortable lead of fifty seconds over Chris Moore. Michael Rees’s challenge for a top five place ended when he lost almost a minute in the pits which saw Brad Vicars move into the top five at Glen Helen and Purslow’s race was also over, retiring in the pits.

Hind was circulating with Curinga on the road on the third lap and came home for a commanding win, almost thirty seconds ahead of Curinga with Butler clinching the final podium place over a minute ahead of Moore with Vicars completing the top five.

In the concurrent Manx Grand Prix Supporters Club Ultra Lightweight Race, La Marsellaise again reverberated around the Isle of Man for the second time in two days, following Pierre Yves Bian’s Newcomer A Race win, as French rider Lancelot Unissart brought home his Pullen Racing Honda in a dominant performance.

Alex Sinclair, the fastest qualifier, was first away but Unissart was first on the clock to Glen Helen, already almost three seconds ahead of Leon Murphy with Daniel Ingham in the final podium place and Radley Hughes and Alex Sinclair completing the top five.

Unissart appeared to be slowing over the Mountain while Hughes was moving steadily through the field on the opening lap and Unissart’s opening lap of 104.485mph left him trailing Hughes by a second after the Doncaster rider’s lap of 104.600mph.

Daniel Ingham remained very much in contention less than a second further back in third while Sinclair, only a further 2.2 seconds back, was also mounting his own challenge in fourth with Lloyd Collins completing the top five, a further five seconds back.

Unissart came back to move to the front of the field at Glen Helen on the second lap but Hughes was dropping rapidly down the leaderboard and came through the grandstand sixth on his second lap, almost forty seconds behind the race leader which left Ingham in second and saw Sinclair move into the final podium place. Lloyd Collins moved up to fourth and Tom Snow entered the top five.

At the end of the second lap the riders came in for their compulsory pit stop. Unissart simply put his foot down, as he is entitled to do, and added ten seconds to his lead over Ingham, who did his own ‘splash and dash’ pit stop.

Unissart comfortably held on to win with a final lap of 103.752mph but there was drama behind the Frenchman as second placed Ingham was reported to have retired at Windy Corner, only five miles from the finish. Tom Snow, who was on a last lap charge, moved through the field into the runner up slot with a final lap of 104.216 and Sinclair secured the final podium position.