By 6:05 PM – Roads close
6:12 PM – Mixed, damp conditions in prospect for riders.
6:20 PM – Rain, rain, rain! Popping up at Billown.
6:27 PM – Course conditions rapidly changing
6:31 PM – 1100cc qualifying due to commence
6:34 PM – Qualifying underway, Dominic Herbertson, Jean Pierre Polet, Paul Jordan amongst the first to venture out.
6:36 PM – Senior TT winner Davey Todd, first to complete to a lap.
6:40 PM – Dean Harrison sets the initial pace, 98.025 mph (2.36.082), the times sheet topping time from the Honda Racing UK rider.
6:41 PM – Davey Todd (2.39.513)
6:42 PM – BE/RK Racing’s Dominic Herbertson goes quickest, then Jamie Coward goes fastest, 99 mph + (2.33.308).
6:44 PM – Michael Dunlop, second quickest, (2.33.749).
6:45 PM – Dean Harrison, now P3 on the live timing screens.
6:46 PM – Jamie Coward on pole position for tonight’s Senior race. Michael Dunlop, Dean Harrison complete the front row.
The second-row features Dominic Herbertson, Michael Browne and Jackson Racing’s Paul Jordan.
6:47 PM – S100 debutant, Imatranajo wizard Erno Kostamo an impressive seventh quickest.
6:50 PM – Billown course, reported to be increasingly drying.
6:52 PM – Super Twins qualifying underway
6:59 PM – Coward, Browne, Rob Hodson, Todd astride the Dafabet Racing Kawasaki, Joe Yeardsley, Stephen McKnight the top six, post opening flying laps.
7:01 PM – Hodson, Todd record new PB lap times, 2:40.620, 2:41.136 respectively.
7:02 PM – Michael Sweeney usurps Yeardsley, goes fifth fastest.
7:03 PM – 3.2 seconds cover the top four.
7:04 PM – 96.371 mph, Coward ups the pace, consolidates qualifying victory.
7:05 PM – Hodson, Todd, Browne, Yeardsley finish second, third, fourth, fifth quickest.
7:06 PM – Skerries Sprint winner Sweeney, Marc Colvin, Paul ‘Potchy’ Williams, Stephen McKnight, Kelly Carruthers sixth-tenth.
7:09 PM – Supersport qualifying, (white-plates) next out.
7:10 PM – Dean Harrison not aboard works Honda tackle, piloting jet black liveried, Apache Automotive sponsored Honda machinery.
7:15 PM – Supersport vaults (white-plated competitors) descend upon Billown.
7:22 PM – Solid pace from ‘Friendly Races’ newcomer, Peoples Bike Team’s Grant Thomson (2.48.186).
7:28 PM – Matt Mylchreest (94.377 mph) tops the white-plated Supersport racers qualifying session, laps at nigh on sub 2:42 seconds, (2.42.116). Kelly Carruthers, Craig Howton second, third quickest.
7:31 PM – Supersport qualifying, (yellow-plate exponents) next out.
7:36 PM – Jonathan Perry, Barry Furber first past the finish-line.
7:38 PM – Paul Jordan to the top, 2:35.835 seconds.
7:40 PM – Bob Smith Spring Cup winner Michael Browne (101.081 – 2:31.364 seconds) takes over qualifying leadership reigns.
7:41 PM – Michael Dunlop second fastest, 2:34.856 seconds.
7:42 PM – Jamie Williams, 2:33.015 seconds, Paul Jordan 2:34.655 seconds.
7:43 PM – Browne (102.489 mph) goes faster, 2:29.285 seconds. Dominic Herbertson (2.31.904), now second quickest.
7:45 PM – The top three, Browne (last lap – 2:26.969), Herbertson, Jordan all top, the 100-mph lap-mark.
7:46 PM – TT wins record holder Dunlop (100.682) seals front-row spot for opening Supersport race-contest. Boyce Precision Engineering/Russell Racing’s Browne takes pole ahead of Super Twins TT rostrum finisher Herbertson.
7:48 PM – Jordan, Williams, Joe Yeardsley fourth to sixth fastest.
7:49 PM – Soon three-wheeling time!
7:52 PM – World Champions, TT giants, S100 maestros all participating.
7:58 PM – Lee Crawford/Scott Hardie rapidest (2.38.386), closely followed by the Crowes Ryan & Callum.
7:59 PM – The Crowes take provisional pole, (2.35.441). just 0.053 separate them and Crawford/Hardie.
8:00 PM – All-star leader-board top six.
8:01 PM – Crowes finish the swiftest driver/passenger pairing, pipping Crawford/Hardie.
8:02 PM – Ben Birchall/Kevin Rousseau P3, Tim Reeves/Mark Wilkes P4, Pete Founds/Jevan Walmsley P5, Alan Founds/Rhys Gibbons P6.
Photo credit: Mark Corlett
Words by Stevie Rial #dontletfearcontrolyou
