By A plenitude of yesteryear racing stars, improving Motor Isle Billown course exponents, shone across main Blackford Financial Services Pre-TT Classic Road Races, premier race day.
Ruthless Racing’s Alan Oversby dominated the Senior 500’s encounter, claiming his first-class success in eleven years.
Oversby finished over 13 seconds ahead of plucky second place finisher, Dutch rider Jeffrey Vermeulen.
Kelly Carruthers completed the podium finishers as overall Singles race winner Will Loder, Tomo Burnett, Hefyn Owen, registered positions fourth-sixth.
Following concurrently ran 125 Post Classic, Lightweight 250 races, respectively saw Owen Monaghan (RLT Racing Honda), Richard Ford (Bob Jackson Suzuki) emerge victors.
Laxey’s Joe Yeardsley set for TT 2025 duties with Scott Racing, held off the tenacious challenge from Harley Rushton for Junior 350 race glory.
Afore-mentioned prior race winners, Oversby, Monaghan, Ashley Robson were the 1-2-3 finishers in the Fred Peck title sponsored, 400cc race which was red-flagged, once course conditions turned sour.
The trickier conditions, than those gracing the previous four races, continued within the remaining contests, the Uggly Post Classic Senior Superbike, Cheeseden Rentals Sidecar Classics races, won by Port St Mary’s Grant Thomson (Duckshaw Racing Kawasaki), banking his second competition triumph in successive days, Marvin Vermeulen/Troy Klinker, making it back-to-back P1 three wheeling attainments.
Results per race, read as follows:
Senior 500:
1st – Alan Oversby
2nd – Jeffrey Vermeulen
3rd – Kelly Carruthers
4th – Will Loder
5th – Tomo Burnett
6th – Hefyn Owen
7th – Steven Elliott
8th – Andrew Guy
9th – Ian Thompson
10th – Gary Hutton
11th – Stephen Walsh
12th – Gary Abbott
13th – Brian Appleton
125 Post Classic:
1st – Owen Monaghan
Lightweight 250:
1st – Richard Ford
2nd – Billy Cummins
3rd – Joris Fastenaekels
4th – Bob Dowty
5th – Terence Sansom
6th – Geoff Bates
Junior 350:
1st – Joe Yeardsley
2nd – Harley Rushton
3rd – Will Loder
4th – Alan Oversby
5th – Michael Titchmarsh
6th – Mike Hose
7th – Steven Elliott
8th – Kelly Carruthers
9th – Mark Johnson
10th – Rob Lowe
11th – Shelley Pike
12th – Angela Cragg
13th – Stephen Walsh
14th – Russell Roebury
15th – Ian Thompson
16th – Geoff Bates
17th – Gary Abbott
18th – Robert Coley
400cc:
1st – Alan Oversby
2nd – Owen Monaghan
3rd – Ashley Robson
4th – Rad Hughes
5th – Leon Murphy
6th – Adrian Kershaw
7th – Shelley Pike
8th – Richard Ford
9th – Dale Brew
10th – Rob Lowe
11th – Blake Kelly
12th – Barry Davidson
13th – Neil Lloyd
14th – Thomas Bradshaw
15th – Wayne Avis
Classic Superbike:
1st – Grant Thomson
2nd – Andy Farrell
3rd – Andy Hornby
4th – Keith Pringle
5th – Andy McAllister
6th – Damien Crook
7th – Scott Wilson
8th – Adrian Harrison
9th – Hefyn Owen
10th – Neal Champion
11th – Roddy Taylor
12th – Dennis Booth
13th – Neil Rutledge
14th – Leon Donaghy
15th – Colin Croft
16th – Richard Ford
17th – Rodger Wibberley
18th – Rob Mitchell Hill
19th – Brian Clark
Sidecar Classics Race 2:
1st – Marvin Vermeulen/Troy Klinker
2nd – Greg Lambert/Andrew Haynes
3rd – Tony Thirkell/William Moralee
4th – Seppe Noel/Kobe Dehouck
5th – Danny Quirk/Sharon Reeves
6th – Kobus Bouman/Nicolai Klinker
7th – Alan Warner/Tim Dawkins
8th – Albert Kroepfl/Elisa Pilz
Words by Stevie Rial #dontletfearcontrolyou
