By Commencing with a backdrop of blue skies, sun all around Billown, the H&H Motorcycles Supersport race of this year’s, Platinum Jubilee Southern 100, opened at 7:51 PM.
It was Davey Todd (Milenco by Padgetts – Honda), fresh from Senior race success, emerging on top, after an entertaining race long dice with Michael Browne (Boyce Precision Engineering by Russell Racing – Yamaha).
Browne, whose team-mate Richard Cooper, lit-up 600cc racing at Imatranajo, led Todd onto the seventh and last lap, having passed the twice National Superstock 1000 Champion on the run towards the start-finish line.
By Ballakeighan, Todd had re-grouped, re-took P1 and by Billown Dip was putting the hammer down, aiming to break Browne’s resistance.
As both made Church Bends, Great Meadow, Stadium Bends, Castletown Corner, Todd’s P1 grip intensified, to the point that as he claimed his seventh S100 victory, pocketed a new Supersport lap-record of 2 minutes 17.166 seconds, he had moved 1.256 ahead of gallant runner-up Browne.
With pole-sitter, long term third place holder Michael Dunlop (Milwaukee Ducati), who at one stage looked set to challenge Todd, Browne, retiring on lap five, this paved the way for a fantastic scrap for P3 between six riders.
At the chequered flag, in third was Skerries Michael Sweeney, by only 0.216 of a second over Nathan Harrison.
Under half a second covered fifth to eighth place finishers Paul Jordan, Rob Hodson, Michael Evans, and Joe Yeardsley with Jamie Coward ninth, not far behind as well.
Dominic Herbertson was tenth, top newcomer, scoring a respectable thirteenth place finish was Daracore Racing’s Kevin Keyes.
The following re-started six-lap JCK 600cc race, originally red-flagged, due to an incident involving six-riders (all reported as ok), brought victory glory for one of pure road racing’s most respected competitors, the evergreen Paul Cranston.
Cranston astride ex McAdoo Kawasaki equipment, edged fellow roads veteran Dennis Booth for P1, with 0.330 between them.
John Marsh, third from last month’s Oliver’s Mount Cock O’The North Feature Race, bagged third.
Mark Jackson was fourth with Tom Snow, Mike Bampton, Rad Hughes, Dan Sayle, Damien Crook, Craig Szczypek, sweeping up fourth to tenth place finishes.
2025 Southern 100 – H&H Motorcycles Supersport Race Result:
1st – Davey Todd
2nd – Michael Browne
3rd – Michael Sweeney
4th – Nathan Harrison
5th – Paul Jordan
6th – Rob Hodson
7th – Michael Evans
8th – Joe Yeardsley
9th – Jamie Coward
10th – Dominic Herbertson
11th – Erno Kostamo
12th – Sam West
13th – Kevin Keyes
14th – Grant Thomson
15th – Barry Furber
16th – Jamie Williams
17th – Brian McCormack
18th – Andy Smart
19th – Eddy Wormald
20th – Aran Sadler
21st – Michael Russell
22nd – David Rigby
23rd – Andrew Herd
24th – Adrian Harrison
25th – Paul Cassidy
26th – James Walsh
2025 Southern 100 – JCK 600cc Race Result:
1st – Paul Cranston
2nd – Dennis Booth
3rd – John Marsh
4th – Mark Jackson
5th – Tom Snow
6th – Mike Bampton
7th – Rad Hughes
8th – Dan Sayle
9th – Damien Crook
10th – Craig Szczypek
11th – Bailey Harker
12th – Kieran Brockie
13th – Roddy Taylor
14th – Arran Hands
15th – Daniel Pearson
16th – Matty Rostron
17th – Austen Webster
18th – Andrew Ripley
19th – Blake Kelly
20th – Adam Williams
21st – Israel Gillette
22nd – Rodger Wibberley
23rd – Matthew Corkill
24th – Sam Naughton
25th – Loic Sirot
Photo credit: Mark Corlett
Words by Stevie Rial #dontletfearcontrolyou
